Entertainment 18-02-2005 who: George Michael what: Retires from pop music where: Berlin, Germany when: Wednesday snippet: "[Pop] is just dead as far as I am concerned," he announced at the premiere of a candid documentary about his life at the Berlin Film Festival, says The Mirror. "I just thought it was very important to explain myself before I disappear." Elsewhere at the Festival, The Independent`s Kaleem Aftab reports on how China`s Bai Ling was the star of the proceedings "in skimpy colourful outfits that make Paris Hilton look like a nun" while The Telegraph`s Tim Robey takes a look at Taiwanese art-house darling Tsai Ming-liang`s new film, The Wayward Cloud, which "begins with watermelon sex, ends with comatose sex, and liberally intersperses the interim with other varieties of sex". [... more]

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