Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The breakout performance at the Cannes Film Festival this year is Aniello Arena's turn as a Naples fishmonger who becomes obsessed with appearing on a "Big Brother"-style TV show in "Reality.
"But the star will not be walking the red carpet at the Italian movie's gala premiere Friday. He'll be where he has been for two decades — in prison.Arena is riveting in the film by "Gomorrah" director Matteo Garrone — lively, likable and lost — and many viewers were astonished to learn he is serving a life sentence for murder. He has worked for a decade with the respected Fortezza prison theater company but has never appeared in a feature film."I wanted him to appear in 'Gomorrah,' but the judge wouldn't allow it," said Garrone, whose bloody crime drama won Cannes' second prize in 2008. "We received the authorization for him to appear in the film (Reality) but he was not allowed to come here to Cannes."Garrone said the absence was "not too bitter a disappointment" for Arena, because the movie's su...Nine young women in Turkey have been duped into appearing in Internet pornography after starring in a fake " Big Brother "-style reality show.The 16 to 24-year-olds ...
Tonight’s episode of “The Bachelorette” moved to Maui, where the three remaining bachelors got a second shot at making something happen with Jillian in a “fantasy su...
A British reality TV star who is dying of cervical cancer got married Sunday in full glare of the cameras — a wedding extravaganza auctioned off to the highest media...
India and Pakistan are going nuclear over this magazine cover showing a naked Pakistani star wearing nothing but a provocative political tattoo.Readers across the re...
Aspiring actors get pointers on landing their dream reality show gig
Jackie Collins is back with yet another racy new novel. This one's called ‘Goddess of Vengeance,’ and it features Lucky Santangelo, who first appeared in ‘Chances’ b...
Former 'Growing Pains' star on 'Fox & Friends'
A British reality star who is dying of cancer was allowed to spend a rare night with her husband, currently on probation following a prison stint, as her condition w...
Rod Blagojevich's friends scattered as investigators looking into his doomed Illinois governorship closed in. Some associates had already been indicted, others stopp...
It was a case that gripped Scotland — a firebrand leftist lawmaker who claimed he spent nights at home playing Scrabble versus a tabloid that claimed he took part in...
Canadian model and former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson will appear in reality television show "Bigg Boss," the Indian version of "Big Brother."Anderson, 43, was s...
British model and tabloid favorite Katie Price has married her cage-fighter boyfriend Alex Reid in Las Vegas.The couple says they married Tuesday "in a private simpl...
British reality TV star Jade Goody , who appeared on the show 'Big Brother' in 2002, is turning her death into reality television. Goody suffers from terminal cervic...
Jade Goody , a dental assistant turned reality-TV star whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a national soap opera in Britain, died of ...
A group of President Robert Mugabe's loyalists say voting was not "free and fair" in the Big Brother Africa TV reality show.Officials of MNET Africa, the continentwi...
A German porn actress suffered a fatal heart attack following her sixth breast augmentation operation, leading to a police investigation."Sexy Cora," a 23-year-old p...
Police arrested 24 Hindu nationalists after they barged onto the set of a hit Indian reality television show Tuesday to protest its inclusion of two actors from Paki...
A brash young British reality TV star whose ups and downs have captivated the nation is approaching her death the same way she has lived — on television.Given just m...
Tonight, viewers got more insight into the long, sad story that is the dissolution of the Gosselin marriage, as TLC ran two half-hour episodes of “Jon & Kate Plus Ei...
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