Thursday, September 4, 2008
By: BC
One franchise that appears to have been drilled in the ground is CHILD'S PLAY, which last saw Chucky on the big screen back in 2004 with the release of SEED OF CHUCKY. Nearly four years later, creator Don Mancini is hard at work penning the remake for the film (that he'll also direct), which kicked off back in 1988 with a killer who transfers his soul into the body of a Good Guy doll. We've broke a whole bunch of stories here on B-D, and today we had the chance to have a few more questions answered... like what will change in the remake, including Chucky's design. Read on for the skinny.
This afternoon Bloody Disgusting reporter BC chatted with CHILD'S PLAY creator Don Mancini who talked a bit on why he's remaking the film and not continuing with a sixth film.
"Well because the main thing is that we want to make it scary again, rather than comedic," Don Mancini tells Bloody-Disgusting. "And I think that was really the response to SEED, the fans sort of told us that they want it to be scary again. I think if we did a direct sequel to SEED OF CHUCKY, which is a horror comedy, it would be a little tougher to continue the aspects of that story which so inherently absurd."
Don Mancini tells us that what it all comes down to is making the franchise scary again, and remaking it is the best way to go.
"That the bottom line, our main mission was to make it scary again and the best way to do that would be to reboot it."
One of the main questions we have all been wondering is how much of the original will be in the remake. Mancini explains that even Chucky will get a slight reboot...
"...And it’s a remake, but there are a lot of new things in it" he explains. "None of the details of the murders in the first movie will be repeated. All of the setpieces are going to be completely brand new, and we’re going to do a slight re-design on Chucky himself, although Brad Dourif will absolutely be the voice of Chucky, and will once again play Charles Lee Ray in the flesh. And we’re giving him more to do than he did in the original movie."
This all sounds like exciting news, especially if you aren't a fan of SEED. Watch this spot for the full interview soon.
Source: Bloody-Disgusting
http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/13521
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Love Never Dies – Phantom of The Opera Sequel
June 23, 2009
The premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies may not happen until next year. The early closure of Joseph at the Adelphi in May was suspected to be making way for the Phantom sequel, and an announcement was expected that month. However, neither the announcement nor the show materialised.
Just what is getting theatre fans so excited about Love Never Dies is not clear. There is very little information available, apart from a short plot synopsis in the show’s website. Any announcements from Andrew Lloyd Webber come as vague references in interviews about other projects. If there had been a delay in getting the show off the ground this year, there has been no reason given. This is not surprising, seeing as the show wasn’t even confirmed.
The Lloyd Webber camp seems to be holding Love Never Dies close to its chest. The limited information that reaches the media from ambiguous sources is just enough to keep the expectant fans interested. Given the mysterious nature of The Phantom of the Opera, this may be a deliberate ruse to keep people asking questions and checking back for developments. Those developments are not forthcoming, but the people still keep coming back.
Provided the situation doesn’t go on for too long, the enigmatic Love Never Dies may just match the phenomenal success of Phantom.
http://www.londontheatretickets.co.uk/releases/love-never-dies-%E2%80%93-phantom-of-the-opera-sequel/1137
The premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies may not happen until next year. The early closure of Joseph at the Adelphi in May was suspected to be making way for the Phantom sequel, and an announcement was expected that month. However, neither the announcement nor the show materialised.
Just what is getting theatre fans so excited about Love Never Dies is not clear. There is very little information available, apart from a short plot synopsis in the show’s website. Any announcements from Andrew Lloyd Webber come as vague references in interviews about other projects. If there had been a delay in getting the show off the ground this year, there has been no reason given. This is not surprising, seeing as the show wasn’t even confirmed.
The Lloyd Webber camp seems to be holding Love Never Dies close to its chest. The limited information that reaches the media from ambiguous sources is just enough to keep the expectant fans interested. Given the mysterious nature of The Phantom of the Opera, this may be a deliberate ruse to keep people asking questions and checking back for developments. Those developments are not forthcoming, but the people still keep coming back.
Provided the situation doesn’t go on for too long, the enigmatic Love Never Dies may just match the phenomenal success of Phantom.
http://www.londontheatretickets.co.uk/releases/love-never-dies-%E2%80%93-phantom-of-the-opera-sequel/1137
Love Never Dies - Official Synopsis
Information
The principal characters of The Phantom of the Opera continue their stories in a heartbreaking new musical… Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES.
