Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are set to marry, according to reports.
Gyllenhaal reportedly proposed to Witherspoon during the couple's vacation in Rome last October.
However, Witherspoon, who won an Oscar for her appearance in 'Walk The Line', is said to have initially declined his offer so soon after her split from Ryan Phillippe.
Now the San Francisco Chronicle is reporteding that she has said 'yes' after consulting with close friends.
The newspaper qotes a friend of the actress as saying: "Not only were they (her friends) crazy about Jake, they could see he was absolutely nuts about her. But you've got to understand - Reese is a one-man woman who hates playing the field.
"When Jake proposed in Rome, he knew Reese needed time, and didn't really expect her to say 'yes' right away. He just wanted her to know that he was serious about their relationship - serious enough to make her his wife."
Witherspoon ended her eight-year marriage to Phillippe with divorce last year.
Friday 30 May 2008
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Indiana Jones - Fascinating Fact 5338
The new INDIANA JONES movie is expected to make $168 million (GBP84 million) at the box office in its first five days on release. The film hits cinemas on 22 May (08).
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'Jones' nabs $126 mil opening weekend
Five-day cume estimated at $151 mil
Paramount's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" has dug up an estimated $126 million since its opening at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.
That includes an estimated $101 million in Friday-Sunday coin, which followed a first-day Thursday gross of $25 million. Par also projected a $25 million haul for Monday, which would give the first Indy sequel in 19 years a five-day cume of $151 million.
Once tallies are in for the entire Memorial Day frame through Monday, the iconic adventure sequel will be measured against marks such as the $151.1 million tally posted by last year's "Spider-Man 3" in a best-ever weekend opening.
"Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith" enjoyed the highest-grossing first five days of any picture before or since, registering $172.8 million after debuting on a Thursday before a non-holiday weekend in May 2005.
Data service Nielsen EDI recognizes only three- and four-day opening weekends, including holiday-lengthened sessions. So for the record books, "Skull" will have its Friday-Monday total stacked up against opening-weekend bows topped by the Spidey sequel.
Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Par, "Skull" bowed Thursday with grosses ranking well down on a list of best opening days topped by "Spider-Man 3," which featured a first-day Friday gross of $59.8 million.
"Sith" is still the best-ever Thursday opener, with $50 million in first-day boxoffice.
The Indy sequel registered an estimated $37 million on Saturday, the first session offering the opportunity to fatten "Skull" grosses with robust family business. Par estimated its Sunday haul at $33 million.
Elsewhere Sunday, Disney was projecting a Friday-Sunday gross of $23 million for its family-fantasy sequel "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian." Disney didn't project a Monday gross for the pic.
The Friday-Sunday tally represented a 58% drop from the opening weekend for "Prince Caspian." The Walden Media co-production, which is expected to finish in second place through Monday, toted a 10-day cume of $91.1 million through Sunday.
And in the frame's bonze-medal position, the Par-distributed Marvel pic "Iron Man" produced an estimated three-day haul of $20.1 million and an estimated $25.6 million through Monday. The holiday-bolstered coin would yield a cume of $257.8 million for "Iron Man," by far 2008's best-grossing movie to date.
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Scarlett Johansson - Johansson Album Bombs With Critics
Actress-turned-singer SCARLETT JOHANSSON's debut album has received a series of scathing reviews from music critics, who have branded the star's recordings "fussy and forgettable".
The Lost In Translation star released her LP Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers, this week (begs19May08).
But several reviews of the 40-minute-long disc have been lukewarm, with commentators reserving their harshest criticism for Johansson's vocal abilities.
U.S. magazine Rolling Stone, which gave Johansson a mediocre 2.5 stars out of five, complains, "Johansson's voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she's a faintly goth Marilyn Manson lost in a sonic fog."
Entertainment Weekly were also less than complimentary, giving the project an average "C" grade and remarking that her "expressionless voice" was concealed "deeply in the druggy ambiance".
The album, released on Rhino Records, contains 10 Waits covers with the exception of one original composition co-written by 23-year-old Johansson and TV On The Radio guitarist/keyboardist David Andrew Sitek. Rocker David Bowie contributes backing vocals on two of the tracks.
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Madonna happy to be "guinea pig" in adoption case
CANNES, France (Reuters) - American singer Madonna said on Thursday she was happy to be a "guinea pig" in a case she hopes could ease adoptions from Malawi, where an AIDS epidemic has orphaned more than 1 million children.
The southern African country's High Court is considering whether Madonna can adopt an infant boy.
A report by Malawi's Human Rights Commission says the adoption could be illegal because it does not conform with international conventions and procedures under the country's law.
Madonna, presenting a documentary on the plight of children in Malawi at the Cannes film festival, said the controversy had been difficult to deal with but she was happy to be involved in a move that might allow more children to be adopted.
"Up until this time there wasn't an adoption law, so consequently I'm sort of the template or the role model, so to speak, for future adoptions," she told a news conference.
"Hopefully after we get through this adoption it will be easier for other people to adopt children and I'm happy to be the guinea pig," she said.
But critics say she has been allowed to get around laws that prevent non-residents adopting children.
