Matt Damon likes Clooney for his houseSeptember 25th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon likes actor George Clooney because he has a great house and loves to spend on his pals. "George has this beautiful place in Italy where he brings all of his friends and he is an amazingly generous person as well, askmen.com quoted Damon as saying.
Getty's Emmy Auction Angers OfficialsSeptember 24th, 2009 Emmys chiefs are fuming over an online auction of late actress ESTELLE GETTY's award for her supporting role in THE GOLDEN GIRLS. Executives at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences are battling with bosses at eBay.com to remove the star's 1988 Emmy award from the website, reports Variety.
Matt Damon helps get clean waterSeptember 24th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon is using his popularity to help provide clean water to people living in poverty-stricken Haiti. This is an initiative by the actor as part of his non-profit company water.org, which he launched earlier this year.
Lachey Auctioning Off Charity Dinner DateSeptember 23rd, 2009 JESSICA SIMPSON's ex-husband NICK LACHEY is putting himself up for auction - all in the name of charity. The singer is offering himself up for a dream dinner date to raise money for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation, which aims to keep instrumental music education programmes up and running in schools.
North Carolina waitress wins $500,000 grand prize on 'Big Brother 11'September 15th, 2009 'Big Brother 11' winner crownedLOS ANGELES — Jordan Lloyd was served the $500,000 grand prize on "Big Brother 11."
The goofy 22-year-old waitress from Matthews, N.C., bested Natalie Martinez, the scheming 24-year-old recent college graduate from Gilbert, Ariz., on the season finale of the voyeuristic CBS reality show. Lloyd received the most votes from the show's seven-member jury, which included viewer votes as the possibly tie-breaking seventh pick for the first time.
Moverman's Directorial Debut Wins Top Prize At DeauvilleSeptember 14th, 2009 Screenwriter OREN MOVERMAN's directorial debut has wowed critics at the Deauville American Film Festival in France - his movie THE MESSENGER was named winner
of the Grand Prize on Sunday (13Sep09). The film, which stars Ben Foster as a soldier who returns from a tour of duty in Iraq, was handed the event's top accolade by the festival jury, led by Amelie filmmaker
Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Clooney vows to take revenge against Damon for gay jokeSeptember 14th, 2009 LONDON - American actor George Clooney has vowed to take revenge against his 'Ocean's Eleven' co-star Matt Damon for joking to a foreign reporter that the former is set to marry his gay partner. Damon, 38, had recently admitted to having fuelled rumours that Clooney, 48, is gay, leading to a reporter stripping off his clothes and then propositioning him during an interview.
Damon not dead!September 12th, 2009 Recently a false rumor that Matt Damon had fallen off the Palos Verdes Mountain and died was circulated. The Ocean’s Eleven star, who appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, laughed off the rumors and showed fans that he was alive and kicking.
Ingmar Bergman's Golden Globe awards for sale in auction of filmmaker's personal belongingsSeptember 10th, 2009 Bergman belongings on auction in StockholmSTOCKHOLM — A writing desk, film cameras and Golden Globe awards belonging to Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attracting a huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in Stockholm. Auction house Bukowskis says the 337 Bergman items for sale include the chess pieces most probably used in the director's 1957 film "The Seventh Seal" and a 1960s portrait of Bergman by Irving Penn.
Coetzee A Contender For Third Booker PrizeSeptember 9th, 2009 Previous Man Booker Prize winners DAME A.S. BYATT and J.M.
Damon The Frontrunner To Play Alien Expert LazarAugust 25th, 2009 MATT DAMON's dreams of playing real-life alien expert BOB LAZAR are back on - a new biopic about the scientist has been greenlighted. Damon was reportedly onboard to play Lazar four years ago when movie executives at New Line were hoping to turn his life story and his recollections of working at S4, a secret military base located at Papoose Lake in Nevada, into a movie, but film plans stalled.
Matt Damon is terrified of TwitterAugust 15th, 2009 LONDON - While a whole lot of celebrities across the world are getting hooked onto Twitter, Hollywood actor Matt Damon fears joining the popular social networking site. The Bourne Identity star is scared to join the website in case he is swamped by strange messages from obsessed fans, reports contactmusic.com.
Damon backs Jackman for sexiest man alive titleJuly 5th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon wants Hugh Jackman to be named the sexiest man of 2009. Damon, 38, who was named sexiest man alive by People magazine in 2007, was happy to hand over the mantle to the "X-Men" star last year, and is hoping the 40-year-old actor triumphs again, reports accesshollywood.com.
Historian Gerhard L. Weinberg wins $100,000 military writing prizeJune 22nd, 2009 Historian wins $100,000 military prizeNEW YORK — Historian Gerhard L. Weinberg has received a $100,000 lifetime achievement prize for excellence in military writing.
British naturalist Sir David Attenborough wins prestigious Spanish prizeJune 4th, 2009 British naturalist wins prestigious Spanish prizeMADRID — British naturalist Sir David Attenborough won Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias social sciences prize Thursday for his "great contributions to the defense of life and conservation of our planet."
Attenborough, 82, is best known for his nature documentaries on the British Broadcasting Corp. television. The Prince of Asturias foundation said Attenborough's talents "allowed him to approach the study of the earth and living creatures with a creative and innovative combination of skills."
"I am greatly honored," Attenborough said in a statement.
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