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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Kevin Smith's "Hit Somebody" to be one film instead of two (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? Kevin Smith's supposed swan song as a director won't be as long as expected.
Smith is changing plans and will make his upcoming ice-hockey comedy, "Hit Somebody," one movie instead of two.
The "Clerks" director said last summer that the movie was too long to be a single movie. But in his Twitter feed Thursday, he said, "now gonna make one big movie instead." In a subsequent tweet, he added, "Makes more sense, anyway: the movie's about taking one, good shot."
Smith said he plans to start shooting the movie in June -- instead of July or September, as had previously been expected -- and that he wants to premiere it at Sundance in 2013.
Previously, the first "Hit Somebody" movie, "Home," was due in 2012. The second, "Away," was due in 2013.
Also, Smith said he's working on the second script for the film, which is based on the Warren Zevon song of the same name.
"Hit Somebody" stars Nicholas Braun in the lead role, as a hockey player named Buddy McCracken. The cast also includes John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Alan Rickman, Kevin Pollak and Ralph Garman, who co-hosts the podcast "Hollywood Babble-On" with Smith.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
U.S. Catholic bishop who resigned fathered two children (Reuters)
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) ? An assistant bishop of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Los Angeles in the United States has resigned because he had a secret family, including two teenage children.
The Vatican said on Wednesday that Pope Benedict had accepted the resignation of Gabino Zavala, an auxiliary bishop of the diocese which has been plagued by sexual scandals.
A brief Vatican announcement did not give the reason for Zavala's resignation, saying only that the pope had accepted it under the norm in canon (Church law) that says a bishop who is ill or otherwise unfit to carry out his duties should resign.
But Zavala's direct superior, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, has prepared a letter for the faithful in the archdiocese explaining the circumstances of the departure of Zavala, who was assistant bishop for the San Gabriel region of California.
In the letter, a draft of which was obtained from a Catholic Church source in Rome, Gomez said Zavala, 60, had informed him in early December that he was the father of two teenage children who live with their mother in another state.
The Catholic Church demands celibacy from its priests.
"Bishop Zavala also told me that he submitted his resignation to the Holy Father in Rome, which was accepted. Since that time, he has not been in ministry and will be living privately," Gomez says in the letter.
"The Archdiocese has reached out to the mother and children to provide spiritual care as well as funding to assist the children with college costs. The family's identity is not known to the public, and I wish to respect their right to privacy," the letter says.
Gomez asked for prayers "for all those impacted by this situation and for each other as we reflect on this letter."
Zavala's resignation under a cloud was the latest headache for the diocese, which paid a $660 million settlement in 2007 for cases of sexual abuse going as far back at the 1940.
Zavala was also the latest Catholic Church official who was found to have had a secret family.
The late leader of the Legionaries of Christ religious order, Father Marcial Maciel, who died in 2008 at the age of 87, lived a double life for decades that was not discovered until after his death.
Maciel, a Mexican, was found to have abused seminarians. He was also discovered to have had a mistress with whom he had fathered several children.
(Reporting By Philip Pullella; Edited by Richard Meares)
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NY grocery changes course on Alec Baldwin TV ads (AP)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. ? A New York-based supermarket chain has had a change of heart about grounding Alec Baldwin as a spokesman because of his antics aboard an American Airlines flight.
Wegmans Food Markets said Wednesday it will continue running television ads featuring Baldwin after being inundated with "hundreds and hundreds of tweets, emails, and phone calls" in support of the actor.
"We regret ending the Alec Baldwin holiday commercials one week earlier than planned in response to a couple of dozen complaints," Wegmans said in a statement. "We have decided to run the commercials again, effective immediately. Clearly, many more people support Alec."
Wegmans revealed Tuesday it had pulled the ads after drawing customer criticism about Baldwin's behavior. He was removed from a New York-bound flight at Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 6 for refusing to turn off his cellphone.
The commercials, which were filmed for the 2010 holiday season, were supposed to run again for three weeks last month but were pulled a week early after Baldwin's airline dustup.
Baldwin was hired for the ads after he mentioned that his mother, who lives in the Syracuse area, is a loyal Wegmans customer.
