Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan have signed on to star in a remake of the 1971 British TV series The Persuaders, according to Variety.
Stiller will play the role originated by Tony Curtis -- a street-smart millionaire from the Bronx, while British comic actor Coogan will take on Roger Moore's part -- that of a posh British crimefighter.
Together the two romp through exotic locales, romancing women and dishing out justice.
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The jury in Michael Jackson's sex-abuse trial was expected back for a third day of deliberations yesterday, working behind closed doors in a courthouse surrounded by a sea of impatient, sun-blasted reporters and fans. The eight women and four men, who were handed the case by Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville last week, have so far spent about 14 hours deliberating without reaching a verdict. They have asked only one question, which the judge refused to make public.
As jurors weigh Michael Jackson's guilt in his child molestation trial, music industry executives and bankers have been weighing a separate, but related question: Will Jackson have to sell his US$500 million stake in the Beatles' music catalog? Jackson bought the publishing rights to the catalog for about US$48 million two decades ago at the height of his career.
Dido, Annie Lennox, Travis and Texas will take the stage in Scotland for a sixth Live 8 rock concert to press world leaders to fight African poverty at next month's G8 summit, organizers have said. Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has announced concerts in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin and Philadelphia for July 2, to urge G8 leaders to boost aid to African states, cancel their debts and remove trade barriers that make them less competitive.
Actor Russell Crowe was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon on Monday after throwing a telephone at a hotel employee, police and prosecutors said. The Oscar-winner, who plays a boxer in his new movie Cinderella Man, was arrested early on Monday and later released on his own recognizance after being taken in handcuffs to his arraignment at Manhattan Criminal Court.
Annie Sprinkle has had a long career as a prostitute, porn star and performance artist. Now she's offering to share some secrets. In a new book, Dr Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex: Make Over Your Love Life With One of the World's Great Sex Experts, she offers advice on how to uncover hidden desires and how to chart a 14-step path toward a more fulfilling sex life.
With his raggedy suit, scruffy bowler hat, cane and wobbly walk, Charlie Chaplin became one of the most enduring images of 20th century cinema, raising a smile from even the most hard-bitten audiences.
Now for the first time an exhibition -- mostly drawn from previously hidden Chaplin family archives -- seeks to explore the reality and the myth of the man born into poverty in London in 1889 who became the first true mega star of the big screen.
Through film clips and some 250 photos, the exhibition examines the creation and evolution of Chaplin's Little Tramp, Chaplin's work as an actor and as a director, the running gags in his movies and the artistry of his movements, through to his flight from McCarthyism to Switzerland where he died in 1977.
Chaplin in Pictures, which opens at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, is the first exhibition of its kind devoted to Chaplin, whose work has mostly in the past being admired through cinema retrospectives.
India's Roman Catholic Church, worried about traditional values breaking down in the country, has joined hands with Bollywood to make a movie highlighting the dangers of risky sex.
The Hindi-language film, made in trademark Bollywood style with songs, dance and melodrama, includes an HIV-positive character and is titled Aisa Kyon Hota Hain (Why Does This Happen?).
The film, set for release in July or August, is the brain-child of Dominic Emmanuel, a Catholic priest and spokesman for the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese.
He says it is "the first ever instance" of India's Roman Catholic church producing a commercial film.
A few weeks ago I found myself at a Family Mart talking with the morning shift worker there, who has become my coffee guy. Both of us were in a funk over the “unseasonable” warm weather, a state of mind known as “solastalgia” — distress produced by environmental change. In fact, the weather was not that out of the ordinary in boiling Central Taiwan, and likely cooler than the temperatures we will experience in the near-future. According to the Taiwan Adaptation Platform, between 1957 and 2006, summer lengthened by 27.8 days, while winter shrunk by 29.7 days. Winter is not
Taiwan’s post-World War II architecture, “practical, cheap and temporary,” not to mention “rather forgettable.” This was a characterization recently given by Taiwan-based historian John Ross on his Formosa Files podcast. Yet the 1960s and 1970s were, in fact, the period of Taiwan’s foundational building boom, which, to a great extent, defined the look of Taiwan’s cities, determining the way denizens live today. During this period, functionalist concrete blocks and Chinese nostalgia gave way to new interpretations of modernism, large planned communities and high-rise skyscrapers. It is currently the subject of a new exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Modern
March 25 to March 31 A 56-year-old Wu Li Yu-ke (吳李玉哥) was straightening out her artist son’s piles of drawings when she inadvertently flipped one over, revealing the blank backside of the paper. Absent-mindedly, she picked up a pencil and recalled how she used to sketch embroidery designs for her clothing business. Without clients and budget or labor constraints to worry about, Wu Li drew freely whatever image came to her mind. With much more free time now that her son had found a job, she found herself missing her home village in China, where she
In recent years, Slovakia has been seen as a highly democratic and Western-oriented Central European country. This image was reinforced by the election of the country’s first female president in 2019, efforts to provide extensive assistance to Ukraine and the strengthening of relations with Taiwan, all of which strengthened Slovakia’s position within the European Union. However, the latest developments in the country suggest that the situation is changing rapidly. As such, the presidential elections to be held on March 23 will be an indicator of whether Slovakia remains in the Western sphere of influence or moves eastward, notably towards Russia and