It is 1907. Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from the Paris Opera House, Christine Daae accepts an offer to come to America and perform at the fabulous new playground for the rich – Coney Island.
Arriving in New York with her husband Raoul and their son Gustave, Christine soon discovers the identity of the anonymous impresario who has lured her from France to sing.
Graced with stunning designs, passionate lyrics and a magnificent score, this brand-new musical is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue… in which music and memory can play cruel tricks… and The Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, LOVE NEVER DIES.
www.loveneverdies.com
The principal characters of The Phantom of the Opera continue their stories in a heartbreaking new musical… Andrew Lloyd Webber’s LOVE NEVER DIES.
It is 1907. Ten years after the mysterious disappearance of The Phantom from the Paris Opera House, Christine Daae accepts an offer to come to America and perform at the fabulous new playground for the rich – Coney Island.
Arriving in New York with her husband Raoul and their son Gustave, Christine soon discovers the identity of the anonymous impresario who has lured her from France to sing.
Graced with stunning designs, passionate lyrics and a magnificent score, this brand-new musical is a rollercoaster ride of obsession and intrigue… in which music and memory can play cruel tricks… and The Phantom sets out to prove that, indeed, LOVE NEVER DIES.
www.loveneverdies.com
Saturday, June 13, 2009
30,000 HITS
DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL, THE UNOFFICIAL MEMORIAL TO BATMAN: THE MUSICAL CELEBRATES 30,000 HITS! 30,000 HITS IN 2 YEARS & 36 WEEKS!
Ryan.
Ryan.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Very interesting
The accessibility of blogging tools and online media such as facebook/twitter means that the feed stuff of real history, the mundane and everyday, not the great disasters and events, is copiously documented by thousands on a minute by minute basis. Sadly this online accessibility comes at a price: it provides a transient rather than material record written in electrons not ink. The handwritten diaries of Edwardian Gentlemen have survived the Millenium, how many webpages and blogs will still be accessible a century after they were posted? Will we ever see a hundred year old URL pointing to a long forgotten blog? I doubt it...
Dr J C Bullas, Southampton UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8084702.stm
Dr J C Bullas, Southampton UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8084702.stm
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Earth and Venus may collide
AAP
June 11, 2009, 7:27 am
A force known as orbital chaos may cause our solar system to go haywire, leading to a possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released on Wednesday.
The good news is that the likelihood of such a smash-up is small, around one-in-2500.
And even if the planets did careen into one another, it would not happen before another 3.5 billion years.
Indeed, there is a 99 per cent chance that the sun's posse of planets will continue to circle in an orderly pattern throughout the expected life span of our life-giving star, another five billion years, the study found.
After that, the sun will likely expand into a red giant, engulfing earth and its other inner planets - Mercury, Venus and Mars - in the process.
Astronomers have long been able to calculate the movement of planets with great accuracy hundreds, even thousands of years in advance. This is how eclipses have been predicted.
But peering further into the future of celestial mechanics with exactitude is still beyond our reach, said Jacques Laskar, a researcher at the Observatoire de Paris and lead author of the study.
"The most precise long term solutions for the orbital motion of the solar system are not valid over more than a few tens of millions of years," he said in an interview.
Using powerful computers, Laskar and colleague Mickael Gastineau generated numerical simulations of orbital instability over the next five billion years.
Unlike previous models, they took into account Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Over a short time span, this made little difference, but over the long haul it resulted in dramatically different orbital paths.
The researchers looked at 2,501 possible scenarios, 25 of which ended with a severely disrupted solar system.
"There is one scenario in which Mars passes very close to earth," 794 kilometres to be exact, said Laskar.
"When you come that close, it is almost the same as a collision because the planets get torn apart."
Life on earth, if there still were any, would almost certainly cease to exist.
To get a more fine-grained view of how this might unfold, Laskar and Gastineau ran an additional 200 computer models, slightly changing the path of Mars each time.
All but five of them ended in a two-way collision involving the sun, earth, Mercury, Venus or Mars. A quarter of them saw earth smashed to pieces.
The key to all the scenarios of extreme orbital chaos was the rock closest to the sun, found the study, published in the British journal Nature.
"Mercury is the trigger, and would be the first planet to be destabilised because it has the smallest mass," explained Laskar.
At some point Mercury's orbit would get into resonance with that of Jupiter, throwing the smaller orb even more out of kilter, he said.
