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I'm so happy that you made this post, Jan!!
And I'm so happy for them both, they are two marvellous persons, and I wish them all the best!!!
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New York (April 29, 2010) /PRNewswire/ — (RED) today announced the launch of The Lazarus Effect Campaign, a multi-platform campaign across TV, online and print, including an HBO documentary airing on May 24, that will help raise awareness of the transformative effect of antiretroviral medicine for those living with HIV in Africa. Launching April 29 on HBO, the awareness campaign will roll out across various TV and online networks in the coming weeks. The campaign equates the relative value of 40 cents by comparing trivial items worth 40 cents e.g. a stick of gum, a smear of lipstick — to the value of one day's worth of life transforming antiretroviral medication.
The campaign, directed by renowned photographer Brigitte Lacombe, features Bono, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts, Claire Danes, Alek Wek, Iman, John Turturro, Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Orlando Bloom, Lucy Liu, Gabourey Sidibe, Kerry Washington, Bryan Cranston, LeAnn Rimes, Jane Lynch, Michelle Rodriguez, Gwen Stefani, Hayden Christensen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Don Cheadle, Ludacris, Common, Benicio Del Toro, Dakota Fanning, Christy Turlington and the Jonas Brothers.
"At the heart of this campaign, is a message of progress and the results of smart targeted aid," says Susan Smith Ellis, CEO, (RED). "We felt it was important to show that people's lives are being transformed every day by medication funded by organizations such as the Global Fund and PEPFAR. This story needs to be told so that people understand that the money is working, there is real progress and that we need to continue making this treatment accessible to those who need it."
read the entire article and see the video with Orlando and mnay others at this link:
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/red/43843/
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Thanks a lot for the picture!!
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Thanks a lot for the picture!!
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Sebastian Copeland Gallery Exhibit and Book Signing in West Hollywood
Saturday 02.06.2010 @ 1:00pm
Venue: John Varvatos Boutique (click here for venue details)
Please join Sebastian Copeland at the John Varvatos West Hollywood store for a gallery exhibit and book signing. 20% of proceeds will benefit the Sebastian Copeland Foundation.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
1:00pm-4:00pm
Location:
8800 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood, CA
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The end of this week is like a race to keep up with the flood of trailers and clips coming out of Sundance. On deck now is nine minutes of Sympathy for Delicious. It is the first film directed by actor Mark Ruffalo, written by and starring Christopher Thornton, who plays “a newly paralyzed DJ [who] gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.”
The film also features Ruffalo, Orlando Bloom, Juliette Lewis, Laura Linney and John Carroll Lynch. The footage is grainy and energetic, and most of the performances look rock-solid. Check out the footage after the break.
Thornton (who is actually paraplegic, due to a climbing accident) describes his character Dino Dwyer, aka DJ Delicious D, as a down and out paralyzed guy who eats via a soup line run by Father Joe (Ruffalo). He’s attending healing services, and wakes up one day with the realization that he can lay hands on people and heal them. Then, as Ruffalo says, “he takes his God-given gift and prostitutes it for sex, drugs, rock and roll and fame.”
I love what I’m seeing here from Thornton, Ruffalo and Bloom. Seeing Bloom look like he’s really on top of the role is a pleasant surprise, and while it’s no shock to see Ruffalo look like he’s nailed his role, it’s always great to see the guy work. I hope Peter and/or David manage to catch this one so we can get some first-hand impressions.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/21/clips-...ectorial-debut/
9 minutes worth of footage from Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut "Sympathy For Delicious" has landed online and promises a gritty, realistic, edgy if not slightly surreal tale of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Be forewarned, the footage seems like a complete summary of the film and appears to have some major spoilers in there so may want to hold off on watching it all the way through.Written by and starring Christopher Thornton, the film follows a paraplegic DJ who acquires the ability to heal, only to prostitute his new-found powers for sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. From what we can glean from the clips Ruffalo plays a priest who tries to advise Thornton on what to do with his powers; Juliette Lewis is a groupie/band member; Orlando Bloom appears to be a hard partying Brit rocker while Laura Linney plays a nun. As we previously reported, Montreal's Besnard Lakes will be scoring with musical contributions from members of the Mars Volta and Shiny Toy Guns.
