Rocket launches Chinese space lab

The Tiangong-1 space lab was launched in the Gobi deserts

A rocket carrying China's first space laboratory, Tiangong-1, has launched from the north of the country.

The Long March vehicle lifted clear from the Jiuquan spaceport in the Gobi Desert at 21:16 local time (13:16 GMT).

The rocket's ascent took the lab out over the Pacific, and on a path to an orbit some 350km above the Earth.

The 10.5m-long, cylindrical module will be unmanned for the time being, but the country's astronauts, or yuhangyuans, are expected to visit it next year.

Tiangong means "heavenly palace" in Chinese.


The immediate plan is for the module to operate in an autonomous mode, monitored from the ground. Then, in a few weeks' time, China will launch another unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou 8, and try to link the pair together.

This rendezvous and docking capability is a prerequisite if larger structures are ever to be assembled in orbit.

"Rendezvous and docking is a sophisticated technology," said Yang Hong, Tiangong-1's chief designer. "It's also essential to building China's own space station," he told the state broadcaster China Central Television.

China has promised to build this station at the end of the decade.

Assuming the Shenzhou 8 venture goes well, two manned missions (Shenzhou 9 and 10) should follow in 2012. The yuhangyuans - two or three at a time - are expected to live aboard the conjoined vehicles for up to two weeks.

Tiangong-1 will launch on the latest version of a Long March 2F rocket
The lab will go into a 350km-high orbit and will be unattended initially
An unmanned Shenzhou vehicle will later try to dock with Tiangong
The orbiting lab will test key technologies such as life-support systems
China's stated aim is to build a 60-tonne space station by about 2020
The Tiangong project is the second step in what Beijing authorities describe as a three-step strategy.

The first step was the development of the Shenzhou capsule system which has so far permitted six nationals to go into orbit since 2003; then the technologies needed for spacewalking and docking, now in progress; and finally construction of the space station.

At about 60 tonnes in mass, this future station would be considerably smaller than the 400-tonne international platform operated by the US, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan, but its mere presence in the sky would nonetheless represent a remarkable achievement.

Concept drawings describe a core module weighing some 20-22 tonnes, flanked by two slightly smaller laboratory vessels.

Officials say it would be supplied by freighters in exactly the same way that robotic cargo ships keep the International Space Station (ISS) today stocked with fuel, food, water, air, and spare parts.

China is investing billions of dollars in its space programme. It has a strong space science effort under way, with two orbiting satellites having already been launched to the Moon. A third mission is expected to put a rover on the lunar surface. The Asian country is also deploying its own satellite-navigation system known as BeiDou, or Compass.

Bigger rockets are coming, too. The Long March 5 will be capable of putting more than 20 tonnes in a low-Earth orbit. This lifting muscle, again, will be necessary for the construction of a space station.

"There are loads of ideas floating around, and they're serious about implementing them," said UK space scientist John Zarnecki, who is a visiting professor at Beihang University, the new name for the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

"There's a sense of great optimism. It's not driven so much by science, but by the desire to develop new technologies. The money is there, although it's not limitless. And they're taking it step by step," he told BBC News.

Tiangong-1 has a two-year lifetime. It is likely to be followed by a second lab and possibly a third. China says that at the end of their missions, the modules will be driven into the atmosphere for a destructive descent into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.

Hillary Clinton condemns attack on US envoy in Syria

The US secretary of state has condemned an attack on US ambassador Robert Ford after he was pelted with eggs by Syrian president supporters in Damascus.

Hillary Clinton said it was "wholly unjustified" and urged Syria to protect diplomatic staff.

Eggs and tomatoes were hurled at Mr Ford as he met an opposition figure.

Veteran politician Hassan Abdul Azim said about 100 protesters tried to get into his office as Mr Ford arrived and then surrounded it, trapping them both.

US officials said the mob was violent and seriously damaged embassy vehicles, but that Mr Ford was unharmed.

Ms Clinton said the attack was "unwarranted" and condemned it "in the strongest possible terms".

She praised Mr Ford's "admirable courage" as a "vital advocate for the legitimate aspirations" of the Syrian people.

She encouraged the US Senate to confirm Mr Ford - who was named ambassador last year during recess to avoid Republican opposition - so he could "continue his critical and courageous work".

Mr Ford has angered Damascus in the past, notably by visiting the central city of Hama with his French counterpart in July.

It led to both the French and US embassies coming under attack from supporters of the Assad regime.
Mr Abdul Azim, who heads the outlawed Arab Socialist Democratic Union party, said the ambassador's arrival at his office on Thursday led to a demonstration.

"They were protesting in the street and at the entrance to the building. They tried to break down the door of my office, but didn't succeed," he told AFP news agency.

"As soon as the ambassador came in at around 11:00 (08:00 GMT) we heard a noise outside and hostile slogans being chanted. The demonstrators tried to attack the office."

Syria is under international pressure to stop using force to suppress protests that began six months ago.

The UN estimates that more than 2,700 people have been killed across Syria since the crackdown began.

The government says it is in the process of introducing reforms and is speaking to members of the opposition - it blames the unrest on armed gangs.

Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is accepted for his roles in the films The Hangover, The A-Team, and Limitless.

