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Health secretary pushes for kids' insurance deal

lei — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:47:55 GMT

	Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said on Sunday morning regarding the children's health insurance bill that Bush refused to sign, "The president has already said, 'I want a compromise.'"

Updated: 12:32 p.m. ET Oct. 7, 2007

WASHINGTON - President Bush's health secretary expressed hope Sunday for a deal with the Democratic-run Congress on expanding children's health insurance even as the House speaker worked to round up enough Republicans to override a veto.

"Everybody wants children to have health insurance," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said. "The president has already said, 'I want a compromise.'"

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Bush vetoed legislation last week that would increase spending for the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. Bush has called for a $5 billion increase.

Several Republicans in both the House and Senate have sided with majority Democrats on the issue, and the Senate has enough votes to override the veto. But in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has delayed an override attempt until Oct. 18, saying she needs to attract support from 14 more Republicans.

"It's hard to imagine how we could diminish the number of children who are covered," said Pelosi, D-Calif., in an interview broadcast Sunday. "The president calls himself 'the decider,' and I don't know why he would want to decide that one child has health care and another does not."

"So we take it one step at a time. And right now, we have the next 10 days to two weeks to try to peel off about 14 votes in the House," she said.

Program aimed at families stuck in the middle
The program provides health insurance to children in families with incomes too great for Medicaid eligibility but not enough to afford private insurance.

Bush and Leavitt have decried the spending increase primarily supported by Democrats as unnecessarily subsidizing middle-income people as part of Democrats' "goal of government-run health care for every American."

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lei — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:15:05 GMT

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Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

glu — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:16:53 GMT

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 builds off of the events in the first game and places gamers in control of the U.S. military's elite fighting unit, the Ghosts. In the year 2014, the rising conflict between Mexican loyalists and insurgent rebel forces has thrown Mexico into full-scale civil war. Under the command of Captain Scott Mitchell, the Ghosts are called upon to face an imminent threat to the United States. The fate of two countries now lies in the hands of the Ghosts as they fend off an attack on U.S. soil. Equipped with the most cutting-edge weaponry and technology, the Ghosts must battle on both sides of the border to neutralize the escalating rebel threat

Torrential rains lash Britain

glu — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:13:56 GMT

man has died in England after becoming trapped trying to clear a flooded drain as torrential rain caused flash floods in many parts of the country.

Severe weather warnings have been issued by the Met Office for areas across the north of England and the Midlands as well as Wales.

The man from Hull, believed to be in his 20s, went to help his grandfather but slipped and became pinned back by a torrent of water.

Police divers and emergency services spent several hours trying to rescue the man from the neck-deep water but were unable to free him.

Humberside is one of the areas worst affected by the heavy downpours and lashing northerly winds.

In Sheffield, also heavily affected by the torrents of rain and a burst river bank, RAF helicopters had to be scrambled to rescue people from rooftops, television pictures showed.

The Environment Agency has issued severe flood warnings for 11 areas, mainly in the Humberside, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire districts. A further eight areas are on flood warning, and 121 are on on flood watch.

A young teenager was reported missing after being swept away in the River Sheaf, South Yorkshire, police said.

Homes in Devon, Humberside, South Yorkshire and Gloucestershire in particular were struggling to cope while motorists had to abandon cars when many roads in Yorkshire became impassable.

Administration staff at Humberside headquarters had to be evacuated after it became flooded.

Police are urging people not to travel.

A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said rain was forecast up to midnight (local time) at least but water levels will continue to rise for some time after the rain has stopped.

Train services have warned of disruption to services.

Wimbledon in south-west London had a delayed start on the opening day on Monday, while poor weather forced a helicopter bringing Dame Shirley Bassey back from Glastonbury to make an emergency landing in a school's grounds in Camberley, Surrey.

Tractors were called to the south-west festival site to tug out some of the 40,000 cars that had sunk into the mud.

More than 120,000 people at the festival were injured as of Sunday, mostly with sprains and bruises from slipping in the mud.

The Met Office said the weather should improve on Tuesday, with scattered showers restricted to the north and east of England.

A spokesman said rain would ease and move eastwards to clear all districts soon after dawn.

"Most places will be dry on Tuesday with sunny spells, though there will be scattered showers, chiefly in the north and east. The winds will ease, but it will feel cold," he said.

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xiaozhi weng — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:21:11 GMT

World Of Warcraft - Karazhan - Julianne

jin924 — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:45:40 GMT

(1) Kill Julianne.
- Heals for 10-15% or so of her life. This need to be kicked, bashed, CSed with top priority.
- Holy DoT. 3-4K over a few seconds. This DoT is bearable, and you should be able to heal through it, so don't burn your
cooldowns on this and miss the heal.
(2) Kill Romulo.
- Keep the buff off him that makes him do 6-7K crushing blows on your tank.
- Disarm him every time it's up. Tanks will need to be juiced up in good gear and lots of stam to survive him.
(3) They both rez up simultaneously and you have to kill them all over again. You also need to kill them both at the same time or they will rez each other in about 10 seconds. Careful when they rez together because he will run off to a healer and one-shot them.

You will need to watch both of them very closely. It's advisable to bring a mage and a rogue at least to interrupt. You can also use a felhunter, but they are fairly squishy to holy damage. Two tanks required.

