The big buzz Friday at the Cannes Film Festival was about a screening that reportedly sent many hustling to the exit.
But 3½ hours of butt closeups vied for attention with wild red-carpet fashions and some big-name Hollywood stars.
• Sylvester Stallone, 72, told cinemagoers that he never expected to make it in the film industry due to a speech impediment — now one of his more celebrated trademarks. “When I would try to get jobs in commercials, the director would go, ‘What are you saying, what language is that?’ I knew it was bad when Arnold Schwarzenegger said, ‘You have an accent.'”
• Among the big-ticket items at the AmfAR fundraising auction for AIDS research included a marble Mickey Mouse statue ($500,000) and a painting of rocker Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol from 1975, signed by both of them ($364,000).
• Quentin Tarantino said he never told Roman Polanski that he was making a movie (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”) that was set against the notorious 1969 killing spree that claimed the life of Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate.
• Soccer star Diego Maradona urged moviegoers to stay away from the new documentary about his life. Posters for the movie refer to him as: “Rebel. Hero. Hustler. God.” He objected to “hustler.”
“I played football and I made money running after a ball,” he told Univision in an interview. “I didn’t hustle anyone … I don’t like the title, and if I don’t like the title I am not going to like the film. Don’t go and see it.”
The movie, which premiered at Cannes, is by Asif Kapadia, director of the documentaries “Amy” and “Senna.”
