Released on: 1985
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Stephen Daldry and Richard Curtis pick up Trash
Billy Elliot director and Four Weddings and a Funeral writer team up on contemporary thriller set in unnamed developing-world city
Stephen Daldry and Richard Curtis are teaming up to shoot a contemporary thriller set in the developing world in which three young boys uncover a terrible secret while searching through rubbish mounds, reports Variety (paywall).
Trash, which is based on the Andy Mulligan novel, is set in an unnamed city where teenagers Raphael, Gordo and Rat spend their time picking through litter in the hope of finding useful waste. One day they discover a leather bag whose contents will bring them into conflict with the brutal local police force as they find themselves unlikely whistleblowers in a city rife with corruption.
The project inevitably recalls the 2008 Oscar-winning British film Slumdog Millionaire, which also centred on opportunistic young boys living in a grubby developing-world metropolis. Daldry looks likely to direct from a Curtis screenplay,»
- Ben Child
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Bristol Palin Made Bank On Pregnancy Prevention Deal
Let’s for a second, take a moment to applaud the hypocrisy of it all. The Candie’s Foundation appointed Bristol Palin as their face for a teen pregnancy prevention campaign in 2009. Because clearly, she’s the poster child for it, right? This happened post Tripp’s birth, when Bristol was 18 years old. And it seems all this preventing talk has made the young mom a very rich lady. TMZ reports that Bristol made over $262,000 on the deal because she, “plays an important role by helping other teens understand the incredible challenges teen parents face, and encouraging them to wait until they are socially and financially independent to start their families.”
What. Firstly, she’s a teen mom. She has a baby. There was no prevention there! And now she’s getting money for saying don’t have babies? And then going on Dancing With The Stars. We’re not»
- Ambika Muttoo
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