Pedro Almodóvar, Tom Hanks, Cameron Diaz, Zoe Saldana: Oscar 2010 Presenters

Pedro Almodóvar (above, with Penelope Cruz), Tom Hanks, Robin Williams, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Demi Moore, and Zoe Saldana will be presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony.
Almodóvar, whose Broken Embraces was snubbed by Spain — their committee opted to submit Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief instead — will probably be presenting the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, which may go to Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon. Unless, of course, the relatively few and generally older voters in that category decide to pick A Prophet (less likely; too tough) or The Secret in Their Eyes.
Almodóvar made his first appearance in years at the Spanish Academy Awards — the Goyas — earlier this year. [...]

by Anna Robinson | March 6, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore, Jennifer Lopez, Oscar Ceremony 2010, Pedro Almodóvar, Robin Williams, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tom Hanks

Patrick Swayze

Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze in Ghost

Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died from complications from pancreatic cancer yesterday in Los Angeles. Swayze was 57.
The Texan-born Swayze (on Aug. 18, 1952, in Houston), whose background included classical dance training, became a star after playing the romantic lead in the sleeper hit Dirty Dancing (1987), directed by Emile Ardolino and co-starring Jennifer Grey. However, Swayze’s follow-up releases — the little-seen Tiger Warsaw; Next of Kin, as a rough cop; and Road House, as a bouncer — were disappointments.
Swayze’s career took another upward turn with Jerry Zucker’s Ghost, a 1990 supernatural romantic comedy-melorama-thriller in which he dies but hangs around so as to find out the identity [...]

by Andre Soares | September 15, 2009
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Tags: Demi Moore, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg