Gerard Depardieu News

Today is Sunday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2009 with four to follow. The moon is waxing.

DEPARDIEU 'ADMITS DRUNKENLY SMASHING UP CAR' Veteran French actor GERARD DEPARDIEU could face a charge of criminal damage after allegedly admitting he drunkenly smashed up a car parked outside his Parisian home.

It seems the the actor was strolling along when he suddenly blew a fuse and took it out on the car.

The 60-year-old actor was spotted "swaying and staggering" towards the vehicle parked at the roadside in the fashionable Left Bank district.

Celebrating the birthdays of the filmic and famous 1840 Auguste Rodin , sculptor... still waiting on a biopic though Gerard Depardieu did play him in Camille Claudel .

Carole Bouquet is the former Bond girl and Chanel model whose life is a source of constant fascination in her native France.

"We're born in the gutter, where the stars gleam in the water." Ominous images of a full moon mean one thing in the movies: werewolves.

Incest and child-molestation comedy from the Disney folks. Of course the sins against nature aren't actual; they're just part of the tall tale made up by a fourteen-year-old girl to impress an older boy on a Caribbean holiday.

Happy Columbus Day . . . Observed! Okay, before we cut loose on the historical misrepresen tations, inaccuracies and consequences surrounding the man generally credited with discovering the New World, let's all at least agree on one thing: Christopher Columbus makes for one super-cool real-life movie hero.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is the psychiatrist assigned to draw him out. What happened isn't exactly a mystery, but the movie's intermittent fun to watch, despite its air of rehash and predictability.

Belgian actress Marie Gillain, who co-stars with Audrey Tautou in "Coco Before Chanel," first became known as a teenager, when she played opposite Gerard Depardieu in "My Father, the Hero." She has had a successful career ever since, headlining films by top directors, including Bertrand Tavernier , Cedric Klapisch and Danis Tanovic .

It's cute when it happens in the movies and stars, oh, Andie McDowell and Gerard Depardieu or Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock .

Gerard Depardieu teenage tearaway turned actor, turned businessman, turned friend of dictators appeared in an unlikely new role yesterday.

Manon of the Spring 08/05/2009 Genre: Drama Directed by: Claude Berri Starring: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano Manon of the Spring is the sequel - or more properly, second part - of Jean de Florette , which the Hendersonville Film Society showed last week.

Manon of the Spring 08/05/2009 Genre: Drama Directed by: Claude Berri Starring: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano Manon of the Spring is the sequel - or more properly, second part - of Jean de Florette , which the Hendersonville Film Society showed last week.

Laurence Olivier won the Oscar for Best Actor in his 1948 production of Hamlet .

Published: Sunday, August 2, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:48 p.m. Film Society showings during August The Hendersonville Film Society will show films at 2 p.m. Sundays in August in the Smoky Mountain Theater, Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Laurence Olivier won the Oscar for Best Actor in his 1948 production of Hamlet .

A different kind of love triangle. While it shocked a lot of people twenty years ago, Menage is probably a film best left in the past.

HUNDREDS of overseas-born spouses are being deported from Australia each year after failing Green Card-style intimacy tests.