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Man Blames Reckless Driving on Martians

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - A Frenchman who raced through a motorway road block, triggering a high-speed police car chase that ended in a minor crash, has blamed aliens from Mars for his reckless driving.

Under police custody in a hospital in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, the 42-year-old told police he was being "chased by Martians" when he charged through a road block on the A55 motorway Monday evening, police sources said.

A breathalyzer test for alcohol proved negative, but police are still awaiting the results of drugs tests and a psychiatric examination.

France, which has one of the worst accident rates in Europe with more than 8,000 road deaths each year, is in the process of stiffening its speeding and drink-driving laws to try and reduce the carnage on its roads.


'Sin Eater' Is Off Movie Menu for January

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Twentieth Century Fox has pulled Brian Helgeland's occult thriller "Sin Eater" from its Jan. 17 berth because the special effects were unintentionally funny.

The effects, originally handled by Mill Film in London, are now being done by Santa Monica-based Asylum. A Fox spokeswoman said the studio and Helgeland are now much happier with the progress of the f/x at the Asylum.

The movie's title has also been changed: the picture is now called "The Order," and while no release date has been set, a late-summer date is a possibility.

The title refers to an ancient order of rogue priests who would eat food off a corpse, taking unforgiven sins upon themselves and absolving the deceased. In the Heath Ledger (news) starrer, a sin eater resurfaces in modern-day Rome, and begins to allow great evil to go unpunished.

The picture depicts sins flying out of the human body. Post-production insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the problem was that Mill's "Sin Eater" effects were producing hilarity instead of fear. One insider described the exiting sins as "looking like calamari."

Helgeland and Ledger previously worked together on "Knight's Tale." Three weeks after production launched in Rome, French thesp Vincent Cassel (news) ("Brotherhood of the Wolf") departed the title role due to creative differences. He was replaced by Benno Furman, who most recently toplined Tom Tykwer (news)'s "The Princess and the Warrior."


In Wake of 'Taken,' Sci Fi Ratings Soar

By John Dempsey NEW YORK (Variety) - It's called the halo effect, and the Sci Fi Channel basked in its glow during the week after chalking up its best-ever ratings with the two-week, 20-hour "Steven Spielberg (news) Presents: Taken."

For the week ended Dec. 22, following the "Taken" blitz, Sci Fi averaged 838,000 households in primetime, which tied it in 10th place among all basic-cable networks.

Compared to the same week a year ago, Sci Fi was up a strapping 95% among households and 88% among adults 25-54, the network's target demographic.

Sci Fi was gloating because most of its primetime schedule last week consisted of rerun episodes of "Stargate SG-1" and "The X-Files (news - Y! TV)" and movies such as the well-worn "Dante's Peak" and "The Witches of Eastwick" plus lesser-known titles like "Army of Darkness," "Gargantua" and "Epoch."

New episodes of "Stargate SG-1" and "Farscape," heavily promoted to "Taken's" solid audience, won't kick off until Jan. 10. Sci Fi's new show, "Tremors: The Series," originally scheduled for Jan. 10, won't make it to the schedule until March, the victim of delayed post-production due to elaborate special effects.

ESPN dominated the basic-cable primetime scene for the week ended Dec. 22, propelled to an average of 2.136 million households by two National Football League games. The sports cable network averaged a gaudy 600,000 homes more in primetime than the three networks that tied for second place for the week: Nickelodeon, TNT and Lifetime. USA and the Disney Channel tied for fifth place in primetime. TBS was seventh, Cartoon Network eighth, ABC Family ninth, and Fox News Channel tied with Sci Fi for 10th.


The Seattle monolith: an odyssey By Tyrone Beason

When a mysterious gray steel slab appeared on a hill at Seattle's Magnuson Park two years ago New Year's Day, people joked that a UFO piloted by space aliens had planted it there. Maybe the vibrations that came from inside whenever gawkers spoke were replies resonating from the mother ship. (complete story)

 

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