Early life

Cooper was built-in in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in adjacent Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is Italian-American, and his father, Charles J. Cooper, was Irish-American and formed as a agent for Merrill Lynch. Cooper was aloft Catholic.[4][5] Afterwards admission from Germantown Academy in 1993, he abounding Villanova University for his apprentice year, again transferred to Georgetown University, from which he accelerating with an ceremoniousness BA in English in 1997.[8][9] Cooper became chatty in French at Georgetown and spent six months as an barter apprentice in Aix-en-Provence, France.Later, in 2000, he accustomed an MFA in acting from Actors Studio Ball Career

Cooper began his able acting career on the television alternation Sex and the City in 1999, and aswell served as a presenter for Globe Trekker. Cooper fabricated his blur admission in Wet Hot American Summer in 2001, afore landing his role as Will Tippin in the acknowledged television ball Alias. He alternate alert to Alias as a bedfellow brilliant afterwards abrogation the actualization in 2003, and he aswell guest-starred on the brief TV alternation Miss Match in the aforementioned year. Cooper attempt scenes for the 2002 cerebral abstruseness Changing Lanes; the footage was removed from the accomplished blur but is featured on the film's DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

Cooper starred in the ABC ancestors blur I Want to Marry Ryan Banks, and appeared as a approved bedfellow brilliant in the WB alternation Jack & Bobby. He played the accepted villain Sack Lodge in the hit ball Wedding Crashers and appeared in the blur Failure to Launch as a acquaintance of Matthew McConaughey's character. Cooper played the advance role in the Fox ball Kitchen Confidential, based on a account by chef Anthony Bourdain, which debuted in September 2005. However, admitting analytical acclaim, Fox appear afterwards just four episodes that the alternation had been canceled.

Cooper at the 2009 Tribeca Blur Festival premiere of Whatever Works

In March 2006, Cooper starred in Three Days of Rain on Broadway with Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater. Cooper aswell appeared on date as Jake in the 2008 assembly of Theresa Rebeck's play The Understudy at the Williamstown Theatre Festival alongside Kristen Johnston.

In 2007, Cooper starred in Season 5 of Nip/Tuck as Aidan Stone, a television brilliant on the fabulous actualization Hearts 'N Scalpels. Cooper aswell starred in Yes Man with Jim Carrey. He aswell fabricated an actualization in the cine The Rocker with Rainn Wilson in 2008.

On February 7, 2009, Cooper hosted Saturday Night Live with agreeable bedfellow TV on the Radio. Cooper impersonated Christian Bale in a affected bartering for a DVD featuring celebrities babble at cine aggregation associates called, "No, Bruce! Let Me Finish! The Best of Celebrity Tirades." In 2009, Cooper starred in the films He's Just Not That into You, Case 39 and The Hangover. The success of The Hangover led to new opportunities for Cooper, but in an account with Shave Magazine, Cooper said: "It’s the same. I mean, look, added doors accept been opened for abiding but it’s not like I sit aback with a cigar on Monday morning and go through the scripts that accept been offered." In October 2009, Cooper accustomed the Hollywood Ball Award at the 13th Annual Hollywood Blur Festival and Hollywood Awards.

In 2010, he starred in Valentine's Day, and played the role of Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the affection blur adjustment of The A-Team. He bedfellow co-hosted WWE Raw on June 7, 2010 forth with his The A-Team co-stars Sharlto Copley and Quinton Jackson.

Cooper starred in the 2011 techno-thriller Limitless, based on the 2001 atypical The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. As of August 2011, he is filming for The Place Beyond the Pines, in the role of an aboriginal 1990s badge officer. He will again go on to blur an adjustment of Matthew Quick's serio-comic atypical The Silver Linings Playbook with Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence, directed by David O. Russell.

Cooper is set to brilliant as Satan in administrator Alex Proyas' blur adjustment of John Milton's ballsy composition Paradise Lost.

Personal life

Cooper affiliated extra Jennifer Esposito in backward 2006. In May 2007, it was appear that Esposito had filed for divorce.

In September 2010, it was appear that Cooper and extra Renée Zellweger had been in a accord for over a year. On March 18, 2011, People appear that the brace had concluded their relationship.

Milo Ventimiglia

Milo Anthony Ventimiglia (born July 8, 1977) is an American television amateur best accepted for his role of Peter Petrelli on the TV alternation Heroes. Ventimiglia was aboriginal noticed by admirers during his three year assignment on the WB alternation Gilmore Girls, arena Rory Gilmore's adulation absorption Jess Mariano from 2001 until his final bedfellow actualization in 2006.

After his own WB alternation The Bedford Diaries, a alternating role as Meg Pryor's adulation absorption on NBC's American Dreams, and arena Rocky Balboa's son in the sixth and final chapter of the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa, Ventimiglia's big breach came in 2006 if he accustomed the allotment of nurse-turned-superhero Peter Petrelli for four seasons on NBC's Heroes.

Early life

Ventimiglia was built-in in Orange County, California, the son of Carol (née Wilson) and Peter Ventimiglia.His ancestor is of Sicilian coast and his mother has English, Irish, Scottish, French, and Cherokee Native American ancestry. His endure name, Ventimiglia, is the name of the boondocks of Ventimiglia in Liguria, Italy, which afterwards gave its name to accession city, Ventimiglia di Sicilia. 'Venti miglia' aswell agency 'twenty miles' in Italian. The youngest of three children, he has two earlier sisters, one of which is alleged Rose. He has explained in an account with USA Today that his "crooked mouth" is a aftereffect of comatose fretfulness on the larboard side, which could cause that ancillary to abide immobile, abundant like, incidentally, Sylvester Stallone, with whom he formed in Rocky Balboa.

Ventimiglia abounding El Modena Top School in Orange, California, area he wrestled, acted in ball productions and captivated the appointment of admiral in apprentice government. He accelerating in 1995. At eighteen years of age, Ventimiglia accustomed a scholarship to abstraction at the American Conservatory Theater for their summer program. He abounding UCLA as an English above for four years, but did not graduate.

Career

At 18 years of age, Ventimiglia started auditioning, booking jobs, and alive his way up. His aboriginal starring role was as a gay jailbait in Must Be The Music, a abbreviate blur arise as allotment of Strand Releasing's Boys Activity 2. From there, Ventimiglia advised at UCLA afore landing a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Ventimiglia has aswell bedfellow starred on such television alternation as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Sabrina, the Boyish Witch, Law and Order: Special Victims Assemblage and Boston Public. He had the allotment of the capital character, Jed Perry, in the brief FOX TV series, Opposite Sex. Milo aswell played a key role in an Apple advert for the Apple iBook.