World Of Warcraft

glu — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:47:30 GMT

The fight starts out with just the horse, Nightmare. Have your OT tank it.
At 95%, Attumen comes in and the MT should pick him up quickly. Continue dpsing the horse.
When Nightmare is at 25%, Attumen will mount Nightmare. He randomly charges the person farthest, so it's best to keep the hunter out in the back. Just dps him down, avoid his cleave if you're melee and gg, free lewts

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Keira Knightley’s Voice gets Flat

keirablog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:30:29 GMT

“I’m not normally flat (about her voice) but crying and singing makes that to you…” says Keira. Well she was actually doing her mom’s film ‘The Edge of Love’ where she was supposed to sing and emote some serious expressions.Hmmm what can one say…except that Keira has atlast accepted that she is flat, about one thing or the other

Keira Knightley’s ‘Atonement’ to open Venice Film Festival!

keirablog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:28:22 GMT

‘Atonement’, a screen adaption of McEwan’s novel by the same name is chosen to open Venice Film Festival. And if you didn’t know this until now, Keira Knightley is playing a woman in this film.While the director of the movie John Wright is elated, male fans of Keira are more than happy. Not just because of the Venice Film Festival, but because ‘Atonement’ is the first movie where Keira plays and ’shows’ herself as a woman. Know what I mean?

Check this Atonement gallery

keirablog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:25:27 GMT

Fans of Keira Knightley can get ready to see her in her new movie Atonement, which has just been selected to open the movie festival of Venice. To get you a little bit excited about the movie, check out this gallery of stills, showing you a bit more of Keira's look in the movie.

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Keira's Filmography

keirablog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:13:48 GMT

2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
2005 - Domino
2005 - The Jacket
2005 - Pride & Prejudice
2003 - King Arthur
2003 - Love Actually
2003 - Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
2002 - Bend It Like Beckham
2002 - Pure
2000 - The Hole

Profile for Keira Knightley

keirablog — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:11:20 GMT

Name: Keira Knightley Height: 5' 7?

Sex: F

Nationality: British

Birth Date: March 22, 1983

Birth Place: Teddington, London, England, UK

Profession: Actress

Relationship: Rupert Friend (actor; began dating on January 2006), Kaz James (Aussie DJ), Jamie Dornan (Irish model; broke up in 2005)

Father: Will Knightley (actor; born on April 23, 1946)

Mother: Sharman Macdonald (writer; born in 1951) Brother: Caleb Knightley (born in 1979)

Claim to fame: Soccer-playing tomboy Juliette Paxton in Bend it Like Beckham (2003)

More about Orlando Bloom

orlando_fan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:50:41 GMT

Facts

His birth date is January 13, 1977, making him 30 years old.
His full name is Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom.
His nicknames are Orli and OB.
He has brown hair and brown eyes.
He's around 5'11" (180 cm)
He's not married.
He's allergic to peanut butter.
While filming Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, he got into sky diving, bungee jumping, paragliding, surfing and snowboarding. Now he enjoys "just taking time to walk whether it be on location somewhere or on a beach." "most of the time I just chill with my friends and have a mellow time" He also enjoys photography, shopping and buying old antiques, and he "can't stand computers".
He says he's accident prone, and has the injury list to prove it. He's broken his back, his ribs, his nose, both his legs, his arm, his wrist, a finger and a toe, and cracked his skull three times!
A year before doing the Lord of the Rings, he fell 3 stories off a friend's porch while trying to open a jammed door and broke his back. He was almost confined to a wheelchair, but luckily the doctors were able to patch him up.
His sister Samantha is 2 years older than him.
He has a dog named Sidi.
His adoptive father, Harry Bloom, died when Orlando was 4 and was a legendary figure in antiapartheid circles in South Africa. Harry also wrote a famous tome called Episode In The Transvaal, was jailed for his beliefs, and worked alongside Nelson Mandela. Orlando and his sister were raised by their mother, Sonia, and a guardian, Colin Stone. When Orlando was 13, his mother told him that Harry was not his biological father, that Colin was.
Has a tattoo of 'nine' in Elvish on his right forearm, and a sun on his torso that he got when he was 15.
He can speak French.
He has 3 A levels, two at grade A (one was art and sculpture - he is particularly good at sculpture and pottery and art), one at A level for Photography, and one at Grade C which was Religious Studies. He also has 8 'O' levels and has a BA (Hons) Drama degree from Guildhall School of Music and Drama - so he is Orlando Bloom BA (Hons).
As a kid, he was dyslexic, and now he says he is "mildly dyslexic".
He says he's currently into "all sorts of music, mostly the Ben Harper, the David Gray, and the Bob Dylan type of folk music."
For LOTR, he had to learn archery, how to ride a horse bareback (while shooting an arrow), and how to fight and wield two swords. "I started off with archery, I rode about 20 different horses, I had physical training in the gym, and I had to learn the Elvish ways of speaking and fighting. Their fighting is based on ancient European and Asian martial arts, so I had a trainer who taught me how to use the blades. I also did a lot of movement training, because movement is my way into the character." - SFX Magazine
He originally auditioned for Lord of the Rings in the part of Faramir, Boromir's brother, who wouldn't be introduced until The Two Towers. But Peter thought he would be perfect for Legolas instead. Orlando learned that he got the part the day before he graduated from Guildhall.
He wears a replica of the One ring that says "To wherever it may lead." It was given to him by one of the make-up artists on LOTR.

