Kim Novak lashes out at 'The Artist' filmmakers (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? "Vertigo" leading lady Kim Novak isn't keeping quiet about her disdain for "The Artist."

The 78-year-old actress said in a statement released by her manager Monday that she feels violated because music from the Alfred Hitchcock film is used in the French black-and-white homage to the silent-film era. Novak said "The Artist" filmmakers had no reason "to depend on Bernard Herrmann's score from `Vertigo' to provide more drama."

"My body of work has been violated by `The Artist,'" Novak said. "This film took the love theme music from `Vertigo' and used the emotions it engenders as its own. Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart can't speak for themselves, but I can. It was our work that unconsciously or consciously evoked the memories and feelings to the audience that were used for the climax of `The Artist.'"

Novak, who played the dual role of both a suicidal trophy wife of a rich San Franciscan and a morose working girl opposite Stewart in in the 1958 thriller directed by Hitchcock, said that even though Herrmann was given "a small credit at the end," she believed "this kind of filmmaking trick to be cheating."

"The Artist," which was written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo as silent film actors, leads Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony with six nominations and is expected to be a front-runner at this year's Academy Awards. The wordless film combines a mostly original jazzy score, sound effects and old-fashioned title cards which display dialogue.

"`The Artist' was made as a love letter to cinema, and grew out of my (and all of my cast and crew's) admiration and respect for movies throughout history," Hazanavicius responded in a statement. "It was inspired by the work of Hitchcock, (Fritz) Lang, (John) Ford, (Ernst) Lubitsch, (F.W.) Murnau and (Billy) Wilder. I love Bernard Herrmann and his music has been used in many different films and I'm very pleased to have it in mine. I respect Kim Novak greatly, and I'm sorry to hear she disagrees."

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Australia urges release of whaling activists on Japan ship

By Rob Taylor

CANBERRA | Sun Jan 8, 2012 7:18pm EST

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia is seeking assurances from Japan on the safety of three anti-whaling activists detained while boarding a Japanese whaling fleet security ship and said that the vessel, sailing in Australian economic waters, was not welcome.

The three Australian men, who illegally boarded the whaling support vessel Shonan Maru 2 in darkness off the coast of Western Australia state on Sunday, were subject to Japanese laws because they had been detained on the high seas, Australia's Attorney-General Nicola Roxon said on Monday.

But the presence of the Japanese security ship threatened to stoke tensions over the yearly Japanese whale cull in the frigid Southern Ocean, Roxon said, and could worsen clashes with the anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd, which has targeted the fleet for the last eight years.

"We've made very clear that this boat is not a welcome boat in our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)," Roxon told Australian television, hinting the government could order action against the Japanese ship if it strayed further into Australian waters.

"This ship, people need to remember, is not directly involved in whaling activities, but it is clearly providing a support role and that may give us some other options if it was trying to come into our territorial waters," she said.

The three activists from the Australian group Forest Rescue boarded the ship with assistance from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose ships are trying to tail the Japanese whaling fleet as it heads towards the Southern Ocean.

The trio, named as Simon Peterffy, 44, Geoffrey Tuxworth, 47 and Glen Pendlebury, 27, carried with them a message reading: "Return us to shore in Australia and then remove yourself from our waters."

Forest Rescue is an environmental group which specialises in direct action, usually to prevent the logging of forests.

Roxon said the men could be taken to Japan to face charges as the boarding had occurred outside Australian territorial waters and inside the EEZ, which gives Canberra sovereign rights only over the area's natural resources.

But she said she hoped that would not occur and a deal could be done with Japan -- Australia's second-biggest trade partner and a member with the United States of a three-nation security pact -- to transfer them to Australian authorities.

"We are representing our views most strongly that they should be released promptly and returned to Australian soil. There are a number of different ways that could be done," Roxon said.

In 2008 an Australian, Benjamin Potts, and another Sea Shepherd member who had boarded a Japanese whaler in the Southern Ocean were handed over to the Australian Customs vessel Oceanic Viking near Antartica.

Donald Rothwell, an international law expert from the Australian National University, said the three activists could face a wide range of charges under Japanese law and may even have broken Australian law.

"Unauthorised boarding of a Japanese vessel is an act of trespass wherever that act may have taken place at sea," Rothwell said.

Last season, Japan cut short its annual whale hunt with less than a fifth of their quota in response to Sea Shepherd harassment which saw an activist boat -- The Ady Gil -- sunk in a collision with a Japanese ship.

Japan -- which along with Iceland and Norway is one of one three countries that hunt whales -- introduced scientific whaling to skirt the commercial whaling ban under a 1986 moratorium. It argues it has a right to monitor the whales' impact on its fishing industry.

Last year, Australia filed a complaint against Japan at the world court in the Hague to stop Southern Ocean scientific whaling. A decision is expected in 2013 or later.

Glen Inwood, a New Zealand-based spokesman for Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, told Australian radio that the three men could be stuck on the Shonan Maru 2 for as long as the ship was shadowing Sea Shepherd, possibly until March or April.

"Not only are they facing that, but they certainly risk being taken to Japan to be tried for trespassing or whatevever other charges that Japan feels they may want to issue against them," Inwood said.

(Additional reporting by Sonali Paul in MELBOURNE; Editing by Ed Davies)

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/environment/~3/WCybIQ06ymE/us-australia-japan-whaling-idUSTRE80702G20120109

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Cary woman promotes organ donation in Rose Parade

Cary, N.C. ? A Cary woman who was among the country?s first infants to receive a donor liver rode a float in the Tournament of Roses Parade this week to help promote organ donation.

?I usually don't cry at events like these. I'm usually not a crier at all, but I ended up breaking down a little bit,? said Kara Thio, now 20.

When she was born in September 1991, Thio's skin was yellow and she had trouble with her liver, which was missing a bile duct. During the next eight months, her condition grew desperate, and she needed a liver transplant.

?Back in '92, pediatric liver transplants were really new,? said Victoria Thio, Kara Thio?s mother.

UNC Hospitals had just begun pediatric transplants at that time, but they weren't ready to try them on babies as small as Kara, her mother said. So, the family looked elsewhere and selected California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.

Kara Thio's new chance at life was made possible by the family of Evan Samata, of Illinois, who died at 2 1/2. On the two families' second meeting four years ago, Kara Thio was old enough to appreciate their special gift.

?They embraced me, and they completely welcomed me, and they told me that their son was here tonight because I was here, and that was just really special,? she said.

Kara Thio says she keeps in touch with the Samata family and has sent them some of her drawings.

Carolina Donor Services selected Kara Thio to represent them in the parade. For more information about being a donor, visit the group?s website.

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UK lawmaker vows justice for slain Indian student (AP)

LONDON ? A lawmaker has promised the family of a slain Indian student that Britain will bring his killer to justice.

Anuj Bidve was shot during a night out in Salford, northwest England, on Dec. 26. A 20-year-old man, Kiaran Stapleton, has been charged with murder.

Britons were shocked by the apparently unprovoked shooting, amid speculation it might have a racial motive. And Bidve's family said they learned about their son's death from Facebook before British police contacted them.

Detectives were later sent to India to meet the family, and Bidve's parents came to Britain Thursday to take their son's body home.

On a visit to Parliament, Labour lawmaker Keith Vaz told them "we will leave no stone unturned in getting to the truth and your family will get justice."

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