Dubai Taxi

One of four women jailed for assaulting and insulting a taxi driver for not allowing them to smoke in his cab has appealed, denying the driver’s allegations.
A video clip that was uploaded and shared on social media showed the Moroccan women drunkenly attacking and insulting A A at a petrol station in Al Barsha in October.
Records stated that 38-year-old A S insulted the Ethiopian driver, saying he was an “animal” before she took off her high heels and repeatedly hit him with them.
The woman, who was sentenced to six months in jail and then deportation, said she only pushed the driver.
She told Dubai Court of Appeal that she did not confess to assaulting or insulting him but only to drinking alcohol without a licence.

Serena Williams Wins 19th Grand Slam

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Expressive To The Core

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Crash

Amy Childs has admitted that she is finding it hard to get behind the wheel of a car after her terrifying car crash last week.
The red-head, who made a stunning appearance at the 2014 MOBO Awards this evening admitted that she finds it hard to relive the accident that saw her Range Rover flipped onto its roof.
Talking to Mirror Celebs on the red carpet, the 24-year-old said: "I am all fine. I'm lucky to be alive it was tragic I have had amazing support from my friends and family. It's very hard to talk about it, you don't wanna keep bringing it up.

Two-Hander

As the play opens in a spartan rehearsal hall, Thomas played by Rick Miller), a weary playwright is working  on his script based on Sacher-Masoch’s book.  He has been holding auditions to cast the show, and is ready to quit for the day.  As he is about to leave in barges Vanda, (the astonishingly Carly Street),  dragging her tickle trunk behind her.  She is loud, vulgar – a  brassy  dominatrix,  not at all what  he has in mind for the part.   But a trapped in the theatre by a thunderstorm, Vanda sets out to show Tom she is above all an actress. And a good actress can play genteel, elegant and demure.  She flirts. She teases. She whines.  She begins to explore the boundaries of Thomas’s  sexual comfort level and tests his confidence. She dons a Victorian gown and  is transformed from the brassy broad into the cultivated character he has in mind.

It’s a wholly theatrical play, a two hander which explores fetishes and fantasies and depends on raunchy actorly artifice.

As Vanda critiques Tom’s script she  gets into his  head, which allows her to eventually degrade him and render  him impotent with seductive energy. Whether as an actress or as a whore,  Vanda   well  knows the objective in the bedroom or on stage is the same: to be an object of desire. The façade has changed with the costume, but her sexual power remains the same.

Carly Street, who won the Dora Award and the Toronto Theatre Critic’s Award as best actress, gives a standout performance.  The multi-talented, multi-lingual, Rick Miller, (who entertained with his band after the show on opening night) is equally perfect foil. He is no less a magnetic force than she is. The two in tandem work so well that the audience becomes a part of the action -  voyeurs eavesdropping on  what makes intimacy intimate. There are no pat conclusions.