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THE BRITISH ACADEMY of Film and Television (BAFTA) has decided to suspend director Bryan Singer’s nomination for the film, Bohemian Rhapsody, over “recent very serious allegations”, of sexual abuse.
A number of reports have come out in recent days, including allegations from some men who claim they were underage when Singer had sexual encounters with them.
In a statement to AFP, Singer dismissed the claims, reported in The Atlantic last month, calling it a “homophobic smear piece” which was trying to capitalise on the success of Bohemian Rhapsody.
The recent allegations follow reports from previous years. In 2017, Singer was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy in 2003. Two earlier cases, from 2014 and 1997 were dropped.
In a statement, BAFTA said it “considers the alleged behaviour completely unacceptable and incompatible with its values”.
The organisation noted that Singer has denied the allegations, so the suspension of his nomination will remain in place until the outcome of the allegations is resolved.
The film itself still remains nominated for Outstanding British Film, as do the other individuals nominated in connection to the film.
BAFTA said it “believes everyone has the right to a fulfilling career in a safe, professional working environment”, and will continue to collaborate with the industry to achieve this.
Singer was fired from Bohemian Rhapsody, a film depicting the life of Queen singer Freddie Mercury, just two weeks before filming ended, due to unexplained absences.
With reporting from AFP.
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Credit where due well done although very difficult on families where there is no power. Thankfully we dont get too many storms like the few we had. Anyone see the news the UK still in bits far worse than us.
Still out in rear cross co tipp.fair play to esb networks though cant be easy working true such a backlog
Thank you for keeping this story in peoples mind.So many still have with no idea of when they will be switched back on.
Day 6 without power and im one of those isolated pockets ive been told. Probably be end of week before connection. Im going to go crazy!
A big well done to all the ESB crew, but surely they will consider putting electricity wires down under ground
Think about it….
There are 10s of thousands of KMs of local electricity cabling around the country.
How do you even begin to do that?
It would cost a biblical amount of money.
Or at least cutting back/removing of trees near power lines. A job for Coillte I would think.
There is no utility on Earth that has its rural distribution lines underground for one simple reason: cost. Undergrounding overhead lines would cost many multiples of the overhead cost and this would have to be passed on to the consumer. Our electricity bills are high enough as they are – no one wants to see them tripled, quadrupled or whatever. If it were a realistic option you’d think a place like Florida which suffers multiple major outages every year because of hurricanes would have done it years ago, but no: they have overhead lines as well. Nor would it necessarily result in the elimination of faults – they would still occur due to flooding, cable failures, dig-ins and the like. And it would take longer to repair or replace them. There would also be huge delays in connecting new properties to the network caused by the time involved in digging the trenches, getting permission from landowners and so forth. Nor of course would it be remotely realistic to initiate a programme of replacing the existing network of overhead lines with underground ones. All in all, on the face of it, it sounds like a reasonable proposition but when you examine it deeper it becomes a pipe-dream.
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