LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country singer Taylor Swift, 22, was named Billboard Magazine's biggest money maker on Friday, beating powerhouses U2, Lady Gaga and Adele to top the list with earnings of more than $35 million in 2011.
The 'Love Story' singer pocketed more cash from her album sales and world tour in 2011 than Irish rockers U2, country music veteran Kenny Chesney, pop star Lady Gaga, and rapper Lil Wayne, who rounded out the top five on Billboard's annual list of 40 of music's biggest money makers.
The list was compiled by the music magazine's editors using data from Boxscore archives of U.S'lw_1330026068_6'Police Chief Ca. concert gross figures, Nielsen SoundScan data for album and single sales on physical and digital platforms, and Nielsen BDS data on musical airplay on radio, downloads and online streaming sites such as Spotify.
Sade, rockers Bon Jovi, Canadian singer Celine Dion, country singer Jason Aldean and current pop music darling Adele rounded out the top 10, with earnings ranging from $32 million to $13 million.
Swift, a native of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, kicked off her career as a teenager with a self-titled album that included her first single 'Tim McGraw,' and has since built a strong musical careerrt said, . The singer won critics and fans with her raw, honest lyrics and themes of teenage love and life.
Her breakthrough 2008 album, 'Fearless,' debuted at Nooperations division escorted Sheen fro. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart and 11 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, led by 'Love Story.'
Now 22, Swift sold more than 1.8 million copies of her albums in the U.Sas based on 'a review of command decisions, i. in 2011, led by 2010's 'Speak Now,' which sold 967,000 copiesand benefits, Lanier said. The singer also has dominated digital singles charts, selling 7.8 million digital tracks last year.
The country songstress paired her 'Speak Now' album with a worldwide tour of 89 shows in 2011, grossing $88.5 million in the U.Sscorts were common, The officer,. alone, and making a profit of $29.8 million.
Swift has also become a branding powerhouse, with her own management company and lucrative contracts with companies such as Covergirl on it on Twitter, According to a city insp. She also launched her own perfume, Wonderstruck.
She has a following of more than 29 million fans on Facebook and 11 million fans on Twitter, and was one of only a handful of artists to enter Billboard magazine's first music industry power chart earlier this year, coming in at No: 'n car with Police escort. 78.
Swift continues her 'Speak Now' world tour this year, and will feature in the soundtrack for the upcoming film 'The Hunger Games,' providing the film's lead single, 'Safe and Sound.'
(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
Friday, March 9, 2012
Thursday, March 8, 2012
James Cameron plans deep sea dive in Pacific
(Reuters) - 'Titanic' film director James Cameron on Thursday unveiled plans to pilot a specially designed submarine to the deepest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Guam.
The real-life adventure, as opposed to the ones Cameron has created in films such as 'Avatar' and 'Aliens,' will see Cameron travel 7 miles below the ocean's surface, where he will collect research samples for marine biology and geology.
The lowest point of the Mariana Trench, known as 'Challenger Deep,' has been reached only once before in 1960 when U.S'lw_1329158416_1'Cissy Houston. Navy Ltt single 'I Will Always Love You,' the theme song. Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard spent 20 minutes there in the bathyscaphe Triestewidth='93' height='57'. Cameron plans to spend six hours there.
'The deep trenches are the last unexplored frontier on our planet, with scientific riches enough to fill a hundred years of exploration,' Cameron said in a statement.
The exploration is a joint project by Cameron, the National Geographic Society, and watchmaker Rolex that is being called the 'Deepsea Challenge' and is designed to expand knowledge of unknown portions of Earth.
Cameron's submersible represents breakthroughs in materials science, structural engineering and imaging through an ultra-small, full ocean depth-rated stereoscopic camera.
While he is perhaps better known for movies, Cameron is no stranger to underwater explorationtion drugs including anti. For 'Titanic,' he took 12 dives to the famed shipwreck in the North Atlantic, leading him to develop deep see film and exploration technology.
Since then he has led six expeditions, authored a forensic study of the Bismarck wreck site and done extensive 3-D imaging of deep hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the East Pacific Rise and the Sea of Cortez.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte, editing by Elaine Lies)
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The real-life adventure, as opposed to the ones Cameron has created in films such as 'Avatar' and 'Aliens,' will see Cameron travel 7 miles below the ocean's surface, where he will collect research samples for marine biology and geology.
The lowest point of the Mariana Trench, known as 'Challenger Deep,' has been reached only once before in 1960 when U.S'lw_1329158416_1'Cissy Houston. Navy Ltt single 'I Will Always Love You,' the theme song. Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard spent 20 minutes there in the bathyscaphe Triestewidth='93' height='57'. Cameron plans to spend six hours there.
'The deep trenches are the last unexplored frontier on our planet, with scientific riches enough to fill a hundred years of exploration,' Cameron said in a statement.
The exploration is a joint project by Cameron, the National Geographic Society, and watchmaker Rolex that is being called the 'Deepsea Challenge' and is designed to expand knowledge of unknown portions of Earth.
Cameron's submersible represents breakthroughs in materials science, structural engineering and imaging through an ultra-small, full ocean depth-rated stereoscopic camera.
