Daniel Craig Calls 'Dragon Tattoo' Very 'Adult' Movie

'Babysitters are going to get, hopefully, a lot of money out of this film,' Craig says, predicting the mature set will flock to theaters.
By Amy Wilkinson


Daniel Craig
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Rape, murder, intrigue ... the feel-bad movie of Christmas may not leave audiences feeling bright and merry but "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" star Daniel Craig suspects the dark drama will inspire smiles among at least one group.

"Look, I'm a David Fincher fan, so it was an easy choice to make when accepting this film," Craig told MTV News at the film's New York City premiere. "It's a great story. It's an adult movie. The babysitters are going to get, hopefully, a lot of money out of this film. That's why I wanted to get involved."

The film, based on the novel by late Swedish author Stieg Larsson, follows journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Craig) as he tries to solve the 30-year-old murder of teen Harriet Vanger, with the help of asocial hacker punk Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). Mara has been earning raves for her performance as the damaged heroine and even netted a Golden Globe nomination on Thursday. Craig said he had no doubts as to the newcomer's abilities.

"We all knew she was good. She's just committed as an actress, and she made all of the right choices with David's help and everyone else's help," he said. "She's just blossomed as somebody. As I said, we knew from the beginning that she was good enough — it was everyone else who had the problem."

Best known for her work in Fincher's "The Social Network," Mara returned the compliment, expressing gratitude for Craig's help and guidance on set. "Daniel is an incredible actor, and I don't think we've seen him in a role like this before, and he's brilliant," she said. "I couldn't have asked for a better person to sort of have my coming out. He was very patient and generous with me."

"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" opens December 20, a day earlier than its initial release date.

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Swedish House Mafia Set To Take Over Madison Square Garden

'It's one of those moments you're never going to forget as long as you live,' Steve Angello says about MSG one-night stand.
By Adam Stewart, with additional reporting by Akshay Bhansali


Axwell and Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia
Photo: MTV News

The boys are back in town — and this time they've gone big. In fact, it doesn't get much bigger. Just two years shy of the anniversary of their New York City debut at M2 nightclub, Swedish House Mafia is revved up and ready to rock Madison Square Garden on Friday (December 16) with their high-energy, heart-pounding sight-and-sound spectacular. Group members Steve Angello and Axwell took time out of their jam-packed schedule on Wednesday to sit down with MTV News and share their excitement for the night that the dance music world can't stop talking about.

"It's just pretty unbelievable," Axwell gushed. "We were obviously scared when we decided to do it because it's such a big place, it's such an expensive place to rent and it's hard to fill. But so many people bought tickets and it sold out in 10 minutes, and just, Wow! you know? It's really amazing that we have that sort of appreciation this side of the Atlantic."

"[Madison Square Garden] is great. It's a beautiful place," said Angello. "Since we were kids, we've always seen the hockey and basketball [games]. It's one of those places — it's the Garden. It's everyone in basketball's favorite place to play, and it's just magic — it's New York!"

Their presence at one of the world's most iconic venues is certainly reflective of the exploding EDM scene here in the States as well as one of the world's most important music cities. The Swedes have been an integral factor in cultivating the sonic pallet of cool culture in America. "New York is one of those places where you're always shocked when you leave a show here because of the energy and the crowd," Angello said. "I know how I'm going to feel tomorrow after the show. It's one of those moments you're never going to forget as long as you live — one of those key moments in your career"

This moment has been so massive in the Big Apple that the trio decided to add a second show, in the form what's being dubbed an after-party, just up the street at the Roseland Ballroom. All of the action is paired with the highly anticipated digital release of their latest single, "Antidote," a collaboration brought forth by Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen of Pendulum, under their dub-step-infused production moniker, Knife Party.

"Steve was in the tour in Australia, [he] met up with Knife Party and started out with the idea there," Axwell said. "[But] we wanted the track to have some sort of identity, we wanted to have the instrumental and all, but it would be nice with some identity, [so] we started working with a guy named Klas Åhlund, a great writer, and he wrote the little top line hook that you hear."

