Haiti and Earthquake Breaking news updates :- Haiti’s president ‘alive’ after massive quake: official, The Haitian capital has largely been destroyed in the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in more than 200 years.
Journalists from The Associated Press described severe and widespread casualties after a tour of streets where blood and bodies could be seen.
The damage is staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster. The Associated Press reporters said the National Palace was a crumbled ruin and tens of thousands of people were homeless.
Many gravely injured people sat in the street, pleading for doctors many hours after the quake. Thousands of people were singing hymns and holding hands in public squares.
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday, leaving large numbers of people unaccounted for. The quake collapsed a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaged the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings.
United Nations officials said hours after the quake struck that they still couldn’t account for a large number of U.N. personnel.
Haiti’s President Rene Preval “is alive” after a massive earthquake that destroyed the presidential palace and other buildings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s ambassador to Mexico said.
“All I can confirm is that president and his wife are alive and well,” Ambassador Robert Manuel said.
“The situation is very serious,” he added at a press conference after meeting with Mexico’s Deputy Foreign Minister Salvador Beltran.
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American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen was found dead Saturday morning at around 4 a.m. in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.
Alexis Cohen was struck and killed by a car. Authorities also believes it to be a possible homicide,her body was 300 yards away from her car.
Ocean County prosecutors office believes Cohen might be a hit by a truck or a car.
She sustained “chest and abdominal injuries, along with a closed head injury “.
Mohel said medics took Cohen to Community Medical Center in Tom’s River, where she was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. “July 25
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According to the Sun, in the uncensored show, the girls would have water cascading down on them in the tropical-style setting, even as they will share cheeky glances, rubbing suds over their bare bodies.
The show that is aired at midnight will sure boast of a high TRP rating, considering the no holds bar bare all session from its sizzling playmates.
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The police photograph is chilling. In grainy black and white tones, it shows 13-year-old Martin Andrews sitting in a makeshift box, his leg chained. The look in his eyes is one of fear, fatigue and disbelief. He had just been rescued from a nightmare.
"I was abducted by a sexually violent predator by the name of Richard Ausley, who had been twice convicted for sexually assaulting young boys, and he had taken me for eight days," Andrews recalled of his ordeal 37 years ago this month. "I was left to die."
As a survivor of a sex crime, Andrews is one face of an issue the Supreme Court will revisit Tuesday: civil commitment, which allows the government to keep sex offenders in custody even after they have served their sentences. Twenty states have such laws, including Virginia, where Andrews was held captive and repeatedly assaulted.
CNN normally doesn't name victims of sex crimes, but Andrews, now a victims' advocate, agreed to tell his story.
On the other side of the debate is the first sex offender released from Virginia's civil commitment program, and one of just a handful nationwide.
"I served my time for what I did, and I didn't feel like I should be incarcerated again," said this man, who asked that his identity not be revealed for fear of retribution. "It was a scary thing to know that you could be committed to a mental institution for the rest of your life."
The man said mandatory therapy helped him, but he thinks that could have been initiated while he was in prison.
There is widespread disagreement on whether civil commitment is a Catch-22. In discussions of the effects of sex crimes, nothing is simple or dispassionate.
The practice of confinement in mental hospitals or treatment centers for those with severe mental illness has been around the United States since its founding. Around the turn of the 20th century, many laws dealing with sexual psychopaths were passed. Over the decades, the laws were repealed or rarely applied.
Then, in 1990, Washington state became the first to pass an innovative civil commitment law specifically for violent sex offenders. California, Wisconsin and New York, among others, later followed. Such "predator laws" focused on risk assessment and prevention of re-offending. It is a concept that the general public may not be aware exists.
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The Supreme Court has upheld the use of such laws when the individual goal is rehabilitation, not further "punishment." But it has another, broader purpose.
"The primary goal is incapacitation, that is, protecting society from people who are predicted to be dangerous in the future," said Eric Janus, author of "Failure to Protect" and dean at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota. "The second goal is to provide treatment to these individuals."