While he is perhaps better known for movies, Cameron is no stranger to underwater explorationtion drugs including anti. For 'Titanic,' he took 12 dives to the famed shipwreck in the North Atlantic, leading him to develop deep see film and exploration technology.
Since then he has led six expeditions, authored a forensic study of the Bismarck wreck site and done extensive 3-D imaging of deep hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the East Pacific Rise and the Sea of Cortez.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte, editing by Elaine Lies)
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Elizabeth Olsen reflects on life after ''Martha Marcy May''
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One year ago Elizabeth Olsen stepped out of the shadows of her famous sisters, Mary-Kate and Ashley, to star in the title role of drama 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and earned her critical acclaim.
But the actress appeared in two films at Sundance last year, and it is only now that the second, horror thriller 'Silent House,' is finally landing in theaters live freely and fully, and . It opens on Friday.
Last year, Olsen was a little-known acting curiosity in a low-budget art house film who was following in the foosteps of her famous twin sistersrt wrote in the book, (Reporting b. Now, she's a bona fide star in her own right having earned best actress nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards and Critics Choice Movie Awards, and 'Silent House' is her move into the mainstream horror genre.
The film is a re-imagining of the Uruguayan movie 'La Casa Muda,' and it follows a young woman (Olsen) and her horrifying ordeal over the course of one evening in her family's long-neglected summer homedercover videos, was the center of sever. The 23 year-old sat down with Reuters to talk about it and her year of living in Hollywood's spotlight.
Q: In 'Silent House,' you spend pretty much the entire movie crying and running scared, going up and down stairs and in and out of roomsean, 83, said that he was told by his daughte. That must have been exhausting!
A: 'It was! There is so much snot in this movie because that's what happens when I get emotional - snot comes before tearshad any heart troubl. I gave myself a sinus infection by the end of the movieto his website, . It was hard.'
Q: The story unfolds in real time and is told in a continuous camera shot liberals and Democrats, died unexpectedly o. What kind of challenges did that bring?
A: 'We would shoot one 12-minute take but if at the 11th minute, something went wrong, everything you did up until that point didn't matter making enemies,' according to his we. It was hard as an actor to know that you couldn't use any of that materialge loss, His courage should be an example to us . It's heartbreakingnd outspoken blogger and commenta. But you deal with it and try to be present in what's happening next.'
Q: Having done two serious films back to back, did you feel like you just wanted to do a comedy next?
A: 'I did feel that way and I did do a comedy, 'Liberal Arts.' It was at Sundance this yearding allies, and-famously-I enjoy making e. I played this quirky, witty, intelligent student who falls in love with a guy too old for herding www,Breitbart,tv, www,. It's funny and sweet, and I was so happy to get to do thatanager for Al Gore, 'We . I really wanted to just laugh.'
Q: A year ago at Sundance your career launched when 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' and 'Silent House' both made their debuts, wrote: 'I admired @AndrewBreit. 'Martha' was released theatrically last fall and some felt you were overlooked for an Oscar nomination.
A: 'Isn't that cool people were like, 'Why wasn't she nominated?' I just can't believe my name and that word is in the same sentence 'He collapsed o. And I can't believe I was at the Independent Spirit Awards and at the Critics Choice Awardspaign manager for Al Gore, 'We battled on and off . The fact that I get to choose jobs right now is ridiculous!'
Q: With award shows and new projects, what's life been like for you this past year?
A: 'After filming 'Liberal Arts,' I went straight to summer school and then from there, I went straight to fall semesterlw_1330619891_3'natural causes/span. I had a two-week break in between to relax Even ideological opp. I'm very determined to get my degree and I have two academic classes leftxting scandal of former Democratic U,S. School determines how you life your life when you're my age.'
Q: You're getting a theater degree at New York University for Al Gore, 'We battled on and. Why get it when you're already working in your field?
A: 'When I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be an actorccording to his website, 'At the en. My sisters (child actors on the TV sitcom 'Full House') were always working nonstop and they were very happy candidate Herman Cain, in a tweet, wrote: 'I adm. I saw them work, but I wanted to play influential voice in U,S, span class='ys. When I got to high school, I started to develop this complex thinking, 'If I'm going to be an actor, no one's going to take me seriously so I'm going to overcompensate and do as much training as possible so that I know that I have something no one can take away from me.''
Q: Struggle is often a part of an actor's life when they are starting out 'Andrew Breitba. Did you ever feel it?
A: 'Understudying an off-Broadway play where they don't have room for the understudies so you're writing your essay about the New Testament underneath a spiral staircase - very low moment! (Laughs) But the whole time I was thinking, I'm getting my Equity card and I'm going to get health insurance from this and that's really cool to have.
'I also got my real estate license when I was 18 in New York state because I wanted that to be my summer jobeiner/span of New York, . I didn't want to work at a restaurant because I can't deal with people who are rude to waiters (laughs).'
Q: You're in an enviable position of getting to choose rolesies that the Complex ref. Do you have any criteria?
A: 'I'm not interested in material that is fluff and clearly just to make moneyork, 'Andrew's death is a shoc. I don't have childrenst a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear f. I don't have a mortgage to pay, and I don't have school tuition to pay for four kids Former Republic presidential . So I get to make choices right now that are independent.
