Acting Up
29/04/06 11:59 Filed in: First
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in February, actors starring in Michael
Winterbottom's politically-charged
The Road To Guantanamo were
held by British police under anti-terrorism
legislation on their return from Berlin where the
film premiered. One of the actors, Rizwan
Ahmed, said
he was verbally
abused, had his mobile phone was taken away, told
he could be kept in police custody for up to
48 hours without access to a lawyer. He also claims
a police officer asked him if he planned to star in
any more "political films".
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News Junkie
28/04/06 11:58 Filed in: First
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If
you’re a news junkie and you’re working at home and
so you listen to the news at intervals during the
day, you can sometimes see it evolving, from the
moment a fresh item first arrives until it’s been
properly incorporated into the ideological agenda.
This happened last Monday with a press conference
by Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, except that they
couldn’t quite cope... Read
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Bach in the slums
11/04/06 11:56 Filed in: First
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This is what they get up to in Venezuela... and
Washington's scared... Read
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Detroit sold for scrap
05/04/06 11:55 Filed in: First
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An event that didn't quite happen
05/04/06 11:54 Filed in: First
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Been to see 'Greenwich Degree Zero', the
installation by Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy at
the
Beaconsfield Gallery
in London (and later, Rod tells me, in various
other venues), which reconstructs an event in 1894
when a French anarchist was killed when the bomb he
was carrying detonated outside the Royal
Observatory in Greenwich. Except that in this
version, he also succeeds in blowing up the
Observatory, which he didn't achieve in 1894
(assuming that's what he was aiming to do).
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