The News Review:
- Secret Policeman’s Film Festival lands in Hollywood
- Man accused of urinating on people at festival
- Playboy Jazz Festival plays to wide audience
- Strawberry festivals continue on collision course
- Venice thinks local with festival opener
Secret Policeman’s Film Festival lands in Hollywood
Los Angeles Times
" "I believe that he caught the bug then" Lewis said last week in a quiet upstairs room at his favorite Hollywood deli. "He saw how the power of music could be harnessed and then he ran with it dwarfing anything any of the rest of us ever did. "That's the kind of transformation Lewis aims to highlight over the next five weeks with ?. secretpolicemansball. americancinematheque.
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Man accused of urinating on people at festival
The Associated Press
(AP) — A 31-year-old Detroit man faces a misdemeanor assault and battery charge after allegedly urinating on several people during an annual gay pride event. The Daily Tribune of Royal ak reported the man had been drinking and was upset that he was splashed with water aimed at street dancers Sunday during the Motor City Pride Festival. William Wilson said “he may have wanted to take revenge” turned and urinated on the leg of a man standing next to him. The Detroit Free Press reports two other people were sprayed in the process. The man is to be arraigned June 23.
Playboy Jazz Festival plays to wide audience
Los Angeles Times
For the hard-core jazz fan a serious "Kind of Blue"-dyed collector the. n one hand there is the festival itself a sprawling two-day buffet of non-stop live music summer sun and good vibrations happening this Saturday and Sunday in one of the most famous and naturally beautiful spaces in the city.
Strawberry festivals continue on collision course
San Jose Mercury News
The strawberry showdown was confirmed Tuesday when the Watsonville City Council voted to hold the popular festival downtown Aug. The recently fired promoter plans to move forward with a similar festival at the county fairgrounds. The city canceled Les Peterson’s contract after he notified the city the festival had been moved three miles away to the fairgrounds.
Venice thinks local with festival opener
Hollywood Reporter
The film is the follow-up to Tornatore’s critically acclaimed 2006drama “La sconosciuta” (The Unknown Woman). Tornatore’s “NuovoCinema Paradiso” which like “Baaria” is set in the director’snative Sicily won the scar for best foreign-language film in1990. Venice organizers said Wednesday that the film — named for thenickname for the Sicilian village where Tornatore was born — willopen the festival Sept. 2 as part of a gala event at the maincinema in the Venice Lido’s Palazzo del Cinema. The film will gointo general release in Italy in Sept. Tornatore is no stranger to Venice.