Chef dies after eating 'superhot' chilli for bet

Andrew Lee, 33, suffered heart failure the morning after he ate the chilli.

Toxicology tests are now being carried out to see if the fork lift truck driver suffered a fatal reaction to the dish or whether anything else contributed to his death.

Mr Lee, of Edlington, Doncaster was apparently in perfect health and had just passed a medical at work, the opening of the Doncaster hearing was told.

Cooking was one of his main interests and he went to his girlfriend Samantha Bailey's house to make a chilli.

His father John Lee told the inquest: "He had a bet with Samantha's brother who could make the hottest chilli then went back to her house to stay."

Mother-of-four Miss Bailey called the emergency services to her home nine days ago.

Police officers were called to the house after receiving reports of a man suffering a cardiac arrest and Mr Lee was found lying on the floor.

Paramedics failed to revive him and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A full post-mortem examination is underway and further inquiries are being carried out.

Deputy Doncaster coroner Fred Curtis granted a burial order and adjourned the inquest for further evidence.



By Jessica Salter
www.telegraph.co.uk

Paul Newman

Paul Newman died yesterday at the age of 83. We know that we cant live forever and life is a short gift to us and this man definitely made the best of his time here. He has been nominated 8 times for the Best Lead Actor Oscar and he has won the award 1 time in The Color of Money when he plays Fast Eddie Felson who teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Disney, Depp return to 'Caribbean'

Johnny Depp is the main man at the Mouse House.

Depp has agreed to reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow in a fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" pic and play Tonto in a bigscreen adaptation of "The Lone Ranger," both produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. He will also star as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s version of "Alice in Wonderland."

The roles come after Depp helped Disney earn a combined $2.6 billion at the box office with the three pics in the "Pirates" franchise, also produced by Bruckheimer.

"Alice in Wonderland," skedded for 2010, will be shot using 3-D and performance capture technology similar to that used for "Beowulf."

Depp’s casting deals closed a full day Wednesday at the Kodak Theater, where Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook touted the Mouse’s upcoming slate of pics during a showcase event for exhibitors, media and other industry insiders.

Toons provided the company’s other big news.

Disney-Pixar’s "Cars" has proved such a major moneymaker for the Mouse House that Disney is moving the release of the sequel up a year to summer 2011.

In addition to shifting the date for "Cars 2," studio also announced that it will produce a series of animated short films starring Mater and other characters from the first feature.

Shorts will air on TV, including the Disney Channel, and in theaters in front of films.

"You’ll see them everywhere," Cook said. "We’re going to keep this ‘Cars’ thing going."

"Cars," which was released in 2006 and went on to earn $462 million worldwide, has become a runaway hit in merchandise sales for the studio. Pic will also be prominently featured at a revamped California Adventure in Anaheim; "Cars Land," a 12-acre section of the park, opens in 2011. Move of the sequel from 2012 now times it to coincide with the attraction’s launch.

Before a full screening of Disney’s upcoming toon "Bolt," Cook also touted the studio’s commitment to 3-D animation, saying the company has released more pics in the format than any other studio.

Cook even managed a playful jab at DreamWorks Animation’s Jeffrey Katzenberg, who has long championed the format and is readying to roll out a slate of 3-D toons.

"I heard that Jeffrey may finally release his first 3-D movie next year," Cook quipped.

Disney has five live-action and animated pics set to unspool in 3-D next year and a slate of 16 in development.

Although several sequences in "Bolt" weren’t yet completed, the fast-paced pic, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios but showing off considerable Pixar touches, played extremely well with the Kodak crowd, with Rhino, a hamster going around on a wheel, generating considerable laughs.

The Walt Disney Studios Showcase has essentially turned into a splashy, ShoWest-like event in Hollywood for the company to parade out stars and screen extended clips for a couple thousand attendees in various sectors of the biz to promote its future projects. Last time it held the showcase was in 2005, also at the Kodak.

In addition to Depp, who took the stage dressed as Jack Sparrow while wearing the Lone Ranger mask, this year’s event also featured the cast of "High School Musical" plus Dwayne Johnson, Miley Cyrus, John Travolta and Robin Williams. Adam Sandler appeared in a pretaped sequence with the studio chairman. And Cook even had a conversation with the four-legged star of "Beverly Hills Chihuahua."

Bruckheimer and Nicolas Cage announced a third 'National Treasure.' Although talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey wasn’t present, it was announced that she will voice the mother of the princess in hand-drawn toon "The Princess and the Frog," set in New Orleans.

