Pierce in Cannes:
Irish actor Pierce Brosnan poses for photographers during a photocall on a beach in Cannes May 18, 2002. Brosnan is in Cannes to promote his latest James Bond film "Die another day" as the 55th Cannes film festival continues on the French Riviera. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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Pierce in Cannes
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Posted 19 May 2002 - 03:31 PM
From BBC News Online
http://news.bbc.co.u...000/1996769.stm
Bond party thrills Cannes
A party to celebrate James Bond's new film was hailed as the most spectacular bash of this year's Cannes Film Festival when 007 star Pierce Brosnan joined 1,200 people at Pierre Cardin's home on Saturday.
Brosnan took time off from filming Die Another Day to attend the all-night party at the designer's futuristic hillside complex of bubble-shaped concrete pods.
One area was turned into a mock Riviera casino, while there were also two dancefloors and illuminated swimming pools.
"This house could have been built for 007. It suits him," Cardin said. "I'm sure the next James Bond could be shot here."
Brosnan had arrived in Cannes by speedboat earlier in the day, and confirmed that he would star in another Bond film after Die Another Day.
Asked to sum up the appeal of the action hero, he said: "It's the women, the gadgets, the sex, the romance, the fantasy world, the ultimate hero."
Cardin said Bond was so appealing because he was "full of sensuality, elegance and craziness".
"I never miss his adventures at the cinema," the designer, 79, said.
Lasers
The party was also celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bond's first appearance on film, when Sean Connery starred in Dr No in 1962.
Screens around the party showed clips from the Bond archives and the secret agent's Aston Martin and Jaguar were flown in.
Two bands, including Soul II Soul, entertained guests, while dry ice floated over the hillside and giant green lasers beamed the numbers 007 across the valley.
Brosnan has been in London filming Die Another Day, in which he is due to star alongside Oscar winner Halle Berry.
Due for release in November, it is billed as the biggest Bond movie ever, and will see the secret agent battle a North Korean general
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Bond stirs up Cannes
19 MAY 2002
By Marc Burleigh, AFP
http://entertainment.....E^nbv,00.html
CANNES, France:
The world's most famous superspy, James Bond, was guest of honour at the biggest party at the Cannes Film Festival, an all-night bash to promote his latest film, Die Another Day.
Pierce Brosnan, the Irish actor currently incarnating 007, was on hand at the bash, a sprawling, glitzy affair held at the private estate of French fashion mogul Pierre Cardin - a bizarre complex of interconnected bubble-shaped concrete pods that are strung across a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean.
"This house could have been built for 007. It suits him," Cardin told AFP as he showed off his property.
"James Bond is a character full of sensuality, elegance and craziness. I never miss his adventures at the cinema," he said.
A mock casino done up in Riviera chic, two dance floors, two bands (one of them Britain's Soul II Soul), numerous bars and buffets, laser lighting and illuminated swimming pools kept the 1,500 guests entertained.
Multiple screens displayed excerpts from most of the Bond films made since 1962, while a couple of Aston-Martins - Bond's sportscar of choice -were parked at the entrance to the function.
Outside, hefty guards prowled the perimeter to keep gate-crashers away.
Brosnan, who turned 49 last Thursday, did not mingle, preferring to keep to himself in a separated VIP area, away from reporters and fans.
The actor was taking a couple of days out from shooting Die Another Day scenes in London. The production has also taken him to Hawaii (for the film's opening sequence), Hong Kong, Spain and Iceland.
This time, the villain is believed to be a North Korean general who is left disfigured by a face-changing device. The film, which also stars Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, is due out in November.
Brosnan was discreet since his arrival yesterday at Cannes, his MGM-United Artists minders allowing just one photo session and no media conference.
That was perhaps out of care not to anger the film festival's organisers, who tolerate studios using their event as a promotional arena for upcoming movies unrelated to the official competition as long as they don't go overboard.
Such piggy-backing has paid off handsomely for other films. A part of Lord of the Rings, for instance, was shown at Cannes last year, followed by another spectacular themed party, creating a buzz in the media that lasted until its release seven months later.
For Brosnan, Die Another Day will be his fourth time as the super suave spy. He has said the next film - the 21st in the long-running series - will likely be his last, leaving the job open to a younger actor.
