Mon Mar 15, PARIS - American movie director Tim Burton has been inducted into France's cultural honor roll in a Paris ceremony. Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand made the director of such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Edward Scissorhands" an officer in France's National Order of Arts and Letters. Burton, wearing a dark suit and his trademark fuzzy hairdo, says he has always loved France and felt a special connection with the French public. Burton says "I feel much more at home here than I do in my own country and I thank you very much." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_en_ce/eu_france_tim_burton
Mon Mar 15,
PARIS - American movie director Tim Burton has been inducted into France's cultural honor roll in a Paris ceremony.
Culture Minister Frederic Mitterand made the director of such films as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Edward Scissorhands" an officer in France's National Order of Arts and Letters.
Burton, wearing a dark suit and his trademark fuzzy hairdo, says he has always loved France and felt a special connection with the French public.
Burton says "I feel much more at home here than I do in my own country and I thank you very much."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100315/ap_en_ce/eu_france_tim_burton
Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of Burton's son. In Burton on Burton, Depp wrote the introduction, stating, "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my son's godfather. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of Burton's son. In Burton on Burton, Depp wrote the introduction, stating, "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my son's godfather. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Burton
Maybe he'll just go from London (where he lives alternating with LA) to Paris, especially after this:
"He will lead the jury of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival"
That might be wise if he does realise this future project:
"He has also stated that there is a chance he will co-produce [with Timur Bekmambetov, who he also co-produced 9 with] the movie 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' ..."
ibid.
:-)
I wonder how long it will be before the screams of "Traitor!" are heard and he starts getting death threats from the usual US nuts. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
""From the beginning of my career, I always felt a very special place in my heart (for) France," he told the crowd of journalists and fans. "Because whether or not you liked the movies, I always felt that the French were looking for the poetry, looking for the meaning, looking for the things I was trying to do."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_FRANCE_TIM_BURTON Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
