THE WORLD premiere of a documentary about Nelson Mandela opens the battle among film makers to be the best at telling his story. Produced by Johnathan Demme, it goes on general release in South Africa from Friday.
A second production, starring US actor Sidney Poitier as Mandela and Michael Caine as F.W. de Klerk is to be released this year.
A third film is being planned by South African director Anant Singh Mandela sold Singh the exclusive rights to dramatise his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom. Filming of the $10 million project starts next year.
After a private wedding ceremony and a honeymoon in Turkey, John F. Kennedy Jnr and his bride, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, have returned to their New York apartment.
The Duchess of York made a surprise appearance as a presenter at last night's National Television Awards. She read the nominations for the best drama prize at the ceremony in Londons Royal Albert Hall.
Clad simply in a sleeveless black dress, she said. "I am sure that some of you may think I should be receiving this award rather than presenting it."
Michael Jackson has held his first concert in Africa and the Arab world. After greeting some 60,000 fans in Arabic, to wild enthusiasm. The staged a typical sound and light extravaganza at a stadium in Tunis.
Italian designer Gianfranco Ferre said farewell to Paris yesterday, but the fashion community was too busy guessing who will succeed him at the house of Christian Dior to care.
To heighten the suspense, Dior officials said the choice of a new designer will not be announced until next week.
Bombay police have filed obscenity charges against Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain for painting Hindu goddesses nude. Hindu nationalist politicians have focused their rage on Husain's paintings of the goddesses Saraswati and Draupadi although the artist painted the offending pictures several years ago.