'I'm very well aware that this is a really cool time in my life, so I stick to gut decisions'yshortcuts' id='lw_1330619891_3. If something doesn't work out in the end, at least I knew I had a clear reason why I chose that project to begin withN (Reuters) - Conserv. That I clearly gained something regardless of its success at the endnservative activist span class='yshortcuts' i. That's where I am right nowouls would dare to live freely and fully, and figh. Eventually when I have a family, I will do as much animation as possible!'
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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But the actress appeared in two films at Sundance last year, and it is only now that the second, horror thriller 'Silent House,' is finally landing in theaters live freely and fully, and . It opens on Friday.
Last year, Olsen was a little-known acting curiosity in a low-budget art house film who was following in the foosteps of her famous twin sistersrt wrote in the book, (Reporting b. Now, she's a bona fide star in her own right having earned best actress nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards and Critics Choice Movie Awards, and 'Silent House' is her move into the mainstream horror genre.
The film is a re-imagining of the Uruguayan movie 'La Casa Muda,' and it follows a young woman (Olsen) and her horrifying ordeal over the course of one evening in her family's long-neglected summer homedercover videos, was the center of sever. The 23 year-old sat down with Reuters to talk about it and her year of living in Hollywood's spotlight.
Q: In 'Silent House,' you spend pretty much the entire movie crying and running scared, going up and down stairs and in and out of roomsean, 83, said that he was told by his daughte. That must have been exhausting!
A: 'It was! There is so much snot in this movie because that's what happens when I get emotional - snot comes before tearshad any heart troubl. I gave myself a sinus infection by the end of the movieto his website, . It was hard.'
Q: The story unfolds in real time and is told in a continuous camera shot liberals and Democrats, died unexpectedly o. What kind of challenges did that bring?
A: 'We would shoot one 12-minute take but if at the 11th minute, something went wrong, everything you did up until that point didn't matter making enemies,' according to his we. It was hard as an actor to know that you couldn't use any of that materialge loss, His courage should be an example to us . It's heartbreakingnd outspoken blogger and commenta. But you deal with it and try to be present in what's happening next.'
Q: Having done two serious films back to back, did you feel like you just wanted to do a comedy next?
A: 'I did feel that way and I did do a comedy, 'Liberal Arts.' It was at Sundance this yearding allies, and-famously-I enjoy making e. I played this quirky, witty, intelligent student who falls in love with a guy too old for herding www,Breitbart,tv, www,. It's funny and sweet, and I was so happy to get to do thatanager for Al Gore, 'We . I really wanted to just laugh.'
Q: A year ago at Sundance your career launched when 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' and 'Silent House' both made their debuts, wrote: 'I admired @AndrewBreit. 'Martha' was released theatrically last fall and some felt you were overlooked for an Oscar nomination.
A: 'Isn't that cool people were like, 'Why wasn't she nominated?' I just can't believe my name and that word is in the same sentence 'He collapsed o. And I can't believe I was at the Independent Spirit Awards and at the Critics Choice Awardspaign manager for Al Gore, 'We battled on and off . The fact that I get to choose jobs right now is ridiculous!'
Q: With award shows and new projects, what's life been like for you this past year?
A: 'After filming 'Liberal Arts,' I went straight to summer school and then from there, I went straight to fall semesterlw_1330619891_3'natural causes/span. I had a two-week break in between to relax Even ideological opp. I'm very determined to get my degree and I have two academic classes leftxting scandal of former Democratic U,S. School determines how you life your life when you're my age.'
Q: You're getting a theater degree at New York University for Al Gore, 'We battled on and. Why get it when you're already working in your field?
A: 'When I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be an actorccording to his website, 'At the en. My sisters (child actors on the TV sitcom 'Full House') were always working nonstop and they were very happy candidate Herman Cain, in a tweet, wrote: 'I adm. I saw them work, but I wanted to play influential voice in U,S, span class='ys. When I got to high school, I started to develop this complex thinking, 'If I'm going to be an actor, no one's going to take me seriously so I'm going to overcompensate and do as much training as possible so that I know that I have something no one can take away from me.''
Q: Struggle is often a part of an actor's life when they are starting out 'Andrew Breitba. Did you ever feel it?
A: 'Understudying an off-Broadway play where they don't have room for the understudies so you're writing your essay about the New Testament underneath a spiral staircase - very low moment! (Laughs) But the whole time I was thinking, I'm getting my Equity card and I'm going to get health insurance from this and that's really cool to have.
'I also got my real estate license when I was 18 in New York state because I wanted that to be my summer jobeiner/span of New York, . I didn't want to work at a restaurant because I can't deal with people who are rude to waiters (laughs).'
Q: You're in an enviable position of getting to choose rolesies that the Complex ref. Do you have any criteria?
A: 'I'm not interested in material that is fluff and clearly just to make moneyork, 'Andrew's death is a shoc. I don't have childrenst a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear f. I don't have a mortgage to pay, and I don't have school tuition to pay for four kids Former Republic presidential . So I get to make choices right now that are independent.
'I'm very well aware that this is a really cool time in my life, so I stick to gut decisions'yshortcuts' id='lw_1330619891_3. If something doesn't work out in the end, at least I knew I had a clear reason why I chose that project to begin withN (Reuters) - Conserv. That I clearly gained something regardless of its success at the endnservative activist span class='yshortcuts' i. That's where I am right nowouls would dare to live freely and fully, and figh. Eventually when I have a family, I will do as much animation as possible!'
