Will co-write screenplay with Bobby Moresco
Nilo Cruz, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his act "Anna in the Tropics," has come aboard the independent plastic film "Castro's Daughter."
He will co-write the screenplay with "Crash's" Bobby Moresco, who is also directive and producing the film, the story of Fidel Castro's exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez, world Health Organization fled Cuba in 1993.
Cruz, who was born in Cuba, left the nation in 1970 for the Little Havana section of Miami.
The film is aiming to go into production next year.
John Martinez and Noel Tristan of Austin-based Artists Relations Group to begin with acquired the rights to Fernandez's write up and are producing with Moresco Productions, in connection with Joe Lamy of The Lamy Group.
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Monday 8 September 2008
Friday 29 August 2008
Helping The Medicine Go Down
�Getting short Doug and Debbie to take a spoonful of medicine is more than just a rite of passage for frustrated parents. Children's refusal to swallow liquid medication - and their tendency to vomit it game up - is an important public health problem that means longer or more serious illness for thousands of kids each year. In the case of HIV and AIDS pediatrics, missing a dose can be a life or death scenario.
In a report presented at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Julie A. Mennella, Ph.D., described how knowledge from basic inquiry on the chemical senses explains why a child's rejection of bitter medicament and alimentary but bitter-tasting foods like spinach and other green vegetables is a reflection of their basic biology.
"Children's rejection of unpalatable medications and bitter-tasting foods is a composite product of maturing centripetal systems, genetic variation, experiences and culture," says Mennella, a researcher with the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
She says that children ar born with a practically stronger preference for dulcet flavors, naturally attracting infants to mother's milk. This heightened druthers for sweets continues even in their teenage age. By late adolescence, kids start to outgrow their sugary predilection.
"A better savvy of the sensory earthly concern of the child - and the scientific footing for antipathy and how to better it - is a public health priority," states Mennella.
Mennella investigates the role of early experience as a minor develops their unique sense of taste and olfaction. In the process, she ultimately hopes to discover ways of creating more than palatable medicines and getting kids to eat their greens more readily.
"The number one reason for noncompliance among children when pickings medicine or eating vegetables is that they don't like the taste," says Mennella. "Just look at a child's face when they're eating some of these things!"
The root of this bitter problem lies in human taste buds, or mouthful receptors. While there are only a few receptors for sweet flavors, phylogenesis imbued world with roughly 27 for bitterness. In prehistoric times, this heightened sensitivity to bitterness prevented early humankind from feeding toxic plants or other unsavory and possibly poisonous fare. "Bitter taste is a sensation that evolved to make you non want to ingest something," says Mennella.
Unfortunately, most of the chemicals in the pharmacist's cookery book are plant-derived and therefore inherently caustic. Some of more strong drugs like certain AIDS medications for children ar even less pleasant - they ofttimes smell bad and cause mouth irritation.
For some medications, masking the bitterness is possible by encapsulating the bitter chemical in oral contraceptive pill or pad form, or by victimisation special "bitter blockers" that numb the tongue's receptors. But many children have trouble swallowing pills, so liquid formulations are requisite. Adding gratifying tastes and flavors that children like helps the medicine go down.
Unfortunately, Mennella says its extremely hard to disguise the flavors of some of the truly biting liquid medicines. A better understanding of bitter preference receptors may yield new ways of overcoming these unpleasant flavors.
A recent explosion in gustatory modality and smelling research lED to the identification of genes that code for certain bitter taste receptors. Mennella's team showed that a mutation in the TAS2R38 cistron is coupled to the perception of bitterness in children and their parents. The researchers found that while parents with this variation were sensitive to certain virulent compounds, their children were most sensitive of all.
"It is interesting because it may suggest that children have heightened bitter sensitivity compared to adults," states Mennella.
Babies begin developing their unique tasting profile spell still in the uterus. What a mother eats while pregnant and nursing enhances a newborn's acceptance of foods. "We find that the more a mother chuck fruits when she's pregnant, the more than a kid will accept fruits and vegetables," says Mennella.
