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Cannes Festival In Pictures: Kate Beckinsale Judges And Russell Crowe Does Robin Bond, Licence To Quill

AND so to Cannes for the film festival. You writer is sat in a cafe by the Croisette wondering who picks the judges. You see, one the judges for the Palme D’Or award is Kate Beckinsale. We spotted Kate posing with Benecio Del Toro, another judge, and Tim Burton, who also sits on the panel. A top actor and top director are there to cast their eye over the offerings. And so too is Kate Becksindale..? Anyone able to explain this?

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Tim Burton and Kate Beckinsale, judges of the films competing for the Palme D'Or, at a photocall during the Cannes Film Festival in the French town.

We’re off soon to watch Cate Blanchett and Russell Crowe do Robin Hood. Sir Ridley Scott’s Hood has Crowe as Robin Bond striving to make a franchise out of giving to the poor and taking from the rich. The film has loadsa arrows, a few kisses, loadsa French being slaughtered and a middle-aged Hood getting off with spinster called Marian, his Hood Girl.

Bond… Robin Bond – licence to quill.

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Posted: 12th, May 2010 | In: Celebrities | Comment (1)


Benecio Del Toro On Che Guevara, Cuba’s Batman

BENECIO Del Toro says Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, was “a warrior” and a super hero:

We tell stories about Batman, and he was a type of Batman. No one can deny that he was trying to stop man exploiting man. Whether he was successful or not…”

Dunno. Best ask Albert Korda who took that photo of him that hangs on walls and never earned much money from it.

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Posted: 15th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities | Comment