News Archive for March 07 2008

Lisa Marie Presley pregnant with twins - report

Lisa Marie Presley - the daughter of late music legend Elvis Presley - is pregnant with twins, it has been claimed.

Parker Posey On 'The Return of Jezebel James'

BuzzSugar has posted a great interview with Parker Posey about her new show "The Return of Jezebel James":

Ex-model Waris Dirie found in Belgium

Police on Friday found Waris Dirie, three days after the Somali-born model who launched a worldwide campaign against female genital mutilation had vanished.

Paranoid Park

My memories of Paranoid Park, the latest high school head trip from Gus Van Sant (Last Days) are fuzzy at best. But rather than skip a review because I saw the movie months ago at the New York Film Festival, why not acknowledge that Van Sant's recent forays into art cinema sometimes feel fuzzy even as you're watching them. So discuss it I shall. Pardon [...]

Margaret Thatcher taken to hospital

Baroness Margaret Thatcher has reportedly been taken to hospital for "precautionary tests".

Shooting near South Holland elementary school leaves 1 man dead, 1 wounded

No children hurt, officials say

One man was shot to death and another man was wounded near a South Holland elementary school Thursday afternoon, but school officials said children were never in any danger.

Former Tory Foreign Secretary Francis Pym Dies

Former Tory Foreign Secretary Lord Francis Pym has died after a prolonged illness.

THE ANGEL OF DEATH: Snow Angels

God bless David Gordon Green, and his new picture Snow Angels. Since his first feature, George Washington, and on through his subsequent works (All The Real Girls and Undertow) Green has been doing his best to give working class folk a place in the cinematic landscape that is free of judgment, condescension or romanticism. Snow Angels, his fourth feature, [...]

Disabled boy, carer feared drowned

TASMANIAN authorities hold little hope of finding a disabled teenager and his carer alive after the pair disappeared in treacherous seas off a beach south of Hobart.