"But you know, it's a collaboration," Angello went on to say. "I've read some comments that are like, 'It's not the typical Swedish House Mafia sound,' but at the same time it is! We've done what, three or four records? I think we should keep it like that — it's more fun. We have to enjoy coming together and working and doing something that sounds different from what we do solo — so I think that's what Swedish House Mafia is."

Planning on being one of the thousands who share the Swedish House Mafia experience in person or tuning in live to watch on Swedishhousemafia.com? Let us know in the comments below! You can pick up "Antidote" on iTunes or Beatport along the way!

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Official: 10 trapped in Turkish mosque collapse (AP)

ANKARA, Turkey ? A mosque under construction collapsed on Saturday, trapping an estimated 10 workers in the rubble, an official said.

Mayor Hasan Unver told NTV television four other workers were injured in the accident at the building site in town of Acigol, in the central Turkish province of Nevsehir. Their condition was not serious, he said.

Unver said the workers were trapped beneath the collapsed dome of a mosque that was being built at an industrial area of Acigol.

State-run TRT television showed images of rescuers, some holding a bright orange stretcher, scrambling to rescue one trapped worker amid a pile of rubble and iron rods.

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McQueary: I saw Sandusky sex abuse

A Penn State assistant football coach testified Friday that he had no doubt he saw former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky in a sexual act with a boy in a university locker room in 2002.

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"I believe he was sexually molesting the boy," Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant in the university's football program in 2002, said at a court hearing, adding at a later point that he "has no doubt" he saw Sandusky in a sexual act.

McQueary, speaking for the first time in public about the 2002 encounter, said he saw Sandusky with his hands around the boy's waist. McQueary also said he fully conveyed what he had seen to two Penn State administrators about what he told them. He testified that he reported the incident to longtime head coach Joe Paterno.

McQueary took the stand Friday morning in a Pennsylvania courtroom during a preliminary hearing for university officials Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, who are accused of lying to a grand jury about what McQueary told them.

At the conclusion of the hearing, District Judge William C. Wenner ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence to send their cases to trial. Their lawyers say the men are innocent and contest McQueary's statements.

Conflicting accounts
Since Curley's and Schultz's arrests, different versions of what McQueary witnessed have been reported. They testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw. The officials, and Paterno, have been criticized for not telling police about the 2002 allegation. Prosecutors say Sandusky continued to abuse boys for at least six more years.

McQueary told the court on Friday that he had gone into the building one night around 9 p.m. in the spring of 2002 after watching a football movie at home, which he said had motivated him to go into the building and get some work done, reported NBC News.

When he went into the locker room that night to drop off a pair of sneakers, McQueary said he saw a naked Sandusky behind a prepubescent boy he estimated to be 10 or 12 years old, with Sandusky's hands wrapped around the boy's waist. He said the boy was facing a wall, with his hands on it.

'Shocked, horrified'
"I heard rhythmic slapping sounds, two or three slaps that sounded like skin on skin," McQueary testified.

But McQueary also said: "I did not see insertion nor was there any protest, screaming or yelling."

He said he was "shocked, horrified, not thinking straight. I was distraught."

He said he looked into the shower several times and that the last time he looked in, Sandusky and the boy had separated. He said he didn't say anything, but "I know they saw me. They looked directly in my eye, both of them."

The position was very "sexually oriented," McQueary said.

Under cross examination by an attorney for Curley, McQueary reiterated that he had not seen Sandusky penetrating or fondling the boy but was nearly certain he knew a sexual assault happened, in part because the two were standing so close and Sandusky's arms were wrapped around the youth.

McQueary, 27 at the time, said he called his father, John McQueary, immediately afterward and told him: "I just saw coach Sandusky. What I saw was wrong and sexual."

His father told him he needed to to report what he saw to Paterno, McQueary told the court.

McQueary then testified that he called Paterno early the following morning and told him he needed to speak with him about something.

