Polanksi: No to equality, yes to skimpy dresses

Famed French director Roman Polanski complained that the fight for female equality is a “great pity” as his wife showed off some eye-popping cleavage at the Cannes Film Festival. Polanski, who is at the festival with his new film Venus in Fur, said that “trying to level the genders is purely idiotic”

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DiCaprio film nothing if not stylish

A tour of the set at Sydney’s Fox Studios during production showed Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will be nothing if not stylish, with a lavishly detailed mansion and the famous pier in the vast sound stages, colourful period cars and beautifully crafted costumes for the cast and hundreds of extras. All suggested the re-creation of 1920s New York will be as impressive as the version of historic Paris in Moulin Rouge, which Luhrmann and his creative partner and wife, designer Catherine Martin, also shot in Sydney

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Witherspoon ‘deeply embarrassed’

Reese Witherspoon is “deeply embarrassed” about what she said to police officers during her husband’s arrest in Atlanta. The Oscar-winning actress released a statement late Sunday apologising for her behavior to police that began when her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was arrested early Friday for driving under the influence of alcohol

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Review: Olympus has Fallen

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R16) (120 minutes) Directed by Antoine Fugua Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman Calling all Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Sly Stallone fans. Thought your favourite genre of gun-slinging, knife-stabbing, punch-crushing, all-action movie was left for dead in the ’90s Think again

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