Exberliner is an English-language magazine published in Berlin. It is published monthly (except for the July/August double issue) and available for €2.50 at newsstands around the city or by subscription. The magazine offers cultural listings, reviews, journalistic articles, opinion columns and a large classified section which is also continually updated online. It also regularly organizes parties and cultural events (such as the monthly English-language Wednesdays at Burger in Kaffee Burger) in English. The magazine was founded as a free newspaper in 2002 named The Berliner but was forced to change the name, which was already trademarked. The new name is intended as a play on expatriate (English-speaking expatriates being a major target audience). The publishing house Iomauna Media GmbH also operates Exberliner Flat Rentals, which helps foreigners rent apartments in Berlin, and, as of February 2011, BlitzDeals.de, an English-language website featuring special offers in Berlin.

External links[link]

• Official Web site

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Gonzales
Gonzales at Moers Festival 2006, Germany
Background information
Birth name	Jason Charles Beck
Also known as	Chilly Gonzales
Occupations	Singer, Producer, Songwriter, Actor, Screenwriter
Instruments	Vocals, piano
Labels	Arts & Crafts, Gentle Threat, Kitty-Yo, No Format!
Associated acts	Peaches, Feist, Mocky, Puppetmastaz
Website	http://www.chillygonzales.com/

Gonzales at a concert with Socalled, 2005 at Théatre National in Montreal.

Gonzales, (born Jason Charles Beck; 1972), is a Grammy-nominated Canadian musician currently residing in Paris, France.^[1] Though best known for his first MC and electro albums, he is also a pianist, producer, and songwriter.

He regularly collaborates with the Canadian musicians Feist, Peaches and Mocky. Additionally, he has collaborated with Jamie Lidell on the albums Multiply and Compass, Buck 65 on the album Secret House Against the World, and performed with Drake at the 2011 Juno Awards. According to The New Yorker, "when Gonzales released an album called 'Presidential Suite', Feist accompanied him on tour around Europe and Australia." ^[2]

Biography[link]

Gonzales was born on March 20, 1972^[3] and began teaching himself piano at age three, when his older brother Chris began taking lessons. He was later classically trained as a pianist at McGill University, where he began both his composing career, co-authoring several musicals with his brother, and his performing career, as a jazz virtuoso.

In the 1990s, he embarked on a pop career as the leader of the alternative rock band Son. Son was signed to a three-album deal with Warner Music Canada in 1995, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records. The first release, the Prince/Elvis Costello-flavored LP Thriller, was moderately successful, spawning one single that received heavy radio airplay ("Pick up the Phone") and leading to several opening gigs for the Barenaked Ladies. While the album's production values were limited (Warner Bros. simply released the band's hastily recorded demo), it showcased Beck's gift for melody, and his talent as a self-taught producer.

The latter was even more in evidence with Son's second release, Wolfstein, recorded at a fully equipped studio in LA with the assistance of Chris Beck, then on his way to becoming an Emmy-award winning soundtrack composer. Nominally a concept album about a man who starts turning into a wolf after hitting one with his car, it featured a darker, more complex sensibility than its predecessor, and marked Gonzales's arrival as a musical innovator in his own right.

As far as Warner Bros. was concerned, however, the album represented too radical a change in direction, and suffered from a dearth of singles acceptable to the Canadian pop charts—perhaps the most upbeat, catchy tune on the album had the radio-unfriendly title, "Making a Jew Cry". The label gave little promotional support to the release, and parted ways with the band soon after. (While remaining largely silent on the experience in interviews, Gonzales did recount part of his Warner Bros. experience in "Candy", the opening track to his 2000 album, The Entertainist.)

Gonzales at the Mod Club in Toronto 2009.

Recognising that pop success had as much to do with a good press angle as musical talent, Gonzales decamped to Berlin in 1999, where he decided his Jewish faith could give him a marketing edge. However, he spoke no German.^[4] He adopted the 'Chilly Gonzales' moniker after reportedly being hailed as such by a stranger in the street, and developed this into his popular stage persona as a Jewish supervillain MC. Of moving away from Canada, what Gonzales said in an interview was: “My experiences in Canada had been disappointing, because I hadn’t really stepped up on the extra-musical elements of music making." ^[5]

With this change in image came another major change in Gonzales's musical style. His three albums on the German Kitty-yo label were largely built around rap, though his skills as a keyboardist shone through on a series of interspersed instrumental tracks. European critics and audiences were more receptive to the eclectic and experimental nature of Gonzales's output. His first Kitty-yo single, "Let's Groove Again", became an immediate dancefloor hit upon its 1999 release. (It was later used in a BBC promotional trailer for their new TV programme The Restaurant aired in 2007.) Gonzales became a fixture in both nightclubs and on the summer pop festival circuit.

