Deux ans après son mariage avec le président de la République, des journalistes publient deux biographies de . Elles risquent de faire grand bruit.
Les coulisses du pouvoir. Voilà à peu de choses près ce à quoi on doit s’attendre en lisant les deux biographies de Carla Bruni-Sarkozy publiées ce jeudi.
Du côté de Besma Lahouri, l’auteure de la bio non autorisée sur
, on apprend, (surprise?) que Carla Bruni a eu recours à la chirurgie esthétique très jeune. La journaliste tente également de raconter l’histoire trépidante de la mannequin, chanteuse, jusqu’à son accession au … pouvoir.
Plus intéressant, la biographie écrite par Michaël Darmon et Yves Derai, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Et Les Ambitieux. Les auteurs rapportent que la première dame a été victime d’un complot hourdi par l’ex-Garde des Sceaux
et Sophie Douzal. Les deux intrigantes auraient tellement souhaité le retour de Cécilia qu’elles auraient fait appel à un gourou, rien que ça, leur prodiguant des conseils pour chasser Carlita. Pas de chance, au moment des rumeurs sur les infidélités dans le couple Sarkozy, la police serait remontée jusqu’à ce fameux gourou, et Carla aurait découvert le pot-aux-roses.
Ni une ni deux, elle aurait appelé Cécilia, racontent les deux journalistes: «J’ai un dossier de police que je tiens à votre disposition. Je sais que vous n’avez rien à voir avec elles. Mais je vous recommande de vous tenir à l’écart.» Un dossier de police… Un autre… Sur des affaires privées…
Les stars Rachel McAdams et ne cachent plus leurs sentiments. Ils s’affichent main dans la main et multiplie les gestes tendres.
Rencontre sur le plateau de
. Deuxième. Moteur! En juillet, Cupidon s’est invité sur le tournage de Midnight in Paris. Pourtant, sa flèche n’a pas touché le cœur de celui que l’on pensait. Enlacés aux Puces de Saint-Ouen, Rachel McAdams (Esprit de Famille, Jeux de Pouvoir) et
nous avaient laissé imaginer une délicieuse love story. L’histoire était jolie et l’on avait envie d’y croire… Mais comme souvent devant la caméra du cinéaste torturé, le couple triomphant n’est pas le plus évident.
Paris est bien la ville de l’amour, et l’été, une saison propice aux rencontres: c’est une passion pour Michael Sheen (The Queen, Frost/Nixon, Twilight, 30 Rock), que dissimilait notre héroïne. Et apparemment, le clap de fin n’a pas signé l’arrêt de leur idylle. La Canadienne, 31 ans, et le Britannique, 41 ans, prolongent depuis deux mois les scènes romantiques. Les tourtereaux ont été aperçus se bécotant au Festival du Film de Toronto, à l’avant-première de Beautiful Boys et partageant caresses, regards complices et éclats de rire dans les galeries d’Art et au restaurant…
Entre le lycan d’Underworld et la pétillante Irene Alder de Sherlock Holmes, la foudre a frappé.
Ex-mari de la sublime vampire Kate Beckinsale, avec il a eu une petite Lily, 11 ans, Michael Sheen est un papa attentif et très présent.
Si la miss McAdams a déjà succombé au charme de ses partenaires à l’écran (Ryan Gosling Josh Lucas), elle n’est pas une diva, instable et capricieuse. Née au Canada, en 1978, d’une infirmière et d’un chauffeur routier, notre douce et belle plante a gardé les pieds sur terre, malgré le succès. Discrète, subtile, studieuse, Rachel a toujours choisi ses rôles avec application. A l’aise dans le registre de la comédie comme celui du drame, mais plus en phase avec le cinéma d’art et d’essai, la vedette révélée par N’Oublie Jamais a refusé de jouer les James Bond Girl dans Casino Royal ou la potiche de service dans Iron Man et Batman…
Voilà donc une relation glamour et enflammée comme Hollywood les affectionne… Et nous aussi!
Une chauve-souris, des animaux préhistoriques, une araignée, un ours en peluche et une Ecossaise rousse : c’est le quinté gagnant du box-office américain, qui a vu “The Dark Knight Rises” triompher ce week-end et battre de peu le score de son prédécesseur.
