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"Finding t.A.T.u.": The Excitement Continues!
Finding t.A.T.u.—the movie about the Russian pop duo starring Mischa Barton as a slaughterhouse worker obsessed with the "All The Things They Said" singers—is apparently opening somewhere in the world this year, and the above news report from Russian TV sheds a little bit more light on the project as it currently stands. Not only did the two ladies of t.A.T.u. have no idea who Barton was (and they get kinda bitchy about her "American TV" pedigree!), and not only does the director have two Oscar nominations under his belt, the report grimly notes that, thanks to one of the t.A.T.u.s being pregnant during filming, "the girls will have to say farewell to their myth of lesbian love." It's not exactly "Fuck everything but t.A.T.u.... they're nihilists, beautiful nihilists," but that line is definitely more poetic than anything I've heard come out of Wolf Blitzer's mouth lately. [YouTube / Earlier]
Did the people who the RIAA hired to "detect" downloading have the proper licenses to engage in their investigations? If not, expect "a number of counterclaims and third party claims (negligence per se, negligent supervision, federal computer fraud, violation of the federal Stored Communications Act) and even recovery of attorneys' fees from MediaSentry under the tort of another theory (which applies in most jurisdictions)" to rain down on the organization, says one lawyer. [
