Brigitte Bardot Vs. Muslims

Next round of Brigitte Bardot vs. Muslims.
No, Bardot’s animosity has nothing to do with, say, a planned Algerian-made sex melodrama called And Allah Created Woman. Bardot, like millions of others in France and elsewhere, apparently just doesn’t like Muslims, period.
She’s now on trial for the fifth time since the mid-1990s for "inciting racial hatred" due to recent controversial remarks she made about Islam and its followers, five million of whom live in France. (Free speech laws in France are clearly less encompassing than in some other countries.) French anti-racist groups filed a complaint following comments Bardot made about the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, in which a sheep is usually sacrificed, in a letter to right-wing French president Nicolas [...]

Douglas Kirkland Photo Exhibition

Brigitte Bardot (top); Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (bottom)

The photo exhibition "Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland," opens today in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free.
"Freeze Frame" features more than 125 color and black-and-white images of old and new motion picture celebrities, including Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Warren Beatty, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Salma Hayek, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Kline, Sophia Loren, and Baz Luhrmann.
Also, Shirley MacLaine, Ewan McGregor, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Sidney Poitier, Susan Sarandon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Sellers (right, as a paparazzi going after Britt Ekland), [...]

Annette Stroyberg

Danish-born actress and socialite Annette Stroyberg (aka Annette Vadim), best known for having married director Roger Vadim died of cancer on Dec. 12 in Copenhagen. She was 69.
Stroyberg made a few film appearances in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most notably as the innocent victim of connivers Jeanne Moreau and Gérard Philipe in Vadim’s modernized version of Choderlos de Laclos‘ Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959). She was Vadim’s second wife, following on the heels of Brigitte Bardot.
Among her other film roles — whether as Annette Vadim or Annette Stroyberg — are those in Blood and Roses (1960), as a vampire who makes out with Elsa Martinelli before gulping down her blood; Roberto Rossellini’s Anima nera (1962), co-starring Vittorio [...]