Bane plus fort que le Joker, Batman plus fort que lui-même…, nombreuses sont les expressions pour désigner le fait que The Dark Knight Rises a fait mieux que son prédécesseur, pour son premier week-end d’exploitation. Malgré la tragédie qui a frappé les Etats-Unis et l’équipe du film vendredi dernier, le nouveau long métrage de Christopher Nolan s’impose en tête du box-office américain avec 160 887 295 dollars (contre 158 411 483 pour The Dark Knight), et s’offre le meilleur démarrage de tous les temps… pour un film en 2D.
“Handicapé” par l’absence de 3D (et du supplément qui va avec), il échoue donc loin du score d’Avengers (207 438 708 dollars), mais laisse ses concurrents à bonne distance, à commencer par Spider-Man. Avec 10 887 111 billets verts supplémentaires (et un cumul de 228 611 425), l’Homme-Araignée reste néanmoins sur la troisième marche du podium, juste derrière L’Âge de glace 4 et ses 20 416 978 nouveaux dollars (88 840 284 au total). Un quinté de tête que viennent compléter l’ours Ted et la rousse Rebelle, qui permet à Pixar de franchir la barre des 200 millions de dollars de recettes sur le sol américain pour la dixième fois en l’espace de treize longs métrages (seuls Toy Story, 1001 Pattes et Cars 2 ont échoué en-dessous).
Derrière, les strip-teaseurs de Magic Mike continuent leur show avec plus de 100 millions de billets verts dans le slip en quatre semaines d’exploitation, tout comme les Savages d’Oliver Stone (3 398 880 dollars supplémentaires pour un cumul de 40 055 075) et les scouts de Wes Anderson, dont le Moonrise Kingdom squatte encore le Top 10 neuf semaines après sa sortie, en s’affirmant comme le plus gros succès public de son auteur.
Un peu plus bas, les Avengers (14ème avec 620 411 dollars récoltés ce week-end) sont toujours dans le coup, au même titre que Blanche-Neige et le chasseur (427 405 billets verts supplémentaires). La déception continue en revanche pour Rock Forever : 19ème ce week-end, avec 282 945 dollars, le film d’Adam Shankman risque d’avoir beaucoup de mal à rembourser les 75 millions de son budget, puisqu’il n’en a cumulé que 37 966 435 en six semaines, et s’est même fait devancer par Intouchables sur ces trois derniers jours, malgré un nombre de salles nettement plus important. Omar Sy plus fort que Tom Cruise, qui l’aurait parié ?
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Maximilien Pierrette avec www.boxofficemojo.com
“The Dark Knight Rises”, le vainqueur du week-end, en images :
The EU’s external borders agency should not have the power to deny people their basic human rights
A European coastguard ship participating in a Frontex operation spots a small motorboat in the Mediterranean. It is still in international waters but moving toward Maltese waters. The people on board – crammed together in too small a space, creating too much weight for the small boat – have been travelling for days exposed to the elements and are running out of food and water. They are young men looking for a better life, unaccompanied children, and women being trafficked to Europe: they are people of all ages fleeing persecution and conflict.
What should the Frontex patrol boat do? According to the European Commission’s recent proposal, unless the boat is in distress, Frontex should prevent the boat from entering European Union waters. It should order it to change course and if necessary escort it or the people on board to the country from which it set sail.
Frontex, the EU’s external borders agency, is already empowered to block boats from entering EU waters, under regulations adopted by the European Council in 2010. Last September, the European Court of Justice annulled those regulations because they were adopted without the necessary European Parliament scrutiny, but left them in operation until new regulations could be drawn up.
The Commission’s proposed new regulations, submitted in mid-April, are up for discussion today (6 June) in the EP civil liberties committee. But they do not go far enough to prevent wrong and dangerous decisions with enormous consequences for people’s lives.
To be fair, the proposal improves on current regulations by stressing respect for fundamental rights and requiring Frontex patrols to screen people on board and “assess their personal circumstances to the extent possible before disembarkation”.
Patrols should take into account the human rights situation in the country to which the boat would return. Patrols, which should be trained in human rights and refugee law, would have to inform people on board of the decision and allow them to raise any fears.
But that is not enough. All EU institutions, including Frontex, are bound to respect the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which includes the right to seek asylum. These obligations apply where Frontex has jurisdiction, within EU territorial waters. But they also apply when it has control or custody – when there is physical contact of any sort, even in international waters. The high seas are not the place to be making snap judgments about who needs protection or otherwise deserves to be admitted to EU territory and who does not.
