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Meryl Streep & Pierce Brosnan present the film Mamma Mia! in Berlin

Patricia| 2008-07-04 11.26 pm

Meryl Streep & Pierce Brosnan The double Oscar winning actress, Meryl Streep and former James Bond actor, Pierce Brosnan visited the German capital to promote their new film, the musical Mamma Mia! (the film adaptation of the successful musical from the former ABBA members, Benny Andersson und Björn Ulvaeus). Also present were the two young stars Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper, along with Christine Baranski und director Phyllida Lloyd (who also directed the original ‘Mamma Mia!’ Broadway Musical).

Meryl Streep arrived a day earlier and visited the Pergamon Museum und the Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm and would have liked to have seen more from Berlin. Pierce Brosnan only paid the city a short visit, was seen out dining with his wife. Although, if rumours are to be believed, he’s looking for a place to stay in Berlin, whilst he’s filming here next Spring.

Photos from the Mamma Mia! Photocall in the Adlon Hotel Berlin

The plot of the film follows that of the musical, in that it’s not an ABBA biography, but tells, through their songs the story of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) and her mother Donna (Meryl Streep), who live on a little Greek island. Sophie plans a dream wedding with her childhood sweetheart Sky (Dominic Cooper) and would also like to have her father give her away.

The only problem being her mother has never told her who he is. Secretly she finds out from her mother’s diary, that three men (played by Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth und Stellan Skarsgård) come into question. So she invites all three. Of course without her mother’s knowledge and now the fun starts, Worth mentioning is also the fact that the actors sing the ABBA songs themselves, when not perfectly.

The cinema premiere and party for the evening were cancelled due to the strike threat from US actors, The distributors fearing the stars might support their less well paid colleagues and not show up,

Photos from the Mamma Mia! Photocall in the Adlon Hotel Berlin

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30 Years Christopher Street Day in Berlin

Patricia| 2008-06-29 1.42 am

The lousy weather (overcast with heavy showers) had no affect on the party atmosphere of the colourful, shrill and sometimes deafening 30th Christopher Street Day parade in Berlin. This, for the first time also included the east of the city in its route and was attended by some 500,000 spectators and sympathisers.

What 30 years ago started off as a political demonstration against the violence and discrimination experienced by gays and lesbians, with a couple of floats and a small group of spectators, has turned into a massive spectacle, almost a carnival and attracts guests from all over the world. In doing so, the demonstration aspect is not forgotten, with this year’s motto „Hass du was dagegen“ (roughly translated as: Hate, do something to stop it), which seeks to draw attention to the problem of everyday violence against homosexuals and other minority groups.

Photos from the 30th Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin

On the morning before the parade, politicians along with representatives of lesbian and gay organisations took part in a commemoration service, at the new memorial to the persecution of homosexuals under the Nazis.

The name Christopher Street Day (CSD) is used in Germany and Switzerland (whereas Gay Pride or Pride are more common in the rest of the world) and celebrates the protest and uprising of homosexuals and other minorities against police assaults that took place in New York’s Christopher Street in Greenwich Village on June 27, 1969.

Included in the nearly 50 floats, which took part in the parade, were nearly all the large political parties, SPD (Social Democrats), the Greens (with Claudia Roth), CDU (conservatives), FDP (liberals) and Die Linke (Socialists), along with trade unions, state-owned companies (such as Vivantes, Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the BVG, Berlins public transport operator), also the German Band Rosenstolz (not making a personal appearance, but showing their support with their own float) and many, many more.

Photos from the 30th Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin

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Kylie and Dustin Neighbours in Adlon Berlin

Patricia| 2008-06-24 12.06 am

Kylie Minogue Kylie Minogue and Dustin Hoffman were for short time neighbours in the Hotel Adlon, Berlin. Kylie spent an extra night in the hotel, as following her concert in the Velodrom a massive thunderstorm rolled over Berlin preventing her flying out. Dustin was here, with his family for the premiere of the film Kung Fu Panda.

At around 11 am, after breakfasting, Dustin Hoffman left the hotel in trainers, summer shirt and sunglasses and went largely unnoticed by the waiting Kylie fans. After visiting the Holocaust memorial, he returned to the hotel, where he posed for fans at a window. Always one for a laugh, he disappeared only to re-emerge at the window with a camera, with which he proceeded to photograph the fans with.

Dustin HoffmanOfficially Kylie Minogue was to leave the hotel by way of the underground car park, but she chose to leave by the main entrance. There she posed with fans for photos and signed autographs. Then to the airport for her flight to Rotterdam, Holland for her concert in the evening.

Dustin Hoffman didn’t have so far to go, just round the corner to then cinema in Potsdamer Platz, for the premiere that evening, so he used the afternoon to go shopping with his wife and daughter in the Friedrichstrasse.

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