Names and faces

LITTLE ROCK — Roman Polanski returned to France’s Cannes Film Festival, where he presented a short film sponsored by Prada. Before a screening of a restored version of his 1979 film Tess, starring Nastassja Kinski, the Polish director showed the short, titled A Therapy. It stars Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham Carter and was created as a high quality commercial for Prada. That was a relative disappointment for festival goers who had been teased that Polanski would preview a new film. The festival earlier screened the documentary Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, which features conversations between Polanski and his friend Andrew Braunsberg about his U.S. arrest in 1977 for unlawful sex with an underage girl and his subsequent flight to France before sentencing. Polanski, who currently lives in Paris, was arrested in 2009 in Switzerland,and was to be extradited to the United States. The Swiss eventually rejected the request. Polanski won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or in 2002 for The Pianist.

Country music star George Jones is in the hospital again with a respiratory infection. A spokesman said the 80-year old singer was hospitalized Monday afternoon in Nashville, Tenn., and that concert dates through June will be rescheduled where possible. Jones spent about a week in the hospital in March, also forcing a round of postponements. The “White Lightning” singer was due to return to the stage this weekend at the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn. The Country Music Hall of Fame member will miss about seven shows in Georgia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arizona and Nevada.