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After Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday resort in Portugal on May 3, it seemed like the whole world joined in the search. Over four months later, Madeleine is still missing, but the world's attention has shifted. Instead of looking out for the 4-year-old British girl, all eyes are on her parents, who were recently named as official suspects in her disappearance. Now, Kate and Gerry McCann find themselves fighting two battles: one to clear their names, and another to convince everyone that their missing daughter is still the big story. Over the weekend, help came from...
...rationale is to focus attention back onto the fact that's been lost in the last couple of months, that a little girl is missing and that her parents are desperate that she be found," says a spokesman for the McCann family about the campaign that's due to start in two weeks and will run in Spain, Portugal and "other European countries." The details are still being ironed out, but it's likely the new initiative will be similar to the one that has been running in England, where billboards show photos of Madeleine - and the distinctive mark...
...while Madeleine's Fund is being used to help find the missing girl, it can't help her parents fight their legal battle. After the Fund directors decided last week not to pay for the family's legal costs - making it clear that the McCanns never asked for money from the fund - relatives said they would sell their homes to pay the McCanns' legal bills. So Virgin Group head Richard Branson stepped in, announcing that he would donate $200,000 to "kick-start a legal fund" for the McCanns, says his spokeswoman, Jackie McQuillan. "If other businessmen and women also...
...statement, Branson stressed that his donation shouldn't be seen as a proclamation of the McCanns' innocence: "In the midst of all of this speculation and rumor, we must remember there is a family in pain and a little four-year-old girl is still missing. We must not lose sight of this fact. It is the only solid fact we know. The search for Madeleine must not let up for one moment." Says McQuillan: "Richard is a family man himself, and he's very conscious of the fact that there are other family members who are all affected...
...Desire, Luis Buñuel famously cast two actresses to play one character (though it wasn't to suggest a dual nature; it was because - who knows why, the man was a surrealist). Two years ago, in Palindromes, Todd Solondz had the lead character, a 12-year-old girl, played by eight actors (including a boy and two adults). Haynes' use makes the most sense, at least the kind of sense a filmmaker can pitch at a backers' meeting, since Dylan did have many lives, all of his own creation...