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| Singer Chris Brown to be questioned over alleged punch, say police Posted: 28 Jan 2013 07:23 AM PST  Singer Chris Brown performs in concert during the F.A.M.E. Tour in Los Angeles in this file photo taken October 20, 2011. — Reuters pic Deputies responded to a call yesterday about a fight involving six men on Santa Monica Boulevard, the department said. Witnesses said the Grammy-winning singer had assaulted a man during the brief altercation. No arrests were made. The alleged victim was not named in a department statement that said Brown and his entourage had left the scene before deputies arrived. Investigators plan to contact the singer about the incident at a later time, according to the department. Brown, 23, is serving a five-year probation sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting fellow R&B star and former girlfriend Rihanna on the eve of the 2009 Grammy awards. — Reuters |
| Apple’s Wozniak questions accuracy as Jobs film opens Posted: 28 Jan 2013 06:05 AM PST  Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Jobs in 1976. — AFP pic Wozniak said the movie "jOBS — which opened at the Sundance Film Festival — erred in its depiction of the characters as well as the relationships between them — especially the one between him and computer icon Jobs. "We never had such interaction and roles," Wozniak, who quit Apple in 1987 after 12 years, told the tech blog Gizmodo, after a clip from the movie was posted online ahead of the evening premier at the Sundance Film Festival. "I'm not even sure what it's getting at," he said, adding that the "personalities are very wrong — although mine is closer." "The ideas of computers affecting society did not come from Jobs. They inspired me and were widely spoken at the Homebrew Computer Club," he said, referring to a hobby group to which they belonged. The film, one of two about the Apple founder who died in 2011, opens in the United States in April. The second, which has no release date yet, is based on the biography published by Walter Isaacson shortly after his death. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern and with "Two and a Half Men" star Ashton Kutcher in the title role, "jOBS" tells the story of his ascension from college dropout to one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century. "Steve came back from Oregon and came to a club meeting and didn't start talking about this great social impact," said Wozniak, referring to the period in the 1970s before Silicon Valley took off. "His idea was to make a US$20 (RM60) PC board and sell it for US$40 to help people at the club build the computer I'd given away. Steve came from selling surplus parts at HalTed — he always saw a way to make a quick buck off my designs," said the famously geek-casual-looking Wozniak. "The lofty talk came much further down the line... I never looked like a professional. We were both kids," he said. The film's producers responded to Wozniak's comments in a statement cited by Entertainment Weekly. "The film is not a documentary, nor is it meant to be a blow-by-blow, word-for-word account of all conversations and events," it said. "The filmmakers have tremendous admiration and respect for Wozniak and all those that are portrayed in the film, and did extensive research in an effort to make an entertaining accurate film that captures the essence and story of Steve Jobs and those that built Apple with him," the statement said. But they acknowledged, "that not every single thing in the film is a precise representation of what took place." The movie "is feature film entertainment about one of the most important, creative and impactful people (in) our culture's history taking place over three decades compressed into a two hour film," their statement added. Wozniak, who made his criticism after seeing just one short movie clip before the evening premier at the closing weekend of Sundance in the snowy Utah mountains, said inaccuracy did not necessarily mean the film was bad. "The movie should be very popular and I hope it's entertaining. It may be very correct, as well. This is only one clip," he said. He added: "Our relationship was so different than what was portrayed. I'm embarrassed. But if the movie is fun and entertaining, all the better. Anyone who reads my book 'iWoz' can get a clearer picture." — AFP/Relaxnews |
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