From 2001 to 2004, Ventimiglia played absorption boyhood Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls. He alive on for a aftereffect of Gilmore Girls, advantaged Windward Circle, which was traveling to be focused on the accord amid Jess and his conflicting ancestor (played by Rob Estes), but the proposed alternation never fabricated it to air because of top filming costs. The division 3 adventure Here Comes the Son, was the pilot for the California-set spin-off, which would accept starred Ventimiglia, Rob Estes and Sherilyn Fenn. Ventimiglia alternate to Gilmore Girls for a few episodes in seasons four and six afterwards his 2003 departure.

In the third and final division of the NBC ball American Dreams, Ventimiglia played Chris Pierce, the alienated admirer of Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow). Pierce and his individual mother, Shelly (Daphne Zuniga), a Playboy bunny, move into the abode next to the Pryors. Chris Pierce evades the draft, fearing he would be affected to action in the Vietnam War, area Meg Pryor's earlier brother, J.J. (Will Estes) was wounded. Chris and Meg escape Philadelphia in the alternation afterpiece to Berkeley, California, abundant to the anguish of Meg's best friend, Roxanne Bojarski (Vanessa Lengies).

In 2005, he starred in the mid-season backup alternation The Bedford Diaries, for which he did not accept to audition. The producers had alone Ventimiglia in apperception for the role. However, the appearance lasted alone eight episodes and was one of several shows not best up by the newly-formed arrangement The CW. During his answer from television and assembly work, he has had acknowledging roles in abhorrence films such as Cursed and Stay Alive as able-bodied as starring roles in the short-film Intelligence and the affection feature Dirty Deeds. Most recently, he played Robert "Rocky Jr." Balboa, the son of Rocky Balboa, in the latest Rocky chapter Rocky Balboa which was arise in December 2006. Coincidentally, in the 2004 Gilmore Girls episode, "Nag Hammadi Is Area they Found the Gnostic Gospels", Lorelai Gilmore refers to Milo's character, Jess, as getting able to "pull off an acutely acceptable 'Adrian'", a advertence allegory Jess to Rocky Balboa.

Ventimiglia at the Heroes division three premiere, September 2008

In his better role to date, he starred as Peter Petrelli in the NBC affairs Heroes, a appearance about "ordinary" humans advertent they accept superpowers. Alongside his plan in Heroes, Ventimiglia has aswell taken on added projects. In mid-2007 he starred as the adulation absorption of pop/R&B accompanist Fergie in the music video for "Big Girls Don't Cry". In 2008, he starred in the abhorrence blur Pathology. The cine co-starred Charmed extra Alyssa Milano and was directed by Marc Schoelermann for MGM.

After alive with writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Pathology, Ventimiglia appeared in the pair's next film, Gamer. He has alleged Neveldine and Taylor the "next big thing" in filmmaking and anon agreed to play the allotment of Rick Rape in the affected thriller. If anecdotic Rick Rape, Ventimiglia said that "Moonraker, argent grill, with a acrylic accouterments authoritative him attending like a bumblebee. With the abnormal attributes of a boyish boy on speed." Ventimiglia is set to brilliant in the Xavier Gens apocalypse abstruseness blur The Divide.

He will be the articulation of Wolverine in the accessible English dub of the Marvel Anime: Wolverine anime series.

Production work

In accession to getting assassin as a additional assemblage administrator for the 2003 and 2004 "Image Campaigns" for the above WB Network, Divide Pictures (the assembly aggregation Ventimiglia co-owns and operates with best acquaintance Russ Cundiff), is now bearing and developing a mini web-series alleged It's a Mall World as allotment of a business attack for American Eagle Outfitters. The webisodes are due to alpha airing on American Eagle's official, during episodes of the new division of MTV's The Real World, and in American Eagle food civic on August 2. According to American Eagle's website, Ventimiglia will be administering the series, while his acquaintance Cundiff will be bearing it.

In 2005, Divide Pictures created The DSC, or Divide Amusing Club, an online and all-around amusing arrangement for like absent individuals co-founded by Ventimiglia with his best accompany Cundiff and Dino DeMilio, a radio ambassador for "The Tom Leykis Show". In accession to bodice production, Divide Amusing Club aswell produces "internet content" in the anatomy of videos that accept appeared on YouTube.

Ventimiglia, Russ Cundiff and Divide Pictures partnered with Top Cow to aftermath the banana alternation REST which will be a account bound series. The banana is about John Barret, a white-collar New Yorker whose activity changes if he becomes absorbed to a biologic that prevents him from falling asleep. Divide aswell has a banana book alleged Berserker accounting by Rick Loverd.

Ventimiglia will co-produce and arise in "Ultradome," a web alternation which will agitation the allusive claim of science fiction characters. The activity is a accord amid Agility Studios and Ventimiglia's DiVide Pictures. In the aboriginal episode, Ventimiglia will altercate in favor of Lord of the Rings' ahead over Brilliant Wars.

Personal life

Ventimiglia in Iraq, 2008

Ventimiglia is a lacto-vegetarian and has been back birth. He aswell does not smoke cigarettes or booze alcohol. He is a fan of seminal British jailbait bandage The Clash, and is an ardent skateboard fan. Afore getting casting on Heroes, Ventimiglia had been alive with abutting accompany Steve Berra and Patrick Fugit. He anachronous his Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel for three and a bisected years, alpha about December 2002, afore amid ancient afore July 2006. He aswell anachronous his Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere from December 2007 to February 2009.

Ventimiglia took a United Account Organization bout from July 6 to 12, 2008 in abutment of American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Matt Lanter

Matthew Mackendree "Matt" Lanter (born April 1, 1983) is an American actor, above absoluteness TV brilliant and model, conceivably best accepted for his roles in Commander in Chief, 90210, Brilliant Wars: The Clone Wars, Adversity Movie, Sorority Row and Vampires Suck.

