Fan sent jar of semen to Janet Jackson
Fan sent jar of semen to Fan sent jar of semen to Janet JacksonSinger Janet Jackson says she was once sent a jar of semen and a photograph of an erect p***s from one of her fans. Asked what’s the ‘craziest thing a fan has done?’ Jackson told Big Boy TV: ‘Oh there’s been a couple. One sent me a picture of himself with an erection and a jar of semen so he could get me pregnant because I was supposed to have his child.’ The singer has 18-month-old son Eissa with her estranged husband Wissam Al Mana and she is convinced the little one has saved her from depression, reports femalefirst.co.uk. She said: ‘The height of happiness is holding my baby son in my arms and hearing him coo, or when I look into his smiling eyes and watch him respond to my tenderness. When I kiss him. When I sing him softly to sleep. During those sacred times, happiness is everywhere. (IANS)
Venice film fest to sign gender parity protocol
The Venice Film Festival’s parent organisation, the The Venice Film Festival’s parent organisation, the Venice Biennale, is set to sign a protocol on gen der parity that the Cannes, Locarno and Sarajevo festivals have recently signed too. Initiated at Cannes by French organisation 5050-2020, the protocol involves pledges to practices that Venice officials say are already in place at their event: issuing statistics on the number of films submitted, being transparent about the members of the selection and programming committees, and reaching an even gender ratio in the organisation’s top management. The pledge is to be signed at a news conference on Friday together with Italian organisations Dissenso Comune and Women in Film, TV and Media Italia, reported Variety.com. The Venice pledge — which, like those signed by Cannes, Locarno and Sarajevo, does not involve mandatory quotas — is expected to have slightly different wording stating that the Biennale “will continue to” practice the policies contained in the protocol, in recognition that the organisation already has such policies in place. (IANS)
Cate Blanchett was forced into acting
Hollywood star Cate Blanchett says she was Hollywood star Cate Blanchett says she was pushed into acting because she actually wanted to travel the world when she left high school. ‘The only thing I wanted to do when I left high school was travel with my work. I did not at all think about notoriety or fame. I thought maybe I’d move into the visual arts, but from a curatorial perspective, or architecture, even though my maths was absolutely woeful,’ Blanchett told Harper’s Bazaar magazine. The Blue Jasmine star has been doing acting since she left high school and thinks she probably only has a ‘few more years left’ in front of the camera before she loses her ‘sanity’ and attempts to make it as a director, reports a website. ‘I don’t know what I am going to do next as an actor. I never do really. But I feel like I’ve got probably a couple more years left in it, before I lose my sanity. If the offers are still there (to go into directing). (IANS)
Manto to be screened at BFI London Film Festival
by actress-filmmaker Nandita Das, will be by actress-filmmaker Nandita Das, will be screened at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival. ‘Since Fire, my first film 22 years ago, I have shown my film at the London Film Festival. Over the years, many of my films have been screened there. I love the multicultural audience of London,” Nandita said in a statement to IANS. ‘BFI has had repeated screenings of ‘Firaaq’ apart from showing at their festival. I am very much looking forward to taking ‘Manto’ to the festival this October,’ she added. (IANS)