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Britain's Prince William,  stands during a ceremony at the Cenotaph to commemorate ANZAC Day and the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign in Whitehall, London, Saturday, April 25, 2015. The ANZAC Day memorial Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Gallipoli landings, the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. Prince William and his wife Kate Duchess of Cambridge are expecting the birth of their second child soon.  (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Britain's Prince William, stands during a ceremony at the Cenotaph to commemorate ANZAC Day and the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign in Whitehall, London, Saturday, April 25, 2015. The ANZAC Day memorial Saturday marks the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Gallipoli landings, the first major military action fought by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during World War I. Prince William and his wife Kate Duchess of Cambridge are expecting the birth of their second child soon. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

With Britain’s general election fast approaching, almost anything can become political — even Prince William and his wife Kate’s choice of private medical care for the upcoming birth of their second child. Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday defended the royal couple’s choice of private treatment over public care offered by the National Health Service. Asked on TV whether the royal couple’s decision was disappointing, Cameron said he supports peoples’ right to choose treatment options. He did praise the National Health Service, which is a source of pride for many Britons. “The NHS is superb and I’ve seen that in my own life in so many different ways,” he said. “But I believe in choice. I believe in people being able to do what they want to do.” He said he is praying for the safe delivery of the royal baby. William and Kate are planning to have their second child at the private Lindo Wing, which is connected to St. Mary’s, a public hospital. Their first child, Prince George, was born at the Lindo Wing nearly two years ago.

The Tribeca Film Festival ended Saturday night with a bang — a special 25th-anniversary screening of the Martin Scorsese gangster film Goodfellas. On the red carpet, star Ray Liotta recalled something Scorsese told him before filming began that made him believe he was going to be part of something special. “He said, ‘I want to shoot this like a gangster,’” said Liotta, 60. “‘If I want to freeze frame, if I want to voice over, if I want to whatever…’ And that’s what he did. It gave him a lot liberty to just be him.” That mindset paid off. Many regard the Oscar-nominated mob tale as more than just a great film of the genre, but also one of the greatest movies of all time. “I don’t know if he reinvented it as much as he just created his own version of it,” Liotta said. Scorsese couldn’t make it to the screening because he was out of the country, but he recorded a message introducing the film to the audience at the Beacon Theatre. Based on the nonfiction best-seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the story traces the life of Henry Hill — a mobster-turned-informant — from his childhood and life of petty crime to rise and fall in the underworld. The film also stars Robert De Niro as James “Jimmy The Gent” Conway. De Niro co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 with Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff as a means of stimulating the lower Manhattan neighborhood after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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