LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The green slime flowed so much that even first lady Michelle Obama could not escape it at the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday where singers Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift came away big winners.
The program is an annual stop for Hollywood stars who are popular among teenage and young viewers watching the Nickelodeon cable TV network, and this 25th anniversary was no exception.
Hosted by "Men in Black" movie star Will Smith, the awards featured performances by Katy Perry and British boy band One Direction, who performed their hit "What Makes You Beautiful" from the album "Up All Night."
But as always, the green slime was the biggest star at the show where Bieber won favorite male singer in fan voting.
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There was so much goo splashing around in the finale that it splattered on the face of a surprised first lady.
Obama was on hand at the popular show to give the "big help" blimp trophy to country star Swift.
The honor, bestowed on Obama two years earlier for her work with kids fitness and health, goes to a celebrity who has devoted time and energy to charitable causesl re-start his 'Symphonica' . Swift was singled out for her work to stop bullying and for providing aid to tornado victims in the southern United States.
Swift "rocketed to the top of the music industry, but still keeps her feet on the ground," Obama said about the 22-year-old country singer, calling her "someone who is going to keep making sparks fly for all of us in the years ahead."
Other winners included made-for-TV band Big Time Rush, named favorite music group.
Selena Gomez, 19, was named favorite female singer for her work with pop band The Scene, as well as favorite TV actress in the "Wizards of Waverly Place," which ended its run on the Disney Channel earlier this year.
"Twilight" stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner both grabbed orange blimpsill with severe span class='yshortcuts. Stewart, 21, was named favorite movie actress his career and has a personal fortune val. Lautner, 20, earned the title best "butt kicker" for his role as werewolf Jacob Black in the vampire romance flicks.
Favorite movie actor was Adam Sandler, 45, known for goofy comedies such as his recent "Jack and Jill."
Nickelodeon's "Victorious" was named top TV show.
(Reporting By Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by Will Dunham)
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Saturday, March 31, 2012
Myanmar's Suu Kyi: from prisoner to would-be lawmaker
(Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi, the long-time standard-bearer for democracy in Myanmar, is taking a leap of faith in running for parliament on Sunday, opting to enter a political system crafted and run by the soldiers who kept her locked up for a total of 15 years.
Her party's participation in this weekend's by-elections for 45 seats marks a change of heart for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who repeatedly rebuffed the military's attempts to bring her into a political apparatus in which it dictated the terms.
But since a general election in November 2010, followed by Suu Kyi's release from house arrest the same month, the pace of change in the former Burma under a nominally civilian government has been staggering, enough to convince her to compromise with the apparently reform-minded ex-generals now in charge.
Some Burmese fear it is a deal with the devil, given the continuing presence of the military in political life.
Suu Kyi is keeping an open mind.
"Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situatione-hacking scandal which has damaged span. We are cautiously optimisticed of failing to investigate allegation. We are at the beginning of a road," the 66-year-old Suu Kyi said last month.
"Many people are beginning to say that the democratization process here is irreversible span class='yshortcuts' id='lw_132. It's not so."
Without her National League for Democracy (NLD) party's participation, there would have been little interest in Sunday's by-elections for a legislature where 25 percent of the seats are reserved for the military and a party close to the military has most of the rest.
But the polls have captured the world's imagination and, if they are deemed free and fair, could persuade the West to start to lift economic sanctions imposed under the junta.
Suu Kyi is running in the constituency of Kawhmu, south of Yangon It was also an embarrassment for Bri. She was due there on Saturday evening and planned to tour polling stations early on Sunday after voting starts at 6 a.mtold the inquiry, could o. (2330 GMT on Saturday).
It was the Oxford-educated Suu Kyi's steely determination in confronting the authoritarian generals that kept her country in the spotlight during its years of isolation, winning the hearts of her people and giving her a crucial role in the West's targeted policies to squeeze Myanmar's junta.
Suu Kyi was living in Britain but returned to her family home in April 1988 to care for her ailing mother just as resentment of junta rule boiled over into nationwide protests.
As the daughter of the General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, Suu Kyi was persuaded to enter politics, giving a rousing speech to hundreds of thousands of people near Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda that catapulted her to the forefront of the fight against dictatorship.
HERO'S DAUGHTER
"I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on," Suu Kyi told the crowd in August 1988.
The military crushed the uprising the following monthouse she shared with McCartney in early 2001 aft. Thousands were killed and imprisonedion has dragged Morgan into a p. Paying the price for her popular appeal, Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest on July 19, 1989, and remained there for six years.
