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October 27, 2008
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 Angelina Jolie is sorta, kinda hinting that she and Brad Pitt are headed to the altar.
The Oscar-winner actress and mother of six recently said that her kids are asking questions about why she and "daddy" aren't married, reports US Magazine.
Jolie recently said that she realizes that people usually fall in love first and then everything revolves around getting married, with children being an afterthought. However, when she met Pitt, she was single and already had adopted son, Maddox.
"We've done everything the wrong way around, but sooner or later the children will ask, you know, they watch films and ask questions," Jolie, 33, said. "They want to know why Shrek and Fiona,
characters from the movie Shrek,
got married and we haven't."
Does this mean the couple would consider changing their minds about getting married only when the ban on gay marriage is lifted nationwide? Angelina simply says, "I can only tell you that Angelina is a mother of six marvelous children and lives with a fantastic man." |
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 A federal magistrate in Salt Lake City has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of the man accused in the 2002 abduction as a sex predator for Elizabeth Smart. Magistrate Judge Samuel Alba entered the plea Friday for Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell was promptly removed from the courtroom after he started singing hymns. He listened to the rest of the hearing from a separate area via audio. Alba ordered prosecutors to turn over documents from state proceedings related to Mitchell's competency. He set a Nov. 12 hearing to rule on whether another competency evaluation for Mitchell is needed. Mitchell has twice been found incompetent to stand trial by a state judge. |
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GARDEN GROVE, California — Crystal Cathedral founder Reverend Robert H. Schuller has removed his son as preacher on the church's weekly "Hour of Power" syndicated TV broadcast. Schuller said in a statement read to some 450 congregants Saturday by church president Jim Coleman that he and his son, Robert A. Schuller, "have different ideas as to the direction and the vision for this ministry." "For this lack of shared vision and the jeopardy in which this is placing this entire ministry, it has become necessary for Robert and me to part ways," Schuller said. Robert A. Schuller will remain as senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, though it was unknown whether he will continue to preach, a church spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. The elder Schuller said in the statement that he was bringing in guest pastors to preach during the show. Church officials did not return messages left Saturday seeking comment from Robert A. Schuller and details about what prompted the schism between him and his father. Robert H. Schuller had turned over the church ministries and the "Hour of Power" TV program to his son during an emotional service at the Crystal Cathedral in January 2006. |
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year gives you an honest jolt of feel-good fizz. It may be as friendly and
 square as one of those 1950s teen romps in which the actors wore letter sweaters, but that doesn't mean the movie is an uptight anachronism. It's shrewd enough to know that in an era ruled by drop-dead irony, gee-whiz sincerity can be its own rebellion — a wholesome rebuke to consumerist cool. The star jocks and theater bugs of East High School in Albuquerque have already been through championship games, opening nights, and — in the case of the googly-eyed princess Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) — enough costume changes to empty Christina Aguilera's closet. But as they close in on the end of senior year, a question nags: Can they be themselves in a culture that's figured out how to market Individuality?
Review: High School Musical 3: Senior Year |
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A 7-year-old radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the failure of the Supreme Court to rule on redistributing wealth in its civil rights rulings has given fresh ammunition to critics who say the Democratic presidential candidate has a socialist agenda. The interview -- conducted by Chicago Public Radio in 2001, while Obama was an Illinois state senator and a law professor at the University of Chicago -- delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further than it did, so that when "dispossessed peoples" appealed to the high court on the right to sit at the lunch counter, they should have also appealed for the right to have someone else pay for the meal. In the interview, Obama said the civil rights movement was victorious in some regards, but failed to create a "redistributive change" in its appeals to the Supreme Court, led at the time by Chief Justice Earl Warren. He suggested that such change should occur at the state legislature level, since the courts did not interpret the U.S. Constitution to permit such change. "The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical," Obama said in the interview, a recording of which surfaced on the Internet over the weekend. 