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Aragorn wrote:Daniel Craig to walk red carpet on January 6th at `Defiance` premiere

Event - 16-12-08

According to All in London, Daniel Craig's newest picture - the story of a Jewish family in exile during World War II - is set to debut in Leicester Square on January 6th 2009.

The events are expected to kick-off around 6pm but the crowds will no doubt be gathering much earlier than that.

Craig co-stars alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell who play his brother and sister, respectively in the epic true story.

"Defiance" is driected by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai).

The Sun are giving away tickets to the London premiere.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?ite ... mi6&s=news

Isn't Jamie Bell a boy, and don't he and Liev play his brothers?
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breefree7 wrote:
Aragorn wrote:Daniel Craig to walk red carpet on January 6th at `Defiance` premiere

Event - 16-12-08

According to All in London, Daniel Craig's newest picture - the story of a Jewish family in exile during World War II - is set to debut in Leicester Square on January 6th 2009.

The events are expected to kick-off around 6pm but the crowds will no doubt be gathering much earlier than that.

Craig co-stars alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell who play his brother and sister, respectively in the epic true story.

"Defiance" is driected by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai).

The Sun are giving away tickets to the London premiere.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?ite ... mi6&s=news

Isn't Jamie Bell a boy, and don't he and Liev play his brothers?
Jamie Bell is a boy, a cute boy. He and Liev play his brothers

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Faustine wrote:
breefree7 wrote:
Aragorn wrote:Daniel Craig to walk red carpet on January 6th at `Defiance` premiere

Event - 16-12-08

According to All in London, Daniel Craig's newest picture - the story of a Jewish family in exile during World War II - is set to debut in Leicester Square on January 6th 2009.

The events are expected to kick-off around 6pm but the crowds will no doubt be gathering much earlier than that.

Craig co-stars alongside Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell who play his brother and sister, respectively in the epic true story.

"Defiance" is driected by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai).

The Sun are giving away tickets to the London premiere.

http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?ite ... mi6&s=news

Isn't Jamie Bell a boy, and don't he and Liev play his brothers?
Jamie Bell is a boy, a cute boy. He and Liev play his brothers

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Just making sure! I had such a crush on Jamie after 'Billy Elliott' (which isn't the reason we named our son Elliott - that's a family surname .:D) I guess I shouldn't be surprised noticing that the article was the work of the Sun.......
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`Casino Royale` inspired casino opens its doors in Sacramento
Bond News - 18-12-08

If you like Aston Martins and enjoy your martinis shaken, not stirred, odds are you'll appreciate Casino Royale - the newest gaming establishment in Sacramento, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The Capital City cardroom evokes luxury, and evokes the 2006 James Bond film during which 007 played high-stakes poker in one of Monte Carlo's finest gambling establishments.

This was no accident.

"There are quite a number of card rooms here in Sacramento, so we figured we had to do something to differentiate ourselves in a big way," says gaming manager Buddy Albrecht, who admittedly doesn't drive an Aston Martin or wear a tuxedo to work - yet. "We've tried to create a luxury experience like the kind you'd get in Vegas or another upscale gambling destination."

Despite its status as Sacramento's new kid on the card-room block, Casino Royale has a palpable connection to the past in Faye Sterns. Sterns, one of its current owners, was an owner at a card room named Duffy's, one of Sacramento's oldest gambling establishments until it burned down a few years ago. Following that fire, Sterns was one of three local businesspeople (the others are Jim Kouretas and William Blanas) who invested $2 million into renovating the old Sacramento Joe's restaurant into Casino Royale.

The new facility opened Sept. 17, and while I have yet to experience the swankiness first-hand, other gamblers are raving about its attention to detail.

This focus starts with the chairs. Instead of the stiff, banquet-style chairs that most card rooms put around their poker tables, sources report Casino Royale has invested in big, cushy leather chairs that recline and roll around on wheels.

The tables - nine in all - are brand new, too. Randall Rapp, publisher of The Card Room, a monthly magazine that covers poker venues in Northern California, reports the facility "is very attractive, both inside and out."

Albrecht says there's a host of flat-screen TVs so players can watch all of their favorite Bay Area sporting events and an on-site restaurant with affordable happy-hour specials ($1 draught beers and free hors d'oeuvres) on weekdays from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

But the biggest draw at Casino Royale is the gaming. Currently, the card room features six tables for poker, two for blackjack and one for pai-gow poker. An expansion in the works for early next year will add four tables to the mix.

