McGregor Launches Tribeca Film Festival

Star Wars hunk Ewan McGregor and pop supremo Bono have launched this year's
(03) Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

The duo were joined by festival creator Robert De Niro in downtown
Manhattan for the event yesterday (06MAY03).

During the next nine days the festival will screen over 200 feature films,
shorts, documentaries and host a free concert starring Norah Jones and ROBBIE
WILLIAMS.

Bono expressed his admiration for the city - which is still feeling the
effects of September 11 (01) - which he fell in love with after watching movies
set there.

He says, "It was the cultural power of New York city that turned an
Irishman like me living a long way away in Dublin into a fan."