He has ensured that he has kept his hand in with other, less superficial films, since becoming Bond. He has his own production company, Irish DreamTime, that has turned out tough dramas, one of which - Evelyn, a story about a jobless Irish father who goes to court to win his children back from church care - is also being promoted with a billboard at Cannes.
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Bond party thrills Cannes
A party to celebrate James Bond's new film was hailed as the most spectacular bash of this year's Cannes Film Festival when 007 star Pierce Brosnan joined 1,200 people at Pierre Cardin's home on Saturday.
Brosnan took time off from filming Die Another Day to attend the all-night party at the designer's futuristic hillside complex of bubble-shaped concrete pods.
One area was turned into a mock Riviera casino, while there were also two dancefloors and illuminated swimming pools.
"This house could have been built for 007. It suits him," Cardin said. "I'm sure the next James Bond could be shot here."
Brosnan had arrived in Cannes by speedboat earlier in the day, and confirmed that he would star in another Bond film after Die Another Day.
Asked to sum up the appeal of the action hero, he said: "It's the women, the gadgets, the sex, the romance, the fantasy world, the ultimate hero."
Cardin said Bond was so appealing because he was "full of sensuality, elegance and craziness".
"I never miss his adventures at the cinema," the designer, 79, said.
Lasers
The party was also celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bond's first appearance on film, when Sean Connery starred in Dr No in 1962.
Screens around the party showed clips from the Bond archives and the secret agent's Aston Martin and Jaguar were flown in.
Two bands, including Soul II Soul, entertained guests, while dry ice floated over the hillside and giant green lasers beamed the numbers 007 across the valley.
Brosnan has been in London filming Die Another Day, in which he is due to star alongside Oscar winner Halle Berry.
Due for release in November, it is billed as the biggest Bond movie ever, and will see the secret agent battle a North Korean general
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Bond stirs up Cannes
19 MAY 2002
By Marc Burleigh, AFP
http://entertainment.....E^nbv,00.html
CANNES, France:
The world's most famous superspy, James Bond, was guest of honour at the biggest party at the Cannes Film Festival, an all-night bash to promote his latest film, Die Another Day.
Pierce Brosnan, the Irish actor currently incarnating 007, was on hand at the bash, a sprawling, glitzy affair held at the private estate of French fashion mogul Pierre Cardin - a bizarre complex of interconnected bubble-shaped concrete pods that are strung across a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean.
"This house could have been built for 007. It suits him," Cardin told AFP as he showed off his property.
"James Bond is a character full of sensuality, elegance and craziness. I never miss his adventures at the cinema," he said.
A mock casino done up in Riviera chic, two dance floors, two bands (one of them Britain's Soul II Soul), numerous bars and buffets, laser lighting and illuminated swimming pools kept the 1,500 guests entertained.
Multiple screens displayed excerpts from most of the Bond films made since 1962, while a couple of Aston-Martins - Bond's sportscar of choice -were parked at the entrance to the function.
Outside, hefty guards prowled the perimeter to keep gate-crashers away.
Brosnan, who turned 49 last Thursday, did not mingle, preferring to keep to himself in a separated VIP area, away from reporters and fans.
The actor was taking a couple of days out from shooting Die Another Day scenes in London. The production has also taken him to Hawaii (for the film's opening sequence), Hong Kong, Spain and Iceland.
This time, the villain is believed to be a North Korean general who is left disfigured by a face-changing device. The film, which also stars Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, is due out in November.
Brosnan was discreet since his arrival yesterday at Cannes, his MGM-United Artists minders allowing just one photo session and no media conference.
That was perhaps out of care not to anger the film festival's organisers, who tolerate studios using their event as a promotional arena for upcoming movies unrelated to the official competition as long as they don't go overboard.
Such piggy-backing has paid off handsomely for other films. A part of Lord of the Rings, for instance, was shown at Cannes last year, followed by another spectacular themed party, creating a buzz in the media that lasted until its release seven months later.
For Brosnan, Die Another Day will be his fourth time as the super suave spy. He has said the next film - the 21st in the long-running series - will likely be his last, leaving the job open to a younger actor.
He has ensured that he has kept his hand in with other, less superficial films, since becoming Bond. He has his own production company, Irish DreamTime, that has turned out tough dramas, one of which - Evelyn, a story about a jobless Irish father who goes to court to win his children back from church care - is also being promoted with a billboard at Cannes.
