I just had a baby last month, that’s why I can’t be there today, but I want to give my support and thanks to the launch of the chartered humanitarian ship Mercy Mission launching March 31, 2009

I made it out in the late 80’s and so my baby is going to grow up with hospitals, healthcare, food, free education, freedom of speech and religion, a life expectancy of 80-90 years and many of the liberties that we in democratic world take for granted.

A baby born in the Vanni Region today is getting no access to hospitals (they bombed the last one and it’s run out of supplies.) There is limited food because the government banned the aid agencies and there is no education because the trapped civilians only have one option and that is to make it to the government-run internment camps where they only enforce the language and ideas of the government. The Tamils have less rights then the animals in Sri Lanka.

The Mercy Mission will carry dry food and medicines for Tamil civilians in Vanni within the Sri Lankan Government’s “safe zone.” Many have already perished from starvation and preventable disease. We can not ignore these genocidal conditions , and if the aim of the SL Government is to protect the lives of the civilians, then this ship will reach its destination and lives will be saved.

Thank you very much,

Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.)

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STEWART IN THE SPOTLIGHT LONG BEFORE ‘TWILIGHT’

Kristen Stewart shot to stardom with Twilight, but she has been a dependable daughter and sister co-star for years. Jodie Foster was her mom in Panic Room, and she played the snarling older sister in the sci-fi comedy Zathura and the pretty trailer-park girl in Into the Wild.
She is currently shooting New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series (due Nov. 20). Her Bella and vampire love Edward split, and the teenage werewolf Jacob draws her affection into a supernatural love triangle.
"He becomes like her best friend," Stewart says of the werewolf. "It’s really (expletive) sad. Edward probably isn’t a very good idea for her. He’s not the guy she should actually be with, because it’s not very convenient. And then there’s this guy who comes in and oooohh. Ummmmm."
Her favorite part of New Moon is the beginning. "Everything is fine. Edward is there. They’re chilling. They’re together. Everyone’s happy. But there’s this eerie feeling like he’s gonna go. Has anyone broken up with you, and you know that it’s coming? It’s weeks before and you’re like, ‘I’m a nutcase, but I swear to God something is wrong.’ And then, however many weeks go by, and it happens. It’s horrible. It’s the worst."
New Moon is expected to be another major moneymaker. Another upside to Twilight’s success is a higher profile for Stewart’s art-house films such as Adventureland. She also has The Yellow Handkerchief, playing a stranger who helps an ex-con hitchhiker (William Hurt) reunite with his wife, and Welcome to the Rileys, as a street kid/prostitute who falls into the care of surrogate parents (James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo) whose own child has died. Neither has a release date yet.
Later this year, she’ll start The Runaways, about punk rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning, also in New Moon), who as teens played the Sunset Strip in an all-girl band. Says Stewart: "None of these rocker guys want these girls to be up there playing music. And they (expletive) do it anyway. They get beer bottles thrown at their heads, and they’re really bad-ass chicks."

By Anthony Breznican

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — It used to be easier to live a secret life growing up.

You could leave home, disappear from the radar, have different circles of friends, and spend that hidden time figuring out who you are. Now, every move, every mistake, every shift in personality is Twittered, Facebooked, MySpaced, texted and tracked via an elaborate network of cellphones and websites.

That’s how Kristen Stewart sees it. She became entrenched in the electronic babble when she became a superstar last year playing lovelorn good-girl Bella opposite smoldering vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) in Twilight, the blockbuster adaptation of the best-selling novels.

The actress, 18, gets to explore what her life might have been like laying low a generation ago in Adventureland, opening Friday. The coming-of-age comedy about a girl and a guy who fall in love while toiling for the summer at a run-down amusement park is set in 1987 — three years before Stewart was born.

The teenage characters drink, smoke weed, lie to everyone (especially members of the opposite sex) and try their best to avoid abstinence (usually a reason for the lying).

