European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 o stars and stripes wednesday March 28 2007 faces British authorities deny Snoop Dogg visa British authorities in London denied rapper Snoop Dogg a visa for a series of planned concerts publicists for his tour said in a statement saturday Snoop Dogg co headlining a european tour with fellow Star Diddy had been expected to play five dates in Britain Snoop and his team Are mystified at the decision and Are hoping that the British government will reconsider this decision spokeswoman Celena Aponte said in a statement whatever the outcome a planned concert at London Wembley Arena on tuesday will go ahead with Diddy and the rest of the show she said in april 2006 the rapper whose real name is Calvin Broadus and five other men were arrested and spent the night in jail after trouble flared when some in his party were denied entry to British airways first class lounge at Heathrow Airport Campbell finishes we Klong clean up the pavement might As Well have been a catwalk with a Subtle smile Naomi Campbell strutted out of a Manhattan garbage truck garage in a shimmering bar shouldered gown and stiletto sandals stepping into a Silver Rolls Royce and pulling away As paparazzi snapped pictures the British supermodel had cleaned up her act by getting Down and dirty she sauntered out of the drab department of sanitation facility just after 4 pm Friday having finished five Days of court ordered Community service for assaulting her maid sanitation Deputy chief Albert Durrell who was her Boss for the week said Campbell was cooperative Campbell photographers sue celebs Over scuffle two freelance photographers Are suing Denise Rich Ards and Pamela Anderson charging that Richards assaulted them when they tried to take her picture and that the women lied about the scuffle according to the lawsuit filed Fri Day in los Angeles Richards and Anderson were at the River Rock Ca sino resort in British Columbia can Ada on nov 9 to work on the upcoming film blonde and blonder when Richards saw Scott cos Man and Rik Fedyck taking her Pic Ture according to the lawsuit she be came enraged called them paparazzi scum and other names As Richards salted them seized their Laptop computers and threw the laptops Over a hotel Balcony the confrontation which lasted More than 20 minutes was recorded by hotel Security cameras according to the photographers Turtle Power captures Box office the teenage mutant ninja turtles blasted out of their shells Topping the weekend Box office with their first new movie in 14 years tent the first compute animated tale of the reptilian crime fighters hauled in million in the us and Canada according to sundays studio estimates the Warner Bros and Weinstein co film produced for less than million knocked the blockbuster spar Tan Battle epic 300 into second place after two week ends atop the charts stories and photos from wire services Warner Brothers pictures the teenage mutant ninja pose on the observation deck of the Empire state building in new York Andrea Washington Post Black Snake moan written and directed by Craig Brewer of Memphis Tenn is part Southern gothic Story part exploitation flick i wanted to just put All of the Smiths obsessions fears sins and aspirations in this movie he said moan simple and Complex filmmaker explores dark Side of Memphis by Ann Hornaday the Washington Post Washington Craig Brewer wants to go on the record right now i am not a misogynist i cannot have a hatred towards women Brewer is sitting in a Washington hotel room on a snowy february Day Hes just getting Over a Nasty Case of bronchitis that he picked up at the Sun dance film festival where his second theatrical film Black Snake moan made its premiere to a mostly ecstatic audience not counting the ones who walked out it was a Homecoming of sorts for the 35yearold filmmaker who just two years ago made a sensational debut at the festival with Hustle flow starring Terrence Howard Hustle flow was nominated for two oscars and won one for the improbably titled song its hard out Here for a Pimp but for All its cult and critical Success and Surprise that such an intimate portrait of Memphis Black Community was created by a White Guy it was greeted with consternation by some observers Many took Issue with its valorization of thug life and casual Cele bration of its male characters Bitch Handhos vernacular the cultural critic Stanley Crouch writing in the new York daily news called the film popular culture at its most irresponsible and dehumanizing adding condescension toward Black people and women is astound ing with Black Snake moan which opened Friday brew or seems to be putting himself smack dab Back into the Cross hairs the film stars Christina Ricci As a sexually compulsive Young woman in Rural Mississippi whose boy Friend Justin Timberlake leaves for Boot Camp disconsolate she spends a night drinking drugging and having in discriminate sex finally being found beaten and passed out by a Black truck Farmer Samuel l he takes her Home and in a fit of old testament fury decides to cure her of her wickedness by chaining her to a Radiator with a marketing Campaign dominated by the films most provocative images and Ricci parading through most i really just wanted to make a movie about a White trash girl and a bluesman f f Craig Brewer writer and director Black Snake moan of the movie in a cutoff shirt and Bikini briefs the sexuality of Black Snake moan is played for maximum fetishistic frisson at one Point Riccio character seduces a boy like a libidinous she monster later she bumps and grinds to titillating excess while Jackson plays slide guitar their curious Friendship simultaneously references and upends the troubled history of Black men and White women in the South just As it both comments on and exploits lurid imagery let it be said Brewer int a dirty old Man he Doest even appear to be a duty Young Man sensitive and literate he mentions Flannery Oconnor within three min utes of meeting a he Doest come off As some Tarantino Wannabe spoiling for a fight so just whats he trying to prove i really just wanted to make a movie about a White trash girl and a bluesman he says simply if that sounds suspiciously like the condescension he was accused of last time brew or insists that Hes earned the right despite being a product of a Liberal Middle class up bringing in Chicago Northern California and Orange county he recalls Campaign ing for the equal rights amendment with his Mother an English and drama teacher in Berkeley both sides of his family Corne from Tennessee where he spent idyllic childhood Summers he was 12 when an aunt took him to Beale Street in Mem Phis where he bought Muddy Waters hard again and Sonny boy Williamson bring it on Home the die was cast Stone in love with the blues he  get Back Home fast enough and i 1994 after writing and directing plays in Berkeley and attending san Francisco american conservatory theater Brewer and his no wife Jodi moved to Memphis and then Brewer recalls Memphis kind of Swal Lowed us up the couple plunged headlong into the cites most pungent netherworld his wife began waiting tables in a strip club and eventually became a dancer there while he worked at a Barnes Noble nursing an ambition to make the great american movie at this Point Brewer said he has no plans to move from Memphis to Hollywood even metaphorically i feel that in in the exact same spot i was with Hustle flow he explains i feel actually quite at Home