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This is the porn star Shinji Kagawa Lover

2012-07-10T03:10:00.000-07:00

Manchester United's new midfielder seems to have long been associated with Ameri Ichinose, Japanese porn actress.

Shinji Kagawa in the presence of Manchester United's squad would bring the creativity, determination and of course the aroma of Asia at Old Trafford. Moreover, Park Ji-Sung has left Manchester United to join Queens Park Rangers.

But there's something appealing about the beloved former Borussia Dortmund midfielder is. Kagawa was a lover Ameri Ichinose.

For those of you who do not know, a girl born 16 September 1987 often featured in blue films unique to Japan.

Ichinose, also known by his stage name Ayaka Misora and Erika Kurisu is confirmed as a new member of the WAG MU in the near future.

Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson would expect an intimate relationship with the foster children Ichinose not disrupt performance on the gridiron. Especially if Kagawa suffered injuries from "activities" with Ichinose.

According to the Daily Star Sunday, a blue movie star was born in Kanagawa are very open about his love of sex. By Ichinose, "The wild sex she feels, the better the relationship."

Official Statement of Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Suri Care Right Problem

2012-07-10T01:18:00.000-07:00

More recently, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes who represented their respective attorneys have signed their divorce agreement. This is it Tom and Katie's official statement related to custody of their child, Suri.

"We are committed to working for the good of our daughter, Suri. We also want to keep things in the personal affairs of our household and for their commitment to respect the beliefs of each. And we will continue to support each of our roles as parents," such as read their spokesman quoted by U.S. Magazine, Tuesday (07/10/2012).

Previously, Katie lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe also revealed that the divorce agreement was created between the two. The pair married in 2006 and it was like to settle their divorce amicably.

"The case (divorce Tom and Katie) has been completed properly and has reached an agreement," said Jonathan.

Statement of Tom and Katie also frustrate the gossip that said they were fighting over custody of Suri. Previously, Katie reportedly trying to get full custody of his daughter.

2NE1 Criticized After the gig Bring parrot & Geese

2012-07-10T01:14:00.000-07:00

2NE1's comeback on SBS 'Inkigayo' this past weekend with their latest song 'I Love You'. They played with an unusual set.

CL opened the performance with a parrot on his shoulder. The bird perched on the shoulders of CL continued until he was done rapping the intro.

Finished the intro, the camera panned to the left the stage. Seen a few geese with blue light and smoke effects of dry ice.

Reported by Soompi, Tuesday (10/07/2012) 2NE1's appearance was drawn criticism from various parties. Environment editor of 'Oh Boy' Kim Hyun Sung suggested that 2NE1's no longer doing the same.

"They put the bird life on the shoulder and uses a swan as props. They are incredible musicians, but I hope they do not do it again in his next appearance," said Hyun Sung through his personal Twitter account.

He then stated that parrots and swans can be stressful because there are in the habitat should be. Plus the atmosphere of the stage is filled with colorful lights.

Angelina Jolie So Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo

2012-07-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

Angelina Jolie says the experience changed her life in Sarajevo.

Angelina Jolie became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo in the film festival in the city. This degree is awarded in honor of his film about the war in Bosnia in 1992-1995.

In his directorial debut, the film 'In the Land of Blood and Honey', picked up the story of the Bosnian Muslim woman who falls in love with the Bosnian Serb men during the war.

"This title means a lot to me. My heart is in this town," Jolie said in tears upon delivery of the award title.

He said the experience in making films that profoundly changed his life.

"The time I spent here and the people I met in Bosnia has changed me forever," he said.

"It's hard to say how much the meaning of honorary citizen of Sarajevo, a city so close to my heart," he added.

Adele and One Direction jack album sales in the U.S.

2012-07-07T00:36:00.002-07:00

Adele Grammy success in 2012.
Two British star Adele and One Direction helped album sales in the U.S., which fell 0.6% in the first six months of 2012.
Until now 21 Adele album is still the best-selling album with sales of 3.7 million copies, while her first album, 19, is still sold as many as 539 000.