Poker is still the most popular game by far. Dealers mostly offer Limit and No Limit Texas Hold 'Em Poker, though they can fire up a game of Omaha if players insist. A bad-beat jackpot, which pays losing hands of aces over kings or better, starts at $5,000 and goes up $200 for every day it's not hit. The jackpot paid out $13,200 earlier this month, according to Albrecht.

The card room also sponsors daily morning tournaments with varying buy-ins, including a $220 buy-in contest at 10 a.m. Saturdays with a guaranteed $5,000 prize pool. Arrive early to claim one of those cushy seats.

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breefree7 wrote:
Faustine wrote:
breefree7 wrote:
Isn't Jamie Bell a boy, and don't he and Liev play his brothers?
Jamie Bell is a boy, a cute boy. He and Liev play his brothers

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Just making sure! I had such a crush on Jamie after 'Billy Elliott' (which isn't the reason we named our son Elliott - that's a family surname .:D) I guess I shouldn't be surprised noticing that the article was the work of the Sun.......
Yestarday I saw him in King Kong, he´s a cute boy and really seem Daniel´s brother :lol:

It´s true. The Sun write only crap :roll:

Elliott is the beauty in your avatar??? His face shine when smile :D
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Elliott is the beauty in your avatar??? His face shine when smile :D
Yes, the cutie is Elliott - he always smiles, even when teething. He's setting a very high bar if we have another baby later! :D :D
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breefree7 wrote:
Elliott is the beauty in your avatar??? His face shine when smile :D
Yes, the cutie is Elliott - he always smiles, even when teething. He's setting a very high bar if we have another baby later! :D :D
breefree, Elliot is adorable. :) :)
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JoniJoni wrote:
breefree7 wrote:
Elliott is the beauty in your avatar??? His face shine when smile :D
Yes, the cutie is Elliott - he always smiles, even when teething. He's setting a very high bar if we have another baby later! :D :D
breefree, Elliot is adorable. :) :)
Thanks, JJ! I love all the pics of DC, but I can't find one for my av cuter than ET's! (his and his daddy's initials!)
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Hollywood A-listers’ holiday plans

LOS ANGELES—How do you celebrate the holidays when your brood comes from Cambodia, Ethiopia, Namibia, Vietnam and France?

Brad Pitt reveals how. Miley Cyrus, Beyonce Knowles, Daniel Craig, Reese Witherspoon and Anne Hathaway also share their plans on how they will celebrate Christmas. The stars answered this question during our recent press cons with them.

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Daniel Craig

Fresh from the most successful opening of any James Bond ever, Daniel Craig said however that he’d like to relax and not think about a movie called “Quantum of Solace” this Christmas. Besides, he has a new film, “Defiance,” a true story-based action-drama about three Jewish brothers who fled from the Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarusian forest, where they formed a band of resistance fighters.

“Everybody wants to enjoy the holidays, reconnect with our families and remember what life is about because we’ve been living and breathing this movie (‘Quantum’) for about two years so we need a break. I’m going to have a vacation because in the New Year, we start selling ‘Defiance’ in Europe.”

Daniel declared that “it’s a little premature” to talk about the next 007 movie. The Brit is truly intent on savoring his break.

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Thelma wrote: Daniel Craig

Fresh from the most successful opening of any James Bond ever, Daniel Craig said however that he’d like to relax and not think about a movie called “Quantum of Solace” this Christmas. Besides, he has a new film, “Defiance,” a true story-based action-drama about three Jewish brothers who fled from the Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarusian forest, where they formed a band of resistance fighters.

“Everybody wants to enjoy the holidays, reconnect with our families and remember what life is about because we’ve been living and breathing this movie (‘Quantum’) for about two years so we need a break. I’m going to have a vacation because in the New Year, we start selling ‘Defiance’ in Europe.”

Daniel declared that “it’s a little premature” to talk about the next 007 movie. The Brit is truly intent on savoring his break.

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Sounds like a good plan....I'm going to enjoy the holidays, and try not to think about school....
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Can 007 really carry a tune?

Daniel Craig is top of a list of actors being considered to follow Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in a new big screen version of My Fair Lady, which will star Keira Knightley as Eliza Doolittle.

No approach has been made, and certainly no decision will be reached about the identity of exactly who will play Higgins until a director has been hired. But Craig is highly favoured.

Whether he can sing is another matter, but then Harrison wasn't exactly world-class in the singing department. But it didn't matter. He was charm personified and his
talk-singing thrilled audiences.

Theatre-trained Craig will have no trouble learning how to carry a tune. I mean, he took very well to running across rooftops in Casino Royale, and he's dashingly rugged in the forthcoming World War II movie drama, Defiance.

All very handy playing an elocution expert.

