Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/257263333?client_source=feed&format=rss
unlv sam young ncaa bracket ramon sessions portland trail blazers nba trade blagojevich
Monday, October 22, 2012
Pope names 7 new saints, seeks to revive faith
Native Indians wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The pontiff will canonize seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Native Indians wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The pontiff will canonize seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
A group of nuns from the Philippines wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The pontiff will canonize seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Native Americans wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The pontiff will canonize seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Jake Finkbonner, of Ferndale, Washington, receives the holy communion from Pope Benedict XVI during a canonization ceremony, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Finkbonner was infected with a flesh-eating bacteria in 2006, when he was five years old, and his prognosis was so grave that his parents had last rites performed and were discussing donating his organs. The Vatican determined that Jake?s cure was a miracle due to the intercession of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Native American who is among seven people who were declared saints during the ceremony. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Native Indians from Quebec, Canada, hold an image of Kateri Tekakwitha, the first American Indian to achieve sainthood, as they wait for the start of a canonization ceremony celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The pontiff will canonize seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Some 80,000 pilgrims in flowered lei, feathered headdresses and other traditional garb flooded St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints onto the roster of Catholic role models in a bid to reinvigorate the faith in parts of the world where it's lagging.
Two of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th century Franciscan nun who cared for leprosy patients in Hawaii.
It seemed as if a third saint, Pedro Calungsod, a 17th century Filipino teenage martyr, drew the biggest crowd of all, with Rome's sizeable Filipino expat community turning out in flag-waving droves to welcome the country's second saint.
In his homily, Benedict praised each of the seven as heroic and courageous examples for the entire church, calling Cope a "shining" model for Catholics and Kateri an inspiration to indigenous faithful across North America.
"May the witness of these new saints ... speak today to the whole church, and may their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world," he said.
The celebrations began at dawn, with Native Americans in beaded and feathered headdresses and leather-fringed tunics singing songs to Kateri to the beat of drums as the sun rose over St. Peter's Square.
Later, the crowds cheered as the pope read out the names of each of the new saints in Latin and declared that they were worthy of veneration by the entire church. Prayers were read out in Mohawk and Cebuano, the dialect of Calungsod's native Cebu province, and in English by a nun wearing a lei.
"It's so nice to see God showing all the flavors of the world," marveled Gene Caldwell, a Native American member of the Menominee reservation in Neopit, Wisconsin, who attended with his wife, Linda. "The Native Americans are enthralled" to have Kateri canonized, he said.
The canonization coincided with a Vatican meeting of the world's bishops on trying to revive Christianity in places where it's fallen by the wayside.
Several of the new saints were missionaries, making clear the pope hopes their example ? even though they lived hundreds of years ago ? will be relevant today as the Catholic Church tries to hold on to its faithful. It's a tough task as the Vatican faces competition from evangelical churches in Africa and Latin America, increasing secularization in the West and disenchantment due to the clerical sex abuse scandal in Europe and beyond.
The two American saints actually hail from roughly the same place ? what is today upstate New York ? although they lived two centuries apart.
Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri was born in 1656 to a pagan Iroquois father and an Algonquin Christian mother. Her parents and only brother died when she was 4 during a smallpox epidemic that left her badly scarred and with impaired eyesight. She went to live with her uncle, a Mohawk, and was baptized Catholic by Jesuit missionaries. But she was ostracized and persecuted by other natives for her faith, and she died in what is now Canada when she was 24.
Speaking in English and French, in honor of Kateri's Canadian ties, Benedict noted how unusual it was in Kateri's indigenous culture for her to choose to devote herself to her Catholic faith.
"May her example help us to live where we are, loving Jesus without denying who we are," Benedict said. "Saint Kateri, protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint, we entrust you to the renewal of the faith in the first nations and in all of North America!"
Among the few people chosen to receive Communion from the pope himself was Jake Finkbonner, a 12-year-old boy of Native American descent from the western U.S. state of Washington, whose recovery from an infection of flesh-eating bacteria was deemed "miraculous" by the Vatican. The Vatican determined that Jake was cured through Kateri's intercession after his family and community invoked her in their prayers, paving the way for her canonization.