Cook called the upcoming pics for the rest of this year and 2009 "the most creative slate of films in Disney history" and showed sequences from "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," "Bedtime Stories," "Race to Witch Mountain," "Hannah Montana: The Movie," "Old Dogs," "The Princess and the Frog," Robert Zemeckis’ "A Christmas Carol" and Pixar’s next pic, "Up."

During an intro for "HSM 3," Cook teased that he would sing a song from the first bigscreen installment of the runaway Disney Channel franchise but quickly backtracked.


By MARC GRASER
Variety

IFC Short : Wilfred

I want you to meet some one new to the area. Wilfred. He is 6'2 about 190 and he is a pot smoking dog. Wilfred is a hit cult series from Australia. IFC.com is the first to air this demented little gem in North America. Come by for your fix every weekday at 4:20 ET starting May 5th – 40 short episodes in all.

Episode #1 Adam and Sarah start a new phase of their relationship when he stays over for the first time...and meets her pet dog Wilfred.

Episode #2 Adam's attempts at cleaning up Sarah's yard reveal something foreboding and ominous. Also, Wilfred takes a dump.

IFC Short : Pushing Twilight

I have long had a passion for movies and music but lets face it my generation the ADD generation has fucked the whole system all up. Personally I think that we made it better but others would argue. We have the attention span of a Blue Tang. We want what we want and we want it fast. No one has the time to sit though a 2 hour movie not like they used to. So in light of that I found a cool dark and clever web series on IFC.COM. Its a lot like the movie The Game with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn but a bit darker.

Episode #1 Starts off with the story of Mason and Layla Marks, in a final attempt to save their marriage, are invited to attend a seminar of sorts. Guaranteed to work. They are asked to put everything on the line at an underground poker game. But they quickly discover that risking it all has a higher cost than they first thought. Its very The Game meets Indecent Proposal. You get the idea.

Episode #2 Dark version of Harmony Korine's Gummo and Vincent Patrick Family Buisness with a gay twist. Cole Edwards and Jacob Wright have hit a wall - their careers at a trendy restaurant no longer hold any excitement. The flame that used to burn within no longer burns. So when they're asked to create a peculiar entree (cat) for one of the city's top food critics...will they rise to the challenge..

Episode #3 Avery Ward and Madison Price think they're capable of anything - especially when it comes to men (sluts). Their confidence isn't shaken when they're asked to become exotic dancers for a night...but can they handle the fixation of a cold-blooded VIP? The lesson here is follow the rules and in a weird way never give up.

Head Cold

I'm sick today and when I get sick I become a little baby, a real child and I have heard that its not just me but most all men.So today I'm going to sit around writing and reading and watch a few movies that I have been meaning to and then maybe a couple of shows online. I just need a little rest. I need to sit back in my couch with a blanket, a box of tissue, a cup of coffee and a book and I will be fine tomorrow but when i call into my job i cant help but feel guilty.

I hope and pray when i make that dreadful call into work that my boss happens to be away from his desk and he doesn't pick up and it goes to the voice mail. By the third ring I think that I'm in the clear home free, Scott free but on the forth ring he picks up bright and chipper and I am then forced to explain myself. Oh well such is life, besides that I don't think he even cared if i took off I'm a hard worker I deserve to stay home if I'm sick right?

Top 5 Fall T.V programs

Thank God its Fall. The weather is cooler no more upper 90's. Football season is now in full effect. The mountains are beautiful this time of year with all of the aspen trees changing colors and thank God for new shows to grace our television sets. I think that I was one of a hand full to actually watch the Emmys last night so here are my Top 5 and if they have ever one the convented Emmy.
In order of my Top 5 personal comedy favorites
1. Simpson's and there 20th season premier. Winner of its 24th Emmy Award
2. Heroes third season kicks off tonight and if it is all that the hype that I have either read or seen it should be great.
3.Office - in its third season and winner of several Emmy Awards including Best Comedy in 2006
4. 30 Rock which dominated at the Emmy's this year winning awards for Best Comedy, Best lead actor Alec Baldwin, best lead actress Tina Fey and Fey also won for outstanding writing in a comedy with her episode of "cooter". They kicked ass this year.
and finally
5.My Name is Earl which have yet taste the sweet flavor of the Emmy Award. Bet you it taste like a little piece of Heaven.

