European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 stars and stripes sunday March 25 2007 faces puck chef puck orders animal Friendly menu celebrity chef Wolfgang puck is cooking up Kinder gentler menus As part of a new initiative to fight animal cruelty puck said thursday he will no longer serve foie gras the fatty liver produced by overfeeding ducks and geese his 14 Fin dining restaurants More than 80 fast casual eateries and 43 catering venues will use Only eggs from hens that have lived Carefree veal from roaming calves and lobsters that have been removed from their Ocean traps quickly to avoid crowded holding puck said guests at his restaurants want to know their food is made with fresh organic ingredients and that the animals were treated Well we want a better Standard for living creatures its As simple As that puck said the move came after three years of protests by farm Sanctuary an Anima rights group that launched Wolf Spears wins injunction on rehab stories lawyers for Britney Spears won a British court injunction thursday designed to prevent publication of stories about her recent stay in rehab the injunction bars unidentified person or persons who been leaking information about is Spears time in a rehabilitation clinic from further disclosures invading her privacy said schillings the 25yearold pop stars London Law firm the injunction was issued at the High court by judge Charles Gray Spears left promises Malibu alcohol and drug rehab treatment facility in California after successfully completing their program her manager Larry Rudolph said this week he asked that Spears privacy be respected she entered the facility feb 22 after a bout of bizarre behaviour that included shaving her head getting tiny lips tattooed on her wrist and beating a car with an umbrella Burton to receive Golden lion award Tim Burton director of Edward scissor hands and Charlie and the chocolate factory will receive the Golden lion for lifetime achieve ment at this years Venice film Festi Val Tim Burton is a cinematic Genius the most imaginative child of the new age of Cinema festival director Marco Muller said in a statement wednesday More insolently pop than most of the contemporary new directors and less eager for approval than most of the older ones there is not a bankable Hollywood director with a Flintzer sense of Cinema than him the 64th edition of the festival will be held on the Lido in Venice from aug 29 through sept 8 Burton 48 presented the Nightmare before Christ Mas at the festival in 1994 and Corpse Bride in 2005 author Mcmillan sues a Chubby for Terry Mcmillan is suing her former husband for million alleging that he tried to smear her reputation Dur ing their highly publicized 2005 divorce Mcmillan 55 filed the complaint wednesday in californian Contra Costa county Superior court against Jonathan Plummer 32 who inspired her bestselling 1996 novel How Stella got her Groove Back the Book later adapted into a movie starring Angela Bassett and Taye Diggs chronicled the adventures of a 40something woman who Falls for a Guy half her age the lawsuit claims Plummer a Jamaica native married Mcmillan in 1998 Only to become a us citizen he later announced that he is Gay the couple eventually settled their divorce for an Undis closed amount plumbers lawyer Dolores Sargent also is named in the lawsuit stories and photos from wire services Burton Mcmillan Queen Latifah left Jamie Foxx and director Nel son George arrive at the premiere of the Hob film life support in new York earlier this month the film for which Latifah and Foxx were executive producers is about the True life Story of a Mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role Model and an aids activist in the Black Community Stuart Queen Latifah digs deep for life support7 role by Marisa Guthrie new York daily news new York Queen Latifah has had her share of big laughs and bigger triumphs and her comic timing is As Reli Able As a sitcom laugh track but often the performers were accustomed to seeing playing to the rafters in lighter fare have the most Power to Surprise us in Small serious films and while Latifah has parlayed Success in the hiphop world into an impressive acting career starring on tvs living single appearing in numerous comedies ing Down the House Beauty shop some sub tier films out loud last and being an Academy award nominee for one Best picture Oscar Winner its the More intimate roles that affect her that the Case with life support Nelson Georges High Impact film about the aids epidemic in Middle class America in which Latifah plays a wife and Mother who is a reformed drug addict living with the disease the film de buted on Hob and for the Star it meant More than just another Chance to Anchor a film i lost two cousins to aids Latifah says i lost friends to it High school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthday so for me in Way past the age of its so scary that i cant even face it life support was filmed last summer in Brooklyn and it brought Latifah who was born Dana Owens in Newark Back to the Days before she was cutting records and scoring Oscar nominations it was weird she says at 16 i was running these streets and i should have had no business being there my College Boyfriend lived in East new York i used to go visit him and he lived Way the hell out there i used to hang out in Brooklyn even before him in my Wilder Days a teenager trying to be someone Back then if my Mother knew i was Way the hell out there she would Freak out it made me really thankful that i made it through that stage in my life Latifah who turned 37 this month grew up in Irving ton no Shell next be seen in another musical director Adam Shank ans upcoming big screen adaptation of the Broad Way hit Hairspray Shell play Motormouth Maybelle record store owner and soulful musical guide to Spunky teen Tracy Turnblad Nicole Hairspray May not seem to have much in common with life support but Latifah says she approached both projects with the same strength of purpose i play a totally different character in each but i can never allow myself to forget that theres still segregation she says theres still racism theres still people judging other people because one person weighs More than the other person As much As Hairspray is a big comedy those Are the underlying factors that has to be there for me it has to be real the Story of life support is real to its heart George based his screenplay on the life of his older sister Andrea Williams who contracted his in 1993 after having unprotected sex with her husband an intravenous drug user Williams now and works at the Brooklyn nonprofit organization life Force where she educates women about the importance of his testing and Safe sex some of the most powerful scenes in the movie Are improvisational and show Williams real life peer group at life Force having Frank discussions about sexuality and the disease these moments Are so striking because viewers almost never hear women mothers and wives talk so openly about this subject on to or in movies its the invisible group straight women says George overwhelmingly its been straight women Black women minority women there the new group that getting his in big numbers and because of that there invisible the actress and the director Are of one mind on the importance of keeping the Story truthful i was struck by Latifah commitment to the character and to reality says George a Brooklyn native she was very particular about tilings in the script she was on the Lookout for anything that seemed Hollywood and the film is grounded in so Many Levels of reality there Are no drug dealers in this movie he adds theres very Little hiphop these Are the people who dont make headlines no one is trying to be fabulous and Fly and Latifah despite her status in Hollywood has not for gotten where she came from so when she met Williams she realized we had a lot More in common than we didst we ran some of the same streets and encountered some of the same challenges Latifah says i think Andrea will iams biggest Impact on me was i was remembering con stantly that in not just playing a part that theres a per son behind every word i say in this movie this is not a fictional Story there Are Many Andreas out Here right now who need to have their Story told
