CANNES' CANNY EVENTS

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This Golden Palm award by Chopard is given to the best movie at Cannes Film Festival


CANNES IS FULL OF EXCITEMENT AND WHY NOT?

Cannes is now in the midst of the 66th Cannes Film Festival and I am mingling with the rich and famous!

Already there has been 2 bigtime dramas---thieves stole RM 5 million worth of jewels from Chopard and last night there was an even bigger drama when 2 stars were shot at point blank but luckily the bullets were blanks!

I was strolling on Croisette, the world famous and super expensive boulevard when the shooting occurred. Of course I didn't know the shooting was happening but to think I was there within hundreds of metres of the shooting which happened during a live broadcast!

No wonder I told Dato Nancy Yeoh who was with me that so many tuxedoed men and glammed women were leaving the Festival Palace where the red carpet event was going on! Now I realised they were probably fleeing just in case there were more mad men shooting blanks!

If the bullets were blanks, they could have been real live ones too! And the dummy grenade could also have been real since the knife was genuine.

As it is, nerves are frayed as tourists and visitors and even locals living in Cannes worry about getting caught in the cross-fire! If the psycho mad man who fired blanks had used real bullets, innocent bystanders could also have been shot!

The Chopard jewels were stolen unseen when the room occupant was having dinner and attending parties. No one was hurt and no shots fired but this shooting by the beach could have turned fatal with death and destruction!

But being the brave and heroic type, I am staying put in Cannes! I came here with Kassandra Kassim's Newsmakers Unplugged team on 15 May and will leave on 25 May for Paris and then home to Kuala Lumpur on 28 May.


The casino faces the sea

Tents lining the beach where parties are held nightly. On any night there are at least a dozen  parties!

View from Croisette

Looks a bit like Beverly Hills

Lovely sunset 

Croisette was made for a promenade!

Carlton hotel is decorated with The Great Gatsby posters

The Great Gatsby is larger than life and so are the posters

Suitable wheel for Croisette

The posh Carlton hotel

Movie posters line the hotel facade

The Great Gatsby posters were the most prominent

The Great Gatsby posters at Carlton hotel

Stately palm trees and Great Gatsby posters decorate the facade of Carlton hotel

The newsflash was not real!

This AMG babe is for real!


I almost fainted when I saw this Bugatti car! This is one of the world's rarest cars and the billionaire Arab owner flew it in inside his private jet as he could not hire one in all of France!

This babe was hoping the owner would give her a ride...

She thought her long legs would match the Bugatti's long wheelbase...

The owner kicked the girl aside and offered me a lift instead!

He drove the Bugatti to one side so I could enter as he was blocking the hotel's entrance

This is the Arab number plate of the Bugatti

How everyone admired and drooled over the Bugatti!

Sunset at Croisette

Babylon cannot be that famous if it has to claim the title itself so but then I do this myself

Beauty and the Beast in architecture! The Carlton is so majestic and elegant and this block of cheap looking, downmarket flats look like an accident! The City Hall should tear down this eyesore

The lovely Miramar 

The Miramar is also very luxurious

The world famous Martinez is now a Grand Hyatt

Very de nice

Dato Nancy Yeoh and Frank Nelwan

Free live concert by the beach

Some say the Monsters and Great Gatsby are same-same, sama-sama!

A bit of Las Vegas does no harm

This gorgeous fur coat by Fendi costs RM 125,000!

DSquared proposes these baju for the Best Actress

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Majestic Barriere hotel


Majestic Barriere hotel

The Golden Palm award by Chopard

Dramatic gear by Montclere

Montclere

Nice face gear by Montclere







The Festival Hall where the red carpet events are held nightly but the shooting drama left the photo stands empty as the pixmen rushed to the shooting scene by the beach

But the red carpet went on

The significance of the kissing couple is beyond me





This handsome young man was supposed to be in The Great Gatsby as many girls were waiting to be photographed with him

He certainly looked the part but someone whispered to me he was just a student and this was a scam just for larks

If your movie was rejected by Cannes Film Festival, you can always set up your own premiere by the roadside and show your own movie to the public!

This costs RM 20,000

Casino

100% electric car by Renault


This car was made for midgets

Miraculously 2 big Americans managed to squeeze themselves in!

One driver only

The latest summer suit look! Make sure your legs are shaved though


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