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Madeleine McCann: Shannon Matthews, Entertainment And Mr Cheese

gonebabygone Madeleine McCann: Shannon Matthews, Entertainment And Mr Cheese MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann is missing front the front pages. She now only appears in the media in the context of Ben Affleck’s film Gone Baby Gone, a work of fiction based on a work of fiction.

SPIKED ONLINE: Gone, Baby, Gone: who’s fit to be a parent?

With echoes of recent high-profile child abductions, Ben Affleck’s crime drama poses a very modern moral dilemma.

And a cracking night out at the cinema?

I remember when I heard Shannon Matthews had been found alive.

Shannon Matthews?

That moment of relief - and that sense of disappointment at the subsequent arrest of Shannon’s mother and other members of her extended family - came flooding back to me while watching Ben Affleck’s directorial debut, Gone, Baby, Gone.

The mind wanders. The film isn’t that good?

As a number of reviewers have pointed out, the plot of Gone, Baby, Gone bears at least as much relation to the Shannon Matthews case as to that of Madeleine McCann.

Anorak thinks it’s more like Dennis Lehan’s book Gone, Baby, Gone:

Cheese Olamon, “a six-foot-two, four-hundred-and-thirty-pound yellow-haired Scandinavian who’d somehow arrived at the misconception he was black,” is telling his old grammar school friends Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro why they have to convince another mutual chum, the gun dealer Bubba Rugowski, that Cheese didn’t try to have him killed. “You let Bubba know I’m clean when it comes to what happened to him. You want me alive. Okay? Without me, that girl will be gone. Gone-gone. You understand? Gone, baby, gone.”

Is Cheese Craig Meehan, Michael Donovan, Robert Murat, or someone else?

  1. 1 MrsT Says:

    Oh yes …. what a beauty!

    Get in there MrsT !!!!! :)

  2. 2 MrsT Says:

    I’d just like to thank my family and friends for giving me this oppurtunity to post 1st on this thread … I love you all :lol:

  3. 3 wtf Says:

    i am honoured to come second to such a talented winner :lol:

  4. 4 wtf Says:

    or even 3rd :oops:

  5. 5 MrsT Says:

    Oh thank you wtf …. I , I , I, j -just d-don’t know what to say :cry: :cry:

  6. 6 wtf Says:

    Sometimes words arent enough…….. i understand

  7. 7 MrsT Says:

    I was so overcome, or is that come over, with emotion, I couldn’t even spell ;)

    oppurtunity = opportunity

    :)

  8. 8 Noseycow Says:

    Mrs T

    I hope that the glory of the situation overcomes your embarasment re: spelling gaff, and that you don’t feel that its necessary to dive headlong into the ironing pile to recover. ;)

    Blooming heck if I even noticed one of my frequent spelling mistakes I’d be well chuffed.

  9. 9 MrsT Says:

    Ironing … well that’s brought me back down to earth with a bump ….. thanks nosey ;)

  10. 10 Noseycow Says:

    Re the story

    I don’t like it when madeleine is linked to entertainment.

    Her parents and particularly the pink one have, however, provided masses of entertainment over the last year or so.

    Dilema’s dilema’s…

  11. 11 Noseycow Says:

    Mrs T

    Life’s too short to iron and clean out cars. :grin:

    My moto which I strictly adhere to.

  12. 12 wtf Says:

    morning nosey :smile:

    Task today, clean my daughters bedroom :roll:

  13. 13 Justlooking Says:

    Despite an implausible plot, the film, IMO, did raise some interesting issues around parenting. In this case, those deciding to play god appear not to cause lasting harm to the child - but then again, we’re talking fiction and Hollywood.

  14. 14 Dee Says:

    Morning everyone,

    Oh poor you wtf, i’ve given up on my son’s room, lol

  15. 15 jo Says:

    12
    wtf
    Good mum :smile:
    How old is she? 3?

  16. 16 jo Says:

    Tell me things about “good parenting”.I am all ears

  17. 17 wtf Says:

    morning dee :smile:

    Jo, she is 10, going on 25 i think!

