CANNES - OSCAR-WINNING director Ang Lee conjures the optimism of late 1960s America in a touching film based on the true story of Elliot Tiber, who was instrumental in organising the legendary Woodstock concert.

LONDON - DIRECTOR Andrea Arnold thinks teenagers get bad press.

Especially British teenagers, routinely depicted in the country's media as a social menace - yobs, track-suited 'hoodies,' the victims and perpetrators of knife crime.

ANCHORAGE (Alaska) - FORMER vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is defending Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, who created a stir at last month's Miss USA pageant when she said marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

The former vice presidential candidate says in a statement, 'The liberal onslaught of malicious attacks against Carrie Prejean for expressing her opinion is despicable.'