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The frontman of the Irish band U2 Bono accompanied by his wife Ali in Sarajevo on Sunday, Aug. 20 2006 where they will be attending the Sarajevo film festival. (AP Photo/Hidajet Delic)

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Many are gathering in Sarajevo for the 12th annual Sarajevo Film Festival in the Bosnian capital on Friday. Sarajevo Film Festival is an international film festival with specific goal of supporting and promoting regional cinematography and it is recognized by FIAPF as a Competitive Specialized Festival.

While the Sarajevo festival’s organisers aim to promote young directors from the region, international stars are also expected to grace the red carpet in Sarajevo.

Nick Nolte will present his latest film "Peaceful Warrior" on Sunday, and U2’s Bono, who devoted parts of the band’s 1993 Zooropa tour to the besieged Bosnian capital, is expected in Sarajevo on the same day.

- u2exit.com 

It seems almost as many politicians as News Corporations staffers will be present when the great and the good of Rupert Murdoch’s empire meet in California this weekend.

News Corp’s management conference will start on Sunday with a vastly reduced contingent of News International executives compared with previous years.

Mr Murdoch, the executive chairman, will host the event for 250 key executives at California’s Pebble Beach, a peninsular south of San Francisco know for its golf courses and cypress trees.

Les Hinton, the News International executive chairman, will lead a management contingent that will include his lieutenant, Clive Milner, the group managing director of News International, and the bosses of the two national newspaper groups, Paul Hayes, the managing director of Times Newspapers, and Mike Anderson, the managing director of News Group Newspapers, who sits in the adjacent office to that of Mr Hayes in Wapping.
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Q100 host Bert Weiss’ weeklong plot to meet U2’s Bono for his wife, Stacey, succeeded, but in the end, it didn’t involve any covert operations.

Weiss had received a boatload of tips from listeners, so he knew which hotel the band was at, where the late-night party was going to be, and even where Bono was going to eat breakfast Saturday morning. The plan was to "accidentally" show up at one of these locales to get a photo and exchange words with the singer. "It was sickly weird," Weiss said on air Monday, speaking of his own obsession. Instead, Trey Feazell, bookings vice president for Philips Arena, hooked them up to a pre-show hospitality party Friday night. There, backstage, Stacey said, "I started chickening out."

But Weiss, determined not to let this moment slip away, nabbed Bono so they could get the coveted photo. As Bono turned away, Weiss offered this odd platitude: "Thanks for the music you’ve brought to my family." He said Bono looked at him curiously, then turned to leave. Stacey then came up with a more touching thought: "I really admire your wife." Bono, looking surprised, responded, "That’s really, really cool. Thanks."

Speaking of U2 . . . Philips spokeswoman Katie McLennan noted the celebrities who showed up to the Irish band’s two sold-out shows, including Mike Mills of R.E.M. and Rick Wright of Pink Floyd on Friday night, and birthday boy Ted Turner, producer and ATL’s theme song writer Dallas Austin, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and members of Third Day on Saturday night. How do you know you’re really somebody? When Bono interrupts a concert to sing you "Happy Birthday." The frontman urged the sold-out crowd Saturday night to join him in wishing a "great American" a happy birthday, then led them in a singalong for Turner. (The Atlanta media mogul turned 67 Saturday.)

-Atlanta Journal 

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— David Basham