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Updated: 2009-11-05 08:46 Yao Chen talks fashion
Actress Yao Chen (pictured) showed up at a press conference for Love in Cosmo (Yaobai de Hunyue) and opined: "Fashion is not all about weird clothes Fashion is more like a way of life. It is not only dressing and styling." The movie, sponsored by Chinese fashion media group Trends, is like The Devil Wears Prada. Yao's role is like a sad Andrea Sachs, tortured by her editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestley, and by two men who are competing for her affection. She said many metropolitan women were like her role in the movie: They have to work hard to satisfy their material needs, while their love lives are unstable. Even so, Yao added, "the movie is different from real life". Talent show winner Chris Lee Yuchun also showed up with a red bling-bling T-shirt, saying snow gave her inspiration for the movie's musical score. Fashion designer Mary Ma Yanli, whose role is the "devil in Prada", also showed up at the press conference, saying she enjoyed being the devil. "I am so overwhelming in the movie: I throw stuff randomly on the ground, and just walk away. Of course, Yao has to pick it up." Winslet wins libel award Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet accepted $41,000 in libel damages on Tuesday over a British newspaper's claim that she had lied about her exercise regime. The 34-year-old British star of Titanic and The Reader had sued over an article that appeared in the Daily Mail in January entitled Should Kate Winslet win an Oscar for the world's most irritating actress?. "I am delighted that the Mail has apologized for making false allegations about me," Winslet, who won the Oscar for The Reader, said in a statement. "I was particularly upset to be accused of lying about my exercise regime and felt that I had a responsibility to request an apology in order to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise. "I strongly believe that women should be encouraged to accept themselves as they are, so to suggest that I was lying was an unacceptable accusation of hypocrisy." Winslet's lawyer, Rachel Atkins, told the High Court in London that the story, which was accompanied by several naked photographs of the actress in various films, was offensive in tone. The newspaper published an apology in September, accepting that Winslet had not lied about how much she exercised, and agreed to pay the damages and costs, Atkins said. The settlement was subsequently agreed in court on Tuesday. Obama names art mentors Sarah Jessica Parker (pictured), Alfre Woodard, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, and George C Wolfe are among the artists whom US President Barack Obama has named to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, according to a report in Variety. The committee will advise the president on elevating the role of the arts in society.
The committee will also include Teresa Heinz, Bryan Lourd, Yo-Yo Ma, Liz Manne, Thom Mayne, Andy Spahn, Jill Cooper Udall, Anna Wintour, and Damian Woetzel. As previously reported, producers George Stevens Jr and Margo Lion are the committee's co-chairmen, and Mary Schmidt Campbell, who has served as the dean of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts since 1991, is the committee's vice-chairman. Houston moves on Whitney Houston is selling her old marital home. The I Will Always Love You singer is selling the luxury five-bedroom property - where she wed Bobby Brown in 1992 - in New Jersey for just $2.5 million, less than half its estimated worth of $5.6 million. The 46-year-old singer - who currently lives in Los Angeles with daughter Bobbi after divorcing Bobby in 2007 - hasn't lived in the house for some time. During the last years of their marriage, Houston and Brown were based in Atlanta. She nearly lost the house - which boasts a four-car garage, three fireplaces, walk-in closets, a bar and skylights and floor-to-ceiling windows - in 2006 after a combination of failing to pay taxes and her being sued for $1.04 million by her mortgage company. The lawsuit was eventually resolved. Houston is not the only star set to lose money on a property sale. British singer Robbie Williams is selling his lavish estate in Wiltshire, UK, for $1,6 million less than he paid for it. After just eight months in England, the Bodies hitmaker and his girlfriend Ayda Field - who bought the 18th century Wiltshire house for nearly $14 million in February - have slashed the estate's price so they can get back to sunny Los Angeles as quickly as possible. An insider said: "Robbie is desperate to get things moving quickly rather than hang around just to get a bit more money. Being settled back in the States quickly with Ayda is more important to him." China Daily/Agencies (China Daily 11/05/2009 page18) |
