Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, US actress, has to defend her skiing skills in court. After an accident in 2016, a skier filed a lawsuit in civil court. Paltrow was skiing “out of control” on a slope and injured him in a collision, the plaintiff alleges in court documents. Paltrow’s attorney denied the allegations in his opening statement. He described the actress as a “cautious” skier. Not Paltrow, but the plaintiff caused the accident. He was driving behind her on the runway and had to swerve to avoid the collision. The plaintiff alleged broken ribs and a brain injury and originally sought more than $3 million in damages. A judge has since dismissed some of the allegations, reducing the potential compensation claim to $300,000. Paltrow has filed a countersuit. Eight jurors are required to make a decision in the trial.
Maren Kroyman, 73, cabaret artist and actress, doesn’t just want to be the funny one. “I’m currently being understood very strongly as a person in the comic area – I’m really happy about that,” she told the German Press Agency. But she would “like to play dramatic roles.” Kroymann has acted in many successful films and series. She became known to a large audience at the end of the 1980s as the pastor’s wife in “Oh God, Mr. Pastor”. Later she got her own satirical show, “Nachtschwester Kroymann”, and she won several awards with her sketch comedy show “Kroymann”.
Melanie Schimpke, 33, Berlin kiosk seller, drives away robbers with a few words. A masked man entered the Pankow store where she works on Wednesday evening and aimed a pistol at Schimpke, eh BZ and Picture to report. So she called out to him: “What do you want?” And: “Boy, put your toy gun in your pocket and get out of there, or I’ll come over right away” – whereupon the man left the kiosk. The Picture Schimpke said she could tell a toy gun “from a real gun. She had this red plastic ring in the barrel, like in a child’s room.”
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Catherine Mayer, 62, American-British Charles biographer, attests that the Germans have a relatively uncomplicated relationship with the royals. In countries where the king is not the head of state and is financed by taxpayers’ money, the drama surrounding the royal family can be viewed in a much simpler context, said the author of the German Press Agency. “You don’t have to think about what it means for politics that this institution is the focus.” There is a long friendship between Germany and Great Britain – and at the same time “the habit of rubbing embarrassments in the other’s face.” The royals have become a kind of proxy for it.