An R. Kelly juror was nearly dismissed this morning after throwing a temper tantrum at the sequestration hotel Thursday evening.
The man, a white male in his 40s, apparently became agitated when his food and drink failed to arrive promptly during dinner.
"I've been waiting for a [expletive] half hour for a drink," a deputy quoted him as saying. "All I want is a couple of beers and a hamburger."
Cook County jurors typically are allowed to order any menu item under $10 and to have two alcoholic drinks at taxpayers' expense while sequestered.
Deputies said the man's fellow jurors told him there was no need for foul language, but he continued to rant. He was then removed from the dining area and taken outside, where he allegedly made some unflattering comments about the law-enforcement officials.
"You guys have been monitoring me all day," he was quoted as saying. "You know I'm not drunk."
The man was given his own room at the hotel following the disruption, deputies said.
Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan called the man into the courtroom and asked if he was trying to intimidate his fellow jurors. The man giggled and told the judge he was just feeling claustrophobic.
"Why are you laughing?" the judge asked. "You're grinning at me. Do you have a mental problem?"
The man told the judge that he was fine. The juror has grinned through much of the trial—even when the sex tape was played.
Gaughan let the other 11 jurors decide whether to keep him or restart deliberations with an alternate. The jury sent back a note saying it would continue discussing the case with the man on the panel.
"Your actions have consequences," the judge said. "I don't want another outburst."
Stacy St. Clair
June 13, 2008 9:24 AM CDT: Jury goes back to work
The R. Kelly jury resumed deliberations at 8:30 a.m. after spending the night sequestered in a local hotel.
The panel spent more than three hours discussing the case Thursday before the judge ordered them to recess. They already have elected a foreman and asked for testimony transcripts, which the judge denied.
Kelly is not in the courthouse. The R&B superstar does not have to be in the Cook County
Criminal Courts Building during deliberations, but Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan has ordered him to remain within an hour's drive of the courthouse in case a verdict is reached.
June 13, 2008 6:30 AM CDT: The issues before the jury
No more arguments. No more colorful cross-examinations. No more evidence. No more testimony.
After a night tucked away in an undisclosed hotel, jurors in the R Kelly case begin deliberating again at 8:30 a.m.
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Sean Connery to unveil autobiography
Sean Connery is set to shake and stir this year's Edinburgh Book Festival by unveiling an autobiography on his 78th birthday.
The Scottish actor who defined the role of British secret agent James Bond and his literary collaborator, film maker Murray Grigor, discuss the book at the festival on August 25, organisers said.
Connery, a passionate Scottish nationalist who has sworn not to live in his home country until it is independent, has titled his memoirs "Being a Scot".
As the book festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, director Catherine Lockerbie told Reuters she had been keeping an eye on Connery's autobiography through its various incarnations.
Edinburgh-born, Connery once delivered milk in the city and posed as a model at the College of Art before hitting the big time.
"His book obviously had to be launched with us," Lockerbie said.
BIGGEST IN THE WORLD
The literary feast, with a record 800 authors participating in 750 events from August 9-25, runs alongside the international arts festival, the anarchic fringe and a series of exhibitions in the biggest annual celebration of its kind in the world.
Connery's appearance also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ian Fleming, creator of British superspy James Bond, otherwise known as agent 007.
Author and comedian Charlie Higson will launch the fifth and final episode of his successful Young Bond series, while the authorised biography of Fleming, For Your Eyes Only, will feature at the festival.
Lockerbie has sought to attract authors from around the world.
Focus on China brings writers from the world's most populous nation, while themes on the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel and fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq are covered in the festival's East and West and War and Terror series.
Lockerbie said the international aspect was key to the festival.
"I have been steadily working to increase the number of nations and cultures represented ... I think there's a strange disjunction between a globalize, homogenized, shrinking world, in one respect, and the fact that we still don't understand other cultures, points of view.
"And it seems to me that with the arts in general, and literature in particular, is a key vehicle for understanding, and that's been a mission of mine."
