Sunday, 25 May 2008

Woody Allen - Allen Defends Set Location Of Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Director WOODY ALLEN has defended his decision to shoot his latest movie VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA in Spain, insisting he would have filmed in any European city, had he been offered the opportunity.

The 72-year-old filmmaker has come under attack from local officials in Barcelona, who claimed he had received 1 million euros ($1.6 million/GBP800,000) from the city's administration towards the funding of the project - which stars Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson.

But, speaking at the movie's premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday (17May08), he denied the allegations, admitting he would have filmed in any European city, had he been approached to do so.

He says, "People from (distribution company Mediapro in) Barcelona called and said if I was interested in making a film there, they would finance it, so I said, 'Sure'. If someone had called me from Rome or Venice or Stockholm or God knows where, I probably would have agreed to it just as readily.

"But this was a golden opportunity for me, because I happen to have a particular fondness for a number of cities in Spain, and Barcelona certainly is one of my favorites."

However, Allen admits there is one destination in Europe he would never return to, after a bad experience in St. Petersburg, Russia, when the city was formerly known as Leningrad.

He recalls, "I was planning on being there for five days, and I was there for about two hours, and I went to the travel agent in town and I said, 'Get me the first reservation out of here. I don't care where it goes.'

"I had a terrible, terrible time there, and I haven't been back since then. And I'm told that it's greatly changed since then, but it would take a lot, because I'm a fearful traveler, and it would take a lot to get me back to Russia."




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Thursday, 22 May 2008

Jerry Cole

Jerry Cole   
Artist: Jerry Cole

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   



Discography:


Surf Age   
 Surf Age

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 31




Throughout the '60s and , guitarist/songwriter Jerry Kale worked with about of the well-nigh big talents in rock 'n' roll up, including Them, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, and as a session humankind in Phil Spector's "Razing Work party." With his possess group the Spacemen, Kale released 4 albums of space old age graze music in hardly over deuce long time, beginning with 1963's Outer Limits. As the '60s progressed, Kail worked on roger Huntington Sessions for the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man"/"I Knew I'd Want You" unmarried and Them's 1965 self-titled album. He teamed up with Roger McGuinn formerly more in 1972 for McGuinn's debut solo malefactor record, and session act with Roger Miller, Regurgitate Leslie Howard Stainer and Susie Allanson sent him in a country-rock deputation. Cole's work with the Spacemen was collected in the 1999 Sundazed compilation Power Channel-surf! The Charles Herbert Best of Krauthead Kail & His Spacemen.






Thursday, 1 May 2008

Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25

Actor Brad Renfro dead at 25



Brad Renfro, the thomas Young role player best known for his role in the legal thriller 'The Client', has died. He was 25.
Reuters reports that Renfro was launch dead in Los Angeles on Monday.
Los Angeles County Coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said that Renfro's cause of expiry was under investigating.
He said: "I canful confirm that Brad Barron Renfro is decedent. He was institute unresponsive in a residence... Paramedics responded and he was pronounced dead at 9am (Pacific Time)."
Renfro, whose other films included 'The Jacket', 'Ghost World', 'Bully' and 'Apt Pupil', had battled drug problems in holocene years and pleaded guilty in 2006 to charges of trying to buy diacetylmorphine.
After entering his guilty plea he was ordered into a dose treatment program and placed on probation for trey age.