Once this happens, the so-called "angular momentum" from the much larger Jupiter would wreak havoc on the other inner planets' orbits too.
"The simulations indicate that Mercury, in spite of its diminutive size, poses the greatest risk to our present order," noted University of California scientist Gregory Laughlin in a commentary, also published in Nature.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5643764/earth-venus-collide/
June 11, 2009, 7:27 am
A force known as orbital chaos may cause our solar system to go haywire, leading to a possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars, according to a study released on Wednesday.
The good news is that the likelihood of such a smash-up is small, around one-in-2500.
And even if the planets did careen into one another, it would not happen before another 3.5 billion years.
Indeed, there is a 99 per cent chance that the sun's posse of planets will continue to circle in an orderly pattern throughout the expected life span of our life-giving star, another five billion years, the study found.
After that, the sun will likely expand into a red giant, engulfing earth and its other inner planets - Mercury, Venus and Mars - in the process.
Astronomers have long been able to calculate the movement of planets with great accuracy hundreds, even thousands of years in advance. This is how eclipses have been predicted.
But peering further into the future of celestial mechanics with exactitude is still beyond our reach, said Jacques Laskar, a researcher at the Observatoire de Paris and lead author of the study.
"The most precise long term solutions for the orbital motion of the solar system are not valid over more than a few tens of millions of years," he said in an interview.
Using powerful computers, Laskar and colleague Mickael Gastineau generated numerical simulations of orbital instability over the next five billion years.
Unlike previous models, they took into account Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Over a short time span, this made little difference, but over the long haul it resulted in dramatically different orbital paths.
The researchers looked at 2,501 possible scenarios, 25 of which ended with a severely disrupted solar system.
"There is one scenario in which Mars passes very close to earth," 794 kilometres to be exact, said Laskar.
"When you come that close, it is almost the same as a collision because the planets get torn apart."
Life on earth, if there still were any, would almost certainly cease to exist.
To get a more fine-grained view of how this might unfold, Laskar and Gastineau ran an additional 200 computer models, slightly changing the path of Mars each time.
All but five of them ended in a two-way collision involving the sun, earth, Mercury, Venus or Mars. A quarter of them saw earth smashed to pieces.
The key to all the scenarios of extreme orbital chaos was the rock closest to the sun, found the study, published in the British journal Nature.
"Mercury is the trigger, and would be the first planet to be destabilised because it has the smallest mass," explained Laskar.
At some point Mercury's orbit would get into resonance with that of Jupiter, throwing the smaller orb even more out of kilter, he said.
Once this happens, the so-called "angular momentum" from the much larger Jupiter would wreak havoc on the other inner planets' orbits too.
"The simulations indicate that Mercury, in spite of its diminutive size, poses the greatest risk to our present order," noted University of California scientist Gregory Laughlin in a commentary, also published in Nature.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5643764/earth-venus-collide/
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Shrek takes ogre cinemas in 2010
DreamWorks Animation has announced the title of the upcoming fourth instalment in its evergreen Shrek franchise: Shrek Forever After.
The studio revealed that the animated adventure will burst into cinemas in 2010... though details of what the cranky but loveable ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) will get up to in his next outing are still tightly under wraps.
DreamWorks also confirmed that a Shrek spin-off about Puss-in-Boots (Antonio Banderas) will release in 2012. Salma Hayek will provide the voice of Kitty, Puss's love interest.
The sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom and a third instalment in the Madagascar franchise were also announced, for 2011 and 2012 respectively.
http://www.yourmovies.com.au/news/?i=161019&action=news
The studio revealed that the animated adventure will burst into cinemas in 2010... though details of what the cranky but loveable ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) will get up to in his next outing are still tightly under wraps.
DreamWorks also confirmed that a Shrek spin-off about Puss-in-Boots (Antonio Banderas) will release in 2012. Salma Hayek will provide the voice of Kitty, Puss's love interest.
The sequel Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom and a third instalment in the Madagascar franchise were also announced, for 2011 and 2012 respectively.
http://www.yourmovies.com.au/news/?i=161019&action=news
Updates from the real Meat Loaf @ Twitter
Featuring videos. It IS the real Meat because I have spoken with his personal assistant.
http://twitter.com/realmeatloaf
http://twitter.com/realmeatloaf
Meat Loaf Back In the Studio
June 1, 2009, 1:27 PM ET
By Jim Fusili
Meat Loaf is at work at Rob Cavallo’s Hidden Hills, CA, recording studio, cutting tracks for his forthcoming, and thus far, unnamed album. One new song the singer plans to record is called “Los Angeloser.” Maybe not so good as an album title?
