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Charlize Theron may not have spoken at Saturday’s Meet in the Middle gay marriage rally, but she certainly didn’t go unnoticed.

The Academy Award winner was more than happy to pose for pics, chat and give out plenty of hugs as she listened to speeches with her mom and a small crew of friends.

Theron was an early supporter of the Fresno, Calif., rally, which was organized by the grassroots Courage Campaign.

She wasn’t the only boldfaced name in the crowd. Find out who else was there and what they said…

T.R. Knight kept his remarks to the crowd short and to the point.

“The California Supreme Court achieved something in their decision,” he said. “They created three classes of people. The first class: the straight people who can get married. The second class: the 18,000 same sex couples who are legally wed in California.”

The third class consists of “the rest of us who are legally prohibited to get married,” he continued. “I was not going to stand for being a second-class citizen, and I’m sure as hell not going to be a third-class citizen!”

Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black said the fight for gay marriage should take its lead from the late Harvey Milk.

“His message was simple,” Black said, “Be proud, come out, represent yourself and reach out to our brothers and sisters in other communities, especially those who may vote against us.”

Source: E Online

Hollywood celebrities Penelope Cruz, Charlize Theron, Demi Moore and her actor husband Ashton Kutcher will pit their wits against one another at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 18 when they take part in a charity dominoes (tile) game with a celebrity twist.

Cruz has teamed up with director Pedro Almodovar and U2 rocker Bono to host the charity event for The Global Fund, which raises money for AIDS research, reports contactmusic.com.

But instead of playing the traditional game, the stars will compete in Hollywood Domino – a movie board game version of the pastime.

Source: Hindustan Times

Tom Hanks can’t stop smiling after Charlize Theron complimented his butt.

The actress recently went public with her love for his perfect butt, saying that the actor has “A really, really good a**�.

And Hanks can�t believe he’’s got the butt of his That Thing You Do! co-star’s dreams.

“She’s a dear. Any woman who would compliment your a** is one to hold onto,� Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

Source: Fresh News

Charlize Theron tells Usmagazine.com that Salma Hayek had a “beautiful wedding” to French tycoon Francois-Henri Pinault Saturday in Venice, Italy.

“I’m really happy for them and they’re just a beautiful couple,” Theron told Us Monday at a Film Society of Lincoln Center event honoring Tom Hanks in NYC. “We’re really good friends, and it was really a celebration of love — that’s what it was really about.”

The bride, Theron added, looked “gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.”

The sweetest moment?

“Everything,” said Theron, who attended the ceremony with her beau Stuart Townsend. “Everything was gorgeous.”

Source: US Magazine

Rock star Bono and actresses Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron were among the glitterati spotted at the La Fenice opera hall, as the couple repeated the vows they made in February.

Former French president Jacques Chirac, a Pinault family friend, was also among the guests, as were film director Emir Kusturica and fashion designer Stella McCartney.

Venice is where Mexican-born Hayek, 42, met Pinault, 46, who is chief executive of PPR, the luxury goods and retailing group controlled by his father Francois Pinault which notably includes the Gucci Group.

The couple – who had a daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, in 2007 in Los Angeles – married discretely in Paris on Saint Valentine’s Day.

Source: MSN

South African-born actress Charlize Theron calls US marriage laws “a form of apartheid”. The Oscar winner and Dior model said,

I don’t like living in an elitist world, it bothers me. I don’t want to be part of an elitist sexual preference. It bothers me. Maybe it’s because I come from a country where I lived under apartheid. This is a form of apartheid and I don’t want to be a part of that.

Theron was referring to the “Grand Apartheid” laws in her native country, which segregated whites and non-whites. The laws prevented non-whites from marrying whites or holding white jobs. Harsh criminal penalties were imposed on civil protestors of the apartheid laws, with thousands of people tortured, sentenced to death, or banished. The most famous face of apartheid is Nelson Mandela, who received a life sentence for treason but was finally freed in 1990, and went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Theron has been dating super-hot boyfriend Stuart Townsend for years, and the couple have said in the past that they refused to get married until same-sex marriage was legal in the United States.

‘It’s not the reason I’m not getting married but it’s maybe a part of it,” Theron said. “My ability to get married is a piece of me that I wish I could give to somebody who it would mean so much to. We should all have the chance. It’s just so caveman, I can’t believe we’re still talking about it.’

Source: Examiner

South African Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron (Monster) is one of a number of stars interested in playing the lead role in the film adaptation of Atlas Shrugged, the best selling novel from the late novelist, screenwriter and philosophist, Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead).

According to The Hollywood Reporter, other actresses vying for the role are Angelina Jolie, Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway.

Rand developed a philosophical system called objectivism, which is at the core of Atlas Shrugged. The book tells the story o a female railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive. It was published in 1957 but is regarded as particularly relevant today. Rand described objectivism as “a philosophy for living on earth�, grounded in reality and aimed at defining man’s nature and the nature of the world around him.

Source: Screen Africa

She is such a chameleon, so dramatically able to alter her appearance and demeanour, that Hollywood calls actress Charlize Theron ‘The Shape-shifter’.

But while Kenneth Branagh describes her as ‘a whirlwind of crushing sexual energy’, Theron rarely chooses to reveal this quality either on or off screen.

On it, she usually masks her beauty. She won the Best Actress Oscar in 2003 for her portrayal of fat lesbian Aileen Wuornos – a prostitute and serial killer – in Monster. In 2005, for her role as a mine worker in North Country, she had dull hair and wore sexless overalls.
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CHARLIZE THERON has named Hollywood legend DAME ELIZABETH TAYLOR as her greatest inspiration – because the veteran actress is a “survivor”.
The Oscar-winner was delighted to finally meet her idol at a recent dinner party, and found herself even more enamoured with Taylor, 77, after their brief chat.
She says, “I said to her, ‘I just think you’re so incredible and I’m so honoured to meet you because you’re an amazing woman.’
“She turned to me and said, ‘I’m just a survivor, darling.’ I loved that moment because that’s what we’re all trying to do.
“Some of us are blessed with not having a lot of turmoil in our lives, but at the end of the day, our nature is to survive and that’s what we do.”

Source: Contact Music

The 33-year-old actress was awarded the Best Actress Academy Awards in 2004 for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in ‘Monster’ but admits she (has) more pressing things to think about than the accolade.

Asked if she agreed with fellow winner Gwyneth Paltrow who said the award means nothing to her in her day-to-day life, Charlize replied: “Look it doesn’t vacuum, it doesn’t wash the dishes, it doesn’t do stuff like that, but it’s definitely an honour.”

The star recently admitted she finds it hard to believe she is one of the few women to be given the prestigious accolade.

She said: “Every time I see the Oscars on the television I can’t believe it. You realise there have only been 81 actresses who have been given this honour. That’s huge. So I never thought that that would happen and the fact that it happened was really special.”

Source: Yahoo! News