GSFNews & Fun round up
By Skip • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: GSFNews, TelevisionLatest stories are listed first with links to the full story below each item.
Jaws star sues family over loan
Actor Richard Dreyfuss is suing his father and uncle over a 24-year-old loan he claims was never repaid. The Jaws star, 60, says he gave his relatives $870,000 (£453,000) in 1984 when they owned an interest in a Los Angeles office building. In court papers filed on Friday, he claims the loan is still outstanding and that his uncle, Gilbert, has refused to turn over financial records.
Neither Norman nor Gilbert Dreyfuss could be reached for comment.
Coltrane used on NZ wanted poster
Actor Robbie Coltrane’s face is being used on a wanted poster by police trying to catch a 16-year-old burglar in New Zealand. As law bans the publication of photos of juvenile criminals, Christchurch police are using the actor instead.
“Robbie Coltrane is not the burglar, but imagine him aged 16 with lank greasy hair and you have the picture,” the poster says.
Leaflets have been distributed to homes in the areas of targeted residents.
American man too fat for execution
With a lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday, the Associated Press reports, attorneys for the 5-feet-7-inch, 267-pound Richard Cooey say the executioner’s needle would have trouble finding his veins. And even if it did find his veins, they insist, his heft would lessen the effect of the needle’s initial lethal injection drug - an anaesthetic meant to dull the pain.
“All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn’t work, the execution is going to be excruciating,” Cooey’s lawyer Kelly Culshaw Schneider told The AP.
Robin Hood star quits BBC remake
Jonas Armstrong, who plays Robin Hood in the BBC’s remake of the classic tale, is to leave the show at the end of the third series. The 27-year-old, who is currently filming in Budapest, said playing Robin Hood was an “incredible experience” but he was looking for “new challenges”.
According to producers, the Irish-born actor will bow out in an explosive and nail-biting finale.
Royal premiere for new Bond film
Princes William and Harry will attend the world premiere of the next James Bond film, Quantum of Solace. They will be joined on the red carpet in London by 007 actor Daniel Craig, as well as co-stars including Dame Judi Dench and Gemma Arterton. The Royal brothers have asked for proceeds from the event to benefit two charities - Help for Heroes and the Royal British Legion.
The premiere will take place on 29 October in Leicester Square.
Joss Stone to star in the Tudors
Singer Joss Stone is to play Anne of Cleves in the third season of The Tudors, the BBC has confirmed. It will be the first TV acting role for the 22-year-old, who made her debut in fantasy film Eragon in 2006. The Emmy-winning series, produced by Showtime and aired on BBC Two, chronicles the reign of Henry VIII, played by Jonathan Rhys Myers.
Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets
The Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France.
If the Holy See doesn’t comply, the warrior knights, renowned for liberating the Holy Land, will deploy that most fearsome of weapons: a laborious court case through the creaking Spanish legal system.
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Skip is the nerd out of the GSFN partnership. Skip enjoys nothing more than good sci-fi and horror, be it on the big screen, TV or in a book. He also likes the bad stuff too. Skip also has a thing for faces and continuously likes to point out actors from one film to the next, much to the annoyance of Drew.
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