Month: April 2012

UK NEWS: SCREEN LEGEND ROBERT REDFORD BACKS BLACK ACTOR’S SKINHEAD SCRIPT

British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje has won backing from screen legend and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford for his script ‘Farming’, which is based on his experiences as a black child who became a skinhead during the heyday of the racist National Front in the 1970s. This madness happened after his Nigerian parents fostered him out to a white working-class parents in Tilbury, Essex from the age of six weeks. Adelwale said,  “They assumed anybody white was right. We became the first []

UK FILM TRAILER: THE MAN INSIDE ( STARRING ASHLEY ‘BASHY’ THOMAS)

Clayton Murdoch carries a terrible darkness inside him. As a boy he was exposed by his father, to murder and gang culture. With his father now in prison, Clayton struggles to overcome what he was groomed to become, in a city where every day there is a constant threat of violence and death. Clayton channels his aggression into boxing: controlled, powerful, contained. However, when the violence starts to destroy his own family, Clayton loses control, and the darkness within him is unleashed. []

UK PR ANTICS: JERMAIN DEFOE ALLEGEDLY “CHEATS” ON ALEXANDRA BURKE

More PR antics live from camp Burke/Defoe. Tabloid rag The Sun reports that footballer Jermain Defoe has cheated on his “Pop star girlfriend Alexandra Burke” with nursing assistant and “part-time model” Laura Brown (LOL). The Spurs and England striker, 29, romped with Geordie Laura Brown, 23, in  Newcastle after two previous meetings. Laura said: “I never planned on  sleeping with him, it just happened.” The model who got friendly on Facebook with Defoe said last night: “I’m not  going to lie — we did have sex.” []