Thursday, 11 February 2010

Thursday, 28 January 2010

  • Pratt's reality check

    Pratt's reality check
    Doors were not opening for reality stars at Sundance. When Stephanie Pratt of "The Hills"arrived at Tao at The Lift at 3 a.m. Sunday with a big entourage, "she was told only two of her guests could join her," a spy said. "She created a scene at the door and was told to go in or be booted. She went inside pouting with two friends, leaving the rest outside." A rep for Pratt said, "She was with her best friend. She was enjoying herself." Also left in the cold was Jon Gosselin, with a new girlfriend. We're told, "He waited on line freezing for 20 minutes but actually seemed pretty relaxed about it." Inside were Jon Hamm, Amber Tamblyn, Jared Leto and Ron Burkle.

    Pratt's reality check



Tuesday, 12 January 2010

Monday, 16 November 2009

  • FBI investigating people with ties to alleged Fort Hood gunman

    FBI investigating people with ties to alleged Fort Hood gunman

    FBI investigating people with ties to alleged Fort Hood gunman


    The alleged gunman accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood last week reportedly had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki.

    A senior government official told ABC News that investigators have found that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had boarder ties to terrorists, although officials declined to name the individuals.

    This comes as four FBI agents showed up Tuesday at the Texas mosque where Hasan prayed and searched trash bins outside.

    The mosque president was clearly upset when he had to return from traveling to the service to sign a document handed to him by agents, apparently authorizing the search, ABC News reported on its Web site Tuesday.


    The FBI would not comment on what the agents were looking for five days after the shooting.

    "Obviously, the key is did he act alone," former senior FBI official Brad Garrett told ABC News. "And secondarily is, what evidence might potentially be in the dumpsters or at the mosque."

    Questions already surround Hasan's contact with Awlaki, a radical cleric based in Yemen whom authorities consider an al Qaeda recruiter.

    Authorities confirmed to ABC News that Hasan sent as many as 20 e-mails to Awlaki. The FBI intercepted the e-mails, but later deemed them innocent because he was an Army shrink.

    The FBI said it turned over the information to the Army, but Defense Department officials denied that Tuesday night.

    One military investigator on a joint terror task force with the FBI was shown the e-mails, but they were never forwarded in a formal way to more senior officials at the Pentagon, and the Army did not learn of the contacts until after the shootings, ABC News reported.

    On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Hasan gave a PowerPoint presentation to fellow Army doctors in 2007 in which he said, "It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims."

    He recommended that Muslim soldiers be given the option of being released from the military as conscientious objectors to decrease what he called "adverse events."

    The alleged gunman accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood last week reportedly had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki.

    A senior government official told ABC News that investigators have found that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had boarder ties to terrorists, although officials declined to name the individuals.

    This comes as four FBI agents showed up Tuesday at the Texas mosque where Hasan prayed and searched trash bins outside.

    The mosque president was clearly upset when he had to return from traveling to the service to sign a document handed to him by agents, apparently authorizing the search, ABC News reported on its Web site Tuesday.


    The FBI would not comment on what the agents were looking for five days after the shooting.

    "Obviously, the key is did he act alone," former senior FBI official Brad Garrett told ABC News. "And secondarily is, what evidence might potentially be in the dumpsters or at the mosque."

    Questions already surround Hasan's contact with Awlaki, a radical cleric based in Yemen whom authorities consider an al Qaeda recruiter.

    Authorities confirmed to ABC News that Hasan sent as many as 20 e-mails to Awlaki. The FBI intercepted the e-mails, but later deemed them innocent because he was an Army shrink.

    The FBI said it turned over the information to the Army, but Defense Department officials denied that Tuesday night.

    One military investigator on a joint terror task force with the FBI was shown the e-mails, but they were never forwarded in a formal way to more senior officials at the Pentagon, and the Army did not learn of the contacts until after the shootings, ABC News reported.

    On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Hasan gave a PowerPoint presentation to fellow Army doctors in 2007 in which he said, "It's getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims."

    He recommended that Muslim soldiers be given the option of being released from the military as conscientious objectors to decrease what he called "adverse events."

    "We love death more than you love life," Hasan wrote under a section titled "Comments."

  • Kiss kiss fang fang


    Kiss kiss fang fang
    How 'Twilight: New Moon' turned into the hottest, hairiest love triangle of all time

    By SARA STEWART

    http://eng.agkeu.c0m.at/ushathenyec.html

    The making of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" has been defined by two things: abs and angst. The sequel to last year's paranormal-romance megahit "Twilight" was a hot topic pretty much as soon as credits rolled on the first film, but there were concerns right off the bat.

    Could actor Taylor Lautner mirror the abnormal growth spurt his character, Jacob, goes through in book two? Could teenage girls survive the story's major lack of Edward Cullen-ness? And could director Chris Weitz actually get anything done, given the omnipresent horde of shrieking "Twilight" fans?

    Everett Collection / Everett Col
    In the novel, Edward (Robert Pattinson) isn't around much, so "New Moon" shows him as a ghostly vision supporting Bella
    (Kristen Stewart) as she mourns his absence.


    Happily, the answer is yes, and "New Moon" is poised to be an even bigger hit than its predecessor, thanks in large part to a savvy marketing campaign that's been whetting so-called Twihards' appetites with mega-hyped trailers, film clips and juicy on-set gossip for the past six months.

    It's been a long and exhausting process for everyone involved in the shoot, which took place on Canada's Pacific Coast and in Italy. Just ask Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson - a k a Bella and Edward - who've been at the center of a yearlong media investigation into whether they're Truly in Love (or, as one pop culture blog puts it, the "OMGTWILIGHTISREAL" phenomenon).

    To hear the two stars tell it, they're just a couple of introverts who weirdly found themselves at the center of an unwanted storm of attention. Almost never actually addressing the rumors spawned by occasional snaps of the two holding hands or kissing, they've been giving vague, awkward interviews that mostly revolve around the question of "Dude, why do you even care?"

    "I probably would've answered it if people hadn't made such a big deal about it," Stewart said recently. "But I'm not going to give . . . an answer. People are really funny about 'Well, you chose to be an actor, why don't you just . . . give your whole life away? Can I have your firstborn child?'

    "There's no answer that's not going to tip you one way or the other," she added. "Think about every hypothetical situation: 'OK, we are. We aren't. I'm a lesbian.' "

    For Stewart, this f-off attitude couldn't have dovetailed more perfectly with her character. Bella Swan is a moody, accident-prone loner who finds her soul mate in supermodel-hot vampire Edward Cullen, a "vegetarian" who abstains from drinking human blood, and who treats Bella as though she's made of glass.

    In the first movie, this meant two delectable hours of watching them fall in love and struggle against their baser impulses (if he gets too excited, he might kill her accidentally) and decide that, against all odds, they will love each other forever and ever no matter what.

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