While Boyband One Direction in third line of best-selling album with sales reaching 899,000 copies for their debut album, Up All Night.
Overall, 220 million albums sold this year, according to Nielsen tally institute, which showed that the U.S. music market started to recover since last year.
Nielsen data says total sales figures, including singles, albums, music videos and digital tracks reached 853 million, up from year 2011 to reach 820 million.
Digital sales from iTunes and Amazon mostly be the largest contributor to reverse the slump that has affected the industry since 2004.
Digital album sales rose 13.8% to 57 million, while the physical album sales still decreased 3% from 155 million to 150 million.
Vinyl albums are also experiencing a revival, with the number of records sold around 2.2 million this year, up from 1.9 million in 2011.
Who ruled the vinyl album is the debut solo album Jack White, Blunderbuss.
However, CD sales are still dominant, with sales reaching 91 million, or 61% of the album market.
Based on data from Nielsen, the top 10 best-selling albums are:
Adele - 21 (3.668 million) Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (912 000) One Direction - Up All Night (899 000) Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits (818 000) Various Artists - Now 41 (714 000) Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (602 000) Luke Bryan - tailgates and Tan lines (575 000) Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (557 000) Drake - Take Care (549 000) Adele - 19 (539 000) while Australian singer Gotye is ranked first single and became the singer's first bestseller that sold more of 5 million within a period of under six months. While single Boyfriend Justin Bieber is ranked 10th best-selling single.
Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (5.501 million) Fun. ft Janelle Monae - We Are Young (5.087 million) Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (4.064 million) Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (3.324 million) Nicki Minaj - starships (3.158 million) Maroon 5 ft Wiz Khalifa - payphone ( 3.075 million) The Wanted - Glad You Came (2.892 million) One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (2.885 million) Flo Rida ft Sia - Wild Ones (2.79 million) Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (2.599 million) sales trend improved in the first half of this year, said David Bakula from Nielsen SoundScan.
In the current retail sales continue to face challenges related to widespread market trends, digital sales are expected to achieve record sales again, he said.
21 Adele album is still a queen in the U.S., since 2011 until now has sold 5.82 million copies, though not a record that had printed Usher Confessions album sold 8 million copies in 2004.
Album sales figures in the United States and most other countries has decreased since the widespread illegal upload service on the internet.
1999 and 2000 the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC managed to sell more than nine million copies of their album as a physical album sales continue to thrive.

Novelist Gabriel Marquez natural senility

2012-07-07T00:35:00.002-07:00

Well-known novelist and 1982 Nobel Literature laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, aka dementia memory loss, according to her brother.

Jaime Garcia Marquez, Gabriel's brother, said that to his students in a lecture hall at a college in Cartagena, Colombia.

According to him, the author of the novel One Hundred Years of Silence (1967) was several times called him to ask something again and again.

"My sister was in trouble with his memory .. Sometimes I cry because I miss him," said Jaime

Jaime is a member of the family of Gabriel who spoke openly to the public about the condition of the old memories of the famous author's 85 years old.

Prior to her sister Jaime reveal the last condition, such as the BBC reported in Colombia, Arturo Wallace, have been rumors about memory problems novelist who is also known as a journalist, publisher, and at the same time the Colombian political activist.

Long time no write
In a statement, Jaime said he could not resist the urge to talk about dementia aka senility of his older brother.

"Physically, he's fine, but he has been suffering from dementia in a long span of time," said Jaime.

She admitted that her brother had not been written.

However, "my brother still likes a joke, always cheerful and enthusiastic," he explained further.

A novel by Gabriel's most famous, and so-called magical realism style, One Hundred Years of Silence (1967) has been translated into many languages and has sold over 10 million copies.

Currently, Gabriel Garcia Marquez lives in Mexico and later to the general public is rarely performed.

Justin Bieber & Selena Gomes End (Again)?

2012-07-06T06:17:00.003-07:00

Justin Bieber and romance Selena Gomes said to have broken. News of their breakup could also blow some time ago.

The latest, news came two had decided to become a friend since last week. A source tells TMZ, the couple's teenage artist was no longer appropriate.

