Day: June 6, 2008

UK NEWS: WOMAN KILLED AFTER SUGGESTING HER BOYFRIEND HAD HERPES

June 6, 2008

A beautician was killed by her boyfriend because she suggested he had herpes, a court heard. Jillinda Fisher was strangled because she hit a ‘raw nerve’ in James Bellass during an argument. He attacked her despite the fact she was madly in love with him and sent him romantic text messages shortly before she died, a jury was told. One read: ‘I can’t imagine my life without you.’ In court, Bellass admitted contracting herpes – a sexually transmitted disease – before he […]

CLINT EASTWOOD TELLS SPIKE LEE TO “SHUT HIS FACE”

June 6, 2008

Clint Eastwood has responded to fellow director Spike Lee’s claims that there are too few black actors in his films, saying he should “shut his face”. Speaking to the Guardian newspaper, Eastwood said his 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers was historically accurate. The Oscar winner insisted that black troops were not involved in raising the flag at Iwo Jima. “If I go ahead and put an African American actor in there, they’d say ‘this guy’s lost his mind,’” he said.  Continue […]