Lakeshore To Finance 'Whatever Happened To Baby Jane - Deadline

We now have an answer to the question, who is going to produce and finance the remake of the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford classic Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? The answer is Lakeshore partners Tom Rosenberg and Gary Lucchesi, who?ll produce with The Aldrich Company?s Adell Aldrich. Robert Aldrich helmed the 1962 original, and as Deadline revealed during Comic-Con, Walter Hill is helming the remake.

Hill, who most recently wrapped the Sylvester Stallone-starrer Bullet To The Head, partnered with The Aldrich Company to develop the remake, which Lukas Heller adapted from the Henry Farrell novel.

Lakeshore will help Hill re-create the nightmarish relationship between two sisters in a crumbling Hollywood mansion, where former child star Jane Hudson (Davis) holds captive her crippled former movie-queen sister (Crawford). ?The idea is to make a modern film without modernizing the period,? Hill told me at the time. ?It needs to resonate the golden age of Hollywood.? Hill is repped by ICM Partners as is The Aldrich Company.

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If you don?t laugh, you cry? goes the old adage. Laughter is a beautiful expression. It provides light moments in our lives, relieves us from pain and stress. Laughter has, in many contexts; act as antidote to troubled minds.

It makes us forget our sorrows and, in seconds, realize how beautiful the world is. Laughter is as result of good humor.

A pack of good humorous jokes is better than finest wine the world would offer. In light of such reason, some comedians in the country have teamed up to form a stand-up comedy group, Ajomasiwe, which is comprised of five people.

The name is derived from the names of the members, Andrew Samati, Jokes, Madalitso Nyambo, Charles Simbi and Wales Chigwenembe.

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?Ajomasiwe with different storytelling techniques and varying sense of humor have teamed up to provide unique family entertainment. Stand-up comedy has always been there in Malawi but usually comics performed as double acts. But now Ajomasiwe has endeavored to do it the internationally popular way,? one of the members, Wales Chigwenembe explained in an interview .

Chigwenembe added: ?Stand-up, as an art form that is openly devoted to getting immediate laughs from an audience, sees Individual comics performing in turns risking more than anyone else as they figure out the psychology of audiences and what amuses them.

?Just as successful brands, comedians cannot repeat the same routine for very long, no matter how successful it is. Stand-up comedy is a messy, counter-intuitive business. This is why Ajomasiwe will engage in an interactive loop of creation, feedback, revision, rejection, and creation again.?

According to Chigwenembe the grouping, which has been curtain-raising various shows since it was formed two months ago, will be officially launched on Sunday at Fro Motel in Blantyre.

The stand-up comedy show-to be first of its kind hosted by local comedians- will feature poets in the likes of Evelyn Pangani, Joseph Madzedze, Sylvester Kalidzang?oma, Hudson Chasowa, Micheal Benjala, Nyamalikiti-Nthiwatiwa and Kadzako Singano among others.

?We will use the show to also launch a poetry CD album, Kalasi B by Mada Nyambo who is also our member. It is the moment families come out and enjoy pack of jokes that at tailor-made for their pleasure,? he added.

Another member, Charles Simbi described the formation of the group as one way of unearthing hidden talent, saying through the group?s show various comedians will be given opportunity to expose themselves.

?Ajomasiwe is the act; Stand up Malawi is the project. The act will provide unique opportunity to laugh off various human absurdities and look at life from a funny and humorous view point. The project will unearth various standup acts across the country and promote Stand Up comedy as a standalone genre to expose local comics internationally,? Simbi explained.

Ajomasiwe has experienced local Comedian Mr. Jokes currently making it big in MBC TV Comedy corner, drama scriptwriter, Charles Simbi, , actor and celebrated poet of the Zavuta M?kalasi B fame, Madalitso Nyambo, Andrew Samati a stage performer and a notable theatre for development practitioner as well as versatile artist, Wales Chigwenembe also theatre for development practitioner and a theatre-director.

