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| Elvis fans mark 75th birthday at his beginning TUPELO, Miss. (AP) -- The simple white shotgun shack where Elvis Presley was born is so tiny it could easily fit inside a single room in the opulent Graceland mansion where he spent his final years - maybe in the Jungle Room with its green-carpeted ceiling.... hosted.ap.org |
McIntyre not stepping into Ross' shoes Michael McIntyre will not replace Jonathan Ross. breakingnews.ie |
What I know about men | Maxine Peak, 35, actress, single Maxine Peake, 35, actress, singleT his is why I always got it wrong: I thought if I dressed like the guys I fancied they'd like me more, so I went to the hairdresser and said: "I'd like my hair cut like Paul Young." It was a strange spiky number with a bit of a mullet. It took me years to realise that didn't work. I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown. A friend and I went to Spike Island, and when the Stone Roses came on stage I got a bit overemotional. I had to lie and say I was having an asthma attack.I was such a tragic figure at secondary school. It was awful, painful. We used to hang around the Water Place in Bolton, where all the lads went skateboarding. The girls would sit with the stereo and watch the boys. It got me into my music, though, because I thought I'd impress them with my knowledge. I actually think if I'd been a big hit with the boys I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now, so I'm grateful that I wasn't. God knows where I'd be. On my own in a council house with seven kids.I did a performing arts course at Salford Tech, and again I always got it wrong. As my mum used to say, I had gorgeous friends who overshadowed me. Blokes would come over and talk to me and then they'd go: "Is your friend single?" I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23, then after that I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school. We were together for about five and a half years. But I'm a bit rubbish really, and this job doesn't help. I don't think I know quite what I want, and that's my trouble.I'm 35 now and there's quite a lot of pressure from female friends – "You want to meet someone, settle down". But I don't know whether I do. I've started saying I'm looking for a husband because people expect me to, and you start thinking there's something wrong with you if you don't. I've gone through phases where I think I need somebody, a secure home life, because this job is too mad. But it doesn't work for me. I get itchy feet. People keep saying I'll grow out of it, but in five years I'll be almost middle-aged, so I don't know when...I look up to the older generation of men – Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn – but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric. He says, not in a bitter way: "You've no friends, Maxine, only acquaintances." He's always said that human relationships just don't work and the only real love is between a mother and child. It's a bit depressing, but the trouble is that we kid ourselves. There's too much media, too much telly and films and adverts telling us it's all possible, when it's very difficult. Love is such a little word, but what does it really mean? The love people think what they want is this obsessive, all-consuming love, the adrenaline love that we get addicted to. And there comes a point where it's a different love, working as a partnership. It's a minefield. I just don't know if I want to get involved.My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs. A friend told me they call it show blindness, and it's a bit like beer goggles. You go into the room, go: "No, I don't fancy anyone here", then after three days you're in love. As soon as the job is over you're like: "Who?" It passes. I'm very shallow. It's like with music. I remember saying: "I'll be the number one Stone Roses fan till I die." Then they didn't come out with that second album for a long time, so I moved on.RelationshipsRebecca Nicholsonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Sundance gears up to open with a Howl Ticket sales are up as this year's festival opens with a programme of films starring James Franco, Kristen Stewart and Banksy. We round up the likely hitsThe 31st Sundance film festival opens tonight and business is already booming – at the box office, at least. According to festival figures, 185,000 tickets have already been sold for events at Robert Redford's showcase for the best in independent film-making – 5,000 to 10,000 up from the same point last year.Yet even today there was still accommodation available in Park City, Utah, where the festival unfolds – a first for more than a decade. This suggests the makeup of festivalgoers may be changing: gone are the days when studios would mass lease ski lodges for their clients and buyers; in their place are lower-fi buffs and film-makers.Partly it's a result of the recession – the contraction in the movie market over the past 18 months means studios are less willing to take a punt. But it's also intent on the part of the festival's newly-installed programmer, John Cooper, to dim the star wattage, take a needle to the ballooning commercialism, and redirect the spotlight on to low-budget movie-making. A new section, Next, is devoted to films that epitomise "creative risk-taking", while this year's programme title page declares: "This Is Your Guide to Cinematic Rebellion".The festival runs from tonight for 10 days and showcases 113 independent films. Here are 10 to look out for:HowlThe opening night film has James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, grappling with writer's block and an obscenity trial.Four LionsChris Morris's eagerly-awaited "jihadist comedy" has its premiere on Saturday night.Exit Through the Gift ShopBanksy's debut as a film-maker is billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie" and follows a couple of fans who try to befriend the artist, only for him to turn the tables on them, and us.Welcome to the RileysA New Orleans-set drama with Twilight's Kristen Stewart and James Gandolfini.Holy RollersJesse Eisenberg plays an Orthodox Jewish youth who finds himself drawn into a world of ecstasy smuggling, nightclubs and beautiful women.Sympathy for DeliciousMark Ruffalo makes his directing debut with this drama – featuring himself and You Can Count On Me co-star Laura Linney – about a newly paralysed disc jockey.Jack Goes BoatingAnother actor-turned-director, Philip Seymour Hoffman, makes his debut with a double-couple drama set in New York, adapted by Bob Glaudini from his play.Casino Jack and the United States of MoneyA study of the disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff by Taxi to the Darkside's Alex Gibney.BhuttoA portrait of the late leader of Pakistan, by Jessica Hernández and Johnny O'Hara.RestrepoSebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's documentary about their time in Afghanistan with US soldiers.Sundance film festivalRobert RedfordPhilip Seymour HoffmanCatherine ShoardBen Childguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Trump set for fake award in CBB challenge 'Celebrity Big Brother' housemate Ivana Trump has been duped into thinking she has won a fake award. breakingnews.ie |