JAKARTA: Roy Marten, veteran actor who emerged to popularity

JAKARTA: Roy Marten, veteran actor who emerged to popularity
after playing in 1970s movies Cintaku di Kampus Biru and Badai
Pasti Berlalu, called for Indonesian actors to unite to defend
their rights.

Interviewed after a 2005 Panasonic Award press conference on
Thursday, Roy, 53, who was among the nominees in the best TV
actor category, said that contracts between artists and producers
always disadvantaged the artists.

"We're not blue-collar workers, who can fight for their rights
by striking. I want to set up a legal aid institution for artists
so that, together, we can stand up for our rights," the actor
said.

Unlike other players from his generation such as Yessy Gusman
and Robby Sugara, Roy, who was a young people's idol in 1970s,
can still be seen in several TV dramas. He was even nominated for
a Panasonic Award along with young actors like Tora Sudiro and
Ari Wibowo.

Commenting that he did not expect to get the award, he said he
wanted to play in movies, but so far had not yet received any
offers.

He said that TV dramas offered poor-quality stories.

"We don't have quality scriptwriters. Moreover, once a
producer asked a scriptwriter to lower the quality of a story,"
he said.

"On TV, the ratings are like God," he added. --JP

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Hollywood star Angelina Jolie gets Cambodian passport after being
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Jolie gets Cambodian passport

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has received
a Cambodian passport after being made a citizen of the
impoverished Southeast Asian country, an associate said Tuesday.

She can use it when she visits the native land of her adopted
son, Maddox, said Stephan Bognar, executive director of the
Maddox Jolie project in Cambodia.

The project, managed by San Francisco-based WildAid, promotes
wildlife conservation and community development in a former Khmer
Rouge guerrilla stronghold in northwestern Cambodia.

Bognar said the actress was "ecstatic and thrilled" last month
when he handed her the passport and an official copy of a royal
decree giving her Cambodian citizenship.

"Maddox was there and she showed him (the passport)," he said.
"It gives her a closer link, a stronger bond" with her adopted
son's native country. she said.

Jolie has had a simple wooden hut built for to stay in when
she visits Cambodia, Bognar said.

He said he did not know when Jolie's hectic schedule as a
mother, actress and conservationist would allow her to next visit
Cambodia.

Jolie has donated US$1.5 million for the project in the past
three years.

The project trains villagers in sustainable economic
activities in the hope that they will conserve natural resources.
It also aims to provide supplemental income for government
rangers to protect wildlife and forests in the former war zone,
Bognar said. --AP

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Rock legend Link Wray, writer of "Rawhide" and "Rumble" dies
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Rock legend Link Wray dies, aged 76

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Guitar player Link Wray, who invented the
power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists,
has died. According to his website, he died on Nov. 5. He was 76.

A native of Dunn, North Carolina, Wray's style is considered
the blueprint for heavy metal and punk music.

Wray's is best known for his 1958 instrumental Rumble, 1959s
Rawhide and 1963's Jack the Ripper. His music has appeared in
movies like Pulp Fiction, Independence Day and Desperado.

His style is said to have inspired many other rock musicians,
including Pete Townsend of the Who, but also David Bowie, Bob
Dylan, Steve Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen have been quoted as
saying that Wray and Rumble inspired them to become musicians.

"He is the king; if it hadn't been for Link Wray and Rumble, I
would have never picked up a guitar'," Townsend wrote on one of
Wray's albums. Neil Young once said: "If I could go back in time
and see any band, it would be Link Wray and the Raymen."

According to his Wray's official Web site, he invented the
fuzz tone by deliberately punching holes in his amplifier
speakers.

In 2002, Guitar World magazine elected Wray one of the 100
greatest guitarists of all time. --AP

On the Net:
http://www.linkwraylegend.com/

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