A Los Angeles judge gave Irish Hollywood star Colin Farrell hope earlier this week that he still might be able to block distribution of a sex tape he made with a former Playboy pinup girl.
The judge rejected arguments by Playboy Playmate of January 2002 Nicole Narain, who wanted Farrell's suit to block distribution of the tape dismissed, according to a court official.
Narain, then Farrell's girlfriend, said she has the legal right to copy and market the tape they made together three years ago, portions of which have shown up on the Internet in recent months.
Similar sex tapes involving personalities like Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton and Tom Sizemore have proven highly lucrative when marketed to the public.
Farrell, 29, a rising star with roles in Oliver Stone's Alexander and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report in his pocket, maintains that the two had agreed the tape would remain private, his lawyers said, and filed suit last July claiming violation of an oral contract and of his privacy.
Narain said as "co-producer" of the video she has the backing of copyright laws to make money by selling it.
Legendary Scottish actor Sean Connery sued a California golf club earlier this week for breach of contract, saying its managers cheated him out of more than US$500,000.
The former James Bond star joined the Sherwood Country Club of Thousand Oaks, a Los Angeles suburb, in 1990.
According to the lawsuit, Connery, 75, considered the US$35,000 dollars a year he was paying in dues an investment, and that he could recover 80 percent of it after three years, while the club's owners capitalized on his fame to attract new investors.
But the club refused to repay Connery when he canceled his membership in 2004, according to the suit filed by his lawyers in a Los Angeles court on Monday.
Oscar-winner George Clooney took a prominent US political commentator to task on Wednesday for posting on her Web site a blog made to look like it was written by the superstar.
Clooney denied writing the blog on Arianna Huffington's www.HuffingtonPost.com, which includes commentaries from celebrities, politicians and experts.
The blog turned out to be a compilation of remarks Clooney made in media interviews. The actor, a liberal, said he had given Huffington permission to use the quotes, but complained that they were made to look like his own blog.
"Miss Huffington's blog is purposefully misleading and I have asked her to clarify the facts," Clooney said in a statement. "I stand by my statements but I did not write this blog."
John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez have been offered starring roles in a big screen adaptation of the 1980's television series Dallas, the industry newspaper Variety reported Tuesday.
Travolta, star of Pulp Fiction and Get Shorty, has been asked to play the show's villain, J.R. Ewing, while Lopez has been offered the part of Ewing's wife, Sue Ellen, in a production being planned by 20th Century Fox, Variety said.
Luke Wilson has been proposed to portray Bobby Ewing, and Shirley MacLaine for the role of the family matriarch, Eleanor Ewing.
With production due to begin at the end of the year, Australian Robert Luketic, who directed Lopez in Monster-in-Law and Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, has been named as the director.
Airing on US television from 1978 to 1991, the Dallas prime time soap opera series about love and betrayal among Texan oil magnates was exported around the world.
Young film star Scarlett Johansson will take the title role in an adaptation of the novel The Nanny Diaries, film industry press reported Monday.
The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, follows a New Jersey girl to upper-class New York, where a couple hires her to care for their children.
Ajay Verma, a consultant gastroenterologist at Kettering general hospital in Northamptonshire, says our gut is a “complex machine.” “It is constantly providing us with the nutrition we need, initially to grow and develop, and then for us to survive, thrive and repair from injury and illness.” How can we keep it functioning well? Put simply: “Make sure what you put into it is balanced, and that you clear out its waste products adequately,” Verma says. “In a general gastroenterology clinic, the most common conditions we see are irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease and constipation,” says Nisha
And so, in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s trip to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), all the experts on the Strait of Hormuz suddenly became experts on US-China-Taiwan relations. The Internet has certainly expanded human knowledge. Lots of these sudden experts made noise this week about Trump’s words after the meeting with PRC dictator Xi Jin-ping (習近平). Trump is going to sell out Taiwan! Longtime Taiwan commentator J. Michael Cole summed the situation up neatly in the Guardian: “We need to keep in mind that he has a tendency to say many things — sometimes contradicting himself within
Last week US President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter whether he would speak on the phone to the President of Taiwan. “l’ll speak to him. I speak to everybody. We have that situation very well in hand,” Trump said. This marked the second time in a couple of weeks he had said he would talk to the President of Taiwan. In 2016 he famously took a call from then-president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), when he was president-elect. Despite warnings that the apocalypse was nigh because of a phone call, the world quickly forgot about the conversation between two democratically-elected presidents.
May 25 to May 31 Few believed that apples could be cultivated on a commercial scale in Taiwan’s high mountains. When horticulturalist Cheng Chao-hsiung (程兆熊) first proposed the idea in 1955, both American and Taiwanese colleagues dismissed it as implausible, arguing that temperate fruit could not be reliably grown on a subtropical island, especially on rugged terrain. However, it was this terrain in the Central Mountain Range where many Chinese Civil War veterans were resettled in the late 1950s. With limited job prospects and no family in Taiwan, they were placed on cooperative farms aimed toward self-sufficiency. Some say the conditions
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