Sporting a customary surgical mask, pop star Michael Jackson made a rare public appearance at a Santa Maria, Calif. courthouse Wednesday to testify in a $21 million breach-of-contact lawsuit by a former promoter.
Acknowledging the difficulty of competing with more glamorous Asian film festivals ("It's appropriately humble not to try to match them--at least for now."), Pimpaka Towira, the Bangkok Film Festival's programmer, announced her selection of some 80 films to be screened at the fourth annual festival set to begin on Nov. 16th and continue through the 25th.