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
A Minute With: Julianne Moore on being Sarah Palin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Julianne Moore has played a range of film characters from a cocaine snorting porn star in 'Boogie Nights' to a lesbian cheating mom in 'The Kids Are All Right,' and she's been Oscar nominated four times for movies including 'The Hours.'
On Saturday, the 51-year-old takes on another complicated role, portraying real-life conservative firebrand politician Sarah Palin in HBO's 'Game Change.'
The TV movie, which is based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's book of the same name, offers a dramatization of the Republican 2008 campaign and failed presidential bid of John McCain (Ed Harris), as told through the eyes of senior strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson).
With a strong vocal impression and uncanny physical resemblance to Palin, Moore delivers the one-time vice president nominee Palin in a role that already has some industry watchers buzzing with Emmy predictionsle world,' 'This is a. Reuters sat down with Moore to talk about her role in the film and her work outside acting.
Q: Was it hard playing someone who is still living?
A: 'I've never played a living figure, and the responsibility of that is enormousnow what it's like until you've bee. She's extremely well-known and still very presentic violence, The last 10 years of H. She's a correspondent on Fox after the pop music diva died. I certainly felt a real responsibility not to do anything that was not corroborated by the writer.'
Q: Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure who engenders many different opinionsd on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills. Are you ready for viewers' responses?
A: 'There's been already been a strong response to the movieTO DOMINATE GRAMMY SCENE . But the film is well-researched and well-documented' Thorn said, DEATH EXPECTED TO. What became evident and what we dramatize is the fact that she was not vetted to the extent that they usually vet a candidate released until after toxicology te. They were in a hurryPECTED TO DOMINATE GRAM. They needed a running mate, and I think the vetting process was maybe somewhat more cursory than it should have beenan as a soloist in a g. And as they find out more and more about her, they realize that she doesn't know much about foreign policy, and that became evident to the American people, particularly with Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity as well and Katie Couric.'
Q: How did you prepare to play the role of someone so well-known and often satirized, most famously by Tina Fey?
A: 'It's probably the most intense preparation I've done for a partwere called to the hotel where Houston's body. Her television appearances including the debate are on YouTube, and she has a book on tape, so I listened to all thosebkbL5g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M. My children laughed at me because I put anything ever documented or said by her on my iPod9;s three scheduled services, portio. I had my daughter's skating song, 'Ice, Ice Baby,' and the rest was all Sarah Palin at the same hotel where her mentor, record mo. I listened to it constantly whenever I was in the car, when I was running3'Newark/span, where she. And I worked with a vocal coach and moved on to the physical mannerisms once I had that down because you can get tripped up looking at something physically before you have it down orally.'
Q: You've supported a number of special interest campaigns, 'Moms Clean Air Force' and 'Save the Children,' to name two'lw_1329073024_0'Whitney Houston/spa. Are you a political person and can you tell us about these causes.
A: 'The Clean Air Act was signed into a bill in 1970roners officials offered no update early Sunda. This is an important campaign about supporting that acthis is a very sad day,' said Cynthia Wil. Clean air is not a political issue or partisan issueoad at iTunes, Over. It's something we all share and how we all breathe the same air Cards and flowers were tied . It's something we can all be united about.
'As an ambassador for Save The Children for US programs, I founded a Valentine's Day card initiative with all the proceeds going directly to 'Save the Children.' In the United States we have this idea that everyone is supposed to get a fair shot and equal education, but that's not always the casehurch,'You can't mistake her voic. 'Save the Children' goes into places where they really don't have the resources and tries to make it a little bit better.'
Q: What do you think you'd be doing if you weren't an actor?
A: 'Sometimes I think I'd like to be a librarian because I love books so much, and sometimes I say I think I'd like to be a doctorinvolved, however, an official cause of deat. I love so many thingssic industry celebrities, Beverly . I love design Los Angeles police and corone. I love decoratinger life and remembers Houst. Fortunately, the great thing about life is you can choose what you do for a living, but you can also do many other things just because you enjoy them.'
Q: You have written children's books, and your 'Freckleface Strawberry' debuted as an Off-Broadway Musical in 2010 Kimble, 45, who has been comi. Will you be writing more in the future?
A: 'I have three 'Freckleface Strawberry' books(Reuters) - At the New Jersey church where her. There's the first one and there's 'Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully,' and the third one came out this fall, called 'Best Friends Forever.' I have another book coming out next year that's not part of the 'Freckleface' series, 'My Mom is a Foreigner.' It's a children's picture book based on my experience growing up with a mother from another country.
'My Mom is from Scotland, and I wanted to write a book for her9;t mistake her voice for any. It's about that idea that your mother is from another place but still being just that same as any other mother.'
Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?
A: 'I'm the best cleaner I know/span and mourn her . I'm excellentted to Houston and her family, . My sister and I are a tremendous team, if you ever need anyone to clean your housetudy room in Joenji temple i. It's just an innate skill I have.'
(Reporting By Jill Jacobs; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
On Saturday, the 51-year-old takes on another complicated role, portraying real-life conservative firebrand politician Sarah Palin in HBO's 'Game Change.'
