Gwyneth Paltrow, 50, American actress, has to defend her skiing skills in court. After an accident in 2016, a skier filed a civil lawsuit. Paltrow was skiing “out of control” on a slope and injured him in a collision, the plaintiff alleges in court documents. Paltrow’s lawyer denied the allegations in his opening statement. He described the actress as a “cautious” skier. Not Paltrow, but the perpetrator caused the accident. He was driving behind her in the lane and had to swerve to avoid the collision. Plaintiff claimed broken ribs and a brain injury and originally sought over $3 million in damages. A judge has since dismissed some of the claims, reducing the potential damages claim to $300,000. Paltrow filed a countersuit. Eight jurors are required to make a decision at trial.
Open the detailed view (Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa)Maren Kroyman, 73, cabaret performer and actress, doesn’t just want to be funny. “Currently, I’m being understood very well as a person in the field of comics – I’m very happy about that,” she told the German Press Agency. But she would like to “do dramatic roles”. Kroymann acted in many successful films and series. She first became known to a wide audience in the late 1980s as the pastor’s wife in “Oh God, Mr. Pastor”. Later, she got her own satirical show, “Nachtschwester Kroymann”, and won several awards with her comedy show “Kroymann”.
Melanie Schimpke, 33, kiosk vendor in Berlin, fends off thieves with a few words. A masked man entered the Pankow store where she works on Wednesday night and pointed a pistol at Schimpke, as reported by BZ and Bild. Then she yelled at him, “What do you want?” And: “Boy, put the toy gun in your pocket and get out of here or I’ll come by” – to which the man left the kiosk. The photo told Schimpke that she could tell a toy gun “from a real gun. It had a red plastic ring on the barrel, like in the kids’ room.”
Open detailed view (Photo: Leo Cackett/leo cachet)Catherine Mayer, 62, Charles’ American-British biographer, attests that Germans have a relatively uncomplicated relationship with royalty. In countries where the king is not head of state and is financed by taxpayers’ money, the drama involving the royal family can be seen in a much simpler context, said the author of the German Press Agency. “You don’t have to think about what it means for policy for this institution to be the focus.” There is a long friendship between Germany and Great Britain – and at the same time “the habit of rubbing embarrassment in the other’s face”. Royalty became a kind of representative of it.