Mr. Cavallo, who produced the new Dave Matthews Band album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” that will be out Tuesday, said of the Meat Loaf project, “This record’s going to shock people in terms of his musical style. It’s got all of the drama of a Meatloaf record, but it’s totally contemporary.”
Meat Loaf’s most recent album, 2006’s “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose,” sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide. His “Bat Out of Hell” has sold in excess of 43 million units since its release 32 years ago.
As for Mr. Cavallo, he just finished working on the albums by Uncle Kracker and Paramore.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/01/meat-loaf-back-at-work/
By Jim Fusili
Meat Loaf is at work at Rob Cavallo’s Hidden Hills, CA, recording studio, cutting tracks for his forthcoming, and thus far, unnamed album. One new song the singer plans to record is called “Los Angeloser.” Maybe not so good as an album title?
Mr. Cavallo, who produced the new Dave Matthews Band album, “Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King” that will be out Tuesday, said of the Meat Loaf project, “This record’s going to shock people in terms of his musical style. It’s got all of the drama of a Meatloaf record, but it’s totally contemporary.”
Meat Loaf’s most recent album, 2006’s “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose,” sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide. His “Bat Out of Hell” has sold in excess of 43 million units since its release 32 years ago.
As for Mr. Cavallo, he just finished working on the albums by Uncle Kracker and Paramore.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/01/meat-loaf-back-at-work/
Alice in Wonderland
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-05-14 18:03.
There are several scandalous and libellous ill-informed comments on this site. Please don't start this notion (again) that Lewis Carroll and the two Alice books are drug related or drug induced. Its simply not true. There seems to be an increasing trend (particularly in America it seems to me) to make this suggestion, self-evidently, by ill-informed and ignorant people. I noticed recently that Mylie Cyrus made a rather rashly confident statement that Alice was all about drugs.
Unless Ms Cyrus has some evidence or insight that has eluded 150 years of intense academic analysis of Carroll and his works, I think Ms "mass marketing" Montana and her like would do better to take a lesson in morality and humility from Lewis Carroll, a pious man that made little money from Looking Glass, pricing it as low as possible so as many children would be able to read it as possible, and giving away many free copies to homes and childrens' hospitals, etc.
Carroll's Alice books are beautiful, funny and imaginative, some of the characters are works of genius and the dialogue is sublimely witty, and rightly still considered a classic after 150 years.
I humbly recommend reading an annotated version (Martin Gardner's "The Annotated Alice" is excellent).
Also, there is no evidence that Charles Dodgson was a paedophile. Many of his child friends' reflections and memories are published and are usually fond memories or otherwise simply indifferent... there is not the remotest suggestion of anything sinister. I think these comments say much more about the commentators than Lewis Carroll.
On the hair-colour topic, it is the original Tenniel pictures in Carroll's books (where Alice is undoubtedly blonde) that made Alice a blonde. Carroll obviously had the "real Alice", Alice Liddell, in mind when he first told the story (Alice Liddell was brunette with shortish hair and a fringe) but never seems to have wanted to represent the physical appearance of Alice in the book as Alice Liddell. Before the story was published as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Carroll hand-wrote the story as "Alice's Adventures under Ground" as a gift to Alice Liddell and it has her photograph pasted onto the final page. This includes drawings by Carroll himself, but they are black and white and its not possible to conclusively determine Alice's hair colour, but note that her hair style (long) is not like Alice Liddell. When he was pursuaded to publish the story, he engaged Tenniel as the artist and collaborated closely. Carroll sent Tenniel a picture of a blonde girl called Mary Hilton Badcock to use as a model for Alice, but Tenniel did not work from models. Interestingly, Carroll criticised Tenniel for not using a model writing "Mr Tenniel is the only artist... who has resolutely refused to use a model...I venture that for want of a model, he drew several pictures of "Alice" entirely out of proportion - head decidedly too large and feet decidedly too small". At no point does he express dissatisfaction with Alice's blonde hair. So it pains me to say that Disney got
it right that Carroll's Alice was blonde.
