Entertainment 27-10-2003 who: UK Film Council what: To screen short films by up-and-coming directors in hair salon waiting rooms when: This year snippet: "The days of flicking through a tatty old magazine before going under the hair salon scissors could be over," says The Scotsman`s John Innes. "More than 500 salons around the UK are being fitted with hi-tech plasma screens in an attempt to boost the British film industry..." In other movie news, The Sun reports that Jack Nicholson`s leading role in The Shining topped Channel 4`s poll of scariest screen moments and the paper has a sneak peek at Hollywood legend Dustin Hoffman making Pavlovas on a US TV show with cheeky cockerney cook Jamie Oliver. [... more]

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