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Jay Leno gets fresh with the President
Things are rough all over. Late Nite host Jay Leno took that as an opportunity for some zingers aimed straight at the man in charge – President Barack Obama. Here are the highlights of Leno’s gentle teasing sourtesy of the good poeple over @ medialite
The President ain’t the only one getting some flack. Angelina Jolie is getting some criticism too. Jolie is no stranger to criticism. This time she’s catching it over her recent decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. AJ’s mom died of ovarian cancer at age 56 after a ten year struggle. Angelina inherited the defective BRCA 1 gene. Supposedly that increases her risk of breast cancer to a whopping 87%. So Angelina became proactive, in her own words, to make sure she survived for her family.
Now the reason Jolie’s is catching flack is because some people thing that this was a little extreme. Still others are afraid that normal American women will running into their specialists asking for preventative mastectomies out of some misguided sense of identification with Ms. Jolie. After all she did spark that rash of Hollywood impulse adoptions (Malawi came close to running out of infants for awhile! So second tier movie stars like Meg Ryan and Katherine Heigl had to resort to less chic Asian adoptions.), and a tattoo craze.
The problem is that most women do not have the defective BRCA 1 or 2 genes. So they do not share Jolie’s risks. So that skews the whole risk benefit equation. While the damage done by a preventative mastectomy remains equal, with out the BRCA gene your risk of getting ovarian or breast cancers are greatly diminished. That means imitating Ms Jolie’s brave decision would amount to demanding a parachute when you’re not leaving the runway.
At least that’s the opinion of H Gilbert Welch over @ CNN. He’s some sort of doctor or something. In his article posted on their website he explains that he barely knew who Jolie was before reading about her decision on every website and newspaper front page. When his e mail was inundated by messages from ex students and worried patients querying him about BRCA and preventative mastectomies, he realized that he’d underestimated Ms. Jolie’s influence with the public at large. So he goes on to spell things out in his highly informative article.
It also raises an interesting point – celebs have the power to inform, motivate, and inspire. When this influence is normally directed it can get people to buy products and support political candidates. The imitation urge can also lead anxious young women to develop eating disorders. So how much should celebs feel obliged to share with the public? How much might they ought to keep to themselves? Let’s face it, not everyone can have the Oprah touch.
‘Days of our Lives’ Will Horton charged with selling cocaine
Daytime TV has fallen on hard times. Not just because Oprah Winfrey has semi retired either. Numerous soap opera have gotten axed as networks move to new formats. It’s a shame since daytime soaps were a good entry level job for many aspiring actors. They got regular work and a check, plus they got the experience of memorizing lines, working with a cast and crew, and performing on a daily basis. It was a chance to learn the trade. A listers like Demi Moore started out on the soaps.
Now we don’t know if the loss of opportunity and paycheck has pushed some actors into hard times., We do know that former daytime actor Dylan Michael Patton has landed in hot water. Dylan is only 20 but already has an impressive resume behind him. He was nominated for a daytime Emmy for his work as Will Horton on Days of Our Lives. He’s also been on Colds Case and That’s So Raven. Now he has something new for his resume – drug dealing.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies raided his home on Tuesday and arrested the actor after finding cocaine in his Angoura Hills home. So the young actor got charged with one count of possession for sale of a controlled substance. That’s bad enough but here’s where it gets dicey. Patton sold the dope with in 1000 feet of an elementary school. California law’s health and safety codespecifies states that you can get extra penalties for selling either cocaine or heroin, or cocaine or heroin cased products, near a school. Patton will find out how much extra trouble he’s in when he gets arraigned. The worst it could get is 9 years in prison. Prosecutors are asking for $30 000 in bail.
Now Patton wouldn’t be the first young actor to help make ends meet with a little something going on the side. Back in the old days every set had the guy, or girl, who could hook you up. It’s how many B list character actors kept themselves employed. That was back before the rehab clauses got into actors’ contracts.Then they had to move onto prescriptions from crooked Hollywood doctors (I even hear that some will make house calls right to your mansion to shoot you full of surgical anesthetic, if that’s your thing)Still you’ve gotta be discrete. What happens between a person and their doctors is confidential. There are side effects – like Heath Ledger Michael Jackson style premature prescription pill related death. Of course that’s a small price to pay for doing the wrong things the right way, & keeping yourself out of the clink.
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George Clooney on the Life and Career of Edward R. Murrow: Good Night and Good Luck Film (2005)
Good Night, and Good Luck. is a 2005 American drama film directed by George Clooney. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, both of whom also act in the film, and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, especially relating to the anti-Communist Senator’s actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
The movie, although released in black and white, was filmed on color film stock but on a grayscale set, and was color corrected to black and white during post-production. It focuses on the theme of media responsibility, and also addresses what occurs when the media offer a voice of dissent from government policy. The movie takes its title (which ends with a period or full stop) from the line with which Murrow routinely signed off his broadcasts.
