MySpace.com Announces Events

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- MySpace.com Announces Events
- Arts Briefly Compiled by Peter Edidin
- Thousands of Turkish woman die in so-called honor killings – The…
- Short Cuts – Forgotten Gems: Sid and Nancy (1986)
- An Indian is not a freak in London: Rushdie

MySpace.com Announces Events
UCW Entertainment Newswire – Jan 20, 2007
com has announced a variety of film and music events in Park City UT from January 19-23 2007 in celebration of filmmakers and creative communities on MySpace. While in Park City the company will present MySpace Nights at Tao a reception for the Darfur documentary The Devil Came n Horseback and an award to the X-Dance Film Festival’s top director. Details of this year’s film festival activities include: Friday January 19 2007: MySpace Nights at Tao MySpace Nights at Tao presented by Dove the global beauty brand and T-Mobile Sidekick 3 with Eagles of Death Metal (… com has announced a variety of film and music events in Park City UT from January 19-23 2007 in celebration of filmmakers and creative communities on MySpace. While in Park City the company will present MySpace Nights at Tao a reception for the Darfur documentary The Devil Came n Horseback and an award to the X-Dance Film Festival’s top director. Details of this year’s film festival activities include: Friday January 19 2007: MySpace Nights at Tao MySpace Nights at Tao presented by Dove the global beauty brand and T-Mobile Sidekick 3 with Eagles of Death Metal (.

Arts Briefly Compiled by Peter Edidin
New York Times – Jan 20, 2007
A Maestro Takes Leave The conductor Kent Nagano below said Friday he would leave the small local orchestra in California that gave him his start nearly three decades ago. Nagano 55 said he would step down as music director of the Berkeley Symphony rchestra after the 2008-9 season his 30th but would continue to conduct as a guest. The orchestra gives a half-dozen concerts a year and is known for innovative programming and for Mr. Nagano’s loyalty to it. But this season he started posts as music director of the Montreal Symphony and the Bavarian State pera in Munich. Scheduling conflicts and longer stretches away prompted him to step down he said… Giuseppe Pallanti the author of “Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo’s Model” says records from the time show that she died on July 15 1542 at 63 and was buried in the now-abandoned Sant’rsola convent in Florence. Pallanti found a death notice in the archives of a church in Florence that referred to “the wife of Francesco del Giocondo deceased July 15 1542 and buried at Sant’rsola. ” Lisa Gherardini born in May 1479 was thought to have been the second wife of del Giocondo a silk merchant with whom she had five children. Another da Vinci expert Carlo Pedretti urged a search for Lisa Gherardini’s remains to establish her identity. ‘Grey’s Anatomy’The addition of.

Thousands of Turkish woman die in so-called honor killings – The…
Boston Globe – Jan 21, 2007
In Turkey the government has taken action. Under pressure from an invigorated women’s movement and eager to win approval from the European Union the government has launched a major campaign against honor killings at a level and breadth virtually unheard of in the Islamic world. Turkish imams have joined pop music stars and soccer celebrities to produce TV spots and billboard ads condemning all forms of violence against women. Broaching a topic that remains largely taboo in many conservative societies the nation’s top Islamic authority has declared honor killing a sin. Late last year jail sentences for men and boys who commit the crime were stiffened and new provisions in the penal code make it harder for a court to reduce sentences. (As recently as 10 months ago in a typical case the life sentence of a young man who had killed his sister was substantially reduced because the judges decided he had been “provoked. ” He had buried her up to her neck in rocks after she was impregnated in a rape… “But girls see the other side modern Turkey on TV or in the media and with the rise in literacy people’s expectations are rising. “Alarmed by the soaring number of women seeking help the Diyarbakir government opened a shelter for abused women in 2005. Behind a metal gate on the forlorn northern outskirts of the city the low-slung complex houses about 50 women. Its location is discreet. The Los Angeles Times was given access on the condition that the women’s names not be published. ne resident was a tall fair 16-year-old who said her father had ordered her to kill herself. He had arranged for her marriage to a man she wanted nothing to do with and she went along at first long enough to become pregnant.

Short Cuts – Forgotten Gems: Sid and Nancy (1986)
PopMatters – Jan 20, 2007
Granted both the brutal documentary The Filth and the Fury and the group’s own aborted big screen effort The Great Rock and Roll Swindle do a much better job of fleshing out the dynamic between drummer Paul Cook guitarist Steve Jones bassists Glen Matlock and Sid Vicious and singer John “Rotten” Lydon than this mostly fictional biopic. Still in an era inundated with mindless hair metal when the DIY spirit of the ‘70s seemed a million greedy greenbacks away rebel filmmaker Alex Cox parlayed his Repo Man cache into a chance at recreating Britain’s infamous bad boys and their import to the era. Part love story part affectionate look at how punk purged an industry of its dinosaur daftness Cox traded truth for social symbolism and created a three chord masterwork. Instrumental in the film’s stunning success are the performances. Yes this is the movie that introduced Gary ldman to most of the world the former UK TV fixture finally getting a chance to strut his amazing acting stuff across the Cineplex for all to see. His version of the stoic slightly dim Sid Vicious is all party boy put-ons and little child terrors… In its place is a hard working Svengali who balances propaganda with personality to guide his boys along the profits and pitfalls of the UK music scene. For many it’s the most artificial note in a movie made up of rumors legends myths and innuendo. Even with all the amazing music and pristine performances this is still Cox’s film and his visual style and narrative drive is nothing short of astounding. There are sequences here that rival the best that cinema has to offer in their artistry and effectiveness. For instance after the band has broken up and Sid is stationed in Paris trying to jumpstart a solo career McLaren gets the stunning idea of having the tone deaf talent warble the Frank Sinatra standard “My Way”. Recreating the controversial film clip for the song (once only visible via the SNL exploitation oddity Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video) we see ldman recreate the performance move for move.

An Indian is not a freak in London: Rushdie
Times of India – Jan 21, 2007
He agreed to give an exclusiveinterview to Sunday Times but politely declined to answer any questions notconnected with art and literature. When did you see thespark in Kiran Desai? I’veknown Kiran since she was a young girl. I read the manuscript of her first bookwhen it was called Strange Happenings In The Guava rchard a name I prefer… What about dabbling inart yourself? Well I’ve done asculpture with Anish Kapoor that some people have shown interest in buying. It’scalled Blood Relations and has a distressed bronze box with installations in itand text all around. My inspiration came from the story of the Arabian Nightsand Scheherazade telling stories to save her life literally fabulating againstdeath a Statue of Liberty built not of metal but of words. What awoman! Has anybody approachedyou to make a movie about yourlife? nce Czech directorMilosh Forman did. Around the time when all the gadbad was happening but I saidno. But if there’s going to be anything on my life I’d rather write it myselfrather than have somebody else portray my life leaving me with no control ofhow it turns out. These days to be in complete control of a movie you’ve got tobe the producer.