Omar Sharif News

This Sunday night, December 20th, at 8 PM EST, Turner Classic Movies will be showing an all new special, . From the creators of the recent , this is a look at the epic film.

This is something that would make Lawrence of Arabia turn in his grave: Recent studies are now showing that sand, once Saudi Arabia's most common commodity is now becoming almost as scarce as water.

THE guide book said that Abou El Sid was a restaurant so fine that Omar Sharif was regularly sighted savouring its delicacies.

Omar Sharif and Faten Hamama were the film industry's dream couple for 20 years.

Zhivago's Cafe recently opened on Broadway in the former Dilettante Chocolate location and offers espresso, piroshkis which are turnovers made of wonderful soft bread pillows filled with flavorful meats or cheese, borscht and desserts and soon a dinner menu with Kabobs.

Lawrence of Arabia , starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. There are so many film festivals and celebrations happening this week, you may have to narrow your focus.

Canadian rockers Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner have been playing metal for decades; their 1982 album "Metal on Metal" is a Canadian classic said to have influenced much more succesfssful bands.

After years in the wilderness, Omar Sharif, the most successful Arab actor, is on his way back, and returns to his homeland for a cinematic renaissance at age of 77.

The Carolina Theatre in Durham gets back in the epic swing of things Sunday when it begins playing David Lean's 1962 classic "Lawrence of Arabia" for a five-day engagement.

Durham Holly Goddard Jones The Regulator Bookshop - Young Greensboro-based writer Holly Goddard Jones brings her debut collection of short fiction to The Regulator tonight at 7. Her cycle of stories, called Girl Trouble , centers on the perhaps fictitious town of Roma, Ky., and a few of its troubled inhabitants.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Hollywood icon recalls difficult times during his early days in film, and the toll his career took on his marriage Saturday, September 12, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Interview Mike Collett-White Reuters VENICE: For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless.

"The Traveler," an Egyptian film by first-time feature director Ahmed Maher, is vying for the festival's Golden Lion award.

For Omar Sharif, the future and the past are useless. The only thing that counts for the Egyptian actor is the present.

Streisand's coming-out party, devoted totally to pumping up its pre-sold star and providing a definitive definition of prima donna.

Oona Chaplin joins mother Geraldine in Roberto Stefano's horror film, 'Imago Mortis' By Sophie Taylor F IRST P OSTED J T he 23-year-old granddaughter of the great silent film star Charlie Chaplin has appeared in her first major film role, starring in the Italian director Roberto Stefano 's new movie, Imago Mortis .

The Legend. The Battle. The First Hero. Features: DVD Warner Brothers 10,000 B.C A young man must take a small band of villagers on a hunt to rescue the woman he loves.

Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif star in Lawrence of Arabia Details: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA Heights Theatre, Thursday at 7 p.m. In the early 1960s, Norman Mailer 's essay "The White Negro" hit an American cultural phenomenon square on the nose: the alienated white hipster's feeling of envy for dispossessed black people.

You've seen it in the cinema and bought the DVD - now's your chance to dress the part.

Remember Omar Sharif's marathon entrance in "Lawrence of Arabia"? First appearing as a tiny black speck on the distant desert horizon, he slowly, relentlessly grows in the frame to come barreling gloriously up on horseback, practically crashing through the camera lens.