The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Actor for David Strathairn, Best Director for Clooney and Best Picture.
Good Night, and Good Luck. is set in 1953, during the early days of television broadcast journalism. Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and his dedicated staff—headed by his co-producer Fred Friendly (George Clooney) and reporter Joseph Wershba (Robert Downey, Jr.) in the CBS newsroom—defy corporate and sponsorship pressures, and discredit the tactics used by Joseph McCarthy during his crusade to root out Communist elements within the government.
Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, who is facing separation from the U.S. Air Force because of his sister’s political leanings and because his father is subscribed to a Serbian newspaper. Murrow makes a show on McCarthy attacking him. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World, which Murrow claimed was false.
In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss, a Pentagon communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI infiltrator of the American Communist Party. The film’s subplots feature Joseph and Shirley Wershba, recently married staffers, having to hide their marriage to save their jobs at CBS as well as the suicide of Don Hollenbeck (Ray Wise) who had been accused in print of being a Communist.
The film is framed by performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television to inform and educate the public.
Adriana Lima, Behati Prinsloo, Lily Aldridge – Victoria’s Secret Sexy Party!
Summer is on the way and Victoria’s Secret’s sexy angels are getting in the spirit by doing what they do best – flouncing around in swim wear!
In other news Christina Aguilera has lost some weight and she doesn’t care who knowqs!
Angelina Jolie Opens Up About Double Mastectomy
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My Medical Choice
By ANGELINA JOLIE
Published: May 14, 2013
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Share your thoughts.MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.
We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.
My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.
Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average.
Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.
On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.
But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.
My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple.
Two weeks later I had the major surgery, where the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place. The operation can take eight hours. You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life.
Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful.
I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.
It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.
I acknowledge that there are many wonderful holistic doctors working on alternatives to surgery. My own regimen will be posted in due course on the Web site of the Pink Lotus Breast Center. I hope that this will be helpful to other women.
Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.
I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.
Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Angelina Jolie is an actress and director.
BAFTAs 2013: Sienna Miller on pregnancy and being attacked by birds!
a brief history of Sienna Miller
It’s BAFTA time again and that means a chance to catch up with Sienna Miller. Now for those not familiar with Sienna she had a big career as an actress and serial dater several years back. She made waves when Jude Law left his wife for her, and then left her for the kids nanny, or something. It was all very complicated with Jude being scoundrelized in the tabs and Sienna coming off sympathetic even though she’d stolen another woman’s husband, sort of.
Sienna bounced around a little after that, from film to film, and from guy to guy. One of her big hi profile romances was Balthazar Getty. He’s an actor more famous for being the grandson of J P Getty. So he gets a piece of that action. They were getting along great, she let him publicly handle her tits, and he bought her a bicycle built for two – or a tandem as the Brits call ’em. Then he came to his senses and went back to his wife. At least her film career was on fire.
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Then she got cast as Maid Marion on Sherwood, or Nottingham, or whatever that Russell Crowe film with Alan Doyle from Great Big Sea was. She got replaced by Kate Blanchet because it was a troubled production and Sienna was a significant part of the trouble. Some say, & this is wild rumour, that she tried her usual routine of hitting on her leading man. Russ was very much afraid of his wife into his marriage at the time. You’ll recall that was about the time he got into an altercation with a New York City hotel clerk when he couldn’t get access to a phone to call his missus back in New Zealand. They had some kind of a call me @11 PM NZ time wherever you are deals. They’ve since gone their separate ways. Too much togetherness will really kill a relationship!
Anyway that left Sienna to take a long hard fall from grace. It wasn’t so much that she’d allegedly hit on Crowe – that would’ve been forgivable. It’s that all sorts of wild rumours started circulating after her departure. Like the real reason she was fired was for being so damned pretty that she made Crowe look fat. Pix from the set showed him looking better than he ever had since Gladiator. Then there was the story that he was plotting to have his good friend Ridley Scot removed as director of the film. Directors occupy a whole different level of the Hollywood pecking order – or as Shia LaBouef would say “Don’t dis your captain cause it ain’t cool!” So Sienna went from Merchant Ivory type productions (Those awful films with hoop skirts Helena Bonham Carter calls them – who remembers when her grandmother Lady Violet Bonham Carter used to debate Malcolm Muggereidge on BBC Radio?? Those were the days!) to playing the Baroness in GI Joe (it was a one off for her since Adrianne Wonder Woman Palicki got the GI Joe female lead next time around). There are things you just don’t do even in Hollywood!