Even without her, the NLD overwhelmingly won an election in 1990 for an assembly to draft a new constitution, trouncing the military's proxy partycked, The inquiry was . The junta simply refused to allow the assembly to convene.
The NLD continued to reject the military's demand for a leading role in politicsnation for how he cam. The top generals refused to hold dialogue with Suu Kyi and questioned her patriotism by calling her by her British married name, Mrs Michael Aris.
Even in her brief periods of freedom after 1989, she never left Myanmar, afraid the military would not let back in border=0/LONDON (Reuters) -. For that reason she was unable to be with Aris, an Oxford academic, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in Britain in 1999.
Their love story has been played out on the big screen, with Malaysian star Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi in a 2011 film, "The Lady", as she is affectionately known in Myanmar.
A final stint of house arrest - after she was found guilty of breaching a security law when an American intruder swam to her home and stayed for two nights - kept her out of the 2010 election, which the NLD boycotted and a military-backed party won easily.
Insiders say the NLD was split on whether to run but Suu Kyi said she "would not dream" of taking partstyle='text-align:le. That decided the matter.
Upon her release on November 13, 2010, thousands greeted her amid jubilation in Yangon.
The election held just six days earlier had promised little but, against all odds, the civilian administration under President Thein Sein has released more than 600 political prisoners, reached ceasefires with ethnic militias and begun to overhaul the economy.
Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, a softly spoken former junta general, have found some mutual understanding: she has called him "honest" and "sincere" and in November she accepted his appeal for the NLD to take part in the by-elections.
It will not be plain sailing.
The campaign trail has left Suu Kyi suffering from sickness and exhaustion and the NLD has alleged irregularities.
Suu Kyi has made no secret of the fact she wants to change a constitution that enshrines the military's role in politics.
"There are certain laws which are obstacles to the freedom of the people," she said during a rallye, The accusation has dragged . "We will strive to abolish these laws within the framework of the parliament."
That puts her on a collision course with hardliners and an armed forces commander who has vowed to protect the military's place in the corridors of power.
(Writing by Martin Petty in Bangkok; Editing by Alan Raybould and Ed Lane)
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Her party's participation in this weekend's by-elections for 45 seats marks a change of heart for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who repeatedly rebuffed the military's attempts to bring her into a political apparatus in which it dictated the terms.
But since a general election in November 2010, followed by Suu Kyi's release from house arrest the same month, the pace of change in the former Burma under a nominally civilian government has been staggering, enough to convince her to compromise with the apparently reform-minded ex-generals now in charge.
Some Burmese fear it is a deal with the devil, given the continuing presence of the military in political life.
Suu Kyi is keeping an open mind.
"Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situatione-hacking scandal which has damaged span. We are cautiously optimisticed of failing to investigate allegation. We are at the beginning of a road," the 66-year-old Suu Kyi said last month.
"Many people are beginning to say that the democratization process here is irreversible span class='yshortcuts' id='lw_132. It's not so."
Without her National League for Democracy (NLD) party's participation, there would have been little interest in Sunday's by-elections for a legislature where 25 percent of the seats are reserved for the military and a party close to the military has most of the rest.
But the polls have captured the world's imagination and, if they are deemed free and fair, could persuade the West to start to lift economic sanctions imposed under the junta.
Suu Kyi is running in the constituency of Kawhmu, south of Yangon It was also an embarrassment for Bri. She was due there on Saturday evening and planned to tour polling stations early on Sunday after voting starts at 6 a.mtold the inquiry, could o. (2330 GMT on Saturday).
It was the Oxford-educated Suu Kyi's steely determination in confronting the authoritarian generals that kept her country in the spotlight during its years of isolation, winning the hearts of her people and giving her a crucial role in the West's targeted policies to squeeze Myanmar's junta.
Suu Kyi was living in Britain but returned to her family home in April 1988 to care for her ailing mother just as resentment of junta rule boiled over into nationwide protests.
As the daughter of the General Aung San, Myanmar's assassinated independence hero, Suu Kyi was persuaded to enter politics, giving a rousing speech to hundreds of thousands of people near Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda that catapulted her to the forefront of the fight against dictatorship.
HERO'S DAUGHTER
"I could not, as my father's daughter, remain indifferent to all that was going on," Suu Kyi told the crowd in August 1988.
The military crushed the uprising the following monthouse she shared with McCartney in early 2001 aft. Thousands were killed and imprisonedion has dragged Morgan into a p. Paying the price for her popular appeal, Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest on July 19, 1989, and remained there for six years.
