Savannah Film Festival to honor McDowell

Savannah Film Festival to honor McDowell

NEW YORK — Malcolm McDowell, who starred in the 1971 film classic “A Clockwork Orange,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the 11th annual Savannah Film Festival.

The festival, hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., will run Oct. 25-Nov. 1.

“A Clockwork Orange” will be screened back-to-back with McDowell’s 2007 film “Never Apologize,” a documentary about the late British stage and film director Lindsay Anderson, who was a mentor to the 65-year-old actor.

McDowell’s numerous TV appearances include HBO’s “Entourage” and NBC’s “Heroes.”

Other lifetime achievement honorees: Songwriters Marilyn and Alan Bergman; and Peter Bart, editor-in-chief of the daily Hollywood trade paper Variety, who will receive an award for entertainment journalism.

Shakira plans to expand children’s foundation

NEW YORK — Shakira, a longtime activist for Latin America’s poor children, plans to make her Colombian children’s foundation a global one in the near future.

Shakira said Barefoot, known as Pies Descalzos in her native Colombia, will start focusing on children worldwide later this year.

“We have a model that works. Under less than $2 a day, we can provide a kid with top quality education and the nutrition that they need to be able to function and be able to learn because a kid with an empty stomach cannot learn,” said the singer, a multiplatinum superstar known for hits like “Hips Don’t Lie.”

“So this model that has been so successful in my country, now I want to bring it to other countries in my small way.”

Today’s birthdays

Actress Jayne Meadows is 88. Actor Wilford Brimley is 74. Producer Don Cornelius (“Soul Train”) is 72. Singer-guitarist Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is 65. Singer Meat Loaf is 57. Actor Patrick Muldoon (“Melrose Place”) is 40. Singer Mark Calderon of Color Me Badd is 38. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is 36. Singer Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down is 30. Rapper Lil’ Wayne is 26. Singer Avril Lavigne is 24.