Shane MacGowan’s wife, journalist Victoria Mary Clarke, has given fans a promising update on The Pogues frontman’s health.
MacGowan was rushed to hospital earlier this month (5 December) after falling ill with viral encephalitis, a medical condition which causes inflammation in the brain.
The 64-year-old “Fairytale of New York” artist had also contracted shingles, which spread to his eye.
Clarke previously told fans that doctors were “confident he will be Ok”, and thanked fans for sending good wishes in the wake of his illness.
On Tuesday (13 December), she shared a picture of MacGowan in his hospital bed, alongside the message: “Fingers crossed @ShaneMacGowan will be home tomorrow!”
Speaking to the Irish Sunday Independent at the weekend, she also opened up about the situation.
“I was absolutely terrified. You don’t know what is going to happen, do you? You just don’t know,” Clarke said.
“I noticed it on his face.
MacGowan was rushed to hospital earlier this month (5 December) after falling ill with viral encephalitis, a medical condition which causes inflammation in the brain.
The 64-year-old “Fairytale of New York” artist had also contracted shingles, which spread to his eye.
Clarke previously told fans that doctors were “confident he will be Ok”, and thanked fans for sending good wishes in the wake of his illness.
On Tuesday (13 December), she shared a picture of MacGowan in his hospital bed, alongside the message: “Fingers crossed @ShaneMacGowan will be home tomorrow!”
Speaking to the Irish Sunday Independent at the weekend, she also opened up about the situation.
“I was absolutely terrified. You don’t know what is going to happen, do you? You just don’t know,” Clarke said.
“I noticed it on his face.
- 12/13/2022
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Music
Darryl Hunt, the longtime bassist and occasional songwriter for the legendary Anglo-Irish punk outfit the Pogues, died Monday, Aug. 8. He was 72.
The Pogues confirmed Hunt’s death on Instagram Tuesday, Aug. 9, writing “We are saddened beyond words. Our Darryl passed away yesterday afternoon in London.” No cause of death was given.
A line from one of the songs Hunt wrote for the Pogues, “Love You ’Till the End,” was also included in the post: “I know you want to hear me catch my breath/I love you till the end.
The Pogues confirmed Hunt’s death on Instagram Tuesday, Aug. 9, writing “We are saddened beyond words. Our Darryl passed away yesterday afternoon in London.” No cause of death was given.
A line from one of the songs Hunt wrote for the Pogues, “Love You ’Till the End,” was also included in the post: “I know you want to hear me catch my breath/I love you till the end.
- 8/9/2022
- by Tomás Mier and Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Camille Cosby blasted last week’s sexual assault conviction of her husband, disgraced TV star Bill Cosby, calling it “mob justice.”
In a three-page letter issued Thursday, Cosby’s wife also called for a criminal investigation into what she called an “unethical” prosecution by Kevin Steele, the district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County who led the retrial of the case following hung jury on the same charges last summer.
“This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life,” she wrote. “If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”
In her 1,000-plus-word statement, Camille Cosby compared her husband’s conviction to signature moments of injustice in the civil rights movement such as the 1955 lynching of Mississippi teenager Emmett Till — and the acquittal of his killers.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Removed From Television Academy Website
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” wrote Camille Cosby, who has been married to the star since 1964.
Last week, a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in his retrial over former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusations that the comedian had drugged her and then sexually violated her in a 2004 encounter.
Since the verdict, the 80-year-old star has remained confined to his suburban Philadelphia until his sentencing. He could face up to 10 years in prison for each count of aggravated indecent assault.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Juror Says Comic's Own Words Led to Guilty Verdict
Here’s Camille Cosby’s complete statement:
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
Read original story Camille Cosby Blasts Her Husband’s Guilt Verdict as ‘Mob Justice’ At TheWrap...
In a three-page letter issued Thursday, Cosby’s wife also called for a criminal investigation into what she called an “unethical” prosecution by Kevin Steele, the district attorney in Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County who led the retrial of the case following hung jury on the same charges last summer.
“This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life,” she wrote. “If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”
In her 1,000-plus-word statement, Camille Cosby compared her husband’s conviction to signature moments of injustice in the civil rights movement such as the 1955 lynching of Mississippi teenager Emmett Till — and the acquittal of his killers.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Removed From Television Academy Website
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” wrote Camille Cosby, who has been married to the star since 1964.
Last week, a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in his retrial over former Temple University employee Andrea Constand’s accusations that the comedian had drugged her and then sexually violated her in a 2004 encounter.
Since the verdict, the 80-year-old star has remained confined to his suburban Philadelphia until his sentencing. He could face up to 10 years in prison for each count of aggravated indecent assault.
Also Read: Bill Cosby Juror Says Comic's Own Words Led to Guilty Verdict
Here’s Camille Cosby’s complete statement:
“We the people” are the first three words of our nation’s Constitution, but who were those people in 1787? Dr. Howard Zinn, the renowned, honest historian, states in his best selling book, A People’s History of the United States: “The majority of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were men of wealth in land, slaves, manufacturing or shipping.” Clearly, most people were not included in that original draft of the Constitution; no women, Native Americans, poor white men; and, absolutely, no enslaved Africans. What have the masses of people done who are treated as outcasts by “we the people”? They, through the purity of the unceasing human spirit, forced 27 amendments to the Constitution that have guaranteed fundamental rights to all people…finally doing what the framers should have done in 1787. Now enters an American citizen, Bill Cosby.