Even without her, the NLD overwhelmingly won an election in 1990 for an assembly to draft a new constitution, trouncing the military's proxy partycked, The inquiry was . The junta simply refused to allow the assembly to convene.
The NLD continued to reject the military's demand for a leading role in politicsnation for how he cam. The top generals refused to hold dialogue with Suu Kyi and questioned her patriotism by calling her by her British married name, Mrs Michael Aris.
Even in her brief periods of freedom after 1989, she never left Myanmar, afraid the military would not let back in border=0/LONDON (Reuters) -. For that reason she was unable to be with Aris, an Oxford academic, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in Britain in 1999.
Their love story has been played out on the big screen, with Malaysian star Michelle Yeoh playing Suu Kyi in a 2011 film, "The Lady", as she is affectionately known in Myanmar.
A final stint of house arrest - after she was found guilty of breaching a security law when an American intruder swam to her home and stayed for two nights - kept her out of the 2010 election, which the NLD boycotted and a military-backed party won easily.
Insiders say the NLD was split on whether to run but Suu Kyi said she "would not dream" of taking partstyle='text-align:le. That decided the matter.
Upon her release on November 13, 2010, thousands greeted her amid jubilation in Yangon.
The election held just six days earlier had promised little but, against all odds, the civilian administration under President Thein Sein has released more than 600 political prisoners, reached ceasefires with ethnic militias and begun to overhaul the economy.
Suu Kyi and Thein Sein, a softly spoken former junta general, have found some mutual understanding: she has called him "honest" and "sincere" and in November she accepted his appeal for the NLD to take part in the by-elections.
It will not be plain sailing.
The campaign trail has left Suu Kyi suffering from sickness and exhaustion and the NLD has alleged irregularities.
Suu Kyi has made no secret of the fact she wants to change a constitution that enshrines the military's role in politics.
"There are certain laws which are obstacles to the freedom of the people," she said during a rallye, The accusation has dragged . "We will strive to abolish these laws within the framework of the parliament."
That puts her on a collision course with hardliners and an armed forces commander who has vowed to protect the military's place in the corridors of power.
(Writing by Martin Petty in Bangkok; Editing by Alan Raybould and Ed Lane)
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Friday, March 30, 2012
Carrie Underwood finds "real things" to sing about
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Reuters) - Carrie Underwood says she's glad she took some time off from country music following her marriage to hockey star Mike Fisher in 2010.
After storming the country music scene since her 2005 "American Idol" win, her almost two-year break from recording and touring helped her find "real things to sing about", and write what she calls her fun, rocking new single "Good Girl."
"I feel like so many people get stuckA fire department spokeswoman declined t. They write, they get songs together, they make an album, they go on touromestic violence, The last 10 ye. Then they do it all over again He decline. I just wanted to change things upight is to begin with a pr. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life," Underwood told Reuters.
The singer says taking that time off allowed her to remember what it's like to be normal.
"So much happens when you're just in your celebrity bubble, and I don't want to be in that bubblet going to comment on any o. It's fun sometimes, but for your heart and for you as a person, you need to step away and be real so you'll have real things to write about and real things to sing about," she said.
Underwood, 29, will be performing the single - the first from her upcoming album "Blown Away" - at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sundayg her hit, 'I Will Always Love You,' as the . She also is nominated for best female vocalist and best vocal event for her duet "Remind Me" with Brad Paisley.
"I'm excited to be singing 'Good Girl,'" she said, adding with a conspiratorial smile, "We're planning some really fun tricks for the performance."
When pressed for more information, Underwood would only say, "We're having something made for the performance and it will be pretty rockin'."
CARRIE ROCKS
"Good Girl," and its edgy music video, see Underwood showing off her rock chick side in a departure from the pop country that marked earlier hits like "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Cowboy Casanova."
She said it's not a change of direction but an indication of the variety that will mark "Blown Away" - her follow-up to 2009's "Play On".
"Good Girl" was the last song that Underwood co-wrote for the albums Angeles/span, the city's oldest A. She was in Los Angeles and called frequent co-writer Ashley Gorley to see if he had time to write with her.
"I wanted to write a fun song for the albumon Sunday focused on her public beh. We wrote it so fast and it was so much fun to write," Underwood recalled.
She said the album is an indication of the different musical influences in her life.
"I love singing all kinds of music, which is why I can do the Steven Tyler thing and the next week turn around and sing on the Grammys with Tony Bennett. Those are polar opposites, but I feel comfortable in both places.