The group will be first one to be formed in the country and help putting the struggling local arts industry in shape.

Stand-up comedy is one of the most powerful tools and venues to educate, heal, incite, and make people ponder about ideas and things beyond themselves.

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Source: http://www.nyasatimes.com/malawi/2012/09/26/malawi-comedians-group-formed-premieres-sunday/

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Language use is simpler than previously thought, study suggests

ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls.

A new Cornell study suggests language use is simpler than they had thought.

Co-author Morten Christiansen, Cornell professor of psychology and co-director of the Cornell Cognitive Science Program, and his colleagues say that language is actually based on simpler sequential structures, like clusters of beads on a string.

"What we're suggesting is that the language system deals with words by grouping them into little clumps that are then associated with meaning," he said.

Sentences are made up of such word clumps, or "constructions," that are understood when arranged in a particular order. For example, the word sequence "bread and butter" might be represented as a construction, whereas the reverse sequence of words ("butter and bread") would likely not.

The sequence concept has simplicity on its side; language is naturally sequential, given the temporal cues that help us understand and be understood as we use language. Moreover, the hierarchy concept doesn't take into account the many other cues that help convey meaning, such as the setting and knowing what was said before and the speaker's intention.

The researchers drew on evidence in language-related fields from psycholinguistics to cognitive neuroscience. For example, research in evolutionary biology indicates that humans acquired language (and animals did not) because we have evolved abilities in a number of areas, such as being able to correctly guess others' intentions and learn a large number of sounds that we then relate to meaning to create words. In contrast, the hierarchy concept suggests humans have language thanks only to highly specialized "hardware" in the brain, which neuroscientists have yet to find.

Research in cognitive neuroscience shows that the same set of brain regions seem to be involved in both sequential learning and language, suggesting that language is processed sequentially. And several recent psycholinguistic studies have shown that how well adults and children perform on a sequence learning task strongly predicts how well they can process the deluge of words that come at us in rapid succession when we're listening to someone speak. "The better you are at dealing with sequences, the easier it is for you to comprehend language," Christiansen said.

The study by Christiansen and his colleagues has important implications for several language-related fields. From an evolutionary perspective, it could help close what has been seen as a large gap between the communications systems of humans and other nonhuman primates. "This research allows us a better understanding of our place in nature, in that we can tie our language ability, our communication abilities, more closely to what we can see in other species. It could have a big impact in terms of allowing us to think in more humble terms about the origin of language in humans," Christiansen said.

The research could also affect natural language processing, the area of computer science that deals with human language, by encouraging scholars to focus on sequential structure when trying to create humanlike speech and other types of language processing, Christiansen said. He pointed out that machines already successfully perform such tasks as translation and speech recognition thanks to algorithms based on sequential structures.

The study, "How hierarchical is language use?" was published Sept. 12 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The research was funded by the European Union, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the Binational Science Foundation.

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UK politician under fire for alleged 'pleb' remark

LONDON (AP) ? In class-conscious Britain, a Cabinet minister is in trouble over a four-letter word: "pleb."

The single syllable was reportedly not the most profane part of Andrew Mitchell's tirade at police officers who asked him to get off his bicycle as he passed through the gates of Downing Street. But it is the most incendiary ? a pejorative term for the working class with a whiff of contempt that is bad news for a government often characterized as elitist.

Class distinctions are the great tugging undercurrent in British society ? ever-present, endlessly debated, never resolved. The topic is a minefield for any politician keen to appeal to a wide range of voters. And the four-letter clanger attributed to Mitchell lands as a thudding reminder that class is still a potent and divisive aspect of British life.

Last week's altercation between the minister and police officers guarding the approach to the prime minister's residence has been seized on by the media and political opposition and escalated into a political tempest with its own title: "Gategate."

Mitchell on Monday apologized for the incident, in which ? according to press reports ? he told the officers "Best you learn your (expletive) place. You don't run this (expletive) government. You're (expletive) plebs."

