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TABLE OF CONTENTS: PART II

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5-WORLD ENTERTAINMENT

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EUROVISION: The Eurovision: Full Coverage. The contestants, winners, awards, photos. Istanbul's Abdi Ipecki stadium is usually a sweaty basketball stadium, but was transformed into a stage fit for one of the biggest musical events in the world. With an enthusiastic capacity crowd flying flags of many nations, the atmosphere was electric - clearly this contest was shaping up as a night to remember. Last year's Turkish victor Sertab Erener set the stadium ablaze with a rousing rendition of her winning song, surrounded by a coterie of gold-dusted nymphs and then the magical whirling dervishes....................................................................................................................................................36-45

Moore: F Michael Moore rench protesters briefly brought the fourth day of the Cannes film festival to a halt on Saturday with a loud march in front of the red carpet. The demonstration by about 500 entertainment industry workers over government cuts to their unemployment benefits paralysed the seafront area of the Riviera town for about two hours. Although the day's main competition film, Shrek 2, went on without a problem, several other screenings were interrupted or cancelled. In one case, a dozen workers who had pushed their way into a theatre were forcibly removed by police.................................................................................41

Michael Jackson (centre) Jackson: A court order that bars anyone involved in the Michael Jackson child abuse case from talking about it must stay, prosecutors have said. A letter sent to the California Supreme Court said it was crucial in ensuring potential jurors were left untainted. It also said the Jackson case, due to go to trial, had sparked intense media interest and gossip. What was "reported as 'fact' becomes the nucleus of intense speculation", it said. Mr Jackson denies the charges. The letter was filed by District Attorney Thomas Sneddon and Deputy District Attorney Gerald Franklin. "Unseemly enthusiasm": Mr Jackson has pleaded not guilty to 10 child molestation charges, which include a charge of conspiracy to abduct a child..................................................................................................................................48

White House VS MOORE: The White House tried to halt the making and release of Michael Moore's new film Fahrenheit 9/11, the film-maker alleged in Cannes on Sunday. The director told a Cannes audience the Bush administration wanted to keep the film off screens in the run-up to November's US election. The film examines the Iraq war and alleges connections between the Bush and Bin Laden families. Fahrenheit 9/11 is to get its world premiere in Cannes on Monday. Film studio Disney had backed out of a deal to distribute the film in the US for political reasons, Moore says. He has given no evidence to substantiate his allegations, but said "someone connected to the White House" and a "top Republican" had put pressure on film companies not to release the film. Moore said the few who had seen the film had told him "the potential for this film to have an impact on the election was much larger than they thought". Undercover in Iraq: The film was originally scheduled to be released through Disney-backed independent studio Miramax, before Disney blocked it. It is now expected to be released through a third party. Disney accused Moore of engineering a dispute about the film's release to gain maximum publicity.................................................................................................49

Troy CANNES: Will CANNES Buzz Again? This year's Cannes film festival is combining Hollywood glamour, art house excellence and industry dealings. Last year's Cannes was widely proclaimed as one of the dullest in festival history, with a paucity of stars, controversy and films to set the movie world alight. But this year, there are signs the annual bonanza on the French Riviera could return to form. A-list stars should be in abundance, with Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and Tom Hanks among those with films in the official selection. Cannes will be a launch pad for Greek epic Troy, in which Pitt plays Achilles, while Shrek 2 - using the voice of Diaz - and The Ladykillers, starring Hanks, are both in the running for the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. But the most attention could be given not to a screen idol but to the outspoken documentary-maker Michael Moore, whose new film, Fahrenheit 911, is also among the 18 movies in competition. "Already, the entire world is going to be watching Cannes because of Michael Moore," according .........................................49

Brad Pitt in Troy Pitt: Pitt, who plays Achilles in the ancient Greek story, said at the film's opening in Cannes: "The themes that Homer had still resonate today." Burrows described a "terrible sense of deja vu about what the Trojans faced and what we're facing at the moment". The film, which opens in the US on Friday, has so far had mixed reviews. Troy, which cost $200m (£115m) to make, is based on Homer's Iliad and also stars Lord of the Rings' Orlando Bloom, Hulk star Eric Bana and British stars Julie Christie, Brian Cox and Peter O'Toole. The film was famously forced to move locations from Morocco to Mexico when film studio Warners decided Morocco was too dangerous............................................................................50

