Kate Winslet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Winslet
All of this info can be found via the link above! :)
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.

She's also one of my biggest favorite actresses!!

Raised in Berkshire, she studied drama since she was young. Her 2 biggest movie successes have been Flushed Away in 2006, where she did the voice of a rat named Rita, and The Holiday in 2006, where her character switches places with Cameron Diaz's character.

She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!

The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.

In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.

In 2006, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in The Holiday. In this movie, she plays Iris Simpkins, a society column editor for London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who switches households with Amanda Woods(Cameron Diaz), a workaholic whose company makes movie trailers in L.A. And that same year, she starred in the movie Flushed Away, where she provides the voice of Rita, a sewer scavenging rat who helps Roddy St. James(Hugh Jackman) escape Ratropolis and get back to 'Uptop' as they call it, or Kensington.

On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.

She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.

Jet Li

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Li

Li Lianjie was born on April 26, 1963, in Beijing, China. He is better known as Jet Li, because of his ability to perform martial arts very quickly. He is a martial artist, actor, producer, international film star and Wushu champion since age 11. He retired from doing Wushu martial arts when he was 17 and went in to acting, with his first film being Shaolin Temple. In 1998, he got his first role as a villain named Wah Sing Ku in Lethal Weapon 4. And his 1st Hollywood leading role was as a Beijing police man namd Han Sing in Romeo Must Die.

He can actually perform several types of martial arts, such as: Changquan(Northern Longfist style), Fanziquan(Tumbling fist), Baguazhang(Eight trigram palm), Taijiquan(Supreme ultimate fist), Xingyiquan(Shape intent fist), Zuiquan(drunken fist), Yingzhaoquan(Eagle claw fist), Tanglangquan( praying mantis fist). He also has studied some of Wushu's main weapons, such as: Sanjiegun(3 section staff), Gun(staff), Dao(broadsword), Jian(straight sword)

In 1998, he appeared in his first American movie, Lethal Weapon 4, where he played Wah Sing Ku, a villain working with the Chinese Triads. His next movie gave him the chance to play a lead role, that of Beijing police man Han Sing, who woos R&B singer Aaliyah's character Trish O'Day in Romeo Must Die(2000). He lent his voice and martial arts talents to help make the game Jet Li: Rise to Honor, and in 2003, he appeared alongside rap singer DMX in the movie Cradle 2 the Grave. Another good movie he was in was titled Kiss of the Dragon, where he played a Chinese government agent forced to work with a prostitute(Bridget Fonda) to help clear his name. In 2005, he took on a more serious role in the movie Unleashed, where he played Danny, a man who was taken from his mother as a child and raised to be a personal attack dog for a vicious loan shark in London.

Kiss of the Dragon

 Lethal Weapon 4



 Cradle 2 the Grave

In his offtime, he practices Tibetan Buddhism. In 1999, he married Shanghai-born, Hong Kong raised actress Nina Li Chi, with whom they have had 2 daughters, Jane and Jada. When Li was in the
Maldives on vacation during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, him, his 4 year old daughter Jane and 1 year old daughter Jada had to run for high ground to escape the tsunami that washed upon shore. And that knocked a piece of furniture into his foot, injuring it.  He also enjoys being charitable. He is part of the Red Cross Society of China, and he also helped out during the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and he established the One Foundation , which helps disaster victims and works with the Red Cross to administer mental health awareness and suicide prevention.

Movie Review

Carlito's Way

What this movie is basically about is this Puerto Rican drug dealer named Carlito Brigante(Al Pacino) has just been released from prison. He hopes to fly straight outside of jail, but his lawyer, David Kleinfeld(Sean Penn) slowly but surely sucks him back into crime. He unforutunately has to help his cousin Guajiro(John Ortiz) do a drug deal at a bar. Things go wrong and Guajiro is killed and that forces Carlito to shoot his way out. Beofre leaving, he takes the $30,000 he sees on the bar. He then goes to a local bar called El Paraiso, where he hopes to buy into a club run by a gambling addict named Saso(Jorge Porcel) so he can save up $75,000 to retire to the Caribbean.

After a while, he starts to notice a young, up and coming gangster from thte Bronx, named Benny Blanco(John Leguizamo), who thinks he's someone special. He also wants to re-cement his relationship with Gail, a ballet dancer who moonlights as a stripper and was also his girlfriend before he went in to prison.

