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Pemuda PAS bantah konsert ELLA

Jun 19, '08 1:40 PM
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DARI BERITA HARIAN SINGAPURA..KLIK PADA GAMBAR UNTUK MEMBACANYA..

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Woman sues Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten for assault in hotel room row

Jun 5, '08 2:15 PM
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Sex Pistol, Johnny Rotten is accused of assaulting a woman in Los Angeles (AP Photo)

Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten has been charged with beating a woman during the taping of a reality show last year, Los Angeles court sources said.

In court papers filed on Wednesday, Roxane Davis - an assistant producer in a reality TV show that featured Rotten, 52 - said the punk rocker hit her because he didn't like the hotel room he was allocated.

The alleged aggression in January 2007 did not lead to criminal charges, but Davis is suing Rotten -- whose real name is John Lydon - for sexual harassment and assault.
A spokesman for the singer said Rotten was not available for comment.

The Sex Pistols, who spearheaded the 1970s punk movement with singles like "Anarchy in the UK" and "Pretty Vacant," were formed in 1975. They split in 1978.

Sid Vicious, who replaced Glen Matlock as bassist in 1977, died after a drug overdose in 1979.

The group got together again in 1996 and performed until 2003. Last year, they re-grouped and are scheduled to tour Europe soon.

Agence France-Presse

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PLAYBOY MAGAZINE makes its Philippines debut

Apr 3, '08 11:46 AM
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The Philippines gets its own version of Playboy magazine today without full frontal nudity in deference to the country’s influential Roman Catholic Church.

“We’re adjusting it to local conditions,” Editor-in-Chief Beting Laygo Dolor, 54, said in a telephone interview. “If the church gets very angry, you can expect a reaction on the political front, maybe even big business. We don’t exist to lock horns with the church.”

About 86 per cent of the country’s 91 million people are baptized Roman Catholic, and the government’s classification board routinely deletes scenes of nudity from movies. Playboy ran into difficulties when it began publishing in Indonesia in April 2006, minus nudity. It temporarily suspended operations because of protests in the world’s largest Muslim population.

“We’re very much against the exploitation of women in the media in any form,” said Zenaida Rotea, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Commission on Women. "The group isn’t planning to issue a statement on Playboy’s debut or lobby against the magazine because “our job against movies is already too big for us,” Rotea said.

The Philippines version is the 25th international franchise of Playboy, which has a global readership of almost 15 million people, according to Playboy Enterprises Inc. The publication will contain articles and fiction from some of the country’s best-known writers, according to Dolor.

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Playboy hits Philippines with tasteful nudity

American adult magazine Playboy launched Wednesday its first Philippine edition, triggering protests from the country's conservative Roman Catholic Church, but promising to avoid full-frontal nudity.

The local issue promises to be tamer than other editions sold across the world and will seek to avoid offending local sensibilities, editor-in-chief Beting Laygo Dolor told AFP.

"The Philippine edition has been adjusted to our culture, including the fact that we are a predominantly Catholic country and a little more conservative," Dolor said.

While flesh will be featured, "there will not be full frontal nudity," Dolor said, stressing that they were not out to compete with the local editions of "lad magazines" FHM and Maxim, which are more explicit.

"We are targetting a different demographic -- the slightly mature, more upscale men," Dolor said.

"The main reasons for them buying this magazine is for the artwork, articles and photography," he said.

Four of the Philippines' top literary writers are among those on the roster of contributors to Playboy, the 25th international edition of the US-based magazine which was launched more than 50 years ago, he said.

While some ultra-conservative segments of the society "won't be very happy" Dolor said he does not expect the magazine to trigger social unrest like in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.

Playboy launched its Indonesian edition in 2006, triggering protests there and forcing advertisers to back out.

But Monsignor Pedro Quitorio, spokesman for the influential Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), said the Philippines already had a host of problems from poverty to scandals that it can't afford to "have one more moral problem."

"That (Playboy) would destroy our moral stature," Quitorio said, adding that government should investigate the franchise.

Senior CBCP member Bishop Pedro Arigo, meanwhile, noted that Filipinos "are already a lost generation" with sales of adult magazines widespread in the country.

Playboy "will further add to the degeneration of (Filipinos') sexual culture," Arigo said.

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