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  • CA chief Sutherland says IPL not a concern for Oz Ashes bid

    Cricket Australia (CA) chief executive James Sutherland has said that Australia's Ashes bid in England will not be compromised by the Indian Premier League (IPL). Two members of the Ashes party, Shane Watson and James Faulkner, remain on the subcontinent with their team, Rajasthan Royals, who will play in an elimination semi-final in Delhi, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Describing the ...

  • Penitent Warner fined 5750 dollars by CA for Twitter rant

    Australian Test cricketer David Warner has copped a 5750-dollar fine from Cricket Australia for his Twitter rant controversy. Warner had pleaded guilty to unbecoming behaviour after his expletive-laden criticism of senior News Ltd cricket writers Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn for an article by Craddock exposing the sleazy nightlife and alleged corruption within the Indian Premier League ...

  • Hollywood star Steven Seagal visits Chechnya

    Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent some time with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads Chechnya, in the latest in a series of visits by Western celebrities to the volatile Russian republic. "The famous American actor, film producer, writer, director and martial arts expert (seventh dan aikido) Steven Seagal visited our republic today (Wednesday)," Kadyrov wrote on ...

  • Arnie caught grabbing ex wifes butt on camera

    Arnold Schwarzenegger has seemingly confirmed rumours that he's back with his estranged wife Maria Shriver after he was caught on video grabbing her butt last weekend. The actor, who was attending daughter Christina's graduation at Georgetown with Shriver, can be seen cupping his wife's behind in the video footage, TMZ.com reported. The 'Terminator' star has always been obsessed with Shriver's ...

  • Drew Barrymore puts wedding house on sale

    Drew Barrymore has put her Montecito, California home, where she got married to husband Will Kopelman, on the market. The Chester Carjola-designed six bedroom house, with a detached, two-storey guest property, has been listed at 7.5 million dollars, Contactmusic reported. According to RealEstalker.com, the actress purchased the 1937 built estate for 5.7 million dollars in 2010. ...

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Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Straw Dogs (1971) [Blu-Ray]

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmakers career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there ... ...

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  • Chris Brown and girlfriend Karrueche Tran involved in car crash

    Chris Brown was recently caught on camera accidentally crashing his Range Rover into another car while he was driving in Los Angeles with his on-again girlfriend Karrueche Tran. The troubled rapper, who had crashed his Porsche into a wall back in February, was seen writing down insurance information after he rear-ended a black Mercedes, Contactmusic reported. The couple was on their way to ...

  • LA County woman finds bear on kitchen counter

    A Los Angeles county sheriff's statement says the department received a 911 call Wednesday from the woman, who said the bear had climbed through her window and she had locked herself in an upstairs ...

  • Home search in case of woman missing for 35 years

    GLENDORA, Calif. -; Police and sheriff's detectives are searching at a home in a Los Angeles suburb in the case of a woman who disappeared in ...

  • Man on probation found with police badge gear

    SAN FRANCISCO -; A 21-year-old Oakland man convicted of impersonating a federal police officer earlier this year is behind bars after FBI agents say they found him with a badge, forged law enforcement documents and police ...

  • Smith drops rookie battle to Cards Lyons

    Padres strike-'em-out, throw-'em-out SAN DIEGO -- In a battle of rookies, the Padres' Burch Smith -- making his third career start -- was actually the more experienced pitcher compared to Cardinals starter Tyler Lyons, who was making his Major League debut. But Smith labored from the start of the game, and the Cardinals defeated the Padres, 5-3, in front of 18,683 at Petco ...

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