Justin and Selena are having more than one year romance. During their journey of love, both are often rumored to drop out.

Earlier news of their breakup develops when Selena posted a song snippet on Twitter. Aura Dione song entitled 'Friends' that was like a portrait of their relationship at that time.

However, news of their breakup is still yet to be proven. So, about them actually broke up not ya?

Ariel Free, Family Ready Thanksgiving Degree

2012-07-06T05:43:00.000-07:00

Ariel soon will certainly get some fresh air with parole status. It is certainly welcome news to the family.

Ariel family who lives in London will hold a celebration to welcome Ariel free. However, it is not certain where the celebration will be held.

"Want to have held a thanksgiving but did not know where," said Ani, the assistant household when met at the residence of the parents in the area of Ariel Antapani, Bandung, West Java, Thursday (07/05/2012).

Ariel own parents were not at home. "Another week to go home anyway," said Ani.

Ani also said the father of Ariel, Ariel Nazrul always see at the end of the week to bring the child's favorite foods.

"Dad used to come when on Saturday brought his favorite food, like food desert," he explained. "Just a Pedes-Pedes so," he added.

Ngunduh-law at the Savoy Homann, Nassar 'KDI' Room occupy former Sukarno

2012-07-06T04:29:00.000-07:00

1001 nights party with the concept of a wedding reception was held in Nassar 'KDI' and Muzdhalifah in the Central Indian Ocean, Palm d'Ivoire, Jakarta, Wednesday (27/06/2012). It was not the last, there will be another party to celebrate their wedding.

They are scheduled to be held ngunduh-law who was a family habit. This time, they will again hold a party in London.

"There are events ngunduh-law, so quickly gone wrong and come back to work. Her show is tomorrow only salvation alone," Nassar said when met at Strikes RCTI, West Jakarta, Friday (06/29/2012).

Although not a party to plan an expensive, Nassar claimed to have booked a place at the Hotel Savoy Homann in Bandung. In fact, there he will occupy a room that had been used by the first President of the Republic of Indonesia.

"Ever so housing pack Soekarno. I want to take history. I also can free rooms once occupied Pak Karno," he said.

KARA Breaks Records Fastest Selling Album in Japan

2012-07-06T04:15:00.000-07:00

KARA Girlband are very popular in Japan. They also managed to break the record for fastest selling album in the land of Kpop Sakura.

KARA last single 'Speed Up / Girl Power' was released in March sold 155 177 copies. If added together, the group fronted Gyuri, Seungyeon, Nicole, Hara and Jiyoung it has sold as many as 1,000,999 copies.

Many of them are total of 6 singles were released. Though the new KARA entered the Japanese music market started 1 year 11 months ago.

Earlier that managed to sell over 1 million copies are TVXQ and BoA. Compared the two, KARA could reach sales of at least that much in a short time.

For example, BofA takes 2 years and 10 singles to be able to reach 1 million copies. Meanwhile, SNSD is also penetrated Japan sales only reached 569 896 copies with 4 singles.

BofA Want to Have a Normal Life

2012-07-06T04:12:00.000-07:00

So celebrities at a very young age of many joys and sorrows. It is experienced that BofA has plunged the world of music since the age of 13.

BoA stated, if he could go back to choose, he would not choose to become a celebrity. He just wants a normal life without the spotlight.

"Being the artist that is very difficult. And I think it'd be nice to try a normal life," said BoA on KBS episode 'Win Win' AllKPop reported on Wednesday (06/06/2012).

BofA also said he often thought that if one day is not at the peak of popularity. Women who are 12 years of wara-Wiri in the world of music that was intended to be in that position as long as possible.

"Thinking about the fall from the top was a bit mengangguku. But it's my job to give this top position on the junior. And I'll try to be in this status as long as I can," he said optimistically.

BofA Blame the SM Entertainment Short Her

2012-07-06T04:10:00.000-07:00

Singer BoA's petite. Listed his height is 160 cm profile. BoA's agency SM Entertainment blame as the party responsible for the body.

Why, BofA has undergone training in SM Entertainment since the age of 11 years. At the age of 14, BoA had to undergo a strict diet because they are too fat.

