Biopic's chief subject has threatened legal action
TORONTO -- Despite a legal threat from the spy drama's main subject, the world premiere of Kari Skogland's "Fifty Dead Men Walking" at the Toronto International Film Festival will go ahead as planned, the film's British co-producers aforesaid Tuesday.
"In response to reports in The Hollywood Reporter, the film's partners have confirmed that any queries relating to the legitimacy of the film are idle and that due process has been followed throughout the product," London-based Future Films and HandMade Films International aforementioned in a joint statement.
The festival all-clear follows the biopic's main topic, former IRA infiltrator Martin McGartland, heavy legal action last workweek in a bid to stop the Toronto fete bow on the grounds that his rights ar being infringed.
Skogland adapted McGartland's 1998 book of the same name, which portrays an IRA mole named Marty who provides information to Britain's Special Branch before his insure is blown.
The films' producers said that, while they optioned McGartland's autobiography and "Dead Men" is based on his life account, it "is not a representation of Mr. McGartland's life."
Skogland and her cast, which includes Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess and Kevin Zegers, will be on hand for the Sept. 10 Toronto festival bow at Roy Thomson Hall.
McGartland, who remains in hiding because of fears of IRA retribution, was unavailable for scuttlebutt at press time.
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Tuesday 2 September 2008
Saturday 23 August 2008
Ll Cool J Denies Denies Marriage Trouble
Rapper LL Cool J has denied reports his marriage is in difficulty.
The star recently historied his 13-year wedding day of remembrance with Simone Johnson and insists their marriage is still strong.
He tells U.S
Wednesday 13 August 2008
Burger King employee bathes on the job
That sinking feeling feeling
Burger guy's bath
A video posted on Myspace.com shows an employee of a Burger King in Xenia, Ohio, pickings a bath in a kitchen sink as other employees front on or continue working. "It's my birthday and I'm pickings a bath in the sink at Burger King," the riant, tattooed worker tells the camera. "Somebody bring me a beer!" Greene County Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell is not amused. "It's a sophomoric, childish stunt," McDonnell said Tuesday. Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said, "All employees associated with the video no longer work with the company."
Worth a try
A closer look
A isle of Man suspected of posing as a constabulary detective in Longmont, Colo., and apprisal an adult novelty stag to give him relinquish X-rated videos so he could match for underage performers was arrested Tuesday, authorities said.
Update
Hayes had stroke
Soul singer Isaac Hayes, 65, apparently died of a stroke, officials with the Memphis, Tenn., Sheriff's Department said Tuesday. No autopsy was performed, but paperwork filed by Hayes' fellowship physician, Dr. David Kraus, lists the cause of death as a stroke, a sheriff's spokesman aforementioned. Kraus said he had been treating Hayes for high blood pressure.
Passages
Lee Young, 94, brother of notable tenor saxophonist Lester Young and a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical theater director for well-nigh a tenner and skint barriers as one of the first black musicians hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, died July 31 at his home in Los Angeles.
Today in History
1521: Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
1846: The American flag was elevated for the first time in Los Angeles.
1889: William Gray of Hartford, Conn., received a patent for a coin-operated telephone.
1960: The showtime two-way phone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1.
1961: Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors and began building a wall in holy Order to stop the flight of refugees.
Today's Birthdays
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 82. Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, 75. Opera singer Kathleen Battle, 60. Actor Danny Bonaduce, 49. Actress Dawnn Lewis, 47. Actor John Slattery, 46.
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Wednesday 6 August 2008
Thursday 19 June 2008
Fridrik Karlsson
Artist: Fridrik Karlsson
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Harmony
Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
A New Day
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Spiritual Fitness Into The Light
Year: 1998
Tracks: 8
River Of Life
Year: 1998
Tracks: 9
Daughter of an American Gangster
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Thursday 5 June 2008
Crowpath
Artist: Crowpath
Genre(s):
Metal: Thrash
Metal: Doom
Discography:
Son Of Sulphur
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Red On Chrome
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Sean Combs - Combs Cassie Rekindle Romance In Nyc
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Alex Cartana
Artist: Alex Cartana
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Lost Ur Mind
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Ledger's death is ruled accidental
Wednesday 7 May 2008
Spice Girls 'sorry' over cutting tour short
Spice Girls 'sorry' over cutting tour short
The Spice Girls have apologised for cutting their world turn short afterward receiving critique from their fans.
The chemical group previously blamed "family commitments" for the tour ending originally than scheduled merely media reports suggested that the members were fight with from each one other.
The Spice Girls lately cancelled dates in Australia, South Africa, China and Argentina.
Mel C said: "In that respect has been a lot of scrap in the media over the last few years so we wanted you to hear it from the horse's mouth."
"We're real sorry not to be able to get to completely the places we wanted to," she said.
Victoria Beckham added: "Our kids indigence to go back to school and we ever said our families are our priorities. Sorry we haven't got to see everybody."
Geri Halliwell said: "The tour's gone actually thirster than we anticipated. We thinking we were going to go with single gig, that's how it started - then we planned until the end of Jan, and and then we actually extended it."
Mel B addressed rumours of a rift in the camp by locution: "We hate to each one other? Ar you kidding? We love life apiece other."
Randy Travis
Saturday 26 April 2008
Thursday 24 April 2008
Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis
Artist: Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
Deeper Love (Freakx Bros Remixes)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 3
Monday 21 April 2008
Saturday 19 April 2008
Kooks bassist quits band for good
Kooks bassist quits band for good
The Kooks take permanently parted shipway with bass player Max Rafferty.
Rafferty had antecedently spent several periods away from the radical because of malady, just he has now left the Brighton stone chemical group for commodity, according to his bandmates.
He will be replaced by Qat the Dog's bassist Dan Mount Logan on a temp basis.
No intellect for Rafferty's leaving has been given by The Kooks.
A statement from the circle said: "Easy lay Rafferty has parted ship's company with The Kooks - the banding will be continuing with the forthcoming shows. Dan Mount Logan, bassist with local Brighton ring Cat the Dog-iron, volition be filling in for the short-term."
The Kooks are presently preparing for the firing of their second album 'Konk' on 14 April, which is the follow-up to their staggeringly successful debut 'Inside In/Inside Out'.
Friday 18 April 2008
MARIAH CAREY
MARIAH CAREY
E=MC (Island): B+
Mimi is a long way from her “Vision of Love” roots. That’s non necessarily a badly thing. An artist moldiness evolve to stay electric current with the young and the fickle, and Carey successfully does it on her 11th studio album, a combination of club-ready tracks, breathy appeals, amusing Mariahisms and her signature song tumbling.
The phylogeny of Mariah (and The Emancipation of Mariah Carey to the Second Power) means that the 38-year-old champion is neither a one-dimensional pop famous person nor soulful confessionist. Mariah 2K8 creates a mood preferably than overwhelming with veer mightiness; she gets personal without disclosure besides often.
As on her previous “The Emancipation of Mimi,” Mariah relies on pop smell with an urban tilt. T-Pain, Young Jeezy and Damien Bob Marley are onboard, and beat generation come good manners of Jermaine Dupri, Danja, Tricky Jimmy Stewart, Bryan-Michael Cox, Scott Storch, DJ Toomp and Swizz Beatz. Though fans seem to feed up her midtempo ballads, to a fault many of them find like a variation on the saami strain. The hip-hop-inspired tracks prove the strongest, oblation more lip than pure psyche.
Download: “Side Effects.”
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
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