Favorites and Firsts

Favorite Color: Yellow.
Favorite Foods: Pasta, pizza, oatmeal, rice and vegetables and baked potatoes.
Favorite Vegetable: Spinach.
Favorite Football Team: Manchester United. He also likes Real Madrid because David Beckham now plays for them.
Favorite Sports: Snowboarding and Surfing.
Favorite Actors: Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Paul Newman, and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Favorite Musician: Jeff Buckley.
Favorite Movie: Stand By Me. He also likes The Hustler and Amelie.
Favorite Type of Girls: "Nice, sweet girls."
First Job: A clay trapper at a pigeon shooting range when he was 13.
First Movie Role: Rentboy in Wilde.
First CD: Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians. Michael Jackson's Thriller was his first 45.
First Car: A darkgreen VW Golf that cost 160 Pounds ($230).
First Hollywood Crush: Linda Evans on Dynasty.
First Concert: Jamiroquai in Canterbury.

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Learn about Matt's life

mattdamonfan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:52:56 GMT

Actor, screenwriter. Born October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts. After his parents divorced when he was a young child, Damon moved with his mother and older brother from the tony Boston suburb of Newton to a more modest neighborhood in Cambridge. He appeared in several local theater productions as an adolescent and worked as an extra on movies filming in or around Boston alongside his childhood friend and fellow aspiring actor Ben Affleck. At 16, Damon auditioned for a New York casting agent and later l anded his first film role, a one-line appearance in 1988’s Mystic Pizza, starring Julia Roberts.

While a student at Harvard University, Damon appeared in a Turner Network Television (TNT) movie, Rising Son (1990), with Brian Dennehy. In 1992, he landed his first substantial role, as an obnoxious young WASP in School Ties, also featuring the up-and-coming young actors Brendan Fraser, Chris O’Donnell, and Affleck. Soon after, he dropped out of Harvard just shy of earning his degree in English and moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting more seriously.

After landing an important supporting role in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), starring heavy-hitters Gene Hackman and Robert Duvall, Damon made his first starring turn in the 1995 TNT movie The Good Old Boys, costarring Tommy Lee Jones, who also cowrote and directed. Damon’s breakthrough performance, however, came in the 1996 film Courage Under Fire, costarring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan.

Damon lost 40 pounds and reportedly became dangerously ill in preparation for his role as a strung-out Army medic in the Gulf War drama, for which he earned a good deal of critical praise.

The following year, Francis Ford Coppola cast Damon as the lead in his film adaptation of John Grisham’s best-selling novel The Rainmaker (1997), costarring Danny DeVito and Claire Danes. After the news that Damon snagged the high-profile role broke, he and Affleck were finally able to close the deal on the sale of their screenplay, Good Will Hunting. Originally conceived by Damon during a playwriting class at Harvard, the script had attracted offers from several interested studios, which Damon and Affleck had turned down, insisting that they be allowed to star. With advice from such luminaries as Rob Reiner and William Goldman, Damon and Affleck revised their script and subsequently sold the rights to Miramax.

With Damon in the lead, and Affleck, Minnie Driver, and Robin Williams in crucial supporting roles, Good Will Hunting became a sleeper hit in 1997, scoring nine Oscar nominations, including nods for Best Actor (Damon), Best Supporting Actor (Williams), Best Supporting Actress (Driver), Best Director (Gus Van Sant), and Best Picture. While Damon lost out to Jack Nicholson in the acting category, he and Affleck took home the award for Best Original Screenplay, an achievement that kicked both their careers into high gear.

In 1998, Damon played the title role in Steven Spielberg’s World War II epic Saving Private Ryan, one of the most acclaimed films of the year.

As the stubborn young Ryan, Damon held his own opposite the movie’s star, Tom Hanks, who played the leader of a small group of men sent to find Ryan and send him home for the sake of his mother after all four of his brothers are killed. That same year, he starred as an earnest law student and reformed poker player in Rounders, also featuring Edward Norton and John Malkovich.

Damon rejoined his friend Affleck (fresh from the summer action blockbuster Armageddon) in Dogma (1999), a sharp, irreverent comedy written and directed by Kevin Smith and also featuring the comedian Chris Rock. Near the end of 1999, he took on his riskiest role to date—that of Tom Ripley, a working-class young man who tastes the good life and will do anything to make it his own, in Anthony Minghella’s lush adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s dark novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. Costarring Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, the golden object of Ripley’s affection, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Greenleaf’s equally golden girlfriend, The Talented Mr. Ripley earned somewhat mixed reviews, but critics singled out both Damon’s and Law’s performances for praise. (Law received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.)

In 2000, Damon lent his voice to the animated space epic Titan A.E., which met with a mediocre reception among critics and audiences. Later that year, he headlined an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel All the Pretty Horses (2000), as well as the golf comedy-drama The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), directed by Robert Redford and costarring Will Smith.

In 2003, he signed on to star in Steven Soderbergh's adaptation of The Informant and the Farrelly Brothers' Stuck on You. Damon has been romantically linked in the past to costars Claire Danes and Minnie Driver. A two-year romance with the actress Winona Ryder ended in the spring of 2000.