Critics of these programs say behavioral rehabilitation centers amount to prisons, are often overcrowded and understaffed, and rarely meet the stated goal of treating the "worst of the worst" offenders to the point they can rejoin society.
"The evidence is showing that it's only becoming a detainment center for people they do not went on the streets," said Derek Logue, a sex offender who was released and now advocates for offender rights through his Web site, oncefallen.com. "They have no hope of getting out, and the odds are stacked against you."
According to Justice Department statistics, 20 states use civil confinement, involving about 4,000 rapists, pedophiles and other sex offenders nationwide. Estimates are that these programs cost taxpayers more than $700 million a year, almost $150,000 per individual. That is about four times more than confining them in prison.
Virginia passed its civil commitment law in 1999 but had never fully funded it. Andrews found out from a reporter in 2002 that his attacker was just weeks away from being released after 29 years behind bars. Once a victim, now an empowered advocate, Andrews realized he had to act.
"I didn't know about other sex offenders. I didn't know about the extent of the problem. I only knew one, but I knew that one needed to be dealt with," Andrews, 50, said from his northern Virginia home, where he works as a program manger for a defense contractor. State officials, he said, "all told me there was nothing to be done; he was going to be set free; that was it."
But Andrews mobilized, lobbying lawmakers to quickly fund the program, despite a budget shortfall. It worked, and the state has become a national model, using a tool called "Static 99" that assesses which offenders qualify for civil commitment.
Andrews' attacker remained behind bars but was killed by a fellow inmate before ever going into the treatment program.
The catalyst for the state's change were once-dormant memories for Andrews, who now knew that he had to tell his story.
As a teenager in Portsmouth in 1973, Andrews was walking to the store in snowy weather when a van pulled up and the man inside asked the boy whether he wanted to earn some extra money moving furniture. Andrews agreed but instead was taken to a rural area and a metal box dug into the side of a hill.
"He looked at me, and he said, 'I've got bad news for you. You've just been kidnapped.' "
He looked at me, and he said, 'I've got bad news for you. You've just been kidnapped.'
What followed was days of brutal rapes and beatings. Ausley eventually left, and Andrews would certainly have died if some rabbit hunters had not stumbled upon him after hearing his screams.
Andrews believes that civil commitment is not the best tool, but for the most dangerous predators, "it is the only tool we have that is 100 percent effective, because they are removed from society. They are removed from their triggers."
The case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday deals with a federal law that has kept as many as 77 inmates held in federal prison in North Carolina under indefinite commitment.
The justices will decide whether the program enacted under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 is constitutional by infringing on a traditional state function. The law was named after the son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh.
The justices said in 2007 that a Kansas law was neither double jeopardy (second criminal punishment for the same crime) nor "ex post facto" (new punishment for a previous crime).
"We have never held that the Constitution prevents a state from civilly detaining those for whom no treatment is available but who nevertheless pose a danger to others," Justice Clarence Thomas said.
Courts have since been at odds with what kind of treatment must be provided and to what extent, to pass constitutional muster.
Janus worries about the slippery slope if such laws -- federal or state -- are allowed to continue without strong judicial checks.
"The main danger of civil commitment of sex offenders is that it provides a precedent for doing an end run around those governmental protections, and we all may be comfortable right now because we say, 'Well, this is those people. It's not us. It's not our rights that are at stake,' " he said.
"I think we all ought to be cognizant of the fact that these laws set a precedent that greatly expands the power of government to take away our liberty, not for something we've done in the past, not after we've been convicted and punished, but out of fear that we might commit a crime in the future, and this is a very very powerful and dangerous idea," Janus said.
These laws set a precedent that greatly expands the power of government to take away our liberty.
The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond says he is no longer a danger to society. He served nearly eight years in prison for molesting three girls and nearly five years in forced civil commitment. Despite that state confinement, including being the first of only about four men to be released from it, he says post-prison treatment helped him.
