Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Mi 02. Juni 2010
Bin ich etwa zu fett, um mich selbst zu spielen?
In Amerikas Fernsehen läuft eine Serie, die Frauen, die keine Modelmaße haben, Hoffnung macht. “Drop Dead Diva” nimmt den Kampf gegen den Körperkult auf. Das ist der neue Feminismus.
PHOENIX, 1. Juni
Mittagspause am Set von “Drop Dead Diva” in Peachtree City, einem kleinen Städtchen eine halbe Autostunde südwestlich von Atlanta, Georgia. Brooke Elliott, die Hauptdarstellerin, isst eine Portion Nudeln, ein Fauxpas für amerikanische Schauspielerinnen, deren Karriere zumeist an die Kleidergröße gekoppelt ist. Aber Brooke Elliott ist …
Jorja ist die Sprecherin bei diesem Film.
Narrated by Jorja Fox (“CSI”) and produced by Brian L. Gillogly and Robert Masters, ACCIDENTAL ICON explores the largely untold story of the real “Gidget,” Kathy Kohner Zuckerman. Kathy’s account of surfing Malibu in the mid-50’s became the basis for a best-selling novel by her father Frederick Kohner and the hit 1959 “Gidget” movie, which introduced the modern sport of surfing to a world-wide audience. Surf legends and present-day “surfer girls” set the stage and take the Gidget story full …
From City News Service:
A federal jury rejected a Venice surfer’s claim that two LAPD officers unnecessarily punched and pepper-sprayed him in 2006, after he refused to follow a lifeguard’s orders to leave the water.
The five-man, three-woman civil jury returned its verdict late Monday after a week-long trial of
Gregory Falk’s $750,000 lawsuit against the officers and the City of Los Angeles on
allegations of excessive force, civil rights violations and malicious prosecution.
Deputy City Attorney Christian Bojorquez successfully argued that Falk became
“confrontational” when the lifeguard asked him to leave the water.
“His response was, …