Benny Blanco

Things go from bad to worse. As it turns out, Kleinfeld has stolen $1 million in payoff money from his Italian mafia client Anthony "Tony T" Taglialucci. Kleinfeld is forced into helping him escape from the Rikers Island prison barge, and he repeatedly asks for Carlito's help. He refuses and one night, under the cover of dark, Carlito, Kleinfeld and Tony T's son Frankie motor out to the prison barge where Tony is. When they get Tony on board, Kleinfeld slits Frankie's throat and Tony is bludgeoned to death and he finally throws both of their bodies overboard. After this, Carlito severs all ties to Kleinfeld. He decides to leave town with his girlfriend Gail. Meanwhile, Kleinfeld is stabbed in the chest by 2 mobsters in his office.

Then things do get worse, as Carlito is arrested by the police and has to talk to District Attorney Norwalks(James Rebhorn), where he plays a tape with Kleinfeld's voice on it making criminal accusations against Carlito. The DA tells him that he is an accomplice to the Taglialucci murders. He then visits his lawyer in the hospital, where he confesses he sold out Carlito. When he entered the lobby, he seen a suspicious man in a police uniform, which turned out to be Tony T's other son Vinnie(Joseph Siravo). He takes Kleinfeld's revolver and leaves the hospital, and when Carlito is gone, Vinnie goes to Kleinfeld's room and kills him.

Carlito goes to the train station to buy tickets for him and Gail, who is now pregnant with his child. When he stops by the club he now co-owns, he is stopped by a group of Italian mobsters led by Vinnie. They plan on killing him, but he manages to escape through a secret exit. This little fight of theire finally ends in Grand Central Station, where Vinnie is killed by police attracted to the scene because of all the gunfire.

By now, Carlito is running to catch up to Gail and his gangster friend Pachanga(Luiz Guzman). He is then somehow shot by Benny Blanco, who was in disguise, who shoots Carlito several times in the stomach with a silenced gun. Pachanga tells the slowly dying Carlito he is now working for Blanco, only to be shot as well. Carlito hands a teary eyed Gail the moeny from the club and tells her to get herself and her unborn child somewhere safe to start a new life somewhere else. As the EMTs ar wheeling him away on a gurney, he looks at a billboard that bears an image of a Caribbean beach and a woman. As Carlito passes away, the billobard comes to life in his mind and the woman in the picture is Gail.

My rating of this movie is a 10 out of 10, a 5 out of 5 star rating. It's a little gory, and has occasional bad words here and there, but is pretty good. Not suprisingly, it has an R rating, so kids may not be able to watch it, but I like it, it's pretty cool, and Al Pacino is one of my fave actors.

Movie Review

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

For those who may not have ever seen this or ever heard of it, this movie is about a British ladies man named Austin Powers, who also is a spy, a sort of James Bond-like figure. It's funny and supposed to be poking fun at the James Bond movies in a funny way. He is a British spy who lives in the Swinging 60s of London.

His enemy in the movie is named Dr. Evil, and the same actor plays both Austin and Dr. Evil, Mike Myers. This movie is basically a way of lightly poking fun at the James Bond movies, and I love these movies, they are really funny!! The movie begins in 1969, when he is trying to stop Dr. Evil and is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 30 years later in 1997. He works with Vanessa Kensington, played by beautiful English actress Elizabeth Hurley. Basically the movie is about him trying to stop Dr. Evil, and trying to charm ladies along the way with his charms. Sorry if that doesn't seem like the best description, sorry. But it's really funny, and will make u laugh!! And in the movie he drives a Corvette convertible with the Union Jack, aka British flag design on it. And I would give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating for funny movie!! And plus, some of the music used is actually from that decade, they don't use any Stones or Beatles music, but they do use music from the Who, the song My Generation.

Did You Know?

This title happens to apply to something on the website IMDb.com, which stands for the Internet Movie Database. On this website, you can look up anything about your favorite actor, actress or even musician, director, or anyone! With me hanging around my dad alot, his love of movies is slowly but surely rubbing off on me. I went on there one day because he said there was something on there called Did You Know, which tells you interesting facts you may not have known about movies and stuff.


All this info is from the IMDb.com website. Just so people don't and won't think I'm stealing it, or in the case of English slang, nicking it. Just thought I'd make it a little cool with English slang. :) Hopefully that gives people a little smile!!!!
Here's some movies you may like with interesting facts you may not know.