Cope is revered among many Catholics in Hawaii, where she arrived from New York in 1883 to care for leprosy patients on Kalaupapa, an isolated peninsula on Molokai Island where Hawaii governments forcibly exiled them for decades. At the time, there was widespread fear of the disfiguring disease, which can cause skin lesions, mangled fingers and toes and lead to blindness.
Cope, however, led a band of Franciscan nuns to the peninsula to care for the patients, just as Saint Damien, a Belgian priest, did in 1873. He died of the disease 16 years later and was canonized in 2009.
"At a time when little could be done for those suffering from this terrible disease, Marianne Cope showed the highest love, courage and enthusiasm," Benedict said in his homily. "She is a shining and energetic example of the best of the tradition of Catholic nursing sisters and of the spirit of her beloved St. Francis."
Two-hundred fifty pilgrims from Hawaii traveled to Rome for Mother Marianne's canonization, including nine Kalaupapa patients, as well as faithful from the local diocese.
"Marianne Cope means a great deal to us," said pilgrim Aida Javier, who traveled from Honolulu with her husband Romy for the Mass. "My husband and I feel blessed and honored to be part of this canonization."
Another pilgrim was Sharon Smith, of Syracuse, New York, whose 2005 cure from complications from pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas, was declared medically inexplicable by the Vatican ? the "miracle" needed for Mother Marianne to be named a saint. In an interview last week, Smith recounted how she had fainted one day in her home, an allergic reaction to medication she was taking for a kidney transplant, and awoke in the hospital to find that doctors weren't giving her much time to live.
Her disease was eating away at her insides, causing her stomach to detach from her intestines. Doctors said they couldn't repair it. At a certain point, a nun pinned a bag of ashes and dirt from Mother Marianne's grave on her and prayed.
"I had never heard of her, but we continued to pray," Smith said. "And I just, I started getting better."
"I believe in miracles, but I don't know whether it was all the prayers, or the pinning of the relic, but I know that something worked, and I'm here for some reason," Smith said.
The Vatican's complicated saint-making procedure requires that the Vatican certify a "miracle" was performed through the intercession of the candidate ? a medically inexplicable cure that can be directly linked to the prayers offered by the faithful. One miracle is needed for beatification, a second for canonization.
The Philippines' second saint, Calungsod, was a Filipino teenager who helped Jesuit priests convert natives in Guam in the 17th century but was killed by spear-wielding villagers opposed to the missionaries' efforts to baptize their children.
"We are especially proud because he is so young," said Marianna Dieza, a 39-year-old housekeeper working in Rome who was on hand for the Mass.
The other new saints are: Jacques Berthieu, a 19th century French Jesuit who was killed by rebels in Madagascar, where he had worked as a missionary; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian who founded a religious order in 1900 and established a Catholic printing and publishing house in his native Brescia; Carmen Salles y Barangueras, a Spanish nun who founded a religious order to educate children in 1892; and Anna Schaeffer, a 19th century German lay woman who became a model for the sick and suffering after she fell into a boiler and badly burned her legs. The wounds never healed, causing her constant pain.
___
Daniela Petroff contributed.
___
Follow Nicole Winfield at www.twitter.com/nwinfield
Associated Presslinkedin Samsung Galaxy S3 usps ups bachelor pad bachelor pad FedEx
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Pippa Middleton: It's "Startling" to Be Known for My Famous Butt ...
Pippa Middleton speaks!
The typically tight-lipped party planner, 29, recently chatted with the U.K.'s Mail on Sunday to promote her new book, Celebrate. Pippa also opened up about being thrust into the spotlight after her sister, Kate Middleton, 31, married Prince William, 31, in April 2011.
PHOTOS: Pippa Middleton's world-famous figure
"It is a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom," Pippa said. "One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside."
Pippa added, "I certainly have opportunities many can only dream of ? but in most ways I'm a typical girl in her 20s trying to forge a career and represent herself in what can sometimes seem rather strange circumstances. I am by nature an optimist so I tend to concentrate on the advantages. One of the most attractive has been the chance to publish Celebrate."
PHOTOS: Pippa Middleton's sophisticated street style
The triathlete hopes her book will give the public an inside look into who she is and what she does for a living. "I know many of you will pick up the book out of nothing more than curiosity," she writes in Celebrate. "I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much written about me when I have done so little to paint a picture of myself."
