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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Charlize Theron finds it easy to go naked on screen.
The actress found it harder to convey her character’s emotion in new movie ‘The Burning Plain’ – in which she plays a self-abusing, sex addicted mother – than take her clothes off.
She said: “Being naked is one of those things I think people think of in an isolated, compartmentalised way, but sometimes it’s harder to do a scene where you have to bear a raw emotion of pain or vulnerability.
“That kind of nakedness is sometimes much harder than taking your clothes off.”
Oscar winner Charlize, who co-produced ‘The Burning Plain’, also revealed she never thought she would ever step behind the camera on her films.
The 33-year-old star …