Today's entertainment news: Adele to take break from music - for love

Plus: our Berlinale diary featuring Meryl Streep, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton; Adele to take break from music - for love; Najwa Karam bejewelled in new music video and Justin Theroux opens up about Jennifer Aniston.

Adele. AP

Berlinale diary: Meryl, Angelina and Billy Bob

Meryl Streep has admitted that Margaret Thatcher, whom she plays in The Iron Lady, currently showing in the UAE, wasn't a person she particularly admired before she made the film.

"I had a knee-jerk reaction to her as a liberal, left-wing actress in America, living in New York," Streep told a press conference at the Berlinale, where the film received a special screening. "I thought she was friends with Reagan, which was bad. I thought she had frumpy clothes and bad hair. This is how women judge each other in the public realm."

Meanwhile, Angelina Jolie has been awarded the Cinema for Peace prize for her directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey. Jolie received the award at the Berlinale, where the Bosnian war drama has been playing, and walked the red carpet with Brad Pitt. The award was presented by the Egyptian former presidential candidate Mohamed El Baradei. Both Jolie and Pitt have now flown to Bosnia for the film's premiere there.

Still with Jolie, the actress was in Berlin at the same time as her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton, who was in town to promote his new drama, Jane Mansfield's Car. He also drummed up support for his next project, an "ethereal" story about a guy who picks up a woman while on a road trip. Interestingly, one of his producers implied to Variety that it was inspired by Thornton's past relationship with Jolie.

* Alex Ritman

Adele to take break from music - for love

In the March cover feature of US Vogue magazine, Adele revealed she plans to take a five-year break from music to focus on her relationship with new boyfriend Simon Konecki.

"If I am constantly working, my relationships fail," the 23-year-old Grammy-winner told Vogue.

"So at least I can have time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch."

* James Gabrillo

Najwa Karam bejewelled in new music video

The Lebanese pop star Najwa Karam, considered Rotana's highest paid singer and credited as a multi-platinum, best-selling recording artist, filmed key scenes of her latest video at the Mouawad jewellery boutique in downtown Beirut, as well as the brand's store in the Grand Hill Hotel in Beirut's Broummana district.

The singer wore a necklace and cocktail ring from the organically inspired Lava Collection released by the jewellery house. The video is for the single Law Bas Ta'arif (If Only You Knew) from her 19th studio album, Hal Leile ... MaFi Noum, released last year.

The video is currently airing on Rotana channels.

* Hala Khalaf

Justin Theroux opens up about Jennifer Aniston

Known to value his privacy, Justin Theroux finally commented on his relationship with Jennifer Aniston, but wouldn't elaborate.

The 40-year-old actor said in the latest issue of New York magazine: "I understand the curiosity, but other than saying I am happy, I am not going to indulge it. That's building your own torture device."

Theroux and Aniston met on the set of the new film Wanderlust and have been dating since May 2011.

* James Gabrillo