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Break? Thandie plans another little one
By KATIE NICHOLL - More by this author
Last updated at 20:43pm on 8th March 2008
Children have always been the first priority for Hollywood actress Thandie Newton.
The 35-year-old star took time out after her first daughter Ripley was born in 2000 –and did the same when she had another girl, Nico, in 2004.
Yummy mummy: Thandie Newton, 35, has two daughters, Ripley and Nico, and now wants time off as she plans to add to the brood
Now, having had time to get to know them, the star of Crash and Run Fatboy Run is planning to add to her family again.
And that will mean another break from the big screen for London-born Thandie, who is married to film director Oliver Parker, 39, the father of her two children.
"She felt a strong urge to have another baby straight after both Ripley and Nico," a source says. "But she decided to bond with them and see how she felt.
"Now she wants time off to maybe add to her family. Thandie is very maternal and if she even hears a kid cry, she goes over to offer help."
source Daily Mail
Friday, March 07, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Theatre stars unite for reform of 'brutal' UK asylum system
Young Vic to stage play about life in notorious detention centre to show plight of women and child migrants
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Stars of British theatre, film and television will tonight turn the spotlight on what they describe as the brutal treatment of women and children seeking asylum in the UK.
The award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson will lead the protest against conditions at the controversial Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire and the UK's treatment of Meltem Avcil, a 14-year-old Turkish asylum seeker.
Ms Stevenson, the star of the film Truly Madly Deeply, met Meltem and her mother Cennet in Yarl's Wood earlier this year and was so moved by the encounter that she decided to bring their stories, together with those of other asylum seekers, to life in a special Mother's Day performance at the Young Vic in London.
Ms Stevenson and her 13-year-old daughter Rosalind will perform in Motherland, a dramatisation of life in a British immigration detention centre. They will play the parts of Meltem Avcil and her mother, who were released from Yarl's Wood after a high-profile campaign.
"The brutality of the asylum process here is far more shocking than I realised," said Ms Stevenson. "I hope people will be moved. I think that if they really heard the forms of injustice and cruelty this system is inflicting on people perhaps they might be moved to take action. We can't bring everyone to Yarl's Wood but we can bring Yarl's Wood to more people," she added.
A celebrity line-up is expected to support the event, including the actresses Thandie Newton and Harriet Walter, the novelist Susie Boyt and the restaurateur Ruth Rogers. Alan Rickman, Stevenson's co-star in Truly Madly Deeply, Baroness (Helena) Kennedy QC and the former England cricket captain Mike Brearley are also lending support to the campaign for an improved, more humane detention system.
The event is being organised by Women for Refugee Women, which will urge supporters to sign a Mother's Day petition to be sent to ministers. The petition calls on the Government to "ensure that the persecution women face, including rape, honour crimes and female genital mutilation, is taken seriously in asylum claims; we call on the Government not to make destitute, detain or deport women who are at risk of gender-related persecution."
It demands that Harriet Harman, the minister for women and equality, "push for justice for women in the asylum process, including full implementation of the gender guidelines introduced in 2004; access to quality legal representation for every woman asylum seeker; and an end to the detention of families and survivors of torture".
Although Meltem and her mother are now free, their future is far from certain as the Government is understood to still be pressing for their deportation.
from the Independent
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Stars of British theatre, film and television will tonight turn the spotlight on what they describe as the brutal treatment of women and children seeking asylum in the UK.
The award-winning actress Juliet Stevenson will lead the protest against conditions at the controversial Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire and the UK's treatment of Meltem Avcil, a 14-year-old Turkish asylum seeker.
Ms Stevenson, the star of the film Truly Madly Deeply, met Meltem and her mother Cennet in Yarl's Wood earlier this year and was so moved by the encounter that she decided to bring their stories, together with those of other asylum seekers, to life in a special Mother's Day performance at the Young Vic in London.
Ms Stevenson and her 13-year-old daughter Rosalind will perform in Motherland, a dramatisation of life in a British immigration detention centre. They will play the parts of Meltem Avcil and her mother, who were released from Yarl's Wood after a high-profile campaign.
"The brutality of the asylum process here is far more shocking than I realised," said Ms Stevenson. "I hope people will be moved. I think that if they really heard the forms of injustice and cruelty this system is inflicting on people perhaps they might be moved to take action. We can't bring everyone to Yarl's Wood but we can bring Yarl's Wood to more people," she added.