Madonna's film "I Am Because We Are" recounts the story behind her efforts to adopt David, a boy whose mother died in childbirth in Malawi, said she had tried to look at the controversy in a positive light.
The southern African country's High Court is considering whether Madonna can adopt an infant boy.
A report by Malawi's Human Rights Commission says the adoption could be illegal because it does not conform with international conventions and procedures under the country's law.
Madonna, presenting a documentary on the plight of children in Malawi at the Cannes film festival, said the controversy had been difficult to deal with but she was happy to be involved in a move that might allow more children to be adopted.
"Up until this time there wasn't an adoption law, so consequently I'm sort of the template or the role model, so to speak, for future adoptions," she told a news conference.
"Hopefully after we get through this adoption it will be easier for other people to adopt children and I'm happy to be the guinea pig," she said.
But critics say she has been allowed to get around laws that prevent non-residents adopting children.
Madonna's film "I Am Because We Are" recounts the story behind her efforts to adopt David, a boy whose mother died in childbirth in Malawi, said she had tried to look at the controversy in a positive light.
Freddy Fender
Artist: Freddy Fender
Genre(s):
Country
Rock
Reggae
Other
Discography:
Unforgettable Classics
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
Uforglemmelige Klassikere
Year: 2006
Tracks: 19
The Great Freddy Fender
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Baldemar Huerta: El Rey Del Tex - Mex
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Freddy Fender was one of the few Hispanic stars in country music, a vocaliser and ballad maker whose lick was defined largely by its hard Latin sensibility. Born Baldemar Huerta to a family of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender began playing guitar early in his childhood. After falling out of school at the age of 16 to join the Marine Corps, he released his number one Spanish-language recordings under his tending constitute in 1958.
Patch his initial sides were successful with listeners in Texas and Mexico, in 1959 he decided to adopt his stage refer, along with a stronger rockabilly feel, in order to attract "gringo" audiences. The following class, he released the self-penned "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," his to the highest degree successful single still. But in May of 1960, Fender was convicted of cannabis sativa possession, and was sentenced to little Phoebe years in Louisiana's ill-famed Angola State Prison (the same correctional installation which once held vapors legend Leadbelly). After helping trey eld, he was paroled thanks to the efforts of Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis, on the term that upon Fender's release he ride out away from the pestiferous influences of the music scene. After his parole all over, Fender tested to reignite his vocation, merely with the exception of a few unconnected nightspot gigs in the New Orleans country, he ground small success, and finally returned to San Benito.
In Texas, he spent several eld working as an auto mechanic, and fifty-fifty returned to school to pursue a arcdegree in sociology. In 1974, he met Huey P. Meaux, the proprietor of the Houston-based Crazy Cajun tag; after agreeing on a recording deal, it was Meaux wHO convinced Fender to manoeuvre in the direction of country & western spell maintaining his music's Hispanic roots. After Fender's number one Meaux-produced single, "In front the Next Teardrop Falls," failed to attract the attention of a major label, it was released on Crazy Cajun; in the number one weeks of 1975, the birdcall hit the peak of both the country and protrude charts, and Fender became an overnight whizz. For the follow-up, he re-recorded his early single, "Otiose Days and Wasted Nights," and jaggy his minute unbent routine one country hit. Before the year complete, he had released in time another chart-topper in "Secluded Love," and also issued deuce LPs, Since I Met You Baby and a self-titled exertion.
Passim the oddment of the '70s, Fender's success continued, to the highest degree notably with the number deuce single "Living It Down" in 1976. That same year, he released two more albums, Your Cheatin' Heart and Rock candy 'N' Country. In 1977, he also issued a holiday record, Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad. As the eighties dawned, however, his popularity began slipping; after his final chart hit, 1983's "Chokin' Kind," he focused on an acting life history, highlighted by an appearance in the 1988 Robert Redford film The Milagro Beanfield War. He remained largely silent as a musician until 1990, when he formed the Tex-Mex supergroup Texas Tornados with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers. After trey albums, the group disbanded, and Fender again resumed his solo life history.
Colin Farrell - Farrell Gets A Break In Potential Slander Battle
The former telephone sex worker who announced she was "waging a war on COLIN FARRELL" after he filed a restraining order against her has taken pity on the actor and agreed to leave him alone - until he gets healthy.
Dessarae Bradford, who unsuccessfully sued the Irish star for harassment twice, has released a song and a book detailing her alleged fling with Farrell.
But Bradford, who has also lashed out at Farrell in TV interviews, is keen to give the Irish actor a break after seeing new photographs of him looking gaunt and ill.
In a statement to WENN, she says, "I am curtailing my slander, libel, and defamation lawsuit that I am prepared to file against him, until he becomes healthy and fit to stand trial - or the matter gets settled beforehand." Farrell recently sparked fears for his health after he appeared at a press conference looking alarmingly gaunt - but he insists he's merely shedding weight for a film role.
The 31 year old shocked reporters when he showed up to promote his upcoming movie Triage - in which he plays a war reporter in 1990s Bosnia - during a trip to Spain.
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