PHOTOS: Pippa Middleton's best fall looks
"This is my first chance to do that and I've enjoyed every minute of it," she writes. "The book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to home entertaining, based on my experience in my family's business Party Pieces and work for London-based events company Table Talk."
The Mail on Sunday is running 24 pages of excerpts from Celebrate in its You magazine. Further excerpts will appear in next week's issue.
state of the union drinking game oscar noms capital gains tim thomas oral roberts les paul fred thompson
Tips On Planning The Hawaii Wedding Of Your Dreams On A Budget
One of the biggest days in your life will be the day of your wedding. So long as you draw breath, you will remember this day. However, because it is so important, the plans that go into your wedding day can be stressful and difficult. After reading this article you will find many suggestions that will make your wedding day as good as it possibly can!
Let your caterer know you want an outdoor reception. Hot sunlight and strong winds can damage certain dishes, whilst chilly weather could spoil hot meals. You could utilize fancy covers to protect the dishes. Furthermore, consider hiring a refrigerator to keep beverages cool.
If you care about the bride, you will definitely be looking for ways to make sure her wedding is everything she has dreamed of. Planning a wedding and dealing with problems will make a bride stressed and anxious. You want to just run everything by her as well as make sure there is nothing that you are missing to ensure her happiness.
A thoughtful gift for destination wedding guests to receive is a basket of vacation goodies delivered to them in their room. Include maps, cameras, hats, disposable cameras, or guides on local attractions that they may want to visit. It would be nice to also include a guide to local restaurants to make it easy for them to eat.
Plan out fun and interesting group activities for the guests and members of the wedding party. Instead of your guests simply waiting for you to come down the aisle, plan a contest or a game for your guests to partake in while waiting for the wedding to begin. There are all kinds of things you can do, contests or fun, or try something like volleyball. The more fun your guests have, the better the entire event will be for everyone.
Choose someone who has an interest in photography that you will enjoy working with. They can help you with other stuff, like gathering the family for group shots, also.
An online itinerary will facilitate a smooth experience, especially for your out-of-town guests. This schedule allows everyone to know when and where they need to be. Include events such as the rehearsal, dinners, fittings and anything else they might need to appear at.
While it may seem obvious, remember that who you plan to marry should be the biggest consideration of all! Do not make a hasty decision. You should consider the things you enjoy in your companion, as well as the things that irritate you.
If a friend of yours has something you want to wear simply as them. This can give you the look you want to achieve and make the wedding even more special.
Instead of one large, expensive wedding cake, consider serving cupcakes or several small cakes. Many bakeries offer beautiful cupcakes with a variety of healthy fillings.
Don't let wedding planning get you down! You may have a lot to worry about, but the advice in this article will make the work you have to do much easier to manage. Soon, you'll be able to stop stressing about your wedding, and start looking forward to your big day instead.
About the Author:
Jennifer R is a freelance travel writer and often writes on many exotic locations and destination weddings. Her coverage on Hawaii Beach Weddings are second to none. She has been involved in covering over one hundred weddings on the various islands of Hawaii, in particular Oahu. Destination weddings in Hawaii do not have to be very expensive or stressful, and Jen will share with you the tips to make your day very special.
Article Originally Published On: http://www.articlesnatch.com
Travel-and-Leisure RSS Feed
- A Short Review Of The Chateau Marmont Hotel By: Spencer Samaroo | Oct 21st 2012 - Long since the hotel of choice for the Hollywood elite, The Chateau Marmont Hotel Los Angeles, on Sunset Boulevard, is an establishment whose reputation well and truly proceeds i ... Tags: Chateau Marmont Hotel, Los Angeles Hotels, LA Hotels, Hotels
- Considerations In Choosing A Good Phuket Condo Rental By: SEO00100 | Oct 21st 2012 - If you plan to spend your vacation for a long time in Phuket, Thailand or you want to relocate in the said place, you should definitely consider trying out Phuket condo rentals. ... Tags: Phuket condo rentals, condo rentals, phuket rentals
- Tips To Get The Most Out Of Your Travels! By: Coraleekss412 | Oct 21st 2012 - Over the course of one year, millions to billions of people travel all over the world. Traveling can be a pretty fun and exciting experience, but there are a few things to note w ... Tags: travel, travel tips, travel advice, travel hints, travel safety...
