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Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur talks to Latest 7 about his new film Jar City

It’s taken a couple of years for Jar City to reach the international stage. Is it strange to be talking about a film so long after the event?
You have to wind back and get into it, and remember – but you also get a wider perspective, which is good. You go a little bit away from it, and see it from a distance. I’ve not watched it for a while but I remember it, it’s there. It has a little shelf in my brain.

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Terence Stamp talks to Latest 7 about his role in the comedy Get Smart and fighting Superman

How much fun was the role and what was it was that attracted you to it?
Me? I’m always rather flattered when I get approached about doing funny stuff. I guess it’s just unusual, when someone is devastatingly good looking, wise and sexy that people think I can do comedy. I was very naive. I didn’t know about Get Smart. I guess I just didn’t see it and so when I went into meet with the production team, it was just a chat. I hadn’t seen the script and I didn’t know anything about it and when it got serious I did the research.

I just thought that it was one of those characters that I could do something with, someone who is rather pretentious and looks down his nose at everyone. Something I could get some fun out of. In truth it was just such a great troupe, a great team. So I had a lot of fun doing this even though I had to make a fool of myself, which I don’t really like.

What other roles are you working on?
Tom Cruise and I were trying to blow up Hitler in Berlin for Valkyrie.

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Carol Decker, singer in eighties pop legends T’Pau, plays a charity concert in Eastbourne in September. Nick Aldwinckle spoke to her

80s Live! is a new one day event taking place in Eastbourne’s Winter Garden on Saturday, 13 September.

In aid of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, the event sees a host of eighties stars, including T’Pau, Katrina of Katrina and the Waves, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Sonia, Stephen Singleton of ABC and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, take to the stage to raise funds and awareness of the chronic muscle disease.

As well as the main performers, there’s an ‘Acoustic Café’ with local acts and a ‘Silent Auction’ with a Fender Telecaster guitar signed by the Arctic Monkeys up for grabs. Latest 7 met T’Pau’s Carol Decker.

So, how’s it going?
I’ve been doing loads of shows. I did an Ascot race meet last week, where I met Frankie Dettori, which was fun. I’ve been recording solo, not that anyone would know!

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Hardcore punk icon and former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins spoke to Nick Aldwinckle about his upcoming spoken word tour

It’s hard to believe Henry Garfield, better known as Henry Rollins, has been putting the world to rights for nearly three decades now. Since fronting influential Californian hardcore band Black Flag from 1981 until 1986, Rollins’ impact on alternative music has been huge, with hundreds of bands citing that band and his other, the Rollins Band, as a key inspiration. A true rock Renaissance man, the now nearly 50-year-old divides his time between spoken word gigs, writing, hosting US radio and TV shows and acting. Latest 7 spoke to Rollins about his upcoming spoken word tour.

How’s the radio and TV work been going?
I’ve been doing Harmony in My Head, the radio show, for about five years now and it’s fun! It’s the lowest impact; the easiest, lowest pressure gig I’ve got. The TV show’s a lot more difficult as it’s visual. This year, I’ve done three documentaries, too, for the Independent Film Channel and narrated for a documentary about world famine.

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