How and where will interviews be conducted, who will be present, will there be interpreters? What sources will patrols use for information on countries of disembarkation? The proposal is silent on these crucial matters. Think of the child travelling without a parent or guardian: he will not be able to express his need for protection if his trafficker or “handler” is within earshot.
Though the proposal makes reference to Hirsi v Italy, the landmark 2012 judgment from the European Court of Human Rights that condemned Italy for its push-backs to Libya, the Commission appears to have been selective in instancing the lessons of that ruling. The court found that these push-backs amounted to collective expulsions and exposed people to torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment in Libya or their countries of origin.
It also found that Italy had denied people on the migrant boats their right to an effective remedy – in this case an appeal, with their return to another country suspended until it is decided. There is nothing in the proposed Frontex regulations that would guarantee this basic safeguard against a dangerous or unjustified return.
In its September 2012 ruling, the European Court of Justice said the European Parliament had to be involved because the Council regulations gave Frontex powers that could interfere significantly with people’s fundamental rights. It is now up to Europe’s democratically elected parliament to make sure the rights of boat migrants are fully respected.
Judith Sunderland is senior Western Europe researcher at Human Rights
Negotiations delayed for a month by US government shutdown now “fully back on track”.
Negotiators from the European Union and the United States today ended the second formal round of talks on a transatlantic trade deal, with both sides striking a confident and positive note.
Karel De Gucht, the European commissioner for trade, said that the talks were now “fully back on track” after the partial shutdown of the US government forced the talks to be postponed. The talks had been scheduled to take place on 7-11 October.
The shutdown led to considerable re-scheduling problems and contributed to a reduction in the size of the teams that have been negotiating in Brussels over the past five days. Scheduling meant that talks on some topics were held over video, and that some topics – on tariffs and on sustainable development, including labour and environment – will only be discussed in video conferences over the coming weeks. A follow-up meeting on financial services, to be held on 27 November, was also attributed to scheduling.
To date, the discussions have been exploratory, seeking to identify the areas of difference and convergence and the approaches that could be adopted to narrow the gaps. This has involved discussions about specific sectors, but also about cross-cutting issues.
The negotiators will now move towards the specific points to negotiations. Formal texts will be prepared for the third round, which will take place in Washington, DC, on 16-20 December. After that round, the chief negotiators – Ignacio García Bercero for the European Commission and Dan Mullaney for the US – will give their appraisal of the obstacles and opportunities. Specific offers would then begin to be traded. It is at that point that the most difficult topics might be taken off the agenda.
Both Bercero and Mullaney described the talks as very successful and productive and said nothing to undermine both sides’ assertion that they still believe that the final agreement will be deep and far-reaching. The EU estimates that the economic benefit of a deal could amount to up to €119 billion a year, a figure reached in part by assuming that the deal will tap about a quarter of the potential of full free trade. A deal is also important to both sides as a means of shaping trade-liberalisation talks with other countries and within the World Trade Organization. The vast majority of gains are expected to come from reducing regulatory differences.
Several issues have, however, emerged as highly problematic since the start of talks in July, including the Jones Act that allows only US-built and US-owned merchant ships to carry goods between US ports. After this week’s round, the EU’s Bercero sought to allay concerns that negotiations about investment protection – an issue put forward by the US despite marked reservations on the part of European member states – could give US corporations the ability to undermine EU law and regulators. “For us, it is clear that [an agreement on investment protection] is something that has to be fully in line with the right to regulate,” he said. Nonetheless, the EU’s press statement says that “there was a good degree of agreement on getting an ambitious deal”.
The Commission’s official statement was less upbeat in its description about talks on energy and raw materials, and Bercero was emphatic that for the EU “it will be very important to have very clear guarantees”. Mullaney gave no hint that the US sees room for movement.
Providing the EU with clean, cheap energy will come with a huge price tag
Building a modern energy system that can tackle the policy goals of providing secure, affordable and environmentally sustainable energy comes with an enormous price tag.
The International Energy Agency, an international think-tank on energy issues based in Paris, estimated in its 2012 World Energy Outlook that the European energy sector will need €1 trillion of investment by 2020 and €3 trillion up to 2030. That figure covers both infrastructure needs and the costs of ensuring sufficient generating capacity for the decade ahead.
The European Commission said in its report on an energy roadmap for 2050, which was published in December 2011, that grid investment costs alone could be in the range of €1.5 trillion-€2.2 trillion for 2011-50.
