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DVD Review: Broken Embraces
Posted on Mar 18, 2010 @ 01:54PM - Add a comment
Secrets, lies, sex and love: Broken Embraces has it all. Throw in some drug-laced gazpacho, homemade flan and a dark love triangle enshrouded in mystery, and Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film unfolds with the Spanish director’s signature sense of farce and deviance, but with new layers of intrigue and a mind-boggling -- and, one would hope, self-aware -- degree of melodrama.
Penélope Cruz plays Lena, a woman caught between two rich men who fall hopelessly in love with her, playing tug-of-war until her tragic death in a car accident. The film, which arrives on DVD Tuesday, begins 14 years after Lena’s accidental death when her true love, Mateo Blanco (Lluís Homar), is compelled to tell the story to Diego (Tamar Novas), the son of his close friend and former colleague, Judit Garcia (Blanca Portillo). Mateo, it should be noted, is now not only blind (thanks to the accident), but also insists on being called by his unconvincing pseudonym, Harry Caine, in the belief that his when his main squeeze died, so did his former self.
Penelope Cruz: I’m No Top Chef
Posted on Nov 13, 2009 @ 09:44AM - Add a comment
Penelope Cruz is many things -- an award-winning actress, a beautiful cover girl, and a fashion designer -- but one thing she isn’t is a pro in the kitchen.
“I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes, but it looks in movies that I cook much better than I cook!” Cruz laughed at a press conference on Thursday in Los Angeles. “The things I can make can taste pretty well but I’m not the most organized person in the kitchen."
EXCLUSIVE: Inside Madonna and Penelope Cruz's Double Date
Posted on Oct 13, 2009 @ 01:28PM - 3 comments
Who knew that Madonna and Penelope Cruz were such close pals? Madge and boyfriend Jesus Luz were spotted having dinner with Cruz and her rumored fiancé Javier Bardem on Friday at Mr. Chow in New York.
“Penelope was with Javier and her family sharing chicken satay and beijing duck,” a source tells RadarOnline. “Madonna and Jesus arrived about 30 minutes into the meal and sat with the group for nearly two hours.”
Read The Original Harrowing Testimony Of Roman Polanski Rape Victim
Posted on Sep 30, 2009 @ 02:17PM - 22 comments
Long before Samantha Geimer publicly identified herself as the 13-year-old girl raped by Roman Polanski and said she thought his conviction should be overturned,she gave harrowing testimony to a grand jury, describing her ordeal in explicit detail.
Now, with Polanski once again under arrest and being held in Switzerland awaiting possible extradition back to the USA, many of his fellow celebrities have rallied to his defense – but the transcript of Samantha’s 1977 testimony is a raw and powerful today as it was when Polanski was facing trial.
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While the years seem to have made the director a sympathetic figure to some stars, the grand jury transcript describes – in graphic detail – a shocking crime against a child, the details of which haven’t detered 110 film industry figures from signing a petition for Polanski’s release. Thos celebrities include Martin Scorcese, Woody Allen and David Lynch, as well as Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton and Monica Bellucci.
The fugitive director pleaded guilty over 30 years ago to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled the US before sentencing - he has been living on the lam ever since.
Read about Polanski's arrest
In her 1977 grand jury testimony, then 13-year-old, then known as Samantha Gailey testified how the director had sex with her after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude at the Los Angeles home of Jack Nicholson.
Read the transcripts here
Gailey, an aspiring model, described how the ordeal began with her posing topless for Polanski at his request. She then describes posing naked for him in a Jacuzzi, allegedly for a French Vogue photoshoot. Soon the director removed his clothes and got in the Jacuzzi with Samantha.
She testified: “He goes, ‘Come down here.’
“And I said, ‘No, no. I got to get out.’
“And he goes, ‘No. Come down here.’”
Samantha tried to break away from Polanski by lying and telling him she had asthma. And as she repeatedly tried to get away from him, and asked him to take her home, he continued his relentless quest to have sex with her.
He followed her into the bedroom where despite Samantha asking Polanski to "keep away" he kissed the 13-year-old.
“He reached over and kissed me. And I was telling him, ‘No,’ you know, ‘keep away.’
The director said he would take her home, but then proceeded to perform a sex act on the 13-year-old.
Polanski could be released on bail
After that he "started to have intercourse with me." Gailey testified. She also said that Polanski, 43 at the time, "put his (censored) in my butt" after asking her "Would you want me to go in through your back?"
Polanski wants the case thrown out
Meanwhile, Samantha Geimer, who is 45 now and married with three children, says she has forgiven Polanski and wants him to be forgiven by others.
She says she has made peace with Polanski, with herself, and wants everybody to leave her alone for the sake of her family.