"I think that civil commitment is unfair," he said. "I'm not against treatment. I have done everything in my power to help myself" understand the effects of sexual abuse.
He said that being told just days before his scheduled 2003 release that he was being civilly committed left him feeling "hopeless."
Shortly afterward, the man castrated himself with a razor in his jail cell. After the transfer and years in the rehabilitation unit, he was freed and lives a quiet life -- albeit under constant electronic surveillance -- with no further reported incidents, says his attorney.
Lawyer David Hargett convinced the Virginia Supreme Court that his client had a constitutional right to contest his civil commitment.
"I have found talking with people they are shocked to hear somebody can be sentenced by a judge, serve out that entire sentence and then say, 'Wait a minute, we're not going to let you go,'
"This treatment facility ... is a prison, let's be honest. It has barbed wire and locked doors." He said most in the Virginia facility realistically will never get out.
Funeral Services: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will join Vice President Joe Biden and his family in Wilmington, Del., today to attend the funeral of Biden’s mother, Jean Biden, who died Friday at the age of 92.
Sarah Palin at a December 2009 book signing event . (AP Photo/Andy King)
Take Two: The U.S. House reconvenes today for the second session of the 111th Congress.
Ready for Primetime: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will make her debut as a Fox contributor tonight on “The O’Reilly Factor.” The former Alaska governor’s deal, first reported Monday, will add her to a list of political analysts and commentators on Fox News, Fox Business Network, and special programs including Fox’s “Real American Stories.” Fox is owned by News Corp., which also owns The Wall Street Journal.
Eyes on the Road: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Safety Council President Janet Froetscher will announce a national nonprofit group, FocusDriven, aimed at raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. LaHood said that “just as groups like MADD changed attitudes about drunk driving, I believe FocusDriven can help raise awareness and change the way people think about distracted driving.” In 2008, nearly 6,000 people died in crashes involving a distracted or inattentive driver, and more than half a million were injured, according to the Transportation Department.
Money in Politics: The Supreme Court might rule today in the closely watched case of Citizens United vs. the Federal Election Commission, which could expand the role of corporations and labor unions in financing elections. If a ruling comes down, government watch-dog groups included Common Cause and Public Campaign will hold a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court to offer immediate reaction.
Trip Highlights: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will lead a news conference today on Capitol Hill to discuss a recent congressional delegation to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Michael Crapo of Idaho, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and GOP Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware will also participate.
Remember Him?: The LaRouche Political Action Committee holds a news conference today at the National Press Club to introduce three of their movement’s 2010 candidates and to discuss their support of Lyndon LaRouche’s call for impeachment proceedings against Obama. The candidates, running on the Democratic ticket, are Rachel Brown, in Massachusetts’s 4th District, Kesha Rogers, in Texas’s 22nd District, and Summer Justice Shields, in California’s 8th District.
Morehead City NC! NC port closed after containers are punctured -- Officials shut down a North Carolina port and urged people to leave the area Tuesday after nine containers with highly explosive materials were punctured. Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail told television station WTVD that the chemical involved is pentaerythritol tetranitrate, a powerful explosive.
Survey: Half of China's moms-to-be have C-sections -- Nearly half of moms-to-be surveyed in China were delivering by cesarean sections, the world's highest rate recorded by the World Health Organization, which warned Tuesday that a boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women's health. Rates of C-sections have reached "epidemic proportions" in many countries worldwide, the WHO said in a report surveying nine Asian nations. After reviewing nearly 110,000 births across the region, it found 27 percent of women sampled were giving birth under the knife, partially motivated by hospitals eager to make more money.
Bomb kills Iran nuclear physicist tied toMousavi -- A nuclear physics professor who publicly backed Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the disputed June presidential election was killed Tuesday when a bomb-rigged motorcycle blew up outside his home. The blast, apparently set off by a remote trigger, left a puzzling mix of clues about why a 50-year-old researcher with no prominent political voice, no published work with military relevance and no declared links to Iran's nuclear program would be targeted.
