Claudia Cardinale News

Finally, Victoria Beckham is starting to look like a real woman. Short, sweet and just a little shaggy, her latest hairstyle is very 'La Dolce Vita'. It gives her the look of a young Sophia Loren , Claudia Cardinale or Gina Lollobrigida , the sultry, smouldering 1960s 'brunette bombshells' who challenged the reign of Hollywood 's blonde goddesses.

A Cinecitta Luce, Universal Studios presentation and production. Produced by Luciano Sovena, Luca Federico Cadura.

Durham The Italian Actress Manbites Dog Theater - Manbites Dog and Little Green Pig present the world premiere of a tale by one of their own in this adaptation of a novel by Duke professor Frank Lentricchia.

Bellini s I Puritani is probably most widely known from the final scene of Werner Herzog s 1982 film Fitzcarraldo in which a traveling opera company performs the Act One love duet on a boat steaming up the Amazon.

Bruno Podalydes' " Bancs publics ," an ensemble film starring a bevy of well-known Gallic thesps, including Mathieu Amalric, will open the fest.

The dance highlights the proceedings, and confirms our sense of the whole work, set amid the threatened Sicilian aristocracy of the eighteen-sixties, as a stately waltz of tristesse.

"Police, Adjective" and "North" share the top prize at Romania's largest film festival.

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Emma Watson, 19; Emma Thompson, 50; Claudia Cardinale, 71; Roy Clark, 76 Happy Birthday: You may have to take a back route this year if you want to get to your destination unscathed.