He said he did not give Paterno explicit details of what he believed he'd seen, saying he wouldn't have used terms like sodomy or anal intercourse out of respect for the longtime coach.

Paterno told the grand jury that McQueary reported seeing Sandusky doing something of a "sexual nature" with the youngster but that he didn't press for details.

"I didn't push Mike ... because he was very upset," Paterno said. "I knew Mike was upset, and I knew some kind of inappropriate action was being taken by Jerry Sandusky with a youngster."

McQueary said Paterno told him, "I'm sorry you had to see that" and that he had "done the absolute right thing." The head coach appeared shocked and saddened and slumped back in his chair, McQueary said.

Paterno told McQueary he would talk to others about what he'd reported.


Nine or 10 days later, McQueary said he met with Curley and Shultz and told them he'd seen Sandusky and a boy, both naked, in the shower after hearing skin-on-skin slapping sounds.

"I told them that I saw Jerry in the showers with a young boy and that what I had seen was extremely sexual and over the lines and it was wrong," McQueary said. "I would have described that it was extremely sexual and I thought that some kind of intercourse was going on."

Spoke with university officials, not police
McQueary said he was left with the impression both men took his report seriously. When asked why he didn't go to police, he referenced Shultz's position as a vice president at the university who had overseen the campus police.

"I thought I was talking to the head of the police, to be frank with you," he said. "In my mind it was like speaking to a (district attorney). It was someone who police reported to and would know what to do with it."

Later, Thomas Harmon, the former chief of the Penn State police department, testified Schultz didn't tell him about the shower allegation.

Paterno, Schultz and Curley didn't testify, but judge Wenner read their grand jury testimony from January in weighing the case.

Sandusky says he is innocent of more than 50 charges stemming from what authorities say were sexual assaults over 15 years on 10 boys in his home, on Penn State property and elsewhere. The scandal has provoked strong criticism that Penn State officials didn't do enough to stop Sandusky, and prompted the departures of Hall of Fame football coach Joe Paterno and the school's longtime president, Graham Spanier.

Sandusky waived his preliminary hearing on Tuesday and will go straight to trial on 52 counts of sex abuse of boys over a 15-year period.

Curley, 57, Penn State's athletic director, was placed on leave by the university after his arrest. Schultz, 62, returned to retirement after spending about four decades at the school, most recently as senior vice president for business and finance, and treasurer.

Curley and Schultz testified to the grand jury that McQueary never relayed the seriousness of what he saw and that they told Spanier what they knew before telling Sandusky not to bring children on to campus.

Paterno was fired after the scandal broke.

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Moody's cuts Belgium ratings by 2 notches (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Moody's on Friday cut Belgium's credit rating by two notches, saying the euro zone debt crisis increases funding risks for countries with high public debt burdens.

Concerns about Belgium's economic growth prospects and its banking system, particularly with contingent liabilities stemming from the Dexia group bailout, also contributed to the decision, Moody's said.

"The fragility of the sovereign debt markets (in the euro zone) is increasingly entrenched and unlikely to be reversed in the near future," Moody's said in a statement.

"It translates into heightened potential for funding stress for euro area countries with high public debt burdens and refinancing needs like Belgium," it added.

Belgium's government declined to comment on Moody's decision.

The ratings agency lowered Belgium's local- and foreign-currency government bond ratings to Aa3 from Aa1. The new rating has a negative outlook, which means another downgrade is possible in a couple of years.

The negative outlook reflects ongoing concerns about Belgium's government finances and economic growth prospects in the euro zone due to the debt crisis, Moody's sovereign credit analyst Alexander Kockerbeck told Reuters in an interview.

Belgium on December 5 formed a new six-party coalition government after a caretaker administration approved a budget with austerity measures at the end of November. The budget agreement came just hours after Standard & Poor's cut the country's rating to AA from AA-plus.

The new government must satisfy demands of the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority for devolution of further powers to Belgium's regions, and may have to redraw a budget that economists say is based on too optimistic a growth forecast.

