by kmtr

The website showing Anna Paquin declaring her bisexuality has crashed – after fans rushed online to listen to the star’s big revelation.

The actress, who is engaged to marry her True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, announced her sexual orientation as part of a Public Service Announcement taped for Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund, which fights for the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

In the clip, Paquin declares, “I’m Anna Paquin. I’m bisexual, and I give a damn.”

She also urges viewers to: “Imagine going to work every day and not being able to share your life with your co-workers out of fear of being let go.”

The online PSA has become such a hit, bosses at the website were forced to carry out maintenance after they were “overwhelmed by the enormous traffic”.

New servers have now been added to website to allow more users to log on.

by Reuters

Despite gathering storm clouds before the ceremony, literally and figuratively, this is a pretty light genre film with the occasional juicy confrontation to spice up the party. Theatrically, “Romantics” will be embraced by the over-25 set primarily, though wedding movies seem to play across many age groups. Box office potential appears to be modest.
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by USA Today

The tone is a little more subtle than (500) Days of Summer, but you could imagine them as a double feature. If The Romantics found its way to the right studio, it could make a great date movie. Teenagers may be bored by it, but those who are a little older, perhaps ready to take the next step in a relationship, will find a lot to like.
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By FitSugar

True Blood star Anna Paquin was spotted sipping a Synergy drink on her way to a meeting in Venice, CA. Can this drink replace the get-up-and-go effects of a cup of joe?

Synergy beverages are made with mostly raw organic kombucha and five percent real fruit juice. Sometimes referred to as a tea, kombucha is not brewed from mushrooms; it’s a colony of bacteria and yeast, which is added to tea or, in this case, fruit juice and allowed to ferment. Kombucha has been used for centuries throughout the world as a health tonic since it contain beneficial probiotics, enzymes, and antioxidants. According to Mayo Clinic, “health benefits attributed to Kombucha tea include stimulating the immune system, preventing cancer, and improving digestion and liver function.” The thing is, though, there isn’t any scientific data performed on humans to back this up, but that also doesn’t mean it won’t benefit the body.

So while kombucha won’t necessarily “restore and rejuvenate” Anna’s body, I guess it’s worth a try. Tell me, do you drink kombucha for health benefits?

by Stuff.co.nz

Anna Paquin tried on 100 dresses before settling on her Golden Globes gown.

The True Blood actress was so determined to find the perfect frock for Sunday’s prestigious award show, she climbed into dozens of designs before settling on a glamorous Stella McCartney gown.

She said: “I tried on about a 100. I’m probably exaggerating.”

The 27-year-old beauty also had a battle choosing her accessories, before deciding on vintage Stephen Russell jewellery and a handbag designed by British designer Alexander McQueen.

Anna took preparations for the glitzy showbiz event so seriously, her fiance Stephen Moyer was banished to the other side of the house while the actress’ “team” got her ready.

He revealed to Us Weekly magazine: “I’m very good at leaving madam alone when it comes to these things. The team is working, and I’m upstairs by myself.”

Although they work together on the vampire series, the couple loved attending the ceremony together because they don’t spend much time together on a day-to-day basis.

Stephen, 40, added: “It is rare because at the moment, a lot of the stuff that we are doing is not together on the show. So in that respect, yes, we kind of have to introduce ourselves to each other once every week.”

This is not news or even new, but is the movie that made Anna famous, so I thought this article deserve a place here
By Christopher Goodwin:

The only female director to receive a top prize at Cannes, Campion’s classic ‘The Piano’ is a truly breathtaking film
There’s a striking photograph taken at the Cannes film festival in 2007. It shows 35 of the world’s leading directors, almost all in black suits and bow ties, standing on a podium. In their midst, if you look closely, you can see just one woman: Jane Campion, her greying blonde hair a sobering contrast, a white horse on a dark male sea. Campion, now 55, was among cinema’s auteur elite because her 1993 film, The Piano, was the first directed by a woman ever to win the coveted Palme d’Or (although it shared the prize with the Chinese film Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige). Holly Hunter, playing Ada, the film’s mute heroine, who finds expression and identity through the piano she plays, took the best actress award.

Nine months later, Campion received a best director Oscar nomination for the film, becoming only the second woman ever put up for cinema’s ultimate prize. She didn’t win. In fact, no woman has ever won the best director Oscar — although Campion’s latest, Bright Star, a tender study of the doomed but enduring love between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, is in the frame for nominations this year. It was at least some consolation that The Piano, which received eight nominations in all, including best picture, won three Oscars: best actress for Hunter, best supporting actress for Anna Paquin (who was just 11 when she appeared in the film) and best screenplay for Campion. The film was an international box-office hit, taking more than $100m worldwide.

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