News Nuggets – 27 August 2004

Too Old For This Shit? Danny Glover was arrested on Wednesday as he took part in a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Sudan. Glover was calling for a peacekeeping force to be deployed to the region, but was arrested by US Secret Service agents, who (as anyone who watched Fahrenheit 9/11 knows) guard foreign embassies as well as their own politicians. Dasher and Dancer and Donner and Pentium Processor After running into difficulties trying to import reindeer to New Zealand to film The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the filmmakers have turned to a slightly higher-tech alternative. They will now be using four electronic reindeer, who blow steam from their nostrils and roll their eyes but pose no danger of introducing any nasty diseases into Naria