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.
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and
Indigenous Truku doctor Yuci (Bokeh Kosang), who resents his father for forcing him to learn their traditional way of life, clashes head to head in this film with his younger brother Siring (Umin Boya), who just wants to live off the land like his ancestors did. Hunter Brothers (獵人兄弟) opens with Yuci as the man of the hour as the village celebrates him getting into medical school, but then his father (Nolay Piho) wakes the brothers up in the middle of the night to go hunting. Siring is eager, but Yuci isn’t. Their mother (Ibix Buyang) begs her husband to let
In late December 1959, Taiwan dispatched a technical mission to the Republic of Vietnam. Comprising agriculturalists and fisheries experts, the team represented Taiwan’s foray into official development assistance (ODA), marking its transition from recipient to donor nation. For more than a decade prior — and indeed, far longer during Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) rule on the “mainland” — the Republic of China (ROC) had received ODA from the US, through agencies such as the International Cooperation Administration, a predecessor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). More than a third of domestic investment came via such sources between 1951
For the past century, Changhua has existed in Taichung’s shadow. These days, Changhua City has a population of 223,000, compared to well over two million for the urban core of Taichung. For most of the 1684-1895 period, when Taiwan belonged to the Qing Empire, the position was reversed. Changhua County covered much of what’s now Taichung and even part of modern-day Miaoli County. This prominence is why the county seat has one of Taiwan’s most impressive Confucius temples (founded in 1726) and appeals strongly to history enthusiasts. This article looks at a trio of shrines in Changhua City that few sightseers visit.
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