Orlando Bloom Trivia

orlando_fan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:21:15 GMT

During the filming for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), he fell off his horse and broke one of his ribs.
Chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "25 Hottest Stars Under 25." [2002]
Originally auditioned to play the role of "Faramir" in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy but lost out on that role and was instead asked to play the role of Legolas.
Learned to surf during the filming of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy in New Zealand.
He won the 2002 MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Male."
Was nominated with the entire The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) cast for "Best Ensemble Acting" at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Won the award at the 2002 Empire Awards for "Best Debut."
Underwent a great deal of training with knives, horseback riding, canoeing and archery before his role as Legolas.
According to Screensavers.com, Orlando Bloom replaced Britney Spears at the top of the website's celebrity download index in January, 2004.
On People (USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list [2004].
Web-site Ananova.com chose him as the sexiest actor in Britain. [2004]
One of People magazine's "Hottest Bachelors" in 2004.
His cousin, the photographer/director Sebastian Copeland, is Brigitte Nielsen's ex-husband.
He made archery a very popular sport in the UK. Many youngsters saw him with a bow in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and decided to join archery schools.
Chosen as Teen People's #1 Hottie for the October 2004 issue.
Chosen as the sexiest male movie star by Empire Magazine. Overall he was 3rd; ahead of him were Keira Knightley (1st) and Angelina Jolie (2nd). [September 2004]
He used to be a vegetarian, but he had to go back to eating meat when he was filming The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001).
Named as one of nine "off the charts" sexy superstars by People Magazine in 2004, along with Jake Gyllenhaal, Usher Raymond, Colin Farrell, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, and Johnny Depp.
Was visited by Countess Seidy Maria Lopez during the filming of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) in New Zealand.
Received a great amount of "stage combat" training while at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (as part of the drama program in conjunction with the British Academy of Stage and Theatre Combat), which helped prepare him a great deal in the characters he has choosen to play, that fight with swords, bows and knives.
He has received an invitation to join the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford Upon Avon, which he plans to do in the near future when he has some time off from working on film. His goal is to perform Hamlet on the Swan stage (RSC main), one of Shakespeare's most challenging works.
Voted #1 star most women would like to kiss under the mistletoe in a poll for Sky Movies.
Has an older sister, Samantha Bloom.
Graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1999)
Amusingly enough, his 2000 guest appearance in the television show, "Midsomer Murders" (1997) references and discusses J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" (Particularly "Lothlorien"), for which he was eventually cast (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)).
Found his dog, Sidi, while filming Kingdom of Heaven (2005).
Shares his birthday with Liya Kebede, Traci Bingham, Penelope Ann Miller and Nick Clooney.
Wears a replica of the One Ring that says "To wherever it may lead". It was given to him by one of the makeup artists on LOTR.
Is "mildly dyslexic".
Has three A-Levels. One A in Art, one A in Photography and one C in Religious Studies.
Can speak French.
His first car was a dark green VW Golf that costed ?60.
His first job was as a clay trapper at a pigeon shooting range when he was 13.
His favourite vegetable is spinach.
First concert he attended was in Canterbery watching Jamiroquai.
Supports English football team Manchester United.
He used to smoke, but quit in 2002, which started making him bite his nails instead.
Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. He was suggested in the Worst Supporting Actor category for his performance in the film Troy (2004), he failed to receive a nomination however.

David Beckham starts soccer academy website

beckhamzone — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:11:55 GMT

According to the news, David Beckham has launched a website in order to improve students' soccer skills and educational achievements, unveiling his free coaching guide on thedavidbeckhamacademy.co.uk. The website, The Beckham Academy is a dream of the soccer ace. Ever since attending to the Bobby Charlton Soccer School as a boy, David wanted to be a professional player. Now, his greatest wish is to create similar opportunities for children all around the world to show their skills in the popular sport. Last year David Beckham launched a football book “Making It Real: My Soccer Skills Book”.

I have seen firsthand how boys and girls respond to the coaches at the academy. I am extremely proud of the work we have achieved to date with schools and community groups who visit the academy for free and I am pleased that now every school will get the chance to sample what we provide.
- David Beckham the former England captain said -

David Beckham Profile

beckhamzone — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:08:04 GMT

PERSONAL PROFILE
Name: David Robert Joseph Beckham OBE
Date of Birth: 02 May 1975
Birthplace: Leytonstone, London
Nationality: English
Height: 180 cm (5ft 11in)
Weight: 67 kg (10st 8lb)
Eyes: Green
Hair: Brown
Residence:Hertfordshire and Madrid (Spain)
Martial status: Married to Victoria
Current club: Real Madrid (Spain)
Position: Midfield
Squad number: 23

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Previous Clubs:
Preston North End (England), Manchester United (England), Real Madrid (Spain)

1991 - Signs as trainee for Manchester United
1992 - Wins FA Youth Cup
1992 - Makes senior team debut with Manchester Utd in Coca Cola Cup
1993 - Signs as professional for Manchester United
1995 - Plays five games on loan to Preston North End
1995 - Makes league debut for Manchester Utd against Leeds
1996 - Manchester Utd win FA Premiership
1996 - Manchester Utd win FA Cup
1996 - Makes International debut for England against Moldova

Player of the Month - August 1996
Sky Sports/Panasonic Young Player award
Sky Sports/Panasonic Fans' Footballer award

