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When it was announced that Lindsay Lohan would be playing Elizabeth Taylor in a Lifetime movie Liz amp; Dick, not everybody was entirely on board. And now that Lohan has told THR that the casting is official, there is bound to be an onslaught of opposition.Sure, Taylor is a timelessly iconic figure in show business history. And no, Lohans name doesnt call for quite the same reverence. But, whether or not some fans want to admit it, there are quite a few similarities between Cleopatra and Cady Heron. So much so that Lohan could very well be the most fitting choice to play Taylor. Heres why:

They Were Both Child Actors
Both Taylor and Lohan started their careers young. Super young, actually. By the age of 11, Taylor was already reaching star status thanks to her role in Lassie Come Home. At around the same age, Lohan earned attention for The Parent Trap, the movie many fans sigh wistfully thinking about, feeling all Holden Caulfield-y about the inevitable death of innocence.

They Both Had/Have a Lot of Relationships
From 1950 to 1996, Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times to seven different men; she married actor Richard Burton twice — their romance is the focal story of the Lifetime movie in question. Marriage is an avenue Lohan has yet to traverse, but she is no stranger to the idea of multiple (and highly publicized) romances. Among Lohans noteworthy love affairs include Wilmer Valderrama, Samantha Ronson and hotel magnate Vikram Chatwal.

They Have Both Battled Drug Abuse
Taylor opened up about an addiction to painkillers for which she underwent rehab twice in the 1980s. Lohans exploits with drugs and alcohol, and her respective attempts at rehabilitation, are nothing the public isnt wellaware of.

Theyre Both Big Stars
Be it good or bad, Lindsay Lohan and Liz Taylor have reputations that far supersede those of their peers. To be a Hollywood icon is to be a larger than life figure. Whether the star in question earns this from her on screen roles or her off screen misadventures almost doesnt matter. America is a culture that loves fame. People loved to talk about, to hear about and to watch Liz Taylor, and they feel just the same about Lindsay Lohan.

Sure, Lohan gets a bad rap for her destructive behavior, but people forget that the actress was far from incapable when it comes to handling a well-written role. Hopefully, Lohans notoriety from here on out will come attached to her talent, and not drug abuse or other off screen antics. Perhaps shell learn a thing or two by taking on the character of the great Liz Taylor.

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 Bosnian actor Goran Kostic who plays Danijel in director Angelina Jolie’s film In the Land of Blood and Honey.Photograph by: ELVIS BARUKCIC
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In the Land of Blood and Honey

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

In her directorial debut, Hollywood superstar and United Nations humanitarian Angelina Jolie goes to Sarajevo to tell a tale of love and rape and brutality set against the backdrop of the 1990s Bosnian War. With a bigger budget but local actors, it’s as earnest and feminist as The Whistleblower, that other recent Bosnian-sex-slave thriller, where Rachel Weisz played a UN police officer who stumbles onto a human-trafficking ring after the war. In Jolie’s movie, Rade ?erbed?ija (who was Gregorovitch in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) plays a Bosnian Serb paramilitary commander whose son, Danijel (British-based Goran Kosti?) is having an illicit affair with one of his prisoners, a beautiful young Bosnian Muslim painter named Ajla (Zana Marjanovi?) that he’d fallen in love with before the war. It’s plausible, but only just. Unusually, the dual-format (Blu-ray/DVD) edition from Montreal distributor Alliance Films is two slightly different movies: the Blu-ray is the version shot with the actors speaking in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian (with English or French subtitles), while the DVD is them doing the same scenes again in English (with the same choice of subtitles) – it’s quite fascinating to toggle back and forth and compare, like watching a bilingual acting class. Extras include deleted scenes, a making-of and, on the Blu-ray, a Q&A that Jolie and one of her lead actresses recorded online. Jeff Heinrich

1900 (Blu-ray)

