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Chris Brown's Father Against Relationship with Rihanna

Backstreet Boys Are Back

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Photo by: Alfonso De Elias

Will.i.am Admits to Stealing a Song

Cheryl Burke's Inspiring Message

Neil Diamond Performs at Red Sox Game

A crowd of 35,000 people were serenaded by Neil Diamond during a Red Sox game in Boston this weekend. The crowd were ecstatic to see the legendary singer perform one of his all-time hits, “Sweet Caroline.”

Kate Middleton's Baby Bump

During a National Review of the Queen’s Scouts at Windsor Castle, we see the Duchess of Cambridge we see that the Duchess of Cambridge is showing, pregnancy speaking. Middleton is six months pregnant and will be due in July.

Rihanna Concerts Cancelled

During her “Diamonds” tour concert, Rihanna has cancelled a concert that was supposed to take place on April 15 in Houston due to illness. Prior to this, she has canceled two concerts in the previous month due to laryngitis. Rihanna issued an apology via Twitter thereafter.

Baroness Thatcher dies

By GalaTView Staff

Margaret Thatcher, the former U.K. prime minister who helped end the Cold War and transformed Britain and inspired conservatives around the world by radically rolling back the state during her 11 years in power. She was known as the “Iron Lady” for her uncompromising style, died today. She was 87.

Renoir is a touch of love on a canvas

By Jenny Alvarez

Set on the French Riviera in 1915, RENOIR follows Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet), who is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritis, and the news that his son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) has been wounded in action. When the incandescent Andrée, aka Dédé (newcomer Christa Théret,) miraculously enters his world, the artist is filled with an unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful Dédé will become Renoir’s last model inspiring some of his most renowned works including Les baigneuses (The Bathers). Back at the family home in Cagnes-sur-Mer to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden, and in the face of his father’s fierce opposition, he falls in love with this wild, untamable spirit, and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.

This film has the complex relationship between father and son. Pierre-Auguste may be haunted by the loss of his younger wife and fearful of what might befall two of his sons serving during World War 1, but painting is still his life. Renoir includes his sense that wars shatter natural cross-border fraternities, the harshness of the class prejudices, the increasing disrespect for culture and also how his last muse was. This film is full of beautiful scenes of the countryside and some dialogues are plain but witty in some contents of Renoir’s canvasses into a visual blast of natural color and sound on the big screen full of romantic attentions in 111 minutes (A little long so you should be full of energy otherwise it could be very boring).

Starbuck is a Donor Unknown causing genetic chaos

By Jenny Alvarez

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Starbuck was co-written and directed by Ken Scott, who penned the screenplay with Martin Petit, the film stars Patrick Huard as David Wozniak, a 42-year old lovable but perpetual screw up who finally decides to take control of his life.  A habitual sperm donor in his youth, he discovers that he’s the biological father of 533 children, 142 of whom are trying to force the fertility clinic to reveal the true identity of the prolific donor code-named Starbuck.

 Produced by André Rouleau, the film also stars Julie Le Breton, as David’s long suffering girlfriend who suddenly finds herself pregnant and understandably reluctant to share parenthood with the unreliable David, and Antoine Bertrand, David’s longtime friend, Paul, an attorney who takes on his case while trying to disabuse him of the joys of parenthood.