1997 - Manchester Utd win FA Charity Shield
1997 - Manchester Utd win FA Premiership

PFA Young Player of the Year
Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year

1999 - Manchester Utd win FA Premiership
1999 - Manchester Utd win FA Cup
1999 - Manchester Utd win UEFA Champions League

UEFA Most Valuable Player
UEFA Best Midfielder

2000 - Manchester United win FA Premiership
2000 - Appointed England national team captain

Voted second in World and European Player of the Year awards

2001 - Manchester United win FA Premiership

Voted Sportsman of the Year by Sports Writers Association
Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Voted second in FIFA World Player of the Year

2003 - Manchester United win FA Premiership
2003 - Beckham awarded OBE
2003 - Signs for Real Madrid for £25m
2003 - Makes his debut for Real Madrid against Dragon Team IX (China)
2003 - Scores his first goal for Real Madrid against FC Tokyo
2003 - Makes his Spanish debut in friendly against Valencia.
2003 - Real Madrid win Spanish Super Cup
2003 - Makes La Liga debut against Real Betis
2006 - Resigns as England captain
2007 - Beckham signs for US club LA Galaxy

Match Report: Real Madrid 3 - 1 Mallorca

beckhamzone — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:06:39 GMT

Real Madrid 3 - 1 Mallorca
La Liga Primera Division

Real Madrid: Casillas, Salgado, Ramos, Cannavaro, Roberto Carlos, Beckham (Reyes 65), Emerson (Guti 46), Diarra, Robinho, Raul, Van Nistelrooy (Higuain 32)
Subs not used: Lopez, Cicinho, Pavon, Gago

Booked: Roberto Carlos, Salgado, Reyes, Guti
Goals: Reyes 68 & 83, Diarra 80

Mallorca: Moya, Hector, Ballesteros, Nunes (Ramis 35), Navarro, Varela, Basinas, Pereyra, Jonas, Victor (Maxi Lopez 67), Arango
Subs not used: Prats, Dorado, Jordi, Tuni, Trejo

Booked: Jonas, Victor, Maxi Lopez
Goals: Varela 15

Attendance: 80,000

Real Madrid - Campeones La Liga Primera Division

beckhamzone — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:05:44 GMT

WELL DONE DAVID!

Get to know how long Johnny is, how much he weights, favourite band and such things

johnnyblog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:54:59 GMT

Full name: John Christopher Depp II
Date of birth: 9 June 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky USA
Parents: Betty Sue Palmer and John Christopher Depp
Siblings: older sisters Christi and Debbie, and older brother Danny
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 155lbs

Ethnicity: Johnny has Cherokee ancestry, inherited from both sides of his family but mostly from his mother’s. His great-grandmother, Minnie, was a full-blooded Cherokee. He also has European ancestry. Education: Dropped out of high school at age 16; Studied with Peggy Feury at the Loft Studio, Los Angeles, California

Marital status: Johnny was married at age 20 to make-up artist Lori Allison but they divorced a couple of years later. He has had several long-term relationships, most notably with actress Winona Ryder and with model Kate Moss. He now lives with his long-term partner Vanessa Paradis, the French singer and actress. They met while Johnny was filming The Ninth Gate in France in 1998. They are not married.
Children: Johnny has two children with his partner Vanessa Paradis: Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born 27 May 1999) and Jack John Christopher Depp III (born 9 April 2002).

Homes: Johnny has homes in Los Angeles, USA and in France (his main home in the south of France, and an apartment in Paris). When he's not filming he lives in France with Vanessa and their children.

Johnny Depp was first famous as a heartthrob on the teenybopper cop show 21 Jump Street (1987-1990). Then he gave up TV for the movies, playing the fantastical title character in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) and winning critical acclaim in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993, co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio). Depp became known as a handsome and thoughtful actor who craved variety; In the 1990s he took a wide range of roles, from the lead in Don Juan DeMarco (1995, with Faye Dunaway and Marlon Brando) to Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow (1999, with Christina Ricci). In 2001 he played real-life cocaine trafficker George Jung in the movie Blow (co-starring with Penelope Cruz), and in 2003 he played swashbuckling pirate Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (co-starring Orlando Bloom).

Find here the meaning of Johnny's name

johnnyblog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:53:47 GMT

The name of Johnny creates a quick, analytical, and clever mind; you are creative, versatile, original, and independent. You have large ambitions, and it is difficult for you to be tolerant and understanding of those who desire less in life or who are more slow and methodical by nature. Patience is not your forte. You do, however, have leadership ability and would never be happy in a subservient position. You are ambitious and aggressive by nature. You would be happiest in positions where you are free to express individually and creatively and where opportunities are not restricted; you desire freedom, and do not tolerate being possessed by others. You appreciate change and travel, and the opportunity to meet and mix with others, and to influence them with your creative ideas. You are very self-confident and feel you can accomplish anything you set out to do, and you can, although, this name does not allow proper completion of undertakings, and forced changes cause financial losses and bitter experiences. This name also creates caustic expression and moods which prevent harmony and happiness in close association.

Health Weaknesses for the name of Johnny: When under strain, tension could affect the stomach and solar plexus. There is a tendency for you to worry.

Johnny Depp: Rolling Stone Cover Boy

johnnyblog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:52:07 GMT

Rock & roll “father and son” Keith Richards and Johnny Depp are Rolling Stone’s newest cover boys in their latest issue. A hilarious Q&A with the “blood brothers” is expected to go live tomorrow.

