Friday, November 27, 2009

Swiss: Polanski to be held until at least Monday


GENEVA – Roman Polanski will remain in a jail outside Zurich for at least three more days until he meets the security conditions of his bail, a Swiss official said Friday.

Polanski wouldn't be placed under house arrest in Switzerland before Monday, because he has yet to fulfill all the requirements to ensure that he stays in his chalet in the Swiss luxury resort of Gstaad, Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said.

Galli did not elaborate, but the 76-year-old director must post $4.5 million bail, surrender his identity papers and be fitted with a monitoring bracelet.

Polanski cannot leave the house because the ministry is still deciding whether to extradite him to the United States for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. Authorities in Los Angeles want him sentenced after 31 years as a fugitive.

Doubts over Polanski's whereabouts were answered Friday when the filmmamker's lawyer Lorenz Erni was seen entering and exiting a prison in the city of Winterthur, 26 kilometers (16 miles) northeast of Zurich.

Erni declined to speak to reporters after his 80-minute visit in the prison, where Polanski is being treated as an extradition detainee with more privileges than prisoners who have committed crimes in Switzerland.

A former Winterthur inmate said he was held in a cell next to Polanski, and that the director of such film classics as "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" was given better treatment.

"For example, he could regularly call his wife or his lawyers," Yussi Akram told local Radio Top, adding that Polanski also chatted regularly with prison guards and could press an emergency button when he needed something.

Polanski always asked guards about their origins, and the prison authorities kept the filmmaker away from other inmates, Akram added.

"He sounded very exhausted," Akram said.

Zurich prison authorities and the Winterthur jail declined to comment.

The bail decision Wednesday was a major win for Polanski after a series of legal setbacks following his Sept. 26 arrest on a U.S. warrant as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival.

Polanski was accused of raping the girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a modeling shoot in 1977. He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse.

In exchange, the judge agreed to drop the remaining charges and sentence him to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. The evaluator released Polanski after 42 days, but the judge said he was going to send him back to serve out the 90 days.

Polanski then fled the U.S. on Feb. 1, 1978, the day he was to be sentenced, and has lived in France since. He claims the U.S. judge and prosecutors acted improperly in his case, and his attorneys will argue before a California appeals court next month that the charges should be dismissed.

Swiss authorities have declined to say how they will transfer Polanski to his Gstaad chalet called "Milky Way," which has a stunning view of the surrounding Alps. The three-story home still appeared deserted Friday.

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Associated Press writers Eliane Engeler and Alexander G. Higgins in Geneva, Frank Jordans in Gstaad, and AP photographer Michel Euler in Zurich contributed to this report.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Rihanna in combative mood for new album



PARIS (AFP) – Pop star Rihanna is back, blonde and out to have fun after "getting all my emotions out" on new album R Rated. But her guard is still up if tagged as a victim of domestic violence.

At a press conference to promote the album it was strictly off limits to even mention the controversy dogging her since February, when R&B boyfriend Chris Brown brutally attacked her in Los Angeles on the eve of the Grammy Awards.

The shocking police photo of the singer's bruised face -- Rihanna is also a model and fashion icon -- was leaked to the press, and earlier this month the star said returning to Brown after he had bitten and scratched her during the attack had been a mistake which arose because she was "so far in love."

Well, she's not in love anymore. R Rated was recorded when she was in a "dark" mood, and did a lot of "venting" in the studio. Some tracks allude to the doomed relationship, especially the single Wait Your Turn.

Rihanna played the pop diva at the Paris get-together on Thursday, breezing in late and refusing point-blank to answer personal questions.

But she was all smiles when it came to talking about fashion, a favourite subject of the Glamour magazine woman of 2009 who has modelled for Gucci and Cover Girl.

Her tip for Parisian ladies this winter is "sexy lingerie", because even when you're all "bundled up you can still be cute when you take it off".

Asked if she thought she scared men away she laughed and suggested, in her rusty, deep voice that maybe "they just don't know how to approach me, so prefer not to".

Rihanna is a breath of fresh air in the size zero fashion world, freely admitting that although her "genetics say I should be low carbs", the junk food is still on the menu. "I'm just not a very disciplined eater".

Her fourth album in four years, which is out on November 23, includes three features: with ex-Guns 'N Roses guitarist Slash, the rapper Young Jeezy and will.i.am.

Explaining how the track Photographs came about, she says she heard the tune at will.i.am's studio and even though it was meant for the Black Eyed Peas she said "this song belongs to me!" No surprise she got her way.

Though the 21-year-old has gone blonde, and is into creams and whites at the moment, R Rated is the opposite: angry, heavy, combative.

It is more hard rock than chilled-out melody, and Rihanna's vocals have a strong, metallic quality on most tracks.

The Barbados-born singer says she wanted to bring some of her roots to the music this time, and really worked to "put my little twang to it".

As for the future, it's a tour next spring, and she plans to take up the guitar (once she's mastered the drums), but "my nails are too long" she admits, and "it will have to wait before I'm ready to give these up".

Rihanna is not just talking about manicures.

'Hello, Ohio!' (Psst! Boss, we're in Michigan)



AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Want to get away, Boss?

Bruce Springsteen bellowed "Hello, Ohio!" to his fans at the Auburn Hills Palace. That's in Michigan.

The 60-year-old rock legend referred to the neighboring state several times Friday night until E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt whispered in his ear.

A visibly embarrassed Springsteen grinned and said such a mistake was "every front man's nightmare."

The Detroit Free Press says Springsteen rocked the forgiving audience for nearly three hours with new and old hits, including a complete performance of his album "Born to Run."

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Information from: Detroit Free Press, http://www.freep.com

Monday, November 9, 2009

Britney Spears returns to bad habits | Celebrity news gossip



BRITNEY Spears will be reunited with her kids today after they land on a commercial flight from LA.

The boys, Sean Preston, 4, and Jayden, 3, are travelling with their nanny and will meet their mother and grandfather in Melbourne. Spears arrived in Melbourne on Sunday night and has been seen slipping out regularly for smokes.

The smokes, Confidential hears, help ward off former bad habits.

Dad Jamie's chaperone role is said to be key to her sobriety.

Ex-husband Kevin Federline flies to Brisbane next week to be primary caregiver to the boys.

We wonder if the passion in this union can be restoked.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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