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26 June 2008 11:58 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The son of legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu has been sentenced to two months in jail for drunk driving.

Guillaume Depardieu was ordered to spend two months behind bars on Thursday after he was caught driving a scooter while intoxicated. He was not in court to hear the verdict.

The actor was accused of being four times over the legal limit when he was stopped by police in February in Paris after attending a party.

The 37-year-old, who previously lost a leg in a motorbike accident in 1996, will appeal the decision, according to his legal team.

The Depardieu family have faced several legal woes this year, Oscar-Nominee Gerard was recently forced to pay compensation to a photographer after he was convicted of attacking him.

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17 April 2008 12:18 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Legendary French actor Gerard Depardieu has been forced to pay compensation to a photographer after he was convicted of attacking him.

The Oscar-nominated star was ordered to pay paparazzo Dario Orlandi 800 euros ($1,275/GBP637) after an Italian court found him guilty of injuring the photographer.

Orlandi told the court how Depardieu head-butted him after spotting him taking pictures while out on a shopping trip in Florence, Italy, in 2005 - leaving him unable to work for four days.

A judge told the court the Italian court that the Green Card star, who was not present at the hearing, would be required to pay the fine for "injuries and threats against Dario Orlandi".

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1 April 2008 6:53 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

On its surface, Ang Lee's career has been distinguished by a seemingly aimless ricochet between nations and milieus (Taiwan, New York, Wyoming, Devon, Shanghai, Connecticut, etc.), and between adapted disparate source materials (Jane Austen, Rick Moody, Annie Proulx, Wang Du Lu, Stan Lee) . and from both perspectives, you can find something to carp about. Indeed, Lee is rarely considered in serious debates about contemporary heavyweights, and his cultural rootlessness (read: opportunism) and dependence on literature may well be the reasons. We commonly like our auteurs to come packaged as purebred cultural expressors, and as artists largely independent of old narrative voices. But Lee's case can also demonstrate, movie by movie, the irrelevance of location, and the depth-finding force of deft adaptation.

"The Ice Storm" (1997), newly Criterionized, makes the point with a cudgel: Lee may have been Taiwanese, but his first all-American movie couldn't have been more American.

Michael Atkinson

3 articles from 2008