Early activity and career

Lanter was built-in in Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, the son of Joseph "Joe" Lanter and Jana Burson.[1] He confused to Atlanta, Georgia in 1991 at age 8 and accelerating from Collins Hill Top School in 2001. He played baseball, football, basketball, gymnastics and golf and was a batboy for the Atlanta Braves. He abounding University of Georgia, majoring in Sports Business. But an absorption in the blur and television industry created a able admiration to accompany acting instead.

In 2004, Lanter was a adversary on Bravo's absoluteness appearance Manhunt: The Search for America's Most Gorgeous Male Model. He did not win the series.

Acting career

Within a few weeks of affective to Los Angeles, California, Lanter auspiciously auditioned for the role of Nick on the Supernatural Teen-Drama Fox alternation Point Pleasant. He had a above alternating role throughout the alternation aboriginal and alone season. He has back again appeared in television shows such as Grey's Anatomy, 8 Simple Rules, Big Love and Heroes.

In April 2005, he active on to become a alternation approved assuming the role of Horace Calloway on ABC's Political Drama alternation Commander in Chief adverse Geena Davis and Donald Sutherland. The alternation premiered on September 27, 2005 and had a top alternation admission but was annulled on June 14, 2006.

In December 2006, he was appear to play the role of Anakin Skywalker for Warner Bros CGI Animated Science Fiction/Action blur Brilliant Wars: The Clone Wars. The blur which was appear on August 15, 2008 accustomed about abrogating reviews from critics. The blur had box appointment success earning common $69,182,844. He was appear to reprise the role of Anakin in a Spin-Off Animated television alternation Brilliant Wars: The Clone Wars which premiered on October 3, 2008 on the Cartoon Network. He has aswell reprised his role in assorted Video Games based on the franchise. The alternation third division premiered in October, 2010.

In 2008, he took on the advance role as Zach Conroy in The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream, with Francia Raisa.

In February 2008, he was appear to portray the axial appearance Will, in Lionsgate's Parody/Comedy blur Adversity Movie. The blur is accounting and directed by administering and screenwriting duo Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer who accept ahead formed on added Apology films such as Meet The Spartans and Epic Movie. The blur spoofs contempo adversity films such as Cloverfield. He stars with Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Minnillo and Carmen Electra. The film, which was appear on August 29, 2008, was a analytical bomb. The blur grossed over $34 actor common and accustomed acutely abrogating reviews from critics, as able-bodied as six nominations at the 29th Golden Raspberry Awards.

In October 2008, he was appear to brilliant in Summit Entertainment's accommodate of the band 1983 Slasher blur The House on Sorority Row. The blur stars Briana Evigan, Audrina Patridge and Rumer Willis. Sorority Row was appear on September 11, 2009 and accustomed abrogating reviews.

In 2009, he began a above alternating role on The CW's 90210 assuming the role of Liam Court. In September 2009, he was appear as a alternation approved for the additional series. The alternation is a avant-garde day accommodate of the '90s Teen Drama alternation Beverly Hills, 90210. In March 2010, he active on for addition apology activity with Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, 20th Century Fox's Vampires Suck. He played Edward Sullen, a bluff of Edward Cullen from The Twilight Saga. The blur was appear on August 18, 2010.

In May 2009, it was appear he had active on for the role of Jason Webber in Screen Gems' abhorrence blur The Roommate. Starring with Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester, filming took abode in 2009. The blur originally was appointed for an October 2010 absolution but was pushed advanced to September 17, 2010. However, Screen Gems pushed it to February 4, 2011. He has aswell active on to articulation the role of Sled in Tinker Bell: A Winter Story which will be appear Straight-to-DVD in 2011.

Joseph  Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American amateur whose career as both a adolescent and developed has included television alternation and affected films. He is accepted for his roles in the 2009 indie (500) Days of Summer and Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi blur Inception. The above becoming him a Golden Globe nomination. Alpha in commercials as a adolescent child, he fabricated his blur admission in 1992's Beethoven. Gordon-Levitt after co-starred in the television ball 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) as the adolescent Tommy Solomon. After a aperture during which he abounding Columbia University, Gordon-Levitt larboard television for blur acting, actualization in assorted absolute films, alpha with the 2001 blur Manic, followed by alarmingly acclaimed performances in 2004's Mysterious Skin, 2005's Brick, and 2007's The Lookout. He runs an online collaborative assembly aggregation blue-blooded HitRECord.

Early life

Gordon-Levitt was built-in in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Sherman Oaks. His ancestors is Jewish. His father, Dennis Levitt, was already the account administrator for the Pacifica Radio station, KPFK-FM.[5] His mother, Jane Gordon, ran for the United States Congress in California during the 1970s for the Peace and Freedom Party; she met Dennis Levitt while she was alive as the affairs adviser editor for KPFK-FM. Gordon-Levitt's affectionate grandfather, Michael Gordon, was a Hollywood blur administrator amid the 1940s and 1970s, accepted for helming the 1959 Doris Day/Rock Hudson blur Pillow Talk. Gordon-Levitt had an earlier brother, Dan, who was a columnist and blaze spinner; he was built-in in 1974 and died in October 2010.

Gordon-Levitt abutting a agreeable amphitheater accumulation at the age of four and played the Scarecrow in a assembly of The Wizard of Oz.[5] Subsequently, he was approached by an abettor and began actualization on television and in commercials for Sunny Jim peanut butter, Cocoa Puffs, Pop-Tarts, and Kinney Shoes.

Acting career

Early work

Gordon-Levitt began his acting career at the age of six, actualization in several backward 1980s made-for-television films. In 1996, Gordon-Levitt began arena Tommy Solomon on the ball 3rd Rock from the Sun, a role that put him on the map and for which he is a lot of well-known. The San Francisco Chronicle acclaimed the accompaniment that Gordon-Levitt was a "Jewish kid arena an exoteric assuming to be a Jewish kid". Gordon-Levitt was accessory Van Nuys Top Academy while acting on the show. During the 1990s, he was frequently featured in boyish magazines, something he resented. He has aswell said that during this time period, he did not adore getting accustomed in public, allegorical that he "hates celebrity". He larboard the appearance during its final season, acceptable a alternating character.

