It was the scene of Thomas Mann’s famous work, “Death in Venice” but now Venetians have held a mock funeral to highlight the Italian city’s sinking population. Carrying a coffin through Venice’s historic canals the event’s organizers say the watered city has become a ghost town, flooded with tourists.
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Brock Butler (Perpetual Groove) Debut Solo Album Now Available
October 28th, 2009 |
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Brock Butler (Perpetual Groove) Debut Solo Album
Lately Here Though Now Available For Download
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Brock Butler‘s (of Perpetual Groove fame) debut studio album, Lately Here Though, is now available for digital download here for $9.99. Produced and recorded by David Barbe (Drive-By Truckers, Cracker) at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, GA, this nine track collection brings together a mix of collaborators including Karolyn Troupe and Daniel Lawson of Venice is Sinking, Albert Suttle from Perpetual Groove, and several long time friends that have all been a part of Butler’s musical journey throughout the past decade. Physical copies of the album are tentatively planned for early 2010.
Rihanna poses with Catholic monks at Marc Jordan’s wedding
September 28th, 2009 |
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Rihanna’s appearance at music mogul Marc Jordan’s wedding in Venice saw men of religion flocking to her for snaps.
The sexy singer posed with monks in the lavish marriage ceremony held last week, wearing a purple and black dress and large earrings, reports Contacmusic.
The photosession lasted almost 10 minutes.
The Disturbia singer has been recently working with [...]
Friends in low places
September 15th, 2009 |
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Hugo Chavez dreams of forging a new world order
THE mountains and jungles of South America are not ideal terrain for tank warfare. So it is hard to envisage what role Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, has in mind for the dozens of Russian tanks on his latest military shopping list. The strategic purpose of a recent tour that took him to some of the world’s least salubrious regimes is, however, easier to discern. And it led America’s State Department to give warning on Monday September 14th of a “serious challenge to stability” in the region.
Venezuela’s increasingly autocratic leader returned on Friday from a trip that took him to Libya, Iran, Algeria, Syria, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Russia, though he also found time for a visit Spain and the Venice film festival. On his jaunt he was decorated by Libya’s leader, Muammar Qaddafi, and embraced by Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus. …
Matt Damon Talks Death Hoax & Clooney Gay Prank On “Letterman†(VIDEO)
September 11th, 2009 |
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Are Brad Pitt and Matt Damon to blame for the man who performed a striptease and proposed to George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival this week?
You bet!
Damon also responds to a recent online rumors claiming he had been killed in an interview on the Late Show With David Letterman on Thursday.
Gay Fan Strips For George Clooney At Venice Film Festival (VIDEO)
September 9th, 2009 |
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Elisabetta Canalis has some competition for George Clooney’s affection — from a gay stripper! How’s a girl supposed to compete with that? The Oscar-nominated star got an eyeful from one male admirer while fielding questions during a televised press conference for his new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats, at the Venice Film Festival [...]
George Clooney Elisabetta Canalis Go Public At Venice Film Festival
September 8th, 2009 |
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Sporting a bandage on his hand from a recent mishap with a car door, George Clooney and his new armpiece, Italian MTV presenter Elisabetta Canalis, went public with their long-rumored romance at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
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The 48-year-old bachelor arrived at the festival via water taxi with the 30-year-old actress/model in tow. [...]
We Couldn’t Have Said It Better Ourselves:
September 7th, 2009 |
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-Â Matt Damon @ CelebDirtyLaundry – Some pictures of Matt Damon arriving in Venice for their Film Festival.
- David Schwimmer @ TMZ – I lol’d at this: “The 42-year-old former “Friends” star and his barber are on a break.”
- Lady Gaga @ Celebridoodle – Sooooooo, Lady Gaga does “bags and bags” of coke for her source [...]
Stay in Venice for one cent a night! Error costs hotel thousands
August 15th, 2009 |
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A hotel near Venice has accepted that its rooms were mistakenly advertised online at a mere one-hundredth of a euro instead of up to 150 euros (£129).
Nearly 230 people took advantage of the offer, booking on average more than six nights per person at the Crowne Plaza.
It is 20km from central Venice, one of Italy’s main tourist destinations.
The hotel is run by the Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) which says it will honour bookings made while the mistake was online.
The company say the mistake was made at the offices of IHG in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.
"Although a pricing error, IHG is committed to honouring the 1-cent rate for guests who have a valid confirmation," the hotel group’s Monica Smith said.
The wrong pricing for 1,400 room nights could cost the company up to 90,000 euros (£77,800).
Venice depends on tourism, attracting 15 million visitors a year.
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Mirren’s ‘Queen’ portrayal leaves her shocked hubby in fits of laughter
August 7th, 2009 |
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When Brit actress Helen Mirren’s husband, Taylor Hackford, first saw her dressed up as British monarch Queen Elizabeth II in a movie role, he was so shocked that he burst out laughing.
Mirren, 64, had even won an Oscar for her portrayal of the royal in 2006 movie ‘The Queen’, but her husband had never seen [...]
Venice Film Festival selected – Delhi 6 and Dev D
August 2nd, 2009 |
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Among the four Indian movies that will be screened at the the 66th Venice Film Festival are Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra`s `Delhi 6` and Anurag Kashyap`s `Dev D` .
The films are not a part of the `Competition Category` of the festival, the oldest in the world, but will be screened in the `Midnight Movies` and [...]
Pablo Ganguli: Baboons and Ambassadors
July 20th, 2009 |
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We still possess a desire for most kinds of monstrous pleasures, ranging from television reality shows to US soldiers torturing prisoners of war.
Bettany & Connelly’s Darwin Movie To Open Toronto Film Festival
July 14th, 2009 |
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TORONTO — Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will kick off the Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.
Bettany stars as the theory-of-evolution pioneer and Connelly plays his wife in “…
Taylor Marsh: J. Stephen Simon, The Exceptional Oil Man
July 13th, 2009 |
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by Taylor Marsh J. Stephen Simon, Director, Senior VP of ExxonMobil (retired 2008) dies. That will be the official line. But he was simply the…