At this year's Cannes festival, Bulgari will present an exhibition of original costumes and jewelry from "Cleopatra" to accompany a screening of the meticulously restored version of the 1963 classic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. 

At this year's Cannes festival, Bulgari will present an exhibition of original costumes and jewelry from "Cleopatra" to accompany a screening of the meticulously restored version of the 1963 classic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. 

James Bond's famous Aston Martin car, complete with hidden machine guns and a smoke screen, is now up for grabs for a cool three million pounds, a Swiss weekly reported Sunday. Swiss millionaire Thomas Straumann put the vehicle up for sale in Britain with a price tag of three million pounds (3.5 million euros, $4.6 million), the Swiss weekly NZZ am Sonntag said. Straumann, a shareholder in a dental implant firm, bought the Aston Martin DB5 in 2006 and spent three years restoring the car driven by Sean Connery as the fictional British spy in "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball".

British actor Richard Briers, famed for his role in television comedy "The Good Life" and a stalwart in the films of Kenneth Branagh, has died at the age of 79, his agent said Monday. Briers had been battling the serious lung condition emphysema after years of smoking and died "peacefully" at his home in London on Sunday, the agent said.