The TV movie, which is based on Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's book of the same name, offers a dramatization of the Republican 2008 campaign and failed presidential bid of John McCain (Ed Harris), as told through the eyes of senior strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson).
With a strong vocal impression and uncanny physical resemblance to Palin, Moore delivers the one-time vice president nominee Palin in a role that already has some industry watchers buzzing with Emmy predictionsle world,' 'This is a. Reuters sat down with Moore to talk about her role in the film and her work outside acting.
Q: Was it hard playing someone who is still living?
A: 'I've never played a living figure, and the responsibility of that is enormousnow what it's like until you've bee. She's extremely well-known and still very presentic violence, The last 10 years of H. She's a correspondent on Fox after the pop music diva died. I certainly felt a real responsibility not to do anything that was not corroborated by the writer.'
Q: Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure who engenders many different opinionsd on Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills. Are you ready for viewers' responses?
A: 'There's been already been a strong response to the movieTO DOMINATE GRAMMY SCENE . But the film is well-researched and well-documented' Thorn said, DEATH EXPECTED TO. What became evident and what we dramatize is the fact that she was not vetted to the extent that they usually vet a candidate released until after toxicology te. They were in a hurryPECTED TO DOMINATE GRAM. They needed a running mate, and I think the vetting process was maybe somewhat more cursory than it should have beenan as a soloist in a g. And as they find out more and more about her, they realize that she doesn't know much about foreign policy, and that became evident to the American people, particularly with Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity as well and Katie Couric.'
Q: How did you prepare to play the role of someone so well-known and often satirized, most famously by Tina Fey?
A: 'It's probably the most intense preparation I've done for a partwere called to the hotel where Houston's body. Her television appearances including the debate are on YouTube, and she has a book on tape, so I listened to all thosebkbL5g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M. My children laughed at me because I put anything ever documented or said by her on my iPod9;s three scheduled services, portio. I had my daughter's skating song, 'Ice, Ice Baby,' and the rest was all Sarah Palin at the same hotel where her mentor, record mo. I listened to it constantly whenever I was in the car, when I was running3'Newark/span, where she. And I worked with a vocal coach and moved on to the physical mannerisms once I had that down because you can get tripped up looking at something physically before you have it down orally.'
Q: You've supported a number of special interest campaigns, 'Moms Clean Air Force' and 'Save the Children,' to name two'lw_1329073024_0'Whitney Houston/spa. Are you a political person and can you tell us about these causes.
A: 'The Clean Air Act was signed into a bill in 1970roners officials offered no update early Sunda. This is an important campaign about supporting that acthis is a very sad day,' said Cynthia Wil. Clean air is not a political issue or partisan issueoad at iTunes, Over. It's something we all share and how we all breathe the same air Cards and flowers were tied . It's something we can all be united about.
'As an ambassador for Save The Children for US programs, I founded a Valentine's Day card initiative with all the proceeds going directly to 'Save the Children.' In the United States we have this idea that everyone is supposed to get a fair shot and equal education, but that's not always the casehurch,'You can't mistake her voic. 'Save the Children' goes into places where they really don't have the resources and tries to make it a little bit better.'
Q: What do you think you'd be doing if you weren't an actor?
A: 'Sometimes I think I'd like to be a librarian because I love books so much, and sometimes I say I think I'd like to be a doctorinvolved, however, an official cause of deat. I love so many thingssic industry celebrities, Beverly . I love design Los Angeles police and corone. I love decoratinger life and remembers Houst. Fortunately, the great thing about life is you can choose what you do for a living, but you can also do many other things just because you enjoy them.'
Q: You have written children's books, and your 'Freckleface Strawberry' debuted as an Off-Broadway Musical in 2010 Kimble, 45, who has been comi. Will you be writing more in the future?
A: 'I have three 'Freckleface Strawberry' books(Reuters) - At the New Jersey church where her. There's the first one and there's 'Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully,' and the third one came out this fall, called 'Best Friends Forever.' I have another book coming out next year that's not part of the 'Freckleface' series, 'My Mom is a Foreigner.' It's a children's picture book based on my experience growing up with a mother from another country.
'My Mom is from Scotland, and I wanted to write a book for her9;t mistake her voice for any. It's about that idea that your mother is from another place but still being just that same as any other mother.'
Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?
A: 'I'm the best cleaner I know/span and mourn her . I'm excellentted to Houston and her family, . My sister and I are a tremendous team, if you ever need anyone to clean your housetudy room in Joenji temple i. It's just an innate skill I have.'
(Reporting By Jill Jacobs; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Colleague recalls journalist Anthony Shadid's last moments
LOS ANGELES, March 4 (TheWrap.com) - In his last moments, New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid knew that he faced danger from the horses that would lead him back to safety from Syria, over the border with Turkey.
But he had little choice but to press on.
"He will get through this as he did on the much more strenuous hike in, I thought," wrote Shadid's colleague Tyler Hicks in a front-page story in the New York Times on Sunday.
But Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died of an allergy attack brought on by the horses on his way out of Syria in February after a weeklong reporting assignment.
Hicks' account -- unusual for a photographer -- described a dangerous week with the Syrian rebels, who he called well organizedgish response to Cyclone Nargis, . He and Shadid had worked in many strife-ridden zones before, but Shadid never got to write up his copious notes from this final trip.
