After decades of rumors and half-truths from the media, Sean Connery is finally speaking publicly about his brief affair with Lana Turner, with whom he co-starred with in Another Time, Another Place - and almost became a target of a mob hit when it was revealed that Turner was the kept woman of gangster Johnny Stampanato. Connery's recollection of the incident is refreshing in that he doesn't try to enhance his heroic image - he says that when he was warned to get out of town or face the mobsters, he complied immediately. The candid talk with Scotland on Sunday is one of the few media promotions he's doing for his new autobiographical book. Curiously, Connery insisted upon doing the interview in the coffee shop of the Edinburgh Zoo! To read click here

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Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . it's also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker s transposition of the Marquis de Sade s 18th-century opus of torture and degradation to 1944 Fascist Italy remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
The End of Salò, a 40-minute documentary about the film s final scene
Salò: Yesterday and Today, a 35-minute documentary featuring interviews with Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini s friend Nineto Davoli
Fade to Black, a new short documentary about Salò, featuring interviews with filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury
New interviews with set designer Dante Ferretti and filmmaker/film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin
Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
Theatrical trailer
Optional English subtitles
PLUS: A booklet featuring new essays by Neil Bartlett, Roberto Chiesi, Naomi Greene, Gary Indiana, and Sam Rohdie, and excerpts from Gideon Bachman's on-set diary

(This DVD is available from Criterion in the USA)

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Say this for Pierce Brosnan - he's unique. When most male sex symbols get caught embracing a woman on a beach, it generally isn't their own wife. But in Brosnan's case, he was photographed canoodling his beloved wife Keely on a Hawaiian beach, thus making him the only star in memory who didn't have to come up with a story to explain the photos. Too bad Sen. John Edwards didn't hire Brosnan as an advisor! For more photos click here