European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 292007 stars and stripes Page 9 faces comedian Griffin of after wrecking Ferrari Enzo at Calif Racetrack Eddie Griffin crashed a rare Ferrari Enzo Worth million into a Concrete Barrier while practising at a race track destroying the car but escaping uninjured the 38yearold actor comedian was practising Mon Day for a Charity race to promote his upcoming film red line when he drove too fast around a curve at the Irwin Dale Speedway video footage shows the red sports car screeching before it ricocheted off the Barrier with heavy damage to its front the films publicist Wendy Zocks said Griffin was doing of he walked away completely a scratched but Proba Bly a Little shaken Zocks said hiphop worlds Jacob the jeweler to stand trial in Detroit judge says the celebrity jeweler known in the hiphop world As Jacob the jeweler will stand trial on Money laundering charges in Detroit after a Federal judge on monday de Nied his request to move the Case to new York Jacob Arabov was arrested in june 2006 at his store in new York on a warrant issued in Detroit Federal authorities accused him and 16 others of conspiring to launder about million in drug profits beginning in the Early 1990s for a multistage drug ring operating out of Detroit Arabov 41 has pleaded not guilty his attorney Benjamin Brafman argued that it would be prejudicial for his client to stand trial alongside drug dealing suspects and too costly to defend himself in Detroit but us District judge Avern Conn disagreed you should prepare yourself for a trial in the Eastern District of Michigan Conn said Arabov a russian immigrant also known As the King of bling became popular among hiphop and artists in the mid1990s notorious big Madonna Kanye West and Elton John have All worn his baubles Brit actress helps launch in Campaign to combat 21stcentury slave Trade Julia Ormond appealed to police agencies worldwide monday to share information and resources in Hopes of combating human trafficking the 42yearold British actress who co starred with Harrison Ford in 1995s Sabrina spoke in London to help publicize a new in Campaign to combat 21stcentu by slave Trade the initiative came a Day after the 200th anniversary of the passage of Britain antislavery Law the goal is to improve enforcement of a 2003 in treaty against human trafficking a crime Ormond described As being largely hidden the Campaign will improve coordination Between governments and organizations that work to fight the prob Lem said Eva Beaudet the organization for Security and cooperation in Europe special representative on com bating trafficking in human beings Rocker Scott wetlands wife arrested for torching his clothes outside their Home the wife of velvet revolver Singer Scott Weiland was arrested in the torching of his clothes outside their Tolu Ca Lake Calif Home hours after the couple crawled at a luxury hotel police said monday Mary Weiland 31 was booked for investigation of felony arson vandalism after officers responded to a Call sat urday night that a female was burning clothes they found a trash can full of soldering clothes sgt Mathew Ferguson said officers called Weiland who said the wardrobe was Worth Ferguson said the couples children Ages 4 and 6 were placed in the custody of family friends stories and photos from the associated press Mary and Scott Weiland All grown up Chris Rock Breaks from his past image with realistic new Woody Alle like film by Jake Coyle the associated press new York in Chris rocks new film he plays a mustachioed bespectacled banker Hes often funny but just As often Seri Ous and self examining its a realistic film adapted from the 1972 French classic Chloe in the afternoon in Short its a Long Way from Bootie Tang i think i love my wife which opened in Heaters March 16 is rocks second time directing the first 2003s head of state a farce in which an Alderman suddenly be comes a presidential candidate if i did head of state tomorrow it would be More like All the presidents men Rock says it would be that tone with jokes finding the right tone in movies has been challenging for the 42yearold Rock Many of his films from the underrated Bootie Tang to the Farrelly Brothers osmosis Jones have been absurdist in in another place As far As films Are concerned Rock in his trademark emphasis says of the aesthetic shift i wish i had gotten Here awhile Back rocks Brilliant standup act for which Hes won emmy has always been grounded firmly in reality i think i love my wife draws from his standup material which has often dealt with relationships and a reluctant acceptance of married life those Are the choices in life you can be married and bored or single and lonely Rock said in his 2004 Hob Spe Cial never scared aint no happiness nowhere in i think i love my wife Rock plays a married Man with children whose Fidelity is tested when an attractive old acquaintance begins dropping by his office Kerry there Are definite gags including a heavily advertised one involving but much of the Basic plot is taken from Eric roamers movie one of his six moral tales i know it sounds silly people Are like Chris Rock and Eric Rohmer but if you study his movies and then you study my standup they kind of go together Rock says we immediately said Chloe in the afternoon was like a great House with no furniture no funny furniture Only serious furniture Rock co wrote the script with his Friend and frequent Collaborator comedian Louis cd who has honed an act known for its ruthless honesty about married life Louis cd believes this is a new direction for Rock ii Guys play characters that wont grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the Day that pretty much what today comedy is about nobody wants to make movies about grownups f j Chris Rock i do think there Are people that will go Why is Chris Rock doing that he says but its actually a lot closer to who he is As a person and As an artist than any other film Hes made before people who Are Al ways expecting big Adam Sandle like comedies out him there Barking up the wrong tree that not True to his voice Rock has Long spoken of his deep Admira Tion for another Brooklyn standup turned filmmaker Woody Allen its not hard to see Many parallels Between a typical Woody Allen movie and i think i love my wife a romantic comedy set in new York Rock used Allens Hannah and her Sis ters As a reference but acknowledges his film is so not on his level of his identification with Allen Rock says in a nerd in a Little Guy the last Guy youd expect in a romantic movie of course Hollywood is often unreceptive to change Rock says the film was definitely hard to get made and that while most of his movie ideas sell before a script has been finished he says nobody jumped at this idea he mane Vered the complications of International film rights to get approval for the adaptation and wrote the script on spec without a Deal in place once the screen play was completed studios were still unconvinced Rock summarizes their reaction you grownup got anything where youre a kid Guys play characters that wont grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the Day that pretty much what today comedy is about Rock says nobody wants to make movies about grownups in the end Fox Searchlight picked up i think i love my wife made for about million for distribution that rocks film landed at a boutique division specializing in Independent movies is a barometer of his new direction its just part of the business whatever you do if its successful you can do that again says the actor comedian hopefully people will say of this is what he should have been doing All along hopefully Rock lives in Brooklyn not far away from his child Hood Home of Bedford Stuyvesant with his two Young children and wife Malatak Compton of 10 years How did she feel about a movie based on a bored Hus band she was a Little scared at first but when she realized it was a remake she was Cool with it it made it less personal Rock says who assures Hes very Happy in his family life