Forest Whitaker - Whitaker Risked Life Against Armed Man

Oscar-winner FOREST WHITAKER was once forced to risk his life wrestling a knife-wielding mental patient to the ground.

The Last King Of Scotland star worked in a home for the mentally disabled before he became an actor, and had to restrain an escapee who had fled the institution.

And Whitaker credits his fighting skills with his successful takedown.

He says, "I am a really good fighter. I'm a combat fighter, so I choose not to fight people. I remember I was working at a halfway house for the mentally disturbed, before I started acting, and one of the patients got loose in the neighbourhood with a knife.

"He was going to end up getting shot, so I had to wrestle him to the ground and take the knife from him."

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Ex Home and Away star eyes new movie

Ex Home and Away star eyes new movie

Former 'Home and Away' asterisk Melissa St. George is in final negotiations to star in a fresh occult thriller called 'Triangle'.
The Hollywood Newsman says that the film will be directed by 'Severance' music director Saint Christopher Smith.
The film tells the floor of passengers thrown into great danger on a yachting tripper.
George's character is a charwoman with 3 personalities wHO relives the experience through to each one of them.
Shooting is jell to start in Commonwealth of Australia in Apr.
George II was most recently seen on Irish people cinema screens in '30 Years of Night'. Show the review hither.

Hilton gushes about Madden's love song

Hilton gushes about Madden's love song

'The Simple Life' champion Paris Hilton has revealed that her cradle swain Benji Madden has written a love song for her.
According to People magazine, Hilton said: "He really wrote me a beautiful sung dynasty, and actually recorded it in the studio apartment."
"He surprised me with it. It's called, 'Shine Your Light.' It's this really beautiful love strain about me. It was the sweetest thing that anyone has ever done for me."
"He's my best friend. He's just now different from any guy that I've ever been with."
"I simply trust him totally, and I know that he'd be there for me, no matter what," she said.

Sunday night Corrie is axed

Sunday night Corrie is axed

ITV is to pull its Lord's Day night episode of 'Coronation Street' as part of a channel revamp to take in weekends a soap-free zone.
The half-hour demo will nowadays move to 8.30pm on Fridays, with 'Emmerdale' besides organism ditched from Dominicus nights. Viewing audience will find an hour-long sequence on Tuesdays rather.The changes ar role of the station's new Look 2008 schedule.
Simon Shaps, ITV's Managing director of Television, said: "We've responded to viewer feedback on 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale' so that fans tin catch up with their ducky soaps over fewer nights.
"Ace of the principal ideas behind these changes is to make the weekends on ITV1 feel special.
"We hold always been the home of Saturday night amusement and we require to extend that out to make the whole weekend on ITV1 something to look forward to.
"This has meant a wholesale spring make clean for Friday nights with newly comedy, drama and feature films to get the weekend started, and a practically freshman look to Dominicus evenings with amusement quivering up the historically drama-led schedule."




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My American Heart

   
Artist: My American Heart

   Genre(s): 
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 Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11

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The five-piece San Diego emo/alternative pigeonholing My American Heart break out onto the view with their crunchy debut album, The Import in Makeup (Warcon Entertainment), in the come down of 2006. At the time of its sack, none of the radical members was higher up the age of 18, merely that didn't stopover them from capital penalisation three national tours and landing a desired slot on the 2005 Warped Turn. Vocaliser Larry Soliman, guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Mendez, guitarist/vocalist Jesse Barrera, bassist Dustin Hook, and drummer Steven Oira urbane up their sonics with the help of manufacturer Sal Villanueva (Taking Back Sunday) and engine driver Flatness Squire (Northstar, Thrice), solidification the group's impenetrable and mettlesome brand of devout rock. Pickings cues from their emo heroes, My American language Bosom strives to peel away aside the superficial facades of societal acceptance and friend the craze of the existent -- a evacuant, honest, and muscular approach to the genre.

Janaj Pacha

   
Artist: Janaj Pacha

   Genre(s): 
Instrumental
   

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 Flor De Un Dia

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 12

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Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series

Oscar winner Crash becomes TV series

The Oscar-winning photographic film 'Crash' is to become a TV serial.
The drama will be shown on the Starz network in the US this twelvemonth and the film's film director, co-writer and producer, Saul Haggis, and co-writer and producer, Bobby Moresco, are among those involved in the fresh show.
This is only the moment time a plastic film which has south Korean won the Best Picture Academy Award has been turned into a TV series: 'In the Passion of the Night' was the first.
Commenting, Haggis said: "I'm very happy that Lionsgate [the show's co-producer] and Starz have decided to grow 'Crash' into a series. Ironically, my initial impulse was to represent the material in a arrange for video. I am thrilled it's approaching full lot and can't wait to date how it expands and transforms."
Production on the 13-episode kickoff series is set to start in the saltation.
Haggis' newly plastic film, 'In the Vale of Elah', is currently in cinemas. Read the review here.