Uma Thurman engaged to financier Arpad Busson
From Reuters:
Actress Uma Thurman, star of the “Kill Bill” movies, is engaged to London financier Arpad “Arki” Busson, according to news reports on Friday.
“I can confirm she is engaged,” her representative Stephen Huvane told celebrity Web site People.com in a posting on Friday.
Huvane was not immediately able to be reached for further comment. People.com said the pair began dating last summer, and since then their relationship has blossomed quickly.
Thurman, 38, has a long list of film credits that include roles in “Pulp Fiction” and “The Producers.” She was previously married to actor Ethan Hawke, with whom she has two children, as well as to actor Gary Oldman.
Uma Thurman stalker to undergo psychiatric care, watch My Super Ex-Girlfriend
A man convicted of stalking actress Uma Thurman and harassing her family for two years was ordered released from jail on Monday and will be required to submit to psychiatric care as a condition of his probation.
Jack Jordan, 37, was accused of sending harassing e-mails to Thurman’s father and brother, loitering for hours on the steps of Thurman’s Manhattan apartment and visiting her trailer on the set of the 2006 film “My Super Ex-Girlfriend.”
Jordan, who had been previously committed to a mental institution, was convicted of stalking and one count of aggravated harassment, but cleared of two other counts. He could have been sentenced to up to a year in prison.
“It’s important that you understand that your conduct is unacceptable, is criminal,” said New York Criminal Court Judge Gregory Carro, who rejected a prosecution recommendation that Jordan return to jail, where he was held for four months.
- From Reuters
After bitchslapping her stalker, Uma Thurman turns to Lancome and sues em for $15 million
Uma Thurman sued Lancome on Friday, seeking $15 million (7.7 million pounds) from the French cosmetics company, accusing it of using her name and face in advertisements after her contract had expired.
The actress claims the cosmetics company, owned by L’Oreal, breached an agreement signed in 2000, accusing the company of using her name and face in ads for years after her contract expired in September 2004 in Europe and December 2004 in the rest of the world.
The company gave the “false impression” Thurman, the star of films including “Pulp Fiction” and “Dangerous Liaisons,” was still linked to Lancome, the lawsuit said.
It also failed to tell wholesalers and retailers to stop using the ads that feature Thurman, said her lawyer Bert Fields.
“Celebrities will now be careful about doing deals with Lancome,” he said. “They continued to use her photographs long after the contract was over.”
L’Oreal spokeswoman Jennifer James said in a statement, “The use of Ms. Thurman’s image after her contract expired, however minor, was neither deliberate nor intentional.” She said the company declined to comment further in legal matters.
From Reuters
Jury in New York City convicts fan of stalking Uma Thurman
A lovesick former mental patient was convicted Tuesday of stalking and harassing Uma Thurman for more than two years, showing up on her front doorstep and movie set and sending the actress a series of creepy love letters.
Jack Jordan, a 37-year-old out-of-work lifeguard and pool cleaner, faces up to a year in jail. He was convicted of stalking and one count of aggravated harassment, and acquitted of two other harassment counts.
Jordan, who looked calm, was led from the courtroom in handcuffs. The judge ordered a psychiatric exam before his next court date on June 2.
“I’ve learned some disturbing things about this defendant during this case. I am going to remand him for a psychiatric exam,” said state Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro, who also presided in May 2002 when an accused stalker from Germany pleaded guilty to aggravated harassment of actor Richard Gere.
- From AP
The Uma Thurman & Kubrick movie that never was
“I was going to make a film with him — for a long time I was scheduled to make a film with him,” she said of “Wartime Lies,” a movie she was signed on to make with Kubrick in the early 90s. “I was contracted to do it and things happened and he shelved the film. He never made the film.”
The story of two Jewish family members, a young woman and her nephew, who disguise themselves as devout Catholics in order to avoid Nazi persecution, “Wartime Lies” was scrapped by the mercurial director after Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List.” At the time, he was reputed to have concluded that an accurate film about the Holocaust was impossible — that the horrors of the era could never be captured on film.
His decision to move on to other projects was “devastating,” said Thurman.
“It was devastating because it was an incredible part,” she confessed. “It would have been the part of my career, the best part I ever had been offered or had written for me, or anything.”
Via MTV
The Uma Thurman Stalker Trail Opens
A former mental patient’s note that his hands should be on Uma Thurman’s body “at all times” may be creepy but it is not criminal, a lawyer said Monday in defense of a man accused of stalking the “Kill Bill” actress.
George Vomvolakis told the state Supreme Court jury in his opening statement that defendant Jack Jordan, who is charged with misdemeanor stalking and aggravated assault, “does not think the way you and I think. He doesn’t know the boundaries you and I know. He thinks it’s romantic.”
But Assistant District Attorney Colleen Walsh told jurors that Jordan had tried to communicate with Thurman sporadically for more than two years, “with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten and alarm” her.
Via Foxnews
Uma Thurman prepares for ‘Motherhood’
Uma Thurman, Minnie Driver and Anthony Edwards will star in indie laffer “Motherhood,” written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann. The day-in-the-life feature has Thurman as a harried mother of two prepping for her daughter’s sixth birthday party as myriad urban challenges confront her. Driver and Edwards will play Thurman’s best friend and husband, respectively.
Via Variety