Rating: 4 out of 5

Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Burt Lancaster, Alida Valli and Dominique Sanda star in Bernardo Bertolucci’s sprawling 1976 epic that chronicles the loves, hates and politics of Italy’s first half the 1900s. Both born as the century began, the characters played by De Niro and Depardieu are social opposites whose lives intertwine: the former is born into riches on the family estate, the latter into poverty as a peasant. We follow them through the First and Second World Wars, through communism and fascism, through love affairs and marriages and families of their own. As the villainous fascist of the piece, Sutherland’s character is most remembered for gleefully crushing a cat to death; De Niro and Depardieu, for their part, are memorably masturbated by a prostitute; Lancaster, as the padrone, gets off not-so-lightly with an underage girl in a barn. The movie’s not for the faint-of-heart, though its theatrics – lensed by Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now) and scored by Ennio Morricone (The Mission) – might seem over-the-top even to modern audiences. The three-disc edition by Olive Films presents the film in its original two-part, five-hour version, with optional English subtitles and the usual awkward sounding English/Italian/French dubs – with such an international cast, there’s no clear best one to watch. Paramount gave us much the same with its excellent budget-priced DVD in 2006, but the Olive set improves on image and sound and has a different extra: an hour-long 2002 Italian documentary on the director’s career. JH

Lifeboat

Rating: 4 out of 5

In 1944, Alfred Hitchcock took a film treatment by John Steinbeck, fashioned it into a working script, cast the indomitable Tallulah Bankhead in the lead role as a journalist and, much like he’d do later in Rope and Dial ‘M’ for Murder, set the action in a single location – in this case, an ocean-liner lifeboat that’s been cast adrift after a German submarine attack. The result was a superior kind of war propaganda movie that mixed thrills and wry comedy with a potent political message: never trust the enemy, even when he’s down. Last issued on DVD in 2005, Lifeboat has now been boosted to a dual-format Blu-ray/DVD edition by the curators of Masters of Cinema, a speciality label of the Eureka! distribution house in Britain. (If you have a multi-region player, you can watch it; otherwise, you’re out of luck.) Besides improved picture and sound, the movie now overflows with extras. The big news for Hitchcock fans are two obscure French-language propaganda dramatic shorts the director made during the war; titled Bon voyage and Aventure malgache, they last about half an hour each. There’s also a 36-page book of essays and photos. JH

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Original source article: New on DVD: 1900 (Blu-ray), Lifeboat, In the Land of Blood and Honey   

In the first three months of this year, Gujarat saw 577 children go missing. The police have so far managed to locate only half of them.

An elaborate list of missing children (below 18 years) released by the state police on Saturday listed 12 major reasons behind the rising number of such cases. While, ?children who went missing without informing anyone? topped the list for the year 2012, those involved in ?love affairs? come a close second. Scolding, failure in exams and mental disability are some of the other reasons.

According to the data for the year 2011, a total of 1,848 children were reported missing in the state, of which 1,552 were found, while the remaining 296 are yet to be traced. Here too, the causes said by the police remain the same.

Further, the police are yet to locate 10,678 people (including children) who have gone missing since 2007. This include 2,670 children and 8,008 adults. The number of missing girls and women are more than their counterparts.

Last month, the director general of police Chitranjan Singh had issued a circular stating that incidents of children going missing would be supervised by the deputy superintendent of police, superintendent of police and range inspector general of police.

The data of missing children/adults as per each police station in the state made public is part of an directive issued by the Gujarat High Court in this regard. New directives will also be issued by the police department to investigate the cases pertaining to missing persons.

I have witnessed truth being obstructed, reality twisted and bad reigning over goodwill. I have seen families built, destroyed and mended. What intrigues me is how we can exploit reality to have our way.

Spouses would agree with in -community of property and have extramarital affairs with full knowledge that whatever happens in marriage their asserts may not be affected. That choice now can  breed a good environment for adultery when it should nourish love.

Technology in the likes of cellular phones and the net are sometimes misused to perpetrate infidelity through abuse of the secret PIN.

Lovers tend to demand some independence or some space at times, only to engage in love affairs with other partner(s) during those times. Restrooms and hotel rooms are meant to solve the problem of lack of accommodation especially for travellyvhkers but such facilities are often abused by people who have accommodation to meet their secret lovers there, even during lunch hours.

On Sundays there is plenty of movement of people to and from churches, only to realize that some of these people were drinking alcohol at a party, bar or night club the previous days or are cheating their partners in the church. Some are well known muti-users, marriage-wreckers, smokers, cheats or perhaps they are in search of more brutality or just looking for a preacher to stand during their funeral.

The word “uncle “has metamorphosed in to smokescreen anonymous yet heartless man. The same would be said of the word “colleague,” those are nouns  that should worry you the most these days.