"Movies like Adventureland remind you of a time my parents talk about when they were younger, when it seems like they were so much more independent," says Stewart, sitting in a beachside restaurant, her back to the ocean. "My dad was living on his own when he was 18. My mom was out (of the house) before she even graduated high school." Sometimes she wants to ask them: "God, do you guys realize —"

Her folks both got into show business, working behind the scenes. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is a script supervisor, and her father, John, is a producer and stage manager. She also has an older brother, Cameron.

Parents today, she says, "are incredibly hands-on." Then she is quick to clarify: "Not that my parents are overbearing or anything. … Now it’s a little different because I’m getting older, but a few years ago, if my parents didn’t know where I was at a given time, that’s sort of unacceptable. And it’s very easy to track you down, considering."

It’s not just ever-present parenting that makes growing up harder. It’s your friends — and yourself, she says. Everyone is complicit in their own surveillance, especially young people, who chronicle their lives obsessively, maybe seeking validation, which is still no easier to find.

‘Everyone knows who you are‘

"You’re so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It’s like, ‘You really think you know me? I don’t know me! How do you know I’m not different around someone else?’ " Her voice gets a little loud, and she slumps back in her chair.

"It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself," she says quietly.

Right now, Stewart may be Hollywood’s only real teenager playing girls who are moody, reckless, cautiously sexual but still awkward, and more self-reliant than many parents would like to acknowledge.

Other stars her age tend to fall either into the fantasy realm of the squeaky-clean Hannah Montana/Jonas Brothers variety, or play teens who seem more like they’re established jet-setters, as with the campy-fun Gossip Girl.

Stewart has earned both praise and criticism for being a kind of sulky girl on-screen — the kind you can see sleeping until noon, getting into a fight with her parents and running away, only to try sneaking back in just past curfew.

Crooked games, misfit friends

In Adventureland, she’s a bit of a rebel playing Em, a quiet but tough girl who works one of the crooked games at the theme park. Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) stars as uptight James, a fellow lost soul and minimum-wage slave who tries to work up the courage to win over Em as they both grapple with fractured families, misfit friends and hostile parkgoers.

As James draws closer to her, he discovers that there are as many different Ems as there are giant stuffed pandas in his games booth. "For Em, no part of her lives are connected," Stewart says. "She is a different person in every one of the circumstances."

Adventureland was written and directed by Greg Motolla (Superbad, The Daytrippers), who based it on his own experiences working at a theme park of the same name on New York’s Long Island.

He says the girl in the story "needed to be complicated and needed to be truly conflicted. We needed an actress who can convey a really believable sense of strength," he says. "I knew with Kristen that character wouldn’t just be a brat. With Kristen, you can’t dismiss her that easily. She’s no pushover."

Em maybe isn’t much of a role model, but the actress says there is something true about her, and beautiful, in a way the character doesn’t even realize. "They are both unaware of how cool they are; they don’t feel worthy," she says of the main characters. "I feel like it’s a pretty common thing."

Stewart could be a case study. Feeling worthy of media attention appears to be a struggle. At the start of the interview, she says she’s bad at this — talking about her movies, and herself.

"Really, I’m incredibly disjointed and not candid," she says. "Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don’t necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find, like, the linear path. But it will take a second. That’s why these interviews never go well for me."

It’s why she has been slammed by some reporters and why she had what some considered a disastrous interview with David Letterman for Twilight.

She has a reputation of being cranky, or a bit aloof. But over the course of about two hours, she reveals a kind of insecurity. She tries to say something, thinks it’s coming out wrong, stops and starts again, then finally gets frustrated — and clams up.

Another thing that makes her stop in mid-sentence: teenage girls. A group enters the restaurant, and Stewart abruptly shuts up until they pass. She apologizes, a little embarrassed, and whispers: "If those type of girls saw me talking about Twilight, you don’t understand. If I said ‘Jacob’ too loud, they’d be like —" She makes her eyes wide and sticks her hands out like claws.

"More than three girls of that certain age — run away," she says, laughing as the threat settles in a distant part of the patio. "Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the (crap) out of me."

She says Pattinson gets it worse. "They covet him. I think half of them are so jealous that they hate me," she jokes.

