A pox on Angelina

Filmmaker and actress Angelina Jolie has said she has chicken pox and will not be able to attend events for World War Two drama "Unbroken," her second film as director. "I just want to be clear and honest why I will be missing the 'Unbroken' events in the next few days, which is that I found out last night that I have chicken pox," Jolie said in a video released by Universal Pictures on YouTube. "So I will be home, itching and missing everyone and I can't believe it because this film means so much to me. I just can't believe it, but such is life," said the 39-year-old mother of six and wife of Brad Pitt. At the end of the 39-second video, she throws up her hands and then waves goodbye. Speaking of goodbye, New Zealand is having to say goodbye to its only free sports channel, which has folded after 18 months on air and stopped broadcasting yesterday at midday (New Zealand Daylight Time). Sommet Sports says it had the vision of 'Free Sports for Kiwis' but said funding it thought would be available never materialised. A press statement from the company said it was subsequently forced to deliver a nationwide broadcast channel on one third of the finance. "I am totally gutted at not being able to sustain something that we have long held a fervent desire to deliver to New Zealanders. Sommet was born from a dream to deliver free sports to all kiwis. Sadly this dream is not to be." Sommet Sports director Andrew Reeves said in a statement, adding "being the new kids on the block, we also struggled to gain a strong foothold with most advertising agencies. This coupled with an acute funding shortage has left us with the sad reality of having to make the difficult call." Sommet Sports had rights to many events I personally don't care that much about anyway, including but not limited to the Bundesliga (German football league), Chelsea TV, UEFA Europa League (especially as Manchester United didn't even qualify for that no thanks to David Moyes), and MotoGP.