I have seen spouses neglecting each other in their lifetime only to show how they are capable of love after death of the other spouse. I have seen patience and sanity evaporating from loyal women and men resulting in murder, cheating and melancholy. In this world there is too much dishonesty and faithlessness that we have accepted as normal and never really frown on. Where is the religious and matrimonial sacradity? Many people seem to be ready for fun, fun and fun.

Some would say a woman cheats to fill a void in her heart and a man cheats just for sex but to me both are self- serving, capitalistic and confused, whatever reason that may be. A woman does not need money to be faithful and a man does not need sex to be faithful, to be faithful they both need conscience (letswalo); otherwise bowing out should be simple.

According to the web each of most of the married couples sampled agree to have cheated at least once in their marriage. It is further revealed that cheating married men use to stand at around 50% to 60 % and cheating women at around one third but now women figures have risen to around the level of male cheaters.

Cheaters exploit opportunity; I guess with the advent of women empowerment opportunities for married women to cheat became open.

Throughout human existence men have always had a plethora of opportunities to cheat. Now any place is a potential  opportunity for all of us to cheat such as at church, driving school, work, social media, travelling, sport and particularly night vigil.

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BMW owners are more likely to have an extra-marital affairs, according to a recent survey.

UK-based dating website Illicit Encounters conducted a survey among its 640,000 members and announced 19.21 percent of male BMW owners have admitted of being unfaithful to their partners, reported by carsguide.com.au.

Theres an intrinsic link between success and cheating. Successful people are often risk-takers and have got to where they are by setting their standards high. However, these people are also less likely to settle for unsatisfying relationships or monotony, said Rosie Freeman-Jones, spokesperson for Illicit Encounters.

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Audi came in second with 8.79 percent, followed by Mercedes, 8.23 percent, Jaguar, 6.5 percent, and Land Rover, 4.94 percent.

The survey was under the heading of Stuff We Dont Need To Know But Will Read Anyway.

From quirky regulars to wisened store clerks and part-time jobs paid in vinyl. How Beatdown Records started my love affair with records…

I first came across Beatdown Records (or Steel Wheels if you’re a little older) during my first year at university in Newcastle. I had caught the ‘record bug’ several weeks earlier when I was introduced to the geeky delights of vinyl by my friend Stuart whom I met on my first day in the city. Bonding over a shared love of Belle and Sebastian and slightly arty European looking girls that were always too good for us. From the off I was fascinated by the black discs scattered around his room, everything from their smell to their artwork and the static crackle they made on his tiny turntable. Before long I had stumped up some money and got my own record player and quickly threw myself into scouring charity shops for music to add to my collection.

It wasn’t long before we discovered the delights of Beatdown Records. A stone’s throw away from the university campus, we had chanced upon the place whilst taking a short cut down the kind of alley that was only really good for midnight pissing and scoring crack. Stepping across the threshold of the shop you were immediately greeted with a room covered in a mosaic of CDs covering every genre imaginable. The airwaves usually being ruptured by the sharp burst of some DIY punk or metal band.

Walking to the very far side of this room was a rickety stair case that had probably not seen a lick of paint since the 80s and was as steep as it was fragile. After braving the stairs you were immediately greeted with a room straight from the mind of Nick Hornby. Rows upon endless rows of vinyl records stacked into the most expansive (and arguably most complicated) order known to man. There were rows of metal, punk, folk, pop, jazz trance, funk, funk trance, jazz trance funk fusion metal, stretching right the way around the entire shop. Often spilling into the flooring space beneath the shelves. Walking further into the room you would be hit square in the face with some eclectic music that you’d never heard of but my god you wanted it – closely followed by the smell. A scent that I can only really describe as that of my Grandmothers attic and a Yorkshire working man’s club just before the turn comes on. It was the scent of tradition and a nostalgic longing for times gone by.

Nick would offer us the choice of either being paid cash-in-hand £5 an hour or £7 an hour in the form of records.