  18. 18 lyn Says:

    After the media coverage of Madeleine’s missing, any films will be dull as we have heard it all before.

  19. 19 jo Says:

    205
    wtf Says:

    June 13th, 2008 at 8:06 am
    jo, why havnt they yet faced trial?
    *********
    Because justice is NOT made by the media
    I know we all wonder why the absence of news but this is necessary as it leaves the room for justice to ber made by professional and not by “lounge detectives” and spin masters.Many cases,if not most cases,fade away from the public eyes but are still taken care of.
    This transitory silence is necessary.In case charges are being brought forward,the mccanns could always say they had an unfair trial because of the media pressure and all and it would complicate matters further.
    The PJ is not stupid.They have shut up everybody,systematically,including the last 2 tabloids bastions: hola/hello and 24 horas
    The next news will be official as much as it was with the first court ruling :smile:

  20. 20 jo Says:

    17
    wtf
    Yes…they tend to grow up far too fast nowadays which makes everything rather difficult.Constant,discreet looking after because they seem to know everything the very moment they are born.
    The problem is this new generation is growing older fast speed at all levels.It seems they spend their youth wanting to skip the regular steps or refusing childhood
    Well… ok she is 10 ONLY when mum cleans and tidies up her bedroom then? mmmmm

  21. 21 Dee Says:

    19
    jo Says:

    June 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    Lets hope so!

  22. 22 Dee Says:

    Wtf - my son’s almost 16 but acts like 10 :)

  23. 23 just_me Says:

    Morning :)
    My hubby is 50 but acts like 10 lol still have to pick up after him :)

  24. 24 jo Says:

    Papers released last week show that police in Portugal have failed to rule out homicide, abandonment, concealment of a corpse and abduction. The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell told HELLO! “Kate and Gerry have received legal advice both in Portugal and England that they did everything within the bounds of reasonable parenting. They vigorously deny the neglect charges.” Kate and Gerry are both still arguidos, official suspects in the investigation

    Well…whatelse do we want? if they are within “the bounds of reasonable parenting” and if this comes from clarrie,all is said,isnt it?……Although they “vigourously” deny neglect charges.
    Great time they get it right :lol:
    WTF,this is whats happening: getting a reasonnable defense against neglect ( the first step)

  25. 25 Maravilha Says:

    morning.

    any news?

  26. 26 Justlooking Says:

    22

    Dee / WTF

    The way to understand boys is do so by scientific analysis:

    0 - 16 : brain saoked in adrenaline ( mad & playing footie )
    16-25 : brain soaked in testosterone ( sex mad & playing the field )
    25+ : brain soaked in alcohol ( sex / footie & watching from the couch )

  27. 27 gillyflower Says:

    Jo

    quick post

    If they only vigourously deny the neglect charges……………

    doesn’t that leave them wide open to the others ie homicide, abandonment etc.?

    Or am I just reading your post wrong?

    They’ve never been “furious ” over the other charges only ever the neglect.

    Hmmmmmmmmmmm

    and Gerry’s ” find the body and prove we killed her” . Kate’s ” they don’t want a murder in Portugal ”

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm again.

    Well done Mrs T.

    My most sincere congratulations

    Later

    Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    xx

  28. 28 jo Says:

    Excellent reading on esplendor de la forma
    No time to translate must dash off
    Do a google.
    If I have time I will translate later although

    WTF
    “We must appreciate above all the efforts being made in policing, so that those who harmed Madeleine face justice and receive their deserved. Until it is determined who were the criminals who took advantage of the solitude that their negligent parents left, speculation will continue and nobody should be spared from being scrutinized, leaving aside the degree of Relation likely to have with the victim. What of responsible parenthood for example, should be evaluated in light of the results they produced. … Responsible parenting … we will know the results”

  29. 29 Petermac Says:

    24 Jo
    “Kate and Gerry have received legal advice…”
    We must never forget that law is a zero sum game.
    Both sides receive legal advice.
    One set of advice is right and the other set of advice is wrong.
    Lawyers are wrong on average 50% of the time.

  30. 30 Petermac Says:

    I should have added
    …a zero sum game - for the client.
    The lawyer always gets paid win or lose.

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