See Also
Phil Thornton
Artist: Phil Thornton
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Electronic
Other
New Age
Discography:
Tibetan Meditation
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Dreamscapes
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Cloud Sculpting (Colors)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 7
Solstice
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Sorcerer - The Mask Of Seduction
Year: 1996
Tracks: 2
Shaman
Year: 1996
Tracks: 3
Illusions
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Entering The Circle
Year: 1996
Tracks: 10
Alien Encounter
Year: 1996
Tracks: 6
Pharaoh
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Beyond Heaven's River
Year: 1995
Tracks: 5
Fire Queen
Year: 1991
Tracks: 5
Between Two Worlds
Year: 1991
Tracks: 6
Initiation
Year: 1990
Tracks: 4
Transformation
Year: 1989
Tracks: 4
Forever Dream
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
From Another Sky
Year: 1988
Tracks: 4
Flying
Year: 1987
Tracks: 7
Immortal Egypt
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Edge Of Dreams
Year: 1986
Tracks: 2
Alchemy
Year: 1983
Tracks: 6
Phil Thornton is straight off intimately associated with the British New Age medicine cause, just he is also an complete guitarist and has had a foresighted touring and recording association with Sinead O'Connor. He is a regular appendage of the neo-psychedelic English band Mandragon, and he has worked with Gordon Giltrap, Talking Heads, Stallion, Die Laughing, Naked Lunch, 4 B 2's, and Expandis. Thornton augments his musical talents as an effected studio manufacturer.
Thornton's first "non-rhythm" New Age work was the photographic film score for Overcast Sculpting, which was later released on the New World Music, home to nigh of his recordings. On this send off, he met didgeridoo player Steven Cragg, with whom he recorded Induction and Tibetan Horn. In his Sussex, England, transcription studio, Expandibubble, Thornton continues to explore new limits of sequenced electronic music (Alien Encounter) and the insights of tribal and ethnic cultures (Shaman).
Dad says Winehouse has emphysema
LONDON (Reuters) - Soul singer Amy Winehouse has developed the lung condition emphysema and has been warned by doctors that she will die if she continues smoking drugs, her father said in an interview on Sunday.
Mitch Winehouse said the incurable illness, which leaves sufferers struggling for breath, was diagnosed when his daughter had series of health checks in hospital.
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid -- she wouldn't have been able to breathe."
He added: "She's got emphysema. It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.
"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity."
He added that a spell in hospital last week and renewed treatment for her well-publicized drug addiction had offered a ray of hope for his 24-year-old daughter.
"If she doesn't go back to drugs, then she can lead this magnificent life," he said. "We are praying that that's what Amy really wants. She seems resolute."
He called on drug dealers to help her recovery by refusing to supply her with crack cocaine.
There is no medical reason why she shouldn't be able to perform at the Glastonbury Festival next weekend, he added. In the past, work has helped to keep her away from drugs.
Mitch Winehouse said the incurable illness, which leaves sufferers struggling for breath, was diagnosed when his daughter had series of health checks in hospital.
"The doctors have told her if she goes back to smoking drugs it won't just ruin her voice, it will kill her," he was quoted as saying in the Sunday Mirror. "The doctors have said that if she had continued the way she was going she could have ended up an invalid -- she wouldn't have been able to breathe."
He added: "She's got emphysema. It's in its early stages, but had it gone on for another month they painted a very vivid picture of her sitting there like an old person with a mask on her face struggling to breathe.
"With smoking the crack cocaine and the cigarettes, her lungs are all gunked up. There are nodules around the chest and dark marks. She's got 70 percent lung capacity."
He added that a spell in hospital last week and renewed treatment for her well-publicized drug addiction had offered a ray of hope for his 24-year-old daughter.
"If she doesn't go back to drugs, then she can lead this magnificent life," he said. "We are praying that that's what Amy really wants. She seems resolute."
He called on drug dealers to help her recovery by refusing to supply her with crack cocaine.
There is no medical reason why she shouldn't be able to perform at the Glastonbury Festival next weekend, he added. In the past, work has helped to keep her away from drugs.
Double P
Artist: Double P
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Sex and Rum
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Gilbert hopes SAG returns with open mind
Glasvegas, Ladytron, Guillemots for Hydro Connect
Glasvegas, Guillemots, Ladytron and Iglu And Hartley have been added to the line-up of the Hydro Connect festival.
The bash, set to take place on August 29-31 near Argyll, Scotland, will also feature headline sets from Kasabian, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand.
Other notable names set to appear on the bill include Manic Street Preachers, Sigur Ros, Elbow, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev and The Gossip.
To check the availability of Hydro Connect tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
Jun 17, 2008 at Raigmore, Inverness -
Jun 18, 2008 at Fubar, Stirling -
Jun 19, 2008 at ABC2, Glasgow -
More Glasvegas tickets
The bash, set to take place on August 29-31 near Argyll, Scotland, will also feature headline sets from Kasabian, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand.
Other notable names set to appear on the bill include Manic Street Preachers, Sigur Ros, Elbow, Spiritualized, Mercury Rev and The Gossip.
To check the availability of Hydro Connect tickets and get all the latest listings, go to NME.COM/GIGS now, or call 0871 230 1094.
Jun 17, 2008 at Raigmore, Inverness -
Jun 18, 2008 at Fubar, Stirling -
Jun 19, 2008 at ABC2, Glasgow -
More Glasvegas tickets
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