"It doesn’t make my relationship harder. It’s not like, ‘Maybe I should be with (Pattinson) to make them happy and it’ll make me more popular!’ " Stewart laughs, adding that her real boyfriend "is totally not a threatened guy. But, dude, it sucks."

Why the adoration?

But Stewart is mostly grateful for Twilight — though she doesn’t think she did anything special.

"I’m really proud of Twilight. I think it’s a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don’t take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there’s literally like a thousand girls and they’re all screaming your name, you’re like, why? You don’t feel like you deserve it."

One person who thinks Stewart did contribute a lot to Bella is Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. The character is regarded by some as overly passive, letting her vampire paramour take control, but Meyer says Stewart, currently shooting series sequel New Moon, gives the character an inner forcefulness.

"Kristin does a version of Bella that’s very strong. And you can see that what she’s doing is maturely thought out," Meyer says. "In a lot of ways she’s a little bit impetuous, but you get the sense that she’s very adult about what she’s doing. She comes across as a girl who’s very serious and who happens to know what she wants."

That also describes Stewart as she navigates her way to adulthood, on-screen and off. Unlike her Adventureland character, she’s not able to hide any of it.

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i like her but this is why i´m watching New Moon:

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Christina Aguilera is surrounded by paparazzi photographers as she leaves the Agent Provocateur boutique, after buying new lingerie on March 31, 2009. Wow the crowd of papz are insanee…

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Don Rickles to receive Legend Award

TV Land Awards honors insult comic
Don Rickles has been tapped to receive the Legend Award at the TV Land Awards.

Kudos will be taped April 19 from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City and
aired 8 p.m. April 26 on TV Land.

Rickles, 82, has made a lengthy career as an insult comic, and spent much of his
career performing in Las Vegas. As an actor, Rickles has appeared in “Kelly’s
Heroes,” “Casino” and contributed voicework in the “Toy Story” franchise. He
also won an Emmy last year for his role in a doc about his life.

“I feel honored that TV Land has finally woken up and decided to make me this
year’s recipient of the Legend Award,” Rickles said.

Others being honored at this year’s awards are Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the shows
“Married With Children,” “Home Improvement,” “Two and a Half Men” and “Knots
Landing.”

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it’s about time someone recognized him for something. He should win every
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I left out the picture of Roman Polanski. He’s not perty or funny looking.

They’re all filming Polanski’s new movie: The Ghost
The film stars Brosnan as fictional UK leader Adam Lang, who is based on former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Kim plays Amelia, the Prime Minister’s secretary, while McGregor is the writer brought in to ghost Lang’s memoirs.
The movie is based on Robert Harris’ bestselling political thriller of the same name about the ex-occupants of No 10 Downing Street.

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The masses have spoken, they have gathered in the streets, joined forces and together their voices harmonize with one message:

MORE HADER

And the Hader, for which they clamor, has given heard them. And he has answered.

Bill Hader starring in House Of Joel

Bill Hader is developing a slasher film with Judd Apatow that would blend the comedy producer’s usual slacker guys ethos with pure horror.

Hader has given an update on the movie – which he first talked about at Sundance - to CHUD’s Devin Faraci, and reports that the movie not only has a working title (House Of Joel), but a development deal with Universal.

Co-written by Hader and Saturday Night Live scribe Simon Rich, the pic would see a house of pot loving, wisecracking guys invaded by a nasty, knife-wielding stalker.

“I love true crime shows,” Hader previously said about the movie. “The idea of that thing coming to your house, and what do you do? I would shit my pants. That’s basically what the movie is about. What if that guy decided to come to your house? What would you and your dipshit friends do about it?”

With Hader as Joel, the film is now making its way through the halls of development. But with Apatow’s backing, we’re hopeful it’ll see a green light flashing soon.

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/bill-hader-starring-in-house-of-joel

Be sure to catch Mr. Hader in ADVENTURELAND, and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and SNL.

This post also features the debut of the new tag “MORE HADER” for all Hader related things. I wished it, and I made it so.
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This is Star Wars, recut to look like Dallas, set to the Dallas theme music (which is pretty awesome, far as 80s theme music goes).

