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| Film planned on life of rocker Michael Hutchence Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:38 AM PST SYDNEY, Nov 23 — A film is being planned about the life and times of Michael Hutchence, the frontman of Australian rock band INXS who committed suicide 15 years ago, a report said Friday.  Australian singer Michael Hutchence. — AFP pic "It is a big task, I've been a writer for 35 years and this is something I've wanted to do for over a decade and everything has now come together with it," he said. The movie will be called "Two Worlds Colliding", based on the book "Just a Man — The Real Michael Hutchence" penned by the singer's mother and sister, after Galinsky obtained the rights. He said he planned it to be along the lines of "Ray", the story of Ray Charles, or "Walk the Line" which focused on Johnny Cash, "about a life, not a chapter". "We'd like to start in his childhood and what made the man, then the evolution of when he got into INXS and how that transformed him, and then of course his personal life," said Galinsky. "I want it to be what was behind the man, not just the guy you saw on stage, but who was Michael Hutchence, what drove him, what were his demons, what were his loves, not the persona that people saw on stage for a couple of hours." INXS were one of the world's biggest acts throughout the late 1980s and early '90s, fuelled by Hutchence's charismatic performances, with the band having multiple hits around the world. During his life, Hutchence had a string of love affairs with prominent actresses, models and singers, including Kylie Minogue. But he was found dead in a Sydney hotel room in 1997, with the coroner ruling his death was suicide while the singer was depressed and under the influence of drugs and alcohol. He left behind a daughter, Tiger Lily, from a relationship with British TV presenter Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose in 2000. Tiger Lily now lives with her legal guardian, Yates's former husband Bob Geldof. Asked who he saw as his leading man, Galinsky replied: "I have been in conversation with couple of guys, there is an English gentleman, several Australians, but I would hate to pick someone out at the moment." INXS, which continued on without Hutchence, announced their retirement after 35 years earlier this month. — Reuters |
| Pussy Riot protester in single cell after tensions with inmates Posted: 23 Nov 2012 04:35 AM PST  Members of the female punk band "Pussy Riot" (R-L) Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich sit in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in Moscow, August 17, 2012. — Reuters pic Alyokhina, 24, is serving a two-year sentence for carrying out a raucous protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main Russian Orthodox cathedral. Activists said her trial, alongside two other band-mates, was part of a crackdown on dissent. "Some tensions arose in relationships and, apparently, to prevent this situation from escalating, she decided to submit a request to the prison leadership and they moved her to a one-person cell," a prison service spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman dismissed Russian media reports that Alyokhina had been caught up in religious arguments with fellow prisoners. Pussy Riot's protest offended many members of Russia's Orthodox Church. The spokeswoman said she could not comment on a report on the tabloid-style Life News website that Alyokhina had received violent threats from cell mates at the Ural Mountains prison about 1,150km northeast of Moscow. Alyokhina and her two band mates and were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for their "punk prayer", which the dominant Russian Orthodox Church has cast as part of a concerted attack on the church and the faithful. The women said the protest, in which they burst into Christ the Saviour Cathedral and called on the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin, was not motivated by hatred and was meant to mock the church leadership's support for the longtime leader. Putin, a former KGB officer who has cultivated close ties with the church over 13 years in power, has rejected criticism from the United States and European leaders who called the two-year sentences disproportionate. Alyokhina, who has a young son, argued with the judge and cross-examined witnesses during her trial. Her band mate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, is serving her sentence in a different prison. Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, was freed last month when a court suspended her sentence on appeal. — Reuters |
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