One of next year's most eagerly anticipated films, a star-studded thriller featuring a thinly disguised version of Tony Blair, is in jeopardy because of the arrest of Roman Polanski. The Oscar-winning director had recently finished filming The Ghost, his adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name starring Pierce Brosnan. But the film is without a musical score and needs sound mixing and extra dialogue before a distributor can be found. With Polanski, who is in Switzerland, awaiting extradition proceedings to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, there are fears that the negative publicity will ruin the film's chances at the box office. Polanski co-wrote the script with the book's author Robert Harris. Sources on the production of The Ghost, about a British prime minister facing indictment for war crimes, played by Brosnan, told The Times that they were determined to complete the final steps of the production process.
One of next year's most eagerly anticipated films, a star-studded thriller featuring a thinly disguised version of Tony Blair, is in jeopardy because of the arrest of Roman Polanski.
The Oscar-winning director had recently finished filming The Ghost, his adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name starring Pierce Brosnan. But the film is without a musical score and needs sound mixing and extra dialogue before a distributor can be found. With Polanski, who is in Switzerland, awaiting extradition proceedings to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, there are fears that the negative publicity will ruin the film's chances at the box office.
Polanski co-wrote the script with the book's author Robert Harris.
Sources on the production of The Ghost, about a British prime minister facing indictment for war crimes, played by Brosnan, told The Times that they were determined to complete the final steps of the production process.
Just by writing this blogpost, I will probably damage my chances in Bracknell. Some will say 'if you can't take the heat...'. But I am damned if I am going to stay silent when I see a national newspaper indulge in a homophobic attack on me. A year ago, the Richard Kay column in the Daily Mail printed a fairly vile column about my civil partnership - full of innuendo and just plain nastiness. Today, the Ephraim Hardcastle column goes one better. Here's what they had to say about Bracknell...
If you think that hating Blair makes your sexuality acceptable to tories, you are in for a rude awakening. keep to the Fen Causeway
A rare gemstone valued at £11m that helped to underpin the finances of a UK-based construction company could be almost worthless, reports suggest.Known as the Gem of Tanzania, the 2.1kg (4.6lb) ruby appeared in accounts of the now collapsed Wrekin Construction. Administrators Ernst & Young are now trying to sell the stone through the November issue of RocknGem Magazine and Colored Stone Magazine in the US. Experts suggest it could be worth just £100, the Financial Times says. The so-called "Wrekin Ruby" was used to revive the company's balance sheet and was listed in the accounts at £11m, despite being valued by a previous owner at £300,000, the paper adds.
A rare gemstone valued at £11m that helped to underpin the finances of a UK-based construction company could be almost worthless, reports suggest.
Known as the Gem of Tanzania, the 2.1kg (4.6lb) ruby appeared in accounts of the now collapsed Wrekin Construction.
Administrators Ernst & Young are now trying to sell the stone through the November issue of RocknGem Magazine and Colored Stone Magazine in the US.
Experts suggest it could be worth just £100, the Financial Times says.
The so-called "Wrekin Ruby" was used to revive the company's balance sheet and was listed in the accounts at £11m, despite being valued by a previous owner at £300,000, the paper adds.
