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| Mother of actor Hugh Grant’s baby wins injunction Posted: 18 Nov 2011 06:41 AM PST
The injunction comes amid a high-profile British inquiry into media standards, in which Grant is a leading figure, and a phone-hacking scandal in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire. Chinese actress Tinglan Hong was granted the order last week and details were made public today when the judge, Justice Michael Tugendhat, explained his reasons in a written ruling, the Press Association reported. Tugendhat said that, while Grant (picture) was very well-known, Hong had "never sought any publicity or been known to the public for any reason". He added that she and Grant, star of films such as "Notting Hill" and "Four Weddings And A Funeral", had done their best to keep private the fact the baby was their child. But Hong had stated that since the birth "her life has become unbearable". "She cannot leave her home without being followed and there are constantly photographers waiting outside her home," the judge said. In April, the News of the World published a front-page story entitled "Hugh's Secret Girl", which speculated on whether she was pregnant. After that she was regularly followed and photographed without her consent. Threatening phone calls The judge also referred to an incident in July when 51-year-old Grant appeared on a BBC TV programme and talked about phone-hacking, of which he is a suspected victim. That evening Hong, 32, who was seven months pregnant, received phone calls from anonymous callers. "After first ignoring such calls she did answer one," the judge said. "The person calling said 'Tell Hugh Grant to shut the fuck up.'" The ruling said Hong had been terrified and had since changed her mobile phone. Since the birth of her child, she had not been able to take her daughter outside and was "unable to look after her daughter in a normal way", the judge said. Next Monday, Grant will be one of the first of the "core participants", who say they have suffered unreasonably at the hands of newspapers, to give evidence at a public inquiry. This was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron in July after it was revealed journalists from Murdoch's News of the World weekly had hacked the phone of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered. Dowler's parents will also give evidence on Monday. The inquiry has heard there were as many as 5,800 hacking victims, and accusations of unethical behaviour by some of Britain's notoriously aggressive newspapers. News International, News Corp's British newspaper arm, has admitted to the inquiry that hacking could have continued beyond 2007, when its former royal correspondent was jailed for the practice. ― Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Tale of many cities as Dickens anniversary nears Posted: 18 Nov 2011 05:01 AM PST LONDON, Nov 18 ― Charles Dickens will be feted around the world next year in literature, film, theatre, music and art, underlining his international cultural impact two hundred years after his birth. The author of classics like "Oliver Twist," "Great Expectations," "Bleak House" and "A Tale of Two Cities" is considered one of the greatest novelists to have written in English. Sales of his books, which are still in print, run into hundreds of millions of copies, and during his lifetime his works were turned into theatre. With the advent of cinema in the late 19th century and television decades later, Dickens became the most adapted novelist of all time, with more than 100 films ― short and feature length ― made in the silent era alone. "The prose style of Dickens is a foreshadowing of cinematic technique," said Michael Eaton, co-curator of what is billed as the largest retrospective of Dickens on screen ever staged. Dickens on Screen, part of the broader, global Dickens 2012 initiative (www.dickens2012.org), will be held at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London from January to March 2012. Movie adaptations will also be screened next year in the United States, Germany, the Philippines and China thanks to the state-funded cultural agency the British Council. "When we think of all Dickens's extraordinary characters and nail-biting cliffhangers it is not surprising he's the most adapted author of all time," said Heather Stewart, the BFI's creative director. Tapping its own archive, the BFI will screen a rarely seen silent work from 1901 called "Scrooge ― or Marley's Ghost" and "David Copperfield" from 1913. At the programme's centre will be David Lean's "Great Expectations" (1946) and "Oliver Twist" (1948), considered by many to be the greatest film versions of Dickens, as well as Carol Reed's popular musical "Oliver!" (1968). New film, books, shows Five major television adaptations will be screened in their entirety, while director Mike Newell is making a film based on "Great Expectations" possibly for release next year. "Dickens was my first adult author and he was very much my way into literature," said bestselling novelist David Nicholls, who wrote the screenplay for the new version. "I certainly wouldn't be a writer if it hadn't been for Dickens." Exhibitions dedicated to the Victorian author have already begun opening in Britain, with many more planned in the run-up to the bicentenary of his birth on February 7, 2012. The Victoria and Albert Museum launched its display this week featuring the original manuscript of "David Copperfield." The British Library is advertising "A Hankering after Ghosts: Charles Dickens and the Supernatural" which opens on November 29, while on December 9 the Museum of London opens "Dickens and London." Overseas shows include one at the Museum Strauhof in Zurich due to open in December and another at the Chateau D'Hardelot in northern France which was visited by the author many times. The British Council has organised events in more than 50 countries from Armenia to Zimbabwe involving theatre, film and educational programmes. Biographies have begun hitting book stores, including Claire Tomalin's "Charles Dickens: A Life" which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2011, and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's "Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist." And the publishing house Penguin has produced a deluxe box-set of six clothbound Dickens novels costing 100 pounds. ― Reuters Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
LONDON, Nov 18 ― The mother of actor Hugh Grant's baby daughter has won an injunction from London's High Court "prohibiting harassment" of her and the child after she said paparazzi had made her life "unbearable".| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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