The finish that a child grows up in also plays a immense role in their development of penchant and feel. For grounds, Mennella points to the flavorings found in children's medicine around the public. "In England, there is a lot of lemon flavor added to children's medicine. It's a cultural phenomenon. Bubblegum and cerise are popular in the United States," according to Mennella.
When children cannot or will non take medicines in encapsulated form, methods to reduce the bitterness in limpid medications suit medically important. Failure to consume medication may do the kid harm, and in some cases, whitethorn be life threatening, according to Mennella. She says that pharmaceutic companies will benefit from more basic research on bitter taste and how to meliorate it.
"It is one of the cardinal mysteries of human behaviour - why do we grow to like these foods and flavors that we initially rejected?"
Adam Dylewski
The American Chemical Society - the world's largest scientific society - is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a spheric leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices ar in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Source:
Charmayne Marsh
Michael Bernstein
American Chemical Society
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In a report presented at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Julie A. Mennella, Ph.D., described how knowledge from basic inquiry on the chemical senses explains why a child's rejection of bitter medicament and alimentary but bitter-tasting foods like spinach and other green vegetables is a reflection of their basic biology.
"Children's rejection of unpalatable medications and bitter-tasting foods is a composite product of maturing centripetal systems, genetic variation, experiences and culture," says Mennella, a researcher with the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
She says that children ar born with a practically stronger preference for dulcet flavors, naturally attracting infants to mother's milk. This heightened druthers for sweets continues even in their teenage age. By late adolescence, kids start to outgrow their sugary predilection.
"A better savvy of the sensory earthly concern of the child - and the scientific footing for antipathy and how to better it - is a public health priority," states Mennella.
Mennella investigates the role of early experience as a minor develops their unique sense of taste and olfaction. In the process, she ultimately hopes to discover ways of creating more than palatable medicines and getting kids to eat their greens more readily.
"The number one reason for noncompliance among children when pickings medicine or eating vegetables is that they don't like the taste," says Mennella. "Just look at a child's face when they're eating some of these things!"
The root of this bitter problem lies in human taste buds, or mouthful receptors. While there are only a few receptors for sweet flavors, phylogenesis imbued world with roughly 27 for bitterness. In prehistoric times, this heightened sensitivity to bitterness prevented early humankind from feeding toxic plants or other unsavory and possibly poisonous fare. "Bitter taste is a sensation that evolved to make you non want to ingest something," says Mennella.
Unfortunately, most of the chemicals in the pharmacist's cookery book are plant-derived and therefore inherently caustic. Some of more strong drugs like certain AIDS medications for children ar even less pleasant - they ofttimes smell bad and cause mouth irritation.
For some medications, masking the bitterness is possible by encapsulating the bitter chemical in oral contraceptive pill or pad form, or by victimisation special "bitter blockers" that numb the tongue's receptors. But many children have trouble swallowing pills, so liquid formulations are requisite. Adding gratifying tastes and flavors that children like helps the medicine go down.
Unfortunately, Mennella says its extremely hard to disguise the flavors of some of the truly biting liquid medicines. A better understanding of bitter preference receptors may yield new ways of overcoming these unpleasant flavors.
A recent explosion in gustatory modality and smelling research lED to the identification of genes that code for certain bitter taste receptors. Mennella's team showed that a mutation in the TAS2R38 cistron is coupled to the perception of bitterness in children and their parents. The researchers found that while parents with this variation were sensitive to certain virulent compounds, their children were most sensitive of all.
"It is interesting because it may suggest that children have heightened bitter sensitivity compared to adults," states Mennella.
Babies begin developing their unique tasting profile spell still in the uterus. What a mother eats while pregnant and nursing enhances a newborn's acceptance of foods. "We find that the more a mother chuck fruits when she's pregnant, the more than a kid will accept fruits and vegetables," says Mennella.
