Former Formula One world motor racing champion Michael Schumacher and his wife Corinna want to adopt one, or maybe even two, children from Sarajevo. "It's true, that's what we intend to do, adopt one or two," he told Bunte magazine in an interview published yesterday. "Nothing has been agreed on yet, but we will take our decision soon."
Schumacher (28), who lost the 1997 title to Canadian Jacques Villeneuve in controversial circumstances, has been an ambassador for the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) since 1995. He visited Bosnia just before Christmas and has frequently called for more help for the war-ravaged nation, donating money himself to help child victims of landmines laid during the conflict, which ended two years ago.
Schumacher and his wife, who live in Switzerland, have a daughter, Gina Maria, who was born in February.
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, who plays a cross-dresser in British film-maker Sean Mathias' movie Bent, says he is "happy in drag."
"It's a serious film," the frontman for The Rolling Stones told the USA Today newspaper in an interview published on Monday, a month after the film opened in the US.
"But my part is comedic. And I loved dressing up, finding the right costumes. I started off with short dresses, which I knew I wouldn't get to wear. But I looked a lot better in short dresses, to be perfectly honest," said Jagger.
Bent - the film version of a play by Martin Sherman - recounts a love story in a Nazi concentration camp amid the persecution of homosexuals.
Jagger said that his interest in films has been growing of late and that his movie production company, Jagged Films, has several works in progress. Among the projects are: Enigma, a historical thriller set during the second World War; The Map of Love, about Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin, and All the King's Horses, a thriller.
Simone Duvalier, the widow of former Haitian dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, has died aged 83, informed sources said in Saint-Cloud, France, said yesterday.
She died on December 26th in a clinic in Saint-Cloud just west of Paris. Her relatives said she had been cremated in the Paris region.
Simone Duvalier, dubbed "Mama Doc," had lived in France since 1986, when her son Jean-Claude was ousted from power in a coup after 15 years of rule. Francois Duvalier became president of Haiti in 1956 and ruled until 1971.