The Godfather

• This is the first American film of Italian-American director Richard Conte

Annie Hall

• The clothes that Annie wore, which caused a brief fashion rage, were actually Diane Keaton's own clothes
• According to the American Film Institute, this movie was ranked #2 in the Romantic Comedy genre

Gimme Shelter

• Despite what history of the Altamont Speedway stabbing says, about Meredith Hunter being stabbed in the opening chords of Sympathy for the Devil, he was actually stabbed just as the Stones were beginning the chords of Under My Thumb
• In the original version, Mick Jagger uses foul language. 
• The original location for the Altamont concert was supposed to be Golden Gate Park, but the city refused a permit when they heard the Stones as the main act. They feared large crowds. But then they decided to try Sears Point in Sonoma, but after a dispute with the track owners, the equipment and band moved to Altamont
• The Stones had gotten the idea of using the Hell's Angels as security when they did their 1969 Hyde Park concert in London by using London's chapter of the Hells Angels, but the ones in London were more pacifist than their American counterparts.

Romeo Must Die

• The golf scene in the movie is filmed on the same golf course where Bob Barker beat up Happy Gilmore in the movie Happy Gilmore
• Film acting debut of Brooklyn-born R&B singer Aaliyah

Under the Tuscan Sun

• Every time a group of nuns is seen in the movie, they are eating: the first time at the market, the 2nd time sitting on a terrace and then finally at the wedding
• The uncredited character Zeus was originally supposed to be fully nude, but later digital underwear was added to avoid an R rating

Marley and Me

• 22 different dogs played Marley
• Owen Wilson's real parents played his parents in the movie, and his mom had to remember not to call him Owen

Gone in 60 Seconds

• The ultra-rare McLaren F1 was supposed to be in the movie, but producers couldn't find one, so it was replaced with a Jaguar XJ220
• There are codenames for each car:
• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187078/trivia
• The list of cars, with their codenames, is as follows: (Note: Some of the codenames listed here do not correlate with what is actually said in the movie as each car arrives, for an explanation of this phenomenon, please see "goofs" for this film)
  • 1 1999 Aston Martin DB7 - Mary
  • 2 1962 Aston Martin DB1 - Barbara
  • 3 1999 Bentley Arnage - Lindsey
  • 4 1999 Bentley Azure - Laura
  • 5 1964 Bentley Continental - Alma
  • 6 1959 Cadillac El Dorado - Madeline
  • 7 1958 Cadillac El Dorado Brougham - Patricia
  • 8 1999 Cadillac Escalade - Carol
  • 9 2000 Cadillac El Dorado ETC (El Dorado Touring Coupe) - Daniela
  • 10 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible - Stefanie
  • 11 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 - Erin
  • 12 1953 Chevrolet Corvette - Pamela
  • 13 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Big Block - Stacey
  • 14 2000 Ford F350 4x4 modified pick-up - Anne
  • 15 1971 DeTomaso Pantera - Kate
  • 16 1969 Dodge Daytona - Vanessa
  • 17 1998 Dodge Viper Coupe GTS - Denise
  • 18 1995 Ferrari 355 B - Diane
  • 19 1997 Ferrari 355 F1 - Iris
  • 20 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB4 - Nadine
  • 21 1999 Ferrari 550 Maranello - Angelina
  • 22 1987 Ferrari Testarosa - Rose
  • 23 1956 Ford T-Bird - Susan
  • 24 2000 GMC Yukon - Megan
  • 25 1999 HumVee 2-Door Pickup - Tracy
  • 26 1999 Infiniti Q45 - Rachel
  • 27 1994 Jaguar XJ 220 - Bernadene
  • 28 1999 Jaguar XK8 Coupe - Deborah
  • 29 1990 Lamborghini Diablo - Gina
  • 30 1999 Lexus LS 400 - Hillary
  • 31 1999 Lincoln Navigator - Kimberley
  • 32 1957 Mercedes Benz 300 SL/Gullwing - Dorothy
  • 33 1999 Mercedes Benz CL 500 - Donna
  • 34 1999 Mercedes Benz S 600 - Samantha
  • 35 1998 Mercedes Benz SL 600 - Ellen
  • 36 1950 Mercury Custom - Gabriela
  • 37 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda - Shannon
  • 38 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner - Jessica
  • 39 1965 Pontiac GTO - Sharon
  • 40 1999 Porsche 996 - Tina
  • 41 2000 Porsche Boxster - Marsha
  • 42 1961 Porsche Speedster - Natalie
  • 43 1988 Porsche 959 - Virginia
  • 44 1997 Porsche 911 Twin Turbo - Tanya
  • 45 2000 Rolls Royce Stretch Limousine - Grace
  • 46 1966 Shelby AC Cobra - Ashley
  • 47 1967 Shelby Mustang GT 500 - Eleanor
  • 48 2000 Toyota Landcruiser - Cathy
  • 49 1998 Toyota Supra Turbo - Lynn
  • 50 2000 Volvo Turbo Wagon R - Lisa