While European energy prices are currently high (and much higher than in the US), the electricity sector is warning that the investment environment for the energy sector is harmed by uncertainty. A report produced in December 2012 by Eurelectric, the trade body that represents the European electricity sector, warned of severe problems facing investment in the industry. “Powering Investments: Challenges for the Liberalised Electricity Sector” quoted 44 out of 45 energy leaders surveyed saying that they did not believe that the necessary investment would take place. The more negative perspective of those surveyed said that as little as 20% of the investment needed would be forthcoming, with the most optimistic putting the figure at 80%.
Eurelectric’s report cited deterrents to investment decisions including higher borrowing costs because of the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Policy uncertainty
The biggest problems identified by the report were policy uncertainty and a lack of co-ordination between EU and national energy policies. In addition, Eurelectric says that there is a tension between the three aims of EU energy policy – security of supply, ensuring affordable prices, and cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Rather than trusting the market to find the most cost-effective solutions, policymakers succumb to the temptation to intervene, engineering such outcomes as shielding consumers from price rises. “Both European and national policymakers tend to intervene in a somewhat stop-and-go fashion, completely disregarding the long-term need for clear, effective, consistent and supportive frameworks that are conducive to investments,” the report says.
Eurelectric calls on policymakers to provide policy and regulatory stability and to reduce discretionary measures that national governments take to influence energy markets.
In particular, the electricity sector wants the EU to set a single target for the energy sector for greenhouse-gas emissions for the post-2020 period and remove a separate target for the share of renewables in the overall energy mix. This would allow the sector to find the most cost-effective means of achieving the target for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Eurelectric says that creating a predictable policy framework would help utilities to finance their investment plans, and would attract funds from pension funds and insurance companies, which should be interested in long-term projects with predictable revenue streams.
As the EU steps up work on the energy and climate policy that will apply after 2020, a major concern will be finding the best way to ensure that the massive investment needs of a modern and well-functioning low-carbon energy sector can be met.
Boxing icon Floyd Mayweather Jr suggested he might have an interest in buying Premier League club Newcastle United during an appearance at a promotional event in England.
Mayweather boasts a 50-0 record but has not fought since defeating UFC star Conor McGregor in August 2017, although the 43-year-old has hinted at a rematch this year.
The former five-weight world champion has reportedly made $1billion in his career, however, and cheekily entertained the idea of investing his wealth in the Magpies during a talk in Newcastle upon Tyne.
More teams
Newcastle fans have been keen for a new owner on Tyneside since 2008 when current chief Mike Ashley caused outrage in a split with popular former manager Kevin Keegan.
Ashley went on to rename the club’s St James’ Park stadium after his sports retail company, oversaw two relegations and made a number of unpopular appointments.
Given the hunger for Ashley to move on, and with talk of rival takeover interest fading, Mayweather played to the crowd.
Asked if he was “very, very interested” in buying the club, he said: “In the US, we call it soccer, but the Newcastle football team is an unbelievable team, a hell of a team.”
The American added to cheers: “If the people want me to buy the Newcastle team, let me know.”
TMZ reported Mayweather had an interest in purchasing a stake in Newcastle, although no negotiations had taken place.
Newcastle are 13th in the Premier League, eight points clear of the bottom three after beating Southampton on Saturday, and will play holders Manchester City in the FA Cup quarter-finals later in March.
A deal worth around £300 million was previously tabled by investor Amanda Staveley’s group in 2018, though the purchase fell through despite manager Rafa Benitez’s successful attempt to keep the club in the Premier League.
Andrew Henderson, who is the lawyer of the club’s current owner Mike Ashley, told the BBC in October 2017 that they were in negotiations with a number of “credible” parties regarding the potential sale.
How far is the EU’s vision of data protection compatible with the global economy?
Trying to reconcile the European Union’s data-protection rules with helping European companies take advantage of global data-processing opportunities is a constant challenge.
When Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, fundamental rights and citizenship, unveiled proposals in January 2012 for a regulation to replace the current directive, the priority was to end the fragmentation of data-protection rules among the then 27 member states. This would boost efforts to create a single EU market for online services.
The plans sought to make it simpler to transfer data in and out of the EU. Companies would only have to comply with one set of rules before receiving authorisation to send data outside the EU for processing.
The proposal did not seek to lower the level of data protection by EU governments compared to other jurisdictions such as the US. In 2000, the differences between the regimes in the EU and US led to the ‘safe-harbour’ agreement, which laid down a set of principles and rules that companies had to follow if they wanted to transfer data outside the EU for processing.