'Seriously, though, he's a real man and you'll be able to believe that he really cares for Eliza,' a friend, intimate to the thinking of the film's producers Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy, told me.

But, before any further casting can be done, a director must be allowed some say-so.

Who will direct the film? That's still being decided. I did hear a rumour that Steven Spielberg had expressed an interest. But wouldn't he turn the much-loved story into something approaching a theme-park ride?

Perhaps a director like Stephen Daldry, who can handle romance, drama and musicals, should be approached. He works well with actresses.

He helped Nicole Kidman win her first Oscar, for The Hours, and he also persuaded Kate Winslet to give one of her greatest performances in the big award contender The Reader, the fascinatingly complex story of post-war German guilt, love and humanity that opens here next month. And he directed Billy Elliot.

If Daldry can't do it, what about Danny Boyle, director of the hit film Slumdog Millionaire, another Oscar hopeful and probably the most uplifting film you'll see for a long time?

Emma Thompson, who has written the screenplay for the new My Fair Lady, from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's 'book' for the musical, told Variety this week that she'd like her friend Hugh Laurie to play Higgins.

Well, let's wait and see. Filming's due to start in 2010, but the cast is likely to lay down song tracks late next year.

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Thelma wrote:Can 007 really carry a tune?

Daniel Craig is top of a list of actors being considered to follow Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in a new big screen version of My Fair Lady, which will star Keira Knightley as Eliza Doolittle.

No approach has been made, and certainly no decision will be reached about the identity of exactly who will play Higgins until a director has been hired. But Craig is highly favoured.

Whether he can sing is another matter, but then Harrison wasn't exactly world-class in the singing department. But it didn't matter. He was charm personified and his
talk-singing thrilled audiences.

Theatre-trained Craig will have no trouble learning how to carry a tune. I mean, he took very well to running across rooftops in Casino Royale, and he's dashingly rugged in the forthcoming World War II movie drama, Defiance.

All very handy playing an elocution expert.

'Seriously, though, he's a real man and you'll be able to believe that he really cares for Eliza,' a friend, intimate to the thinking of the film's producers Cameron Mackintosh and Duncan Kenworthy, told me.

But, before any further casting can be done, a director must be allowed some say-so.

Who will direct the film? That's still being decided. I did hear a rumour that Steven Spielberg had expressed an interest. But wouldn't he turn the much-loved story into something approaching a theme-park ride?

Perhaps a director like Stephen Daldry, who can handle romance, drama and musicals, should be approached. He works well with actresses.

He helped Nicole Kidman win her first Oscar, for The Hours, and he also persuaded Kate Winslet to give one of her greatest performances in the big award contender The Reader, the fascinatingly complex story of post-war German guilt, love and humanity that opens here next month. And he directed Billy Elliot.

If Daldry can't do it, what about Danny Boyle, director of the hit film Slumdog Millionaire, another Oscar hopeful and probably the most uplifting film you'll see for a long time?

Emma Thompson, who has written the screenplay for the new My Fair Lady, from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's 'book' for the musical, told Variety this week that she'd like her friend Hugh Laurie to play Higgins.

Well, let's wait and see. Filming's due to start in 2010, but the cast is likely to lay down song tracks late next year.

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Oh God no, Keira Knightley has about as much acting talent as my big toe.
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Hugh Laurie can sing and he has humor and I'm sorry girls but he is more popular in the states than Dan . Though I would love to see Dan in something like this . I'm watching TOPSY TURVY right now and Kevin Mckidd is singing pretty good but he might be too young for the part .
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 03251.html

1. He even makes a sling look cool: Daniel Craig and Satsuki Mitchell attend the Quantum of Solace party at Battersea Power Station.


2. The Booker Prize jury put on a united front at the Guildhall ceremony. Look, Hardeep Singh Kohli has matched his turban to Louise Doughty's bra.

3. Tracey Emin and Julian Schnabel were among the arterati at the opening of the new Saatchi gallery. The only man missing was Charles himself.

4. The ever shy and retiring Grayson Perry finds that this year's Turner Prize bash at Tate Britain is not quite to his particular taste.

5. "You're my beshtesht friend..." This Is England director Shane Meadows and his producer Mark Herbert do some sterling "networking" at the London Film Festival.

6. The Serpentine Party, where art, couture and hedge funds mingle. Here, hostess and Abramovich squeeze Dasha Zhukova meets starchitect Lord Rogers.

7. Alice Dellal: winner of this year's professional party animal award.

8. Best Newcomer Adele is initiated, blinking, into the limelight by drag DJ Jodie Harsh at the Brit Awards party. With a mentor like that what could possibly go wrong?


and:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... -pecs.html
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