"We appreciate Wegmans' decision and the sentiment expressed in their statement," Baldwin publicist Matthew Hiltzik said.
Wegmans, a family owned business founded in Rochester in 1916, is credited with helping pioneer "one-stop shopping." It has 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland and Massachusetts.
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Bright spots, dark clouds ? Obama seeks right tone (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work.
His Republican rivals, in the face of late-arriving economic good news, are making slight adjustments themselves, arguing that Obama's policies have been a drag on a recovery that could have taken hold sooner.
The competing rhetoric reflects the positive indicators in areas ranging from retail sales and housing to unemployment and falling gas prices. All this has pushed up consumer confidence, a potential barometer of political attitudes. Even Congress and Obama managed to agree on a two-month payroll tax cut extension before leaving Washington for the holidays.
But the economic signs could prove fleeting, as they were in the early spring when economist also detected upticks in activity only to watch them tumble. These new indicators may hold more promise. But a looming European debt crisis is casting a pall.
No one is more aware of that risk than Obama.
"We've got an economy that is showing some positive signs; we've seen many consecutive months of private sector job growth," Obama said last week before departing for Christmas in Hawaii. "But it's not happening as fast as it needs to."
For Obama, the danger is in promoting an economy that while, slowly recovering, has yet to reflect reality for millions of Americans, or in highlighting positive signs only to see them falter in 2012.
For David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's top political adviser, visions of a European financial meltdown are what keep him awake at night.
"I think the American economy is gaining strength, I don't think many would argue that point," he said. "The imponderable is not about that, it's really about these externalities and particularly Europe. Especially now that we've passed this threshold on the payroll tax cut and assuming that the Republicans in Congress don't want to rerun that battle, the one big thing on the horizon is Europe."
Indeed, as the year ends on an up note, leading economists surveyed by The Associated Press expect the economy will grow slightly faster in 2012 ? about 2.4 percent compared with the less than 2 percent annual growth that the economy is expected to register by the end of this year.
But underscoring the political challenges facing Obama, these same economists don't expect unemployment to drop much in a year from November's 8.6 percent rate.
The public's economic outlook is improving. An Associated Press-GfK poll in December found that 37 percent of those questioned expect improvement in the economy in the coming year. It was the first time since May that the sentiment significantly outweighed the share saying the economy would get worse in the next year.
This modestly rosy scenario is contingent on keeping any financial disruptions in Europe contained to the other side of the Atlantic. Obama has pressing European leaders, particularly German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, to act swiftly to avoid a wholesale debt crisis from taking hold. But Obama has few tools other than persuasion with which to influence an outcome.
In a trend the Obama camp is sure to watch, the public is holding Obama more accountable for the economy. The AP-GfK poll found that the percentage who says Obama deserves little or no blame for the economy's sluggishness has declined from 43 percent in October to 36 percent now.
Republicans are watching, too.
After months of asserting that conditions under Obama have worsened, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney this past acknowledged signs of improvement, but gave Obama no credit.
"I think the economy's getting better. I sure hope so," Romney told CNN on Wednesday. "There's never been a time when our economy has not recovered from recession. We will recover, but it will not be thanks to the president's policies. It will be in spite of the president's policies."
Republican pollster Wes Anderson, a veteran of congressional and presidential contests, says the first quarter of 2012 could lay down crucial markers that could affect the election results.
"If the uptick in economic indicators that we've seen here this month continues into the next month at the same general pace, it will be an interesting race and it will be very close, and there will be an opportunity for Obama to win," he said. "If economic conditions deteriorate at all, I think he's done.
"If they pick up significantly in the first quarter ? I don't know what that is, but something that is tangible for middle-class America ? he probably gets re-elected," Anderson said.
The White House is ready to have the president maintain a high economic profile, showcasing his bailout of the auto industry as a concrete example of an administration policy that saved job. Beyond that, Obama's team wants to portray the president as a champion of the middle class.
"The battle is really over the long term because the Republicans have a fundamental theory that we can cut our way to prosperity ? cut taxes for the wealthy, cut regulations, especially for Wall Street, and the economy will flourish," Axelrod said. "We've tested that theory and it failed. Badly."
