"Yoki" <yokinospamtori@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
tNyyk.7834$uW7.7447@newsfe13.ams2...

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Quand l'actrice de Charmed et de Quentin Tarantino pète les plombs...

(elle chante aussi) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_cabF0krYUA

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Dès que j'entendis les premières phrases de "You belong to me" chantées par
cette jolie personne,
j'ai tout de suite "sauté" sur Jo Stafford. Quelle différence !
Si Rose Mc Gowan pense aussi bien qu'elle chante...........!?

(1)
http://blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2008/09/11/rose-mcgowan-and-the-ira-what-does-she-know/
(2)
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/news/fury-as-actress-tells-film-festival-i-would-have-joined-the-ira-927097.html

* 1 Rose McGowan and the IRA: what does she know?

    It's one thing to be a movie actress portraying a character in a
secretive anti-government group, but it's a far different to be a person
in real life battling a government every day. In movies, guns fire
blanks; in real life, they shoot bullets.
    So, when actress Rose McGowan told reporters at a Toronto film
festival press conference for her new movie "Fifty Dead Men Walking" that
if she had lived through Northern Ireland's "Troubles," she would have
joined the Irish Republican Army, she almost immediately drew a protest
from the very man upon whose life the film is based.
    "I imagine had I grown up in Belfast I would have 100 percent joined
the IRA," said McGowan,  35,  who plays a high-ranking IRA femme fatale
in the movie, alongside British actors Jim Sturgess and Ben Kingsley.
    "My heart just broke for the cause and I have a lot of respect for
the intelligence and the honor that these people carried."
    "Fifty Dead Men Walking," which debuted at the Toronto International
Film Festival on Wednesday, is based on Martin McGartland's best-selling
1997 memoir of a young Catholic hustler living in Belfast in the late
'80s who was recruited by British intelligence to infiltrate the IRA.
    McGartland, who is still in hiding and lives under a false identity
on the British mainland, responded with a statement on Thursday slamming
McGowan's off-the-cuff remarks.
    "Such comments are deeply offensive and hurtful to victims of IRA
terrorism," he said.
    McGowan, whose father is Irish, was born and raised in Italy. Could
she really know what it meant to be an IRA member just because she was in
a movie? Are statements such as hers made by actors "deeply offensive and
hurtful" to people on both sides of an issue who have suffered in real
life? They are interesting questions, and we'd like to know readers'
views.

* 2 Fury as actress tells film festival 'I would have joined the IRA'

    The Hollywood actress Rose McGowan has been heavily criticised after
expressing sympathy with the IRA ahead of the release of her new film.
   The Italian-born star, who is most famous for her role as Paige
Matthews in the series Charmed, said she would have joined the IRA if she
lived in Belfast during the Troubles. McGowan, 35, stars in Fifty Dead
Men Walking, a biopic based on the autobiography of the former IRA
informer Martin McGartland.
    "My heart just broke for the cause," she told a news conference
before the film's world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. "I
imagine, had I grown up in Belfast, I would 100 per cent have been in the
IRA," she said. "Violence is not to be played out daily and provide an
answer to problems, but I understand it."
    McGowan's comments have met with angry ripostes - not least from Mr
McGartland himself. He still lives in hiding because of the threat to his
life from militant sympathisers. "It's easy to say this sort of thing
when you live in LA," Mr McGartland told The First Post website. "Rose
McGowan's comments were insulting to victims of IRA terrorism and she
should apologise.
    "She must have taken leave of her senses. Can't she see that such
remarks are incredibly insensitive to the families of victims of the IRA?
She clearly doesn't know anything about Northern Ireland."
    Billy Armstrong, an Ulster Unionist assembly member, said the
comments were "foolish and offensive". He added: "As an IRA member, would
Miss McGowan have been happy to participate in the abduction, torture and
murder of Jean McConville, a widow and mother of 10?"-
    The film, which also stars Jim Sturgess as McGartland and Sir Ben
Kingsley as his British handler, is not the first to arouse controversy
over the activities of the IRA. The actor Mickey Rourke, who sports an
IRA tattoo, received approbation for allegedly claiming he donated part
of his fee for the 1989 film Francesco to the terrorist group, though the
charge was never proved.
    The controversial comments from McGowan, who had leading roles in
Scream (1996), Jawbreaker (1999) and Grindhouse, last year's two-part
feature by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, come in the wake of a
settlement between Mr McGartland and the film's producers over its
content.
    Chronicling his four years in the IRA from 1987 to 1991, Mr
McGartland has protested that the "film is not a true account of my story
as it puts me at the scene of torture and murders". He added: "I insisted
on a new voiceover and a disclaimer at the beginning saying the film was
inspired by my book, rather than being a true story."
    Mr McGartland has now dropped a threat of legal action following a
settlement which includes a payment thought to be about £20,000.
    Mr McGartland was kidnapped after his cover was blown in 1991. He
escaped by jumping out of a window and was later resettled with a secret
identity in Whitley Bay, near Newcastle upon Tyne.
    His new name emerged after he was prosecuted for a driving offence,
and in 1999 he was badly wounded in a gun attack blamed on the IRA. Since
then, MI5 has moved him to a new location.