Pour le magazine américain Flatt, Lenny Kravitz s’est confié sur les personnes qui l’ont marqué ou encore son rôle dans la société en tant qu’artiste. Au fil de l’interview, on découvre une rockstar plus féministe que jamais.

Il est féministe et il l’assume. Quand on évoque le féminisme, on pense immédiatement à l’esprit des femmes fortes qui se battent pour mettre un terme aux inégalités dont la gent féminine est victime. Or, le club des féministes n’est pas ouvert uniquement aux femmes. Et ce n’est pas Lenny Kravitz qui le contredira.

Dans le cadre d’une interview accordée au magazine d’art Flatt, l’ex-pygmalion de Vanessa Paradis n’hésite pas à exprimer ses pensées féministes et se dit même favorable à la place de la femme dans les hautes sphères du pouvoir. “Pour ma part, j’estime que les femmes devraient diriger le monde”, lance Lenny Kravitz. Et d’ajouter: “Je me suis rendu compte très tôt de la force et de la loyauté qu’ont les femmes, mais aussi du fait qu’elles fassent tout leur possible pour prendre soin de leur famille et de leurs proches”.

Féministe convaincu, l’interprète de Stand By My Woman continue sur sa lancée. “Je crois que les femmes sont davantage sensibles, intuitives et, au bout du compte, plus fortes”, philosophe-t-il. Lenny Kravitz avoue même dans la foulée qu’il entretient de meilleurs relations avec les femmes qu’auprès de ses pairs masculins. Fier que ce côté féminin occupe une grande partie de son éducation, l’artiste de 50 ans reste néanmoins conscient que le combat en faveur des femmes est un travail de longue haleine. Mais qu’importe pour lui, puisque le chanteur encourage les femmes à se distinguer. Un principe qu’il s’efforce d’appliquer dans l’éducation de sa fille unique, Zoë.

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Jusqu’ici, c’est à Londres que les plus belles femmes du monde se donnaient rendez-vous pour la célèbre élection de beauté, lorsqu’elle avait lieu en Europe. Selon Nice Matin, la ville de Nice aimerait elle-aussi tenter sa chance en 2017.

Cela fait bien longtemps qu’une Miss France n’a pas été couronnée Miss Monde. A défaut de pouvoir gagner l’élection, la France pourrait en tout cas l’organiser. Et c’est Nice qui désire être capitale de la beauté l’espace de quelques semaines en 2017.

L’idée a été soufflée par l’unique Miss Monde française, Denise Perrier, une Niçoise élue en 1953. La beauté fatale des années 1950, espère depuis plus de soixante ans voir une autre Française avec cette couronne sur la tête. A défaut d’avoir pu réaliser ce souhait pour le moment, l’ex Miss Monde compte bien faire de sa ville le QG de la beauté pour l’élection de 2017.

La présidente britannique de l’élection, Julia Morley, semble conquise par le projet. Le maire de Nice, Christian Estrosi, paraît lui-aussi ravi. Cette élection serait une aubaine pour la ville: la Baie des anges pourrait accueillir des milliers de personnes et des centaines de télés du monde entier venues retransmettre la fameuse élection. Un vrai coup de pouce pour l’économie locale.

L’adjoint au maire de la ville, Rudy Salles, prend très au sérieux cette ébauche de projet: “ J’ai vu l’ampleur de la configuration et de l’organisation. Miss Monde, ce n’est pas une mince affaire.”, a-t-il confié au journal. La ville compte y aller petit pas par petit pas: “ A plus court terme, en 2015, nous envisageons d’inviter à Nice, Miss Monde 2014, qui est sud-africaine, à travers une opération humanitaire. Nous reprendrons contact avec Julia Morley en début d’année.”, a annoncé l’adjoint au maire.

La baie des Anges a désormais deux ans pour devenir la capitale du glamour et conquérir le cœur des organisateurs. Le compte à rebours est lancé.

Dans une vidéo publiée mardi 6 janvier sur Youtube, on découvre une mise en scène de demande en mariage comme beaucoup de femmes en rêveraient. Si ces vidéos se multiplient, celle-ci est particulière: Bono y fait une apparition surprise.

Le 29 octobre dernier, l’Irlande, patrie de Bono, leader charismatique de U2, est baignée de soleil. Fiona O’hehir ne se doute donc de rien lorsque son compagnon, Cliff Henry, lui propose d’aller se balader dans les collines de Killiney. Pourtant, le jeune homme a tout prévu: il va demander la main de Fiona.