Depending on the day you would find a mixture of people floating around the store, some casual passers-by, some regulars and some of whom seemed to be pretty much residents. A favourite would be a middle-aged man called John on the wrong end of senility, who would arrive like clockwork every Saturday at the same time. Strutting through the door with his collectors Elvis wristwatch and Elvis emblazoned bowling shirt he would march straight up to the counter and demand to see’ it.”It,’ was an apparently very rare Elvis live recording worth a considerable amount of money. John had been trying to buy the record unsuccessfully for several years for a fiver. I would watch each week as he would grasp it in his hands before declaring it a, ‘knock-off,’ and offer them, ‘a fiver or nowt,’ in his thick Geordie accent. Each week the owner Nick would gracefully decline his offer followed by John storming from the shop in a mist of profanities. From what I can gather the LP is thus far, still unsold.

Nick was a man with a constant glint in his eye who got no greater delight than introducing you to some aged band that had somehow changed his world. If ever there was a man who was put on this earth to sell records it was Nick. His partner in crime, Paul, was a man that had an almost psychic ability to deduce your taste in music. While Sherlock Homes would read your composure to discover your crimes, in the same way Paul could watch your walk and face to know even your guiltiest of listening pleasures. In the blink of an eye he would be able to tell you whether you were looking for a rare Big Star 7inch or a Three Degrees compilation and either way, he would never judge.

After hanging around the shop for weeks on end whenever we had any spare money we eventually convinced Nick to give Stuart a job holding a sign in the street for Beatdown. Through sleet, snow and blistering sun Stu would set up a chair on Northumberland Street with his ‘Beatdown This Way’ sign, every Saturday between 9am and 3pm. Occasionally I would cover his shifts for him, though usually I would be by his side regardless, both of us dreaming of what we would buy when his shift finished. In return for such valiant services Nick would offer us the choice of either being paid cash-in-hand £5 an hour or £7 an hour in the form of records. We would always choose the records.

In my final year of uni the store re-located the majority of its stock to the far side of town and I didn’t get to visit it nearly enough, but I was always greeted with a nod, a smile and a new recommendation when I did pop in. Around this time I would find myself visiting the more accessible and equally as brilliant RPM Records just off of Grey Street and since then I have had love affairs with various other stores across the land. I will however, always remember Beatdown as the first record store that truly captured me.

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LIPA CITY While visiting Tanauan City to grace the Chess Tournament, Senator Francis Chiz Escudero took time out Monday to host lunch for the Calabarzon media here and shared his views on a number of pressing issues at the Hotel La Corona de Lipa.

In a light banter with Calabarzon media, Senator Escudero asked: Sino ba, si Nora, si Vilma o si Dolphy?

He declined to name his choice on the National Artist on neutral ground because Nora Aunor is a kababayan, and that he happened to be a guest here in Lipa City under Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto whose spouse is a Senate colleague.

After eliciting laughter from the media, the Senator opined that declaring a National Artist does not require a law because the mechanics and selection process are already in place through the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

Short of calling it absurd, the lawmaker said that submitting a National Artist nominee through a legislative process is not appropriate, since bestowing such distinction to the countrys respected artists is an executive function.

When asked on the Senate impeachment trial, Escudero felt discomfort not by the proceedings for hours but in donning the impeachment robe. He pointed to Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago as the principal author on the idea of the senator-judges wardrobe.

We only have one set of that and we have to turn over the robe every Friday for dry cleaning. Initially, we were told to wear the judicial robe during the opening rites. But, from then on, we have to wear that every trial date, Escudero said.

Kidding aside, Senator Escudero said the Senate adheres to its Constitutional mandate on the impeachment trial and expects to wrap up its proceedings by June 5. After that, we can buckle down to our legislative work, the solon said.

Despite sensitivities surrounding the Reproductive Health bill, Escudero believed that with or without the law, any President is empowered to enforce the provisions stipulated in the proposed RH legislation.

The Senator disclosed that all of the provisions in the proposed bill are in fact already implemented by the government.

He explained that the objective of the RH bill is to institutionalize what government has already been doing.

He also expressed reservations for the RH laws eventual implementation owing to the fact that more than P 500 billion funding for the law has not been realized.

The Senator also said the bill has already reached four versions. Although, he still seeks three satisfactory conditions before throwing in his support for the RH legislation.

Escudero said that a provision must clarify the parameters where government does not pry into the private affairs of the couple and has no business to dictate upon the couples strictly private matters and prerogative as a matter of right.

He continued that he is against the teaching of sex education in schools lower than 1st year high school and found the proposals in the bill to include Grade 3 as inappropriate.

The legislator also said government can act like a saleslady and not as a salesman.