- Video About The Biggest Industrial Metropolis Inside Upper The Far East Shenyang By: lidiahzguan | Oct 21st 2012 - Shenyang, the greatest town inside North east The far east, is the funds along with governmental, monetary and also cultural heart of Liaoning Land. Additionally it is an importa ... Tags: Massage in Shenyang
- A Visit To London Has Something To Offer Whatever The Season By: Mary Howe | Oct 21st 2012 - London never sleeps, even in winter, there is still lots to see and do and discover in London, it is a city that has something to interest everyone, whether your passion is histo ... Tags: Luxury serviced apartments Serviced accommodation London, Serviced apartments London, Business accommodation London,
- Steps On How To Effectively Take Better Photos By: Jennifer Rothchild | Oct 20th 2012 - If you are a new boudoir photographer, you should invest some time to. Learn a few important terms, such as composition, ISO, shutter speed,and lighting. Your pictures will impro ... Tags: Boudoir San Diego, San Diego Boudoir, San Diego Wedding Photography
- Movie Concerning The Southern Capital Of China Nanjing By: shanghaihannazhang | Oct 20th 2012 - Will lie upon the southern lender of the Yangtze River, Nanjing, the administrative center of Jiangsu Province, is one of the most wonderful locations within China. Known as the ... Tags: Nanjing Massage
- Then Unique And Also Elegant Town In Several Distinctive Features Chongqing China By: maryzhou | Oct 20th 2012 - Chongqing may be the largest municipality positioned in south west China. This is a slot town within the top actually reaches of the Yangtze Lake in the confluence of the Yangtze ... Tags: Massage in Chongqing
- Where To See Ontario Aflame In The Fall By: Sue ten Brummeler | Oct 20th 2012 - Summer may be over but the great outdoors is still firmly open for business and fall can be the best time to pull on your boots and get out there, especially if you are visiting ... Tags: cottage rentals in Ontario
- Resorts Define Unlimited Luxury And Fun By: Anu Sharma | Oct 20th 2012 - The incredibly beautiful state of Goa is perhaps the best and most preferred beach destination in the whole country and the scenic beauty of the Goan holidays can really mesmeriz ... Tags: Resorts in Goa, Goa Resorts
Still can't find what you are looking for? Search for it!
Loading
Site Navigation:
jerome simpson hand sanitizer obama on jimmy fallon google drive apple stock pilar sanders andrew young
UK austerity protesters fed up with economy to march in London
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-austerity protesters will march in London on Saturday to protest against public spending cuts enacted by a government fighting off accusations that it is run by an upper-class elite that ignores the plight of recession-hit voters.
The march comes at a time when Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative-led coalition is reeling from the resignation on Friday of a senior minister accused of calling police "plebs", a class-laden insult for working people.
The party faced a barrage of negative headlines on Saturday over the departure of Andrew Mitchell, the "Chief Whip" or party enforcer, four weeks after he swore at police guarding the gates to Cameron's Downing Street office.
A second row involving George Osborne, the finance minister - who sat in a first class train carriage with a standard class ticket before paying for an upgrade - played into the hands of critics who say the Conservatives are privileged and out-of-touch.
"Who Do They Think They Are?" asked the Daily Mail newspaper in a front page headline, while the Financial Times said the bad news over Mitchell and Osborne capped a "dismal week for the Tories", the center-right party that is trailing in the polls.
Nurses, cleaners, librarians and ambulance drivers will be among tens of thousands who will march past the Houses of Parliament to a rally in Hyde Park in one of the biggest anti-austerity protests this year. Marches will also take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Glasgow, Scotland.
Under grey autumnal skies, police closed roads around parliament in Westminster before the start of the march at 7.00 a.m. EDT.
Trade union leaders will seek to pile more pressure on Cameron at the event where they will tell protesters that the government's economic plan has failed, prolonging Britain's second recession since the financial crisis.
"Austerity isn't working. It is hammering the poorest and the most vulnerable," Brendan Barber, head of the Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group which represents 54 unions, will say in a speech at the rally.
"Ministers told us that if we only accept the pain, recovery would come. Instead we have been mired in a double-dip recession."
COALITION UNDER PRESSURE
The coalition government has responded to calls from unions and the opposition Labour Party to do more to boost growth by relaxing planning laws and boosting lending to businesses.
