Carla Bruni in the news again twice
Posted on June 20, 2009
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Woody Allen would like to use France’s first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy for a film role, the U.S. director has told RTL radio. ”I’m sure she would be wonderful,” he said through a translator. “She’s got charisma, she’s already acted so she’s not unknown to an audience. There are a lot of ways I could use her though I don’t have a story for her at the moment,” he said. ”But I’ll certainly talk to her about it and I’ll ask her if she’s interested.” Bruni-Sarkozy, one of the world’s top models before starting a career as a singer and marrying President Nicolas Sarkozy last year, has appeared briefly on the big screen, playing herself in Robert Altman’s 1994 fashion satire “Pret-a-Porter.” Allen, whose latest film “Whatever Works” comes out on French screens next month, plans to shoot a film in Paris next year. Something of a specialist in creating roles for women, he made Diane Keaton a star with “Annie Hall” in 1977 and has since worked with actresses ranging from his former girlfriend Mia Farrow to Mira Sorvino and Scarlett Johansson.  He has a history of falling in love with his leading ladies, so when he reportedly said he’d love to work with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s new wife,  Carla Bruni, U.S. President Obama may be wise to bolster foreign relations with France as a prophylactic measure. “There are a lot of ways I could use her,” Allen was quoted as saying in an RTL radio interview Thursday. Hmmmm.
Perhaps his latest leading lady, Scarlett Johanssen turned him down. Allen had a long relationship with his premier leading ladies Mia Farrow, with whom he adopted two children and had a biological son, and Diane Keaton. Allen’s life became scandal when he began dating Farrow’s adopted daughter with former second husband conductor Andre Previn, Soon Yi Previn, to whom he is now married since 1997. Allen’s latest film starring depressive writer, producer and actor Larry David of Seinfeld fame, Whatever Works, opens this week. Allen is expected to visit the Elysée presidential palace to meet with Sarkozy and his wife during his stay in Paris.
France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy will perform at a concert held to celebrate the first ever Mandela Day in New York on July 18. It will be her first live concert since marrying President Nicholas Sarkozy in February last year. Carla joins an impressive line-up at the concert, which is the culmination of a week-long series of events marking Mandela Day, an event designed to encourage people around the world to honour the iconic former South Africa leader. Other performers include Stevie Wonder, Gloria Gaynor and Aretha Franklin. Held on the date of Mr Mandela’s birthday – this year he will turn 91 – the entertainment also features turns from non-musical entertainers like Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker, Matt Damon and Whoopi Goldberg. She could certainly use some help in selling her CDs. Her most recent one, Comme Si De Rien N’était (As If Nothing Happened), has sold only 90,000 copies in her new home country since it was released last year and last month it emerged that Sarkozy’s government was giving away thousands of copies to promote French culture across the globe (really nothing happened). For her fourth album, Bruni is reported to be collaborating with US rocker Lenny Kravitz. Bearing in mind the string of beautiful women with whom he has ‘collaborated’ in the past – including Madonna, Vanessa Paradis and Lisa Bonet  - there may be reason for Sarkozy to get cosy.
But Sarkozy has agreed to her performing a duet with former Eurythmics star Dave Stewart in a July 18 concert in New York’s Madison Square Garden to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday. However she convinced her husband to allow her to make an exceptional, one-off concert featuring soul legend Aretha Franklin, 67, and Cyndi Lauper, 55. An Elysée source to France’s Le Post website: “Sarkozy has agreed only because it is a concert for Mr Mandela, and because it’s not a tour to promote her music career.” Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy, whose former boyfriends include two rock legends, Eric Clapton and Sir Mick Jagger, has produced three albums.
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