6-CINEMA AND FILMS REVIEWS

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Trojan horse Press Reviews: TROY Film critics in the US and the UK have given mixed reviews about Wolfgang Petersen's latest movie Troy. Los Angeles Times: It should be said that Troy is only half silly. It is also half serious, not to mention half bloody and half talky, half well-acted and half walked through, half faithful to its venerable sources and half wildly invented. Yes, that's an awful lot of halves, but this is a movie that's nearly two and three-quarter hours in length. Washington Post: Just don't go into Troy expecting adherence to the subtler details of The Iliad. (This movie is to Homer's original what Charlton Heston's The Ten Commandments was to the Old Testament.) For starters, the gods are pretty much gone. No Zeus or Hera. No Aphrodite and the golden apple she offers to Paris. There's frequent mention of the sun god, whose temple Achilles desecrates at one point...........................................................................................................................................52-55

Reviews: Shattered Glass. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction's often more entertaining. Could that be the motto of Stephen Glass, staff writer on American current affairs magazine The New Republic? In the 1990s, Glass was exposed as a conman who filed umpteen wild stories about teenage hackers and young Republican exploits without anyone rumbling that they were completely fabricated. In this nicely understated docu-drama, Hayden Christensen stars as the man who taught American journalism to read between the lies. Set in the middle of Bill Clinton's second term, when sex scandals dominated the headlines and the president infamously lied to the nation, Shattered Glass is as much about an era as a man. Getting a job at the snootiest current affairs magazine in the country - "the in-flight magazine of Air Force One".......57

Meg Ryan: Against the Ropes: Meg Ryan doesn't deliver the knockout performance you'd hope for in Against The Ropes. Indeed her turn as feisty boxing manager Jackie Kallen is in keeping with a film that's fun for a while, but irredeemably lightweight. Making his big screen directorial debut, Charles S Dutton may be aiming for hard-hitting exposé, but he only scrapes the surface of this intriguing true-life tale. Boxing is in her blood, yet by her mid-30s Jackie Kallen finds herself in a corner, playing PA to Irving Abel (Joe Cortese), the director of the Cleveland Coliseum. The job affords her proximity to the action but she's undervalued, and endures daily insults. Egged on by friend and sportscaster Gavin Reese (Tim Daly), she finally makes a stand and exchanges verbal blows with bigwig boxing promoter Sam LaRocca (Tony Shalhoub).........................................................................................................................................................57

Bon Voyage: "Old Fashioned mix of espionage and romance": Luckily for Frédéric, the authorities empty the jails before his life sentence can begin. Teaming up with conman Raoul (Yvan Attal) he sets off after Viviane, only to find her in the arms of a minister (Gérard Depardieu) who's in the process of establishing a collaborationist government. Throw in a Nazi spy (Peter Coyote), a pretty student (Virginie Ledoyen), and a vital supply of hard water, and you have an old-fashioned cocktail of espionage and romance that makes up for what it lacks in coherence with oodles of style.....................................................................................................................................59

Radio: Ed Harris makes Radio. Cuba Gooding Jr. has the showy title role of a mentally handicapped youth - so called because of his love for the wireless - but Harris provides heart and soul as the high school American Football coach who befriends him. Normally a stalwart supporting player, the crinkle-eyed character actor carries the movie, his still, sure presence providing emotional truth to a based-on-fact story that could have suffocated in schmaltz. Cynics should still skip it - and its racial politics seem too good to be true - but its innocence and charm make for warmly enjoyable entertainment...........................................................................................................................59

Korea: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring. Hitherto best-known amongst Asian cinema connoisseurs for such violent fare as The Isle and "Bad Guy", Korean writer-director Kim Ki-Duk casts off his bad-boy reputation with magical fable Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... And Spring. The film's dreamlike setting is a beautiful lake, surrounded by mountains and forests, and on whose waters floats a small wooden temple. Here live an elderly monk (Oh Young-Soo) and his mischievous child pupil (Seo Jae-Kyung). We follow the turbulent passage of the latter's life without moving away from this enclosed environment. Over the course of the film's five concise chapters, Spring, Summer... explores a whole range of human experiences.............................................................................................................................................................62

Obscene: The Football Factory. "OBSCENE VIOLENCE, GRUESOME SENTIMENTALITY". Once the scourge of the terraces, football hooliganism is making a comeback - at the cinema. In 2005 we'll see Elijah Wood as a West Ham yob in The Yank, but first we have The Football Factory, a grim and earthy look at soccer's underbelly based on John King's cult 1996 novel. Danny Dyer plays a young hoodlum who has dedicated his life to "thieving, f***ing and fighting.......................62

7-FESTIVAL: CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

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Glamour: THE GLAMOUR, THE FILMS, THE STARS, CELEBRITIES AND JURY MEMBERS OF CANNES IN PICTURES..................63-74