The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so… period. And the media ensured the dissemination of that propaganda by establishing barricades preventing the dissemination of the truth in violation of the protections of the First Amendment. Are the media now the people’s judges and juries? Since when are all accusers truthful? History disproves that…for example, Emmett Till’s accuser immediately comes to mind. In 1955, she testified before a jury of white men in a Mississippi courtroom that a 14-year-old African American boy had sexually assaulted her, only to later admit several decades later in 2008 that her testimony was false. A more recent example is the case of Darryl Hunt, an African American who in 1984 was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of a white woman, only to have DNA evidence establish in 1994 that he did not commit the crime. Nonetheless he was held in prison until 2004, serving almost twenty years behind bars, until the true rapist confessed to the crimes.
These are just two of many tragic instances of our justice system utterly and routinely failing to protect African Americans falsely accused in so-called courts of law and the entirely unfair court of public opinion. In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of “The Cosby Show”; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Although the Smithsonian’s hierarchy did not capitulate, a disclaimer was posted on the exterior of that Museum. And all of that occurred before the trial even started.
The worst injustices, however, have been carried out in the Pennsylvania Montgomery County Courthouse. Three criminal charges, promised during an unethical campaign for the district attorney’s office, were filed against my husband…all based on what I believe to be a falsified account by the newly elected district attorney’s key witness. I firmly believe her recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions. Moreover, Bill Cosby’s defense team introduced the testimony of a witness who confirmed that the district attorney’s witness admitted that she had not been sexually assaulted, but that she could say she was and get money … which is exactly what she did.
I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts. This is a homogeneous group of exploitive and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone. How much longer will we, the majority of the people, tolerate judicial, executive, legislative, media and corporate abuses of power? We, the majority of the people, must make America what it has declared itself to be….a democracy…not to be destroyed by vicious, lying, self-absorbed paradigms of evilness. Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law.
This is mob justice, not real justice. This tragedy must be undone not just for Bill Cosby, but for the country. I wish to thank the witnesses who courageously came forward at trial to testify as to the truth, as well as those witnesses who would have done so but for the judge preventing them from testifying. Someday the truth will prevail, it always does.
Read original story Camille Cosby Blasts Her Husband’s Guilt Verdict as ‘Mob Justice’ At TheWrap...
- 5/3/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Camille Cosby has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in 2004 – calling it “mob justice”.
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of...
Camille Cosby, who has been married to The Cosby Show star since 1964, has gone after the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele, the media and Cosby’s accusers in a statement that alludes to racial injustice.
“The overall media, with their frenzied, relentless demonization of him and unquestioning acceptance of accusers’ allegations without any attendant proof, have superseded the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which guarantee due process and equal protection, and thereby eliminated the possibility of a fair trial and unbiased jury. Bill Cosby was labelled as guilty because the media and accusers said so,” she said.
This comes after a jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts last week on three counts of...
- 5/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Break Thru FilmsPARK CITY -- It's not only the O.J. jury that doesn't recognize DNA evidence. In this startling depiction of a young black man convicted of rape and murder in North Carolina, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg chart the railroading of a black man -- Darryl Hunt -- from the streets of Winston Salem to life in prison. At one juncture, a high judge even rejects new DNA evidence clearing Hunt of the rape, speciously and maliciously arguing that he still could have been around the crime and murdered the victim. His ruling is among the preposterous and heinous misfortunes to plague Hunt.
In this terrible tangled web, Hunt is prosecuted based on the most specious of anonymous phone calls and circumstantial folderol. The case presented against him, with a jury that contained no blacks, is flawed and highly dubious to say the least. He is sent to prison for life, while his young lawyers continue to file appeals and grasp at straws.
Using a wide array of visual material from roughly a 20-year period, Stern and Sundberg present, like good lawyers, a detailed chronology of this horrid case: police obstruction, inane press coverage, boneheaded judges. Hunt suffers Job-like judicial plagues.
The power of this film is in its methodical telling. As the accretion of dunderheaded rulings and malicious bunglings mount, our outrage grows. By film's end, even those viewers who generally are inured to the wrongful-conviction genre of documentaries will be moved by the terrible injustice wreaked on Hunt. In tandem, we come to know Hunt and marvel at his generous, soft-spoken nature. To survive a 20-year-old ordeal like he did and not exhibit self-pity or malice is truly glorious.
In this terrible tangled web, Hunt is prosecuted based on the most specious of anonymous phone calls and circumstantial folderol. The case presented against him, with a jury that contained no blacks, is flawed and highly dubious to say the least. He is sent to prison for life, while his young lawyers continue to file appeals and grasp at straws.
Using a wide array of visual material from roughly a 20-year period, Stern and Sundberg present, like good lawyers, a detailed chronology of this horrid case: police obstruction, inane press coverage, boneheaded judges. Hunt suffers Job-like judicial plagues.
The power of this film is in its methodical telling. As the accretion of dunderheaded rulings and malicious bunglings mount, our outrage grows. By film's end, even those viewers who generally are inured to the wrongful-conviction genre of documentaries will be moved by the terrible injustice wreaked on Hunt. In tandem, we come to know Hunt and marvel at his generous, soft-spoken nature. To survive a 20-year-old ordeal like he did and not exhibit self-pity or malice is truly glorious.
- 1/30/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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