We dig the grimy, low key aesthetic of the film, and the performances look first rate. We're curious to see how this one turns out.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/01/9-...-delicious.html
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Orlando is in a video for "Summit on the Summit", a project to fight the global clean water crisis.
You can find more information about this project on the official website:
http://www.summitonthesummit.com/#/intro
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ORLANDO!!
May this day be full of joy for you, and may this year bring to you all you desire!
Thanks for being such a wonderful person!
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New stills with Orlando from the Japanese site of the movie:
And a wallpaper:
You cand find the wallpaper in different sizes at the official Japanese site:
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You can pre-order now "New York, I love you", in DVD and Blu-Ray on Amazon USA:
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Sebastian Copeland accepts the Founders Award at the Global Green USA 10th Annual Sustainable Design Awards, held Monday November 9th in New York City. HP Director of Sustainability Engelina Jaspers presented the award.
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This is a wonderful news.
We all know how much Orlando cares about children's rights and many other good causes, he really has a great heart, and he will be a wonderful ambassador.
Congratulations Orlando!!!
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Thanks a lot for this beautiful article, every time I see how Orlando is involved in charities, my heart smiles.
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Finally, the official website for the movie "New York, I love you" is up!!
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OMG! I'm pretty excited to find this cute pic of Orlando in his next movie "New York, I love you"....isn't this wonderful? I'm looking for the movie to come out!
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Here is the article directly from kentish Gazette:
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Storming into Cannes with an ever-more muscular international slate and standout financial results, Gallic mini-major StudioCanal has announced that it will be teaming with Neal Moritz's L.A.-based Original Films to reboot "Cliffhanger."
StudioCanal has international production relationships with a slew of high-profile companies: Original, Montecito (on "Chloe"), Spyglass (the Charlize Theron-starrer "The Tourist"), John Woo and Terence Chang's Lion Rock Prods. (for Kim Jee-woon's "Max and the Junkmen") and Media Asia -- where it co-finances Johnnie To's $40 million "The Red Circle," from a script by "Eastern Promises" director Steve Knight.
"Circle" begins to shoot in early fall, Courson said
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Hard day today for Sebastian:
Leads and fogYou can tell a "wet" or open lead from a frozen one for the discolorisation on the ice at the water's edge. A wet lead has a brownish hue which noticeably breaks from the duotone spectrum of white and blue of the Arctic ice. From an ice mound even just a couple of feet high, you can spot a large open lead from a distance; and invariably, tension sets into the pit of your stomach. An open leads means business: it will generally cut your route (for obvious reasons you are more likely to run into an east/west lead when traveling north), and challenge you for a strategy to bypass it. Often, this will involve a calculated risk. At best, a wet lead will cost you time; at worst it will kill you. We crossed so many open leads today (the strong winds of the last few days have surely helped put more cracks in the ice) that I lost count. Sivce the sea ice feels and looks like a desert, it's a always a mind twisterr to acknowledge that leads are not canals or rivers: they immediately drop to the ocean's floor; and that below your feet, the ice is just a few feet thick floating above the same great depth!
After being robbed of two miles ovenight to the south drift, we set off onto broken-up terrain, which slowed us down. Route finding and lead crossing strategy are some of the fundementals of North Pole travel. And today, we had plenty of opportunity for both. The weather was not bad to start at minus 22F, sunny and a light 5mph breeze. You always get an elated sense of relief and satisfaction when you beat the challenge of an open lead. Sometimes you "trick" it, sometimes you luck out; other times you work hard at it. But when nature does the work for you, that is undoubtedly one of the greatest shows on Earth. By afternoon, we got trapped in a mangled maze of twisted and fragmented cracks system, spread over a couple of miles. But unlike the seemingly still, icy world which we have mainly been privy to, today--like yesterday--displayed the enormous power that lurks the sea. Upon approaching a massive open lead, we spotted what seemed like a pinch crowded with ice blocks. In fact, those blocks--some weightiing multiple tons--were being shoved around like rubber duckies and pressed into a 20 foot pressure ridge right before our eyes. A spectacle of sound and sights of incredible proportion which not many people get to see!