Blow

• In the cocaine scenes, Johnny and the rest of the actors snorted milk powder
• To prepare for the role of drug dealer George Jung, he interviewed the real guy in prison

Life of Brian

• 6 cast members played over 40 characters
• Who drummer Keith Moon was supposed to be in the movie, but ended up dying before he could get a chance. The movie is dedicated to him because he was supposed to play a street prophet in the scene where Brian hides among them

Ned Kelly(1971)

• While filming this movie, Mick Jagger wrote the song Brown Sugar on an electric guitar for then lover Marsha A. Hunt
• The opening scenes were filmed at Old Melbourne Gaol where Kelly was imprisoned and on the scaffold in which Kelly was hanged

Chicken Run

• In the scene where Rocky turns the radio on, one of the short bursts from the radio is the opening theme to the Archers, a long-running British show on BBC Radio 4, and it's actually still running strong today
• Mel Gibson filmed all his lines in the US while all the rest was filmed at Aardman Studios in England
• Ginger and Rocky were named for 2 of Nick Park's childhood pet chickens

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

• All the wallpaper in the sets is handmade
• Took 5 years to make
• The car that Wallace drives is an Austin A35
• The nickname that Victor Quartermaine uses for Lady Tottington, Totty, is British slang for desirable woman
• The stained glass window the were-rabbit leaps thru shows St. George, patron saint of England, fighting a dragon
• The line "run rabbit run" is from the song Breathe/In the Air from Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album

The Full Monty

• The title is British slang for the whole thing
• American theatres had leaflets saying the translation for the British slang being used in the movie for people unfamiliar with British slang. Luckily for me, I know alot of those words because I watch alot of British TV with my stepdad and I go to school with someone from England, major cutie is he!!!!!!
• Rik Mayall was considered for the role of Gaz but instead went to Robert Carlyle

Love Actually

• The song Bill Nighy is singing in the beginning is actually a Christmas version of the Trogg's Love is All Around
• In 2004, this was the most rented DVD in the UK
• At Peter and Juliet's wedding, the vicar was a real one they used. And if u read this and don't know, a vicar is what they call priests in England:)

Across the Universe

• When Jude sees inspiration to paint by seeing the bowl of strawberries, it inspires him to paint Jackson Pollock style, and it makes a reference to Stuart Sutcliffe, who was the early bassist for the Beatles who painted in a Jackson Pollock style
• The rooftop concert at the end where everyone is singing All You Need is Love is a reference to the Beatles live concert on the roof of Apple Records in London when they sang Let It Be
• During the underwater scene, Jude and Lucy are completely naked, almost paying a tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono's image on the front of Rolling Stone Magazine on Jan. 22, 1981
• This movie was released on October 9, John's birthday
• Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Olivia Harrison and Yoko Ono thouroughly praised the movie after watching it

Ned Kelly(2003)

• The world premier for the movie was only 2 blocks away from where the real Ned Kelly was hanged

A Clockwork Orange

• Anthony Burgess, writer of the movie, originally sold the rights to Mick Jagger for $500 when he needed quick cash. Jagger wanted to make it be the Stones and him as the droogs, but then re-sold the rights for much higher amount
• This movie and Midnight Cowboy are the only X rated movies to be nominated for awards
• The original choice for Alex was none other than Mick Jagger! But the only problem was that Mick was down in Australia filming Ned Kelly
• Although playing a 14 year old, Malcolm McDowell was actually 27 at the time

Lethal Weapon 4

• Jackie Chan turned down the role of Wah Sing Ku because it went against his good guy attitude, instead the role went to Jet Li
• This was Jet Li's first American film and also first time playing a villain
• Richard Donner had to slow down the camera when Jet Li did his fighting stunts because he was faster than the camera

