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| Lawsuit accuses Fox News of copyright infringement LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former adviser to Michael Jackson sued Fox News on Thursday for copyright infringement, claiming the cable channel aired portions of an interview with the singer's ex-wife without proper payment or permission.... hosted.ap.org |
New direction for La Roux follow-up La Roux’s second album will have a different sound to their first. breakingnews.ie |
Did I say that? | Stephen Baldwin, actor and evangelist, 43 Stephen Baldwin, actor and evangelist, 43OPENING HIS TWITTER ACCOUNT Yo Homeys! Stevie B here. I am The Poster Boy for Traditional Marriage (2009)ON HIS CALLINGI used to be trouble to the Kingdom, now I'm trouble for the Kingdom. I'm having fun. And I'm only just getting going (2008)DISMISSING A BOOK RECOMMENDATION BY A FELLOW AIRPLANE PASSENGERWhen I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books (2007)TO BONOYou'd do far more good if you just preached the gospel of Jesus rather than trying to get rid of Third World debt relief [sic] (2005)ON GAY MARRIAGEWhat's next? Will a woman marry her German Shepherd? Twenty years ago, the US mainstream considered gay marriage just as wrong and misguided as a woman marrying her dog (2006)ON HIS PAST DEBAUCHERY AND DRUG USEAll that was the will of the Lord so I could stand here [testifying] today (2007)ON DECLARING HE'D PERSONALLY PHOTOGRAPH AND PUBLISH IMAGES OF THE PATRONS OF A LOCAL SEX SHOPIt's the only way to protect us against these pigs (2006)ON THE 2008 ELECTIONI believe John McCain is going to be the next president of the United Straights [sic]… If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country (2008)ON TRUTHIf someone pointed a machine gun at my daughter and said: "Say 'Jesus doesn't exist'" and if she turned to me and asked: "What do I do?", I'd say: "What have I taught you to do?" And she'd say: "Jesus absolutely exists." And I'd see her in heaven (2010) ON DARWINEvolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here? (2010)ON CHILDHOOD BULLYING BY HIS BROTHERSMost of it I honestly really can't talk about. I've recuperated quite well. Daniel was the most Hannibal Lecter (2007)ON STEPHANIE BEACHAMI'm a married man, for 20 years. I, I, I can't help myself. I shouldn't say this, but wow! I think I have a crush on Stephanie (2010)ON TALKING WITH GODNot a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as "Dude", but he's doing a new thing with me (2005)John Hindguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Toy Story 2 is so different to me now that I am a father Almost anything sad in cinema makes me cry, but watching the cowgirl toy Jessie sing Randy Newman's When She Loved Me again gave me a particularly painful epiphanyThis week, Toy Story 2 is coming back out in cinemas in 3D as a curtain-raiser to the forthcoming release of Toy Story 3. This is the time to return to the endlessly fascinating subject of crying in cinemas, because TS2 contains what for me is the most lethally tear-jerking moment in any film: it is Randy Newman's song When She Loved Me, performed by the cowgirl toy Jessie, remembering how her owner forgot about her as she grew into her girly-teenage years. Go ahead. Watch it now. I dare you.If you can stay dry-eyed, then you have a heart of stone.Almost anything sad in cinema makes me cry, a tendency which is getting worse as I get older.At the Disney/Pixar animation Up, during the now famous montage showing elderly Mr Fredricksen's lonely, childless-widower existence, I cried so much my entire body was transformed into a gooey, semi-liquid papier-mache installation composed of 800 sopping Kleenexes.Recently, I wrote about the experience of taking my five-year-old son Dominic to see Up, to find how my perception of the movie was altered in a child's presence.Watching When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2 again now, as a father of a young child, was even more devastating. It gave me what I can only describe as an intense personal epiphany, a sense that I was understanding the terrible truth about that song for the first time. When I first saw it in 2000, I had no children. Re-reading that review I see that I thought that "Toy Story 2 conjures a brilliant dilemma out of nowhere, making the toys' dependent relationship with children a disturbing analogy to children's fearful relationship with adults. It enacts the child's deepest fear of abandonment, weakness and vulnerability". Well, that's what I thought at the time: that Jessie's song was about the child afraid of being abandoned by the adult.Now, as a parent, the truth has hit me full in the face. I got it the wrong way around. Jessie's song is about the adult's fear of being abandoned by the child. Your kids will play happily with you while they are babies and toddlers, but they grow up. They don't want to play and be cuddled. They will change and outgrow you. Of course, your relationship with your children has to change; as they become adults it becomes more rewarding. But never again will it have that complete innocent playfulness, and a part of you will wind up, like cowgirl Jessie, left under the child's bed, forgotten.Is that too much of a "dark" reading of this moment? I don't know. But I have a weird feeling that I will have to revisit almost every film I have ever seen as a pre-parent, to see how it has changed.FamilyAnimationPeter Bradshawguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Roberts to front cosmetics campaign Julia Roberts is the new face of Lancome. breakingnews.ie |