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| Scarlett Johansson sues French author over novel lookalike Posted: 14 May 2014 06:33 PM PDT The star is suing for 50,000 euros (RM220,741) in damages from the author and his publisher JC Lattes over the best-selling "La premiere chose qu'on regarde" (The first thing we look at). The book's heroine, Janine Foucamprez, is described as strongly resembling Johansson, who is due to attend the Cannes film festival this week. The first part of the novel is told through the eyes of a garage mechanic who "resembles a better version of Ryan Gosling" and thinks Johansson has turned up on his doorstep. The actress alleges the writer and publisher used her image and fame to publicise the novel, which has sold 100,000 copies since it was published in March 2013, and is seeking an injunction to stop it being translated or adapted for cinema. The novel features amorous relationships that "never existed", said prosecutor Vincent Toledano. "It does what the tabloids do, it says anything." "Creative freedom" does not mean the author can use Johansson's intellectual property rights without authorisation, he added. But Anne Veil, for the defence, said no invasion of privacy had been committed, arguing that the book evoked mere "fads" and "flirts" but no relationships. If Delacourt knew that Johansson would have "kicked up such a racket, he would have chosen someone else", she added. The tribunal is due to hand down its judgement on July 2. – Reuters, May 15, 2014. |
| ‘Lunar Bible’ sells at Dallas auction for US$75,000 Posted: 14 May 2014 04:59 PM PDT The 3.8cm by 3.8cm "Lunar Bible", which can be read with a microscope, is one of 12 complete Bibles that remain from a collection of 100 Bibles which made it to the moon's surface with astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1971. "This tiny microform contains the complete Bible, all 1,245 pages of the King James Bible, both Old and New Testaments," said Michael Riley, senior historian for Heritage Auctions. The Bibles were produced by the Apollo Prayer League, a group started by NASA employees and spread globally with the idea of using man's first trip to the moon to carry the words of God, the auction house said. Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell carried 512 of the stamp-sized Bibles on the 1970 mission that was supposed to land on the moon but did not after an oxygen tank explosion in flight severely damaged the spacecraft. Most of those Bibles were cut into pieces and distributed to dignitaries over the years. Twelve of those that remained passed from John Stout of the Prayer League to astronaut Mitchell. One of the Bibles is on display through June 22 at the Vatican, where it is a marquee artifact along with three fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, according to a news release from Vatican Radio. The other stars of the auction were a variety of items from the personal collection of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean, including the life support strap Bean wore during an eight-hour moonwalk in November 1969. The strap, with traces of moon dust, sold for US$93,750. – Reuters, May 15, 2014. |
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