GOSSIP

BOUNCING BACK

Actress Winona Ryder is set to return to the screen in a new film with former James Bond Sean Connery, her first role since her conviction for stealing from a shop last year. Ryder, 31, will star in Embers, an adaptation of a 1942 novel by Hungarian author Sandor Marai, which begins filing in Prague in October, Daily Variety said.

The film is Ryder�s first since the diminutive star was found guilty in November of stealing more than $5,500 of designer goods from a department store after a sensational trial in Los Angeles. Embers tells the story of two old men who love the same woman and lose contact only to meet up again more than 40 years later after their lives had gone very different separate ways.

FRIENDS NO MORE

Tomb Raider actress Angelina Jolie says there�s nothing left of the intense love she once shared with her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton.

�We�re not friends, no,�� Jolie, 28, said in an interview airing on the ABC television programme 20/20. �It�s like we just changed, we became very different people, and I wouldn�t know what to talk to him about.��

Jolie and actor-filmmaker Thornton, 47, married in 2000.

�When you�re friends, and when you love somebody you tend to be as outspoken as possible, to make them feel good. You tell the world that they�re wonderful, and you love them, and how great they are.��

She meant it at the time, Jolie said. �Now I just feel like I don�t know him.�� The pair was divorced last May. Their marriage started to unravel before Jolie adopted a child from Cambodia.

TIME FOR MEMORIAL

Thirty years after the death of kung fu film legend Bruce Lee, fans say it�s way past time for Hong Kong to put up a memorial for the star many view as a local son. �Bruce Lee is a symbol. He truly represents Hong Kong,�� said Pippen Wong, a fan who accuses Hong Kong of neglecting Lee�s memory.

The star�s daughter, Shannon Lee, was quoted as telling the South China Morning Post that Hong Kong should put up a memorial. �There really should be something there for him,�� she said. Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, California, but spent much of his youth in Hong Kong, where he became a familiar face in cinema before moving to Hollywood.

Vocabulary

Conviction (n): fact of having been found guilty
diminutive (adj): very small
unravel (v):start to fail or no longer stay together as a whole
Memorial (n): a statue, stone, etc. that is built to remind people of an important event or a dead person