And...the only boats in Carroll's Alice books are small row-boats. These scenes are presumably from some part of the script not based on the books.
I think Alice looks splendid in these pics and am eagerly anticipating seeing the film.
http://infdaily.fusebox.com/2008/09/our-first-look-at-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland.html
There are several scandalous and libellous ill-informed comments on this site. Please don't start this notion (again) that Lewis Carroll and the two Alice books are drug related or drug induced. Its simply not true. There seems to be an increasing trend (particularly in America it seems to me) to make this suggestion, self-evidently, by ill-informed and ignorant people. I noticed recently that Mylie Cyrus made a rather rashly confident statement that Alice was all about drugs.
Unless Ms Cyrus has some evidence or insight that has eluded 150 years of intense academic analysis of Carroll and his works, I think Ms "mass marketing" Montana and her like would do better to take a lesson in morality and humility from Lewis Carroll, a pious man that made little money from Looking Glass, pricing it as low as possible so as many children would be able to read it as possible, and giving away many free copies to homes and childrens' hospitals, etc.
Carroll's Alice books are beautiful, funny and imaginative, some of the characters are works of genius and the dialogue is sublimely witty, and rightly still considered a classic after 150 years.
I humbly recommend reading an annotated version (Martin Gardner's "The Annotated Alice" is excellent).
Also, there is no evidence that Charles Dodgson was a paedophile. Many of his child friends' reflections and memories are published and are usually fond memories or otherwise simply indifferent... there is not the remotest suggestion of anything sinister. I think these comments say much more about the commentators than Lewis Carroll.
On the hair-colour topic, it is the original Tenniel pictures in Carroll's books (where Alice is undoubtedly blonde) that made Alice a blonde. Carroll obviously had the "real Alice", Alice Liddell, in mind when he first told the story (Alice Liddell was brunette with shortish hair and a fringe) but never seems to have wanted to represent the physical appearance of Alice in the book as Alice Liddell. Before the story was published as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Carroll hand-wrote the story as "Alice's Adventures under Ground" as a gift to Alice Liddell and it has her photograph pasted onto the final page. This includes drawings by Carroll himself, but they are black and white and its not possible to conclusively determine Alice's hair colour, but note that her hair style (long) is not like Alice Liddell. When he was pursuaded to publish the story, he engaged Tenniel as the artist and collaborated closely. Carroll sent Tenniel a picture of a blonde girl called Mary Hilton Badcock to use as a model for Alice, but Tenniel did not work from models. Interestingly, Carroll criticised Tenniel for not using a model writing "Mr Tenniel is the only artist... who has resolutely refused to use a model...I venture that for want of a model, he drew several pictures of "Alice" entirely out of proportion - head decidedly too large and feet decidedly too small". At no point does he express dissatisfaction with Alice's blonde hair. So it pains me to say that Disney got
it right that Carroll's Alice was blonde.
And...the only boats in Carroll's Alice books are small row-boats. These scenes are presumably from some part of the script not based on the books.
I think Alice looks splendid in these pics and am eagerly anticipating seeing the film.
http://infdaily.fusebox.com/2008/09/our-first-look-at-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland.html
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Susan Boyle 'will need to be in Priory for weeks' say doctors
By Richard Simpson, Paul Revoir and Ryan Kisiel
Last updated at 2:27 AM on 03rd June 2009
Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle could need weeks of psychiatric care, doctors said last night.
Professor Chris Thompson is the chief medical officer of The Priory, where the Scottish singer is being cared for.
He said: 'I cannot talk specifically about Susan Boyle but any admission to a psychiatric hospital for a matter of days is, in my opinion, a failed admission, because either it was unnecessary in the first place or the job hasn't been done fully.'
He stressed that the North London private clinic 'is not a rest home and it's not a spa. It is a psychiatric hospital'.
Professor Thompson added: 'I read Susan Boyle was assessed under the Mental Health Act. It implies compulsory admission.
'It implies there was a degree of personal risk. Secondarily that implies she did not want to come into hospital voluntarily.'
His comments cast doubt on producers' claims that Miss Boyle, who has learning difficulties, is simply in need of a long rest.
A record audience of 19million viewers watched as Miss Boyle's mental composure appear to disintegrate on air on the final show on Saturday.
After coming off camera, she had a heated row with the show's producers, then collapsed in her London hotel room.
Those looking after her panicked and called doctors and police.