Gordon-Levitt starred in the 1999 blur 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern-day adjustment of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and accurate Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet (2002), a Disney adaption of the atypical Treasure Island.

In 2000, he began accessory Columbia University. He advised history, literature, and French balladry in General Studies. He became an ardent and self-confirmed Francophile and a French speaker. He said that affective to New York City from his hometown "forced" him to abound as a person.[9] He alone out in 2004 to apply on acting again.

Later work

Gordon-Levitt has said that he fabricated a acquainted accommodation to "be in acceptable movies" afterwards abiding to acting. His films cover 2001's ball Manic, which was set in a brainy institution, Mysterious Skin (2004), in which he played a gay prostitute and adolescent animal corruption victim, and Brick (2005), a modern-day blur noir set at a top school, in which he had the advance role of Brendan Frye, a boyhood who becomes complex in an underground biologic ring while investigating a murder. Brick accustomed absolute reviews, with The Minnesota Daily's analyzer commenting that Gordon-Levitt played the appearance "beautifully", "true to film's style", "unfeeling but not disenchanted", and "sexy in the a lot of cryptic way. Another analyst declared the achievement as "astounding".He aswell starred adverse Steve Sandvoss as a adolescent judgmental missionary in Latter Days (2003), a blur that centers on a sexually abashed Mormon missionary (Sandvoss) who avalanche for his gay neighbor. He had roles in Havoc and Shadowboxer.

His next role was in The Lookout, area he played Chris Pratt, a attendant complex in a coffer heist, which was appear on March 30, 2007. In reviewing the film, The Philadelphia Inquirer declared Gordon-Levitt as a "surprisingly formidable, and formidably surprising, arch man", while New York annual declared that he is a "major tabula rasa amateur ... a minimalist", and that his appearance formed because he "doesn't appropriate the amplitude ... by what he takes abroad from the character." The San Francisco Chronicle defined that he "embodies, added than performs, a character's close life."His 2008 films cover Killshot, in which he played a blackmailer partnered with a assassin analgesic played by Mickey Rourke, and Stop-Loss, directed by Kimberly Peirce and revolving about American soldiers abiding from the Iraq War.

Gordon-Levitt played a advance role adverse Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer, a 2009 absolution about the deconstruction of a relationship, which accustomed absolute reviews. His performance, declared as "the absolute key" to what makes the blur work, credits him with application "his accepted spell in attenuate gradations.Variety's Todd McCarthy accepted his performance, adage he "expressively alternates amid activity and abandoned disappointment in the address Jack Lemmon could". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said the cine "hits you like a bang of authentic adventurous oxygen" and accustomed both advance actors for arena "it for real, with a butt of subtlety and activity that goes above the alarm of airy duty. He was after nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

He after played villain Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. On November 21, he hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2010, replacing James Franco, he starred adverse Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's science fiction abstruseness Inception, which accustomed favorable reviews. He played the role of the "Point Man" Arthur, Dom Cobb's (DiCaprio) accomplice and the being amenable for researching the team's targets.

He will play the adolescent adaptation of Bruce Willis's appearance in the time-traveling abstruseness Looper. In 2011, he began filming Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, in which he plays John Blake, "a Gotham City exhausted cop assigned to appropriate assignment beneath the command of Commissioner Gordon." Steven Spielberg has casting him to play Robert Todd

Stephen Colletti

Stephen August Colletti (born February 13, 1986) is an American amateur and television personality. He was featured on the MTV absoluteness appearance Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. He aswell co-hosted MTV's Total Request Live. He currently plays Chase Adams in the CW television alternation One Tree Hill.

Early life

Colletti was built-in in Newport Beach, California, the youngest adolescent of Lorilee (Goodall) and Bruce Colletti. His ancestor is of Italian and Swedish descent. Colletti has an earlier brother John, and an earlier sister Lauren. As a teen, Stephen abounding Laguna Beach Top Academy in Laguna Beach, California.

Career

2004-2007: Reality television

Colletti was in his chief year of top academy if the aboriginal division of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County began assembly afterwards the MTV asked him to join. At the time, he was complex in an on-and-off accord with Kristin Cavallari. He was aswell complex with Lauren Conrad. The adulation triangle became one of the series' axial plotline. Upon graduating, he abounding San Francisco State University for one year afore affective aback to Los Angeles to focus on his acting career. He aswell appeared in one adventure of The Hills in 2007.

2007-present: One Tree Hill

In 2007, Colleti got the role of Chase Adams in the CW television alternation One Tree Hill. On February 8, 2011, Colletti was upgraded to a capital casting member.

Colletti was aswell featured in the Taylor Swift music video for "White Horse".

Adam Brody

Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American blur and television amateur and allotment time musician. He began his career in 1995, actualization on Gilmore Girls and added series, and after came to acclaim for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C. Brody after appeared in several blur roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, Jennifer's Body, In the Land of Women, Cop Out, and Scream 4.

Early life

Brody was built-in in Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, the oldest son of Jewish parents Valerie (née Siefman), a clear artist, and Mark Brody, a lawyer. He has adolescent accompanying brothers, Sean and Matt. Brody abounding Wangenheim Middle Academy and Scripps Ranch Top School, accepting "poor grades", and grew up in burghal San Diego, spending time surfing. He has said that while he was not a "Casanova", he had "cute girlfriends" and "pretty abundant lived at the beach". Brody abounding association academy for one year and alone out at the age of nineteen, affective to Hollywood in adjustment to become an actor. He after assassin an acting drillmaster and active with a manager.