Ladies and Gentlemen/The Rolling Stones

• Soundtrack:
• Brown Sugar
• Rip This Joint
• Bitch
• Gimme Shelter
• Dead Flowers
• Happy
• Tumbling Dice
• Love in Vain
• Sweet Virginia
• You Can't Always Get What You Want
• Midnight Rambler
• All Down the Line
• Bye Bye Johnny
• Jumpin Jack Flash
• Street Fighting Man

Freejack

• Actress Linda Fiorentino was the original choice to play Julie Redlund

Shine a Light

• This film was about 2 concerts the Rolling Stones gave at New York's Beacon Theatre
• As Keith Richards sings You Got the Silver, he wears a long trench coat with a pirate pin on it, a gift from working on Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Casino

• In the movie, the F word is used 422 times, and holds the Guinness world record for the most swearing in a movie
• The jewelry store robbed by Nicky's boys is an actual Las Vegas jewelry store
• The character of K.K. Ichikawa was based on an actual person named Akio Kashiwagi. He was a highroller from Tokyo who owed millions to alot of people and was murdered in his home in Tokyo by the Yakuza(Japanese Mafia)
• At the beginning, it's said this movie is based on a true story. The Tangiers is a fictional location, in the story, it was the Stardust Casino
• Robert De Niro's character Sam 'Ace' Rothstein is actually based on Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal
• In the movie, Joe Pesci's character Nicky Santoro is the one placed in the 'black book', meaning your name is permanently branded in to the brain of every cop and FBI agent. In real life, it's Robert de Niro's character Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal who is placed in the black book

Goodfellas

• The F word is said 296 times in the movie, almost all of them said by Joe Pesci
• In June 2008, this movie was ranked #2 in the genre of Gangster
• The guy Joe Pesci shoots in the foot is none other than Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli.

Unleashed

• Bob Hoskins actually cut Jet Li's hair at the beginning of the movie

Mulan

• In the scene where Mulan is singing the song Reflection and she is in her family's shrine, looking over the tablets, the Chinese characters are actually the names of the Disney animators written in ancient Chinese
• The original choice for Li Shang was Bruce Willis, instead it went to American-born Chinese actor B.D. Wong
• Actor Jackie Chan sings the Chinese version of the song I'll Make a Man Out of You
• Fa is the Cantonese pronunciation of Mulan's family name. The Mandarin pronunciation would be hua and it means flower
• Chi Fu's name in Chinese means to bully
• This movie is the first noted Disney movie to feature an Asian heroine
• Since in China crickets are considered good luck, one was added in the movie
• The actor who provides the voice for Shang is Law and Order: SVU actor B.D. Wong, who got his start in acting by playing a man who dresses as a woman in Madame Butterfly
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Cradle 2 the Grave

• Actor Mark Dacascos won a poll on Jet Li's website after fans voted that Dacascos is who they'd like to see fight Li
• In the cage fight scene with Li, there are 3 actual UFC fighters fighting, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz

The Corruptor

• Kim Chan plays Benny Wong, a crime lord nicknamed Uncle Benny. He also played a crime lord nicknamed Uncle Benny in Lethal Weapon 4
• In the original script, Nick Chen walks in on Henry Vu being fed grapes while getting oral sex from a woman.  Chow Yun-fat said his character Nick would not continue a relationship with the woman May after seeing this, so the grape feeding was suggested as an alternative

Bulletproof Monk

• The actors who play the martial artists are real martial artists from the Sunny Tang Martial Arts Center in Toronto, Canada

The Forbidden Kingdom

• The characters in this movie are taken from Chinese mythology. The White Haired Demoness is an anti-heroine in a novel by Liang Yusheng, the Monkey King is a 16th century fantasy epic by Wu Cheng En, the Jade Emperor is the ruler of heavens in Chinese myth, Lu Yan is a famous Taoist saint
• This movie is the first movie to bring together martial arts masters Jet Li and Jackie Chan
• The movie that Jason finds in Hop's shop is a DVD version of the Ten Tigers of Kwangtung, which is made by a Chinese movie company called Shaw Brothers, and is regarded to be one of their greatest movies

The Replacement Killers

• The Chinese engraving on Lee's bullets mean death
• This movie set the record for most bullets fired in an American film
• This is Chinese actor Chow Yun-fat's first American film. Critics say it was a bomb, but I say it was awesome!

Goodbye, Mr. Çhips

• Originally cast in the movie were Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar, who was promptly replaced by Richard Burton and  Lee Remick. Instead Peter O'Toole and English singer Petula Clarke were cast as Mr. Chips and  Katherine

Across the Universe

I recently watched the movie Across the Universe, as the title says. I have to say it was totally awesome, it was a little weird in some parts, but overall it totally ruled! I'm sure if John and George were still alive and they saw this, they'd be crying tears of happiness to know that their music still lives on, and that the younger generation listens to them.