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Lucas Grabeel is set to fall in love on stage in The Fantasticks.

The 24-year-old actor will play Matt in the play that also stars Will and Grace’s Eric McCormack and Harry Groener(BUFFY!). The story is about two fathers who put up a wall between their houses to ensure that their children fall in love, because they know that children always do what their parents forbid. After the children do fall in love, they discover their fathers’ plot and they each go off and experience things in the world. They return to each other and the love they had, having learned from the world and made an informed decision.

The Fantasticks opens at the Ralph Freud Playhouse at UCLA in Los Angeles on May 5. The play runs until May 17th. You can purchase tickets @ Reprise Theatre Company.

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Ryan Evans and the motherf%$#ing Mayor from Buffy in the same play! I’m SOO there!
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Miley Cyrus’ "Hannah Montana The Movie" opens in less than two weeks at the box office, and fans already want to know if there will be more "Hannah" movies in the future.

The Disney star sat down with Access Hollywood’s Tony Potts where she revealed why she can’t wear her trademark blonde "Hannah" wig forever.

"I can’t be ‘Hannah’ forever, but for right now I’m having a good time," Miley told Tony. "We did a good job on the movie, [and it's] not necessarily just the ending, but a new beginning without people expecting for me to do it for years to come, because I don’t think that is in store for me."

She might not want to play the Disney pop star character forever, but for the time being, she said she’s having a blast.

"I definitely want to continue to do it and I’d love to do another season and I’m still doing a Season 3," she continued. "But at some point…I will definitely step away from it."

Two of Miley’s millions of fans who don’t want her to step away from the beloved character too soon are President Obama’s daughters, Sasha and Malia. But Miley said just because they’re the First Daughters doesn’t mean they’re going to get a first look at the highly anticipated movie.

"[Sasha and Malia] want me to send them a copy, so we will, but like everyone else, they have to wait till [it's released on] April 10!" Miley revealed. "Even the President, [has] to wait until April 10."

Though Miley has been known to work with her family members – dad Billy Ray Cyrus stars in her Disney series and upcoming movie – she revealed there’s no plan to work with her boyfriend of seven months, Justin Gaston.

"He’s got his own thing. He has a music deal going on. I don’t want to work with him," she told Tony when asked if she ever wanted to put Justin in the movie. "We’re too close to mess that up."

Miley might not want to work with Justin, but the Disney star said having him as a constant in her life is extremely important, even if they’ve only dated for a few months.

"We’ve been together for seven months, so it’s like really important just to find someone that’s always going to be there for you… no matter what," Miley said of Justin. "It doesn’t seem like that long I guess, but you know a lot happens in seven months!"

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Miley Cyrus is still hanging out with her older man/underwear model, Justin Gaston. But click on the soundfile above to hear what she has to say about her adorable blond costar Lucas Till, who plays Travis Brody, her romantic interest in the new "Hannah Montana: The Movie."

 First, Lucas confesses to the Dish Rag that he was all nervous when he auditioned for the role but was relieved when Miley turned out to be just a normal girl.

Hah.

"I’m the coolest!" Cyrus shouts in her own defense at the film’s press conference at the Four Seasons on Monday.

Then she freely spills the dirt on how they had to use CGI, hair and makeup to make Lucas look hotter than he really is and thank heavens for voice-overs for all his lines.

Kidding! Miley has NO filter! Isn’t it ADORABLE?

But who was her good male friend who auditioned for the love-interest role who costarred with her when she had a small role in Tim Burton’s "Big Fish?

The one she loves so muuuuch but she didn’t want to kiss?

We’re not naming names, but we think it’s one of these dudes… 

Whoever he is, he will forever be known as the guy MIley Cyrus didn’t want to get all gooey with in "HMTM."

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Robert Pattinson sings three songs on the soundtrack of his new indie movie, How to Be.

The flick — which stars Pattinson as a guy experiencing a quarter-life crisis after getting dumped by his girlfriend — premieres on April 29 on the Independent Festival Direct movies-on-demand channel.

Check out photos from Twilight.

The 23-track soundtrack hits stores the day before.

The actor also…

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