Monolith Festival

Justice For All

Xavier de Rosnay's honesty is refreshing — even if the words he's just uttered won't exactly go down as the most artistically inclined assertion ever made. "We make electronic music," the musician confesses, "because it's accessible and easy."Rosnay is one half of international dance-floor phenom Justice, whose suave yet glitchy take on electro and house music ruled the clubs in 2007.

The gritty, rock-oriented grooves of singles like "D.A.N.C.E." and "Stress" proved irresistible to dancers and DJs alike. The outfit's influence, however, has spread far beyond the dance floor; its music has been prominently featured in film and on television, too. Chances are great that even if you've never heard of Justice, you've heard Justice. The music press, which often gives the cold shoulder to club music, even embraced the act's primal, pulsating party music. In the Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop poll, "D.A.N.C.E." was the fifth most popular single among critics, while the group's debut album, (pronounced "cross"), clocked in at number 36. These are remarkable achievements for two young men from Paris's tony suburbs who haven't exactly been sweating it out in dive bars and dirty basements.

"We are the 'anybody' who can make a record," declares de Rosnay, speaking of himself and his partner, the considerably less voluble Gaspard Augé. "We started out knowing nothing about music or production."

While it's true that the pair had minimal recording experience when they came together in 2003, they weren't novices when it came to making music. As young men, de Rosnay and Augé both did time in a parade of crappy bands. "They were really bad projects with, like, five guitarists and one drummer," de Rosnay recalls. "We never played concerts or made records."

These inauspicious beginnings, though, gave way to greater things as the pair began collaborating with rudimentary electronic music equipment. Inspired by Daft Punk, Cassius and French touch music — the disco-infused club genre native to Paris et environs — de Rosnay and Augé began casually experimenting, and tout de suite, there was Justice for all.

"I was meant to be a graphic designer," notes de Rosnay, who was finishing his university degree at the time. "We just started making music to pass the time." However, when one of those experiments, which heavily sampled from British electro-rockers Simian, caught the ear of Pedro Winter, what began as a hobby suddenly became much more for Justice.

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BY ERYC EYL Published on March 13, 2008

Donnie Darko Script

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Donnie Darko

Director: Richard Kelly
Written by: Richard Kelly
Year: 2001
Genre: Sci-Fi / Mystery
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze

British team capture first pictures of Africa's 'unicorn'

Tell me how cool is this.

LONDON (AFP) - The okapi, an African animal so elusive that it was once believed to be a mythical unicorn, has been photographed in the wild for the first time, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) said Thursday.

Camera traps set by the ZSL and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) captured pictures of the okapi in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The pictures have dispelled fears that the species had died out in more than a decade of civil war.

Dr Noelle Kumpel, ZSL's Bushmeat and Forests Conservation Programme Manager, said: "To have captured the first-ever photographs of such a charismatic creature is amazing, and particularly special for ZSL given that the species was originally described here over a century ago.

"Okapi are very shy and rare animals, which is why conventional surveys only tend to record droppings and other signs of their presence."

The okapi, which have a black, giraffe-like tongue and zebra-like stripes on their behind, were last spotted in the Virunga National Park nearly 50 years ago on the west bank of the Semliki River.

The new ZSL survey revealed a previously unknown okapi population on the east side of the river.

Thierry Lusenge, a member of ZSL's Democratic Republic of Congo survey team, said: "The photographs clearly show the stripes on their rear, which act like unique fingerprints.

"We have already identified three individuals, and further survey work will enable us to estimate population numbers and distribution in and around the park, which is a critical first step in targeting conservation efforts."

The exact status of the okapi is unknown as civil conflict and poor infrastructure makes access to the forests of DRC difficult.

But ZSL warned that even the newly-discovered okapi population was under threat from poachers.

Okapi meat, reportedly from the Virunga park, is now on sale in the nearby town of Beni and ZSL warned that if hunting continues at the current rate, okapi could become extinct in the park within a few years.

De Niro's resturant chains in hot water...

Robert De Niro's restaurant chain sells endangered tuna

By Charles Clover
Telegraph.co.uk: news

A Michelin-starred restaurant chain part-owned by the actor Robert De Niro is serving endangered bluefin tuna at its London outlets without telling customers, DNA tests have shown.

Undercover investigators targeted the Nobu chain, which has 21 restaurants on four continents and is the haunt of celebrities such as Madonna, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio.