A celebrity line-up is expected to support the event, including the actresses Thandie Newton and Harriet Walter, the novelist Susie Boyt and the restaurateur Ruth Rogers. Alan Rickman, Stevenson's co-star in Truly Madly Deeply, Baroness (Helena) Kennedy QC and the former England cricket captain Mike Brearley are also lending support to the campaign for an improved, more humane detention system.
The event is being organised by Women for Refugee Women, which will urge supporters to sign a Mother's Day petition to be sent to ministers. The petition calls on the Government to "ensure that the persecution women face, including rape, honour crimes and female genital mutilation, is taken seriously in asylum claims; we call on the Government not to make destitute, detain or deport women who are at risk of gender-related persecution."
It demands that Harriet Harman, the minister for women and equality, "push for justice for women in the asylum process, including full implementation of the gender guidelines introduced in 2004; access to quality legal representation for every woman asylum seeker; and an end to the detention of families and survivors of torture".
Although Meltem and her mother are now free, their future is far from certain as the Government is understood to still be pressing for their deportation.
from the Independent
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Thandie Newton at Vogue and Finch & Partners Pre-BAFTA Party in London - February 8 & 9, 2008
source http://profusion123.blogspot.com
Monday, January 28, 2008
Crash to Return as TV Show in 2008
28-Jan-2008
Written by: Matt Nathanson
Academy Award winning film "Crash" to return as TV show in 2008 on Starz.
The 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture – director Paul Haggis’s Crash – is returning later this year as a TV series, helmed by Haggis and “possibly” starring the film’s star, Don Cheadle.
The film-spinoff will be seen on the Starz network. Starz has initially ordered thirteen one-hour episodes, which may begin airing as early as August 2008.
The plot of Crash, released by Lionsgate in 2005, extrapolated on the theme of racial and ethnic tensions in urban America. Its multiple strands of storyline were woven together expertly through the film, and the stories converged in several twists and ironic endings.
The original cast, which included Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie Newton, and Ryan Philippe, are all being asked to return, at least for the intial episodes. Cheadle, who had a large part in bringing this cast together initially, is expected to help in recruiting the show’s players.
Starz, a pay cable channel launched in 1994, is the sister network of Encore, another pay station. Though initially conceived as a network strictly dedicated to feature-length films, Starz has branched out into TV serials. Last week they launched their first original programming, two half-hour comedies, Head Case and Hollywood Residential.
Written by: Matt Nathanson
Academy Award winning film "Crash" to return as TV show in 2008 on Starz.
The 2005 Oscar winner for Best Picture – director Paul Haggis’s Crash – is returning later this year as a TV series, helmed by Haggis and “possibly” starring the film’s star, Don Cheadle.
The film-spinoff will be seen on the Starz network. Starz has initially ordered thirteen one-hour episodes, which may begin airing as early as August 2008.
The plot of Crash, released by Lionsgate in 2005, extrapolated on the theme of racial and ethnic tensions in urban America. Its multiple strands of storyline were woven together expertly through the film, and the stories converged in several twists and ironic endings.
The original cast, which included Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Thandie Newton, and Ryan Philippe, are all being asked to return, at least for the intial episodes. Cheadle, who had a large part in bringing this cast together initially, is expected to help in recruiting the show’s players.
Starz, a pay cable channel launched in 1994, is the sister network of Encore, another pay station. Though initially conceived as a network strictly dedicated to feature-length films, Starz has branched out into TV serials. Last week they launched their first original programming, two half-hour comedies, Head Case and Hollywood Residential.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
update on RocknRolla
RocknRolla
Release Date: Fall 2008 (estimated) Writer/Director: Guy Ritchie (Snatch) Cast: Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson The Buzz: London’s criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster’s shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs. Ritche makes his return to the Gangster film. Thank god because I for one can’t take another Swept Away. Trivia: Thandie Newton claims to have signed on for two sequels
Release Date: Fall 2008 (estimated) Writer/Director: Guy Ritchie (Snatch) Cast: Gerard Butler, Jeremy Piven, Thandie Newton, Tom Wilkinson The Buzz: London’s criminal underworld takes notice of a Russian mobster’s shady land deal, a scam that puts millions of dollars up for grabs. Ritche makes his return to the Gangster film. Thank god because I for one can’t take another Swept Away. Trivia: Thandie Newton claims to have signed on for two sequels
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