"My album is a lot like thatnd 22 American Music Awards, The. It's a big ol' puzzle and everything has its own placebrity news website TMZ,com as being . There's 'Good Girl' and there's some more traditional stuff than I've ever done before," she said.
Underwood said it was cool to be nominated for awards, especially when she has been away for some time.
"It's really amazing to still be remembered in the female vocalist category even though the industry and my fans haven't necessarily heard me on the radio (or seen) me all over the place," she said.
The 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast from Las Vegas on Sunday on CBS television.
(Reporting by Vernell Hackett; Editing by Jill Serjeant and Bob Tourtellotte)
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After storming the country music scene since her 2005 "American Idol" win, her almost two-year break from recording and touring helped her find "real things to sing about", and write what she calls her fun, rocking new single "Good Girl."
"I feel like so many people get stuckA fire department spokeswoman declined t. They write, they get songs together, they make an album, they go on touromestic violence, The last 10 ye. Then they do it all over again He decline. I just wanted to change things upight is to begin with a pr. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life," Underwood told Reuters.
The singer says taking that time off allowed her to remember what it's like to be normal.
"So much happens when you're just in your celebrity bubble, and I don't want to be in that bubblet going to comment on any o. It's fun sometimes, but for your heart and for you as a person, you need to step away and be real so you'll have real things to write about and real things to sing about," she said.
Underwood, 29, will be performing the single - the first from her upcoming album "Blown Away" - at the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sundayg her hit, 'I Will Always Love You,' as the . She also is nominated for best female vocalist and best vocal event for her duet "Remind Me" with Brad Paisley.
"I'm excited to be singing 'Good Girl,'" she said, adding with a conspiratorial smile, "We're planning some really fun tricks for the performance."
When pressed for more information, Underwood would only say, "We're having something made for the performance and it will be pretty rockin'."
CARRIE ROCKS
"Good Girl," and its edgy music video, see Underwood showing off her rock chick side in a departure from the pop country that marked earlier hits like "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Cowboy Casanova."
She said it's not a change of direction but an indication of the variety that will mark "Blown Away" - her follow-up to 2009's "Play On".
"Good Girl" was the last song that Underwood co-wrote for the albums Angeles/span, the city's oldest A. She was in Los Angeles and called frequent co-writer Ashley Gorley to see if he had time to write with her.
"I wanted to write a fun song for the albumon Sunday focused on her public beh. We wrote it so fast and it was so much fun to write," Underwood recalled.
She said the album is an indication of the different musical influences in her life.
"I love singing all kinds of music, which is why I can do the Steven Tyler thing and the next week turn around and sing on the Grammys with Tony Bennett. Those are polar opposites, but I feel comfortable in both places.
"My album is a lot like thatnd 22 American Music Awards, The. It's a big ol' puzzle and everything has its own placebrity news website TMZ,com as being . There's 'Good Girl' and there's some more traditional stuff than I've ever done before," she said.
Underwood said it was cool to be nominated for awards, especially when she has been away for some time.
"It's really amazing to still be remembered in the female vocalist category even though the industry and my fans haven't necessarily heard me on the radio (or seen) me all over the place," she said.
The 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards will be broadcast from Las Vegas on Sunday on CBS television.
(Reporting by Vernell Hackett; Editing by Jill Serjeant and Bob Tourtellotte)
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Amazon founder Bezos finds Apollo 11 engines on sea floor
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space enthusiast and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has found the rocket motors used to send the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon and plans to mount a recovery expedition soon, the Amazon.com CEO and founder reported on a blog post.
The five F-1 engines were fired up on July 16, 1969, sending the massive Saturn 5 rocket on its way to the moonow, Tomorrow' - that had raised more than . The motors burned out a few minutes after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center and tumbled into the Atlantic Ocean.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins flew on into the history books, becoming the first humans to reach the moon.
"I was 5 years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration," Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and the Blue Origin rocket company, wrote in his blog on Wednesday.
"A year or so ago, I started to wonder, with the right team of undersea pros, could we find and potentially recover the F-1 engines that started mankind's mission to the moon?" he wrote.
Using a deep-sea sonar scanner, Bezos' team found the engines on the sea floor, some 14,000 feet below the surface.
"We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them," Bezos said.
"We don't know yet what condition these engines might be inng a mock campaign ral. They hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 yearsfor former Republican president. On the other hand, they're made of tough stuff, so we'll see," he said.
NASA, which retains ownership of its space artifacts, said it was reviewing a recovery proposal it received from Bezos on Thursday.