"The recent experience in Belgium is that the political bargaining process can be very challenging and it could be that the new government may need to agree on additional measures," said Kockerbeck.

"It is challenging certainly for the government to come up with additional measures given the downward revisions of economic growth that we experienced in the euro zone as a whole," he added.

Earlier on Friday, rival Fitch Ratings placed Belgium's AA-plus rating on credit watch negative, signaling a downgrade is possible within three months.

Standard & Poor's, which rates the country at AA, also has the rating on watch negative as part of a broader review of 15 euro zone countries.

On Thursday Moody's cut the rating on Dexia's French division Dexia Credit Local to Baa1 from A3, citing concerns about the comprehensiveness of the funding guarantee scheme provided to the unit. It threatened the division with more cuts.

In October, Belgium, France and Luxembourg agreed to guarantee the bond funding raised by the division for the next 10 years, up to 90 billion euros ($116.6 billion).

(Additional reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels; Editing by Dan Grebler and Andrew Hay)

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The Left's wrongheaded anti-Semitism debate (The Week)

New York ? Rather unbelievably, liberal writers are bashing a former AIPAC spokesman for keeping a tally of their obnoxious anti-Israel comments?

A blogosphere spat is revealing an important fracture in the Democratic Party and liberal institutions.

The spat erupted nearly a week ago. The website Salon.com published a story reporting that Josh Block, a former spokesman for AIPAC, America's pro-Israel lobby, had collected a trove of provocative quotes from anti-Israel bloggers.

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Here's Justin Elliott's breathless Salon lead:

The former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is shopping a 3,000-word trove of opposition research against bloggers critical of Israel to friendly neoconservative journalists.

I've obtained an email sent by Josh Block to a private listserv called the Freedom Community, in which he throws around accusations of anti-Semitism against liberal bloggers and calls on other list members to "echo" and "amplify" his assault and "use the below [research] to attack the bad guys."

This is a referendum on whether it is more unacceptable inside today's liberal Washington to use the language of anti-Semitism ? or to protest the language of anti-Semitism.

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You might wonder: Where's the story here? AIPAC exists to support Israel and refute attacks on Israel. In order to refute attacks, you have to keep tally of those attacks. As for "throwing around" accusations of anti-Semitism ? well, here's what Salon goes on to say. (Some of the references will be a little obscure, but we'll circle back and clarify as the story unfolds.)

He [Block] wasted no time throwing around more accusations of anti-Semitism.

"This kind of anti-Israel sentiment is so fringe it's support by CAP is outrageous, but at least it is out in the open now ? as is their goal ? clearly applauded by revolting allies like the pro-HAMAS and anti-Zionist/One State Solution advocate Ali Abunumiah and those who accuse pro-Israel Americans of having 'dual loyalties' or being 'Israel-Firsters' ? to shape the minds of future generations of Democrats," Block writes. "These are the words of anti-Semites, not Democratic political players."

If charges of "dual loyalty" and "Israel first" do not count as anti-Semitic tropes, what does? To get ahead of our story a little, the nonpartisan Simon Wiesenthal Center made just this point in a statement released Tuesday:

The Middle East is a dangerous place ? and not merely for people who live there. Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly difficult in this country to take a position sympathetic to the Jewish state and in favor of the continuation of America's historic strong alliance with Israel without being called "an Israel Firster" and charged with "dual loyalties."...?

These odious charges have been around since Henry Ford in 1920 said "wars are the Jews' harvest," Charles Lindbergh in 1940 condemned Jews for conspiring to plunge America into World War II, and "Jewish neocons" were charged with colluding with Israel to cause the 2003 Iraq War.

Nonetheless, the reporting of Block's communication triggered anger and outrage among those whose words he quoted. Matt Duss, who heads the Middle East program at the Center for American Progress ? the "CAP" mentioned by Block in his email ? posted an angry riposte on Dec. 9, including these words:

As for Josh's outrageous anti-Semitism smear, I'm not going to bother responding, because I'm quite confident Josh knows that it isn't true.

