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Courtney Love Planning Move To Eccentric-Friendly England

Mono-polared rock legend Courtney Love recently fought back against TMZ, who, working in collusion with the Anaheim Police Department, attempted to paint the singer as being a few babydoll-dresses short of a full wardrobe when she claimed white-collar criminals had bilked the Cobain estate of nearly $70 million. (The fighting-back consisted of several angry MySpace blog posts, in which she notably dropped the trademarked pidgin English that made every visit such an indecipherable good time.) Now, reports the Daily Mail, Love has decided to quit America's quick-to-diagnose shores for England's far more tolerant, let's-wait-until-she- kills-someone- before-we-really- start-throwing -around-words-like-"crazy" embrace:

"I am fed up with Los Angeles. It's dirty and full of crazy people. I want a complete lifestyle change. People criticise Britain but it is still a cleaner, safer place to live than Hollywood," she said. [...]
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1:30 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Seth
2,070 views, 15 comments

Latest by Whiteboyfunfark: I'm imagining a much cleaner Los Angeles minus one of it's craziest people. That and a foul mouth spewing gibberish with a fake British accent and a failed "Dame Courtney Love, OBE" campaign. more »

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Inside 'The Kite Runner' Rape Scene

Because we're sure there's nothing you'd find more pleasant on a Friday morning than the further discussion of the filming of a juvenile rape scene so culturally inflammatory that a studio may now find itself responsible for the welfare of the movie's displaced child actors until they reach adulthood, we turn to Slate's Kim Masters' ongoing coverage of the dilemma now faced by Paramount and The Kite Runner's filmmakers, who, of course, say they never could have foreseen that their commitment to staying true to their source material would put the kids in jeopardy. But what exactly is in the controversial scene that Paramount's Afghan-culture consultants now fear may not foster the open and honest dialogue they'd hoped for? Reports Masters:

The filmmakers have repeatedly said they had no inkling of the danger during the making of the film. "Nobody that we were working with [in Afghanistan] ever said this could be anything but a positive thing for these kids and their families and for their culture," says producer Rebecca Yeldham. "There was such joy and enthusiasm for the sincerity and seriousness of our approach." [...]
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9:53 AM on Fri Oct 5 2007
By Mark
5,168 views, 5 comments

Latest by raincoaster: And in Vancouver, a homeless kite flyer script goes into the circular file...in Vanier Park, a flyer flies on... more »