"I'm always being asked to lose weight," says BofA in KBS 'Win Win' AllKPop reported.

Naturally, if BoA blame SM Entertainment. The reason that age is a period of growth, BofA may feel that adequate nutrition is not maximal body growth.

"That's not fat, that fat babies. When you're in junior high, you should eat more and grow. Natural if I can not grow because they told me to lose weight at the time," he complained.

Kyuhyun 'Super Junior' Post Status Singles BoA

2012-07-06T03:47:00.000-07:00

Singles do not have a partner can sometimes be the status alias to hide some. That is what is felt the diva BoA.

Status of BoA's singles announced Super Junior Kyuhyun maknae evil. Kyuhyun wrote in the 'thanks to' sixth album Super Junior.

"BoA, who needs a boyfriend," wrote Kyuhyun AllKPop reported on Friday (07/06/2012).

In response, direct BoA wrote on his personal Twitter account. He was "threatened" Kyuhyun.

"Kyuhyun 'thanks to'. Oh my God, what it is. Then why do not you introduce me to someone! You announce to the world, wait till we meet," wrote BoA.

Katie Holmes

2012-07-05T17:33:00.000-07:00

Katie Holmes

Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Since Dawson's Creek, Holmes' career has consisted of movie roles such as the blockbuster Batman Begins, art house films such as The Ice Storm, horror films such as Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and thrillers including Abandon. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and had various guest roles on television programs such as How I Met Your Mother.

Early life

Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is the fourth daughter and youngest child of five children born to Kathleen (née Stothers), a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., an attorney. She has three older sisters and one older brother: Tamera, Holly Ann, Martin Joseph, Jr., and Nancy Kay.
Holmes was baptized a Roman Catholic. She attended Christ the King Church in Toledo.She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy (also her mother's alma mater), where Katie was a 4.0 student.At St. John's Jesuit, a nearby all-male high school, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session); her father wanted her to be a doctor.
At age 14, she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by Margaret O'Brien, who took her to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Competition held in New York City in 1996. Eventually, Holmes was signed to an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird. An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. She was cast in the role of Libbets Casey, in the film which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.

Career

Film

1990s

In January 1997, Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. The Toledo Blade reported she was offered the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer but she turned it down.Columbia Tri-Star Television, producer of a new show created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson, asked her to come to Los Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with her schedule. "I was doing my school play, Damn Yankees. And I was playing Lola. I even got to wear the feather boa. I thought, 'There is no way I'm not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I couldn't let my school down. We had already sold a lot of tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, 'I'm sorry. I just can't meet with you this week. I've got other commitments.'"
The producers permitted her to audition on videotape. Holmes read for the part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title character Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother reading Dawson's lines.The Hollywood Reporter claimed the story of Holmes's audition "has become the stuff of legend" and "no one even thought that it was weird that one of the female leads would audition via Federal Express."
Holmes won the part. Paul Stupin, executive producer of the show, said his first reaction on seeing her audition tape was "That's Joey Potter!" Creator and executive producer Kevin Williamson said Holmes has a "unique combination of talent, beauty and skill that makes Hollywood come calling. But that's just the beginning. To meet her is to instantly fall under her spell." Williamson thought she had exactly the right look for Joey Potter. "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness."
Her first leading role came in Disturbing Behavior (1998), a Scream-era Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller, where she was a loner from the wrong side of the tracks. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote her character, Rachel, "dresses in black and likes to strike poses on the beds of pickup trucks and is a bad girl who is in great danger of becoming a very good one." The actress won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the film was "just horrible."
Holmes played a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's ensemble piece Go (1999).
She had an uncredited cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets from Space (1999), which was also filmed in Wilmington.
In Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), which he wrote and directed, Holmes played a straight-A student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) threatens to keep her from a desperately needed scholarship.