The Metropolitan Police force has not officially confirmed the account, but says it has launched an investigation into how internal police information was leaked to the press.

Mitchell conceded that he had lost his temper at "the end of a long and extremely frustrating day."

"I didn't show the police the amount of respect I should have done," Mitchell said. But, he added: "I want to make it absolutely clear that I did not use the words that have been attributed to me."

Mitchell's reported word choice is a blow to attempts by Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led administration to downplay its image as a privileged club.

Pleb ? short for plebeian ? comes from the Latin plebeius, the mass of ordinary citizens apart from the elite of upper-class patricians.

First recorded in the late 18th century, "it has always had quite strong pejorative overtones," said Denny Hilton of the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary notes that pleb is often used to mean "an unsophisticated or uncultured person."

Mitchell's showdown with police also came days after two unarmed policewomen were shot dead in the city of Manchester, with public sympathy and admiration for officers riding high.

"The timing is almost indescribably bad," said Steven Fielding, director of the Center for British Politics at the University of Nottingham.

Worse, he said, is the message the term pleb sends ordinary voters: "This government is not one that's interested in people like you."

"It's got connotations that are unfortunate and draw attention to a certain kind of Conservative, a certain image of the Conservative Party, which David Cameron has been trying to move the party away from," Fielding said.

Cameron ? who has aristocratic origins and is distantly related to Queen Elizabeth II ? has worked to overcome the Conservatives' traditional image as the party of the ruling class. But opponents point out that half the members of his Cabinet went to private schools ? which educate about 7 percent of all Britons ? while two-thirds are millionaires.

Both Cameron and Treasury chief George Osborne attended Eton, the most exclusive of all private schools, which counts Princes William and Harry among its alumni. Mitchell ? who as Chief Whip is responsible for maintaining discipline among government lawmakers ? attended the scarcely less elite Rugby, where the sport of the same name was founded. His nickname there, according to media reports, was "Thrasher."

Opponents like to remind voters that Cameron and Osborne once belonged to the Bullingdon Club, an elite Oxford University dining society with a reputation for drunken vandalism.

The opposition Labour Party successfully painted the government as out of touch with ordinary Britons earlier this year over a planned levy on takeaway pastries such as meat pies, sausage rolls and Cornish pasties. The "pasty tax" was depicted as an attack on cheap and filling working-class snacks, and was later dropped.

The "pleb" controversy is another unfortunate reminder of Britain's class divide for a government that's currently slashing welfare benefits and public sector pensions as part of 50 billion pounds ($80 billion) in spending cuts.

If Mitchell hoped Monday's statement would end the episode, he may be disappointed. Labour Party crime spokeswoman Yvette Cooper called on authorities to review surveillance video footage in a bid to work out exactly what Mitchell said.

John Tully, chairman of police union the Metropolitan Police Federation, said Mitchell was accusing police officers of lying.

"Clearly Mr. Mitchell is denying using certain words, effectively now impugning the integrity of the police officers," he told Sky News.

"I think that is very serious. I think the prime minister or Downing Street officials should hold an inquiry and if Mr. Mitchell is proved to have lied, then he should be sacked."

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Police seal off Spain Parliament ahead of protest

MADRID (AP) ? Spain's Parliament has taken on the appearance of a heavily guarded fortress with rows of metal barriers manned by dozens of police blocking access from every possible angle, hours ahead of a protest against the conservative government's handling of the economic crisis.

The demonstration, organized behind the slogan 'Occupy Congress,' is expected to draw thousands of people from around Spain. It is due to start around 1730 GMT Tuesday.

Madrid's regional Interior Ministry delegation said some 1,300 police would be deployed.

The protestors say they have no intention of storming the chamber but will try to march around it.

They are calling for Parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections held, claiming the government's austerity measures show the ruling Popular Party misled voters to get elected last November.

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