Tout est programmé, minuté, Cliff s’est même débrouillé pour que Keywest, le groupe irlandais préféré de la jeune femme, se trouve au sommet de leur promenade et joue son morceau fétiche au moment où il s’agenouillera. De faux touristes sont sur place pour filmer la scène, et Cliff a prétexté un test pour le travail pour porter une Go Pro sur la poitrine.

Les deux tourtereaux commencent l’asencion tandis que le groupe s’installe. Ils vont tranquillement main dans la main, quand soudain, petite anicroche dans le programme, ils rencontrent un promeneur pas comme les autres! C’est Bono, en balade avec sa compagne, Ali.

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L’anecdote pourrait s’arrêter là, mais tout sourire, le chanteur fait semblant de vouloir les décourager de se marier: “Non non non, ne faites pas ça, s’il vous plait ne faites pas ça!” mais très vite, il ajoute sa vision du mariage. “Le mariage, c’est de la folie. C’est comme si tu tombais de la colline et que tu te rendais compte que tu savais voler.” Encourageant.

A tel point qu’une fois en haut, comme convenu, les jeunes amants, ravis, se retrouvent spectateurs du groupe Keywest. Fiona, heureuse, dégaine son smartphone pour les prendre en photo, mais quand vient le moment du titre suivant et que le chanteur le dédie au couple, elle se retourne vers Cliff, qui lui tend un écrin bleu. Sous les applaudissements et les flashs des gens autour, elle fond en larmes et l’enlace.

Une belle histoire qui, on l’espère, contribuera à accélérer la guérison de Bono, blessé au bras depuis sa chute à vélo en décembre dernier.

Hollywood director Judd Apatow mocked Dennis Prager after the nationally syndicated radio host slammed the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for giving his upcoming film, No Safe Spaces, a PG-13 rating.

“The movie I made w/ Adam Carolla — No Safe Spaces — coming out in Oct, was just rated PG-13. To illustrate the left’s attacks on free speech, a cartoon character depicting the 1st Amendment gets shot. That’s the reason,” Dennis Prager said in a tweet that linked to an article depicting the scene showing a news paper bleeding from bullet holes. “Any child would know it’s make-believe.”

Judd Apatow responded to Prager’s tweet by cracking a joke about how an on-screen erection from the iconic character Ron Burgundy from his Apatow Productions film Anchorman earned the comedy classic an R rating from the MPAA.

“Welcome to the f’n club! You know how hard I had to beg the ratings board to not get an R because Ron Burgundy had a boner,” the 40-Year-Old Virgin and Talladega Nights producer said. “Yes you and me are in the same business now. Enjoy!”

The Prager-Carolla documentary details the ongoing assault on the First Amendment on college campuses across the country. Prager, sent a letter to the MPAA to protest the PG-13 rating.

“Any kid who sees it will probably laugh,” Prager wrote to MPAA head Charles Rivkin, referencing a 30-second scene showing an animated embodiment of free speech named “Firsty” who is shot.

Prager told the trade association head in his letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter that a PG-13 rating may keep some parents away from the film. “But when it comes to Firsty, we would ask that you reconsider and allow the scene to remain and still achieve a PG rating so that we can reach the widest possible audience. A PG-13 rating would not reinforce people’s faith in MPAA’s ratings.”

No Safe Spaces features footage of Prager and Carolla’s cross-country tour of college campuses where they dove deep into the root causes and the fallout from decades of politically-motivated censorship at an array of universities. Footage from the film depicts college students holding profane signs and shouting vulgarities at conservative speakers like Ann Coulter. The protester profanity is blurred and bleeped out, the Reporter notes but that didn’t satisfy the MPAA according to Prager.

“Under the Classification and Rating Administration rules, the rating board maintains confidentiality and does not comment publicly about the details of the rating process for a particular film,” an MPAA spokesperson told the outlet. “The submitter of any film who objects to the given rating can choose to go to the appeals board. Non-MPAA member companies can choose to distribute their films unrated.”

The filmmakers shared an exclusive clip with Breitbart News in May, showing a flashback scene in which an actor playing a 21-year-old Dennis Prager is seen singing to keep himself “sane” while sitting in a Moscow hotel.

Jerome Hudson is Breitbart News Entertainment Editor and author of the forthcoming book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, from HarperCollins. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson.