He meant government can only act when sought for assistance likened to a passive saleslady rather than take on a salesmans active job to trade their wares, especially contraceptives.

He proposed however the governments readiness to help and educate couples on their informed choices, recommend alternatives and offer advice.

As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice, Escudero also reported that his committee has already passed at the plenary the bill to decriminalize libel.

He described the outdated libel law as a form of suppressing freedom of expression not only among mediamen but also for the ordinary citizens.

He added that the Justice Committee also passed the bill raising the penalty for crimes by inflicting harm or murder on any member of the media profession where such offenses are committed relating to the media persons work or occupation.

Escudero however excluded cases involving money or love affairs. He said murder or assassination considered as heinous crime exact graver penalties from reclusion temporal to reclusion perpetua without benefit of parole.

If physical injuries are committed, the proposed bill raises the penalty one grade higher and treats the physical harm as aggravating circumstances for violation of the press freedom guaranteed by the Constitution.

Escudero said these legislations serve as a deterrent for anyone who curtails the exercise of freedom of the press and the media job.

Self-serving pag kayo din ang magpu-push. Ginagawa din naman namin ang trabaho namin covered man o hindi ng media, Escudero stressed as the principal author of the two pending bills in the Senate.(PNA)

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Daijiworld Media Network – Lucknow

Lucknow, Sep 22: The City of Taj which boasts of monument of Love is not kind to lovers. Irked over the affair, parents strangulated their own daughter after she refused to mend her ways in Agra district on Thursday.

In anther incident which also smells of honour killing, bodies of two youths and a girl were found hanging from a mango tree in Sitapur district around 100 kms from Lucknow on Thursday.

In the first incident, Babita, a resident of Loriyapur village in Agra developed an inclination with another youths of same village. Against her parents wishes she decided to marry her. This infuriated her parents who strangulated her and later cremated her body on the outskirts of the village. Police reached the scene when the girls body was turned into ashes. Though a case has been registered, police
is yet to arrest any of the parents.

In the second incident at Sitapur, primary reports hinted that they had been murdered and their bodies were hanged later to pass of the incident as a suicide. All the three deceased are in their early 30s suggesting a love affair leading to their murder. The bodies still remained unidentified with local police making efforts to ascertain their identity. The bodies were hung at a low height and the feet of
one of them touched the ground. It suggests that they were murdered elsewhere and later hung so that it could pass off as a suicide, said Special DG Brijlal in Lucknow on Thursday.

UP has an ugly history of honour killing where the parents and kins do not hesitate to murder their own sons and daughters if they are inclined towards opposite sex. Love marriage is still considered a taboo while eloping is treated as a dishonour for the whole village.

Many love birds have lost their lives to this medieval mindset in the state. Ironically the whole village supports such brutal action on part of family members and does not approve of love affairs.

The spate of honour killings had sent a wave of sensation across the state. A day before on Wednesday, a boy and girl were murdered in a similar fashion at Auraiyya district of the state.

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Barrymore isnt about Barrymore.

This piece is not me imitating John Barrymore, said star Keith Baker. It could be about anyone. Its about any person who wants to try one final thing to make a statement to be remembered by.

The play, Bristol Riverside Theatres first in its 25th season, isnt going to be the kind of one-man affair youre used to, said Baker.

There are no long speeches this play really moves. Its an incredibly beautiful set and full of wonderful music.

The William Luce script imagines the legendary John Barrymore in his final month of life, trying to make a go at mounting Richard III one last time. The infamous Shakespearean actor is no longer in his prime, and due to a longtime addiction to alcohol, he has trouble memorizing lines.

In Barrymore, the actors brought along a prompter to his rented theater space (a person who never physically appears onstage but whose voice plays an integral part in the story), and a couple of friends fittingly played by the audience.

In the course of Barrymores attempting to memorize his lines, he finds himself swept away by his virtually genetic predisposition for entertaining: telling stories, recounting love affairs and being generally charming.

Its mostly about his stories of his marriages and his family. He came from the great Barrymores and the great Drews and the stories have fantastic details the problem is he cant keep his mind on his lines. He was legendary in his wit, kindness and talent, but at the same time hes completely ruined.

We dont have a star like him today he was well-known for his talent hellip; but also for his drinking, said Baker.

Barrymore, however, is not a story about a broken alcoholic; quite the contrary, according to Baker. Continued…

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