Here's hopefully the most accurate description of the movie I can give. A young man named Jude(Jim Sturgess) decides to leave Liverpool, England to go to America to find his estranged father. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a girl named Lucy(Evan Rachel Wood) is planning on going to college. She goes to New York and while hanging at a nightclub with her friends, that's where she meets Jude for the first time. Over time the 2 slowly fall in love, and while they fall in love, the turbulent Vietnam War rages on and protests and riots are through the roof. Somehow the 2 get involved in the protests going on in Greenwich Village, and Jude goes to find Lucy, only to be hampered by police holding him back, he fights the police and ends up in jail. After all that, the 2 end up together. It's like a 1960s Romeo and Juliet story with a rocking soundtrack from the Beatles. Also there's a cameo by U2's Bono in the movie. I give this movie a 10 out of 10 rating, a 5 out of 5 star rating. It's the best movie ever! And it's perfect for any Beatles lover out there! I certainly enjoyed it, but a word of advice-- there is a slight amount of bad language and a moderate amount of female/male nudity, specifically towards the end where there is a scene depicting Jude and Lucy kissing and such completely bare naked. It's romantic, but some might say otherwise.


Cast

• Lucy-Evan Rachel Wood
• Jim Sturgess-Jude
• Joe Anderson-Max
• Dana Fuchs-Sadie
• Martin Luther McCoy-Jojo
• T.V. Carpio- Prudence
• Timothy T. Mitchum-Jojo's younger brother
• Carol Woods- Gospel singer
• Orfeh- Hooker #1
• Tracy Nicole Chapman- Hooker #2
• Jacob Pitts- Desmond
• Logan Marshall-Green-Paco
• Bono-Dr. Robert
• Salma Hayek-Bang Bang Shoot Shoot nurses
• James Urbaniak- Sadie's manager
• Eddie Izzard- Mr. Kite
• Harry Lennix- Army sergeant
• Lawrence Leritz- singing riot cop
• Joe Cocker-pimp/mad hippie/bum
• Lisa Hogg- Jude's mom
• Robert Clohessy- Wesley, Jude's father
• Dylan Baker and Lisa Emond- Mr. and Mrs. Carrigan
• Lynn Cohen- Grandma Carrigan
• Bill Irwin-Uncle Teddy
• Spencer Liff- Daniel, Lucy's boyfriend

Pictures from the movie

Man what a cutie!!!!!!! Kinda looks like a cross between a young Paul McCartney and a young George Harrison

Movie Review

The Relic
Summary

• At Chicago's Natural History Museum, a bunch of crates arrive from South America, containing some findings from one of the researchers at the museum. The crates arrive with very little inside, and that is deemed suspicious. On the cargo ship that brought the crates, there were 2 murders that took place and a murder inside the museum. Investigating the case is Lt. Vincent D'Agosta, who's a lieutenant with the Chicago Police Dept, and helping him is Dr. Margo Green, who is a researcher at the museum. And somehow, there is a large, massive, gruesome creature lurking in the museum on the eve of a benefit gala the mayor is due to attend. I give this movie a 5 out of 5 star rating, it was totally awesome!

Cast

• Penelope Ann Miller: Dr. Margo Green
• Tom Sizemore: Lt. Vincent D'Agosta
• Linda Hunt: Dr. Ann Cuthbert
• James Whitmore: Dr. Albert Frock
• Chi Muoi Lee: Dr. Greg Lee
• Robert Lesser: Mayer Robert Owen
• Diane Robin: The Mayor's Wife

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120004/plotsummary

Pictures from the movie

Tom Sizemore as Lt. Vincent D'Agosta

The creature

The exhibit in the Chicago Natural History Museum, titled Superstition

Close-up of Tom Sizemore as Lt. Vincent D'Agosta. In the books, he's supposed to be a Lieutenant with the NYPD, not the Chicago Police Dept.