In 2004 the performer released an album entirely made up of instrumental material, "Solo Piano". Highly acclaimed by public and critics alike, it drew immediate comparisons to the work of Erik Satie and so attracted a new global audience to his work. "Solo Piano" has been released in several countries, and remains Gonzales's best-selling album to date.

In the meantime Gonzales continued to develop as a producer and songwriter for other artists, collaborating on singles and albums with Peaches, renowned chanteuse Jane Birkin and budding indie star Leslie Feist. The output of the latter collaboration—Feist's 2003 album, "Let It Die"-- became a bestseller, won critical acclaim and industry awards, and became the basis for her breakthrough as a mainstream pop artist. Gonzales returned as a key contributor on Feist's 2007 album, "The Reminder", which was nominated for a Grammy and won a Juno Award.

In early 2008 he announced he was going back to the studio as a singer in his own right, and had re-signed with a major label, Mercury Records. On April 7 Soft Power was released. While maintaining a typically eclectic mix of styles, Soft Power was in some ways a stylistic return for Gonzales—his most purely pop recording since Thriller, though with a sound inspired more by the seventies hits of such artists as the Bee Gees and Billy Joel. Of his choice to sing on this album, Gonzales said in an interview, “I was afraid of doing an album with a bunch of guests, as so many people could’ve expected. I didn’t want to open up my Rolodex and get everyone to sing for me. I thought, ‘No, I want to put myself in more of a danger zone.’” ^[6] Gonzales said in an interview that he works in the Bee Gees style of music: "There's a Bee Gees cover on Feist's album Let it Die "Inside and Out" which I'm sort of responsible, for better or worse, for putting on that album." ^[7]

Apart from his solo career, he is also a member of the Berlin-based hip-hop band Puppetmastaz.

On May 18, 2009, at the Ciné 13 Théâtre (French), Paris, he broke a world record for the longest solo-artist performance with a total time of 27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds, breaking a record set by Prasanna Gudi.^[8]

On September 25, 2009, he challenged singer/songwriter/fellow pianist Andrew W.K. to a piano battle at Joe's Pub in New York City. After twenty minutes of back and forth, Chilly finally threw a gold necklace at Andrew, distracting him long enough to claim victory. A rematch has been talked about but not yet organized.

He may be most famously known by his song "Never Stop" on his 2010 album which the opening piano tune was featured on the original Apple Inc.'s iPad commercials. ^[9] Apple even went as far to make an electric guitar version ^[10].

Discography[link]

• Let's Groove Again - Single, 1999
• O.P. Original Prankster - (EP), 1999
• Gonzales Über Alles - Kitty-Yo, 2000
• The Entertainist - Kitty-Yo, 2000 (under the name "Chilly Gonzales")
• Presidential Suite - Kitty-Yo, 2002
• Z - Kitty-Yo, 2003
• Solo Piano - No Format!, 2004
• Soft Power - Mercury/Universal, 2008
• Ivory Tower - Gentle Threat, 2010 (under the name "Chilly Gonzales")
• The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales - Gentle Threat, 2011 (under the name "Chilly Gonzales")

DVD content[link]

• From Major to Minor - 2006 - No Format!

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Kitty-Yo: Gonzales
• No Format!
• Epitonic: Gonzales^{[dead link]}
• Ustream: 27-hour concert highlights
• Thought Catalog: Introducing Chilly Gonzales
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/20/gonzales-longest-solo-concert
• Chilly Gonzales in session at the Rob da Bank show
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• 2011 Interview on the Jekyll and Hyde Show, 106FM Jerusalem

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Peaches Christ
Peaches Christ performing on stage at Cat Club, San Francisco at the Trannyshack/Midnight Mass Halloween party, 2009.
Born	Joshua Grannell San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, emcee, filmmaker, performer
Years active	1996–present
Website
http://www.peacheschrist.com

Peaches Christ (stage name for Joshua Grannell) is an American underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor.^[1] Peaches currently resides in San Francisco where her Backlash Production Company and Midnight Mass movie series are based.^{[2][dead link]}

