People: Eastwood re-enacts France train terror attack for film 

People: Eastwood re-enacts France train terror attack for film

Film director Clint Eastwood, center, directs actors during the filming of "The 15:17 to Paris" in Arras, northern France on Friday. [AP / Michel Spingler]

ARRAS, France — Clint Eastwood is in France directing a film that re-enacts the dramatic end to an attempted Islamic State group attack on a high-speed train that saw three Americans take down the gunman.

After renting a Thalys train for five days of filming "The 15:17 to Paris," work was wrapping up in Arras, the town where the express ended up after Ayoub El Khazzani was overpowered by passengers, including the childhood friends from California. They received the Legion of Honor, France\'s highest decoration. Variety has reported that the friends will play themselves in the movie

 Friday\'s filming shut down two tracks in Arras. El Khazzani\'s lawyer has said the suspect in the August 2015 attack acted on orders from the leader of the IS cell that attacked Paris three months later.

NEW YORK — Prince didn\'t have an orange crush — purple was his favorite color, according to his half-sister Sharon Nelson.

Sharon Nelson says in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday that "contrary to what has been said, purple was and is Prince\'s color." Tyka Nelson, Prince\'s only full sibling, told the London Evening Standard in a story published Aug. 21 that though people associate purple with the singer, his favorite color was orange.

The news came as a shock since Prince, who died last year, regularly wore purple, was known as The Purple One and had massive success with "Purple Rain" — the song, soundtrack and film.

Sharon Nelson, Prince\'s eldest sibling, says though the late icon "was fond of many colors in the rainbow, he especially loved the color purple because it represented royalty." She also said "the color purple always made him feel Princely."

A shade of purple named for Prince was announced earlier this month. The "Purple Rain" hue created by the Pantone Color Institute was dubbed "Love Symbol #2," paying tribute to Prince\'s custom Yamaha piano and the squiggly graphic the singer began using as his name in 1993.

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