Here are some samples of the comments to which Block took exception.

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From Zaid Jilani, a blogger at CAP:?

-"Israel Firsters fighting each other over whose position on the middle east conflict is more unreasonable."

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-"Waiting 4 hack pro-Dem blogger to use this:?bit.ly/qT9eH2?2 sho Obama is still beloved by Israel-firsters and getting lots of their $$"

(CAP has since ruefully repudiated the use of the term "Israel Firster," and blogger Jilani has scrubbed his Twitter feed of the offending items, professing that he was "unaware" of the connotations of the term.)

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From MJ Rosenberg, a blogger at Media Matters for America:

-"Another good reason not to visit?here)?raises the question: What are such groups doing trafficking in such stuff? Even more incredibly, when the story broke, it was not CAP and Media Matters that expressed remorse and offered corrective action. No, if The Washington Post is to be believed, the person in political trouble after the online spat is Josh Block ? not the bloggers who trafficked in the "dual loyalty" tropes, but the person who protested the use of those "dual loyalty" tropes.

Here's Greg Sargent reporting in the online edition of The Washington Post:

Two top think tanks in Washington are mulling whether to sever ties with a controversial former AIPAC spokesman after it emerged that he was encouraging conservative writers to echo charges that critics of Israel are guilty of anti-Semitism, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The fate of the former AIPAC spokesman, Josh Block, will be a big deal to people in left-leaning foreign policy circles in Washington. For them, the question of whether the think tanks will remain affiliated with Block will be seen as a referendum on the larger issue of whether demeaning Israel critics as anti-Semitic will be considered acceptable discourse among foreign policy experts.

The two think tanks in question are prominent centrist Democratic organizations: the Progressive Policy Institute and the Truman National Security Project. Block, a lifelong Democrat, has a part-time relationship with the two groups, although he now earns most of his living as a successful D.C. communications consultant.

Both PPI and the Truman Project adamantly refuse to comment on the Sargent story. But if the story is true, then Sargent's interpretation of it is exactly correct ? if upside down.

As Sargent phrases it, the Josh Block story constitutes?"a referendum on the larger issue of whether demeaning Israel critics as anti-Semitic will be considered acceptable discourse among foreign policy experts."

It would be more to the point to think of the Josh Block controversy this way: as a referendum on whether it is more unacceptable inside today's liberal Washington to?use?the language of anti-Semitism ? or to?protest?the language of anti-Semitism.?

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    Watch Day Two of the Grueling SOPA Hearings (The Atlantic Wire)

    After an epically long, sometimes heated and certainly disconcerting hearing on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee reconvened at 10 a.m. Friday morning to finish marking up the latest draft of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). So far, no amendments have been passed and with the pro-SOPA Members outnumbering the skeptics 22 to 12, it seems inevitable that the bill will be sent to the floor as is. We've embedded a live feed of the hearing below, and if you're planning on watching, you might want to make yourself a sandwich. This could take a while.

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    Libyan evacuees protest in Greece (AP)

    THESSALONIKI, Greece ? Several dozen Libyans, flown to Greece for medical treatment and physiotherapy after the country's eight-month civil war, blocked traffic in protest in this northern city, after four people were injured in a hotel brawl.

    Hospital and ambulance officials confirmed that four Libyans were being treated late Wednesday for minor injuries.

    Police said the cause of the fight between the Libyans and other hotel guests remained unclear, and made no arrests. Traffic was blocked for about two hours before the protest ended peacefully.

    Several hundred Libyan civil war victims are being treated in Greece.

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    Sprint Users Might Have to Wait a Little Longer for Their LTE Network [Sprint]

    Earlier this year, Sprint had discussed plans for the rollout of their 4G LTE network, stating that it would be coming mid-summer. Now Sprint's CFO Joseph Euteneuer, speaking at an analyst conference, has stated its coming in the second half of 2012. It's a subtle, but potentially significant, change in language. More »


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