Charlize Central

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

I’ve added 1 video of Charlize from the Tom Hanks Tribute that she attended a few days ago. Click on the link below to watch it.

The actor received the 2009 Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s Annual Tribute Dinner.

The centre gave Will the gong for his commitment to education, cultural diversity and social responsibility.

The award was presented to the actor by his Hancock co-star Charlize Theron. She said of the 40-year-old: “I’ve never met anybody like Will. I’ve never met anybody who has the effect he has on people.”

Will’s wife of 11 years, Jada Pinkett Smith, also paid tribute to her husband.

Hello magazine reports that she said: “Will often gets honoured for the great talent he is, and it’s just fantastic to see him being honoured for the great man that he is.”

Source: Salisbury Journal

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

The film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s contemporary classic book, The Road, has hit every bump on the road (sorry) possible, from shifting release dates to delayed production schedule. However, it seems that the father-son wartime drama will finally see the light of day. The Road is scheduled for release on Oct. 16.
Originally set to premiere during the 2008 award season, The Road might still be able to gather a few nominations this year, despite being delayed for almost a year because of difficulty with special effects.

With a cast of Oscar nominees and winners that includes Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen and Robert Duvall, the story is centered around the relationship between a man and his son trying to survive in post-apocalyptic America.

Source: Paste Magazine

Charlize was seen wearing a lace mini dress during the honoring of Tom Hanks by The Film Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall. Check out the gallery for photos!

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

Due to a slow couple of weeks, I’ve added 4 new videos of Charlize in the Media section. One is a short clip from the Hancock Press Conference. The rest of the videos is an interview of Charlize done by BBC a month ago during her promo tour of The Burning Plain. It’s worth watching so please go and watch them.

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