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Patricia Neal, Oscar-Winning Actress, Dies At 84

2010-08-09T06:22:00.001-07:00

Oscar-winning Patricia Neal died on Sunday at the age of 84, The New York Times reports.

In 1964, Neal won a Best Actress Oscar for her turn as the resilient housekeeper Alma opposite Paul Newman in "Hud." A year after her Academy Awards triumph, though, the actress suffered three strokes that left her in a three-week coma. Afterwards she was semi-paralyzed and without the ability to speak, though she eventually learned to walk and talk again.

Despite an impaired memory, the actress returned to the big screen for 1968's "The Subject Was Roses," playing a vindictive mother. She again secured an Oscar nomination, but this time lost out to dual winners Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

Neal got her start at the age of 21 opposite Ronald Reagan in the 1949 comedy "John Loves Mary." She went on to star in films like "A Face in the Crowd" (1950), "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961). One of her most prominent roles came in 1949, when she nabbed the coveted lead role in "The Fountainhead," an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel.

The role also lead to a love affair between Neal and co-star Gary Cooper, a relationship that lasted for three years but ended when Cooper declined to leave his wife and family. Neal became pregnant during the affair and had an abortion, as she revealed in a 1988 memoir.

"If I had only one thing to do over in my life," she wrote, according to the Times, "I would have that baby."

Neal was married for 30 years to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" author Roald Dahl, with whom she had five children. They divorced in 1983.

Though the Times does not give a cause of death, People reports that Neal had lung cancer. She died at her home in Edgartown, Massachusetts.

Julia Roberts embraces Hinduism

2010-08-07T07:46:00.000-07:00

NEW DELHI: Her parents were Baptist and Catholic and she was born in Georgia, part of the US Bible Belt. But Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts says she is now a practising Hindu. Speaking to the September issue of Elle magazine, Roberts said she goes to the temple to "chant, pray and celebrate."

The 42-year-old actress, who won a million hearts with Pretty Woman and an Oscar with Erin Brockowich, took to Hinduism during the shooting of her upcoming film, `Eat, Pray and Love' last year. In the movie, she plays a divorced woman who travels to Italy for food, India for spirituality and Bali, where she finds love. In the interview, Robert also spoke of reincarnation. "I've been so spoiled with my friends and family in this life. Next time I want to be just something quiet and supporting," she said.

Swami Dharamdev of Hari Mandir, Pataudi, where `Eat, Pray and Love' was shot for three weeks in September-October last year, said it is good news if someone accepts Hinduism from the heart. During the film's shooting, he said, a makeshift temple had been constructed nearby where unit members would light lamps and burn incense sticks. "Julia too would pray there, run her hands over the lamp and her hair as we all do," he recalled. "She also got her three kids here. I tied the sacred red thread on their wrists and applied the tilak on their foreheads," he said.

Swami Dharamdev recalled the actress also requested him, through her private assistant, to pray for her mother who was ill. "Before she left I told her, `you may choose not to eat or love. But don't forget to pray. Make that a part of your life, not just acting in this film'. She smiled and nodded affirmatively," he said.

In a statement, Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism in the US, also said he and his fellow practitioners welcome Roberts into the fold.

Julia's move to Hinduism has sparked off a torrent of online response. Some are highly critical of her; others the opposite. "Another confused celebrity trying on the religion "flavour" of the month. Hindu? Does she even know what that means? How can you convert to another religion after making a film? Next thing you know she'll be wearing a Kabbalah bracelet after going to a Madonna concert!," was a comment posted on The Daily Mail's website. However, Anne, Leicester, wrote, "I like Julie Roberts, admire her work on screen and her commitment to her beliefs. If she's living her life to the ideals of Hinduism, that's all to the good. I look forward to seeing her latest film.

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Pornstar Chippy D alias Montana Fishburne Sextape

2010-08-06T09:48:00.000-07:00

Montana Fisburne, Laurence Fishburne’s 19 Year Old Daughter Does Porn as Chippy D – Laurence Fishburne’s daughter have gone rebel and at 19 years old she had been the newest addition to the porn business. A video of her had been spotted with adult film star, Brian Pumper introducing her as Chippu D.

Brian Pumper talks endlessly about how a newbie like Chippy D aka Montana Fisburne performs well and does all that is needed to perform well in a porn movie. Chippy D is just smiling on the corner wearing a shirt in which her upper top is almost revealed.

The video of Brian Pumper and Chippy D was uploaded at CarltonJordan,com. There was a lot of F and S in the words and sentences of Brian Pumper and it seems Chippy D is happy with what she is doing. We wonder how her father, Laurence Fishburne will react to this.

“As long as you perform well… I know what am doing and I do it well so I have confidence,” says Chippy D. Sounds like a real porn star already who’s ready to bare all her body just to be a star.