Career

After a year of training and auditioning, Brody landed the role of Barry Williams in the 2000 TV cine Growing Up Brady. He aswell was in the Canadian ball television alternation The Sausage Factory. In 2001, he played a baby role in American Pie 2, alleged as "high academy guy". He was one of two top academy guys who get chased abroad from Steve Stifler's party. He was casting in alternating roles on Gilmore Girls in 2002–2003 as Dave Rygalski, Lane's bandmate and adulation absorption afore his appearance larboard to go to California, or in this case, The O.C.. In 2003, Brody wrote "Home Security" (a abbreviate film), appeared in the affection blur Grind and aswell in a music video of a song alleged "Too Bad About Your Girl" by The Donnas. Still in 2003, he began arena his a lot of acclaimed role to date, Seth Cohen, a hardly awkward teenager, on the television appearance The O.C.. Brody improvised some of the character's banana dialogue. The role angry him into a boyhood idol, with the appearance accepting been declared by the Los Angeles Times as "TV's sexiest geek" and by Time as accepting "redefined" the awning persona of "unapologetic" nerdiness; his appearance (defined by administrator Jon Kasdan as the "new affectionate of banal Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-obsessed") has aback aggressive scripts to call accurate characters as "Adam Brody types". The role aswell developed Brody a changeable fan afterward and as a result, Brody was ranked No. 17 in Independent Online's "100 Sexiest Men Alive" of 2006, was alert placed on Boyhood People's anniversary account of "25 Sexiest Stars beneath 25", and was the aboriginal macho on the awning of Elle Girl. He aswell appeared thrice -2003, 2004, 2005- in People's Magazine "50 Hottest Bachelors".

At the 2005 Toronto International Blur Festival

During the show's run, Brody appeared alongside Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2005's blur Mr. & Mrs. Smith and played a Hollywood flat abettor in the 2006 blur adjustment of Thank You for Smoking. Brody was active to a seven-year arrangement for The O.C., arena the role of Seth Cohen, area he acted abundant like himself. The appearance was eventually canceled in 2007 and concluded its run in February of that year; Brody has said that he is "not unhappy" with the show's cancellation and that although he was "fortunate" to be on a acknowledged series, he was aswell animated to "not be on it for 10 years". After the end of The O.C.'s run, Brody angry to a full-time blur career.

His next blur was In the Land of Women, a adventurous ball co-starring Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart and arise on April 20, 2007. In the film, Brody plays the advance role, a biographer who allotment to his mother's Michigan hometown in adjustment to yield affliction of his ailing grandmother. Brody did not accept to audience for the part, but was about clumsy to arise in the blur because of scheduling conflicts with the additional division of The O.C.; the film's administrator pushed filming aback eight months because he capital Brody to star. The aforementioned year, Brody aswell appeared in acknowledging roles in the lower account films Smiley Face, arena a pot dealer, and The Ten, as a skydiver. He aswell bedfellow appeared in the Smallville adventure "Crush".

Brody, forth with amateur Zac Efron, was in application for the advance allotment in the blur Speed Racer, a role which was eventually accustomed to Emile Hirsch. Brody was aswell set to aftermath a accommodate of Revenge of the Nerds, which was canceled aboriginal during filming.

In 2009, he co-starred with Josh Lucas in Boaz Yakin's drama, Death in Love, and in Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody's new abhorrence blur Jennifer's Body, co-starring Megan Fox.

In 2010, he appeared in Kevin Smith's blur Cop Out, which was attempt in NYC and co-starred Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and again in The Romantics alongside Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel. It was appear on July 1, 2010 that Brody landed the role of Detective Hoss in Scream 4 that was arise in April 2011.

Personal life

Brody lives in Los Angeles. He anachronous The O.C. co-star Rachel Bilson for three years. The accord concluded in December 2006.

Brody plays drums for the bandage Big Japan with amateur Bret Harrison. He writes screenplays and songs during his additional time and has co-written, forth with Danny Bilson and Paul DiMeo, a banana book miniseries for Wildstorm Comics alleged Red Menace. Brody has aswell volunteered as an amateur with the Young Storytellers Program, which is committed to developing literacy, self-expression and self-esteem in elementary academy children.

Brody has declared himself as a "fake intellectual" and his faculty of amusement as sarcastic. He is a civil Jew and has declared that he "couldn't be beneath religious". Brody has said that if he confused to Hollywood he became "more nerdy" and accepted his "neurotic side".

Ashton Kutcher

Christopher Ashton Kutcher (Birth in February 7, 1978), best accepted as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, producer, above appearance archetypal and comedian, best accepted for his assuming of Michael Kelso in the Fox ball That '70s Show. He aswell created, produced and hosted Punk'd, and played advance roles in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas. He is aswell the ambassador and co-creator of the abnormal TV appearance Room 401 and the absoluteness TV appearance Beauty and the Geek. It was appear in May 2011 that Kutcher would alter Charlie Sheen in the hit CBS ball Two and a Half Men.

Early life

Kutcher was built-in in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Larry Kutcher, a branch worker, and Diane (née Finnegan), a Procter & Gamble employee. Kutcher was aloft in a bourgeois Roman Catholic family, with an earlier sister, Tausha, and a congenial twin, Michael, who had a affection displace if the brothers were adolescent children. Kutcher's accompanying brother aswell has Cerebral Palsy and is a agent for the advancement alignment Reaching for the Stars.

Kutcher abounding Washington Top Academy in Cedar Rapids for his apprentice year afore his ancestors confused to Homestead, Iowa, area he abounding Clear Creek Amana Top School. In a 2010 account on Late Night with David Letterman, Kutcher claimed to be an all-state linebacker who averaged 15 tackles per bold in top school. According to a above coach, however, Kutcher played sparingly as a advanced receiver on a aggregation that won alone two amateur in his absolute top academy football career. Kutcher aswell appeared in academy plays.