But its latest attempt to ease the pressure on squeezed households backfired this week when Cameron said the government would legislate to force energy companies to give customers their lowest tariff. The surprise announcement appeared to take his own ministers by surprise and sowed confusion over what he meant and whether it would actually happen.
However, Sajid Javid, a Conservative Treasury minister, said the government was right to focus on cutting borrowing and that data last week indicating a fall in unemployment and inflation showed that its economic policies were on track.
"There is a still a lot to do," he told Sky News. "I don't pretend for a second that we are out of the woods, but this government is facing up to the problem, it is not sticking its head in the sand like (Labour opposition leader) Ed Miliband."
Asked about the perception that the Conservatives are out of touch, he said: "I think that what matters is what is actually happening out there in the real world."
Opponents of the unions say the government should stick to its plan to eliminate a budget deficit that stood at 8 percent of gross domestic product last year, the biggest of any major European country.
"The government must not listen to militant union leaders," said Mark Littlewood, director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, which describes itself as an independent free-market thinktank. "The cuts we have seen are tiny and further concessions to these protesters would be wholly unaffordable."
(Additional reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-austerity-protesters-fed-economy-march-london-100805221.html
joe posnanski michael kidd gilchrist national championship calipari national archives brock lesnar kentucky
Matthew Fox Talks Alex Cross
After spending six years playing hero on ABC's LOST, Matthew Fox crossed over to the dark side for role in the James Patterson adaptation Alex Cross, in which he plays a master assassin named Picasso whose perverse precision and meticulous skill make him a deadly foil to Detroit cop/psychological profiler (Tyler Perry).
[Read Movieline's review of Alex Cross]
In addition to training for months to develop the sinewy, lethal physique of his ruthless character (who sports the actor's own semi-recent array of body tattoos, which make quite an impression in the film's opening MMA fight scene), Fox underwent an unusually severe emotional preparation for the isolating role, partly by design and partly due to overlapping schedules with World War Z which required him to fly back and forth for a period of time filming two movies at once.
As a result, Fox and co-star Tyler Perry barely interacted with one another on the Alex Cross set, save for when they came face to face for the film's fight scenes. (Director Rob Cohen would deliver Fox's and Perry's lines to the other during the majority of their characters' telephone conversations.)
Subsequently, Fox told Movieline, he only felt like he really got to know Perry the day they reunited with Cohen and their cast mates in Los Angeles to speak with press: "I felt like I was really looking at Tyler with my eyes, and he was looking at me with his eyes, and we were friends who?d been through this kind of crazy experience together."
Fox spoke further with Movieline about the emotionally taxing job of playing Picasso, one of the darkest and most unhinged villains of the year, how much of the cold-blooded killer's severe nature lives inside of him (and how he shook him off), and what compelled him to stay so busy following the end of the long-running LOST.
You filmed World War Z and Alex Cross at the same time, then started Peter Webber's Emperor just three months later. Why pack it in so much?
When you find the things you want to be a part of, you want to be a part of them. You get to the point, for me anyway, where once you click over to a certain point you?re like, I have to do this, and I felt that way about both World War Z and Alex Cross. I was bummed that there was so much overlap just because of how crazy it was going to be to travel. But it didn?t end up being too bad, it was doable.
Picasso is such a clearly strenuous character to play. There?s so much energy coming out of you off the screen in every scene. That must have taken such effort to even prepare mentally for, but how exhaustive was it to add the travel back and forth and switching out of Alex Cross into your World War Z character?
It was, and I had moments where I was a little like, oh my god. But I don?t know ? I kind of enjoy that kind of intense load. I think I get excited by it and inspired by it. I?m not going to lie to you, I was very excited when I was done with both of those projects and got to go home and be with my family again and not get on an airplane again for a while. But both of the experiences were amazing. The World War Z experience with Marc Forster and the whole crew over there, that whole cast, and the kids in that movie, and Brad [Pitt] and Mireille [Enos], everybody ? it was just great. And then the Alex Cross experience, my experience with Rob [Cohen], was one of the best I?ve ever had. Our collaboration on this guy and how much I felt like he was in it with me ? how much he had my back in the whole thing. It was a very lonely role to play.
It seems fairly emotionally isolating, to live in the mind of this guy.