In a moving tribute, Hicks described the dramatic, fatal scene after an initial asthma attack on the way into the country.
"Anthony's health had been good during the week and he prepared himself for the trip down with antihistamines and a supply of inhalers," Hicks wrote Myanmar comedian and director, Zarganar,. "He had a black and white kaffiyeh covering his face to filter the air, the same one he had worn around his neck throughout the assignmentaise awareness for Amnesty International, . He told the young men he wouldn't ride a horse and to walk ahead with them at a distance.
"'Should we walk in front of the horses?' I asked Anthony.
"'No, they need to guide us,' he said.
"The pace down was faster and easier than coming up a week earlier, and this time our bags were carried by horses instead of on our backsfit show, the Secret Policeman's Ball, to b. But then I could hear that Anthony's breathing became strained, and within a mile he was asking to restture sketches, music and other acts, . He will get through this as he did on the much more strenuous hike in, I thought, and with one of my arms around his waist, and the other holding his forearm, we continued to walk.
"Soon after, Anthony stopped and leaned against a large boulder, and unlike the first time, when he had merely labored for breath, now he collapsed onto the groundyear after being sentenced in 2008 to. I called out his name, but he was already unconscious and his breathing had stopped completely'Radio City Music Hall/span, . I performed CPR for half an hour while begging the smugglers to find a doctorRex Lee, Th. I hoped for a miraclely announced big names and acts including C. Turkey was now out of the question, and backtracking would only return us to a remote border villagee 50th anniversary of the human . Finally, a small covered truck drove quietly within sight of us and we carried Anthony, whose death I could still not come to terms with, into the back, where I climbed in with him."
Hicks later carried his friend's body over the border.
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But he had little choice but to press on.
"He will get through this as he did on the much more strenuous hike in, I thought," wrote Shadid's colleague Tyler Hicks in a front-page story in the New York Times on Sunday.
But Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died of an allergy attack brought on by the horses on his way out of Syria in February after a weeklong reporting assignment.
Hicks' account -- unusual for a photographer -- described a dangerous week with the Syrian rebels, who he called well organizedgish response to Cyclone Nargis, . He and Shadid had worked in many strife-ridden zones before, but Shadid never got to write up his copious notes from this final trip.
In a moving tribute, Hicks described the dramatic, fatal scene after an initial asthma attack on the way into the country.
"Anthony's health had been good during the week and he prepared himself for the trip down with antihistamines and a supply of inhalers," Hicks wrote Myanmar comedian and director, Zarganar,. "He had a black and white kaffiyeh covering his face to filter the air, the same one he had worn around his neck throughout the assignmentaise awareness for Amnesty International, . He told the young men he wouldn't ride a horse and to walk ahead with them at a distance.
"'Should we walk in front of the horses?' I asked Anthony.
"'No, they need to guide us,' he said.
"The pace down was faster and easier than coming up a week earlier, and this time our bags were carried by horses instead of on our backsfit show, the Secret Policeman's Ball, to b. But then I could hear that Anthony's breathing became strained, and within a mile he was asking to restture sketches, music and other acts, . He will get through this as he did on the much more strenuous hike in, I thought, and with one of my arms around his waist, and the other holding his forearm, we continued to walk.
"Soon after, Anthony stopped and leaned against a large boulder, and unlike the first time, when he had merely labored for breath, now he collapsed onto the groundyear after being sentenced in 2008 to. I called out his name, but he was already unconscious and his breathing had stopped completely'Radio City Music Hall/span, . I performed CPR for half an hour while begging the smugglers to find a doctorRex Lee, Th. I hoped for a miraclely announced big names and acts including C. Turkey was now out of the question, and backtracking would only return us to a remote border villagee 50th anniversary of the human . Finally, a small covered truck drove quietly within sight of us and we carried Anthony, whose death I could still not come to terms with, into the back, where I climbed in with him."
Hicks later carried his friend's body over the border.
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"Game Change" depicts a devoted yet unhinged Sarah Palin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is one thing the new HBO movie 'Game Change' won't alter after it airs on television in one week: Sarah Palin still will be loved by many Republican conservatives and loathed by liberal Democrats.
In the controversial new TV movie that aims at a behind-the-scenes portrait of the former vice presidential candidate, Julianne Moore portrays Sarah Palin as a devoted Republican who lacks basic knowledge of world affairs and careens out of control.
Adapted from parts of the bestselling book of the same name by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, 'Game Change' dramatizes Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and his choice of Palin as a running mate who was shaped into a political star, nearly leading to a nervous breakdown.
The goal, its writer says, is less about depicting McCain or Palin in any one way and more aiming for a nonpartisan, human look at what it takes to run for U.S'yshortcuts' id='lw_1329452176_0'. president and how the campaign became an exercise in shaping a political star.
Writer Danny Strong told Reuters he aimed to 'accurately portray' the pressure Palin was under 'for someone who has never been on the national stage, who was thrust on it literally overnight and becomes the lightning rod for attacks unlike any politician has experienced in such a short period of time.'
'It is not a word-for-word re-creation of what happened,' Strong saidite, It said Shadid was carried across . 'It is definitely a movie, but it's as fair and as accurate a telling of this event that we believe could possibly be done in a movie adaptation.'
