Spice Girls taunt angry reporters

Madrid - The opening of the Spice Girls' new film Spice World got a shaky launch in Spain yesterday when one of them answered the boos of an gry reporters with the taunts "Shut up . . . queer! "Callate . . . maricon," Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) shouted at photographers and journalists who were jeering because they had to sign documents giving the band the rights to pictures or video footage taken at the press conference.