Shauna Sands Sex Tape Leaked: Another celebrity sex hot video has been leaked and this time on it is of actress and Playboy model Shauna Sand. The hardcore footage, as reported by TMZ, has been obtained by Vivid Entertainment and is expected to be released next Monday, October 19.
As of the press time, Shauna is making an attempt to block the release of the hot video. "Yes I did make a sex hot video with my boyfriend earlier this year. In fact I've made several sex hot videos, but I certainly didn't sign off on this and Vivid has no right to put it out. I am trying to get a hold of my attorney now," TMZ quotes her as saying.
However, Vivid founder Steven Hirsch has countered Shauna's statement, claiming "We were approached by a third party, who brought us footage of Shauna having sex with her current boyfriend and we were immediately interested in acquiring it ... We're comfortable with our legal position in releasing this footage."
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Julia Gilbert,21, was a student,and scheduled to graduate in May at the University of Oklahoma, a missing OU student since friday(she had last seen at about 3:30 a.m. Friday, leaving a friend’s house in the 600 block of Belle Air Avenue in Edmond) was found dead inside her wrecked silver Jetta by Edmond police on Sunday 10th January 2010.
Julia Gilbert, was found upside down in a creek bed near Waterloo and Morgan Road in Kingfisher County at about 3 p.m.on Sunday. A passerby saw the car and notified authorities,officials say Gilbert apparently hit a guardrail which caused her car to flip. Police say it was lucky anyone saw the car at all because of where it landed in the ravine.
BET Networks makes a joyful noise on Sunday, January 10 at 8:00 p.m.* with the premiere of CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL. Taped at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles and hosted once again by host and author Steve Harvey, the night included uplifting performances, powerful duets and soulful choirs. Aptly themed "Ten Years, Faithfully Yours," in honor of the show's 10th anniversary, CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL featured breathtaking performances and spoken word segments by both mainstream and gospel greats including Fantasia and her mother Diane Barrino Barber performing "He's Done Enough"; Anthony Hamilton and his wife Tarsha Hamilton singing "Better", and The Rance Allen Group performing a soulful rendition of "Something About the Name Jesus."
Additionally, BET SUNDAY BEST winner Y'Anna Crawley teamed up with Dr. Bobby Jones and the Nashville Super Choir for "The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow"; Kelly Price and Ledisi performed "How Great Thou Art"; Yolanda Adams, GRAMMY(TM) award winners BeBe and CeCe Winans, Fred Hammond, Donnie McClurkin, Pastor Shirley Caesar, Marvin Sapp, James Fortune & FIYA, Tye Tribbett & Greater Anointing, and The City of Refuge P.S.A.L.M.S. Choir all set the stage on fire with soul-stirring performances; and actresses Sherri Shepherd and Elise Neal lent their hearts with inspirational spoken words.
The United States does not plan to send U.S. troops into Yemen or Somalia as those countries struggle to contain Islamic militants, President Barack Obama said in remarks published on Sunday.
“I have no intention of sending U.S. boots on the ground in these regions,” Obama told People magazine, referring to Yemen and Somalia.
“I have every intention of working with our international partners in lawless areas around the globe to make sure that we’re keeping the American people safe,” Obama added, according to a transcript provided by the magazine.
Obama has said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, appears to have trained, equipped and directed the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Dec. 25, using explosives sewn into his underwear.
Al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-inspired insurgency, has seized large areas of south and central Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation situated across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, which is located at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.
“We’ve known throughout this year that al Qaeda in Yemen has become a more serious problem. And, as a consequence, we have partnered with the Yemeni government to go after those terrorist training camps and cells there in a much more deliberate and sustained fashion,” Obama said.
“The same is true in Somalia, another country where there are large chunks that are not fully under government control and al Qaeda is trying to take advantage of them,” he added.
