Officials say that a John Travolta movie has suspended filming in one of the Paris area’s toughest housing projects after 10 cars to be used in the movie were burned. Filming of some scenes of the action movie “From Paris With Love” was supposed to start this week but local officials and the production company say it was put on hold because the cars were burned by unknown suspects early Monday.
Cars are regularly burned in French housing projects, most famously during rioting that raged for three weeks in 2005 in poor neighborhoods across the country.
The VP debate proved that Palin could hold her own in a debate format. And Biden was able to handle his side of the contest with a solid performance.
But as far as helping their Presidential running mates (a VP candidate’s real job) , you have to say that Obama won handily, and McCain lost another opportunity. Palin did a good job of explaining herself and appealing to voters, but she did little to take Obama down. On the other hand, Biden continually hammered on McCain about his views, his future plans, and most imporant, his claim as a “maverick”. Palin looked good, but McCain was not helped given the many attacks from Biden.
The real job was of the VP candidates was to elevate their running mates. On that, Biden did his job well. Palin helped herself in the debate, but did nothing to halt the momentum that has been going Obama’s way for the past two weeks.
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Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.
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Officials say that a John Travolta movie has suspended filming in one of the Paris area’s toughest housing projects after 10 cars to be used in the movie were burned. Filming of some scenes of the action movie “From Paris With Love” was supposed to start this week but local officials and the production company say it was put on hold because the cars were burned by unknown suspects early Monday.
