Great Twitter Pic of Joan Rivers and Daniel Radcliffe

Here I am with Cooper, @melrivers and Daniel Radcliffe after the show. So much fun!!! @H2SBway 
http://pic.twitter.com/SEPruhkj

Witches camps in Ghana to be disbanded

The Africa Report


Efforts to disband witch camps and reintegrate alleged witches into society in the northern parts of Ghana seem to be receiving unfavourable response from some of the inmates.

But the Government of Ghana working in collaboration with civil society and human rights groups says the disbandment of the camps will continue on a gradual process.

Those who are kicking against the move, known as the Alleged Witches Coalition, say they feel safer and more secure living in the camps than in their individual communities.

At a just ended two-day conference to streamline measures to implement the disbandment in Tamale, north of Ghana, the Coalition led by its Vice President, Techina Mutaru says, some of them would lose their lives if they were reintegrated into their communities without a proper education and orientation to community members.

ActionAid Ghana and Songtaba, both civil society non governmental organisations in the country, organised the conference to assure inmates that the disbandment would be humanely implemented.

The country's Deputy Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, Hajia Hawamu Boya Gariba, said Government would not allow such dehumanizing conditions of the witches' camps to continue to exits.


The conference issued a communiqué calling on Government to first meet the immediate needs of the inmates before introducing the disbandment road map.

Since the camps developed following witchcraft allegations against people, mainly older women, the communiqué says pragmatic and operational legal regime should be put in place to will halt the fresh creations.

Christopher Meloni On 'True Blood': Former 'SVU' Star In Talks For HBO Show

Huffington Post

Looks like Christopher Meloni might be going from solving gruesome murders to committing them.

On screen, of course.

The former "Law & Order: SVU" star, who left the NBC series last spring after 12 seasons, is in talks to join the cast of the fifth season of "True Blood,"TVLine reports. And though the show has plenty of other supernatural creatures, Meloni would join marquee names such as Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard as a very powerful vampire.

This would mark Meloni's big TV return; he's already made a big splash in the film world, as he is playing Colonel Hardy in the upcoming Zach Snyder-directed Superman reboot, "The Man of Steel." Meloni is in the midst of filming the comedy, "Awful Nice," and will also star in the upcoming raunchy comedy, "Dirty Movie." Meloni's TV comeback will also include a tele-film called "The Kentucky Derby."

For more, click over to TV Line.

Victim's parents lobby Oscars to exclude West Memphis 3 documentary

by Associated Press and Entertainment Weekly
Categories: Best Documentary, Best Documentary Oscar, documentaries that change the world, Documentary
Image Credit: Bob Richman/HBO


The parents of one of three West Memphis, Ark., boys found dead 18 years ago are asking that a documentary about the killings be excluded from Academy Award consideration. Todd and Dana Moore made the request in a letter sent Nov. 22 to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ documentary division. In it, the Moores argue that Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory glorifies Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, who were released from prison in August after their sentences were set aside and they pleaded guilty to lesser charges.


“Because of public pressure that exploded due to gross misrepresentations of fact in the two previous documentaries, Michael’s killers were unjustly able to enter into a plea agreement, were released from prison and now pose additional threats to society,” the letter reads. “We implore the Academy not to reward our child’s killers and the directors who have profited from one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated under the guise of a documentary film.”


The couple’s 8-year-old son, Michael, along with Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were found naked and bludgeoned in a ditch on May 6, 1993.


Director Joe Berlinger defended the film but also acknowledged that he understood the parents’ grief. “We feel tremendous sorrow for them,” Berlinger told the Jonesboro Sun for a story in Wednesday’s editions. “We understand why a film that comes to a different conclusion than they do would make them feel this way. We stand by our films. We fervently believe the West Memphis Three are innocent.”


Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley, dubbed the West Memphis Three, entered their pleas under a legal provision that allowed them to maintain their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict them. Echols was sentenced to death for the killings.


An email sent to the academy after hours seeking comment wasn’t immediately answered Wednesday. An attempt to leave an after-hours phone message was unsuccessful.


The Moores appeared briefly in the first documentary about the deaths, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, which aired on HBO in 1996. But they claimed Berlinger and Sinofsky “misled” and “manipulated” them. “We appeared solely in the first film because the directors lied and told us their purpose was to protect children,” the letter says.


When Berlinger and fellow director Bruce Sinofsky began the first film, they thought the three men were guilty of committing the killings, Berlinger said. Every effort was made to show that Todd and Dana believed the men were guilty, he added.

Is Harry Potter One Step Closer to a Best Picture Nomination at the Oscars?

E!



The critics of the National Board of Review just sent the Oscars a message:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was a good film; it's OK to honor it. 
And so the NBR, for one, did.


Deathly Hallows Part 2 was named by the group as one of the Top 10 films of 2011.


Martin Scorsese's Hugo was declared the best overall, the family adventure's first win of awards season. Scorsese himself was named Best Director.


The rest of the NBR's top films' list was filled out by the already usual suspects (The Artist, The Descendants, The Tree of Life, etc.), plus a couple of wild cards, including Ryan Gosling's Drive.


Deathly Hallows Part 2 isn't being given much of a chance to duplicate its success today at the Oscars. One oddmakers has it an an 80-to-1 shot to win Best Picture, which presumes it's nominated for Best Picture, which most early-bird oddsmakers don't presume—they're not even tracking the film.


To date, the Harry Potter franchise has earned a combined nine nominations, all of them outside the glamour categories. Alan Rickman, more than the film itself, is considered to have Deathly Hallow's best shot at breaking through.
Unless the Oscars decides to receive the NBR's message loud and clear.


Here are highlights from the 2011 winners from the National Board of Review:
Film: Hugo
Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Supporting Actress: Shallene Woodley, The Descendants
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Life Crazy; Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Original Screenplay:50/50
Adapted Screenplay:The Descendants
Animated Feature:Rango
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble:The Help


Top films list (in alphabetical order):
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BETTE MIDLER!!!

You are more fabulous everyday!  
Love you!

The John Carter Trailer Is Here!

Perez Hilton Filed under: Film Flickers > Disney

John Carter of Mars promises to be one of the biggest movies of 2012. With Willem Dafoe, Lynn Collins and the delish Taylor Kitsch, this space-time adventure promises action, suspense and enough CGI to make Polar Express look like a documentary.

In other words, it'll be like the Prince Of Persia … BUT IN SPACE!!!

Check out the new trailer for the flick (above) and see if its something you think you'l check out in the new year!