Yeah, it was. I mean, the character of Picasso creates that for himself. He?s the most supremely arrogant person and holds himself above everyone, so he creates that emotional isolation. So to walk in that and try to figure that out? but I always felt like Rob was right there with me.
Rob explained that while filming, you and Tyler actually didn?t interact very much on set, including the telephone conversations your characters share, mostly due to scheduling. At what point do you feel you actually got to know Tyler?
Right downstairs after the press conference when we hugged each other and we both were a year away from the characters we were playing, and the circumstances, and those two guys and how they were trying to kill each other. That was the very first time I felt like we?ve both hung out in a moment when were getting to know each other. I felt like I was really looking at Tyler with my eyes, and he was looking at me with his eyes, and we were friends who?d been through this kind of crazy experience together.
That seems quite unusual, no?
I?ve never been part of a story where my entire interaction with another actor was onscreen, moments where we?re trying to kill each other. I?ve never had that experience. It kind of makes sense to me that it turned out that way, but if I ever went and did another film where it was a villain vs. hero, I would wonder if there was a way to do it and still have moments in between when we just hang out and talk about our families. But I kind of think on some level sometimes it?s necessary to do it like we did it.
Many folks have drawn the conclusion that you following your years playing Jack Shephard on LOST with a villainous role like Picasso might have been out of a desire for extreme change, but is that how you feel about that decision now?
I?ll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale. Never. So am I happy that it worked out that way? Yeah, I think it?s pretty cool. But it was purely motivated by an inside-out thing. I love Rob, I met Rob, and I felt like we ?got? each other. Him offering me this opportunity that I knew was going to require an enormous amount and be really challenging and require me to figure out so many things ? I?m scared shitless, I?m not sure I can pull it off ? that?s a good reason to want to do this. Now looking at it objectively I can see that coming off of a six-year television show, and I haven?t been in anything since then, and this being the first film coming out after that, it?s cool that it?s such a change.
When you look at the characters you?ve played throughout your career, do you see yourself in every one of them ? and if so, what does that say about Picasso? Is there a hidden darkness inside of you that this enabled you to tap into?
[Laughs] I think that there?s a hidden darkness in all of us! I?m a big fan of the book The Heart of Darkness, and the notion that we are much more in the areas of gray than we are either a good person or a bad person. We all have the capacity for potentially very dark things, and we all have the capacity for incredible hope and compassion and goodness to each other. I think that?s the more challenging way to look at us as a species, because it requires you to actually make those choices. So yes ? to answer your question directly, I think there?s a lot of me in everything I play. I hope. That?s important; I think all actors, to a certain degree, bring parts of themselves to every role that they?re playing, and my own taste is when they bring a lot, and they?re not hiding behind the thing that they?re playing but actually are revealing the thing that they?re playing.
So, yes ? are there parts of me that are Picasso? Am I capable of doing those things? I mean, no. I?m not that person. I am a parent of two children that I love more than anything in the universe along with my partner in crime, my wife, and I?m really a very gentle and warm person. But I do believe that we all have a capacity for those things, and that?s what you have to do as an actor ? find those things and exaggerate them and use them to try to create this illusion.
While you were living in the skin of Picasso, during the shoot, would you find you took him home with you at night? Are you an easy person to live with during times like these?
I would say I?m not a tremendously easy person to live with. I think I?m very aware of that, though, so I do my very best. I?m just one of those people, that ? and I?ve worked with people in both camps, people who can emotionally just shine in front of a camera and the minute they say ?Cut? they?re like, ?Let?s grab a Coke!? And then there are people that I?ve worked with who, to bring that emotional intensity to the screen it bleeds over for a while. I?m definitely of the latter camp, but I?m also very aware of that. And so is [wife] Margherita. So it?s just one of those things; it takes me a little while for the emotional stuff to bleed out, and then I?m good. If you?re conscious of it and are aware of it, I think it?s fine.
Read more on Alex Cross here.
Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter.
Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926120/news/1926120/
gainesville 2012 royal rumble the grey machine gun kelly saul alinsky annapolis wwe royal rumble
Palestinians hold local elections in West Bank
Palestinian security officers wait to cast their early votes during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Members of Palestinian security forces cast an early vote ahead of local elections which are to take place across the West Bank on October 20, 2012, in the first such polls since 2006.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
Palestinian security officers wait to cast their early votes during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. Members of Palestinian security forces cast an early vote ahead of local elections which are to take place across the West Bank on October 20, 2012, in the first such polls since 2006.(AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? Palestinians voted for mayors and local councils in 93 communities across the West Bank on Saturday, their first chance to cast ballots in six years.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party hope the election will revive flagging popular support in an ostensibly fail-proof environment, with Fatah rival Hamas boycotting the West Bank vote. Hamas also blocked elections in Gaza, the territory it seized from Abbas in 2007.
Abbas' party could still walk away bruised, however, if turnout is particularly low or if Fatah renegades competing in several of the larger communities defeat candidates formally endorsed by the movement.
The election is also overshadowed by widespread voter apathy and a general sense of malaise.
Abbas' Palestinian Authority, a self-rule government in parts of the Israeli-controlled West Bank, is mired in a chronic cash crisis. Efforts to heal the Palestinian political split have failed. And prospects are virtually nil for resuming meaningful negotiations with Israel's hardline government on setting up a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the territories Israel captured in 1967.
Loss of hope may keep many from the polls, along with an appeal by Hamas to its supporters to stay home.
At a polling station in Ramallah, only eight people voted in the first two hours, but volunteers there said they expect it to get busier toward the end of the day. Amani Qasim, 30, said she voted because she wanted to see new faces in Ramallah's city council.
Mahmoud Imran, a 22-year-old law student in the city, said he would not vote. "I no longer believe those politicians. I no longer believe they will bring a state or anything else," he said.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) Saturday and were set to close 12 hours later. Some 515,000 registered voters in 93 cities, towns and villages are eligible, said Fared Tomallah, an election official. Voters pick slates instead of individual candidates, and results are expected by early Sunday.
In an additional 179 communities, residents reached power-sharing deals, many brokered by clan leaders, and decided to forgo elections. In another 82 villages, there were no candidates, said Tomallah.
In several of the main towns, including Ramallah, Nablus and Jenin, Fatah renegades formed their own lists, competing against slates officially endorsed by the party. A victory by the renegade lists would be a major embarrassment for Abbas.
Mahmoud Aloul, a Fatah official, said 70 Fatah members were expelled from the party for running on independent lists.
While Saturday's vote to some extent measures the standing of Fatah, long plagued by infighting, clan loyalties also play a major role in local elections.
Shafiq Deis, a 70-year-old carpenter in the town of Beit Sahour south of Jerusalem, said he and others are guided by family loyalties. "There is no such thing as who is better (as a candidate)," he said. "If my cousin is running, I give it (the vote) to my cousin."
Hamas could claim victory if the turnout is particularly low. "Our supporters understand that we are not participating, and therefore we expect them not to vote for anyone," said Ahmed Atoun, a Hamas lawmaker in the West Bank.
Hamas has prevented the local vote from taking place in Gaza. It argues that any elections must wait until after a broader reconciliation deal with Abbas. The movement also says its candidates in the West Bank would risk being targeted by Israeli troops and Abbas' security forces. Critics contend Hamas also opposes elections in Gaza because it does not want to give its largely vanquished rivals, particularly from Fatah, a new foothold.
Elections for local councils, parliament and president are long overdue in the Palestinian territories. Local elections were last held in 2004 and 2005, and Hamas won control of several main cities at the time.
Abbas came to power in presidential elections in 2005, and Hamas defeated Fatah in parliament elections in 2006. After the political split broke wide open, following the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007, the two sides failed to agree on the terms for new elections.
Elected politicians in both camps have been losing legitimacy because they overstayed their mandates. At the same time, holding general elections in just the West Bank or Gaza was not seen as an option because it would cement the split.
In calling local elections in the West Bank, Fatah hoped to renew voter support, without appearing to harden the rift with Gaza. It was also one of the few remaining options for Abbas, whose various strategies have run into brick walls.
"They are flailing in all directions," Nathan Brown, an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. "They can't go to the international community for financial support. They can't do (general) elections. They can't do reconciliation. So (they say) let's at least do municipal elections."
___
Associated Press writer Dalia Nammari in Beit Sahour contributed report.
Associated Pressquinton coples a.j. jenkins riley reiff david decastro aj jenkins shea mcclellin nfl draft 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)