The finish that a child grows up in also plays a immense role in their development of penchant and feel. For grounds, Mennella points to the flavorings found in children's medicine around the public. "In England, there is a lot of lemon flavor added to children's medicine. It's a cultural phenomenon. Bubblegum and cerise are popular in the United States," according to Mennella.
When children cannot or will non take medicines in encapsulated form, methods to reduce the bitterness in limpid medications suit medically important. Failure to consume medication may do the kid harm, and in some cases, whitethorn be life threatening, according to Mennella. She says that pharmaceutic companies will benefit from more basic research on bitter taste and how to meliorate it.
"It is one of the cardinal mysteries of human behaviour - why do we grow to like these foods and flavors that we initially rejected?"
Adam Dylewski
The American Chemical Society - the world's largest scientific society - is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a spheric leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices ar in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Source:
Charmayne Marsh
Michael Bernstein
American Chemical Society
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Saturday 9 August 2008
The Charlie Daniels Band
Artist: The Charlie Daniels Band
Genre(s):
Other
Country
Rock
Discography:
Essential
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
A Merry Christmas to All
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
The Roots Remain (cd3)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
The Roots Remain (cd2)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
The Roots Remain (cd1)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Roots Remain (cd3)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Roots Remain (cd2)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Roots Remain (cd1)
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Listen Up!
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Fire on the Mountain
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Lindsay Lohan - Seyfried Lohans Going Nuts Because She Started So Young
LINDSAY LOHAN's MEAN GIRLS co-star AMANDA SEYFRIED fears her former pal and other child stars go "nuts" because they experience success at such a young age.
The actress, who is about to lead Hollywood's all-star Mamma Mia! cast onto the big screen, is convinced young Hollywood stars can't grow-up sane.
And the 22 year old admits Lohan is a perfect example of a young actress struggling to cope in the fame game.
She says, "I've met some people who are just so freaking distraught and who don't know how to handle it, and I've met some (kids) who have their head on straight and are really happy. You try to stick around them.
"I kind of don't expect some of these girls, who've been working since they were two, to be sane. This business is just weird when you're young."
But the actress was quick to dispel rumours Lohan was a liability on the set of their hit film.
She adds, "Lindsay was great on Mean Girls. I think that was before she got a little nuts."
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Monday 30 June 2008
Arruga, Lombardo and Friends
Artist: Arruga, Lombardo and Friends
Genre(s):
Instrumental
Discography:
Vivaldi: The Meeting
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
Feeder Map Late Autumn UK Tour
Feeder have just released their sixth studio album 'Silent Cry' and also completed some very low-key live dates, but now they plan to head out across the UK later on this year for a full-scale tour.
Fans have nineteen opportunities to see the band live during the months of October and November, including shows in Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton and London, among others.
Tickets go on sale from 9am Friday 27th June and are �22.50 in advance for all shows except London which is �25 in advance. Doors for all shows will be 7.30pm
October Tour Dates:
20 - STOKE-ON-TRENT, Victoria Hall
21 - MANCHESTER, Apollo
23 - NEWCASTLE, Academy
24 - GLASGOW, Barrowlands
26 - LINCOLN, Engine Shed
27 - NOTTINGHAM, Rock City
29 - LIVERPOOL, University
30 - SHEFFIELD, Academy
November Tour Dates:
1 - LOUGHBOROUGH, University
2 - NEWPORT, Centre
4 - BIRMINGAHAM, Academy
5 - LLANDUDNO, Arena
7 - LEEDS, Academy
8 - BRISTOL, Colston Hall
10 - CAMBRIDGE, Corn Exchange
11 - BRIGHTON, Dome
14 - EXETER, University
15 - SOUTHAMPTON, Guildhall
17 - LONDON, Brixton Academy
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Sunday 29 June 2008
Queen Latifah sues in N.Y. over cameo film role
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. actress and singer Queen Latifah sued a small film production company that helped finance the movie "The Perfect Holiday" on Wednesday, saying she had not been paid any money for the film.