The United States already has large contingents of ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm gonna ramble about my garden design. It might not be elegant, but since I have to be smart next week as a teacher again, I'm feeling a bit, oh, je ne sais quoi. Grrrr.
1) Next time I start planting a garden, shrubs are the first priority. This is made obvious by the fact that for 4 months in the spring and summer my garden looks more like a field of dandelions. I'm talking height here. Even texture. It's most disconcerting. Blah blah blah. No structure or interest. (I do have around 20 shrubs out there, mind you.)
2) As a play off of one, I want to add a yellow twig dogwood in a position now occupied by the most slowly-growing 'Isanti' red twig dogwood I've ever seen. It's sibling 20' away gets less sun and is easily three times as big--both were planted on the same day. Deal is, any yellow twig dogwood, even some of these smaller varieties, are just too big. At least, too big in the summer. Come winter, the garden--being overly perennial--looks like a desert of brown vomit. So, in the winter, it'll work. But perennials are neater in the late summer and fall--my fall garden is heaven. The 'Isanti' began to get crowded out this year by wild bergamot, iron weed, eupatorium....
A person just can't go plugging shrubs back into a nearly established perennial garden. It's like putting a baby back into its mother.
3) Trees. More trees. Charming, different, butterfly and bird attracting small trees that grow. See, I got this 'Coralburst' crabapple I rescued for half off from Home Depot. Deal is, it grows slower than the 'Isanti' dogwood. It's even refusing to root well. So I made the mistake of planting a ninebark by it. Already I am envisioning what 2010 will look like in this corner of the garden--crabapple in a ninebark. Maybe it will be a new design fad. Did I mention a 'Snowbank' boltonia is on the other side, and that I hate to cut it back because I like those puppies tall? Crabapple sandwich.
Tall perennials are like a strong narcotic. Low perennials are like sugar in a stick.
4) A higher fence. Much higher. Say, 30'. Neighbor's dog toys shall not bombard my garden like meteors. Better, yet, a moat. A 5 acre moat.
Machine guns that sense movement, zero in, and blast tennis balls out of the air seem appropriate. I've seen these on Ebay.
5) The garden is too small. Not really. But it is. To have shrubs I need fewer perennials. This won't happen. I had so many more insects this year as my perennials matured. Butterflies galore, honeybees en masse. I am becoming entangled in the web of my perennials.
I need more shrubbery to detox me. Ni!
6) Machine guns that also target rabbits. However, I am getting some winter trimming done on my willow 'Nana' don't you know. However, the trimming is becoming most over the top--as in, where did that half of the willow go that was there yesterday?
Ratta tatta tatta rabbit shrapnel.
7) A divine number. What I feel most stupid about is basically a design quandary. Most designers say that in a smaller space like mine (is 1500 feet small?), you should go for repetition, use swaths of the same plants, or at least similar textures and colors. Whatever. I don't think my garden--or most prairies I've seen--look like cottage gardens, so what do I have to fear? But, I do have repetition in plants around the garden, just not together. Is it cohesive enough, or too chaotic to the eye? I'll find out for certain this year, barring a hail storm.
A private backyard garden cannot be a prairie. I'm learning this painfully slow. Native plants or not, I have a manicured garden like those English uptight snobs who have poisoned this country's sense of its natural and ecological self. You can check me on this if you want, because I'll agree with you tomorrow. Hate mail from England in 3, 2....
But I worry too much. I think about my garden late at night when I can't sleep, thus making me stay awake longer doing calculations and line drawings and doodles of shrubs in my head. Let it go. If you love something, just let it grow.
Tila Tequlia is Pregnant: There’s more drama to add to the events surrounding the death of heiress Casey Johnson. Tila Tequila, Johnson’s purported fiancé, says she may be pregnant . . . again.
The MTV reality star took to Twitter on Friday to announce her news, reports Us magazine.
“Going to doctor’s appointment in 5 hours. Eeek! Pregnancy news soon??? Stay tuned….xox,” wrote the 28-year-old star.
