EXPERT OPINION: News just in that New Zealand On Air is giving $529,954 to fund a three-part series on how the country might look in 2050 got us thinking: who would know best about how things might turn out? So we put in a few calls to various psychics (they were under New Age Professionals in the Yellow Pages) and left clear messages about the nature of the inquiry. And do you know, not one of them called back. Of course we weren't expecting to pay for the consultation so — eerily — it was as if they knew ... Maybe that is what New Zealand will be like 60 years on from user-pays?
GUNS 'N' POSES: Seems rapper Eminem is the new Axl Rose, racking up as many court appearances and concert dates. Now the famously foul-mouthed, mother-baitin', gun-totin', friend-punchin', wife-threatenin' and ... oh, that's right ... music-makin' adult
(he's 27, folks) has finally had one of his days in court. He's been bound over for a September 25 trial in Detroit on charges of assault and carrying a concealed weapon after that incident in a carpark where he pulled an unloaded gun on a man kissing his wife. Well, ex-wife now. They've reached a confidential settlement in the $NZ23.37 million lawsuit she actioned. Other tour dates pending for Eminem include an appearance over the defamation charges his mum has laid, and a September 28 date in California on a weapons charge.
POP FIZZER: Not everything Steven Spielberg touches turns to gold, as anyone who saw Amistad will attest. But his much hailed internet entertainment site is about to fall over in a most embarrassing way. Last October, Spielberg and his film studio, DreamWorks SKG, launched Pop.com with great fanfare and promised live action films, animation, live web events and the like. They solicited for films and original artworks, and Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy and others were going to create programmes. None of it happened. Look at the site and what you'll find are three press releases, all from DreamWorks/Pop.com.The company's 80 workers are expected to be laid off by the time you read this — which makes you wonder, what have they been doing for the past year?
DEFINITELY ACTUALLY: More trouble in the Gallagher camp as the other brother also separates from his wife. Liam Gallagher, the mouthy frontman with Britrock band Oasis, recently parted company with Patsy Kensit, and this week Noel, widely credited as the brains behind the bluster, and wife Meg Matthews have gone their separate ways, eight months after the birth of their daughter Anais. The separation is apparently amicable and the pair lashed out at suggestions of a custody claim over Anais, and that there had been pre-nuptial agreement which would mean Meg would only get £100,000 if they split. Such suggestions were "totally untrue and deeply offensive" they said in a joint statement in which they also asked the press to respect their privacy. As you do.
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