Her Midnight Mass road-show and Short Film Retrospective have been on tour and appeared in Seattle, Berkeley, New York City, Brussels, Belgium, and Lausanne, Switzerland.^{[citation needed]}

On September 7, 2007, the San Francisco de Young Museum hosted a "Decade of Peaches Christ Retrospective" called Cattychism featuring artistic contributions inspired by Peaches. The event included ten years of costume design by long-time collaborator Tria Connell and ten years of graphic design by artist Chris Hatfield.^{[3][4][dead link]}

[edit] Midnight Mass

Midnight Mass is a popular San Francisco midnight movie event series begun in the summer of 1998 at the movie theater that Joshua Grannell/Peaches Christ managed, The Landmark Theatres Bridge Theater in San Francisco, California. The elaborate pre-show stage productions, guest stars, and drag spectacles continue to draw sell-out crowds. Special guest stars have included Mink Stole, Tura Satana, Mary Woronov, RuPaul, Erica Gavin, Patrick Bristow, Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark), John Waters, and more. The summer of 2009 marked the 12th and final season of Midnight Mass showing at The Bridge.^[5]

Stage and screen[link]

The 10th-Annual Season of Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass stage-show was filmed for a national television show airing on the HDnet Movie Channel executive produced by Mark Cuban.^[6] The six-part series is titled Midnight Mass with your Hostess Peaches Christ. Thirty minute episodes centered around Peaches and Midnight Mass preceding televised film screenings. Peaches has appeared on other television productions, including VH1’s Totally Gay!, AMC’s Movies That Shook the World: Pink Flamingos, and IFC’s Cult Movies pilot. Peaches is prominently featured as a protesting drag queen in Gus Van Sant's feature film Milk.

Peaches tours with her short film collection and presents it as part of "An Evening With Peaches Christ". It is a multi-media show that includes live singing, and the screening of her short films.^{[citation needed]}

Peaches appears in numerous other films as well, including Spin the Bottle, a "drag-umentary" send-up of Madonna: Truth or Dare chronicling life behind the scenes at Midnight Mass. The film was written by Grannell and directed by San Francisco filmmaker Scott Boswell. Peaches Christ co-produced the San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival with performance artist and musician Vinsantos. The fest is designed to showcase talented and overlooked Bay Area Filmmakers. In 2005, Peaches released her debut CD single "Idol Worship". Peaches continues to appear on the Trannyshack stage where she got her start in 1996. Christ regularly guest emcees the show, substituting for hostess Heklina.^[7] He directed also in the Indie horror flick All About Evil,^[8] which stars Natasha Lyonne, Thomas Dekker, Cassandra Peterson,^[9] Mink Stole, Noah Segan, Jack Donner, Julie Caitlin Brown and Patrick Bristow.^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Peaches Christ on My Space^{[dead link]}
• Peaches Christ on YouTube
• Interview with Joshua Grannell on movies.insidepulse.com Part 1
• Interview with Joshua Grannell on movies.insidepulse.com Part 2
• Interview with Joshua Grannell on movies.insidepulse.com Part 3

Press links[link]

• GIANT Peaches Interview: The Evening Class
• SF Chronicle: A Decade Of Drag
• SF Chronicle: A Unique Place of Extreme Behavior
• Time Out NY: Mass Appeal
• Xpress Magazine: Christ on the Rise
• Gay.com: Dating Advice^{[dead link]}
• SFist: Peaches Christ Interview
• Bay Times: Peaches Christ DVD Review
• SF Chronicle: Behind the Curtain at Trannyshack
• SF Bay Guardian: Peaches Christ Interview

Benoît Delépine in 2010.

Benoît Delépine (30 August 1958 in Saint-Quentin –) is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+.

Director of the TV program Guignols de l'info for many years, he currently writes TV programs about the fictional country of Groland. He also plays the cynical journalist-reporter Mickael Kael.

In the cinema, Delépine has written and performed in two films. Mickael Kael contre la World News Company, a chess commercial, reprising two elements of the fictional career of the director: his role as a reporter for Groland and the World Company, which he contributed to create for Les Guignols.

