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| ‘Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead’ hits UK chart on Thatcher’s death Posted: 10 Apr 2013 07:32 AM PDT
The song from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" was top of Amazon's most downloaded chart today after a social media campaign to promote the upbeat track as a way for detractors to "celebrate" the death of Britain's most divisive post-war leader. A spokeswoman from Britain's Official Charts Company said the track, sung in the film by the Munchkin characters alongside Judy Garland's Dorothy after the oppressive Wicked Witch of the West dies, would hit No. 10 in the singles chart today. "The surge in sales follows a campaign to get the track to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart following the death of Margaret Thatcher on Monday," said the spokeswoman. She said the song had sold over 10,600 copies by late yesterday, which was about 5,000 copies away from a Top 3 placing. Another version of the song, by late US singer Ella Fitzgerald, was ranked No. 5 in the Amazon download chart. Amazon reviewers urged others to buy the track to show their disapproval of Thatcher whose free-market ideology drove policies, which alienated the many Britons who demonise the "Iron Lady" as a destroyer of jobs and traditional British industries. "For those genuine witches, who purposely destroy the lives of others for purely ideological reasons and with not one shred of apology or a single tear, this is the perfect funeral-day track," wrote reviewer Gareth Mark Gee from Nottingham. A Facebook group, encouraging people to download the "Witch" song to get it to No. 1, had over 5,000 members by today. Thatcher died at London's Ritz hotel on Monday after suffering a stroke. She was aged 87. — Reuters |
| Olivier Megaton will direct ‘Taxi’ TV series Posted: 09 Apr 2013 10:18 PM PDT
Megaton regularly collaborates with Besson and has already directed three international movies produced by Besson's company, EuropaCorp: "Transporter 3," "Colombiana" and "Taken 2." "Brooklyn South" will focus on a female inspector from New York with an unknown illness and a reckless taxi driver who has arrived from Marseille, France. The series will be a mixture of action and comedy and the screenplay will be written by Stephen Tolkin ("Perception," "Brothers & Sisters"). Tolkin will also produce the series with EuropaCorp Television and French TV channel TF1. Filming on "Brooklyn South" will take place in New York during the second half of 2013. The cast remains unknown. This TV version of "Taxi" follows "Transporter: The Series," another Luc Besson franchise that was recently adapted internationally. – AFP-Reuters |
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