Due in part to the abundance of open water, we were soon shrouded in a thick ice fog. And over the course of the day, the winds grew again to 25-35 mph strong with visibility reduced to a couple of hundred feet. Ice fogs, as you'd expect from the name, are not warm. Temperature dropped to -27F and high humidity which makes it feel 10 degrees lower. Between the terrain and the conditions, travel became increasingly difficult. Additionally, the snow drift from the wind covered many of the small wet leads making them blend in and seem frozen--a challenge when you're in the lead.
We are also now constantly thinking about food, as it is now clear that we have to ration or we will run out, and it is affecting our psyche. We traveled for 12.5 hours and only covered 10 nautical miles--probably two more factoring drift. We are still flying east and our position upon stopping was N88°15.115 and W58°13.915. Today was tough. We hope for better conditions tomorrow. Thank you for keeping with us.
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This is the last add of Sebastian to his blog on My Space, posted on 14th April 2009:
Rush hour traffic.One thing you would not expect up here on the ice is a traffic jam. Yet,
that is effectively what happened to us at the end of our day.
First,
we lost a mile south overnight to the drift, not to mention the
easterly drift which has increased to two latitude points a day, for
the last two days! With that, and yesterday's disappointing distance,
today's focus was on performance: I was determined to do 14 nautical
miles. Less than that, and I thought our prospects to make the pole by
the 26th were poor, a sentiment I knew was shared among our logistics
team. Setting off, I was gripped by the irony of bringing a time
pressure into such a seemingly timeless environment. Such a human thing
to do. In our communion with Nature up here, this felt so out of
context. And sad. Even out here, we cannot help but bring our social
baggage. Brought to focus on speed and efficiency, I could not help but
feel upset at myself: here as well, in the end, I would be competing.
This meant no indulgences in travel, and no shoot time until I felt we
could afford it. On a day like today this proved more painful than I
thought, as we saw big weather shifts, and with it some visuals which
were new to us. Battered again by winds from the south west lashing out
and turning us into whip boys, a cloud cover shortly set in,
progressively covering the sun. The landscape became tough to read, as
all the already low contrast of this white environment was gone--save
the blue and green hues off the pressure ridges. Imagine walking into a
thick white fog, but with no fog: that is more or less what it felt
like out here--but add 25 mph winds! Luckily, the clouds lifted, but
the wind persisted, increasing through the day. We mostly lucked out
with the terrain and, save a couple of tough spots, benefitted at last
from friendlier large flat pans. But towards the end of the day, we
came upon a wide wet lead: open water near our bank, and no clear idea
of how solid the ice was on the other side. We proceeded to walk to the
east as one spot in the distance seemed cluttered with slush that might
help our passage. That is when something very different came into view.
Two unidentified black spots, standing where we were headed. We these
humans? As we approached, it turned out to be John Huston and Tyler
Fish, who are also going for the pole, their trip unsupported! Within
millions a square miles we run into two other dots who like ourselves,
elected to subject themselves to this exercise in self torture! To be
fair we knew they were within striking distance of us and were, too,
caught in this powerful easterly drift. We had a good moment with them,
as they put on their water suits and we thought to set up camp and wait
until morning as the crossing looked sketchy. This was the end of our
day, the beginning of theirs. Surely by morning, the lead would freeze
over. But soon they were on the other side and gave us the thumbs up!
