Monday, January 31, 2011

Bond composer Barry dies aged 77

John BarryBarry's Bond films included Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice

Composer John Barry, famous for his work on Born Free, Midnight Cowboy and the James Bond films, has died aged 77 of a heart attack.

Born John Barry Prendergast in 1933, the York-born musician first found fame as leader of the John Barry Seven.

His arrangement of Monty Norman's James Bond theme led to him composing scores for 11 films in the series, among them Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice.

His work saw him win five Oscars, while he received a Bafta fellowship in 2005.

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Chelsea complete signing of Luiz

Chelsea sign Brazil international defender David Luiz from Benfica in a five-and-a-half-year deal worth about �21.3m.

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Facebook's local mobile deals

Users can get discounts for local businesses when they check in online at locations they are visiting.

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Blackpool to appeal against fine

Blackpool manager Ian Holloway is to fight the �25,000 fine imposed on the club by the Premier League on 27 January.

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Reid secures Blackpool transfer

Sunderland midfielder Andy Reid joins Blackpool until the end of the season while James Beattie is having a medical at Bloomfield Road.

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Salmond pledges to 'protect public sector jobs'

Alex Salmond says the Scottish government will do all it can to protect public sector jobs during first minister's questions.

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Starry, starry night?

Why we are being encouraged to look up and count the stars.

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King's Speech wins top director

Director Tom Hooper with his dad RichardAs well as The King's Speech Tom Hooper also directed The Damned United

British movie The King's Speech was awarded the top honour at this year's Directors Guild of America Awards.

Tom Hooper was presented with the outstanding directorial achievement award at the show.

The film, which tells the tale of how King George VI overcame his stammer, was last week nominated for 12 Academy Awards.

The winner of the DGA gong has gone on to win the Oscar for best director on all but six times since 1948.

Hooper paid tribute to his mother, who had drawn his attention to the story after she attended a reading of the tale when it was an unproduced play.

"She came home and she rang me up and she said, 'I think I found your next movie'," he said.

"The moral of the story is, listen to your mother."

He also praised the movie's screenwriter, David Seidler, who overcame a stammer himself as a boy around the time of World War II.

"He listened to King George VI on the radio in the war, and he thought, 'well, if a king can overcome his stammer, so can I'," Hooper said.

The historical drama, starring Colin Firth, had been up against the directors of four other Oscar frontrunners for the DGA award, including The Social Network's David Fincher.

Others movies that had been in the running had been Darren Aronofsky for ballet-themed drama Black Swan, Christopher Nolan for high-tech thriller Inception and David O Russell for boxing movie The Fighter.

Inside Job, a chronicle of the 2008 economic meltdown, won the documentary DGA prize.

Martin Scorsese, who received the guild's lifetime-achievement honour in 2003 and won the feature-film directing prize four years ago for The Departed, went home with a TV prize for directing the pilot episode of the Boardwalk Empire.

The director, who was unable to attend the ceremony, said in a statement that the programme had been "one of the greatest and energizing experiences I've had in 45 years of making movies".

The award ceremony is followed by the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, which is the last big honours event before the Oscars on 27 February.

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