Actors/Actresses

When it comes to movies, everyone always seems to have just that one actor or actress that they practically pledge allegiance to. Well, I have a lot of favorite actors and actresses. Here's a few:

Jet Li

• DOB: April 26, 1963, Beijing, China
• Birth name: Li Lian Jie
• Height: 5'6 1/4''
• Mini Bio:
• Started at the Beijing wushu academy at age 8, won 5 gold medals in the Chinese championships
• Spouse:
• Nina Li-Chi: Sept. 19, 1999-present, 2 children
• Qiuyan Huang: 1987-1990, 2 daughters
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001472/bio
• Won Chinese national championship in wushu martial arts when he was 11. His prize was going to Washington D.C. to meet President Nixon
• Did the motion-capture fight scenes and voice overs for the character Kit Yun in Rise to Honor
• On December 26, 2004, Li and his 4 year old daughter were on vacation in the Maldives when a tsunami came ashore. They were in the lobby of their hotel when it came ashore so he picked up his daughter and ran for higher ground but a piece of furniture struck his foot, breaking it
• Bruised his ribs while fighting with Anthony Anderson in Romeo Must Die(2000)

Chow Yun-fat

• DOB: May 18, 1955, Lamma Island, Hong Kong
• Birth name: Chow Yun-fat
• Nickname: Fat Tsai, Fat Korr(big brother)
• Height: 6'1''
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000334/bio
• Trademark: often seen with a toothpick in his mouth, usually his movies with John Woo, can be seen in movies with twin guns(2 Beretta .92s) and dark shades on during a gunfight
• Trivia
• Before going to a movie set each day, he goes to the nearest market and buys fresh fruit
• Unusually tall by Chinese standards, is often a head taller than most of his Chinese co-stars, male or female
• Tri-lingual, speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, English
• Enjoys photography, his elder sister is a photographer
• Attempted suicide over the break up after 5 year relationship with TV star Idy Chan

B.D. Wong

• DOB: October 24, 1960, San Francisco, California
• Birth name: Bradley Darryl Wong
• Height: 5'5''
• Trivia
• Left handed
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000703/bio
• On May 28, 2000, him and partner Richie Jackson welcomed son Jackson Foo Wong
• Is openly gay. I never knew this, but I still like him, I still think he's the sexiest one on SVU!!!

Eddie Murphy

• DOB: April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York
• Birth name: Edward Regan Murphy
• Nickname: Ed, Murph
• Height: 5'9''
• Trademark: his laugh, in movies plays multiple characters at once
• Trivia
• Cast by Saturday Night Live in 1980 when he was only 19 years old
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000552/bio
• Attended Nassau Community College before beginning acting
• Was inspired by Richard Pryor to do comedy.  Went on to direct Pryor in Harlem Nights(1989)
• Paid in full the funeral for comedian Redd Foxx
• Dated Halle Berry

Denzel Washington

• DOB: December 28, 1954, Mount Vernon, New York
• Birth name: Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. 
• Nickname: D
• Height: 6'
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/bio
• Trademark: often plays military men and law enforcement officers
• Trivia
• Spokesperson for the Boys and Girls Club of America
• Thought about becoming a doctor by studying Biology, then Political Science then Journalism/Drama in college
• 1st African-American to win 2 Academy Awards
• In 1996, chosen as People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
• For his role in Philadelphia, he hung around with 2 lawyers about to become celebrities themselves- Johnny Cochran and Carl Douglas
• For his role in Courage Under Fire, he trained at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin California. He listened to tapes from Desert Storm, participated in battle games, excelled on operating the M1A1 tank and 120 mm gun
• For his role in The Pelican Brief, he went on the beat with Washington Post reporters
• Was the original choice for the 1998 movie Blade. But instead the role went to Wesley Snipes

Sylvester Stallone

• DOB: July 6, 1946, Hells Kitchen, New York City, New York
• Birth name: Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone
• Height: 5'9 1/2
• Nickname: Sly, The Italian Stallion, Michael(as a teen)
• Trademark:  deep voice, mumbling
• Trivia
• Oil paints in his spare time, considers Leonardo Da Vinci his hero
• Birth complications, caused by forceps, caused the paralysis of his lower left side of his face, resulting in slurred speech
• At 15, voted Most Likely to End Up in the Electric Chair
• Dislikes his first name, prefers Sly
• Attended University of Miami on an athletic scholarship
• Italian American ( no duh, Captain Obvious, lol)
• Was 23 years old when he got his 1st starring role in the movie Party At Kitty and Stud's, a 1970s porn movie, in almost every scene he appears nude
• His 2 trademark movies are the Rambo and Rocky movies
• At birth, the doctor's forceps accidentally severed a nerve in his cheek, leaving him with a droopy mouth
• Lives in Beverly Hills, California
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000230/bio

