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ZIGGY FULFILLS MARLEY'S DREAM
By Gugu Sibiya
July 2, 2010
AMID the excitement and hype of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Ziggy Marley quietly slipped into the country to fulfil his father's dream of performing in South Africa.
The son of the late legendary reggae icon Bob Marley is billed to perform at the Elkah Stadium fan park in Soweto on Sunday with local band Tidal Waves.
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ZIGGY MARLEY PERFORMS FREE CONCERT IN SOWETO - JULY 4th AT 2 PM
ZIGGY, ROHAN AND ROBBIE MARLEY TRAVEL THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA ON MOTORCYCLES, COMMEMORATING THE 30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR FATHER, BOB MARLEY’S HISTORIC TRIP TO ZIMBABWE
Johannesburg, June 28, 2010
Ziggy, Rohan and Robbie Marley flew into South Africa to commence work on a documentary series that will follow them through South Africa for a momentous road trip. Marley Africa Roadtrip will provide viewers with an intriguing look into one of the most legendary musical families. The brothers will travel to remote areas on motorcycles, riding through breathtaking scenery and camping under the stars. They will keep close to the heart of this continent, its people and its wildlife.
In 1980, reggae superstar Bob Marley travelled to Africa with his family to perform a landmark concert celebrating unity and freedom. Now, 30 years later, his sons will return to the continent to carry on his legacy promoting African Unity.
On Sunday, July 4th Ziggy will perform in South Africa for the first time at a free concert in Elkah Stadium, Soweto at 2pm. On his recent travels he attended a show in Bloemfontein, met with the band Tidal Waves and asked them to support him at the event on Sunday. “We are thrilled to perform with Ziggy and for the people of Soweto” Jacob ‘Zakes’ Wulana, lead singer of Tidal Waves, said yesterday at a rehearsal.
Following the landmark concert Ziggy will host an intimate VIP party in Johannesburg to raise money for a Soweto based charity. Tickets to this exclusive event will be available this week via Computicket.
“I am hoping that this World Cup will bring African countries a little closer together and that the world might see Africa, as a whole, in more of a positive light. Performing in Soweto has always been a dream and I am very excited to play for the people of South Africa on Sunday”, says Ziggy Marley.
Ziggy Marley, along with fellow Grammy-winners Stephen Marley and Angelique Kidjo, also recently released a new song, Africa Land (available on www.ziggymarley.com) to celebrate this historic occasion and Africa’s place in the world spotlight.
The documentary series is produced by acclaimed documentary director/producer David Alexanian, whose company, Elixir Films, filmed Ewan McGregor’s unforgettable motorcycle trips across the world in the popular series’ “Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down.” (www.elixirfilms.com).
Ziggy’s trip has been supported by Ducati motorcycles who provided the three Marley brothers as well as director /producer David Alexanian with the new Ducati Multistrada 1200.
Ziggy Marley is a five-time Grammy winner and reggae icon, whose last Children’s Album, Family Time, just won the 2009 Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children. Rohan Marley is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, whose company, Marley Coffee, offers gourmet ital coffee to major gourmet food distributors worldwide. Robbie Marley is a motorcycle stunt rider who has appeared in several major motion pictures, and also owns a retail store in Miami, Florida. For more information on the African Unity movement, please visit www.africa-unite.org.
ZIGGY MARLEY ON HIS 2010 WORLD CUP SONG, SOCCER, AND JAMAICA'S FUTURE
By Christopher John Farley
June 2, 2010
Besides a good spliff, among the things that Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley loved best in life were 1) music 2) Africa and 3) soccer. Ziggy Marley, his eldest son, has brought all three of those things together in a new song, "Africa Land," that he's released to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the fact that the competition is being held in South Africa. Marley says the song is also meant to promote unity. That's something that they could also use in Marley's homeland of Jamaica, which has been racked with street violence in recent weeks.
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RIDE, BOB'S NATTIES, RIDE
By Andile Ndlovu
June 21, 2010
They heard horror stories about South Africa but brothers Ziggy, Rohan and Robert Marley - sons of reggae legend Bob Marley - are in the country to see it for themselves. The trio's trek, on Ducati motorbikes, is being filmed for a documentary. They haven't planned their trip and say they will travel to wherever the roads take them.
