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An audience of almost 3,000 clapped and cheered as Woody Allen and his jazz band gave their first ever concert in Poland on Sunday. The filmmaker, playing the clarinet, was accompanied by his New Orleans Jazz Band for a performance of traditional jazz.

“We will do our best to entertain you,” Allen told the audience at Warsaw’s biggest concert hall, Sala Kongresowa, at the beginning of the two-hour concert. Allen’s solo parts, as well as those of other band members, were welcomed with applause.

He received a standing ovation at the end. The 73-year-old Academy Award winner rarely performs in large venues or outside New York City, where he lives.

op star Lily Allen has revealed that she will retire from her music career as soon as she gets married.

When inquired whether she would be performing after 40 years or not, she said: “No. Absolutely my idea of hell. My worst nightmare! I want to have children and live in the countryside. Sorry - boring I know,” reports China Daily.

“I’m retiring when someone marries me and I have children,” Allen said.

The ‘Alright’ hitmaker, who split from Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons this year shortly after she suffered a miscarriage, revealed that she is waiting for the man of her dreams.

“I’ll have to wait until I fall in love again. That’s my plan anyway. I don’t know how long it will take. “I just have to find the right person but I’m going to be very busy over the next couple of years,” Allen said.

However, the 23-year-old pop star doesn’t believe she will walk down the aisle any time in the near future.

Bowing to the pressure by Hindu right wing organisations, the Films Division today decided to defer the screening of renowned painter M F Husain’s documentary at the ongoing International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here. “The screening has been deferred for the time being as there were some objections to it,” Director of Film F estival, S M Khan told PTI. The 40-year-old documentary, ‘Through the Eyes of a Painter’, about Hussain’s experience in Rajasthan, was a part of Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s Films Division’s ‘Framing Time section’, scheduled to be screened today.

Hindu organisations ‘Sanatan Sanstha’ and ‘Hindu Janajagruti Samiti’ (HJS) had objected to the screening of the documentary, citing that there were several cases pending against Hussain in India. “There are 1,250 cases pending against him for insulting Hindu religion.

How can he be a part of any festival sponsored by the government?” said Sushant Dalvi from HJS. The right wing organisations had written to Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat and the DFF on the first day of the festival to withdraw the documentary. The members had also met Kamat with a memorandum.

The state authorities “had requested the organisers to defer the screening as it might create law and order problem in the state.” The decision to defer the documentary film, which won the prestigious Golden Bear award at the Berlin film festival, was arrived at after much deliberation, as Films Division officials till yesterday had maintained that there was no change in the schedule.

Cancer stricken Jade Goody is set to defy doctors’ orders by going on a Christmas holiday with her two kids.

The Big Brother star has been finding it hard to cope with the gruelling chemotherapy, but insists that it would not let it pound her.

Goody is planning to take two sons Bobby, five and Freddie, four for a holiday.

She has also allowed Living TV cameras into her home for a documentary after they followed her through her initial operation and recovery.

She has also agreed to star in panto as the Wicked Witch.

“I’m having up days and down days, but I keep telling myself I won’t let this beat me,” The Sun quoted her, as saying.

Actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, who won rave reviews for her performance as the repressed Bangladeshi housewife in ‘Brick Lane’, worked with Naseeruddin Shah in forthcoming film ‘Barah Anna’ and says she learnt a lot from the ‘inspiring’ actor.

‘Naseerudin Shah has been my teacher. I really adore the way he keeps re-inventing himself. His passion and dedication for his work is so inspiring,’ Tannishtha told IANS.

Tannishtha and Naseer play the main leads in Raja Menon’s controversial film ‘Barah Anna’ that takes a brutal look at how the poor in Mumbai, a teeming metropolis of extremes, cope with their everyday problems.

‘Barah Anna’ is said to be inspired by Booker Prize Winner Aravind Adiga’s novel ‘White Tiger’, but Tannishtha said: ‘The film is not an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel. However, I won’t deny its uncanny resemblance to the book.’

The film is slated to hit the screens later this year.

