Since the US launch of American Idol, The X Factor, and America's Got Talent, Cowell has focused on his overseas projects and has withdrawn from the UK versions of the shows.
THE SKY LINE about Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry, whose two current works are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain -- already hailed as a masterpiece -- and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in his hometown, a troubled project from which Gehry has withdrawn.
The New Yorker, July 7 , 1997P. 38 THE SKY LINE about Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry, whose two current works are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain -- already hailed as a masterpiece -- and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in his hometown, a troubled project from which Gehry has withdrawn.
The latter film suffered an additional setback this week when it emerged that the project's leading man, George Clooney, has withdrawn his involvement.
The architect Frank Gehry, below, has withdrawn from a project designing a Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz last week.
The architect Renzo Piano has withdrawn from a project to build an 80-story tower in Boston that would have involved the demolition of a 1960 building by Paul Rudolph, left, that is valued by preservationists, a spokeswoman for Mr. Piano said yesterday.
Mr. Penn, right, who was set to play the role of Larry in a "Three Stooges" movie written and directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly (the brothers behind "There's Something About Mary"), has withdrawn from that project.
But now, Deadline.com reports, Mr. Baron Cohen has withdrawn from the project, citing that crazy little thing called creative differences: He wanted a grittier treatment of Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991, while the surviving Queen band mates were hoping for "more of a PG movie," Deadline.com said.
…Data and biological samples from a participant that has withdrawn from the project will no longer be accessible to researchers via the CARTaGENE bank.
After political tensions in the South China Sea, China Merchants has withdrawn from a port project in Vietnam.
