'Wardrobe malfunction' actress complains
JAKARTA: Taffana Dewi, 31, a lesser-known model and actress, said she wanted to sue the people behind the distribution on the Internet of a record containing her wardrobe malfunction incident, in which she bared her sizable breasts on a live TV show.
Taffana or Ana, however, had not yet found the certain individuals she wanted to sue.
Private TV station Trans TV, which aired the live comedy program Ketawa Spesial Ala Trans on Thursday night denied the allegation that their crew were responsible for the distribution.
"The record that is going around on the Internet has Trans TV logo. Our master record doesn't show the logo," a Trans TV public relation officer, Ichwan Muni, was quoted as saying by news portal www.detik.com.
Ana, who once posed in swimsuit for men magazine Popular, played in the 1990s as an extra in several titillating Indonesian B-movies.
Her career was largely unknown, until she had the recent "wardrobe malfunction".
In the comedy program, Ana was wearing a Javanese traditional strapless top known as a kemben. Some in the audience testified that her kemben had already worked loose for a few minutes before finally failing her, fully baring her breasts.
The critical moment occurred when she tried to help comedian Tessy get up. She bowed and the audience gasped. -JP
;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-People-Maria Friedman Two weeks after surgery for breast cancer, Maria Friedman will open JP/20/GUESS
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Friedman in show soon after breast op
NEW YORK: Two weeks after having surgery for breast cancer, Maria Friedman was scheduled to open on Thursday -- as scheduled -- in The Woman in White, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on Wilkie Collins' Victorian mystery novel.
Friedman started preview performances on Oct. 28 at Broadway's Marquis Theater, but left the show six days later after discovering a lump in her left breast. She returned to the musical Nov. 10, missing only a week of performances.
During her absence, understudy Lisa Brescia played the role of Marian Holcombe, the musical's adventurous heroine.
Friedman, in an interview with The New York Times, said she would begin radiation treatments in December. "I'm not going for hero status," the actress told the newspaper. "I'm doing what I can do, with enormous support."
The musical, adapted by Charlotte Jones and with lyrics by David Zippel, is directed by Trevor Nunn, who supervised such Lloyd Webber shows as Cats, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and Sunset Boulevard.
The Woman in White opened in London in September 2004 to mixed reviews. The Sunday Times of London called the show "a big, big triumph, a very palpable hit, no question," while The New York Times sniffed, "It isn't unpleasant, but it doesn't begin to capture what makes Collins' book such an enduring page turner."
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;AP; ANPA ..r.. US-People-Tommy Lee Tommy Lee will return to Nebraska - with his band Motley Crue JP/
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Lee returns to Nebraska with Motley Crue
LINCOLN, Nebraska: Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee will return to the scenic backdrop of his TV reality show -- and he's bringing his bandmates with him.
Motley Crue will perform on March 31 at Pershing Auditorium on their Carnival of Sins tour.
The 43-year-old rocker shot NBC's Tommy Lee Goes to College on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus last fall. Some of the scenes showed him in uniform, stepping out with the university's marching band.
"I know he had a good time there," said Crue bassist Nikki Sixx during a recent telephone news conference about the spring tour, which opens Feb. 10 in Columbus, Georgia.
Lee, who wasn't part of the phone conference, suffered minor burns on his arms and face last month during a pyrotechnics explosion at a concert in Casper, Wyoming.
Injuries come with the rock territory, said singer Vince Neil, who injured his leg in September.
"Every tour somebody gets knocked around onstage," he said. "I've performed in a cast. It's ... like athletics. You're out running around for two hours. Things are going to happen."
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