Lawyers for Queen Latifah, an Academy Award-nominated actress and Grammy Award-winning singer whose real name is Dana Owens, said in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court the California-based company, Perfect Christmas Productions, had breached her contract and owed her $275,000 for a cameo role in the film.
"The Perfect Holiday," which was also produced by Owens, 38, was released in December 2007, starring Terrence Howard and Gabrielle Union. It grossed more than $5.8 million by February, 2008 in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo.
The lawsuit said Perfect Christmas Productions was believed to have been paid several million dollars by third parties for "The Perfect Holiday," which was originally known as "Perfect Christmas."
(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Michelle Nichols and Vicki Allen)
Lawyers for Queen Latifah, an Academy Award-nominated actress and Grammy Award-winning singer whose real name is Dana Owens, said in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court the California-based company, Perfect Christmas Productions, had breached her contract and owed her $275,000 for a cameo role in the film.
"The Perfect Holiday," which was also produced by Owens, 38, was released in December 2007, starring Terrence Howard and Gabrielle Union. It grossed more than $5.8 million by February, 2008 in the United States, according to Box Office Mojo.
The lawsuit said Perfect Christmas Productions was believed to have been paid several million dollars by third parties for "The Perfect Holiday," which was originally known as "Perfect Christmas."
(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Michelle Nichols and Vicki Allen)
Hamka
Artist: Hamka
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Unearth
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Kevin Spacey - Kevin Spacey To Judge British Short Film Talent
Jennifer Lopez - Lopez To Help Sick Children
Singer/actress JENNIFER LOPEZ is to co-ordinate and host a fundraising gala to help sick children - insisting her baby twins have inspired her to "do something for the world".
The star gave birth to Max and Emme in February (08), her first children with husband Marc Anthony, and she is convinced becoming a mother has made her want to do more charity work.
Lopez has now agreed to host the third annual Noche de Ni�os gala to benefit the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. She will also be helping to co-ordinate the fundraising event which will feature performances from her husband.
And she puts her new-found dedication to good causes down to her kids.
She tells People En Espanol, "They inspire me to want to be better, to be a better person, to do something for the world, to set an example for them, to make them proud of me and to know that there's a certain way that you should live."
The Noche de Ni�os gala will be held on 11 October (08) at the Nokia Center in L.A. to benefit the 93,000 children treated annually at the hospital.
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Xtina: For a Good Time, Ditch Hubby!
Christina Aguilera had a crazy night at LAX in Vegas this weekend -- whenever her husband wasn't around.
While the "Dirrty" bird bounced all over her cute blonde friend, Jordy parked in their booth. Even Verne Troyer looked like he was having more fun ... and he was flipping everyone off.
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While the "Dirrty" bird bounced all over her cute blonde friend, Jordy parked in their booth. Even Verne Troyer looked like he was having more fun ... and he was flipping everyone off.
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Rheostatics
Artist: Rheostatics
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
The Whale Music Concert
Year: 1992
Tracks: 13
If anyone can lay claim to the title of "Nigh Canadian Band Ever", the Rheostatics sure can prepare a compelling case, with songs about hockey, Saskatchewan, Canadian painters, and with brood versions of songs by other Canadian artists (Gordon Lightfoot, Jane Siberry). Of course, being loved by Canada's top-selling band, the Tragically Hip, doesn't hurt either.
The Rheostatics were formed in 1980 in Etobicoke, Ontario, when the members of the band were still too cy Young to deglutition in the clubs where they played. Two early tapes were released below the name Rheostatics and the Trans Canada Soul Patrol, simply according to cycle guitarist/vocalist Dave Bidini, copies are selfsame rare and fans plausibly "shouldn't regular bother" nerve-wracking to produce ahold of them.