At three Nobu restaurants in London, investigators from the environmental group Greenpeace ordered tuna dishes described on the menu only by Japanese terms for the cut of the fish they were from.

They asked staff to identify the tuna species used. Samples were later tested to determine the type. Dishes from all three were Atlantic bluefin.

The distinction is important because the Atlantic bluefin and the southern bluefin are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List because of overfishing. Most sushi eaten in Britain is from less endangered species such as yellowfin, but Japanese chefs are known to consider bluefin the most delicious.

Nobu does not specify on its menus which species of tuna it serves. Requests for the information by campaigners have been met for several years with a terse "no comment".

Although it is not illegal to serve Atlantic bluefin, also known as northern bluefin, many chefs, including Gordon Ramsay, have dropped it because of concern that fishing is at higher levels than stocks can withstand. At Nobu Berkeley St, which has one Michelin star, investigators asked for Atlantic bluefin (hon maguro in Japanese) but staff told them the restaurant did not stock it.

However, DNA tests proved that the fish they were given was indeed Atlantic bluefin. At Ubon, Canary Wharf, also owned by Nobu, investigators ordered Atlantic bluefin and were served a dish that did not test conclusively either way.

However, a second dish they ordered, described only as "o-toro", the fattiest belly meat, was Atlantic bluefin. At Nobu London, a waitress told the investigators that a dish on the menu was hon maguro. The fish that was served tested positive as Atlantic bluefin.

The lack of clear information about the species of tuna on sale at Nobu could land the restaurants in trouble. A spokesman for Westminster city council said that falsely describing food was an offence.

Dr Sergi Tudela, of WWF Mediterranean, said: "It is scandalous for a restaurant chain as globally famous as Nobu not to be clear about what it sells - and misleading to the discerning consumer who is trying to do the right thing.

"The accurate traceability of seafood products is essential to avoid the overexploitation of fragile species."

Willie Mackenzie of Greenpeace said: "Nobu and Robert De Niro are clearly making a great deal of money serving up endangered fish and they were reported this year as trying to sell a controlling share of their restaurant chain at a valuation of $400 million.

"Now it turns out that Nobu's celebrity clientele are unwittingly pushing bluefin tuna towards extinction, and they should demand that the restaurant stop serving it up immediately.

"If you were served up something labelled as 'steak' in a restaurant, and only found out later that you had eaten tiger or rhinoceros meat, you would be outraged."

Findings of the investigation will be highlighted in a feature-length documentary film entitled The End of the Line, to be released next year.

The restaurant declined to comment.

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Associated Content

Check it out I've been published. Its only two and I have three pending approval but it has begun.

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Quotes

"The Book of the Samurai notes, "Nothing great was ever accomplished through common sense. One must become insane and desperate first..."

"Herb is the healing of a nation, Alcohol is the destruction" - Bob Marley

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond..."

"Writers write to taste life twice" – Anais Nin

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman"

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." – Tom Stoppard

"I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive." – Philip Roth

"Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed." – P.G. Wodehouse

"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." – Truman Capote

"The pen is the tongue of the mind." – Miguel de Cervantes

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. " – Lord Byron

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." – Pearl S. Buck

DJ Grooverider is FREE at Last FREE at Last

Jungle music lost an Icon last year when in November of '07, URB magazine reported that London drum and basser and former BBC Radio DJ Grooverider was detained in Dubai for the possession of 2.6 grams of weed and some porno DVD's. In February he was sentenced to four years..damn 4 years for weed...not just weed but weed and porn

Then URB magazine got word that on September 3rd, the Dubai Royal Family pardoned and released Grooverider just 10 months after beginning his sentence. He still had to do 10 months for under an 1/8 of ganja.

Welcome back the world is a better place now and good job Grooverider for beating the system kind of .

We can only hope he can drop something real soon. There are plenty of D&B fans worldwide ready and waiting to welcome this influential artist back tot he scence with love and open arms.

Click worthy screenwriting sites

http://johnaugust.com/ very in depth site on screenwriting
http://blog.writersdigest.com/scriptnotes/
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/
http://www.unknownscreenwriter.com/ UNK...
http://www.creativescreenwriting.com/index.html
http://thinkingwriter.com/
http://www.writersdigest.com/GeneralMenu/
http://www.wordplayer.com/
http://www.craftyscreenwriting.com/ excellent book
http://rougewave.blogspot.com/
http://www.sydfield.com/ The man. The myth. The legend

Pineapple Express Script

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