Dawson's Creek

Main article: Dawson's Creek

"Joey Potter is a headstrong, vibrant, wily, sultry, and determined go-getter. And yet, in a gloriously contradictory manner, in spite of her tough-as-nails exterior demeanor, Joey's also a frail, sometimes uncertain, emotionally sensitive, in-need-of-love person", said the show's official book. Joey, named for Jo in Little Women, for years had been climbing in Dawson's bedroom window and platonically sharing his bed. Joey's mother had died from cancer when Joey was thirteen and her father, Mike (Gareth Williams), was in prison for "conspiracy to traffic in marijuana in excess of 10,000 pounds." Her harried, unmarried, and very pregnant sister, Bessie (Nina Repeta), about ten years older than Joey, was raising her while running the Ice House restaurant, where Joey worked as a waitress. GQ described Joey as "kind of an uptight fussbudget—one who's always twisted up over doing the right thing and bungling-up ways to hook up with her crush and across the creek neighbor, Dawson."
"I'm a lot like Joey", said Holmes. "I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything—relationships, personal perceptions—and about being guarded." Holmes filmed the pilot of Dawson's Creek in Wilmington, North Carolina, during spring break of her senior year of high school in 1997.
The 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall brunette enchanted the press, writers of both sexes commenting how Holmes was the sort of girl one wants to bring home to meet the parents and to marry. "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation", was one typical comment. Time called her "impossibly lovely" and Entertainment Weekly said she was "next up for idolhood."Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction." Holmes made such an impression in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine claimed everyone was seeking to cast a "Katie Holmes type", who, the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950s: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)". But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. Anywhere."
Holmes was soon on the covers of magazines such as Seventeen, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone. Jancee Dunn, an editor at Rolling Stone said she was chosen for the cover because "every time you mention Dawson's Creek you tend to get a lot of dolphin-like shrieks from teenage girls. The fact that she is drop-dead gorgeous didn't hurt either."
Reviews of Dawson's Creek were mixed. The Toledo Blade said the characters "just talk like they came from a planet ruled by Manhattan psychologists, one where small talk is punishable by death." Holmes herself needed help with the dialogue. "Sometimes before we read a script, I have to get my dictionary and call people to make sure I'm pronouncing some of the words correctly." The show brought her national attention and many fans back home; Toledo's Thanksgiving Day parade in November 1998 had record attendance when Holmes was named grand marshal.
Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003, and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else", she said in 2004. Holmes confirmed that, as often happens on soaps, the character was a caricature of the actor:

“

I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety. She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love. It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out. I was able to psychoanalyze all of it every day with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television.

”

