Woody Allen, the man who has done more than anyone to dramatise and glamourise the loves, lives and, above all, the neuroses of New Yorkers, has transferred his allegiances from Manhattan to London. Allen, whose latest film, Match Point, premiered at the Cannes film festival on Thursday, professed himself utterly enchanted with British actors.
A Sicilian man has been ordered to pay damages to his ex-wife for not telling her before they were married that he was impotent. The couple, identified only by their first names, Stefano and Cristina, were married in church without ever having had sex.
Google shareholders got a free lunch on Thursday at the online search engine leader’s first annual meeting as a public company. There were plenty of leftovers. Fewer than 200 people attended the meeting at the company’s Mountain View headquarters — a high-tech mecca known as the ”Googleplex.”
Musicals are where it’s at, at the moment, and for the staging of these musicals certain key principles might have to apply, writes Mike van Graan.
With a touch that is both light and clean, and deeply serious, Sarah Johnson addresses some age old concerns, which is a wonderful addition to South African literature, writes Jane Rosenthal.
Lisa Johnston talks to Botlhale Tema about her book<i>The People of Welgeval</i>, and about coming full circle from ‘victims to victors’.
Art imitated art this week when an unknown painter tried to sell a copy of one of Irma Stern’s most famous works from the foyer of a Johannesburg art cinema complex.The copy of the 1943 oil <i>Watussi Queen</i>, of a regal African tribeswoman, has been on sale at Rosebank’s Cinema Nouveau for R4 200.
There has been ”a lot of unfairness” emanating from the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial, Deputy President Jacob Zuma told South African Broadcasting Corporation television news in an interview on Thursday. Zuma said as ”an activist, freedom fighter and politician” such ”things” were to be expected as politics was ”not an easy matter”.
United States President George Bush on Thursday suffered a significant rebuff over his choice of John Bolton, an outspoken hawk, as the US’s envoy to the United Nations, when a Republican senator broke ranks and opposed the nomination. George Voinovich said the appointment of a gruff unilateralist would do nothing to improve America’s battered image abroad.
A top Scorpions official, Jeffrey Ledwaba, one of three czars heading the elite police unit, is being investigated in connection with allegations of the plundering of hundreds of thousands of rands from the informers fund. Ledwaba was put on "special leave" last week on the instruction of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli.