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Rick Bentley: Anne Hathaway gets smart about career decisions (McClatchy Newspapers)
It was only eight years ago that Anne Hathaway made her professional acting debut in the short-lived Fox series "Get Real." Take a few moments and try to remember the show. Today, Hathaway is so well-known in the feature film world that she landed the coveted role of Agent 99 in the new movie take on the classic television series "Get Smart." This follows much big-screen success in movies, including "The Princess Diaries" and "Brokeback Mountain."
Danny Miller: Cyd Charisse's Legs (huffingtonpost.com)
Can we all agree that actress Cyd Charisse simply had the best legs that ever walked the earth? She died yesterday at the age of 86.
Beautiful dynamite (film.guardian.co.uk)
Fast, sexy and high-kicking every inch of her skirt, Cyd Charisse was made for musicals, says David Thomson.
Will Harris: A Chat with Joan Cusack, Co-Star of "War, Inc." (bullz-eye.com)
If ('War, Inc.') had been my movie, it would've been all about George Bush and his relationship with his father.
Rene Rodriguez: Director of 'The Promotion' deftly balances humor with pathos (McClatchy Newspapers)
Foreclosure, divorce, the economy and the workplace may not sound like the building blocks of a riotous comedy.
Will Harris: A Chat with Eric Roberts (bullz-eye.com)
"I've been sort of making every kind movie on the planet: A, B, C, D, TV, network, cable, whatever. Russian movies, Lithuanian movies, all over the world. Chinese movies! If anybody liked Eric Roberts, I went. And they didn't always pay me the big movie money, but they paid me well. As far as I'm concerned, they overpaid me!"
Roger Ebert: Following a young beauty down a short runway
A man from Chicago named Darryl Roberts made "America the Beautiful," a documentary that nobody wanted. It was about our obsession with being thin and beautiful and... perfect. Every distributor in the country turned him down.
Andrew Gilstrap: Be Kind Rewind (popmatters.com)
Uneven and a little muddled, Be Kind Rewind might be a prime candidate for the very fan remixing it portrays.
Doon Baqi: Kobe and M. Night Shyamalan (huffingtonpost.com)
As far apart as they seem, Kobe Bryant and M. Night Shyamalan have something very big in common: mediocrity, on average.
Miles Mogulesc: Paul Pierce is the Best Basketball Player on the Planet (huffingtonpost.com)
I'm not sure I'll enjoy anything as much as watching the Celtics crush the Lakers in Game 6 until I get to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office next January.
TOM DANEHY: Tom's basketball game is displaced by the Society for Creative Anachronism (tucsonweekly.com)
Despite my steadily advancing age (and weight), I still play a little basketball on Sundays. We gather at the school where I coach and run up and down the court. There are some guys from Raytheon; my daughter and some of my former players show up sometimes.
The secrets of great science writing (entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)
Lucy Hawking finds that good books on science are storytelling gold.
Reader Suggestion
Chester the Woof
I filmed me walking around as Chester the Woof last night under the Midnight Sun, here's a link
I run into a really scary GHOST so BE PREPARED (smoke a fatty first, M'kay?)
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Was still over 100° at 5pm. Ack.
Oh, Canada
Hockey Jingle Contest
If you can string together a few catchy musical notes, write them down and send them to Canada's national broadcaster, you could earn C$100,000 (50,000 pounds) and a lifetime of bragging rights.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which recently lost the rights to its hugely popular "Hockey Night in Canada" theme song, said on Thursday it will hold a contest to find a replacement for the jingle.
CBC, which had used the theme to open its top-rated "Hockey Night" broadcasts since 1968, lost the rights to the song about two weeks ago when rival CTV network struck a deal with the song's author.
The turn of events was huge news in hockey-mad Canada, where the peppy tune had taken on iconic status.
Hockey Jingle Contest
N.Y. Goes Bossa Nova
Joao Gilberto
As Brazil's Bossa Nova reaches 50 this year, one of its originators will play a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall -- the landmark venue that helped spread the rhythm across the world.
Joao Gilberto's syncopated guitar will ring out as part of the JVC Jazz Festival this Sunday to remind fans how the subtle and contained manner of singing and playing samba songs has transformed the Brazilian music forever.
"Bossa Nova is seen as the synonym of Brazilian music outside the country," said Brazilian critic Zuza Homem de Mello, who recently published a book about Gilberto, now 77.
The trend officially started in 1958 with "Chega de Saudade," a song that would epitomize one of the most successful partnerships in Brazilian music, the tunes of Tom Jobim and the interpretation of Gilberto.
Joao Gilberto
Anna Nicole's Heirlooms
Larry Birkhead
They're not traditional family heirlooms, but Larry Birkhead's is not a traditional family.
Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend spent nearly $3,000 at a celebrity auction Saturday scooping up lingerie once worn in a Playboy shoot by the late playmate.
Birkhead said he is trying to make sure his 1-year-old daughter, Dannielynn, has something to remember her mother by.
Birkhead said he hoped the items would help his daughter learn her mother's life story - when she's old enough.
Larry Birkhead
Complete List Of Winners
Daytime Emmys
Complete list of winners at the 35th annual Daytime Emmys:
-Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gina Tognoni, CBS' "Guiding Light."
-Outstanding Talk Show - Informative: "The Tyra Banks Show."
-Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series: Tom Pelphrey, CBS' "Guiding Light."
-Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series: Jennifer Landon, CBS' "As the World Turns"
-Outstanding Talk Show Host: Ellen DeGeneres, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
-Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team: "One Life to Live."
-Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program: "Cristina's Court."
-Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Kristoff St. John, CBS' "The Young and the Restless."
-Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team: "One Life to Live."
-Outstanding Talk Show - Entertainment: "Rachael Ray."
-Lifetime Achievement Award: Regis Philbin.
-Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Jeanne Cooper, CBS' "The Young and the Restless."
-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Anthony Geary, ABC's "General Hospital."
-Outstanding Drama Series: ABC's "General Hospital."
Daytime Emmys
Paparazzo Sues
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson has been sued for $2.5 million by a paparazzo who accused the actor of assaulting him and breaking his video camera two years ago.
According to a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Josh Levine was filming Harrelson in Hollywood late one night in June 2006. He alleges the Academy Award-nominated actor choked him, broke his video camera and ordered his bodyguard to attack him.
Levine's suit says he still has mental, physical and emotional pain from the encounter. He is also suing the unidentified bodyguard.
Woody Harrelson
Still Mad
Naomi Campbell
Model Naomi Campbell says she is sorry she assaulted two police officers during a dispute about lost luggage aboard a British Airways plane. But she has refused to apologize to the airline, accusing it of racism.
In an interview with Sky News broadcast Saturday, Campbell said she regretted her behavior and said "I apologize profusely" to the police.
"As for British Airways, I don't apologize," she said.
"I was called a racial name on that flight," Campbell said, adding that her violent behavior "was part of my reaction." She did not say who had called her the name, but said it was not a passenger.
Naomi Campbell
"Science" Teacher Axed
Mount Vernon Middle School
The school board of a small central Ohio community voted unanimously Friday to fire a teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs despite staff complaints and using a device to burn the image of a cross on students' arms.
School board members voted 5-0 to fire Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater. Board attorney David Millstone said Freshwater is entitled to a hearing to challenge the dismissal.
Freshwater used a science tool known as a high-frequency generator to burn images of a cross on students' arms in December, the report said. Freshwater told investigators he simply was trying to demonstrate the device on several students and described the images as an "X," not a cross. But pictures show a cross, the report said.
Other findings show that Freshwater taught that carbon dating was unreliable to argue against evolution.
Mount Vernon Middle School
Star Treatment
'My Little Pony'
LeAnn Rimes is putting her own stamp on My Little Pony. The singer is among celebrities and artists who've agreed to design some new versions of My Little Pony, the plastic toy that has captivated girls since the 1980s.
Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. will auction the special ponies for the Give Kids The World charity as part of a celebration of the toy's 25th anniversary.
The pastel-colored ponies - with names like Rainbow Dash and Daybreak - usually sport decorations on their hind quarters, often of hearts, balloons or stars. The celebrities and artists were given blank, 18-inch versions of the usually 4-inch-tall ponies to decorate, Hasbro spokesman Dan Benkwitt said.
Hasbro initially announced that the stars of ABC's "Boston Legal," including William Shatner and James Spader, would decorate ponies. But Stacey Luchs, a spokeswoman for the show, said Thursday that Shatner and Spader were unaware of the venture and would not participate.
'My Little Pony'
Island Declares Independence
Forvik
The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland declared its independence from the United Kingdom on Saturday, saying he wanted the territory, population one, to be a crown dependency like the Channel Islands.
In a declaration on his Web site, Stuart Hill, who owns the 2.5 acre island of Forvik in the Shetland Islands in the North Sea, said he no longer recognised the authority of the government or the European Union, and cited a centuries-old royal marriage dowry deal as the basis for his claim.
He is Forvik's only resident, and his home is a tent on the storm-battered island. He says on his website that he plans to create Forvik's own currency -- the "gulde" -- print his own stamps and raise his own flag.
"I also invite anyone from any country in the world, who supports these aims, namely to become free of liars, thieves and tyrants in government, to become a citizen of Forvik," he added.
Forvik
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