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UNGER, NESBITT JOIN ESTEVEZ'S 'WAY'
By Emiliano de Pablos
October 1st, 2009
MADRID -- Canadian thesp Deborah Kara Unger ("88 Minutes," "Crash") and the U.K.'s James Nesbitt ("Bloody Sunday," "Match Point") have joined Martin Sheen to star in the Emilio Estevez-directed family drama "The Way."
The $5 million pic, which is produced by Spain's Filmax Ent., is set along the thousand-year-old Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route.
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SPIRITUAL 'WAY' IS A FAMILY AFFAIR
By Martin Dale
September 18th, 2009
"The Way," Emilio Estevez's fourth feature as a writer-director, begins at the Camino de Santiago's start, in St.-Jean-Pied-de-Port, below the often-snowbound Route de Napoleon over the Pyrenees.
Starring Martin Sheen, Estevez's father, it takes in Galicia's improbable-looking Santiago de Compostela, a huge piece of medieval real estate topped by a jaw-dropping cathedral.
"The Way" ends near the Camino's end, at Muxia, on the Atlantic seaboard near Finisterre, which the Romans thought was the end of the world.
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'LONG WAY DOWN'
By Brian Lowry
July 31st, 2008
Ewan McGregor and fellow actor/pal Charley Boorman like hanging out together on motorcycles, an itch they previously scratched in "Long Way Round," a book and series chronicling their round-the-world trip from London to New York.
This time, their sojourn will take them the length of Africa, and based on the nuts-and-bolts premiere, it promises to be a worthwhile ride -- part travelogue, part manly bonding, part "The Amazing Race" minus the staged competition. With another book-TV pairing tied to this adventure, the pair slickly underwrite a personal passion by transforming it into a mini-franchise.
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'LONG WAY DOWN', A RIDE FULL OF HIGHS
By Tom Shales
July 30th, 2008
Since the trip starts in Scotland, one might expect to hear the strains of "you take the high road and I'll take the low road," though in this case the song might continue, "and I'll be in Kenya before ye." But then this journey is too hip for old folk songs; it's a journey taken by decidedly young folk, two adventurous actors who care enough about the world to see as much of it as possible, and generously invite armchair tourists and rolling couch potatoes to come along with them.
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NEW ADVENTURES IN BIG-SCREEN ENTERTAINMENT
By S. James Snyder
July 28th, 2008
Looking ahead in the next month, one can appreciate the range and variety of Fathom's programs. On Thursday, the company will target the motorcycling and adventure-racing communities with "Long Way Down," a documentary following the actor Ewan McGregor as he bikes 15,000 miles from Scotland to South Africa. The project originally made its debut as a televised miniseries in Britain, and will screen in American theaters (including two in Manhattan) on Thursday as a condensed director's cut.
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'TOM GREEN WORKS AT HOME (YOU CAN WATCH)'
By Joe Rhodes
August 19, 2007
It was 8p.m., time for Tom Green's live Internet talk show, the one he's been doing from his living room five nights a week, more or less, for the last year, and as seems to happen more often than not, things were going horribly wrong.
The servers had been wonky all day, most likely the result of a late attempt to install high-definition video players onto his Web site, tomgreen.com. Rex Murphy, Mr. Green's bright red and usually low-key parrot, was agitated and screeching in a corner. The audio feeds weren't working, and the Video Toaster system, the heart of Mr. Green's online operation, was down.
Worst of all, the guest hadn't turned up. Norm MacDonald, the former "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update anchor and an old buddy of Mr. Green's from his hometown, Ottawa, was scheduled to appear, but no one had heard from him all day.
"I'm starting to think he's not coming," Mr. Green said at 8:15, clearly flustered. "I can guarantee you that this is probably my fault somehow."
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'DRIVE, HE SAID'
By John Clarke, Jr.
March 2007
Filmmaker David Alexanian likes things moving fast. And with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman along for the ride, Africa's just around the bend.
"My mother was terrified of motorcycles," recounts moviemaker David Alexanian, who, as a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, snuck out to ride dirt bikes against her stern warnings. His disobedience paid off: Today, as head of Elixir Films (along with his sister Alexis), he has injected that childhood passion into a series of motorcycle films.
His first biking expedition, the Bravo networkÕs critically acclaimed documentary series Long Way Round (co-produced and directed with friend Russ Malkin in 2004) found actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman (son of Deliverence director John Boorman) putting pedal to metal on a 20,000-mile motorcycle odyssey around the globe.
Now Alexanian is revving up to do another documentary, Long Way Down, with the same crew throttling through the heart of Africa.