The Rolling Stones guitarist was so impressed with Depp’s acting skills on the latest POTC movie, the actor now calls him “Two-Take Richards.” Depp has said, “The anticipation was mad. Everyone was like, ‘Is he going to do it? Is he going to do it?’ And then whammo, he arrived at eight o’clock in the morning, totally prepped and ready to go. Obviously, Keith Richards - the guy invented charisma. But what I didn’t expect was he was going to be such a great actor. I started calling him ‘Two-Take Richards’. It was like this gunslinger arrived in town, charmed all the women and impressed all the men, and then split.”

Ocean’s 13 official trailer and poster

clooneyfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:30:44 GMT

Ocean’s 13 trailer and poster are officially out and AOL has the latest.

Movie Synopsis: “Cinema icon Al Pacino joins a powerhouse cast comprised of George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Don Cheadle, Bernie Mac, and series newcomer Ellen Barkin for this, the third installment of director Steven Soderbergh’s popular series of glitzy crime comedies. As earnest crew member Linus Caldwell (Damon) becomes enamored by a beautiful older woman (Barkin), the gang struggles to pull off their biggest caper yet.” View the trailer here.

George Clooney Quotes ..

clooneyfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:27:03 GMT

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
George Clooney
I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm being hunted down. I've always liked to do my own hunting when it comes to meeting women.
George Clooney on meeting women
Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
George Clooney
The worst thing about it is when guys stake out airports with video cameras and try not to catch me doing something stupid but to make me do something stupid. Like, they push my assistant, or insult her, hoping I'll react. If I'm stupid off my own bat, I'll take the rap, but that other stuff's just rotten.
George Clooney Quote about being famous
I can't do a film about oil company corruption and drive a Bronco or a Hummer. I'm not a big gas guzzler but in other ways it's tricky.. if I'm in a private plane, obviously I'm using up a lot of gas.
George Clooney Quote
I'm too wrapped up in my work to think about children, I would need to show myself that I'm able to sustain a good long-term relationship before I could even imagine what being a father would be like.
George Clooney quote about having kids
After doing One Fine Day and playing a pediatrician on ER, I'll never have kids. I'm going to have a vasectomy.
George Clooney
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
George Clooney
The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.
George Clooney
I'm an old-time liberal and I don't apologise for it. With Syriana we're going to get beaten up politically in some places. Fair enough, because we've taken a stand. It is not an attack on the Bush administration but it is an attack on the system that has been in place for 60 or 70 years.. oil always being at the centre of it.
George Clooney Quote about the movie Syriana
Love scenes are always weird. I know everyone says that, but they are. Like: "hey guys, hop in the sack now, would you?"
George Clooney
I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
George Clooney

George Clooney & Brad Pitt Entertainment Weekly Cover

clooneyfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:23:55 GMT

Below is an excerpt from the Entertainment Weekly magazine's interview with Brad Pitt and George Clooney..

EW sat down with Brad first while waiting for his pal George to arrive. “Sorry about this,” Pitt says, contorting his body into a mess of angles and elbows to hide behind a low wall and light up a cigarette. “Actually, I’m less worried about the paparazzi catching me than someone, ahem, who doesn’t know I still smoke once in a while.” Hopefully Angie’s a forgiving woman.

When George Clooney arrives for the interview a few minutes late he yells to Pitt, “You bastard!”

Pitt: What?

Clooney: I did all these interviews right after you. And all the reporters told me, “Brad said you did the movie for the money!”

Pitt: [Laughs] I did. Believe I said it was all for the cash.

Clooney: Brutal! [Laughs] How ya doin’?

Entertainment Weekly: Good. Thanks. So I’ve heard that you guys call this movie Ocean’s Thirteen: The One We Should Have Made Last Time.

Pitt: Credit where credit is due. That was [director] Steven Soderbergh’s line.

Clooney: Steven actually wanted to bill it that way, but I don’t think the studio was so thrilled with that. It f---s up the boxed set.

EW: But it does get to a legitimate point, which was that people weren’t so fond of Ocean’s Twelve. Other than for money, why make another one?

Clooney: You know, more than anything we wanted another crack. We wanted to go out on a stronger note—and we felt like we had a great way to do it, which was revenge.

Pitt: I thought you’re a pacifist, George.

Clooney: Well, the movie really is a cry for peace.

EW: Did you know the bad reviews were coming for Twelve?

Clooney: [Laughs] No! I thought we did good, and I’m living in my own…

Pitt: …world of delusions.

Clooney: That was the funniest part. All of a sudden we started getting bad reviews and we were like, “Really?”

Pitt: Totally surprised.

Clooney: I had the same thing happen on The Good German. I thought it was really good and we got slaughtered. It’s the worst-reviewed movie that Steven or I have ever been involved in. Steven was like, “I don’t get it.”

Pitt: That’s why you have to do what I do. Don’t read ‘em. I know how I feel about the movies and that’s good enough for me.

EW: I noticed you ditched Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta-Jones. You clearly thought the girls were a problem.

Clooney: Tell me about it. But the thing is, it’s not just that they were a problem on screen. On set they were brutal. You know them, right?

EW: Oh, sure. We hang out all the time.

