Beckinsale dishes on her Silverman girl crush - Kuwait Times

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2016

Hollywood cashes in on golden age cinema revival

Kate Beckinsale, center, a cast member in "Love & Friendship," is escorted inside after signing autographs outside the premiere of the film at the Directors Guild of America on Tuesday. -- AP

Beckinsale dishes on her Silverman girl crush

Friendly exes are nothing new among Hollywood's consciously uncoupled, but Kate Beckinsale says her feelings run deep for ex-boyfriend, Michael Sheen, and his girlfriend, Sarah Silverman. "Michael and I have obviously not been together for a very long time, what 16 years or 15 years, something like that? And we've always got on really well. So I'm always surprised when people find that surprising because it's quite well-established. It's just that I'm quite deeply in love with his girlfriend. So that's new," she joked in an interview Thursday in Los Angeles.

Beckinsale, Sheen and Silverman shared an emotional reunion at Tuesday's Los Angeles premiere of Beckinsale's new

period comedy, "Love & Friendship." The celebrity trio was all hugs and smiles as they greeted each other and posed for photos on the red carpet. Beckinsale wiped tears from Silverman's beaming face before the group headed into the screening. "We just like each other. I always get really excited when I see Sarah. I forgot there was that many cameras there. But yeah, we had just been to see my daughter's school play about three days before so there's really no excuse for everyone getting over-excited like that," Beckinsale explained.

Beckinsale and Sheen have a 17-yearold daughter, Lily. "Love & Friendship," from writer-director Whit Stillman, was

shot in Ireland and is set in the 18th century. Beckinsale's favorite part was the local lore surrounding U2's Bono. "We shot in Dublin, which is a gorgeous and beautiful city and full of the most incredible people. And everybody's got a story about Bono, which I found fascinating. So you're going to a pub and someone will say `let me tell you my story about' and then the driver would tell it and the man who cleaned out the trailers had a Bono story. Bono gets around apparently in Dublin! And everyone's got one, which I loved," she said. Beckinsale stars as a recently widowed social climber with a delightfully devious partner in crime, played by Chlo? Sevigny. It opens May 13. -- AP

Justin Timberlake

returns with cheery pop

Pop superstar Justin Timberlake returned yesterday with his first new song in three years, a cheery pop number that will appear on his upcoming movie "Trolls."

This file photo shows US singer and actor Justin Timberlake arrives to the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California. -- AFP

Timberlake released a video for "Can't Stop the Feeling" in which the singer dances across his studio with appearances by other voice actors from the movie including actress Anna Kendrick and fellow pop star Gwen Stefani. "Trolls," a three-dimensional animation to be released by studio DreamWorks on November 4, is based on troll dolls, the frazzled-hair toys that have enjoyed periodic popularity in the West since the 1950s and are based on the mischievous small hermits of Norse mythology.

But "Can't Stop the Feeling" has little obvious connection to trolls and instead takes on a summery party vibe, with an electronic backdrop to the chorus in which Timberlake sings, "Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance."

The sound is stylistically consistent for Timberlake, who has recently appeared with country stars Little Big Town and Chris Stapleton, raising speculation he would make a musical turn back to the genre rooted in his native state of Tennessee.

Timberlake became a superstar in the late 1990s as a member of NSYNC, one of the most successful boy bands. He managed not only to stay successful but to win critical respect as a solo artist, often adopting an R&B sound. The song is his first release since his double-album "The 20/20 Experience" in 2013 and since he and his wife, actress Jessica Biel, had a child a year ago. Timberlake, 35, has also been an active actor, playing roles in films such as the Facebook drama "The Social Network" and "Inside Llewyn Davis," the Coen Brothers' dark take on a struggling folk singer. -- AFP

Cinema from Hollywood's golden age is enjoying a revival with the emergence of retro video streaming and a burgeoning festival scene belying the old joke

that nostalgia ain't what it used to

be. More than 25,000 fans from as

far afield as Australia and Japan hit

Hollywood over the weekend for

the TCM Classic Film Festival, run

by cable network Turner Classic

Movies for a seventh year. The

smaller but more established

Cinecon, which has drawn afi-

cionados to Tinseltown for more

than 1,500 screenings over half a

century, returns in September with

a schedule of "rare, unusual and

unjustly forgotten movies."

Meanwhile LA-based American

Cinematheque hosts a three-day

festival over the weekend of Laurel

and Hardy's work, photochemically

and digitally restored from the orig-

inal 35mm film. The opening night

program includes a screening of

"The Battle of The Century" (1927),

featuring the largest pie fight ever

filmed, footage of which went miss-

This file photo

ing for 60 years. Further afield,

shows Gina

showcases like the Denver Silent Lollobrigida attend-

Film Festival and the Plaza Classic

ing the Opening

Film Festival in El Paso, Texas, have Night Gala of the

been popping up all over the 2016 TCM Classic

United States in the last decade.

Film Festival cele-

"In our current political land- brating The 40th

scape of uncertainty, older films

Anniversary

provide a safe refuge, where prob- Screening of "All

lems could be solved in 90 minutes

the President's

with a glamorous wardrobe to Men" in Hollywood,

boot," classic film analyst Kristen California. -- AFP

Lopez says. The TCM event draws

80 percent of its audience from outside California, with the

top $1,649 all-access four-day passes selling out this year

within 14 minutes of going online, organizers said. The festi-

val featured more than 80 screenings, with highlights includ-

ing "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "All The President's

Men" and "It's a Wonderful Life." -- AFP

JWoww of `Jersey Shore' announces birth of 2nd child, a boy

Former "Jersey Shore" star Jenni "JWoww" Farley has welcomed her second child, a boy. In an Instagram post, JWoww says Greyson Valor Mathews was born Thursday night, weighing in at just over 7 pounds. She says the "most beautiful part" was that husband Roger Mathews was able to help with the delivery.

JWoww's publicist confirmed the announcement. This is the second child for JWoww and Mathews, who was a regular on "Jersey Shore" and its spinoff "Snooki & JWoww." The couple also has a daughter named Meilani, who was born in July 2014. -- AP

File photo shows Jenni "JWoww" Farley and Roger Mathews attend WE tv's "Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars" party in New York. -- AP

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