An article by Dorothy Rabinowitz about The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.

It’s a given, this column noted a while back, that in “Hallmark Hall of Fame” productions darkness may threaten, but not for long — not in those gleaming, handsomely mounted dramas with their inevitable satisfactory resolutions. All the more remarkable, then, that this weekend should bring “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler” (Sunday, 9-11 p.m. EDT, on CBS), a new production so terrifying in its power and its refusal of false notes. There is in this story of the Polish social worker who — with a band of like-minded compatriots — set about saving as many Jews as she could from annihilation at the hands of the German occupiers no glimmer of happy endings or darkness lifting.

This is a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film unlike any other — but more important by far, it’s unlike any other ever made on this history of rescuers and the rescued. In writer-director John Kent Harrison’s picture, the heroes aren’t given to speechmaking about the noble cause, and neither do the Germans make declarations on their ultimate aims for the Jews — which is, in any event, entirely clear. That scrupulous avoidance of underlining and bombast would by itself be a case for the film’s distinction, but it’s only one of many.

Count among those other cases its unsparing authenticity. The film (shot in Riga, Latvia) propels us into the life of those grim Warsaw streets, both inside the ghetto, where some 441,000 Jews were packed, and outside, where Irena Sendler (Anna Paquin) and her colleagues operated. The details of life in the confines of the ghetto, which the real Irena Sendler was able to visit in her role as a social worker, flash by quickly — familiar images of the emaciated, the dying, the children at play among the corpses or engaged in the deadlier business of food smuggling.

What is much less familiar is the story of the rescue efforts that took place outside those walls, which Irena Sendler and her allies in the secret organization known as Zegota — Council for Assistance to the Jews — undertook. She was the chief organizer of the effort that resulted in the saving of 2,500 Jewish children; and before her work with Zegota, she provided hundreds of Jews of all ages with false papers, and managed to get them to hiding places outside the ghetto — otherwise known as the Aryan side.

(by Rogana)

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were spotted together at a friendly soccer match among Australian and American celebs to benefit recent fire victims in Australia.

Both Anna and Stephen are costars in the hit TV series, “True Blood” and a real life couple off the screen. Despite long shooting schedule previous night, Anna cheerfully accepted numerous interview and photo requests. She did politely refused to take off her sunglasses when requested by photographers, sighting that her eyes weren’t in good shape after the previous night shooting of “True Blood.” source

There´s also another one post on this website about this event. You can see there five pictures from fans. I hope there will be some official pictures soon, so that I can put them into the gallery. I´ve added first two photos to the gallery.

Anna Paquin was another surprise guest today at the Australian Charity event. She arrived with her new blonde hair style, looking lovely and to cheer on her boyfriend Stephen Moyer. Both star on the TV show ‘True Blood’ and even though Anna told me she was very tired coming straight from the set of the show, she was still happy to be there. Here she is waiting on the sidelines with her man Stephen Moyer as they also chat to House’s Jesse Spencer. source

(by Rogana)

True Blood costars (and real-life couple) Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer keep close at the 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Sunset Tower on Sunday (February 22) in West Hollywood.

The romance between Moyer, 37, and Paquin, 26, first sparked at the True Blood audition, but the couple decided to wait to go public.

“The reason it was dodged last year was very intentional on both our parts,” Moyer tells TV Guide Magazine. “It was very important to me that the cast and crew we were working with didn’t feel it was fickle, and didn’t feel it could possibly potentially encroach on their lives, you know, just like, ‘Oh the two stars are having a thing.’ We didn’t want to take anything away from the show. The show is the star, not the two people having a relationship… It’s just exciting and that was there from day one. We always take the piss out of each other and are silly with each other and it is great. We’re very, very happy. She’s the best.” source

I´ve also added 18 new HQ photos from Vanity Fair Oscar party. Enjoy!