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South African Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron (“Monster�, “In the Valley of Elah�) has signed a contract with hotel, resort and casino group Sun International to star in its new brand campaign.

According to Business Times the campaign will be flighted on TV in April. Sun International CE David Coutts-Trotter says that the parallels between Sun International and Theron are wonderful as both are South African born and internationally acclaimed.

The ad campaign is produced by Anant Singh of Videovision Entertainment and directed by Ian Gabriel (“Forgiveness�), and sees the first major international celebrity signing an advertising deal with an African hotel, resort and casino chain.

Source: screenafrica.com

Charlize Theron is the happiest of celebrities. The stunning South African-born Oscar winner may regularly grace magazine covers and seems to live the high life - and yes, when working she travels with extensive entourages. Yet her best moments, she says, are the smaller personal ones, spent with Irish actor Stuart Townsend, her partner in love and in intrepid adventures, on the hoof to one of the far-flung reaches of the planet.

When she recently took a year and a half away from acting to develop her own films and regain her energy - following her Oscar campaign for North Country and her taxing stint as an action hero in Aeon Flux, she naturally took off with her handsome beau.
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Charlize Theron may have reflected ’20s-style Hollywood glamour in the stunning beaded gown she wore to the 2004 Oscars, when she won as Best Actress for Monster – but this year she plans on something completely different.

Her pajamas.

At least that’s what the South Africa-born actress, 32, revealed Friday at the Dublin International Film Festival, where her director and actor boyfriend Stuart Townsend’s new movie, Battle in Seattle, premiered, reports Britain’s Press Association.

“We are not going. I don’t think you go to those kind of award shows unless you are nominated,” says Theron of the Feb. 24 event at the Kodak Theatre.

“I think it’s a special thing if you get a nomination, or your film does. Then you go. But we don’t have any nominations or anything like that in the house, so we sit in our jammies and watch it on the couch.”

Something else Theron isn’t rushing to dress formally for: her and Townsend’s wedding.

“I have no plans on getting married,” she declared.

Source: people.com

“That’S my natural hair colour,” snaps Charlize Theron, nodding at the poster for her new film, In The Valley Of Elah, in which she plays a no-nonsense policewoman in Tennessee doing some pretty hardcore murder investigation. Detective Emily Saunders’s hair is a middling brown, parted in the middle and scraped back into a ponytail. “You know, if you don’t consider the character beautiful, that is really me,” she goes on, brutally. “My natural hair colour, very little make-up and no prosthetics. That is me.”

It is hardly surprising that Theron is tired of journalists - or anyone else - marvelling at the fact that a star with such old-style Hollywood looks, the kind that make you think of Ginger Rogers or Grace Kelly, is prepared to look so dowdy on screen.
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Despite the sudden rise and slow decline of skin-baring laddy mags in recent years, U.S. males still seem eager to contemplate the relative hotness of modern screen sirens. Yet in this marketplace crowded with Top This or Top That lists, Esquire’s annual Sexiest Woman Alive issue has remained at the top of the heap, aided by the magazine’s sass, wit, and top-notch art direction. The unveiling of Esquire’s favorite female is now a bona fide media event, speculated on in hundreds of online forums and teased in four preceding issues of the magazine with images that obscure the woman’s identity.

Los Angeles-based photographer Sheryl Nields, who has made a name for herself with her portraits of famously beautiful women, created the photos of Esquire’s 2007 Sexiest Woman Alive, Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron. Nields admits that it makes her job easier to work with someone like Theron, who is often compared to classic screen beauties like Grace Kelly. But the teaser photos that appeared in the lead-up issues presented a challenge: They had to be sexy without capturing the famous traits that make Theron recognizable.
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Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Christopher Walken will soon add another trophy to their collection — Hasty Pudding awards.

The awards, announced today, are given each year to performers who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment,” by Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University, the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe.

Theron will be honored Feb. 7 with the traditional Woman of the Year parade and roast in productions that rival broadway shows, and Walken will be similarly celebrated as Man of the Year during a tribute on Feb. 15.