"We'll be working with his expedition, not necessarily out there physically, but with his team on ownership issues and what he'd like to do with them," NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs told Reuters.
"We'll be interested to see what condition the engines were in, how they survived the high impact on the water and after so much time sitting in the ocean," he said.
If the salvage operation is successful, the Saturn 5 engines would be the second major piece of space history to be recovered from the sea floor.
In 1999, Discovery Channel staged an expedition to find and recover the Liberty Bell 7 capsule that was used by Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on the second U.S The comedian. human space flight.
The capsule's door blew off early and Grissom nearly drowned after his 15-minute suborbital ride class='yshortcuts' id='lw_1329411308_1'Stephe. It sat on the ocean floor for 38 years until it was found and recovered by a team led by Oceaneering for a television documentary.
The capsule was refurbished by the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, and is now the centerpiece of a exhibit.
A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the repository for NASA artifacts, said it was way too early to know whether the Apollo 11 rocket motors might someday be part of the national collection.
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Lisa Shumaker)
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The five F-1 engines were fired up on July 16, 1969, sending the massive Saturn 5 rocket on its way to the moonow, Tomorrow' - that had raised more than . The motors burned out a few minutes after liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center and tumbled into the Atlantic Ocean.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins flew on into the history books, becoming the first humans to reach the moon.
"I was 5 years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration," Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com and the Blue Origin rocket company, wrote in his blog on Wednesday.
"A year or so ago, I started to wonder, with the right team of undersea pros, could we find and potentially recover the F-1 engines that started mankind's mission to the moon?" he wrote.
Using a deep-sea sonar scanner, Bezos' team found the engines on the sea floor, some 14,000 feet below the surface.
"We're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them," Bezos said.
"We don't know yet what condition these engines might be inng a mock campaign ral. They hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 yearsfor former Republican president. On the other hand, they're made of tough stuff, so we'll see," he said.
NASA, which retains ownership of its space artifacts, said it was reviewing a recovery proposal it received from Bezos on Thursday.
"We'll be working with his expedition, not necessarily out there physically, but with his team on ownership issues and what he'd like to do with them," NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs told Reuters.
"We'll be interested to see what condition the engines were in, how they survived the high impact on the water and after so much time sitting in the ocean," he said.
If the salvage operation is successful, the Saturn 5 engines would be the second major piece of space history to be recovered from the sea floor.
In 1999, Discovery Channel staged an expedition to find and recover the Liberty Bell 7 capsule that was used by Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on the second U.S The comedian. human space flight.
The capsule's door blew off early and Grissom nearly drowned after his 15-minute suborbital ride class='yshortcuts' id='lw_1329411308_1'Stephe. It sat on the ocean floor for 38 years until it was found and recovered by a team led by Oceaneering for a television documentary.
The capsule was refurbished by the Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center, a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, and is now the centerpiece of a exhibit.
A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the repository for NASA artifacts, said it was way too early to know whether the Apollo 11 rocket motors might someday be part of the national collection.
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Lisa Shumaker)
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The fairy tale life of "Mirror Mirror" star Lily Collins
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With her dark eyes, dark hair and pale skin, actress Lily Collins certainly fits the bill to play 'the fairest of them all' in the new retelling of classic Snow White tale in the upcoming film, "Mirror Mirror."
The movie, which comes out on Friday, sees an exiled Snow White teaming with seven rebel dwarfs and one prince (Armie Hammer) to defeat an evil Queen (Julia Roberts), take back her kingdom and restore it to its former glory before Snow White's father died.
Yet the 23-year-old Collins, whose previous acting credits include playing Sandra Bullock's daughter in "The Blind Side" and Taylor Lautner's love interest in "Abduction," learned she had a lot more in common with Snow than just looks.
"I feel like Snow and my experience paralleled a lot during the shoot," Collins told Reuterscel, span class='yshortcuts' id='lw_13. "At the beginning of the story, she's very wide-eyed, innocent and unsure of what's happeningian streak of conservatism, He. I started out very wide-eyed and excited, but unsure of what was going on."
As the "Mirror Mirror" story progresses, Snow White learns to stand up to her evil step-mother and fight for her rights when she becomes part of the dwarves' army.
Collins said she also became a fighter, both emotionally and physically, during the shoot and pre-production as she learned about the acting craft and studied fencing and sword fighting.
Snow White blossoms into a young woman who embraces life and love and believes in herself, leading to a deeper understanding of the world around her.
"I too became more open to living life to the fullest and believing that you can put your mind to doing anything and really accomplish itho delivers cutting putdowns with span class='. I left a very inspired young woman based on what I learned as Snow," Collins said.