Jackie Chan

• DOB: April 7, 1954, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, China
• Birth name: Kong-sang Chan
• Nickname: Y'uen Lo, Sing Lung, Pao Pao(Chinese for cannonball)
• Height: 5'8 1/2''
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000329/bio
• Mini Bio
• Attended the China Drama Academy at age 6
• Trained vigorously in dance, traditional martial arts and music
• Spouse: Feng-Jiao Lin: December 1, 1982-present, 1 child
• Trademark: uses every day items as props in movies(i.e. chairs, table legs, ladders, lamps, etc), like to give the 'thumbs up', mostly does his own stunts, at the end of his films has outtakes of failed stunts, always plays the good guy except in Rumble in Hong Kong, always stars in movies where he is tortured or forced to undergo extreme physical training(i.e. teacher or master as punishment)
• Trivia
•  Kong-sang means born in Hong Kong
• Has a son, Jaycee Chan, with wife Feng-Jiao Lin
• Has a permanent hole in his head from an accident
• In 1976, underwent a surgery to re-shape his eyelids to give them a more Western appearance. The last movie with the 'old' Chan with his very handsome almond shaped eyes is Shao Lin mu ren xiang(1976)
• In the 1998 movie Mulan, he sings the song I'll Make a Man Out of You all in Chinese
• Says the most painful injury he received was when Bruce Lee accidentally hit him with a nunchuku during the making of the 1973 movie Enter the Dragon
• Can speak Mandarin, English, Cantonese, and Korean
• Says that if he didn't become an actor, he'd be a police officer
• His name Jackie came  from construction workers in Canberra Australia who couldn't pronounce his real name
• Was supposed to play Sato in the 1989 movie Black Rain, but declined as it didn't fit his good guy image. Instead the role went to Russell Wong

Lucy Liu

• DOB: December 2, 1968, Queens, New York
• Birth name: Lucy Alexis Liu
• Height: 5'3''
• Mini Bio
• Born to Chinese immigrants in New York
• She was once only given 'ethnic roles' and wants to move beyond doing Asian-American roles and experience
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005154/bio
• Graduated from University of Michigan with a degree in Chinese language and culture
• Trivia
• At home, her family spoke Mandarin Chinese. So she did not learn English until age 5
• Was the 1st Asian-American to host Saturday Night Live
• One of her previous jobs was an aerobics instructor
• Practices rock climbing, skiing and horseback riding
• Auditioned for Shanghai Knights, but lost out to Fann Wong
• Fluent in Italian, English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and a little Japanese
• Lives in New York with her brother Alex Liu and his wife
• Speaks 6 languages

Mariska Hargitay

• DOB: January 23, 1964, Santa Monica California
• Birth name: Mariska Magdolna Hargitay
• Height: 5'7''
• Spouse: Peter Hermann: August 28, 2004-present, 2 kids
• Trivia
• Speaks Hungarian, English, French and Italian
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002127/bio
• Daughter of Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay
• Has a zig zag scar down the side of her head from the 1967 crash that killed her mother
• Has a charity called the Joyful Heart Foundation that helps victims of rape

Kate Winslet

• DOB: October 5, 1975, Reading, Berkshire, England
• Birth name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
• Nickname: Corset, English Rose
• Height: 5'6''
• Trivia
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000701/bio
• Prefers to wear boots rather than ordinary shoes
• Born in the same year and on the same day as actress Parminder Nagra
• Lives in New York City, but owns a house in Glouchestershire, England

Marisa Tomei

• DOB: December 4, 1964, Brooklyn, New York
• Height: 5'4''
• Trademark
• Usually plays a character in a damaged relationship or emotionally damaged life
• Her smile
• Sidekick roles
• Plays independent women with a carefree appearance but complex and difficult life
• Trivia
• Attended Boston University
• On her right foot, has the Egyptian Eye of Ra tattoo for protection
• Of Italian descent
• Has dual citizenship to the US and to Italy
• Godmother of Zoe Kravitz, the daughter of actress Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000673/bio

Queen Latifah

• DOB: March 18, 1970, Newark, New Jersey
• Birth name: Dana Elaine Owens
• Nickname: Hip-Hop's First Lady
• Height: 5'10''
• Trivia
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001451/bio
• First female rapper to be nominated for an Academy Award
• Got her nickname Latifah in her teens. It means delicate and sensitive, and she got it from a cousin
• Is of both African-American and Native American descent