In December, Tequila Tweeted a “big announcement” that she was going to be a surrogate mother for her brother and his wife.
“That is my xmas present to them,” Tequila wrote on Twitter. A few days later, the sometime-singer clarified her statements, telling Life & Style magazine that she was actually “about to be”pregnant and had not undergone the procedure, reports PopEater.com.
Tequila has not yet indicated whether this latest possible pregnancy is related to being a surrogate for her brother.
Early Friday afternoon, Tequila updated her account, writing “I haven’t slept going on 4 days now from the loss of my Wifey. I need to rest. Especially 4 baby.”
Since Johnson’s death, Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, has enraged Johnson’s friends and family, who claim the reality show star is only using Casey’s death as a way to put herself in the media spotlight.
Earlier in the week, when Nicky Hilton and Bijou Phillips showed up at Johnson’s house to pick up her dogs, Tequila was in tears, and later called the cops on them and slammed them as “heartless” on Twitter, reports Us magazine. Tequila also accused the two of taking the dogs so they could put them to “sleep,” a claim which Phillips has denied.
Next Football World Cup, Football World Cup 2010: Football World cup for 2010 is scheduled in the 2010 from 11th of June 2010. The FIFA World Cup Football is just 181 days away from us. Most of the matches will be played in the Jhonnesburd, Durban, cape Town etc. There are total 8 groups of the teams and the total number of the teams participating in theWorld Cup Football is 32.
List of qualified teams
The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.
This is the first World Cup with no debutant associations, although two of the qualifiers (Slovakia and Serbia) have previously appeared only as parts of former competing nations. In both cases FIFA considers these teams to have retained the earlier nations’ records.
Based on the October 2009 rankings used for the main draw, South Africa at 86 were the lowest ranked team in the tournament.
Prize money and club payments
The total prize money on offer for the tournament was confirmed by FIFA as $420 million, a 60 per cent increase on the 2006 tournament.[9] Before the tournament, each participating team would receive $1 million, for preparation costs. Once at the tournament, teams exiting at the group stage would receive $8 million. Thereafter, the prizemoney would be distributed as follows:[9]
* $9 million – Round of 16
* $18 million – Quarter-finals
* $20 million – Semi-finals
* $24 million – Runners up
* $30 million – Winners
In a first for the World Cup, there would also be payments made by FIFA to the domestic clubs of the players representing their national teams at the tournament. This would see a total of €26 million being paid to domestic clubs, amounting to just over €1,000 per player per day. [2]
This was the result of an agreement reached in 2008 between FIFA and European clubs to disband the G-14 and drop their claims for compensation dating back to 2005 over the financial cost of injuries sustained to their players while on international duty, such as that from Belgian club Charleroi S.C. for injury to Morroco’s Abdelmajid Oulmers in a friendly game in 2004, and from English club Newcastle United for an injury to England’s Michael Owen in the 2006 World Cup.
Katie Piper Model, Katie Piper Facebook, Katie Piper Pictures, Katie Piper Before And After With painful honesty, Katie Piper, the former TV presenter tells why she has finally waived her right to anonymity – and reveals the awful events that changed her life for ever
However much she would like to forget them, the details of how she lost her dreams, her identity and very nearly her life will stay with KatiePiper for ever.
They are burned into both her memory and her face. Katie, 26, has remained fearful and anonymous in the 18 months since the man she met on the internet attempted to destroy her, so few will recognise her name.
But the facts of the case – the rape, the vengeful boyfriend Daniel Lynch, the cup of industrial-strength sulphuric acid – are all too familiar, a cause of anger and revulsion when they were revealed in court earlier this year.
It was an added cruelty that Katie’s world had revolved around her beauty. She modelled for catalogues and magazines, presented television programmes and had dreamed of a full-time career in the media.