"As Joey", said Life magazine, "Holmes has had seismic influences on teen life... Through it all, Joey has managed to hang on to her integrity... The show—and Katie's character in particular—has touched a nerve."
In 2005, Holmes characterised her film career as being a string of "bombs." "Usually I'm not even in the top ten", she said, the highest grossing film of her career then being Phone Booth. She lamented "It's not like I have a lot of stuff that's great just waiting for me to sign on to."
In Wonder Boys (2000), directed by Curtis Hanson from the novel by Michael Chabon, Holmes had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) but nevertheless attracted the attention of numerous film critics with her performance as Hannah Green, the talented student who lusts after Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas), her creative writing instructor and landlord. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said she was "just right as the beauty with kind of a crush on the old man."^[20]^[40]^[41]
In The Gift (2000), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, she played the antithesis of Joey Potter: a promiscuous rich girl having affairs with everyone from a sociopathic wife-beater (Keanu Reeves) to the district attorney (Gary Cole), and is murdered by her fiancé (Greg Kinnear). Holmes did her first nude scene for the film, in a scene where her character was about to be murdered. Her appearance was lamented by Variety's Steven Kotler. In Ohio, the scene met with disapproval from Russ Lemmon writing in the Toledo Blade.
Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2001, participating in a send-up of Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Big Spender" from Sweet Charity. On the November 9, 2003 episode, she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher and the next year she was the subject of an episode of the MTV program Diary.
In Abandon (2002), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional, homicidal college student named "Katie." Todd McCarthy of Variety and Roger Ebert commended her performance, but other critics and audiences savaged it. The actress played the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003). Holmes's next starring role was in Pieces of April (2003), a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was "one of her best film performances."^[47] "Each actor shines", wrote Elvis Mitchell, "even Ms. Holmes, whose beauty seems to have fogged the minds of her previous directors" in playing "a brat who is slaving to find her inner decency and barely has the equipment for such an achievement, let alone to serve a meal whose salmonella potential could claim an entire borough. Yet it is her surliness, as well as her intransigent determination to make Thanksgiving work, that keeps the laughs coming."
In 2003, Holmes was a contender for the role of Christine Daaé in 2004's The Phantom of the Opera, but lost the role to Emmy Rossum.
Holmes played the President's daughter in First Daughter, which was originally to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing Liberty, another film about a president's daughter, but was ultimately released in September 2004 to dismal reviews and ticket sales. First Daughter, directed by Forest Whitaker, also starred Michael Keaton as her father and Marc Blucas as her love interest. The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt called her character, Samantha Mackenzie, "a startling example of how a studio film can dumb down and neutralize the comic abilities of a lively young star." In the 2005 film Batman Begins, the most successful film of her career to date, she played Rachel Dawes, an attorney in the Gotham City district attorney's office and the childhood sweetheart of the title character. Variety was unenthusiastic. "Holmes is OK", was its critic's sole remark on her performance. She was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for "worst supporting actress" for the film.
In 2005, she appeared in the film version of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Thank You for Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart, whom Holmes's character, a Washington reporter, seduces. Variety wrote one of the film's "sole relatively weak notes [came] from Holmes, who lacks even a hint of the wiliness of a ruthless reporter" and The New York Times said the cast was "exceptionally fine" except for Holmes, who "strain[ed] credulity" in her role.
Holmes had agreed to play in Shame on You, a biopic about the country singer Spade Cooley written and directed by Dennis Quaid, as the wife whom Cooley (played by Quaid) stomps to death. But the picture, set to shoot in New Orleans, Louisiana, was delayed by Hurricane Katrina, and Holmes dropped out because of her pregnancy.
In 2008, Holmes appeared in an episode of Eli Stone as Grace, a lawyer, and her singing and dancing was praised by Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly.
After speculation about Holmes reprising her role in The Dark Knight, the sequel to Batman Begins, it was finally confirmed that she would not appear. Her role was later recast with Maggie Gyllenhaal in her place. Instead, Holmes decided to star in the comedy Mad Money, opposite Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah. The Canadian Press criticized Katie Holmes's performance "While Keaton has long done zany and giddy well, and she and Latifah have an interesting contrast of personalities, Holmes' presence feels like an afterthought." The New York Post, The New York Times and Variety also criticized Katie Holmes's performance in the film, and The New York Times called Holmes "the movie's weakest link."

2010s

In early July 2009, Holmes began filming a remake of the 1970s ABC telemovie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark; the film was released in August 2011.
Holmes and Chace Crawford have been cast as the leads in the romantic comedy Responsible Adults, to begin shooting in Los Angeles in "fall 2011".
In 2011, Katie Holmes played the role of Jackie Kennedy in The Kennedys. Linda Stasi felt that Holmes took a while to get into the role, but was ultimately convincing as Kennedy.Bob Owen felt that while Holmes resembled Kennedy, Holmes could not perform her accent correctly. Dorothy Rabinovitz felt that while Holmes had Kennedy's "whispery tone", that she could not pull off Kennedy's class.
In October 2011, she also played the role of the "Slutty Pumpkin" (Naomi), in the TV show How I Met Your Mother, episode "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns".

Stage

Holmes made her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons in September 2008. She opened to mixed reviews. Ben Brantley of The New York Times claimed "the neophyte Ms. Holmes" is a "sad casualty" of director Simon McBurney's "high concept approach" to the play. He adds that "Ms. Holmes delivers most of her lines with meaningful asperity, italicising every word." Clive Barnes of the New York Post was similarly unimpressed by Holmes – and had few compliments for her co-stars. He wrote, "Lithgow starts in a sunny, benign fashion, but eventually finds himself screeching alongside Holmes, looking tough under a glossy wig."However, The New York Daily News' Joe Dziemianowicz was won over by the actress' first stint on stage, writing, "Holmes, a TV and film vet, makes a fine Broadway debut. Her rather grand speech pattern takes getting used to, but she seems comfortable and adds a fitting glint of glamour." In 2009, Holmes appeared in the National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in a dialogue with Dianne Wiest celebrating the life of an American veteran seriously wounded in Iraq, José Pequeño.

