
AFP: Hollywood's Hannah on board against Japanese whalers
Hollywood mermaid Daryl Hannah will be on board a militant conservationist group's ship for a looming confrontation with Japan's whalers in the Antarctic, the captain said Thursday. "Daryl is joining our group," Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson was quoted as saying by Australia's national AAP news agency. "She'll be on board -- she's joining us at the end of the month." Hannah, blonde star of Ron Howard's 1984 mermaid fantasy "Splash" and more recently featured in Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" movies, will be on the Sea Shepherd's flagship the Steve Irwin for its annual joust with the whalers...more...