Tannishtha came into limelight with her performance as a subdued Bangladeshi wife in director Sara Gavron’s ‘Brick Lane’, which was based on Monica Ali’s novel of the same name. She was even nominated for the British Independent Film Awards in the best actress category.

She has walked the red carpet with international stars like Judi Dench and Anne Hathaway but says it is an uphill task for Indian actors to find success in the global arena.

‘It’s very difficult to create a niche for yourself internationally. There is so much competition from around the world. However, it’s not impossible since India is being recognised now. We are respected abroad,’ said Tannishtha.

Apart from ‘Brick Lane’, Tannishtha proved her acting prowess in several critically acclaimed international and Indian films like German movie ‘Shadows of Time’ and Indo-French film ‘Let the Wind Blow’.

She also played powerful roles in ‘Strings’, ‘Kasturi’ and ‘Bibar’.

So far Tannishtha has been associated only with parallel cinema but says it wasn’t a conscious decision to do only arthouse films.

‘It was not planned that I will only be a part of parallel cinema. In the beginning of my career itself, I got some very strong women-oriented roles and opportunity to work with great international and Indian directors. I can say that I was lucky to get such strong parts. So I didn’t want to give up such meaty roles,’ Tannishtha said.

‘Usually people start with mainstream commercial films and then move on to more serious cinema but in my case it has been the opposite,’ she added.

Tannishtha is excited about her role in Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Sunrise’ and says she would love to do a comedy with Priyadarshan.

‘I’m very happy to work with Sudhir Mishra in a film like ‘Sunshine’. It’s a silent film and I’m playing a very complex role of a girl who is stuck in time. It’s a great part,’ she said.

She is also working in films like ‘Bhopal: A prayer for Rain’, ‘Bombay Summer’ and ‘White Elephant’.

Pay cut, budgeting and scrimping - the film industry feels the pinch

Just when actors, directors and production houses were accustomed to gloating about the 100-odd crore their films have made, the downturn in the economy has the world gob-smacked. While the financial sector may be the most apparently hit, Bollywood isn’t far behind.

London Dreams, the famed Rs 120 crore project by TV18, is already said to be reconsidering its budget. Producers of movies due for release are also tweaking their promotion campaigns to fit the projects in their budget.

Though the effect of the recession will become more visible only by the yearend, most production houses are already feeling the heat and taking adequate measures. With EMI due for release within a week, Ramesh Sippy, CEO, Balaji Motion Pictures, called a meeting of producers early this week to discuss the issue. “We have decided to cut on media spending by nearly 40 per cent for our current release but our future projects will also require better planning,” he says.

Pritish Nandy Communications, which has nine films in the pipeline, plans to streamline the production and control costs. “We will reconsider our cast to accommodate actors that fit our budget and stick to the schedules as much as we can,” says Pritish Nandy.

The buzz also has it that actors too may have to take a pay cut. Shabbir Boxwala of Popcorn Motion Pictures (EMI) says the astronomical amounts that were being paid initially by corporates for multi-movie deals are a thing of the past and adds that though it is too early to give a figure, a correction of up to 20 per cent can take place. Sippy, however, is of the opinion that a correction in the market was anyway due and “it may just have brought forward what was bound to happen maybe by mid-2009″.

Vikas Kapoor, director, Future Picture Company that produces Heroes, also plans to approach his cast for the forthcoming films Formula 44 and Lanka and request a pay cut. “We’ve already cut down on the publicity of Heroes. A full-page ad in a leading publication costs anywhere between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 14 lakh and we no longer enjoy that kind of influx by financiers. We have no choice but to request the actors to reconsider their fee,” complains Kapoor.

Some feel the big fish in the industry, like Yash Raj Films, may not be affected as they have a reliable financial backup and reputation they can bank on in such times of turbulence. But given the number of unsuccessful projects (at the box office) that have emerged from YRF, the situation is debatable.

What may make matters worse for the industry is pitiable economic condition in the UK and the US. The NRI audience also forms a considerable percentage of their audience. Therefore, the revenue generated on that front too is going to take a hit, suspect the trade pundits. YRF was unavailable for comment.

