Word: pressing
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...singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead of the symbol I adopted to free myself from all undesirable relationships," he said at a press conference. Proving that he bristles at all forms of bondage, Prince also elucidated the nature of his annulled marriage to the woman simply referred to as Mayte: "She does her thing, I do my thing, and sometimes we do our thing together...
...ticket to the Cannes Film Festival. Entrance to the 23 films in competition for the Palme d'Or and the thousand others screened in this Cote d'Azur paradise is granted by press pass or market badge (for members of the industry). But lacking those, you can always try begging. One Frenchwoman, denied admission to a screening of Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, sobbed at the barricades with such fervor that she could have earned a role in Les Miserables...
...about a factory worker who is going blind, showcased the minimal talents of Icelandic pop star Bjork. She's a quadruple-threat artiste: can't act, can't dance, can't sing, can't compose. By all accounts, Bjork behaved like a bjerk during filming, and she skipped the press conference, only to show up on the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais in a blushing-pink gown that seemed to be made of bunched crepe paper...
...well as on PBS and the BBC. The series, he says, "is meant to get past all that Crocodile Dundee garbage and show what Australia is actually like." He is also working on a book about his car accident and ensuing battles with Australia's legal system and its press...
...much, but a game called Snake, which is on most Nokia phones, is highly addictive. In a kind of virtual scavenger hunt, players collect pieces of "food" scattered onscreen. The more food you collect, the longer your onscreen "snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even though the screen is no bigger than a piece of Trident...