The importance of this agreement has been highlighted recently in response to threats to suspend it because of the revelations about spying by the US National Security Agency on transatlantic data transfers.
In October, Claude Moraes, a centre-left MEP from the UK and a spokesman for the Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, said that the safe-harbour agreement should be suspended because it had never offered “sufficient protection” to EU citizens’ data. He cited a growing number of false claims by organisations about the protections offered by the agreement. But, in the absence of international harmonisation of data-protection rules, the agreement is still seen by business as a valuable way of bridging the gap between the approaches of the EU and the US.
Christopher Padilla, vice-president for government programmes at IBM, said: “A suspension [of the safe-harbour agreement] would be catastrophic for transatlantic trade and investment. The knock-on effects would be incalculable. We would be paralysed in our ability to move employee information or financial information.” Talk of suspending the agreement, he said, was “very dangerous”.
Tighter rules
The revelations about US surveillance are more likely to trigger a tightening of EU data-protection rules. International companies will have no choice but to continue to comply with EU regulations given the bloc’s economic importance. These rules will also be backed up with significant fines for data breaches, possibly amounting to as much as 5% of a company’s turnover.
But there is concern that the EU’s tough approach could put its companies at a global disadvantage in the growing businesses of cloud-computing and data-processing. Neelie Kroes, the European commissioner for the digital agenda, said in a speech at an ICT conference in Vilnius on 7 November that if the EU failed to develop its own capability to process ‘big data’ (see page 12) it risked missing out on business opportunities in a sector that was growing by 40% a year. She noted that of the world’s top 20 big data companies, 17 were from the US and only two from the EU.
Kroes said that, while protecting privacy was an important topic, the EU should be careful not to use it as an excuse to miss the opportunities presented by global data-processing.
Cloud computing is an area where EU companies are lagging behind their US counterparts. One response by politicians to the US spying revelations has been to call for a ‘European cloud’, where users could have greater confidence that EU data-protection standards were being respected.
Kroes has drawn attention to the risk that a loss of confidence in US data companies could lead to “multi-billion euro consequences”. At the same time, she has warned that cloud-computing providers need to operate on a big enough scale to be attractive. Pushing for a European cloud would not necessarily drive business the way of European companies. “If individual countries work disjointedly on separate national clouds, then the [business] potential is lost,” she said.
At an event on digital privacy and data protection organised by European Voice on 22 October, speakers agreed that the differences between data-protection regimes would persist. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of the French data-protection authority, CNIL, said that while there was “convergence” between some regimes, there would be competition between the legal frameworks.
Trade talks
The EU and the US have avoided including data-protection rules in the negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) despite strong lobbying from US technology companies. The EU had been aiming to agree new rules by spring 2014, before the European Parliament starts campaigning for elections for the next legislature – and well before the TTIP negotiations are concluded, probably some time in 2015.
But on 24-25 October, EU member states pushed back the target date for agreeing new data rules to 2015. The decision to extend the deadline was driven by the UK and other member states seeking to minimise the impact on the final agreement of the furore over the revelations of clandestine US surveillance.
MEPs have been especially vocal in seeking to link the trade talks and the data-protection rules. On 23 October, they voted to urge the EU’s national governments to suspend TTIP negotiations because of concerns about US spying. National governments have decided to ignore the Parliament’s request for now – the second round of TTIP negotiations went ahead as planned on 11 November.
Simon Taylor
SWIFT
Of all the revelations made by Edward Snowden, few had as much resonance with MEPs as a report that the US’s National Security Agency was spying on SWIFT, which provides inter-bank messaging for international payments. The European Parliament, making a display of the powers it had gained when the Lisbon treaty took effect in 2009, forced a re-negotiation of an agreement between the EU and the US giving the latter access to SWIFT data under certain conditions and with tight safeguards. It now emerges that the new agreement, concluded in 2010, and the safeguards that the Parliament had demanded, may have been meaningless as the NSA found a backdoor into the system. The revelation last month prompted the Parliament to call on the European Commission to initiate a suspension of the agreement, in a vote that was close – 280 to 254, with 30 abstentions – and non-binding.
The MEPs’ threat is serious. Should they be unhappy with the Commission’s response, they could block future international agreements. While the free-trade deal that the EU is currently negotiating with the US is an unlikely target, given the economic benefits it would generate, the US is certain to find far less willingness on the EU side to conclude any further intelligence-sharing agreements.
