Spacey alarmed by piracy in India

Plus: Mr Probz tops UK charts; tourist mistakes Richard Gere for beggar.

Kevin Spacey at the IIFA in Tampa, Florida. Brian Blanco / AP Photo
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Kevin Spacey received a roaring ovation at India's film awards, but he doesn't like the way he suspects that many fans there know him – through pirated videos. Spacey, who stars in the Netflix series House of Cards, was a star attraction at the International Indian Film Academy Awards in Tampa over the weekend. "House of Cards is really big in India, I discovered," Spacey told reporters on Saturday. "Isn't it funny that Netflix doesn't exist there yet? Which means that you're stealing it." Netflix streams videos online to customers without advertising. Spacey then said he welcomed the Indian film industry's appeal for a wider market in the United States, adding that it was beneficial "to bring our cultures together, because very often we can achieve things culturally that we can't politically". – AFP

Tourist mistakes Gere for beggar

A French tourist offered pizza to a man spotted rummaging through trash in the streets of New York, not realising it was Richard Gere making a movie. Karine Valnais Gombeau, 42, spotted the actor, a knit cap pulled down over his ears, sifting through rubbish as she came out of a pizzeria in Manhattan. "I said: 'I am sorry, but the pizza is cold,'" she told the New York Post. "He said: 'Thank you so much. God bless you.'" She left without knowing it was Gere making his new movie Time Out of Mind, until the Post ran a photo of the moment two days later. "It's crazy, this story. It's unimaginable that something like this could happen," she said, adding she thought Gere was "very handsome, even at his age". – AFP

Mr Probz tops UK charts

The Dutch hip-hop artist-turned-singer Mr Probz went straight in at the top of the British singles chart on Sunday with his track Waves. Last week's No 1, the Canadian singer-songwriter Kiesza's debut single, Hideaway, dropped to second place. The London-based dance music duo Sigma placed third with Nobody to Love. In the album chart, Paolo Nutini spends a second week at No 1 with his third album Caustic Love. John Legend's Love in the Future climbed two spots to claim second place in the album chart, while The Vamps placed third with their debut album Meet The Vamps. – Reuters