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

;AP; ANPA ..r.. Cambodia-Angelina Jolie Hollywood star Angelina Jolie gets Cambodian passport after being JP/24/GUESS

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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;AP; ANPA ..r.. EU-A&E-MUS-Denmark-Obit-Wray Rock legend Link Wray, writer of "Rawhide" and "Rumble" dies JP/20/GUESS1

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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