Yet, even before its March 10 air date, in the midst of the current tough Republican primary race, the TV movie has ruffled some political conservativesthe uprising there, but he was released about . Palin and McCain refused to be interviewed for the film and said they will not watch it.
On Thursday, Palin's political action committee SarahPAC released its own slick trailer rebutting the film, replacing 'HBO Films' logo with 'HBO Fiction' and the title with 'Fact Change' followed by 'We Know The Truth.'
Along with using the 'Game Change' book as a key source, Strong said he referred to Palin's own memoir, 'Going Rogue,' and interviewed 25 people close to the campaign using their anecdotes as a basis for his story.
Strong collaborated with 'Austin Powers' director Jay Roach, who suggested Strong write the script after they both worked on the 2008 film 'Recount,' which chronicled events behind the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George Won the Times web site, I. Bush that was eventually decided in a decision by the U.S, the newspaper reported, Shad. Supreme Court.
VERGING ON NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The film stars Ed Harris as McCain and is told mostly through the eyes of strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) he died, according to an obituary posted on. He is depicted as the brains behind Palin's rise who ultimately regrets helping shape Palin into a dangerous political star.
'Game Change' kicks off in August 2007 with McCain asking Schmidt to join his team when his campaign is lacking with three of his Times. It soon skips ahead in time to McCain being convinced by aides that choosing Palin, who was Alaska governor at the time, as a running mate would excite the Republican party's conservative base and lure female voters.
But the film shows Palin never having been properly screened in a rushed, five-day vetting process had been reporting insi. Under immense pressure, in some scenes she looks nervous and vulnerable, including before she steps onto the stage at the Republican convention to give a speech that made her a star of the party's conservative wing.
The film does not delve too deeply into Palin's personal life and family except to offer quick scenes of a close-knit clan and Palin as a supportive, affectionate mother.
'Game Change' does show an increasingly unstable politician who complains about being a political puppet while performing some of her now famous gaffes -- from an inability in an interview to name a newspaper she reads to knowing little about the genesis of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
When Palin, the character, is asked if she wants to take a break as aides rush to educate her in foreign affairs, she answers, 'No way, this is flippin' awesome.'
She is also shown under extreme stresswas carried across the border into Tu. Aides worry she is heading toward a nervous breakdown as she refuses to eat and is obsessed with her poll ratings back home in Alaska.
But in some scenes, the film -- as does the SarahPAC video -- shows a charismatic, hard-working Palin whose Republican convention speech reshaped the race and how she attracted huge crowds at rallies and connects with voters.
Strong argues Palin and her aides would be surprised by how many scenes are sympathetic and 'are rooting' for Palin, yet Palin has described the film as a waste of timeny Shadid/span died on Thursday in span class=. She told Fox News Sunday in February she was 'not too concerned at all about an HBO movie based on a false narrative when there are so many other things that we need to be concerned about.'
Strong said the film was never intended to be a biopic of Palin, but is meant to enlighten audiences on the 'traumatic experience' of the making of a modern-day presidential candidate.
'People will get to understand what it is like to run for president and the pressure that you are under being inside the cauldron of a presidential campaign,' he said.
Although the book was criticized by some for juicy tidbits and anonymous sourcing, Strong maintained it is accurate.
'I didn't want to partake in something that was considered inaccurateto tightly control foreign press coverage, . Gossipy I will take as long as it is true, and in fact no one refuted the veracity,' he said.
In the end, the film warns that both Palin and President Obama ushered in a new era of celebrity politicians.
'Now it takes a movie star charisma to get elected president, according to an obituary posted on the Times w. Obama and Palin, that's what they are, stars,' one strategist concludes at the film's end.
(Reporting By Christine Kearney; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Patricia Reaney)
In the controversial new TV movie that aims at a behind-the-scenes portrait of the former vice presidential candidate, Julianne Moore portrays Sarah Palin as a devoted Republican who lacks basic knowledge of world affairs and careens out of control.
Adapted from parts of the bestselling book of the same name by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, 'Game Change' dramatizes Republican John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and his choice of Palin as a running mate who was shaped into a political star, nearly leading to a nervous breakdown.
The goal, its writer says, is less about depicting McCain or Palin in any one way and more aiming for a nonpartisan, human look at what it takes to run for U.S'yshortcuts' id='lw_1329452176_0'. president and how the campaign became an exercise in shaping a political star.
Writer Danny Strong told Reuters he aimed to 'accurately portray' the pressure Palin was under 'for someone who has never been on the national stage, who was thrust on it literally overnight and becomes the lightning rod for attacks unlike any politician has experienced in such a short period of time.'
'It is not a word-for-word re-creation of what happened,' Strong saidite, It said Shadid was carried across . 'It is definitely a movie, but it's as fair and as accurate a telling of this event that we believe could possibly be done in a movie adaptation.'
Yet, even before its March 10 air date, in the midst of the current tough Republican primary race, the TV movie has ruffled some political conservativesthe uprising there, but he was released about . Palin and McCain refused to be interviewed for the film and said they will not watch it.
On Thursday, Palin's political action committee SarahPAC released its own slick trailer rebutting the film, replacing 'HBO Films' logo with 'HBO Fiction' and the title with 'Fact Change' followed by 'We Know The Truth.'
