 | Thandie Newton reconnects
with old times in Good Deeds
WE were a workingclass
family, no doubt
about it," Thandie
Newton says. "I´ll
never forget the day
when my mom put an empty jar on our
kitchen table. I was 5 years old, and
she said, ´Look, we don´t have much
money at the ....
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| | Gardening all the year round |
 WHEN I lived on
Elm Place in
Nutley, NJ, my
father and I simulated
a much needed greenhouse
environment in the
only really sunny window in
our house – a large picture
window right above our
kitchen table. Dad built out
the sill so that it measured a
bit more than a foot wide,
installed fluorescent light
bulbs directly above it and
placed all the seedlings we
would need for the vegetable
garden on the shelf until it
was time to plant them in the
prepared beds. Dad always
dreamed of having a real
greenhouse, but with six children,
college educations
looming and a limited
income, the windowsill
greenhouse remained the
reality.
I carried on that greenhouse
dream ... | | | Descendants, Midnight in Paris
win Writers Guild Awards |  WRITER-DIRECTOR
Woody Allen won the
Writers Guild of
America award for
best original screenplay
with Midnight in Paris, his tale of
a young writer in Paris who faces
questions of love.
The Descendants, which tells the
tale of a man who brings his family
together in a time of grief while his
cheating wife is hospitalised, earned
the WGA trophy for best adapted
screenplay for writers Alexander
Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash.
The awards give both movies a lift in
the race for the Oscars, the world´s top
film honours, because many guild
members also belong to
the Academy of
Motion Picture
Arts and
Sciences that
gives out the
Oscars on
February 26.
But the guilds ... | | | Emraan, Vidya team
up for Ghanchakkar |
 NOW this
one´s an
ooh la la
pairing!
Bollywo
od´s serial kisser
Emraan Hashmi
and The Dirty
Picture star Vidya
Balan have been
cast opposite each
other for comict
h r i l l e r
Ghanchakkar. The
two hope to steal
the limelight with
their casting in the
film.
A UTV Motion
Pictures´ project, the
quirky film is expected
to go on floors in August and will
be directed by Rajkumar Gupta, who
worked with Vidya in No One Killed
Jessica.
Gupta, who claims Ghanchakkar
is one of his "best projects till date",
says a lot of thought went behind
casting the two actors in the movie.
"As a director, you always visualise
certain actors for the roles and
if you are not required to compromise. | |
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