Clooney: So you know why we got rid of them.

EW: But you added Ellen Barkin and Al Pacino.

Pitt: Well, Pacino just gave us a little respectability, you know? Something that we needed.

Clooney: And he learned a lot from us. He was there to learn. I felt that sometimes you’d look at him and he’d just look up at you with puppy-dog eyes, like, “Thank you. Seriously.”

The two go on to discuss their relationship with each other and with their families.

Pitt: We have good fun together. We all know each other pretty well now and know each other’s families.

Clooney: It’s the funniest thing, I have to say: Since Eleven, when we started, all the guys have gotten married, had kids, and have whole families. This time there were babies everywhere. We’d be on the set in L.A. and I just sit in the middle of the whole thing like an old man.

Pitt: He looks like he’s trying to decipher a foreign language.

Clooney: It’s true! I’m like, What the hell are these little things?

EW: Do you ever look at each other and go, Hell, I wish I was in the Italian villa instead of changing diapers? Or: Man, I wish I had a couple of those rug rats?

Pitt: No.

Clooney: No.

Pitt: But I tell ya what, kids are a lot of hard work.

Clooney: It’s one of those difficult things [when you’re famous].

EW: Because of the endless scrutiny?

Clooney: Yeah. No one wants to hear you complain, because it sounds like you’re whining. But I think he and Angie have a tougher time living their lives, just going out to see the city with the kids. I mean, look out there, all the boats with the cameras. I was walking around on the beach yesterday and I just thought to myself, Where’s Brad? And all of a sudden you see the cameras all go WHOOOOSSSHH and I was like, Oh, here he comes! I watch that and think, Wow. I know it’s not all that fun for me, and it seems exponentially harder for him.

So how do they escape the paparazzi?

Clooney: Motorcycles are the great equalizer. You put on a helmet and they can’t see you.

Pitt: Just keep moving. That’s the key.

Clooney: You stop, you die. Lobbies of hotels and places like that are the worst. You have to just keep moving to the elevator, because you have to get the elevator door to close.

EW asked how the two keep the constant public scrutiny from ruining their day to day lives.

Clooney: You adjust your life, certainly. There are certain things you don’t do, there are certain places you don’t go, but then at some point you have to go out. You have to live, you know?

Pitt: So you will see George laid out on the rocks in a Speedo later.

Clooney: I don’t want to see anyone in a Speedo. Especially 70-year-old men. [Gestures to the beach, which is full of 70-year-old men in Speedos] You learn a lot about the aging process watching that. [Laughs]

EW: Clearly the obsession with celebrity is a little out of control. From where I sit, it looks like you’re the meat being thrown to the lions.

Clooney: Right. Well, we are always going to be that society that slows down to look at the car wreck on the side of the road. I think we’re just in one of those places right now, and it seems to be focused on younger kids. Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and people like that. They’ll get through it, but I wouldn’t want to be growing up around that. If I were as famous as some of those kids who are on the magazines right now at 21 years old, I’d be shooting crack under my eyeball.

Pitt: But being that it is our nature, you have to focus on other, more important issues too, because those [car wreck] tendencies can be very disruptive and aren’t a good guide on how to live your life.

Clooney: No, it’s a terrible guide.

EW: So how do you get people to focus on the issues that matter to you—and manage to make a difference—without just distracting from the cuase?

Clooney: It’s interesting. Brad did it first and best—he went to Africa. Was it the Diane Sawyer show?

Pitt: It was.

Clooney: You made this really interesting decision where you said, “The cameras are going to follow me, so I’m going to go here. And wherever the cameras follow me they’re going to see this.” It was really smart. And I thought, Wow, here’s a way to take this insatiable appetite and say, “If you’re going to take these photographs and follow us around, fair enough. But you’re also going to have to go where it will provoke some thought about what else is going on in the world.” It was a really smart play. And all of us have been taking a cue from that.

Pitt: The idea was: We can’t get out of the spotlight and they can’t get in the spotlight, so let’s equal that out a little bit.

Read the full interview with George Clooney and Brad Pitt at the Entertainment Weekly website.

Biography for George Clooney

clooneyfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:18:35 GMT

Date of Birth

6 May 1961, Lexington, Kentuck, USA

Birth Name

George Timothy Clooney

Nickname

Gorgeous George

Height

5' 11" (1.80 m)

Mini Biography

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, as son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster of many years, who hosted a talk show at Cincinnati and often invited George into the studios already at the age of 5. Avoiding competition with his father, he quit his job as broadcast journalist after a short time.

Studied a few years at Northern Kentucky University. Failed to join the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. He came to acting when his cousin, Miguel Ferrer, got him a small part in a feature film. After that, he moved to L.A. in 1982 and tried a whole year to get a role while he slept in a friend's closet. His first movie, together with Charlie Sheen, stayed unreleased but got him the producers' attention for later contracts.

First Look: The Bourne Ultimatum

mattdamonfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:00:58 GMT

“Matt Damon is back again for the third film in the Bourne Identity series which hits theaters on August 3rd 2007. It is expected that The Bourne Ultimatum will have a completely different plot from Robert Ludlum’s bestselling novel. The movie co-stars Joan Allen, Paddy Considine, Edgar Ramirez, Julia Stiles, and David Strathairn.

You have to love the Bourne series as it brings intelligence back to the Spy film, but at the same time holds no bunches in terms of action.