Ce n’est pas un César qui va lui faire oublier sa passion originelle : Louane revient aujourd’hui à la chanson. Son premier album, Chambre 12, est désormais disponible – on y découvre enfin ses propres morceaux, après ses reprises pour The Voice et La Famille Bélier.

En 2003, les ados avaient Kyo. En 2007, Tokio Hotel. Cette année, ils pourront compter sur Louane, 18 ans, pour mettre leur mal-être en musique : la chanteuse vient de sortir Chambre 12, son premier album. Bien sûr, le style musical n’est pas le même que celui de ses aînés… mais sous ses airs angéliques, la chanteuse cache une noirceur inquiétante. « Je vais te découper minutieusement au scalpel, clame-t-elle dans Alien. Je vais te coller ma peau dans la tienne ; goutte à goutte faire couler mon sang carmin dans tes veines, finir par épouser ton enveloppe charnelle ».

« L’amour est un schizophrène », continue l’actrice césarisée. L’amour qui fait mal, un thème qui revient souvent chez Louane : jalousie, revanche, rancœur, il y a souvent plus de douleur que plaisir. « J’espère que tu vas souffrir », réclame-t-elle dans Avenir, l’un de ses premiers singles. Avant de menacer, sans grande conviction, son interlocuteur inconnu : « Et que tu vas mal dormir ».

Entourée de Dan Black (connu pour son groupe The Servant) et Patxi Garat (Star Academy saison 3) à la production, Louane a peut-être été mal conseillée. Sa voix, son timbre qui lui ont valu tant de louanges, peinent à trouver un seul morceau pour s’exprimer correctement. Ils sont même complètement dénaturés avec la chanson Jeune, véritable massacre à l’auto-tune. Seule Chambre 12, qui donne son titre à l’album, offre autre chose qu’une bouillie sonore. La direction artistique y est plus simple, moins touffue, et les paroles semblent enfin avoir un sens – bien qu’elle y fasse rimer « la poussière chambre 12 » et « elle sent la lose ».

« Je ne vais pas changer le monde », admet Louane dans Du courage – et il en fallait pour le dire aussi frontalement.Chambre 12 surprendra les habitués des reprises de la chanteuse, mais aura plus de mal à séduire un public qui ne lui serait pas déjà conquis. À seulement 18 ans, la star de la Famille Bélier devra encore attendre avant de connaître le même plébiscite en musique qu’au cinéma.

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Actor and political activist Bradley Whitford took attacked Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling him a “coward” who should not be a part of the “highest court in the land.”

Bradley Whitford also criticized President Donald Trump, using the same characteristics he chose for Kavanaugh.

“Watching the Kavanaugh testimony after some time has passed is a reminder of what a partisan, vile, temperamentally unqualified coward now has a lifetime tenure on the highest court in the land after being appointed by a partisan, vile, temperamentally unqualified president,” the Get Out star said.

In a separate tweet, Whitford claimed both President Trump and Kavanaugh are “both sexual assaulting cowardly rich kids.”

He added, “And that they are both sexual assaulting cowardly rich kids who claim that they are the victims.”

Last Saturday, the New York Times claimed that someone witnessed Kavanaugh commit an act of sexual misconduct as a freshman at Yale University. The Times added a lengthy retraction to their report, which was severely flawed.

President Trump weighed in on the new accusations, saying Kavanaugh “should start suing people.”

“Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue,” Trump wrote. “The lies being told about him are unbelievable.”

“False Accusations without recrimination,” Trump added. “When does it stop? They are trying to influence his opinions. Can’t let that happen!”

Last month, Whitford accused President Donald Trump of “inspiring the wholesale slaughter of American citizens” after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.

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Hollywood took to social media on Sunday and called for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh following a New York Times report that a collage classmate claims he saw Kavanaugh “with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.”

“One of Trump’s Supreme Court appointments sits in a stolen seat. The other has sexually assaulted women and committed perjury about it. So there’s that,” said left-wing Hollywood director Rob Reiner.

“What’s the process for impeaching a Supreme Court Justice?” Angel Has Fallen star Piper Perabo asked.

The new allegation against Justice Kavanaugh “echoes” a claim, the Times reported, made against him last year by Deborah Ramirez. Ramirez alleged that as a drunken Yale University freshman, Brett Kavanaugh “exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party.” She also admitted to having “significant gaps in her memories” regarding the alleged encounter. Ramirez’s college best friend also told the Times that she had “never heard of” the incident in question.

