Cannes chaos: Shots fired during Christoph Waltz interview

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(CNN) -- A man was arrested Friday at the Cannes Film Festival after firing a gun loaded with blanks during a live television interview, sending an Oscar-winning actor running for cover.

Canal+ was interviewing Christoph Waltz, who won the Academy Award for best supporting actor in "Django Unchained," and actor Daniel Auteuil when a man fired two shots from a starter pistol, according to authorities and the French television station.

The man allegedly had a dummy grenade in one hand, and footage and photographs of the incident show Waltz and Auteuil being taken offstage and attendees scrambling for cover.

The incident, which occurred on the Canal+ set along the popular Promenade de la Croisette -- the main boulevard in Cannes -- briefly interrupted the show.

Canal+ anchor Michel Denisot came back on the air a short time later and told viewers: "The shots fired were blanks and the grenade was fake. That's what we know."

No injuries were reported; French authorities have not identified the man.

Pictures of the arrest obtained by The Hollywood Reporter show police wrestling the man to the ground.

The man said to a woman next to him, 'If I were you, I wouldn't stick around here'," Denisot later told France 24.

It was far from the typical scripted fare of the Cannes Film Festival, where chaos plays out on screen and not among the audience.

The annual festival brings together the rich and famous from around the world for movie screenings and glittering parties.

The incident followed news the same day that more than $1 million in jewels belonging to the Swiss firm Chopard were stolen from a hotel room in Cannes.

The theft of the jewels occurred Thursday night, on the second day of the festival, which opened Wednesday and runs through May 26.

Commandant Bernard Mascarelli, of the Nice police, said the jewelry was stolen from a safe in the Suite Novotel hotel on Boulevard Carnot in Cannes.

A Chopard employee was staying in the room but left it to go to dinner from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. local time, he said. She returned to discover the safe containing the jewels was missing.

The whole safe had been unscrewed from the inside of the hotel room and carried out, Mascarelli said.

No detailed description has yet been given of the stolen jewels.

Chopard, which is an official sponsor of the festival, has provided the Palme d'Or trophy awarded to the director of the best feature film for the past 15 years. The trophy features a 24-carat gold palm attached to a piece of cut crystal.

The firm is promoting its Red Carpet Collection 2013 at this year's festival, with a number of actresses sporting its gems.

CNN's Saskya Vandoorne and Laura Smith-Spark contributed to this report.

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Hudson River swimmer dies during Ironman race

FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — An athlete competing in the Ironman U.S. Championship in New York City and New Jersey died Saturday after having a medical problem during the swimming portion of the grueling triathlon, race officials said.

The competitor "experienced distress" during a 2.4-mile swim in the Hudson River at the start of the all-day competition, a publicist for the race organizers said. The course ran along the New Jersey shoreline, just north of the George Washington Bridge.

The swimmer was pulled out of the water and taken to a hospital in nearby Englewood Cliffs, N.J., but did not survive. The organizers said the cause of death is unknown. An autopsy is planned.

New York City police said the contestant was a 43-year-old man. His name has not yet been released.

"On behalf of all of us in the triathlon community, we mourn his death and send our condolences to his family and loved ones," organizers said in a statement.

Contestants in the race followed their swim in the Hudson with a 112-mile bicycle ride through the suburbs, and then a 26.2-mile marathon that finished at Manhattan's Riverside Park.

Jordan Rapp, a winner of multiple Ironman titles, won the race in an unofficial time of 8 hours, 11 minutes and 18 seconds. Mary Beth Ellis was the female winner with a time of 9 hours, 2 minutes and 48 seconds.

Earlier in the week, officials had warned of partially treated sewage that was being discharged into the Hudson River while a broken pipe was fixed upriver in suburban Westchester County. Eventually, the discharge was stanched, and tests were done to determine the race course was safe for swimming, organizers said.

Deaths in triathlon competitions have happened with regularity in recent years, almost always during the swim, and the Hudson River has been particularly dangerous.

Two people died during the swim portion of the Nautica New York City Triathlon last summer. A male competitor also died during the New York City Triathlon in 2008.

After a spate of five deaths around the country in two months last summer, a governing body for the sport, USA Triathlon, created a task force to examine the fatalities.

The swim always comes at the beginning of the triathlon, when athletes are most fresh, but the field is often intensely crowded at that stage of the race. Competitors often report feeling panicked as they bump and thrash for space in sometimes frigid water.

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First Person: 19 stories in the sky during Dallas tornado

FIRST PERSON | DALLAS -- Today, I heard the thunder first. Then, I heard the sound that no one, especially not a new parent, wants to hear: the tornado siren.

You see, we live in a high-rise apartment building, and I am a stay-at-home mom. This was the first time since the birth of our baby that I've had to deal with a dire weather situation. And, panic set in as I realized that it was something that I would have to face alone. As a resident of downtown, I tend to pay attention when the sky grows dark over the city.

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I grabbed my Blackberry to text my husband, but he had already texted me. He said that he was in the stairwell of his office building at Energy Plaza. It was at that point that I knew I had to go somewhere safe. My mind raced as I tried to figure out where to go. The stairwell of our apartment building locks as soon as you go in, so I didn't want to risk that. At 19 floors up, you have to figure out where the safest place is. I didn't want to go to the bottom floor because I didn't want to risk getting stuck in the elevator on the way down.