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Posted 18 May 2002 - 06:50 PM
Info on one "pleasingly chiselled Irish clothes horse" going to Cannes to promote Bond and Evelyn. 
From The Gaurdian:
http://www.guardian....,717572,00.html
Cannes diary
Stuart Jeffries
Saturday May 18, 2002
The Guardian
Burly polymath Stephen Fry arrived in Cannes yesterday to celebrate
the clinching of a deal with FilmFour to fund his directorial debut,
Bright Young Things. Word is the film will be a romantic-action-
comedy-zombie movie about a wannabe DJ jolted out of his inertia by a zombie invasion of modern day London. Hold on, that's not right. Bright Young Things is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1930s novel Vile Bodies, featuring all kinds of fruity Oxbridge toffs and not a
single zombie or any banging garage tracks spun by an ace MC. Dame Judi and Peter O'Toole, after all, have been attached to the project, and they do not do zombie.
Paul Webster, chief executive of FilmFour, said yesterday: "The film
ends with world war two, and the message is if you party too hard
you'll suffer the consequences." A poignant moral for hard-partying
Cannes liggers.
In fact the zombie picture is called Shaun of the Dead and, like
Bright Young Things, has been developed by Michael Winterbottom's
Revolution Films. Shaun was written by Simon Pegg, who wrote and
starred in that hippy satire sitcom Spaced. Perhaps it too will have
a trenchant moral application to late capitalism in the post-
September 11 era. Or maybe it'll be just a lot of stooges walking
round London in morbid slap.
Pleasingly chiselled Irish clothes horse Pierce Brosnan is due on La
Croisette tonight to sit at the wheel of the rather showy Aston
Martin that has been parked outside the Carlton Hotel all week. This
will yield one of the many weekend photo-opportunities to promote the new Bond picture, Die Another Day. He will later party in a manner befitting an international superspy at the joint MTV-MGM do, one of the many exciting parties this evening that point up the true
decadent, degraded nature of modern society that will soon receive
timely upbraiding from Fry's oblique filmic critique. Nice.
A big poster on La Croisette advertises Brosnan's upcom ing
performance in the film Evelyn. Thankfully 007 isn't starring in a
biopic about the author of Vile Bodies, but in much trickier fare. He
will play a father in Ireland in 1953 whose children are mandated to
church care when his philandering wife leaves him and he becomes
unemployed. This prompts Brosnan's character to lobby the Irish
supreme court to overturn the so-called Family Law and thus get his
brood back from overbearing people of the religious persuasion. If
only Bond had been so adept at social reform.
One-time sexpot Helen Mirren may well get her kit off in a film for
the first time we can remember since Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Along with Smethwick thespian Julie Walters, Mirren is going to star in a true story of 12 Yorkshire
Women's Institute members who pose naked for a calendar to raise
money for charity. Called Calendar Girls, the film will be directed
by Nigel Cole whose last film was the cannabis comedy Saving Grace,
with Brenda Blethyn.
Michael Caine was supposed to be in Cannes yesterday to promote his new film The Actors, written by Conor McPherson and directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Gabriel Byrne and Dylan Moran. An air traffic
control computer failure kept the plane on the tarmac at Heathrow for a time intolerable to the icon. After waiting for three hours for his
flight without a minder, Caine got the hump and returned to his
fastness. The plane took off for the Riviera half an hour later.
Vexing.
Frock-wearing cardinals at the Vatican don't care one little bit for
Marco Bellocchio's My Mother's Smile (L'Ora di Religione) because
they think it is blasphemous. The Rome-set film deals with an artist
troubled when he finds out his dead mother is due to be canonised by the Catholic church. Like Fellini it satirises religious hypocrisy
and like Pasolini a deconstruction of bourgeois Italian values. It is
one of the most accomplished European art movies to be shown so far at the festival and has been hailed by Italian critics as a
masterpiece.
Hirsute writer Hanif Kureishi and Notting Hill helmsman Roger Michell
are to collaborate for the first time since their TV series Buddha of
Suburbia. Kureishi has written a script about a granny from the
suburbs who moves to a London devoid of zombies, but nonethless
rather frightening. She falls, the press release says, "headlong,
girlishly, carnally in love" with a man half her age, or at least she
will do when filming starts next month. Respect.
