A Bahamian lawmaker who caused a judge to order the retrial of two people accused of trying to extort US$25 million from actor John Travolta was just repeating a “rumor” when he prematurely announced an acquittal verdict, his lawyer said on Thursday. Supreme Court Senior Justice Anita Allen ordered a retrial late on Wednesday after the politician, Picewell Forbes, announced in a live TV and radio broadcast at a party convention that the accused had been cleared. But he did so before the jury in the five-week-old high-profile trial had formally issued any verdict.
Brotherhood, Danish director Nicolo Donato’s tale of a homosexual love affair within a neo-Nazi gang that targets gays and Arabs, took top honors on Friday at the Rome international film festival.
“We’ve been working hard for this movie for four years,” Donato said as he accepted the Golden Marc’Aurelio award from jury president Milos Forman. “This is a dream come true.”
Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren won best actress for her role as the wife of 19th-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station.
Best actor went to Italy’s Sergio Castellito for Alza la Testa by Alessandro Angelini, in which he portrayed a father whose sole dream is to see his son become a prize fighter.
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