That left Sienna at lose ends. She filled up her time. She got involved. She had a kid. She started hanging with Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (they also like to hang with Lindsay Lohan I hear). So her face still got out there from time to time but not like it used to. Now she’s made an appearance at the BAFTA’s – Britain’s annual entertainment industry pep rally. So she had a chance to chat with a reporter and fill everyone in on what’s been happening in the life of Sienna Miller! Apparently the poor woman has been attacked by birds or something. The good new sis that nature hasn’t risen up against her, the bird attack was film related! So get ready to see Sienna Miller pecked by birds in a theater sometime soon.
The Great Gatsby_Alan Ladd (1949) FULL MOVIE
“What’s that bludgeoning sound? I say Gatsby, are you OK? Quick you chaps, come over here and help Gatsby!”
They say that there’s no accounting for taste. There are some general principles though. For instance you will never ever find any guy anywhere with a Kenny G or a Michael Bolton album in his library. It’s a generalization that is universally 100 % true along the line. Like wise you’ll never ever find a chick anywhere with AC/DC in her record library. It’s just not anything chicks click into. In fact the consensus among women is that AC/DC is, as one friend explained to me, “that tard metal band my kid brother and his friends used to listen to in high school. They’d go into the garage, sniff glue, listen to tard metal, and then they’d throw up. Mom would freak. Having males around the house is like having a retarded puppy – breaking things and throwing up!” I tried to explain to her that she was confused, and possibly mistaking DefLeppard or Metallica for ACDC. It was no use. Some people just have no appreciation for the classics. Speaking of which Iron Man 3 has beaten out The Great Gatsby at this weekend’s box office.
in matters of taste there is only dispute
There’s a lot of talk about the Great Gatsby recently. That’s because Leonardo DeCaprio is starring in a new film version of the F Scott Fitzgerald classic. To give a brief plot synopsis Great Gatsby is the story of a man who makes a fortune, pursues an heiress, and get’s shot. So it’s kind of like William Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge in reverse. Reviews are kind of mixed. People who aren’t F SCott Fitzgerald fans say they liked the movie better than they expected to. Meanwhile F Scott Fitzgerald fans respond that they are well aware of Fitzgerald’s limitations as a novelist. So it’s kind of like those chick vs AC/DC while guys hate Kenny G/Michael Bolton debates. Literary types can be so persnickety. They’re almost as bad as serious movie buffs.
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Speaking of classics and movie buff’s let’s take this opportunity to see the Great Gatsby in his Alan Ladd 1949 form. This is the full movie so if you’re a committed viewer you’re gonna need to set aside about a hour and a half at least.
This version of The Great Gatsby was released by Paramount Pictures in 1949.
At the time, Alan Ladd was Paramount’s biggest male star. He was ideal casting for Jay Gatsby, as he thought of himself as a poor kid from Oklahoma who became a star. The scene of a closet full of clothes was Ladd, not Gatsby.
Betty Field came from a Mayflower family and brings a patrician quality to Daisy Buchanan. MacDonald Carey, Barry Sullivan, Howard da Silva and Shelley Winters all capture their characters perfectly. Ruth Hussey plays Jordan Baker, the golf pro, with Katherine Hepburn’s speech patterns, an outrageous but appropriate choice.
The script is based not on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, but on the Broadway play made from the book. A number of changes in the story were required, as the censors were against letting the picture being made at all. The film was written and produced by Richard Maibaum, writer of 13 James Bond films, and Maibaum’s mentor in Hollywood, Cyril Hume, writer of MGM’s Tarzan films with Johnny Weissmuller.
The 1974 version of The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston has more beauty and star power, but sometimes has trouble remembering what the story is about. This 1949 version is more direct and focused, moving surely and swiftly from introduction to finale.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Actress Wears Black Wedding Dress
This could wind up becoming some kind of trend. The 1st bride to be married in white was Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. Up till then it hadn’t really been done. After that everyone did it in imitation of Victoria until it become a tradition whose origin was forgotten. People just assumed that’s the way it had always been as if Eve had married Adam in white, instead of in The Garden of Eden behind the fig leaves! Thing is that Victoria’s marriage was tragic.
Her husband died early and she spent many years wearing black as the widow queen. Since brides have started wearing white we’ve seen the divorce rate sky rocket. So maybe white weddings are unlucky. Perhaps different coloured weddings dresses influence the luck of the married couple. So it will be interesting to see how this match up turns out. If they make a go if it then they maybe onto something. Coloured wedding dresses could even become a trend!
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