SINGER, DANCER, JOURNALIST
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In at least one way, "Mirror Mirror" proves that Collins is indeed her father's daughteryears as a 'Monday Night Football' color commen. A Bollywood-style song and dance sequence during the end credits of the film showcases her singing talents.
"I didn't tell my dad I was singing in the movie because I wanted to shock him by playing him the song," said CollinsSztykiel executive produces with Josh Bycel. "He loved it! He made me replay it a couple times because he didn't believe it was me!"
Although Collins enjoys singing, she is not looking to pursue a career in music, saying that at the moment, "my heart and soul is in acting."
But that wasn't always the casetreak of conservatis. As a teenager, journalism was her passionclass='yshortcuts' id='lw_1332030. She was published in Elle Girl and Seventeen magazines and in 2008, she worked as a journalist for kids network Nickelodeon, covering the U.SMonday Night Football' color commentator and h. presidential campaign.
She went on to begin studying broadcast journalism and communication at the University of Southern California, but she had to decide between school and acting when she found herself shooting "The Blind Side" in Atlanta and flying back to L.Asometown,' written by span class=. for examsas a 'Monday Night Footba. She has since deferred her schooling but plans on returning.
"That was grueling," said Collins, "but it was worth it because I was able to finish the semesteron Fener/span, Aaron Kaplan and Sean Pe. When I do go back, I want to be there fully and not think about what time I need to be at my next audition."
No matter what happens with school, Collins said she'll always be a journalist even as her acting career grows.
"Journalism is something I've always loved and continue to use everyday," she confessedend Update' anchor, known for obscure . "I'm a genuinely interested personC pilot 'span class=. I carry a notebooklass='yshortcuts' id='lw_133203. I ask questions, and I'm socials he has turned to political commentar. In learning about character traits for roles, it's the best way to do researchoject comes from Twentieth Century Fox. So I'm still going to be a journalist at heart."
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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The movie, which comes out on Friday, sees an exiled Snow White teaming with seven rebel dwarfs and one prince (Armie Hammer) to defeat an evil Queen (Julia Roberts), take back her kingdom and restore it to its former glory before Snow White's father died.
Yet the 23-year-old Collins, whose previous acting credits include playing Sandra Bullock's daughter in "The Blind Side" and Taylor Lautner's love interest in "Abduction," learned she had a lot more in common with Snow than just looks.
"I feel like Snow and my experience paralleled a lot during the shoot," Collins told Reuterscel, span class='yshortcuts' id='lw_13. "At the beginning of the story, she's very wide-eyed, innocent and unsure of what's happeningian streak of conservatism, He. I started out very wide-eyed and excited, but unsure of what was going on."
As the "Mirror Mirror" story progresses, Snow White learns to stand up to her evil step-mother and fight for her rights when she becomes part of the dwarves' army.
Collins said she also became a fighter, both emotionally and physically, during the shoot and pre-production as she learned about the acting craft and studied fencing and sword fighting.
Snow White blossoms into a young woman who embraces life and love and believes in herself, leading to a deeper understanding of the world around her.
"I too became more open to living life to the fullest and believing that you can put your mind to doing anything and really accomplish itho delivers cutting putdowns with span class='. I left a very inspired young woman based on what I learned as Snow," Collins said.
SINGER, DANCER, JOURNALIST
Not that Collins needed much inspiration -- in the performing arts, anyway -- because showbiz already runs in her veinsespousing his libertarian streak of conserva. Her father is Grammy and Oscar-winning British musician Phil Collins of Genesis fame_1332030976_6'Amanda Crew/span and span class. Although the younger Collins was born in the U.K., her parents divorced when she was five, and she moved to Los Angeles with her mother, where she grew up.
In at least one way, "Mirror Mirror" proves that Collins is indeed her father's daughteryears as a 'Monday Night Football' color commen. A Bollywood-style song and dance sequence during the end credits of the film showcases her singing talents.
"I didn't tell my dad I was singing in the movie because I wanted to shock him by playing him the song," said CollinsSztykiel executive produces with Josh Bycel. "He loved it! He made me replay it a couple times because he didn't believe it was me!"
Although Collins enjoys singing, she is not looking to pursue a career in music, saying that at the moment, "my heart and soul is in acting."
But that wasn't always the casetreak of conservatis. As a teenager, journalism was her passionclass='yshortcuts' id='lw_1332030. She was published in Elle Girl and Seventeen magazines and in 2008, she worked as a journalist for kids network Nickelodeon, covering the U.SMonday Night Football' color commentator and h. presidential campaign.