Still, celebrities piled on, seeing the report against Kavanaugh as reason enough to call for his ousting from the Supreme Court.

“He MUST be Impeached.” actress Debra Messing said.

“Agreed. Kavanaugh should’ve never gotten the job in the first place. He has no place making decisions at the highest level for our country. I do not trust him and I don’t know a single woman who does. Impeach him NOW. #ImpeachKavanaugh” said actress Amber Tamblyn.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chimed in on Sunday, saying “Fortunately a majority of Senators and the American people rallied behind timeless principles such as due process and the presumption of innocence. I look forward to many years of service to come from Justice Kavanaugh.”

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Jerome Hudson is Breitbart News Entertainment Editor and author of the forthcoming book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know, from HarperCollins. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson.

Von der Leyen, facing make-or-break vote, makes promises to Parliament

German nominee for European Commission presidency puts pledges in writing.

It’s Christmas in July for the European Parliament.

With Ursula von der Leyen facing a too-close-to-call confirmation vote Tuesday on her nomination for European Commission president, the conservative German defense minister responded to demands by the liberal and Socialist groups in Parliament on Monday by offering up an array of goodies. These included such crowd-pleasers as the right of legislative initiative for Parliament, which has long complained that it lacked such authority, as well as her agreement to convene a two-year long “Conference on the Future of Europe” that would give citizens a forum to express their views.

In her written responses to demands issued following her meetings with the political groups last week, von der Leyen reiterated her commitment “to improve” the Spitzenkandidat, or lead candidate system, which was effectively killed when the European Council nominated her for the EU’s top job.

Von der Leyen also tried to walk a tightrope regarding a demand by liberals that their candidate for Commission president, Margrethe Vestager, have a title equal to the Socialist candidate, Frans Timmermans, who is currently the Commission first vice president. Von der Leyen had told Socialists that Timmermans would retain that rank, angering the liberals.

“The Commission leadership team consists of the President and two executive vice-Presidents,” von der Leyen wrote. “One of the two, the First Vice-President will replace the President in her absence.”

It was a move that seemed less Solomonic than a creative child-custody arrangement, and she did not specify who would be the first vice president. But it was an answer, in any event, to an issue that the leader of the liberal-centrist Renew Europe group, Romanian MEP Dacian Cioloș, had characterized as a potential deal-breaker for his members.

In her letters, von der Leyen suggested she had a very busy weekend and said she had “prepared detailed Political Guidelines for the next European Commission” that “cover the entire range of policies which the European Union will have to work on” and said she would provide a copy to MEPs in writing on Tuesday morning.

Her letter to the Socialist group, the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), was broadly similar to the one sent to Renew Europe. But it included some points that responded to specific demands from the center left. For instance, von der Leyen said she is committed to opening negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia about future membership in the EU — a step that some EU leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, have resisted so far.

Von der Leyen also promised the Socialists that she would try to end the EU’s long-standing policy feud over migration and asylum rules. “I will propose New Pact on Migration and Asylum,” she wrote, adding: “We need a new way of burden sharing. We need a fresh start.”

In her letters, the conservative nominee notably did not address concerns raised about allegations of misspending and mismanagement at the German defense ministry during her tenure there. But von der Leyen will have a chance to address those issues and others during a speech at the start of the Parliament’s debate on her nomination Tuesday morning in Strasbourg.

The vote on her nomination is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

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Viktor Orbán and Matteo Salvini showed off their budding bromance on Thursday, flirting with the idea of an alliance between conservatives and the far right after this month’s European Parliament election.

The Hungarian prime minister and Italy’s interior minister met in Budapest the day after Orbán issued a public call for the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) to team up with Salvini’s nationalist-populist bloc.

Orbán’s Fidesz party is currently suspended from the EPP for mounting a campaign against EU migration policy and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

But Fidesz remains a member of the EPP group in the European Parliament and the Hungarian leader has suggested its suspension will be lifted after his party puts in a strong performance in the May 23-26 European election.

Manfred Weber, the EPP’s lead candidate in the election, has ruled out an alliance with Salvini’s League and other far-right parties such as France’s National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen.

But at a joint news conference with Salvini on Thursday, Orbán suggested he would find it hard to stick with the EPP if it forms an alliance with “pro-migration” parties on the left. After the last election, the EPP formed a so-called grand coalition in the Parliament with the center left.