Natalie Portman Hotel Chevalier Pics: It’s true. Here they are, the highly anticipated nude still shots from the free, downloadable iTunes 13-minute short film “Hotel Chevalier.” Nevermind that this is the prologue for an upcoming new movie by one of the most singular, exciting American directors working today– what everyone really wants to see is Natalie Portman naked! Oh well. I guess it’s human nature. To watch the entire short film online without iTunes, click here.
In a perfect example of internet hype, “Hotel Chevalier” is here, and it isn’t quite what the frothing masses expected– in more ways than one, I’m sure. Here are some stills from the movie, as promised.
They are definitely sexy, and framed 
artfully in that 2.40 CineScope mode the director is known for. But since they aren’t as revealing as everyone hoped they’d be, I’m sure there is a lot of disappointed people out there.
What is more fascinating to me is that millions of movie fans who know Portman from “Star Wars” have now been treated to 13 minutes of a Wes Anderson movie, meant to work as a sort of introduction to his new film “The Darjeeling Limited,” which rolls out next month slowly around the country. (It’s even called Part 1 in the credits.)
It is fun to see Portman in the dominant role here. You can tell alot about her and Jason Schwartzman’s relationship from this one scene. 
Schwartzman, however, gets the best line in the movie, a quick comeback (in that very Anderson-style of deadpan) put up as a defense shield against getting hurt again by his sex.
The lighting is impeccable again, with yellow and dusk blue dominating everything, and the many symmetrical shots that make Anderson’s movies so asthetically appealing. Shooting in Paris doesn’t hurt either.
Don’t forget another Anderson staple– the obscure pop song as soundtrack. This time its (see video at bottom of page) Peter Sarstedt’s “Where Do You Go (My Lovely),” which Schwartzman plays on his– wait for it– iPod! (It could be product placement, even though this was filmed two years ago and is a really old model and they probably didn’t have this iTunes deal set up way back then.)
This is also most definitely the sexiest thing Anderson has ever done, the slo-mo long take at the end gives you plenty of time to feast your eyes on the framing of the shot and Portman’s lovely figure, tastefully seen from only the side.
This campaign is actually the perfect example of what internet hype is all about (promises, promises), but with a sweet aftertaste. Most people went in with their prurient interest aroused and got something completely different– a nice little taste of Wes Anderson.
Will it translate into ticket sales? Who knows? Probably not, since Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman don’t have Portman’s hot bod. (Then again, will people just assume that Portman is also in the full-length movie?) But it was a shrewd marketing move.
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Casey Johnson s Death, Casey Johnson’s Death news updates: latest news about, Casey Johnson s Death, Casey Johnson’s Death, Jasmine Lennard (c.) has come out pointing fingers in the death of Casey Johnson (l.), and according to reports she thinks Tila Tequila pushed her over the edge.
The former British model, who called the cops on the Q-Tip Queen just weeks before her death (she believed Casey had stolen things from her), says help was on the way for Johnson.
“I was trying to do exactly the same thing everyone who cared for her was doing – force her to get help,” she tearfully explained.
“Casey’s family was desperately trying to help her. And yes, relations were strained, but she loved her family.” Lennard says the Johnsons were actively trying to get the 30-year-old into Cliffside Rehabilitation Center in Malibu when she died.
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julie Postle Pictures, Photos, Images, Pics: Julie Postle, Aanother Tiger Woods woman that is swirling in the intenet today. Julie Postle is the new woman linked to Tiger Woods. An alleged boyfriend of Postle speaks to the NY Post stated that Postle who worked as a cocktail waitress at the Roxy Club in Orlando began dating Woods in 2004.
According to Bryan Kimbrough Postle has recently sought his phone records to prove that she had an affair with Woods. Postle at those times was using one of Kimbroughs celllphone.
Julie Postle’s all-female organization is credited by their motto as “Bad Girls Doing Good” and is also listed as a part-time model.
Nola Coles, allegedly the mother of one of Postle’s past roommates, says “Tiger was obsessed, really hunted her.” According to Coles, Postle was 20 when the relationship began. Yet another story that will shake the world ofTiger Woods.
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