In 2004, Aaltra, which he wrote, directed, and starred in with Gustave de Kervern enjoyed critical success. The two companions from the Groland adventure wrote and directed it as a road movie where two enemies travel the roads of northern France and Finland following an accident. Also with Gustave Kervern, he has directed and starred in Avida, which was awarded screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] His 2010 film Mammuth was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

His 2012 film Le grand soir competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival^[3][4] where it won the Special Jury Prize.^[5]

See also[link]

Related articles[link]

• Mickael Kael contre la World News Company
• Aaltra
• Avida

References[link]

External links[link]

• Entretien avec B. Delépine pour l'œil électrique, peu après la sortie du film Mickael Kael contre la World News Company (French)

Gérard Depardieu, CQ
Gérard Depardieu at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (1948-12-27) 27 December 1948 (age 63) Châteauroux, Indre, France
Spouse	Élisabeth Guignot (m. 1971–1996, divorced)
Partner	Carole Bouquet (1997–2005) Clémentine Igou (2005–present)
Children	Guillaume (deceased), Julie, Roxanne, Jean

Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ dəpaʁdjø] ( listen); born 27 December 1948) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor. He also won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card and was nominated for an Academy Award for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Early life[link]

Gérard Depardieu was born in Châteauroux, Indre, France. He is one of five children of Anne Jeanne Josèphe "la Liette" (née Marillier) and René Maxime Lionel "le Dédé" Depardieu, a metal worker and volunteer fireman.^[1][2] His mother did not want more children and told Depardieu that she had tried to abort him with knitting needles.^[1] He has stated that as a child he would inspect his hands for scars from the needles.^[1]

Depardieu spent more time on the street than in the classroom and left school at 15.^{[citation needed][3]}

Career[link]

At the age of 16, Depardieu left Châteauroux for Paris. There he began acting in the new comedy theatre Café de la Gare, along with Patrick Dewaere, Romain Bouteille, Sotha, Coluche, and Miou-Miou.^[4] His breakout film role came in 1974 playing Jean-Claude in Bertrand Blier's comedy Going Places.^[5] He studied dancing under Jean-Laurent Cochet, and went on to become one of France's most renowned actors. In 1986, his international fame grew as a result of his performance as a doomed, hunchbacked farmer in the film Jean de Florette. Five years later he won a César for his starring role in Cyrano de Bergerac.

Gerard crossed over into the American film market by co-starring in the 1990 film Green Card. He has since acted in many English language films including The Man in the Iron Mask, 102 Dalmatians, and Last Holiday.

Depardieu with Carole Bouquet at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

More recently, he has played Obélix in the three Astérix movies in which he is said to have discovered Melanie Laurent when she was 14.^[6] In 2010 Depardieu signed a contract with Bank Zachodni WBK, a Polish bank, to appear in its commercials.^[7]

Personal life[link]

In 1970, Depardieu married Élisabeth Guignot, with whom he had two children, actor Guillaume (1971–2008) and actress Julie (1973). On 28 January 1992, while separated from Élisabeth, he had a daughter, Roxanne, with the model Karine Sylla. In 1996 he divorced Élisabeth and began a relationship with actress Carole Bouquet, who was his partner from 1997 to 2005.^[8] On 14 July 2006, he had a son, Jean, with French-Cambodian Helene Bizot (not to be confused with Hélène Bizot), according to the issue 3089 (31 July 2008) of Paris Match and the Phnom Penh Post.^[9] Since 2005, Depardieu has lived with a Harvard-educated novelist, Clémentine Igou. On 13 October 2008, his son Guillaume died at the age of 37 from complications linked to a sudden case of pneumonia. Depardieu is a well known Anglophile,and has been known to criticise and even insult his home country of France. The most prominent of these was in March 2012, when on Swiss TV after talking of a new movie in which he would play disgraced Monetary fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn, he said “I think he is a bit like all French people, a bit arrogant. I don’t like the French too much by the way,”

Awards[link]

Depardieu at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Depardieu has been nominated for the Best Actor in a Leading Role César 15 times during his career and won it twice, in 1981 and 1991. He was also nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac.

• 1981: César Award for Best Actor for his role in The Last Metro (Le dernier métro)
• 1985: Venice Film Festival Award for best actor for his role in Police
• 1985: Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite
• 1990: Cannes Film Festival: Best actor award for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1991: César Award for Best Actor for his role in Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1991: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his role in Green Card
• 1996: Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur.^[10]
• 2006: Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting.

Filmography[link]

See also[link]

• Cinema of France
• List of celebrities who own wineries and vineyards

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gérard Depardieu at the Internet Movie Database
• Russian artist Shishkin writes portrait of Gerard Depardieu//Channel One.
• Georgy Shishkin Exhibition in Paris, CANAL+ on YouTube
• Potiche Facebook Page

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