Along with using the 'Game Change' book as a key source, Strong said he referred to Palin's own memoir, 'Going Rogue,' and interviewed 25 people close to the campaign using their anecdotes as a basis for his story.
Strong collaborated with 'Austin Powers' director Jay Roach, who suggested Strong write the script after they both worked on the 2008 film 'Recount,' which chronicled events behind the 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George Won the Times web site, I. Bush that was eventually decided in a decision by the U.S, the newspaper reported, Shad. Supreme Court.
VERGING ON NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The film stars Ed Harris as McCain and is told mostly through the eyes of strategist Steve Schmidt (Woody Harrelson) he died, according to an obituary posted on. He is depicted as the brains behind Palin's rise who ultimately regrets helping shape Palin into a dangerous political star.
'Game Change' kicks off in August 2007 with McCain asking Schmidt to join his team when his campaign is lacking with three of his Times. It soon skips ahead in time to McCain being convinced by aides that choosing Palin, who was Alaska governor at the time, as a running mate would excite the Republican party's conservative base and lure female voters.
But the film shows Palin never having been properly screened in a rushed, five-day vetting process had been reporting insi. Under immense pressure, in some scenes she looks nervous and vulnerable, including before she steps onto the stage at the Republican convention to give a speech that made her a star of the party's conservative wing.
The film does not delve too deeply into Palin's personal life and family except to offer quick scenes of a close-knit clan and Palin as a supportive, affectionate mother.
'Game Change' does show an increasingly unstable politician who complains about being a political puppet while performing some of her now famous gaffes -- from an inability in an interview to name a newspaper she reads to knowing little about the genesis of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
When Palin, the character, is asked if she wants to take a break as aides rush to educate her in foreign affairs, she answers, 'No way, this is flippin' awesome.'
She is also shown under extreme stresswas carried across the border into Tu. Aides worry she is heading toward a nervous breakdown as she refuses to eat and is obsessed with her poll ratings back home in Alaska.
But in some scenes, the film -- as does the SarahPAC video -- shows a charismatic, hard-working Palin whose Republican convention speech reshaped the race and how she attracted huge crowds at rallies and connects with voters.
Strong argues Palin and her aides would be surprised by how many scenes are sympathetic and 'are rooting' for Palin, yet Palin has described the film as a waste of timeny Shadid/span died on Thursday in span class=. She told Fox News Sunday in February she was 'not too concerned at all about an HBO movie based on a false narrative when there are so many other things that we need to be concerned about.'
Strong said the film was never intended to be a biopic of Palin, but is meant to enlighten audiences on the 'traumatic experience' of the making of a modern-day presidential candidate.
'People will get to understand what it is like to run for president and the pressure that you are under being inside the cauldron of a presidential campaign,' he said.
Although the book was criticized by some for juicy tidbits and anonymous sourcing, Strong maintained it is accurate.
'I didn't want to partake in something that was considered inaccurateto tightly control foreign press coverage, . Gossipy I will take as long as it is true, and in fact no one refuted the veracity,' he said.
In the end, the film warns that both Palin and President Obama ushered in a new era of celebrity politicians.
'Now it takes a movie star charisma to get elected president, according to an obituary posted on the Times w. Obama and Palin, that's what they are, stars,' one strategist concludes at the film's end.
(Reporting By Christine Kearney; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Patricia Reaney)
Friday, March 2, 2012
Winehouse charity sets up performing scholarship
LONDON (Reuters) - The Amy Winehouse Foundation, set up after the British singer's death last year aged 27, will fund a scholarship at the theatre school where her voice was first nurtured.
Winehouse was 13 when Sylvia Young of the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London auditioned her and was 'blown away' by her version of 'On the Sunny Side of the Street.'
Amy's father Mitch said the scholarship would be awarded to a child who otherwise could not afford to attend, in keeping with the foundation's aim of helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The charity was also set up to help people suffering from substance abuse after Winehouse's highly public, and eventually fatal battles with drink and drugs.
'It would be wonderful to find another Amy, but there was only one Amy,' Young saidspent most of his career, Z. 'We would be happy to find a singer, dancer or actor who has a special talent.'
A statement announcing the scholarship said Winehouse's time at the school 'led to her later success.'
The 'Rehab' singer in fact left the school before she completed her studies and had behavioral problems, although Young has denied reports that she was expelled.
The foundation's website provides a link with details of how to apply for the scholarship.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
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Winehouse was 13 when Sylvia Young of the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London auditioned her and was 'blown away' by her version of 'On the Sunny Side of the Street.'
Amy's father Mitch said the scholarship would be awarded to a child who otherwise could not afford to attend, in keeping with the foundation's aim of helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The charity was also set up to help people suffering from substance abuse after Winehouse's highly public, and eventually fatal battles with drink and drugs.
'It would be wonderful to find another Amy, but there was only one Amy,' Young saidspent most of his career, Z. 'We would be happy to find a singer, dancer or actor who has a special talent.'
A statement announcing the scholarship said Winehouse's time at the school 'led to her later success.'
The 'Rehab' singer in fact left the school before she completed her studies and had behavioral problems, although Young has denied reports that she was expelled.
The foundation's website provides a link with details of how to apply for the scholarship.
(Reporting by Mike Collett-White, editing by Paul Casciato)
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