Face à la menace de l’opinion publique, se réfugie sur les bancs de l’Eglise, avec toute sa petite tribu.
Les Américains sont persuadés que leur Président cache qu’il est musulman, notamment parce qu’il a validé un projet de centre islamique près de Ground Zero, le site des attentats du 11 Septembre, à New York… Protestant contre les rumeurs, le chef de la première puissance sort les habits du dimanche et affiche sa foi, en famille.
Barack et
, mais aussi Malia et Sasha, ravissantes grenouilles de bénitier, ont fait une apparition publique à l’église épiscopale St John. Nos ouailles se sont rendus à pied dans ce lieu de culte proche de la Maison Blanche et se sont joints, sobrement, à une quarantaine d’autres fidèles. Ils ont pris la communion et écouté un sermon, selon St Luc, qui se terminait sur ces mots: «Tu ne peux pas servir Dieu et la richesse».
A la fin du service religieux, nos brebis égarées ont repris le (droit) chemin du 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue en traversant le parc Lafayette qui avait été fermé au public pour l’occasion.
Intervenant à l’Université catholique de Notre-Dame de South Bend, dans l’Indiana, Musulman en costume traditionnel kenyan pour rendre visite à sa grand-mère, arborant une kippa (juive) devant le mur des lamentations à Jérusalem, ou en costard classique pour assister au sermon de l’Eglise unie du Christ, Barack Obama semble être de toutes les confessions religieuses. Pourtant, après avoir rassemblé et rassuré les électeurs par son œcuménisme, le messie des Etats-Unis se doit de prouver sa culture biblique.
«J’ai seulement entendu l’Evangile de Jésus. Un Evangile sur lequel j’ai basé ma vie», avait-il déjà témoigné lors des Présidentielles, après un lapsus sur le plateau de ABC où il avait évoqué sa croyance «musulmane». En baisse dans les sondages, Potus 44 témoigne, à nouveau, de ses convictions.
Fervent chrétien, Barry serait aussi très pratiquant. Mais, trop célèbre pour être pieux, il se priverait de prêches, pour ne pas perturber sa paroisse avec son service de sécurité. On peut être méthodiste, baptiste, réformiste ou modéré… Il faut savoir s’en remettre à Dieu et prendre le ciel pour témoin!
Oui, vous avez bien lu: des poupées à l’image de Justin Bieber vont bientôt être commercialisées. À 16 ans seulement, le chanteur de R’n’B est tellement populaire que toutes les jeunes filles en fleur se réjouissent à la moindre sortie d’un produit dérivé. Avec ces poupées, elles auront de quoi s’amuser…
, celles qui représentaient les héros de Twilight, eh bien à présent, c’est avec les poupées de Justin Bieber que les adolescentes pourront s’amuser.
Oui, le chanteur de 16 ans est devenu en quelques mois un sex-symbol, trop craquant avec ses jeans moulants et sa mèche sur le côté. Un rien blasé par sa notoriété, le jeunot entretient pourtant sa popularité auprès de ses fans, et multiplie les produits dérivés. Ainsi, alors que sa bio (il a déjà tellement accompli de choses à 16 ans!) intitulée Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever, My Story, s’apprête à sortir dans le monde entier, voici que de charmantes poupées à son image vont bientôt être commercialisées.
Mais attention, ce ne sont pas n’importe quelles figurines: celles-ci chantent!
Ainsi, les fillettes et adolescentes pourront inlassablement écouter 30 secondes de deux des tubes du jeune artiste: One Less Lonely Girl, et Baby.
En plastique, mais très musclées, ces figurines éditées par les sociétés Bravado et The Bridge Direct seront mises en vente dès le 4 décembre sur le site officiel de Justin.
Comble du bonheur: plusieurs modèles seront proposés. Ainsi, vous pourrez vous procurer la poupée «Street style», ou la poupée «Award Style», mais aussi la poupée «Red Carpet Style». Autrement dit, avoir votre idole en sweat/capuche ou en costard.
Disponibles juste avant Noël, ces figurines vendues 27,99 dollars l’une, et 17,99 dollars pour deux achetées, constitueront probablement un parfait cadeau pour toutes les fans du chanteur, au minois de poupon. Et une opération commerciale réussie pour les producteurs de Bieber. A quand les slips Justin Bieber?