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So, I settled on planting myself and our baby in the dining room of our apartment since it is an interior room with no windows. I grabbed the laptop, the phone, and a pacifier for the little one (hey, you've got to keep everyone happy, right?), and I logged on to two weather websites: weather.com and intellicast.com. It was my only way of keeping up with the tornado warnings while staying in a safe place.

Meanwhile, my mother in Florida called to check on me, and my husband called to find out if I was OK. It was a scary time for about 30 minutes, as I kept refreshing the websites that I was dialed into. Once the tornado warning deadline passed, and I took note of the direction in which the grounded tornadoes were headed, I felt that it was safe to leave the dining room.

I took a look outside and couldn't believe that people were walking around downtown. Then again, the tornado siren was no longer going off, so why would anyone be worried at that point? I felt increasingly safe as I read online that the tornadoes were moving towards the Fort Worth area, west of Dallas. All I kept thinking about was how glad I was to have gone grocery shopping early in the morning instead of waiting until the afternoon! But, really, what difference would that have made if a tornado had torn apart my building?

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How 3 Jewelry Companies Are Thriving During the Downturn (The Motley Fool)

Los Angeles has long been known as a place where fashion designers and stylists are born and bred, but the area outside the City of Angels has recently become a hotbed for several successful jewelry companies.

Yes, jewelry companies. Yes, in this economy.

Jewelry businesses that primarily operate online have picked up speed during the recession, thanks to low costs for overhead, with no need for storefronts or extra employees. "What's great about online is it's global ... It's an instant global platform for your product," said Sharie Ellis of Love is a Devil, a year-old jewelry company based in the San Diego area.

Skipping the traditional bricks-and-mortar digs in favor of a virtual showroom isn't the only strategy that has helped some firms thrive. Here are the frugal strategies three companies have used to amp up exposure and juice sales during this tarnished economy.

Skipping the storefront and selling door-to-door
When best friends Evelyn Bernal and Katiria Delgado decided to launch a jewelry biz, Belina, in August 2010, their business plan did not include wasting precious start-up funds on pricey retail leases. Each partner works in her home office south of Los Angeles in Torrance, and Irvine, Calif.

Instead of selling their wares behind storefronts, they get exposure by staging trunk shows in the living rooms of potential clients.

Belina brings its baubles to house parties to complement a night of bachelorette debauchery or a girls- night-in soiree. With white wine flowing alongside enviable necklaces and rings, the women start spending. Belina has been able to consistently book house parties every weekend.

The perk of selling pieces face-to-face versus selling the pieces online is that the buyers can literally smell, touch, and feel the products, rather than clicking through pieces online.

Lower price points are also attractive to shoppers. Belina keeps its prices between $10 and $40, a relatively cheap range in the jewelry industry that targets females age 13 and up.

There are other perks to in-person purchases versus online shopping, as well. "The deal is there is no shipping costs, taxes or fees and it's there to try on," said Bernal.

Free word of mouth marketing
Marketing -- whether it's hiring a full-blown public relations firm or paying big bucks to advertise in print publications -- is a luxury many up-and-coming jewelry companies can't afford.

When Noon Designs opened on a residential street a block away from a San Diego beach, it barely generated the revenue to pay for its 260-square-foot, $600-a-month space in a converted one-car garage. As a result, founders Nora Alexander and Maie Liis Webb, who studied abroad in Slovakia and Switzerland during their college years at the Rhode Island School of Design, had to rely on their reputation to drive traffic into their store.

Now, just two years later, the company sells its products to 70 shops across the U.S., has two shops in Southern California, and about a dozen other designers' pieces in its stores.

"We believe these days in this down economy people want to support friendly faces and their local community," said Jessica Madore, who joined the company in late 2009 after she quit her lucrative marketing and sales job at a Portland, Maine, textiles firm to head west and pursue the California dream.

The first day she arrived in the sunny state, she stumbled across the San Diego garage the Noon designers were working out of.

Though Noon has since graduated from its humble beginnings, the company still heavily relies on word-of-mouth advertising to grow the business. "Honestly, it's been working. People come to us for gifts for their girlfriends, mothers, and grandmothers just as much as they do to treat themselves," said Madore.

Test-drive temporary digs
If you can't afford to sign a long-term lease, there's another option: Set up a pop-up boutique -- a temporary display inside an existing store.

That's the route taken by Love is a Devil, a young jewelry company that opened up a pop-up boutique in Temecula in February.

The founders, Alana Crain and Sharie Ellis, attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising together and named their brand after a Shakespeare sonnet as an ode to Crain's eclectic and edgy style mixed with Ellis' all-American, classic taste.

The pop-up boutique's proximity to celebrities -- it's just a two-hour drive from Rodeo Drive -- helps create foot traffic. Displaying its wares in prime real estate paid off: Taylor Armstrong, star of the Bravo TV hit Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, popped into Love is a Devil's pop-up store while she was visiting the surrounding wine country. The reality TV star gave the brand national exposure by wearing her chosen piece on an episode that ran this season.

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