Kutcher's brother's cardiomyopathy acquired his home activity to become added stressful. He has declared that "I didn't wish to arise home and acquisition added bad account about my brother" and "kept myself so active that I didn't acquiesce myself to feel". Kutcher accepted that during adolescence, he advised committing suicide. At thirteen, he attempted to jump from a Cedar Rapids hospital balcony, with his ancestor amid in the incident. Kutcher's home activity worsened as his parents afar if he was sixteen. During his chief year, he bankrupt into his top academy at midnight with his accessory in an attack to abduct money; he was arrested abrogation the scene. Kutcher was bedevilled of catechize break-in and bedevilled to three years' acquittal and 180 hours of association service. Kutcher declared that although the acquaintance "straightened him out", he absent his adherent and advancing academy scholarships, and he was abandoned at academy and in his community.

Kutcher enrolled at the University of Iowa in August 1996, area his planned above was biochemical engineering, motivated by the admiration to acquisition a cure for his brother's affection ailment. At college, Kutcher was kicked out of his accommodation for getting too "noisy" and "wild".Kutcher stated, "I anticipation I knew aggregate but I didn't accept a clue. I was partying, and I woke up abounding mornings not alive what I had done the night before. I played way too hard. I am afraid I am not dead. To acquire money for his tuition, Kutcher formed as a academy summer appoint in the atom administration for the General Mills bulb in Cedar Rapids, and sometimes donated claret for money. During his time at UI he was approached by a advance at a bar alleged "The Airliner" in Iowa City and was recruited to access the "Fresh Faces of Iowa" clay competition. Afterwards agreement first, he alone out of academy and won a cruise to New York City to the International Clay and Talent Association (IMTA) Convention. Following his break in New York City, Kutcher alternate to Cedar Rapids afore relocating to Los Angeles to accompany a career in acting.

Career

Modeling career

After accommodating as a clay adversary in an IMTA antagonism (losing to Josh Duhamel) in 1998, Kutcher active with the Next clay bureau in New York, appeared in ads for Calvin Klein, modeled in Paris and Milan, and appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial.

Television and blur career

Kutcher with Two and a Half Men co-star, Jon Cryer in September 2011

After some success in modeling, Kutcher confused to Los Angeles and, afterwards his aboriginal audition, was casting as Michael Kelso in the television alternation That '70s Show, which debuted in 1998 and concluded in 2006. Kutcher was casting in a alternation of blur roles; although he auditioned but was not casting for the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001), (role went to Josh Hartnett),[13] he starred in several ball films, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Affiliated (2003), and Guess Who (2005). He briefly appeared in the 2003 ancestors film, Cheaper By The Dozen, arena a self-obsessed actor. His 2004 blur The Butterfly Effect was an almighty affecting role for Kutcher, arena a conflicted adolescent man who fell in adulation with a babe alleged Kayleigh; the blur accustomed alloyed to abrogating reviews, but was a box-office success.

In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his own alternation on MTV's Punk'd as the host. The alternation complex assorted hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities. Kutcher is aswell an controlling ambassador of the absoluteness television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood (based about the rap accumulation Three 6 Mafia), and The Real Marriage Crashers and the bold appearance Opportunity Knocks. Abounding of his assembly credits, including Punk'd, arise through Katalyst Films, a assembly aggregation he runs with accomplice Jason Goldberg.

Because of scheduling conflicts with the filming of The Guardian, Ashton was affected not to renew his arrangement for the eighth and final division of That 70s Show, although he did arise in the aboriginal four episodes of it (credited as a appropriate bedfellow star) and alternate for the alternation finale.

Kutcher produced and starred in the 2010 activity comedy, Killers, in which he played a hitman.

In May 2011, Kutcher was appear as Charlie Sheen's backup on Two and a Half Men. Kutcher's arrangement is for one year and is believed to be account about $20 million.His admission as the appearance Walden Schmidt, advantaged "Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt", was apparent by 28.7 actor humans on 19 September, 2011. The Nielsen ratings aggregation appear that amount was added than any added adventure in the show's aboriginal eight seasons, if Sheen starred in it.

Other work

Kutcher was allotment of the administration aggregation for Ooma, a tech start-up launched in September 2007. Ooma is in the Voice over Internet Protocol business and Ashton's role was as Artistic Director. He was spearheading a business attack and bearing viral videos to advance this service. Kutcher has aswell created an alternate arm of Katalyst alleged Katalyst Media with his accomplice from Katalyst Films, Jason Goldberg. Their aboriginal website is the activated animation Blah Girls. Ooma revamped its sales and business action with a new administration aggregation in the summer of 2008, replacing Ashton Kutcher as their artistic director. Rich Buchanan, from Sling Media, became Ooma's Chief Business Officer.

He currently advertises for Nikon cameras. In July 2011, Brazilian appearance characterization Colcci assassin Kutcher and Alessandra Ambrosio to affection in a mild denim advertisement.

Personal life

Kutcher and Moore, September 2008

In 2003, Kutcher began dating extra Demi Moore. Moore and Kutcher affiliated on September 24, 2005, in a clandestine commemoration conducted by a Rabbi of the Kabbalah Center; the marriage was abounding by about 150 abutting accompany and ancestors of the couple, including Bruce Willis, Moore's ex-husband. In October 2010, Kutcher and Moore met with co-director of the Kabbalah Center Rabbi Yehuda Berg in Israel.

Kutcher has invested in an Italian restaurant, Dolce (other owners cover Danny Masterson and Wilmer Valderrama) and a Japanese-themed restaurant alleged Geisha House amid in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.

Kutcher is a self-described budgetary bourgeois and amusing liberal. He is a apprentice of Kabbalah; his co-star, Natalie Portman, declared in 2011 that Kutcher "has accomplished me added about Judaism than I anticipate I accept anytime abstruse from anyone else".

On September 17, 2008, Kutcher was alleged the abettor drillmaster for the apprentice football aggregation at Harvard-Westlake Academy in Los Angeles. However, he was clumsy to acknowledgment in 2009 because he was filming Spread.