Theron, 32, won an Academy Award in 2004 for her performance as a serial killer in “Monster.” She was nominated two years later for “North Country” and has appeared most recently in “In the Valley of Elah.”

Walken, 64, won a Best Supporting Oscar in 1974 for “The Deer Hunter.” His other work includes “Pulp Fiction,” â€�Catch Me if You Can” and last year’s musical “Hairspray.”

Last year’s recipients were Ben Stiller and Scarlett Johansson.

In a spoof of the awards, Paris Hilton was named Harvard Lampoon’s “Hastiest Pudding of the Lampoon Award.” The 26-year-old actress-socialite be on campus Feb. 6 to pick up the honors.

Source: bostonherald.com

Los Angeles police are investigating a break-in that took place Saturday at the actress’ Hollywood Hills home, E! News has confirmed.

The residence had been secured Thursday, according to an LAPD spokesperson, but an unknown number of suspects took the liberty of reopening it over the weekend.

It’s unknown at this time what, if anything, was taken from the house or if anyone who was supposed to be there was on the premises at the time.

Theron’s neighbors did not report seeing any suspicious characters, police said.

There was no immediate comment from the Oscar winner’s publicist.

The 32-year-old Monster star was most recently on the big screen in Paul Haggis’ Iraq war-aftermath drama In the Valley of Elah.

Fellow A-listers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw also fell prey to a home invasion back in February. The nearly fulltime Nashville residents were luckily not home when a burglar broke into their Hollywood Hills manse, which sits in a gated community, and stole an unknown amount of cash.

Source: eonline.com

Actress Charlize Theron is scared of magazine editors because she believes that they distort images of the celebrities by giving people an unrealistic view of beauty.

Theron admits that she owes her glamorous look in the magazine to the team of stylists and intense air-brushing.

However, the Monster star believes that the practice is misleading the public.

“We’re starting to believe that when we see celebrities they’re supposed to look like the magazine covers that they appear on. That’s just not true,â€� Contactmusic quoted Theron, as saying.

“That’s 4,000 professionals plastering make-up and doing hair and wearing big gowns and air-brushing. That’s not reality,” she added.

Source: topnews.in

4 Charlize Theron: The Oscar winner, who stars in “In the Valley of Elah,” says her favorite scenes were the ones where she has no dialogue. “A look can speak volumes,” says Theron, who plays a police detective looking for a soldier who has gone missing after returning from Iraq. Adds Theron: “For me, it reminds me of being a ballerina for 12 years and never having words. In fact, I’m not a big fan of words and directors hate me sometimes for that fact. I have a very clear understanding of how powerful the physical can be. You can have an entire monologue, and sometimes as actors we get lost in those showy moments. I have no desire for monologues.”She even had a strange request for director Paul Haggis. “When Paul started writing my part, I was like, ‘Can you cut down the lines? Please?’ ” She laughs and adds, “I always say I’m a really good actor when I’m not speaking.” She stars later this year in “Sleepwalking,” about an 11-year-old girl (AnnaSophia Robb) who must deal with the mother who abandoned her. She will also star in “The Ice at the Bottom of the World,” a drama about a retired Navy captain who comes home to the Chesapeake Bay to reunite with his family.

Source: suntimes.com (click to view full article)

Charlize Theron has signed a multi-year deal with Italian luxury watch and jewellery brand, Breil Milano. The Oscar-winning Monster star was shot for Breil’s upcoming campaign in LA, looking pensive whilst laden with jewels and timepieces from Breil’s Eden and Eros collections. “Ms Theron was chosen not only for her natural beauty, but because she epitomises the modern woman; a mix of sensuality and determination, sophistication and down-to-earth attitude, elegance and simplicity,” said a spokesperson for the label. The new campaign will debut another “star” - the new Breil Milano mantra, “Touch, Feel, Breil” - when it breaks in the European and US press in the run up to Christmas.

Source: vogue.co.uk