Todesgeist & other: May 2008

Friday, 30 May 2008

Angelina Jolie makes surprise visit to Baghdad

UN goodwill ambassador and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has travelled to Iraq on a humanitarian mission and met with officials to demand help for people displaced by the war.
Although a scheduled press conference at the US embassy was cancelled, the Oscar-winning actress spoke to CNN telling the station that she wanted more to be done for the Iraqi families driven from their homes.
The 32-year-old said: "There are over two million displaced people and there never seems to be a real coherent plan to help them. There's lots of good will and lots of discussion but there seems to be a lot of talk at the moment and a lot of pieces that need to be put together."
The US embassy in Baghdad confirmed that Jolie had lunch with US troops serving in Iraq and had held a meeting with their top commander General David Petraeus, senior diplomats and Iraq's minister for displaced people.
A US embassy official told AFP: "She is here in her official capacity as a UN goodwill ambassador to meet with US, Iraqi and NGO officials to discuss internally displaced persons."
She also held talks in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone with the UN head of mission Staffan di Mistura and there were also plans for her to meet Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a US official said.
Jolie told CNN: "Of the two million internally displaced, it's estimated 58% are under 12-years-old. It's a very high number of people in a very, very vulnerable situation and a lot of young kids".
"So far, the different US officials I met with and different local people I've met with all have shared concerns, very, very strongly. They have spoken out about the humanitarian crisis, but there seems to be a block in," said the star.
Jolie continued: "What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East. And a big part of what it's going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like."
She added: "It's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can lead to a lot of instability and aggression."
Jolie is no stranger to the country. In August 2007, she met some of the 1,200 Iraqis stranded on the border between Iraq and Syria and appealed for more international support for those affected by the Iraq conflict.
During that tour, Jolie left UNHCR officials to visit privately with US and other multinational forces based in the area.
The following month, she launched a $150m appeal by UNICEF, the UN's fund for children, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to help educate 1m children affected by the war.

Monday, 19 May 2008

Cotton quits X Factor for US career

Television presenter Fearne Cotton plant has reportedly foreswear 'The X Factor' after landing a deal for a newly talent usher in the US.
The 25-year-old principal, wHO has hosted just one series of the by-product show 'The Xtra Factor', is at once preparation to move to the US to pursue her telly calling there.
A generator told The Dominicus: "Fearne had sport workings on 'X Factor' only she decided to quit patch she was ahead."
"In that location was no insure she would have been doing a second series. It made sense to make a strip break in and concentrate on America."
Cotton fiber has signed up to co-host the US talent evidence 'Last Comic Standing' on NBC.

George Dalaras

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Alba announces that she is engaged

Pregnant star Jessica Alba has announced that she is engaged to her boyfriend, film producer Hard cash Warren.
In an e-mail to the Associated Campaign, Alba's publiciser, Brad Cafarelli, said: "I can buoy confirm that they are engaged."
Cafarelli said the couple's baby was due in deep springtime or early on summer.
Alba testament next be seen on movie theater screens in the thriller 'Awake'.

3 Inches Of Blood

Thursday, 8 May 2008

Mother alleging Spears was drugged

Britney Spears' mother has alleged that the 26-year-old singer was "drugged" by her self-styled director, SAM Lufti, in social club to take control of her animation, abode and money.
Reuters reports that Lynne Spears' allegations were contained in a sworn declaration submitted to the royal court in order to hold a temp restraining order against Lufti.
The restraining order against Lufti forbids him from contacting Spears in any way.
In the declaration, Lynne Spears alleged: "Mr Lutfi drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home telephone set blood and removed her cellular telephone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything - Britney's business managing director, her attorneys and security guards at the gate."
Lynne Spears describes arriving at her daughter's family on 28 Jan and finding her in a confused country.
She said: "Britney... became real agitated and could not stop moving. She cleaned the family. She changed her wearing apparel many times. She as well changed her dogs' wearing apparel many multiplication. Britney rundle to me in a tone and with the level of discernment of a very young girlfriend."
The singer's mother claims that Lufti told her and a acquaintance that he gave the 26-year-old tablets ground up in her food for thought to keep her tranquillity and told the troubled entertainer that she had to subscribe "10 pills a clarence Shepard Day Jr." if she wanted to go out her two pres Young sons.
Britney Spears' founder Jamie and lawyer Saint Andrew the Apostle Wallete experience been granted temporary control of the star's assets, pending further legal proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Spears must be examined by a court-appointed head-shrinker to regulate if she understands the legal proceedings.

Lohan tops worst performance poll

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Arhant has topped a poll for the Worst Operation by an Actress in 2007.
Lohan's performance in the thriller 'I Acknowledge WHO Killed Me' was voted the worst performance by 58% of voters in the poll by AOL's website Moviefone.
Another of the star's films, 'Georgia Rule', ranked second gear in the 'Which Was the Biggest Waste of Your $10?' section.
Eddie Murphy's 'Norbit' was kickoff in that section; he besides topped the canvass for Worst Operation by an Actor for 'Norbit'.
'300' topped the 'Which Picture show Was To the highest degree Worth Your $10?' segment with 'Transformers' in second.
'Superbad' was voted Topper Comedy with Reb Depp voted Hottest Hunk and 'Transformers' star Megan George Fox voted Sexiest Baby.

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