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    Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem return to Venice festival

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    Actors Javier Bardem, left, and Penelope Cruz pose for photographers during the photo call of the film "Loving Pablo" at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

    By Sian Watson

    VENICE, Italy (AP) --

    Back when he was 22 and she was 16, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz brought their movie "Jamon, Jamon" to the Venice International Film Festival.

    Now, a quarter of a century and two children later, they were back with another project, "Loving Pablo," their first film together as a real-life couple.

    "It is interesting that we are back with a movie together exactly 25 years later and it feels like time has flown, there are so many things happened in between but it also feels like it was yesterday. Very strange," said Cruz, who married Bardem in 2010.

    "Loving Pablo" tells the story of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar and his unlikely lover, TV journalist Virginia Vallejo. Despite the wealth, the glitz and the glamour, the affair becomes the undoing of Vallejo.

    Cruz admitted that Bardem captured Escobar perhaps too well. "I felt like I couldn't wait for the last day of shooting when I don't have to hear him or see him as this character as it was starting to be really disturbing for me," she said.

    Bardem said it was a challenge not to take their characters home and "get back to our lives, which is way more important and more interesting than their lives."

    Working together on "Loving Pablo" seems to have gone well. Bardem and Cruz have already started shooting director Asghar Farhadi's next film together.

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    Trump taps “Apprentice” producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the U.K.

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    Television producer Mark Burnett, left, looks on as President Donald Trump arrives for the National Prayer Breakfast, Feb. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with "The Apprentice," is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.

    "With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role," Trump announced Saturday.

    Burnett, who was born in London, helped produce hits like "Survivor" and "The Voice," but is perhaps best known for teaming up with Trump for "The Apprentice," which first aired on NBC in 2004.

    Trump had been well-known in real estate and pop culture circles for decades. But the show helped again make him a household name — though Trump severed ties with NBC in 2015, the same year he launched his first White House run.

    The selection of Burnett continues Trump's trend of filling out his incoming administration with people who have high-profile backgrounds in television or politics, or both — including his choice to be defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, a former co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend," and ex-television doctor and unsuccessful Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz.

    Trump's first campaign in 2016 was rocked by allegations about his conduct on "The Apprentice" and other appearances during his association with NBC, notably in footage in which he said he could sexually assault women and get away with it because he was a "star."

    Almost a decade after he left his reality TV role, Trump's television career remains central to his biography and political rise. The show presented Trump Tower to tens of millions of people as a symbol of power and success before Trump launched his first... Read More

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