When they arrived she had another tantrum. She was assessed under the Mental Health Act before being taken by ambulance with a police escort to The Priory.
It was claimed yesterday that Miss Boyle was behaving strangely in the days before the final. Irene Carter, 61, whose daughter is in dance troupe Sugar Free, said: 'Susan was acting very strangely all week. She is odd and is constantly talking to herself.
'One time she came up to my daughter Emma in the hotel and asked to borrow her mobile phone.
'When she got off the phone she said she had been talking to her cat back at home. Susan said she had to call Pebbles several times throughout the day or she would miss her. I really think she was cracking up.'
Industry regulator Ofcom could investigate whether ITV has breached its broadcasting code after viewers made a 'large number of complaints' over Miss Boyle's treatment.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham called for review of the broadcasting code so that it can sufficiently protect vulnerable contestants.
Judge Amanda Holden stressed yesterday that Miss Boyle would have gone through rigorous psychological tests before she went on the show
She said: 'I think every possible box was ticked before she went into the auditions for our show.
'I think she needs a break from the spotlight, so she can relax and enjoy what's happening to her.'
Despite Professor Thompson's comments, Miss Boyle's family last night were confident she would be ready to come home very soon. Her brother said she would soon bounce back with the help of a 'cup of Scottish tea'.
A source at Sony revealed that member of Simon Cowell's team visited Miss Boyle at the Priory yesterday and made her an 'open offer' for a record deal.
The source said: 'Cowell has reassured her there is a record deal there for her if she wants it. If she doesn't want to do it that's fine. There's no pressure and no rush.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1190459/Susan-need-Priory-weeks-say-doctors.html
Last updated at 2:27 AM on 03rd June 2009
Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle could need weeks of psychiatric care, doctors said last night.
Professor Chris Thompson is the chief medical officer of The Priory, where the Scottish singer is being cared for.
He said: 'I cannot talk specifically about Susan Boyle but any admission to a psychiatric hospital for a matter of days is, in my opinion, a failed admission, because either it was unnecessary in the first place or the job hasn't been done fully.'
He stressed that the North London private clinic 'is not a rest home and it's not a spa. It is a psychiatric hospital'.
Professor Thompson added: 'I read Susan Boyle was assessed under the Mental Health Act. It implies compulsory admission.
'It implies there was a degree of personal risk. Secondarily that implies she did not want to come into hospital voluntarily.'
His comments cast doubt on producers' claims that Miss Boyle, who has learning difficulties, is simply in need of a long rest.
A record audience of 19million viewers watched as Miss Boyle's mental composure appear to disintegrate on air on the final show on Saturday.
After coming off camera, she had a heated row with the show's producers, then collapsed in her London hotel room.
Those looking after her panicked and called doctors and police.
When they arrived she had another tantrum. She was assessed under the Mental Health Act before being taken by ambulance with a police escort to The Priory.
It was claimed yesterday that Miss Boyle was behaving strangely in the days before the final. Irene Carter, 61, whose daughter is in dance troupe Sugar Free, said: 'Susan was acting very strangely all week. She is odd and is constantly talking to herself.
'One time she came up to my daughter Emma in the hotel and asked to borrow her mobile phone.
'When she got off the phone she said she had been talking to her cat back at home. Susan said she had to call Pebbles several times throughout the day or she would miss her. I really think she was cracking up.'
Industry regulator Ofcom could investigate whether ITV has breached its broadcasting code after viewers made a 'large number of complaints' over Miss Boyle's treatment.
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham called for review of the broadcasting code so that it can sufficiently protect vulnerable contestants.
Judge Amanda Holden stressed yesterday that Miss Boyle would have gone through rigorous psychological tests before she went on the show
She said: 'I think every possible box was ticked before she went into the auditions for our show.
'I think she needs a break from the spotlight, so she can relax and enjoy what's happening to her.'
Despite Professor Thompson's comments, Miss Boyle's family last night were confident she would be ready to come home very soon. Her brother said she would soon bounce back with the help of a 'cup of Scottish tea'.
A source at Sony revealed that member of Simon Cowell's team visited Miss Boyle at the Priory yesterday and made her an 'open offer' for a record deal.
The source said: 'Cowell has reassured her there is a record deal there for her if she wants it. If she doesn't want to do it that's fine. There's no pressure and no rush.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1190459/Susan-need-Priory-weeks-say-doctors.html
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