“It will be difficult to find our place in that cooperation,” Orbán said.

Critics of Orbán and Salvini accuse both men and their parties of xenophobia and backsliding on democratic standards and the rule of law. The European Parliament has started disciplinary proceedings against Hungary, accusing Orbán’s party of putting the EU’s fundamental values at risk.

In an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa on Wednesday, Orbán praised Salvini as “the most important person in Europe today.” He argued that the EPP “must work together with the European right. I make no secret of the fact that this is the approach I support. Later we’ll see what form this partnership takes.”

In Budapest, Salvini was eager to show how the two countries are already teaming up. “I have appreciated the reciprocal availability to back each other … in case of disputes in Brussels,” he said, noting that his party had opposed the European Parliament’s decision to take action against Hungary.

He said that if Orbán’s vision prevails in the EPP, “an alliance will be on the cards.”

However, neither man announced any concrete plans, such as Orbán quitting the EPP or Salvini declaring a desire to bring the League into the center-right bloc.

In Brussels on Thursday, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó set out the case for the EPP to form an alliance with parties to its right.

“We do think EPP should work together, not with the Socialists, but with Mr. Salvini, for example,” Szijjártó told POLITICO in an interview.

“EPP has formed the majority in the European Parliament for long years with the Socialist Party. Just like in a marriage, just like in a friendship, the partners definitely do shape the personalities of each other, without a doubt. In this marriage, the Socialist partner shaped the personality of the EPP partner much more than to the other direction,” he declared.

Thursday’s encounter between Salvini and Orbán was not their first meeting. They also met in Milan last summer, stressing their common commitment to hard-line anti-migration policies.

That theme was also at the fore in Thursday’s meeting. Orbán took Salvini to see the border with Serbia where Hungary, during the 2015 migration crisis, built a controversial fence to keep out asylum seekers and migrants.

During the helicopter trip, Salvini recorded a short video message, distributed on Facebook, in which he stressed that the common line with Hungary is that “one can get into Italy and Europe only with permission.”

Despite their grand ambitions, polls suggest that even if the EPP were to form an alliance with a new bloc being built by Salvini — expected to include Le Pen’s National Rally, Austria’s Freedom Party, the Alternative for Germany and other parties — their combined strength would fall far short of a majority in the European Parliament.

POLITICO’s latest projection puts the EPP on 172 seats and Salvini’s group on 70 seats in the 751-member Parliament.

Any attempt to form a tie-up with Salvini would also meet fierce resistance from within the EPP, whose more centrist members pushed to exclude Orbán from its ranks.

Kalina Oroschakoff contributed reporting.

Goulard faces French police over parliamentary assistants case

French commissioner candidate was on Tuesday named for the internal market portfolio.

European Commissioner-designate Sylvie Goulard was interviewed Tuesday by French police as part of an ongoing investigation over alleged misuse of EU funds by her former party, Le Point and other French media reported.

The EU’s anti-fraud office OLAF also confirmed to POLITICO that its investigation into the same matter “is still ongoing.”

Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen nominated Goulard the same day for internal market commissioner with a broad portfolio ranging from digital affairs to defense and space policy.

A longtime ally of President Emmanuel Macron, Goulard resigned as France’s defense minister in 2017 following a legal investigation into her use of assistants during her time as an MEP. She has not yet been cleared of the allegations, and officials say that could complicate her nomination hearings in the European Parliament to be confirmed as a commissioner in October.

Several members and staffers from her former party, liberal MoDem, were questioned over the past few weeks by France’s Central Office against Corruption, Financial and Fiscal Fraud, the investigation unit that also called in Goulard on Tuesday, Le Point reported.

The politician walked into the unit’s buildings “very early,” only to reemerge “shortly before 2 p.m.,” the news outlet reported.

French officials downplayed concerns over the ongoing case when Goulard was announced as the French nominee last month. “The case has been ongoing in France for two years but judges haven’t asked to hear her,” one of them said.

A spokesperson for the European Parliament said at the time that Goulard’s case in the EU chamber was “closed,” as Goulard reportedly paid back €45,000 for her former assistant’s salary, even as the legal investigation by French authorities remains ongoing.

Asked about its own investigation, the EU’s anti-fraud agency said it is “ongoing.” “The fact that OLAF is examining the matter does not mean that any persons/entities involved have committed an irregularity/fraud,” it added.

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