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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Rehn publicizes
correspondence with
ex-'Bachelor' Michel
RADNOR. Pa. (AP) —
Frista Rehn says she and “The
Bachelor”
Alex Michel
corresponded
for months
after he
rejected her
on the ABC
reality show
last spring.
Rehn, now
the star of
REHN
son I continued to correspond.”
Michel declined comment to
TV Guide.
Rehn says she ultimately
decided against a relationship
with Michel because he was still
publicly linked to Marsh, her
family didn’t like him. and ABC
offered her “The Bachelorette.”
Last week's debut of “The
Bachelorette,” whic h pairs Rehn
with 25 men to find her one true
love, drew 17.4 million viewers
to win its time period.
“I thought it would be great
for a woman to make the deci
sions,” she says.
ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” tells
the Jan. 18 issue of TV guide
that Michel called her and she
wrote to him even though
Michel had picked Amanda
Marsh as the winner on “The
Bachelor.”
Rehn says Michel told her
‘that he thought he had made a
big mistake. He’ll probably deny
that he said it, but that’s the rea-
Rome studio recreates
New York City for
Scorsese's 'Gangs'
ROME (AP) — An
unabashed admiration of Italy
prompted Martin Scorsese to
use a Rome studio to recreate
New York City of the I 860s for
his immigrant epic “Gangs of
New York.”
“I cannot express in wort
the impact and the appreck
tion 1 have for Italian cinema
and Italian culture, and so
only seemed natural to ... work
here in Rome,” he told
reporters Saturday.
Scorsese and “Gangs” star
Leonardo DiCaprio returned to
Italy to attend a gala showing of
their movie, which also stars
Daniel Day-Lewis
Cameron Diaz.
The set at Cinecitta studios
helped create an atmosphere of
old New York despite being
continent away from the mod
ern city, DiCaprio said.
“We were very much
cocooned in the environment of
Cinecitta and these four square
blocks that were recreated for
us,” he said. “I can’t tell
how tremendously it helped us
as characters feeling a part of
that time — at times it felt
we were literally transported
back into a different era.”
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