Michael J Fox, 61, former US actor, doesn’t think he’ll live to be 80. “It’s getting harder, every day it’s getting harder,” said the “Back to the Future” star, who suffered from Parkinson’s more than 30 years ago, in an interview with CBS. He said he recently broke his arms, elbows, hand and bones in his face as a result of several falls after a tumor operation on his spine. The interview revealed that Fox found it difficult to control his movements when speaking. But he still doesn’t let himself be defeated. “If you can find something to be grateful for, something to look forward to, then move on.”
Margot Kassmann, 64, Protestant theologian, sees a new “hunting of witches”. Today, for example, it is politicians or journalists who are overwhelmed with death threats or insulted, wrote the former council chair of the Evangelical Church in Germany in the picture on sunday. It has been proven that women are attacked more massively in social networks than men. Käßmann spoke on the occasion of the Walpurgis Night, also known as the “Night of the Witches”, on the night of May 1st. “So let’s celebrate wise women tonight. Then witch can become an honorary title.”
Camilla, 75, Britain’s new Queen, will wear a specially made insect-themed robe after her coronation on May 6th. The garment, a kind of cloak, is made of violet velvet, embroidered with gold thread and ornately decorated. Cost and length of the train are not known. “For the first time, insects, including bees and a beetle, appear on the coronation robe, relating to the themes of nature and the environment and reflecting Their Majesties’ affection for nature,” the palace said. To Camilla’s husband King Charles III. To pay tribute, larkspur, one of his favorite flowers, is worked into the motif, lilies of the valley are reminiscent of Camilla’s mother-in-law Queen Elizabeth II. King Charles III. uses the robes of his grandfather King George VI. from his coronation in 1937.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 49, director, is looking forward to his 50th birthday with equanimity. “When you see the force with which eighty-year-olds in America are fighting for the presidency, then I don’t think too much about fifty,” he said in an interview with the German Press Agency. The Oscar winner (“The Lives of Others”), who celebrates his birthday this Tuesday, can imagine that older age is even helpful in his job. Alfred Hitchcock also only shot his best-known films – “Window on the Courtyard”, “Vertigo”, “Psycho”, “The Birds” – in his fifties and sixties.
Rolando Villazon, 51, opera singer, cannot imagine life without books. “I read at least one book a week,” said the singer and director on the sidelines of a new production of Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo” at the Semperoper in Dresden. That’s why he’s currently reading a lot from the field of “novela picaresca”, the picaresque novels from the 16th and 17th centuries. The Mexican has already written three novels himself. He wants to write a fourth book in “neo-baroque language”. “I like to be on the road literary and musical at the same time.”