We quickly gathered our stuff and made the testy crossing through
slush. Both Keith and I put one boot through the ice, but made it
safely. On the other side, these boys had left an angel in the snow as
a sign of good luck. They are on the same tight schedule as we are. We
eventually caught up with them and shared tracks for about an hour,
when we called it a day after a solid 14 hours. We are tired but
satisfied with 14 nautical miles of true north travel. Factoring the
drift and the weaving, we probably did three miles more than that. We
will lose some overnight but currently our position is N87°42.449 and
W72°20.880. Temperature were in the order of minus 22F degrees not
factoring windshield. Good night and thank you for being with us.
And his mom wrote today:
16 apr 2009 02.09Hey Everyone! Sebastian's Mom here! It's 1.30 AM in France, and I've just had a phone call (by radio-satellite) from Sebastian who told me to tell you that he is extremely grateful for all the support he's getting from you all! He says it's really important for him and for Keith to know that there are so many people out there rooting for them, and he's counting on you all to spread the word to get as many of your friends and family to follow his daily journal. He sounded good except that his voice was a little slurred from a frostbite at the end of his tongue from breathing in the icy air. He thinks they're pretty well on course to get to the North Pole before the ice starts to seriously melt. I told him that following his daily journal was like watching a TV series every day with an amazing cliff-hanger at the end of each episode, and he laughed! Thanks for the loyal support. It's important for me, also, to to know that people are aware of the supreme effort my son is making to enlighten as many people as possible
Good luck to Sebastian for his trip!!
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Sebastian Copeland posted a wonderful video in his My Space:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti.ideoid=55513925
You can see him training for his trip to Arctic, and some scenes from the journey in 2007, and there is also Orlando, briefly:
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From an article in the today's edition of Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District:
"From Canterbury to Hollywood, actor Orlando Bloom has never been one to forget his roots.
So when he heard his former playgroup Rough Common PreSchool was in need of a helping hand he was only too happy to pitch in. Asked for an autograph to raffle off at their Easter Fair, he donated a bag of booty fit for any Pirate of the Caribbean.
Jenny Marks, pre-school supervisor, said: “We rely on fund-raising events to keep afloat, and we are so grateful to everyone who helped out.
“We had some brilliant raffle prizes thanks to Orlando Bloom, but also thanks to many, many others, such as the Gulbenkian, the Black Horse, King’s School Sports Centre and lots of donations from parents.
“We had a lovely day, and we raised £485 which will help us keep going.”
The pre-school, based at Rough Common village hall, was established in 1973 and Orlando Bloom was there for a couple of years around 1980.
Through his mother Sonia Copeland Bloom, he donated a section of the ‘bone ball’ from Pirates of the Caribbean II, a signed and framed poster, a drawing he made when he was a child, and a Lord of the Rings T-shirt presented to him at the premiere of the film in New Zealand.
It was a welcome haul for his former pre-school which, as a registered charity, relies on goodwill. It is also reliant on pupil numbers and is looking to fill its available spaces for this September.
Rough Common Pre-School, open to children aged two to school age, runs from 9.30am to noon on Mondays to Thursdays, and from 9.30am to 2.30pm on Fridays."
Here are the scans of the article and a picture of Orlando at the age of three while at Rough Common Pre School:
scans credit to Best Orlando community
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The Cross is now listed in pre-production:
http://www.opalfilm.de/content/index.php?p.ionen&hl=de
The movie will filming in July 2009 in Australia, with Orlando, Vincent Cassel, Olga Kurylenko, and it will be directed by Andrew Niccol.
Here is an aticipation of movie poster from the site above:
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This is a wonderful story, full of hope and sweetness. Thanks to Orlando, for being such a special human being especially with children. Thanks to Lauren, that shows optimism and joy even during the illness, and this is so important for every ill child.
And thanks to all the unknown people that every day help the world to be a better place.
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From what I can see of this small picture, he looks great!
Thank you so much Elena for posting the link, I am glad he was able to attend and give his speech on a very important issue.
Kim
Actually, the pic is not so little.if you click on it, you can see it bigger
PeaceDay Global Broadcast 2010
in Charitable Work
Posted
http://www.pr.com/press-release/262114