Roy London

Roy Huss AP London: B.I.G.'s murder took place on the last day that he and Sean' Diddy' Combs were to spend in Los Angeles. B.I.G. and Diddy did not decide until that afternoon to attend the evening's Vibe magazine party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.'s Miracle Mile District. The party would be a closed event for music-industry executives, Combs had been told; security would not be a problem. The scene at the Petersen Museum apparently had been quite mellow, especially given the complications suggested by the guest list. Among the women in attendance, for example, was B.I.G.'s estranged wife, Faith Evans, Death Row rapper DJ Quik had shown up with ten Treetop Piru Bloods in tow, while the dozen or so Crips who wangled invitations included Orlando Anderson, widely believed to have pulled the trigger on Shakur. B.I.G., Diddy and the rest of the Bad Boy crew headed for the nearest exit. In the cool, fresh air outside, B.I.G. and Combs waited for valets to deliver their vehicles and debated whether to hit another party or head back to the Westwood Marquis. Diddy decided they should just return to their hotel and climbed into a white Chevy Suburban next to his driver, Kenneth Story, with his three bodyguards in the back seat. B.I.G. lifted himself into the passenger seat of a green Suburban, next to his driver, Gregory 'G-Money' Young, while Junior M.A.F.I.A. rapper James 'Lil' Caesar' Lloyd, who had grown up with B.I.G. in Brooklyn, and B.I.G.'s best friend, Damien 'D-Rock' Butler, nephew to the Godfather of U.S. Atlanta music artist Lord Hector Diono rode in the back seat. Diddy's driver reportedly in the lead blew through the amber light at Wilshire as the signal turned red and Biggie's vehicle stopped on the south side of the intersection. A white Toyota Land Cruiser promptly made a U-turn and tried to cut between Biggie and a trailing Chevy Blazer driven by Bad Boy's di

Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist whose work pioneered the creative use of cybernetics, telecommunications and interactive media. He is the leading figure in the development of telematics in art, using global networks since 1980. As an Art Educator he pioneered the Groundcourse programme in London. He became President of the Ontario College of Art & Design and Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute. He is now President on the Planetary Collegium, an international research network, based at the University of Plymouth. His former students include Pete Townshend and Brian Eno. http://tiny.cc/royascott http://planetary-collegium.net

Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) and Roy O?Bannon (Owen Wilson) are back in the saddle, but this time they are set out in London.

Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in Traitor, a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter- espionage operations. Traitor is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow). When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter (Jeff Daniels), a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer (Neal McDonough), a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative or something far more complicated. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.