| AFI adds Lifetime Achievement Award to Al Pacino's portfolio | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 7:06:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | In another feather in his crowded cap, legendary actor Al Pacino has been selected to be the recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, a top honor by the American Film Institute that has previously been bestowed on Hollywood greats like Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Taylor and Sean Connery. The award will be handed to the 66-year-old actor in a ceremony in Los Angeles in June 2007. Calling Pacino 'an icon of American film', AFI chairman Sir Howard Stringer said: He has created some of the great characters in the movies from Michael Corleone to Tony Montana to Roy Cohn. His career inspires audiences and artists alike, with each new performance a master class for a generation of actors to follow. .... | |
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| | | What's up | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 7:03:21 PM by Blog57 Team | | NCDC wellness programs. Northeastern Community Development Corp. will sponsor a series of classes on improving older adults' nutrition and health called "Partners In Wellness." The series will be held in the community room at Lakeside Apartments in Elizabeth City each Wednesday from Oct. 4 through Oct. 18 from 11 a.m. to noon. The "Moving to a Healthier You" program will be offered every Tuesday through Oct. 17 at the same location from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Preregistration is encouraged. To register, call 338-3954 or 338-5466, ext. 21. Successfest to begin at ECSU. Successfest, the annual fundraiser for Elizabeth City State University's radio station, WRVS-FM 89.9, and its TV station W18BB-TV, will be held Sunday through Friday. The TV station will broadcast a telethon Sunday through Thursday from 6 p.m.... | |
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| | | Michael Jackson's biographer to reveal Elizabeth Taylor's suicidal ... | | Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:04:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Elizabeth Taylor leaves the 'Larry King Live' show. The actress looked radiant as she was taken out of the building in a wheel chair. A large number of media had descended on the building resulting in a near scrum as she was loaded into the back of a waiting limo. She was given a police escort for the ride home. (May 2006) .... | |
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| | | Liz Taylor biography describes hardships | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:10:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- A new biography of legendary Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor describes a difficult childhood and empty marriages for the two-time Oscar-winner. "Elizabeth" details Taylor's ambivalence toward her show mother, Sarah Taylor, who gave up her own Broadway career to raise a family, author J. Randy Taraborrelli told CBS' "The Early Show" Wednesday. Sarah Taylor thought she was responsible for Elizabeth's success and was also envious of it, Taraborrelli said. "So you can understand why both love and ambivalence existed in Elizabeth where her mother was concerned," he said. Taylor and Michael Jackson became friends partly because they both had had difficult childhoods, Taylor said on CNN's "Larry King Live." "Well, working at the age of 9 is not a childhood.... | |
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| | | Taylor's nose job exposed | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 9:18:05 AM by Blog57 Team | | Movie legend Elizabeth Taylor's plastic surgery secret and are set to be exposed in a new book written by her friend Michael Jackson's biographer. According to contactmusic.com, author J. Randy Taraborrelli is set to reveal all about Taylor's interesting life in the book called "Elizabeth". The most shocking bit of news is likely to be that Taylor had a nose job in her 20s. Taraborrelli says: "She had her first plastic surgery when MGM (studio bosses) deemed her nose was too thick." He claims that the surgeon, who worked on Natalie Wood and Marilyn Monroe, performed the surgery on Taylor's nose. Taraborrelli goes on to speculate on Taylor's eight marriages and also reveals that her father was an alcoholic who was possibly gay. .... | |
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| | | Murder on Norfolk Island | | Posted Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:04:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ms. Patten, who managed a restaurant, was last seen heading in the direction of Queen Elizabeth Mount on Easter Sunday 2002. She was due to meet her parents, Ron and Carol, later that day but never arrived. Several hours after she was last seen her body was found riddled with knife wounds and wrapped in black plastic on the other side of the island. McNeill, who was working as a chef on the island at the time, has been charged with Ms. Patten's murder. On Tuesday the court heard that when McNeill was arrested in New Zealand in February 2006 he admitted in a statement to the police that he had hit the victim with his car. He allegedly told police that he thought he'd run over a cow or a dog but then when he got out to investigate he discovered Ms.... | |
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| | | House where Elizabeth Taylor lived is getting cleaned up for ... | | Posted Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:10:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Its current owners, Eddie and Mary Turner, are renovating the brick house at 310 N. A St. When the work is done, they plan to put it on the market, Mary Turner said Thursday. It's a house that is remembered fondly by Elizabeth Asbell Hentrich, a 94-year-old former Arkansas City woman who now lives in Wichita. As a young, unmarried woman, Hentrich -- then called by her maiden name, Asbell -- worked as a housekeeper for Elizabeth Taylor's paternal grandparents. That was sometime in the 1930s, said Hentrich's daughter, Janice Whitaker. Her mother did housework, cooking and tending to the Taylors' needs at their house on A Street, said Whitaker, also an Arkansas City native who now lives in Wichita. She interviewed her ailing mother for The Traveler.... | |
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| | | A different sort of missionary | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:07:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | He is academies' big champion and the man to whom successive education secretaries have turned for advice. Peter Wilby looks at the enduring influence of Sir Cyril Taylor Tuesday July 18, 2006 The Guardian Sir Cyril Taylor with students from the Brit school in Croydon and their headteacher, Nick Williams (far left). Photograph: Linda Nylind .... | |
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| | | Elizabeth Taylor Awards Grant to AHF's South African 'People's ... | | Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 9:04:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS organization in the United States, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Asia and Latin America/Caribbean, has received a US$30,000 donation from the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation primarily earmarked for the purchase of life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs and related services for patients at the Ithembalabantu Clinic (Zulu for 'people's hope'), a free AIDS treatment clinic operated by AHF in Durban, South Africa. The Hollywood legend -- perhaps the most outspoken and respected AIDS advocate in Hollywood -- and a longtime financial supporter of numerous HIV/AIDS groups nationwide including AHF, had previously donated US$25,000 to the Ithembalabantu clinic in 2004. She has also previously given US$50,000 to AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Treatment=Life campaign to provide HIV/AIDS drugs and related tests for people in Los Angeles County who could not otherwise afford the costly treatment.... | |
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