Vicar no to stars

London, May 1: A vicar has rejected a proposal to film the Hollywood stars Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins at his church, because he fears gratuitous violence and bad language, reports The Daily Telegraph.

The director Nick Love wanted to film The Outlaw in the Reverend Nick Bromfield’s picturesque church in the Forest of Dean, Gloucester. However, after seeing one of Love’s previous films, The Business, about a young Cockney tearaway, Bromfield decided he did not want his church to be the backdrop for such graphic material.

Robin rules

Los Angeles (Reuters): United 93, the first Hollywood movie to deal with the events of September 11, was number two at the weekend box office in North America with respectable ticket sales of $11.6 million, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. The new Robin Williams comedy RV drove off with the top prize, selling about $16.4 million worth of tickets for the three days beginning Friday, while the teen gymnast drama Stick It opened at number three with $11.3 million.

Drug drive

Berlin (Reuters): The German government is planning to supply long-term drug addicts with controlled amounts of free heroin to “improve their health”, the government’s commissioner for substance abuse Sabine Baetzing said on Monday. “A heroin therapy is the last hope and provides help for survival for some of those who are addicted,” Baetzing said in an interview in Die Welt newspaper.