The latest installment follows Bourne’s journey to Madrid, Moscow, and Paris to NYC and Tangier to hunt down his past in order to find a future, all the while trying to outmaneuver the scores of federal officers, Interpol agents, and police officers.”

Matt's Quotes

mattdamonfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:57:11 GMT

"Action movies normally are like porn movies. You have these really kind of bad scenes with these poorly drawn characters, and then you get a little action, and then you get another bad scene and then you get a little action."

On his STUCK ON YOU co-star Eva Mendes: "She is awesome. She is so beautiful, she is such a good actress, she is so smart, she's really funny. And she's a normal person too, the world is her oyster basically."

“A few years ago, I would have told you that it should have happened for me then. But I’m glad it happened this way. It does give me more perspective. I’d like to think that way, anyway.”

"I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I've never heard from him again." - on Billy Bob Thorton's marriage to Angelina Jolie

"It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?" - Matt on why he took the role in 'Saving Private Ryan'

"A lot of things were important to us writing this script: just treating people nice, not having regrets in the world, being responsible in your relationships and the way you treat other people. That's our philosophy, basically the Golden Rule." - People

See what Awards has Matt won

mattdamonfan — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:55:33 GMT

Awards Won

1997 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Screenplay for: Good Will Hunting
1997 National Board of Review: Special Achievement in Filmmaking for: Good Will Hunting
1998 ShoWest Convention: Male Star of Tomorrow
1998 Academy Awards: Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Golden Globes: Best Screenplay - Motion Picture for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Berlin International Film Festival: Outstanding Single Achievement for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: Newcomer of the Year for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Golden Satellite Awards: Best Motion Picture Screenplay - Original for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Humanitas Prize: Feature Film Category for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Screenplay, Original and Breakthrough Artist for: Good Will Hunting
1998 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards: Most Promising Actor for: Good Will Hunting
1999 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Actor - Video for: Good Will Hunting
2000 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards: Most Promising Actor for: Good Will Hunting and The Rainmaker
2002 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Reality Program for: "Project Greenlight"
2003 Western Heritage Awards: Theatrical Motion Picture for: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2004 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Reality Program for: "Project Greenlight 2"

Scarlett Johansson Filmography

SJwatch — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:40:35 GMT

Not yet released:

Brilliant (2009) (in production)
Amazon (2007) (announced)
Napoleon and Betsy (2007) (announced)
Mary Queen of Scots (2008) (pre-production) .... Mary, Queen of Scots
The Other Boleyn Girl (2007) (post-production) .... Mary Boleyn
The Nanny Diaries (2007) (completed) .... Annie Braddock

Released movies:
"Robot Chicken" .... Dolores (4 episodes, 2005-2006)
The Prestige (2006) .... Olivia Wenscombe
The Black Dahlia (2006) .... Kay Lake
Scoop (2006) .... Sondra Pransky
The Island (2005) .... Jordan Two Delta/Sarah Jordan
Match Point (2005) .... Nola Rice
In Good Company (2004) .... Alex Foreman
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) (voice) .... Mindy
A Good Woman (2004) .... Meg Windermere
A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) .... Pursy Will
The Perfect Score (2004) .... Francesca Curtis
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) .... Griet
Lost in Translation (2003) .... Charlotte
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) .... Ashley Parker
An American Rhapsody (2001) .... Zsuzsi/Suzanne Sandor (at 15)
Ghost World (2001) .... Rebecca
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) .... Birdy Abundas
My Brother the Pig (1999) .... Kathy Caldwell
The Horse Whisperer (1998) .... Grace MacLean
Home Alone 3 (1997) .... Molly
Fall (1997) .... Little Girl
Manny & Lo (1996) .... Amanda
If Lucy Fell (1996) .... Emily
"The Client" .... Jenna (1 episode, 1995)
Just Cause (1995) .... Kate Armstrong
North (1994) .... Laura Nelson

Scarlett in a Calvin Klein ad

SJwatch — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:36:03 GMT

In 2004 Scarlett was offered to do the newly launched Calvin Klein perfume. In it she starred alongside Trent Ford, a British-American model and actor whose acting credits like “Slap Her She’s French,” among the many projects that he has done.

The young actress is known to have lucrative advertisement deals. Apart from CK, she is also one of the faces of Louis Vuitton. Recently she helped launched the luxury brand’s new collection “Love.” Her outfit was done by LV’s resident artist/fashion designer Marc Jacobs whose clientele Sofia Coppola and Winona Ryder.

Scarlett quote: On being responsible

SJwatch — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:31:46 GMT

“I’m very responsible when I’m working. I’ve just been doing it for a long time, and I’m not the kind of person who is going to show up to work three hours late, or maybe not come at all. That’s just not who I am.

That just has to do with the fact that I understand that everybody else comes to work, and we would all like to get an extra four hours of sleep, but what can you do?”…“But [outside of work] I don’t really have any responsibility right now. It’s not like I have kids.

I’m not raising a younger sibling. I’m not supporting anybody financially. But at the same time, I can take care of myself. My mother may disagree. Of course, moms always do: [imitates her mother] “My baby, you’re just a child….”

As told to Parade’s contributing editor James Kaplan released March 2007. She might have been hinting at Lindsay Lohan, who used to be her friend.