Alzheimer’s drug trial for 100 patients in London this month, a potential new treatment, gets £4.5m from the Government’s National Institute for Health Research to run the three-year trial, hoping the drug called miridesap will succeed where several have failed. Miridesap is being tested for the first time in Alzheimer’s patients, after 40 years if…
Sumner Redstone, the influence of 95-year-old patriarch of CBS and Viacom once wielded over the content of film and television screens. Redstone realised the best way to become US media mogul was to grab a territory as he knew what brought to the sunrise Drive-in the Long Island cinema founded by his father Max Rothstein.…
Michael Ovitz, the former Hollywood agent, who earned a reputation for ruthless negotiation, brilliant strategy and fierce loyalty to his clients, who writes “We are lucky to work in a golden age of commercial film, in the 1980s at the helm of Creative Artists Agency, which wrested superpower and influence from film studios, its directors,…
Alev Scott, half-British, half-Turkish journalist settled on the Greek Island of Lesbos, on the borders of Turkey, while researching this book on the “ social legacy” of the Ottoman Empire, found herself barred from Turkey. Scott who grew up in London, “was like reconnecting with an absent parent: it feels central to my identity. It…
Collapsed Force India Formula One Team’s assets were sold to fashion tycoon Lawrence Stroll for £90m. Despite finishing fourth place last year, Force India’s collapse was driven by lack of funding from its former owners, beleaguered Indian businessmen Subrata Roy and Vijay Mallya who is fighting extradition from Britain to his home country. Administrators revealed…
Bad Poetry:- Japanese feature. Raindance 26th Festival 2018. Vue Piccadilly London. A story which would be also suitable in smaller “bites” in a series/soap. Indian writer and director Anshul Chauhan has created a dark, disturbing yet mostly watchable soap opera of a story about a young woman, Jun, a person whether we’re not sure we…
Regulator Ofcom said “an auction of frequencies, for the next generation of mobile phone networks has raised £1.36bn with Vodafone, EE, O2 and Three all winning the bandwidth needed for the future 5G mobile internet services and faster connections which is expected to be launched in 2020. Ofcom auctioned two spectrum bands 3.4 GHz, which…
LOVE POSSIBLY – A BRITISH MOCKUMENTARY WITH SOME REFRESHING AD LIB SCENES. RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING. 83 MINS. MICHAEL BOCCALINI, CHE GRANT FOR THE LOVE OF COMEDY..PLEASE WATCH THIS! Hoping that other countries will fall for the funny side of deliberately nerdy characters who jump through personally made hoops to try and achieve their dreams,…
Top 100 brand list Apple, Amazon and Google are the three most valuable global brands in a top 100 list with Facebook at 9, Chanel at 23,Subar Jaguar Land Rover at 78, followed by Mini at 90, Spotify at 92, Burberry at 94, Johnnie Walker at 97, Hennessy at 98, Nintendo at 99 and Subaru…
Mount Soputan in North Sulawesi island, Indonesia, started spewing ash and lava 19, 685 feet (6000meteres), five days after Sulawesi was devastated with tsunami and 7.5-magnitude earthquake which killed 1407 people. The officials declared an exclusion zone with 1km of the summit. Indonesia’s Volcanology centre released seismographic data showing 479 mild tremors in Anak Krakatoa’s…