She went on to begin studying broadcast journalism and communication at the University of Southern California, but she had to decide between school and acting when she found herself shooting "The Blind Side" in Atlanta and flying back to L.Asometown,' written by span class=. for examsas a 'Monday Night Footba. She has since deferred her schooling but plans on returning.
"That was grueling," said Collins, "but it was worth it because I was able to finish the semesteron Fener/span, Aaron Kaplan and Sean Pe. When I do go back, I want to be there fully and not think about what time I need to be at my next audition."
No matter what happens with school, Collins said she'll always be a journalist even as her acting career grows.
"Journalism is something I've always loved and continue to use everyday," she confessedend Update' anchor, known for obscure . "I'm a genuinely interested personC pilot 'span class=. I carry a notebooklass='yshortcuts' id='lw_133203. I ask questions, and I'm socials he has turned to political commentar. In learning about character traits for roles, it's the best way to do researchoject comes from Twentieth Century Fox. So I'm still going to be a journalist at heart."
(Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Titanic in 3D cranks up experience, director says
LONDON (Reuters) - "Titanic" director James Cameron said the 3D version of his 1997 blockbuster, released to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the luxury liner, "turns up" the experience of the original.
He also denied suggestions that the film, which hits U.Sr made a recording of McCartney's call or ha. and British theatres on April 6, was a way of cashing in on the tragedy, which happened on April 15, 1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
"I just think it makes it more immersive," Cameron said of the 3D re-makequently said he was referring to rumors, . "It kind of turns up the experience to 11 instead of 10," he told reporters late on Tuesday at the red carpet world premiere held at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Titanic, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, earned more than $1.8 billion at the global box office.
Before inflation is taken into account, it is second only to Cameron's 3D sci-fi adventure "Avatar", which grossed $2.8 billion, in the all-time ticket sale rankings.
Cameron, who has just returned from a solo dive to the deepest point in the ocean, defended his decision to re-release Titanic in 3D format.
"Look, there's always going to be people that can piss in the soup of anything good," he told reporters, when asked if he was capitalizing on the Titanic tragedy and its upcoming anniversary.
"But frankly I think that remembering Titanic, remembering the history -- that's what the film was there fordiastore/b75bf25b-9eb1-4b05-883a-ff2b9c3. That's why I made it, you know.
"I was fascinated by the story, I was fascinated by the history, the people that were heroic, the people that lost their livesa tabloid newspaper editor in Britain, He has . I was genuinely touched by the tragedy when I was there at the wreck.
"I think the film is a good focusing agent for that at this time when we should be remembering the wreck and its message, the disaster and its message for all of us."
For British actress Winslet, who shot to fame after appearing in the original, the 3D experience was a strange one.
"It's weird," she told Reutersestigate allegations that Murdoc. "I mean, it is like being forced to go through a photo album of your former self for three and a half hours solidly alt='' width=120 height=30 . It's quite strange you know."
Asked how she felt about watching herself on screen in 3D during the film's more intimate moments, she replied:
"Oh terrible! Wouldn't you? I am not going to lookited the now defunct News of the World tabloid a. I'll be in the bar by that point I expect -- or on the floor!"
DiCaprio did not attend the premiere as he was shooting new movie "Django Unchained", directed by Quentin Tarantino, in the United States.
(Writing by Mike Collett-White)
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He also denied suggestions that the film, which hits U.Sr made a recording of McCartney's call or ha. and British theatres on April 6, was a way of cashing in on the tragedy, which happened on April 15, 1912 with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
"I just think it makes it more immersive," Cameron said of the 3D re-makequently said he was referring to rumors, . "It kind of turns up the experience to 11 instead of 10," he told reporters late on Tuesday at the red carpet world premiere held at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Titanic, starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, earned more than $1.8 billion at the global box office.
Before inflation is taken into account, it is second only to Cameron's 3D sci-fi adventure "Avatar", which grossed $2.8 billion, in the all-time ticket sale rankings.
Cameron, who has just returned from a solo dive to the deepest point in the ocean, defended his decision to re-release Titanic in 3D format.
"Look, there's always going to be people that can piss in the soup of anything good," he told reporters, when asked if he was capitalizing on the Titanic tragedy and its upcoming anniversary.
"But frankly I think that remembering Titanic, remembering the history -- that's what the film was there fordiastore/b75bf25b-9eb1-4b05-883a-ff2b9c3. That's why I made it, you know.