After a few early personnel changes, the ring finally gelled with the lineup of Bidini, lead guitarist/vocalist Martin Tielli, bassist/vocalist Tim Vesely and drummer Dave Clark. The first prescribed Rheostatics liberation was 1987's Sterling Hits. Though a shoot at college radio and on latenight CBC computer programming, the independent album wasn't much of a commercial success, though it spawned the cult pip "The Ballad of Wendel Clark Parts I & II." Melville came out after a four-year break, and showed a majuscule musical festering; where Sterling Hits was jangling and clumsy, Melville was accomplished and confident. This album too showed the isthmus stretch forbidden into thirster, more complex songs with less established lyrical affair.
Whale Music followed in 1992, continuing the direction started on Herman Melville, only with stronger material and better musicianship. The record album was named after the novel by Paul Quarrington, around an eccentric recluse named Desmond Howl wHO created symphonious pop out masterpieces in his basement studio. After a mind to Whale Music, it's hard to imagine whatever other band more up to the chore of reproducing Howl's act, which is on the button wherefore Quarrington hired the band to indite the soundtrack for the film of Whale Music. Thus, when the Whale Music soundtrack came stunned in 1994, the lot was in the funny place of having two albums with exactly the like call. Though mostly implemental, the soundtrack album spawned an existent hit single, "Claire."
Between the time the ring finished the tracks for the Whale Music motion picture and its eventual release, the dance orchestra (at present signed to Sire) took a great deal of the implemental material from the soundtrack, reworked it, and added lyrics. Much of this material wound up on the Introducing Happiness record album, which over up on shelves before the soundtrack itself. Introducing Happiness was an all-over-the-map tolerant of album, draftsmanship together music from many different styles, including punk rock, commonwealth, pop and reform-minded. Fan reaction to the album was polarized, with many hailing it as a classical, and others peculiarly proclaiming it a pop sell out. After the album's outlet, Dave Clark bowed stunned of the lot to act on his possess interests, and the band was released from its contract with Sire.
Later a shakedown period of time with new drummer and multi-instrumentalist Don Kerr, the Rheostatics were commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada to indite a 40-minute piece of music observance the painters the Group of Seven. Confounding expectations later the pop treasure "Claire," this generally instrumental man became their succeeding album, Music Inspired by the Group of Seven, with the band back on the Drog label. Shortly later, the more pop-oriented record album The Blue Hysteria brought the band back into familiar (in time eclecticist) territory.
For many fans, the 1997 release of Double Live was like a dreaming add up true. While the band hadn't always achieved much commercial success with their albums, they had achieved a great deal of deference and critical acclaim for their live shows, both from fans and other musicians. Much of the hitch supporting The Blue Hysteria was an possible action one-armed bandit on the Tragically Hip's cross-country spell. Despite this outstanding stain on the measure and shout-outs from Hip lead singer Gord Downie (mind to the beginning of the Tragically Hip live album Live Between Us for proof), the Rheostatics quiet had a hard clip breaking through to an hearing thirsty for disposable pop fluff. Although a great deal of this experience is elaborate in Bidini's holy Scripture On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock, Double Live is ultimately the better document, pulling together songs recorded before at a loss sports stadium crowds, indifferent saloon audiences, and rabid fans in informal clubs. In increase to many of the band's better-known numbers game, Double Live besides included a number of rarities and long-lost gems.
Recollective favorites of late-night wireless in Canada, the Rheostatics were asked to impart to the last program of CBC's long-running Nightlines. For this special show, the band put together a sound montage consisting of new songs, some aged material, and bits that were more like skits. This became the band's following album, The Nightlines Sessions, though it cadaver more than an oddity than a substantive contribution to the band's catalogue.
Having long since dispensed with the pretence that they were a conventional rock band, the Rheostatics chose a different track once again with the Tale of Harmelodia album. Ostensibly a children's album, the CD came packaged inside a jewel-case-sized hardcover book containing a tale by Bidini and hand-painted illustrations by Tielli (world Health Organization had besides contributed nontextual matter to closely all of the band's premature albums). Despite the nidus of the album, the record album remained sympathetic to the adults that made up the bulk of the band's fanbase.
