Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

‘Queen of rock ‘n’ roll’ Tina Turner dies at 83

Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming neighborhood and abusive relationship to grow to be one of many prime recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday on the age of 83. She died peacefully after a protracted sickness in her residence in Küsnacht close to Zurich, Switzerland, her consultant stated.

France’s Breillat again to breaking taboos at Cannes with ‘Last Summer’

French director Catherine Breillat’s new erotic thriller “Last Summer,” premiered on Thursday night time, bringing her taboo-breaking model to the Cannes Film Festival. The movie follows Anne, a lawyer residing in Paris together with her husband and two daughters, when the son from her husband’s earlier marriage, 17-year-old Theo, comes to remain.

Wim Wenders will get uncommon Cannes movie double invoice: ‘It might be an expertise’

Most administrators could be thrilled to have one movie proven on the Cannes Film Festival. Wim Wenders has two. “Perfect Days” – the German auteur’s tenth contender for the competition’s prime prize – is sharing the programme with a particular screening of “Anselm”, his 3D examine of German artist Anselm Kiefer.

Italy’s Nanni Moretti directs, stars in Cannes entry ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’

Renowned Italian director Nanni Moretti each directs and stars in “A Brighter Tomorrow,” which premiered worldwide on Wednesday and is his ninth movie to compete for the Cannes Film Festival’s prime prize. So far he has come residence with the Palme d’Or solely as soon as – greater than 20 years in the past, with “The Son’s Room” in 2001.

Stars at Cannes take break from pink carpet to help AIDS analysis

Celebrities together with Queen Latifah, Jeffrey Wright and Heidi Klum escaped the Cannes Film Festival’s crowded Croisette Boulevard for an evening to attend a fundraiser for AIDS analysis at a secluded luxurious lodge within the close by resort city of Antibes.

“I wanted to be here tonight because I think it’s such a beautiful charity and just to be able to do what I can,” stated Bebe Rexha, one of many stars performing on the Thursday occasion.

ABBA’s Bjorn and Benny dismiss Eurovision reunion in Sweden subsequent yr

ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have dismissed a reunion at subsequent yr’s Eurovision Song Contest of their native Sweden, which may even mark the fiftieth anniversary of when the supergroup received the competitors with “Waterloo”. In an interview with Britain’s BBC Newsnight on Wednesday night, the pair dominated out taking to the stage with fellow members Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad for the event.

Forty Cannes movie festivals considered via one photographer’s lens

When Eric Gaillard first went to {photograph} the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, it was a smaller, extra intimate affair – the sort of place the place you possibly can see the greats from Hollywood’s Golden Age like Lauren Bacall or Ava Gardner wandering alone on the esplanade or having enjoyable on the seaside with out bodyguards. Returning for his fortieth time, Gaillard finds a special beast – bigger, extra multicultural, with extra restrictions on the place photographers can stand to attempt to get that viral snap or seize that second when a film star will get caught off-guard sharing an intimate smile, hanging a goofy pose, or having a foul hair day.

French delicacies competes on huge display at Cannes in ‘The Pot-au-Feu’

Stomachs have been positive to grouse on the Cannes Film Festival premiere of “The Pot-au-Feu” on Wednesday, which brings Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire’s culinary skills to the massive display. The stars of the movie, French movie icon Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, two-time winner of France’s Cesar award for greatest actor, have been on the pink carpet within the French Riviera metropolis together with Gagnaire and French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung.

Tina Turner honoured at lakeside Swiss residence the place she died

Well-wishers gathered exterior the lakeside residence of Tina Turner on Thursday to pay tribute to the music legend who had made Switzerland her residence for practically three a long time. Flowers and playing cards lay exterior the home within the picturesque city of Kuesnacht, on the shore of Lake Zurich, the place Turner died on Wednesday on the age of 83.

Tributes salute Tina Turner’s music and resilience

Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a farming neighborhood and abusive relationship to grow to be one of many prime recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday on the age of 83. Below are reactions from musicians, actors and the White House.

(With inputs from companies.)