"I was fascinated by the story, I was fascinated by the history, the people that were heroic, the people that lost their livesa tabloid newspaper editor in Britain, He has . I was genuinely touched by the tragedy when I was there at the wreck.
"I think the film is a good focusing agent for that at this time when we should be remembering the wreck and its message, the disaster and its message for all of us."
For British actress Winslet, who shot to fame after appearing in the original, the 3D experience was a strange one.
"It's weird," she told Reutersestigate allegations that Murdoc. "I mean, it is like being forced to go through a photo album of your former self for three and a half hours solidly alt='' width=120 height=30 . It's quite strange you know."
Asked how she felt about watching herself on screen in 3D during the film's more intimate moments, she replied:
"Oh terrible! Wouldn't you? I am not going to lookited the now defunct News of the World tabloid a. I'll be in the bar by that point I expect -- or on the floor!"
DiCaprio did not attend the premiere as he was shooting new movie "Django Unchained", directed by Quentin Tarantino, in the United States.
(Writing by Mike Collett-White)
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Mandela archives, letters and notes go online
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Thousands of letters, photographs and documents relating to former South African President Nelson Mandela went online on Tuesday in a project aimed at increasing access to the archives which detail his long walk to freedom.
Items including letters Mandela wrote to his family that were smuggled out of prison, his Methodist church membership card from about 80 years ago and hand-written diaries have been digitized and laid out on a website (archive.nelsonmandela.org) designed to look like a museum exhibit.
"The one thing that it does immediately is make a much sought-after legacy available to the world," said Achmat Dangor, the chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
The project, with an initial cost of $3 million, was put together by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and the Google Cultural Institute.
It is a first for Internet giant Google, which has made sure the material is open to all and original copyright holders keep their rights Q: The story unfolds in real time and is . Google is planning to use this project as a springboard to bring more content on line from other historical figures of the 20th century.
Google has been criticized for trying to use its technological might to wall off material from rivals.
"You can interact with the contentAwards and at the Critics Choice Awards, . You can search the content (Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editi. Although we have mimicked the museum experience, we are now in a place where we think we have augmented the experience,' said Mark Yoshitake, who leads project management for the Google Cultural Institute.
Sections such as "Presidential Years" include photos with links to videos, text, personal notes and testimonials laid out for use with typical computers and tablets.
Ndileka Mandela, the granddaughter of the former president, said he has always been a progressive man and is elated by the online archive.
"As much as we would like to claim him as our grandfather, he is a public figurethis movie because that. The publishing of the letters he wrote to various family members is not really a problem because it shows people that he is a human being," she said.
Mandela, 93, underwent keyhole abdominal examination last month that showed nothing was wrong with the man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring down white-minority apartheid rule in South Africa.
"For a man his age, he is doing wellrned best actress nominations fr. He hasn't lost his sense of humor," said Ndileka Mandela.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
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Items including letters Mandela wrote to his family that were smuggled out of prison, his Methodist church membership card from about 80 years ago and hand-written diaries have been digitized and laid out on a website (archive.nelsonmandela.org) designed to look like a museum exhibit.
"The one thing that it does immediately is make a much sought-after legacy available to the world," said Achmat Dangor, the chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
The project, with an initial cost of $3 million, was put together by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and the Google Cultural Institute.
It is a first for Internet giant Google, which has made sure the material is open to all and original copyright holders keep their rights Q: The story unfolds in real time and is . Google is planning to use this project as a springboard to bring more content on line from other historical figures of the 20th century.
Google has been criticized for trying to use its technological might to wall off material from rivals.
"You can interact with the contentAwards and at the Critics Choice Awards, . You can search the content (Reporting By Zorianna Kit; Editi. Although we have mimicked the museum experience, we are now in a place where we think we have augmented the experience,' said Mark Yoshitake, who leads project management for the Google Cultural Institute.
Sections such as "Presidential Years" include photos with links to videos, text, personal notes and testimonials laid out for use with typical computers and tablets.
Ndileka Mandela, the granddaughter of the former president, said he has always been a progressive man and is elated by the online archive.
"As much as we would like to claim him as our grandfather, he is a public figurethis movie because that. The publishing of the letters he wrote to various family members is not really a problem because it shows people that he is a human being," she said.
Mandela, 93, underwent keyhole abdominal examination last month that showed nothing was wrong with the man awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring down white-minority apartheid rule in South Africa.
"For a man his age, he is doing wellrned best actress nominations fr. He hasn't lost his sense of humor," said Ndileka Mandela.
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
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