With at least six films due for release around Diwali, this is definitely not good news. But Boxwala feels that to cut down on marketing-spend can prove suicidal “as marketing a film well these days is more important than making the film”. He also has an interesting counterview of the economic situation: “It is a known fact that the film industry does well in times of economic crisis since people prefer to escape the worries through the celluloid world.”

A political party floated by thespian Rajnikant’s fans would not be disbanded despite his fiat, says Rajni Babu, the president of Desiya Dravida Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam.

‘Notwithstanding our leader’s call to disband our party, his threat to expel and take legal action against us, we will continue to function as the political wing of Rajnikant’s fan club,’ Babu said.

‘We have decided to take steps to stem the rot after the flop of ‘Kuselan’ and increase the popularity of Rajnikant. Having suffered for long under the yoke of other political parties, we have decided to fight. Further, his goodwill used critically by us will cleanse the political Augean Stables of the state,’ Babu added.

Babu’s party formed a fortnight ago here has a flag with Rajnikant’s picture in its centre.

Rajnikant threatened to take legal action against all those who used his name and picture without authorisation and decried all attempts by his fans to start a political party.

‘While nobody can force me to enter politics, no force can prevent me from doing so,’ Rajnikant was quoted as saying.

Situated 600 km south of state capital Chennai close to the Kerala border, this textile town has one of the largest numbers of fans of Rajnikant.

From phone sex operator, to comedian, to large size campaigner, to teen author with a voice for girls struggling to come to terms with their weight.

Mo’Nique Imes Jackson, 40, who is known by her stage name Mo’Nique, has enjoyed a varied career, starring in various TV shows, hosting the BET awards, and penning two books “Skinny Women Are Evil” and the cookbook “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.”

Now twice-married Mo’Nique, who recently launched an online clothing range called Fat Gurl, has branched out into teen fiction with a coming-of-age novel “Beacon Hills High” which she co-wrote with Sherri McGee McCovey.

The novel is about a 13-year-old F.A.T. (Fabulous and Thick) girl who happens to share her last name — Eboni Michelle Imes.

Mo’Nique, who has four children from her two marriages, spoke to Reuters about her latest venture — and why fat-ism is wrong:

Q: Why did you decide to go into teen fiction?

A: “I think there are so many issues in college that were not as threatening when we were young and it’s helpful to have a coming-of-age book that is real and helps kids understand what is going on.”

Q: What type of issues do you mean?

A: “I think race is a huge issue, sexuality, and character and integrity. You normally find those things are handled in cartoons like Elmo and Blue’s Clues but there is nothing that is really informative or geared for 13-year-olds.”

Q: The lead character of “Beacon Hills High” has your name. Is she you?

A: “Yes. It is based on my years in college and she is learning to be comfortable in her own her skin. But when we were teenagers in school there wasn’t so much focus on material things and how much things cost and names. We got excitement over the simple things so Ebony is changed for the times.”

Q: Does it deal with weight issues?

A: “Yes, in the book there is a boy who is the superstar footballer and who has a crush on Ebony who is not the typical girl you’d think he would be attracted to. She is a big girl. He’s is a bit nervous in letting his friends know about this. We also address weight with a character Deb who has become anorexic. The message is that you can be any size but you must be healthy.”

Q: You’ve always been vocal about size. What is your view?

A: “I have always said I don’t care what size you are but be as healthy as you can and love you. I have never said it is fine to be obese. But you are made to feel that if you are fat you have committed the worst sin. I’ve had crying sessions with women who won’t wear short sleeved blouses or short shirts because they are imprisoned by what society says — that you can’t be sexy or have high self esteem if you are big. We want rid of the myths.”

Q: Will you continue in teen fiction?

A: “Yes, this is a four-book series. I am also thinking about going into adult fiction with a line of books catering for full figured women. People don’t think we have these incredible lives and wonderful sex lives and families but we do.”

Q: Have you found yourself discriminated against due to size?

A: “When I first came to Hollywood I thought everyone looked the same. I didn’t want to look like every else but to be who I am. I have lost almost 20 pounds (nine kilos) after having two new babies and I want to be as healthy as can be. I want to get to 200 pounds even. Now I’m 240. Some people would still consider that obese but it’s fine for me.”