"This notion that he's been there, we should fire him and we should go back to what we were doing before the crisis is not a very strong argument," Axelrod said. "And obviously to the degree that the economy improves it becomes less of an argument."
Still, even economists friendly to the administration see contradictory signals in the end-of-year upswing.
On the positive side, the number of people applying for unemployment benefits has dropped to the lowest level since April 2008. At the same time, November's dip in unemployment from 9 percent to 8.6 percent was partly the result of frustrated workers leaving the labor force and no longer looking to be hired. The private sector is hiring, but states, school districts and local municipalities are shedding jobs. Also, despite an increase in consumer spending, Americans are not seeing real income growth.
"For every positive indicator, there is an indicator on the other side that's worrisome," said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden who's now with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics whose data is often cited by Democrats and Republicans, said that for all the encouraging signs, the economy still faces drags. That includes deficit reduction measures that helped reduce the debt in the long term but could cost the economy 1 percentage point in growth next year.
Washington politics poses its own challenges.
"I don't think 2012 is going to be a break out year for the economy," he said. "It is an election year and there is going to be a fair amount of political acrimony back and forth. People in business are already on edge. It doesn't take a lot for them to remain anxious and nervous."
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Ultimate Wedding Planner for iPad Was $5.49 Now Free!
Now that this is the start of a new year, I am sure many couples are planning to get married. For a limited time, the Ultimate Wedding Planner for iPad is now free. Get it and start planning your wedding before your partner changes their mind and you have to start weeding for the rest of your life!
The ULTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER by 2 for Couples is chock full of friendly, accessible and honest information, including our Special Wedding Issue, a gown search and interactive worksheets. As you step up your wedding planning, take your iPad with you so you can consult this ULTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER and record important info. And if you know someone getting married, recommend this app to them?or give as a gift!
The ULTIMATE WEDDING PLANNER app includes:
2MAG?SPECIAL WEDDING ISSUE
This one-stop digital magazine from 2 for Couples offers up tips on everything from announcing your engagement and sending invitations to how to take good wedding photos and songs to play at your reception.
SPECIAL WEDDING ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS:
? Top wedding trends
? Wedding style ideas: from backyard bliss to high-brow vows
? Gown search: find the gown to flatter your figure and budget
? Dress designer directory
? Great wedding photo tips
? Advice from a maid of honor, MC & more
? Getting wed: A to Z
? 35 great songs to play at your wedding
? Wedding day primer
? Bachelor(ette) party planner
? Couple Makeover
? Registry tips for setting up home
? Honeymoon hot spots
WORKSHEETS
What are your expectations for your wedding? Your wish list? Here's some fun homework! Use this special section?which includes a budget calculator, wedding countdown, wedding day schedule and much more!?to help you and your fianc?/fianc?e make your wedding plans. As your planning progresses, keep coming back to update the sheets and to remind you what's most important to you two on your big day! You can even email them to your wedding party, family and service providers to make sure everyone is on the same page.
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GOWN SEARCH
You can use the GOWN SEARCH tab to sort by designer, body type, price range and style.
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Looking for the perfect dress for your big day? Categorized by up-to-the-minute bridal trends, 101 BRIDAL GOWNS app will inspire you with gorgeous gowns styled to perfection alongside luxe handbags, fancy footwear and beauty loot fit for even the savviest of shoppers. Focusing on a range of trends and silhouettes, there's a gown for every bride, whether you're classic, modern or trendy.
Want more 2? Download 2 FOR COUPLES app and monthly digital magazines in the iTunes store. With a spotlight on real couples and their day-to-day lives, 2 FOR COUPLES serves up a slew of date night ideas, a whole bucket list of must-do moments, a ton of expert advice and fun couple makeovers. You'll also get access to 2LIFE, a special section that enables you to create profiles for you and your partner to share valuable info with each other.
Want great gift ideas all year long? 101 AMAZING GIFTS app is a curated collection of perfect gifts for everyone on your list! Updated regularly, we scour thousands of gift ideas to bring you the cream of the crop. From fashion and gadgets to toys for the tots in your life, you'll find what you need for that next holiday, birthday, anniversary or "just because"!
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