Marieclairvoyant

Guy Ritchie’s latest film is only 4 minutes long – and while fans of Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels and Snatch might be disappointed to know there isn’t a gun in sight, fans of Jude Law will no doubt love it. Ritchie’s latest endeavor is an ad campaign for Christian Dior’s men’s fragrance Dior Homme – because you’re only really a director in Hollywood these days if you have a fragrance campaign to your name! Watching the ad, I couldn’t help but repeatedly feel that Law, the face of the fragrance, was doing some serious channeling of Michael Caine; it’s some of this that he should have brought to the disastrous Alfie remake!

(film courtesy of CocoPerez)

Martin Jacobs

The American poet, author and activist Alice Walker (she of the great The Color Purple) is giving the Steve Biko Memorial lecture this evening at UCT. She warned earlier on in the week to ‘expect nothing’ saying ‘I live frugally on surprise; that is to say, I don’t foresee even my own behaviour. I prefer to be spontaneous.’
Unfortunately, Prof Walker is notoriously interview shy and likes to keep her private life just that – but what a life she’s had. The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, she married a jewish civil rights lawyer making them the first legally married interracial couple in the state of missipissi; she’s passionate about race and gender issues and has been arrested for protesting; she’s spoken out about female circumcision, Gaza, and the Rwandan genocide. She’s American but feels a deep sense of belonging in Africa, saying, ‘I take comfort in the reality that we are all Africans. Everywhere, Sweden, Paris we are all Africans.’
Oh and she’s a lady after our own hearts – she’s a blogger. ‘I love blogging,’ she said in an interview. ‘I find it so freeing. I cant wait to hear her speak. (Alice Walker pictured bove with her partner Garrett Larson)
Vanessa MC

I’m kind of a fence-sitter when it gets to child stars and how fame at a young age can influence and affect the course of their lives – is it good or is it bad? I can’t decide. Some child stars (ala Britney Spears and Macaulay Culkin) turn out “weird” when all grown up while others seem to be more than okay (like, Scarlett Johansson, Justin Timberlake and Leonardo DiCaprio).
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