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Indictments handed down in Bangkok International Film Festival bribe scandal

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2008-01-18 11:21:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery of a senior Thai tourism official in order to win a contract to run the Bangkok International Film Festival According to the Associated Press , the indictment says the Greens gave a bribe of US$900,000 to "a senior official who at the time was president of the festival and governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand." The Bangkok...
 
Tags: festival, scandal, bangkok post, puea pandin party, party, post, senior official, thai government, juthamas siriwan
 
 
 
 
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Thai agency wraps up festival bribery probe

2008-02-25 10:46:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
 
...bribery scandal, the Bangkok Post reports today that Thailand's Department of Special Investigation has completed its probe, and it will forward its case to the National Counter Corruption Commission Here is more from the story ( cache It was unclear what that will mean to the pending case against former Tourism Authority of Thailand...
 
Tags: thai, probe, investigation, special investigation, festival, justice department, justice, department, thai government
 
 
 
 
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TMB Heading To SXSW

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2008-02-26 09:52:33 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...bribe into joining us we bribe with beer or the promise of pretty girls) as we can, daily video reports, updates on all the movies but most importantly were just going to share our experiences there with you guys. It should be much fun The movies Im most excited about seeing are Harold and Kumar 2 Second Life Where in the World is Osama Bin...
 
Tags: sxsw, sxsw festival, festival, austin, daily video reports, movies, film festivals, film festival person, daily
 
 
 
 
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Film festival bribery allegations well founded

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2008-03-17 17:20:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...bribery allegations Simply put: the allegations were well founded, says Police Colonel Piyawat Kingket, the DSIs special criminal litigation commissioner However, according to The Nation, Piyawat said the DSI does not have the authority to probe the case any further because the suspects were high-ranking officials The National Counter...
 
Tags: festival, film festival management, tourism authority, authority, department, justice department, tat contracts, tat, film festival probe
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would it Be?

2008-08-20 00:29:29 by John in SF Signal
 
...bribe JK Rowling to write a story for your first issue. How you bribe someone with a net worth larger than the Queen is an exercise I leave to the reader. The popularity of SF in television and film proves to me that the audience for SF short fiction is larger than any magazine has tapped. Unfortunately, its going to take some serious energy...
 
Tags: science fiction, publish, publish science fiction, love, love science fiction, science fiction ideas, writer, science fiction writer, fiction
 
 
 
 
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MICHAEL MOORE'S "SLACKER UPRISING"- THE DVD EDITION

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2008-10-26 07:20:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...bribe" Moore is offering them? A pair of clean underwear and a cup of microwaveable noodles! In more chilling instances, far right forces try to literally ban him from certain campuses, and in one case a prominent local businessman attempts to bribe the student council by offering them $100,000 to cancel Moore's appearance. (He says on camera...
 
Tags: moore, slacker, michael moore, moore brings, moore mourns, huge crowds moore, despise moore, chronicles moore, moore claims satisfaction
 
 
 
 
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Review Of Shame

2007-07-12 13:04:00 by cosmoetica in Unspoken Cinema
 
...bribe their passage with the money from Jacobi. Their island community and life is forever destroyed. Out on the sea, a man commits suicide by meekly going overboard, at night, while the rest of the refugees are left to share bread, water, and physically navigate through waters literally clogged with dead bodies. The film ends with Eva...
 
Tags: film, film confronts, simple film, anti-war film, pro-war film, classic film, film deals, film commentary, film shame
 
 
 
 
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AMERICAN GANGSTER by Ridley Scott

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2007-11-29 21:33:47 by admin in itsvery Movie Review Blog - Independent Film Reviews
...bribe from the mafia The villain is often the better part for an actor, and thats also true for American Gangster . Just like Richie Roberts is pale compared to the charismatic, dangerous gangster Frank Lucas, Russel Crowe is playing second fiddle to Denzel Washington in his criminally underwritten role as dutiful detective. But Ridley Scotts...
 
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Review - 1408

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2007-08-06 22:23:00 by wsaws in Uninhibited Imagination
...bribe him and even tried to scare him off with quoting death figures associated with the room. Theres nothing that can stop Enslin from getting into that room Once inside, he was again disappointed. That is, until the room started to come alive and threaten to swallow him whole. But was it just a dream? Or did he really experience it all ...
 
Tags: horror movie, horror, hotel, movie, hotel management, horror movies, mike enslin, enslin, movies