Dettinger
Artist: Dettinger
Genre(s):
Electronic
Other
Discography:
Prospect (Chain Reaction 029, 2002)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Oasis
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Intershop
Year: 1999
Tracks: 7
Blond
Year: 1998
Tracks: 4
Olaf Dettinger is ane of the top-shelf producers on the Cologne, Germany-based Kompakt roster. Often bathing his ambient tracks in analogue synths and succulent static, he's as up to of generating satisfying seventh heaven and discomforting paranoia. With 1999's Intershop, Dettinger became the number one artist to spill a single-artist LP on Kompakt, which followed a twin of 12" singles released in 1998 and before in 1999 (Blonde and Puma). 2000 saw the vent of the Totentanz 12" and his bit LP, Oasis; in addition, his profile was raised by appearance on Mille Plateaux's all-things-glitch Clicks + Cuts compiling. In June of 2001, Dettinger performed alongside Jonas Bering, Closer Musick, and Tobias Thomas (wHO featured a Dettinger track on his Kompakt integrate Fur Dich) as ambassadors of Kompakt at the Mutek Festival in Montreal, Quebec. The producer has contributed potent tracks for Pop Ambient 2001 and the number one triad Total compilations on Kompakt.
Emmys Announce Ten-Show Short Lists for Best Series Awards
Gyalwa Karmapa
Artist: Gyalwa Karmapa
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Sacred Buddha
Year:
Tracks: 11
Digital cinema looking for gains in Amsterdam
Free
Artist: Free
Genre(s):
Rock: Blues
Discography:
Heartbreaker
Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
Free At Last
Year: 1972
Tracks: 9
Famed for their perennial "All Right Now," Free helped lay the foundations for the uprise of hard stone, uncovering the earthy heavy of British blue devils down to its raw, minimalist core to open up a brand of proto-metal afterward popularized by 1970's superstars wish Foreigner, Foghat and Bad Company. Free formed in London in 1968 when guitar player Paul Kossoff, then a extremity of the blues unit Black Cat Bones, was taken to see vocaliser Paul Rodgers' chemical group Brown Sugar by a quaker, drummer Tom Mautner. After deciding to form their have band, Kossoff and Rodgers recruited drummer Simon Kirke (since Mautner was at university) and 16-year-old bass phenom Andy Fraser from the ranks of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers; with the assist of Alexis Korner, wHO also suggested the name Free, the fledgeling band sign-language to the Island label, issue their bluesy debut Lashings of Sobs in 1968.
Free's eponymic 1969 follow-up expanded on their roots-based good, incorporating bikers like Albert King's "The Hunter" as well as muscular ballads like "Fabrication in the Sunshine" into the mix. Although both of the first two albums fared ailing on the charts, 1970's Fire and Water became a grand hit on the strength of the primordial "All Right Now," a Top Five smash powered by Rodgers' mettlesome, visceral vocals. After headlining 1970's Isle of Wight fete, the group appeared destined for superstardom, but the LP Main road did not transportation nearly as well as awaited, and subsequently a backbreaking tour which yielded 1971's Justify Live, the band dissolved amidst ego clashes and recriminations.
While Rodgers went on to form Peace and Fraser founded Toby, Kossoff and Kirke teamed with bassist Tetsu Yamauchi and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick to record the album Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu and Rabbit. When none of these modern projects proven successful, the original lineup of Free re-formed to record 1972's Liberate at Last, which launched the strike "Little Bit of Love." However, do drugs problems nagged the group, as Kossoff's longtime struggle with diacetylmorphine continued to decline; before long Fraser exited to form Sharks with Chris Spedding, going Rodgers and Kirke to record the majority of 1973's Heartbreaker while a drug-addled Kossoff watched from the sidelines. Soon, the chemical group disbanded again, this time for estimable: patch Rodgers and Kirke went on to found Bad Company, Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler before dying of a drug-induced pump plan of attack on March 19, 1976.
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