From The Gaurdian:
http://www.guardian....,717572,00.html
Cannes diary
Stuart Jeffries
Saturday May 18, 2002
The Guardian
Burly polymath Stephen Fry arrived in Cannes yesterday to celebrate
the clinching of a deal with FilmFour to fund his directorial debut,
Bright Young Things. Word is the film will be a romantic-action-
comedy-zombie movie about a wannabe DJ jolted out of his inertia by a zombie invasion of modern day London. Hold on, that's not right. Bright Young Things is an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1930s novel Vile Bodies, featuring all kinds of fruity Oxbridge toffs and not a
single zombie or any banging garage tracks spun by an ace MC. Dame Judi and Peter O'Toole, after all, have been attached to the project, and they do not do zombie.
Paul Webster, chief executive of FilmFour, said yesterday: "The film
ends with world war two, and the message is if you party too hard
you'll suffer the consequences." A poignant moral for hard-partying
Cannes liggers.
In fact the zombie picture is called Shaun of the Dead and, like
Bright Young Things, has been developed by Michael Winterbottom's
Revolution Films. Shaun was written by Simon Pegg, who wrote and
starred in that hippy satire sitcom Spaced. Perhaps it too will have
a trenchant moral application to late capitalism in the post-
September 11 era. Or maybe it'll be just a lot of stooges walking
round London in morbid slap.
Pleasingly chiselled Irish clothes horse Pierce Brosnan is due on La
Croisette tonight to sit at the wheel of the rather showy Aston
Martin that has been parked outside the Carlton Hotel all week. This
will yield one of the many weekend photo-opportunities to promote the new Bond picture, Die Another Day. He will later party in a manner befitting an international superspy at the joint MTV-MGM do, one of the many exciting parties this evening that point up the true
decadent, degraded nature of modern society that will soon receive
timely upbraiding from Fry's oblique filmic critique. Nice.
A big poster on La Croisette advertises Brosnan's upcom ing
performance in the film Evelyn. Thankfully 007 isn't starring in a
biopic about the author of Vile Bodies, but in much trickier fare. He
will play a father in Ireland in 1953 whose children are mandated to
church care when his philandering wife leaves him and he becomes
unemployed. This prompts Brosnan's character to lobby the Irish
supreme court to overturn the so-called Family Law and thus get his
brood back from overbearing people of the religious persuasion. If
only Bond had been so adept at social reform.
One-time sexpot Helen Mirren may well get her kit off in a film for
the first time we can remember since Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Along with Smethwick thespian Julie Walters, Mirren is going to star in a true story of 12 Yorkshire
Women's Institute members who pose naked for a calendar to raise
money for charity. Called Calendar Girls, the film will be directed
by Nigel Cole whose last film was the cannabis comedy Saving Grace,
with Brenda Blethyn.
Michael Caine was supposed to be in Cannes yesterday to promote his new film The Actors, written by Conor McPherson and directed by Neil Jordan, and starring Gabriel Byrne and Dylan Moran. An air traffic
control computer failure kept the plane on the tarmac at Heathrow for a time intolerable to the icon. After waiting for three hours for his
flight without a minder, Caine got the hump and returned to his
fastness. The plane took off for the Riviera half an hour later.
Vexing.
Frock-wearing cardinals at the Vatican don't care one little bit for
Marco Bellocchio's My Mother's Smile (L'Ora di Religione) because
they think it is blasphemous. The Rome-set film deals with an artist
troubled when he finds out his dead mother is due to be canonised by the Catholic church. Like Fellini it satirises religious hypocrisy
and like Pasolini a deconstruction of bourgeois Italian values. It is
one of the most accomplished European art movies to be shown so far at the festival and has been hailed by Italian critics as a
masterpiece.
Hirsute writer Hanif Kureishi and Notting Hill helmsman Roger Michell
are to collaborate for the first time since their TV series Buddha of
Suburbia. Kureishi has written a script about a granny from the
suburbs who moves to a London devoid of zombies, but nonethless
rather frightening. She falls, the press release says, "headlong,
girlishly, carnally in love" with a man half her age, or at least she
will do when filming starts next month. Respect.