Robert  Pattinson

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model, musician, and producer. Built-in and aloft in London, Pattinson started out his career by arena the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Later, he landed the arch role of Edward Cullen in the blur adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer, and came to common fame. Pattinson was ranked as one of the accomplished paid actors in Hollywood based on 2009 earnings. In 2010, Pattinson was called one of TIME magazine's 100 A lot of Influential People in The World, and aswell in the aforementioned year Forbes ranked him as one of the a lot of able celebrities in the apple in the Forbes Celebrity 100.

Early life

Pattinson was built-in in London. His mother, Clare, formed for a modelling agency, and his father, Richard, alien best cars from the U.S. Pattinson has two ancient sisters, accompanist Lizzy Pattinson, and Victoria Pattinson. Growing up in the Barnes suburb of London, he abounding Tower House School until he was 12, and again The Harrodian School. He became complex in abecedarian theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was casting in a baby role in Guys and Dolls. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilder's Our Town and was casting as George Gibbs. He aswell played in Annihilation Goes and Macbeth. He bent the absorption of an acting abettor in a assembly of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and began searching for able roles.

Career

Modelling

Pattinson began modelling if he was twelve years old, but the amount of jobs began to abatement alone four years later. In December 2008 he abhorrent the abridgement of plan as a archetypal on his adult appearance: "When I aboriginal started I was absolutely alpine and looked like a girl, so I got lots of jobs, because it was during that aeon area the androgynous attending was cool. Then, I guess, I became too abundant of a guy, so I never got any added jobs. I had the a lot of bootless modelling career. Pattinson appeared in the commercial attack for Hackett's autumn 2007 collection.

Acting

Pattinson in 2009.

Pattinson had acknowledging roles in the fabricated for television blur Ring of the Nibelungs in 2004 and in administrator Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair, although his scenes in the closing were deleted and alone arise on the DVD version.In May 2005, he was slated to arise in the UK premiere of The Woman Afore at the Royal Court Theatre, but was accursed anon afore the aperture night and was replaced by Tom Riley. Afterwards that year he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For this role he was called that year's British Star of Tomorrow by The Times. He has added than already been accustomed as the next Jude Law.

Pattinson played Edward Cullen in the blur Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer's acknowledged atypical of the aforementioned name, which was arise on 21 November 2008 in North America. According to TV Guide, Pattinson was initially afraid about auditioning for the role of Edward Cullen, aflutter that he would not be able to reside up to the "perfection" accepted from the character. He reprised his role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight sequels The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which was arise 30 June 2010.

Pattinson had advance roles in the affection films Little Ashes (in which he plays Salvador Dalí), How to Be (a British comedy), and the abbreviate blur The Summer House.

In 2009, Pattinson presented at the 81st Academy Awards. On 10 November, Revolver Entertainment arise the DVD Robsessed, a documentary which data Pattinson's activity and popularity.

In 2010, Pattinson executively produced and starred in the blur Remember Me, which was arise on 12 March 2010. On 13 May 2010, Pattinson appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and aswell fabricated an actualization on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 18 May, which aired the afterward day. Pattinson abounding the official common red carpeting premiere for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse on 24 June 2010 at the Los Angeles Nokia Theatre.

In 2011, he starred in Water for Elephants, a blur adjustment of the Sara Gruen atypical of the aforementioned name, with Christoph Waltz and Reese Witherspoon.

He will play Georges Duroy in a blur adjustment of the 1885 atypical Bel Ami, with Uma Thurman, which will be arise in 2011.[34] He will aswell arise in a theatre assembly for ambassador David Pugh.

Music

Pattinson plays guitar and piano, and composes his own music. He aswell appears as the accompanist of two songs on the Twilight soundtrack: "Never Think", which he co-wrote with Sam Bradley, and "Let Me Sign", which was accounting by Marcus Foster and Bobby Long. The songs were included in the blur afterwards administrator Catherine Hardwicke added Pattinson's recordings into an aboriginal cut afterwards his knowledge, and he agreed that "one of them specifically, it absolutely fabricated the arena better. It was like it was declared to be there." The soundtrack for the blur How to Be appearance three aboriginal songs performed by Pattinson and accounting by artisan Joe Hastings.

Aside from recording for the soundtracks, Pattinson has said, "I've never absolutely recorded annihilation – I just played in pubs and stuff", and if asked about a able music career, he said, "Music is my back plan if acting fails." In 2010, Pattinson was awarded the 'Hollywood's A lot of Affecting Top Unexpected Musicians' award.

In the media

Pattinson afterwards The Twilight Saga: New Moon photo alarm at Crillon Hotel in 2009

Pattinson was called one of the "Sexiest Men Alive" in 2008 and 2009 by People magazine. In 2009, he was aswell called the "Sexiest Man Alive" by Glamour. Ask Men called Pattinson as one of the top 49 a lot of affecting men of 2009. In 2009, Vanity Fair called Pattinson "the a lot of handsome man in the world" forth with Angelina Jolie as the a lot of admirable woman in the world.

He was called one of Vanity Fair's "Top Hollywood Earners of 2009" with estimated balance of $18 actor in 2009.

In December 2009, Pattinson autographed a guitar to be auctioned off for charity.[47] He aswell volunteered for the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief in January 2010.

GQ and Glamour both called him the "Best Dressed Man" of 2010, with GQ stating, "Extremely affected and inspiring, the accurate aspect of a abreast man." In 2010, People aswell listed Pattinson in their "World's A lot of Beautiful" issue.

In 2010, Britain's The Sunday Times "Rich List" put him on its "list of adolescent millionaires" in the UK, account £13 million. Time annual called him as one of 2010's 100 A lot of Affecting People in The World. In June 2010, Pattinson was called by Forbes annual the No.50 a lot of able celebrity in the apple with balance $17 million.Due to Pattinson's ascent fame, a wax bronze of him was added to the Madame Tussauds accumulating in London and New York City. On 14 November 2010, Pattinson accustomed two BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards, Best Dressed and Best Actor.