Omar Sharif News

Lawrence of Arabia , starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. There are so many film festivals and celebrations happening this week, you may have to narrow your focus.

Canadian rockers Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner have been playing metal for decades; their 1982 album "Metal on Metal" is a Canadian classic said to have influenced much more succesfssful bands.

After years in the wilderness, Omar Sharif, the most successful Arab actor, is on his way back, and returns to his homeland for a cinematic renaissance at age of 77.

The Carolina Theatre in Durham gets back in the epic swing of things Sunday when it begins playing David Lean's 1962 classic "Lawrence of Arabia" for a five-day engagement.

Durham Holly Goddard Jones The Regulator Bookshop - Young Greensboro-based writer Holly Goddard Jones brings her debut collection of short fiction to The Regulator tonight at 7. Her cycle of stories, called Girl Trouble , centers on the perhaps fictitious town of Roma, Ky., and a few of its troubled inhabitants.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Hollywood icon recalls difficult times during his early days in film, and the toll his career took on his marriage Saturday, September 12, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Interview Mike Collett-White Reuters VENICE: For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless.

"The Traveler," an Egyptian film by first-time feature director Ahmed Maher, is vying for the festival's Golden Lion award.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Streisand's coming-out party, devoted totally to pumping up its pre-sold star and providing a definitive definition of prima donna.

Oona Chaplin joins mother Geraldine in Roberto Stefano's horror film, 'Imago Mortis' By Sophie Taylor F IRST P OSTED J T he 23-year-old granddaughter of the great silent film star Charlie Chaplin has appeared in her first major film role, starring in the Italian director Roberto Stefano 's new movie, Imago Mortis .

The Legend. The Battle. The First Hero. Features: DVD Warner Brothers 10,000 B.C A young man must take a small band of villagers on a hunt to rescue the woman he loves.

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif star in Lawrence of Arabia Details: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Heights Theatre, Thursday at 7 p.m. In the early 1960s, Norman Mailer 's essay "The White Negro" hit an American cultural phenomenon square on the nose: the alienated white hipster's feeling of envy for dispossessed black people.

You've seen it in the cinema and bought the DVD - now's your chance to dress the part.

Remember Omar Sharif's marathon entrance in "Lawrence of Arabia"? First appearing as a tiny black speck on the distant desert horizon, he slowly, relentlessly grows in the frame to come barreling gloriously up on horseback, practically crashing through the camera lens.

Madrid, Jun 2 Egyptian actor Omar Sharif will receive the Alhambra Honor Award from the Cines del Sur Festival, which will be held from June 13 to 20 in the Andalusian city of Granada, Spain, organizers reported here Tuesday.

Year 1966 saw release of a film, The Night of the Generals. The story begins in 1942 in Warsaw, capital of conquered Poland.

Celebrated silver-screen star Omar Sharif has claimed that he was responsible for bringing then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin together ahead of Sadat's historic 1977 visit to Israel.

Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman have made nice , putting behind them Lieberman's "Mubarak can go to hell" comment and Egypt's "Lieberman's not welcome in Egypt" comment.

April 08, 2009, 5:29 p.m. Tucson Citizen tasteplus@tucsoncitizen.com Friday is the birthday of Omar Sharif, born Michel Demitri Shalhoub on April 10, 1932.