Other work

Holmes was annually named by both the British and American editions of FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 forward. She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2003; its sibling Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" that year; and in 2005, People said she was one of the ten best dressed stars that year. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia haircolor, Coach leather goods, and clothing retailer The Gap.
After much speculation, in late November 2008, it was confirmed that she would be the new face of the spring 2009 campaign for the high-end fashion line Miu Miu.
In 2008, Holmes started a high fashion clothing line called Holmes &Yang with longtime stylist Jeanne Yang.
In July 2009, Holmes, Nigel Lythgoe, Adam Shankman, and Carrie Ann Inaba announced the launch of a dance scholarship fund called the Dizzy Feet Foundation.
Beginning January 2011, she became the new face of Ann Taylor Spring 11 collection. In April 2011, she ranked 6th in People magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful issue.

Relationships and personal life

Holmes with Tom Cruise in May 2009

Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson early in the show's run. Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000. Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003, but in early 2005 she and Klein ended their relationship.
Weeks after her relationship with Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise. Holmes, who was raised a Roman Catholic, embraced the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17, 2005, on top of Paris's Eiffel Tower. On November 18, 2006, Holmes and Cruise were married at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano, Italy, in a Scientology ceremony attended by many. The actors' publicist said the couple had "officialized" their marriage in Los Angeles the day before the Italian ceremony.
On April 18, 2006, Holmes gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Suri (Persian:سوری). The Los Angeles Times summarized the written statement Cruise released on the birth, saying the name "is a word with origins in both Persian and Hebrew. In Persian it means 'red rose' and in Hebrew 'princess', it was claimed in the release." Although some Hebrew linguists had never seen the word for "princess" spelled this way and its meaning, others said it was a Yiddish pronunciation of the Hebrew name "Sarah". The first photographs of Suri appeared in the October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair, shot by Annie Leibovitz, and became the publication's second best selling issue of all time, selling more than 700,000 copies. On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Holmes had filed for divorce in New York from Cruise after five years of marriage. This will be the first divorce for Holmes and the third for Cruise. She is seeking sole custody of their daughter Suri. Following the announcement, Holmes alledged that she has reason to fear abduction of Suri by the Church of Scientology.

Legal issues

In early March 2011, Katie Holmes filed a $50 million libel lawsuit against the Star Magazine following a cover story which insinuated that she took drugs. The suit was settled on April 27, 2011, when Star wrote a public apology in the May 6, 2011 issue along with an undisclosed "substantial" donation to Katie's charity Dizzy Feet Foundation.

Awards

In June 2011 Katie Holmes received the Women in Film Max Mara Face of the Future Award

Actor Andy Griffith died in North Carolina

2012-07-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

Actor Andy Griffith, who made 'The Andy Griffith Show' to be one of the most durable impressions on American television, has died at his home in North Carolina. WITN television reported on Tuesday (3/7).

The television station quoted an old friend Andy, who said the actor who plays the sheriff in a small town in the show "The Andy Griffith Show 'and is now 86 years old, died at his home on Roanoke Island.

News from the Dare County Sheriff says only one ambulance sent to the residence of Andy but no further details, according to Reuters - which monitored ANTARA here on Tuesday night.

Andrew Samuel "Andy" Griffith - June 1, 1926 - 3 July 2012) is an actor, director, producer, author of America and Southern gospel singer who won a Grammy Award.

He played in the film director Elia Kazan filmed epic, "A Face in the Crowd (1957) ', before
carved a name for his role on television. He plays the main character in the 1960-1968 sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show '.

He also appeared in the 1985-95 legal drama, 'Matlock'. Andy was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W, Bush on 9 November 2005. He died on July 3, 2012, at the age of 86 years.