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'LONG WAY ROUND' ARTICLE ON DVDFILE.COM
By Jim Howard, Jr.
December, 2005
"Friends
and professional actors, Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Trainspotting, Moulin
Rouge) and Charley
Boorman (Emerald Forest,
The Serpent’s Kiss)
love motorcycles, and decide to take a 20,000 mile trip around the
world from London to New York City circa spring of 2004. They decide to
film this journey with a small production crew intent on keeping a safe
distance from the two motorcyclists. All are warned of rough roads that
dissolve in parts of Russia and Mongolia and the possibility of running
into Mafia during their trip. This docudrama is simultaneously breezy,
harrowing, hilarious, and unpredictable. McGregor and Boorman wing much
of their trip and have to conjure up enormous fortitude to complete
their unforgettable yet staggering journey."
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FOX
REALITY BUYS LONG WAY ROUND
December,
2005
'Fledgling 24/7 cable net
Fox
Reality has bought rerun rights from the Bravo channel to the
unscripted
miniseries "Long Way Round," which follows Ewan McGregor and Charley
Boorman on a 20,000-mile motorcycle trip. The original run on Bravo
earlier
this year consisted of six hourlong episodes. That will expand to seven
hours
on Fox Reality with the addition of what it calls "never-before-seen
footage."
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TOM GREEN PREPARES FOR
'IMPACT'
By
MARK DANIELL, for JAM! Music
December, 2005
TORONTO -- By the
time Tom Green throws down the gauntlet
and declares, "I'm No Comedian," you'll know that the film and
television funnyman's forthcoming CD, "Prepare For Impact," isn't a
bunch of stand-up.
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LONG WAY ROUND IN VITALS MAGAZINE
November, 2005
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A delightful sense of humor and wonder
maintained by actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman make this long,
long motorcycle journey a captivating, entertaining experience, at
least for the first two hour long episodes available for review.
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ELIXIR FILMS AND IMAGE WIZARD TV
ANNOUNCE ‘LONG WAY ‘ROUND’ STARRING EWAN MCGREGOR AND CHARLEY BOORMAN
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Motorcycle Round-the-World Series to Begin
Lensing in January 2004
In the spirit of “Easy Rider,” David Alexanian, co-founder of Elixir
Films and Russ Malkin, president of Image Wizard TV, today announced
that the company will begin filming an around-the-world television
series, “Long Way ‘Round,” which features film star Ewan McGregor and
his best friend, actor Charley Boorman, traversing the globe on
motorcycles.
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March 22, 2003
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"Far From Heaven" was blessed at the
Independent Feature Project's 18th annual Independent Spirit awards
Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica, winning in all five of its
nominated categories.
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10 PRODUCERS TO WATCH
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ALEXIS ALEXANIAN
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| Charles Lyons |
May 13, 2002
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Alexis Alexanian sits at a
restaurant on 17th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan. She has 20
things to do this morning but now she's looking earnestly at a reporter
trying to answer the questions put before her, just like she might be
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The Good Thief
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An Elixir presentation of a play in one act by
Conor McPherson.
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February 5, 2003
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Brian d'Arcy James is offering an exciting
reprise of his 2001 Obie award-winning performance in the Los Angeles
premiere of "The Good Thief."
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Top Pick - January 31, 2003
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This hourlong piece is deeply satisfying and
moving. Brian D’Arcy James performs Conor McPherson’s 1994 solo drama
in a stirring portrayal of a nameless Dublin thug employed by a
ruthless tavern owner.
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'GOOD THIEF' A SOLO OF MANY
VIRTUES
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January 31, 2003
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The budget-friendly solo performance has
become such a ubiquitous staple of contemporary theater that it's
spawned three distinct sub-genres -- the more familiar being the
portrait of a historical celebrity and the author-performer's
autobiographical journey of self-discovery.
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SOLOING, BUT NOT IN SONG
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d'Arcy James counts on his turn as an Irish thug in Conor McPherson's
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January 21, 2003
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After one particularly arduous
but rewarding rehearsal for last year's new Broadway musical "Sweet
Smell of Success," the show's second-billed actor, Brian d'Arcy James,
remarked to a small group of his colleagues: "Revivals are for cowards."
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TO CATCH A THIEF
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Brian d'Arcy James brings Conor McPherson's
The Good Thief to L.A.
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January 6, 2003
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Brian d'Arcy James seems to have earned a
reputation as the fellow to call when you require an actor who can make
a creepy character palatable to an audience.
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