The actor made the comments while promoting “Green Zone”, a new Iraq war thriller. Damon’s character portrays a soldier fighting to expose the Bush administration’s weapons of mass destruction deception.
Matt has vowed to support Barack Obama but now admits, “Politics is compromise. I’m disappointed in the healthcare plan and in the troop build-up in Afghanistan. Everyone feels a little let down because, on some level, people expected all their problems to go away. But real change comes from everyday people. You can’t wait for a leader.”
Jude Law arrived in Miami Wednesday to meet his 5-month-old love child, Sophia, for the first time.
The 36-year-old actor met with attorney Maurie Kutner for six hours on Thursday in preparation for the meeting which took place on Saturday.
According to a source, “Jude was very on edge about the meeting. The pregnancy wasn’t planned but he wants to do the right thing.”
“It’s not like he can hide – as soon as Sophia can use the internet she can find out who her dad is.”
Sophia’s mother is Florida model and aspiring actress Samantha Burke, 24, whom Law met over the holidays in 2008, while filming Sherlock Holmes in New York. The two had a brief fling resulting in Samantha’s pregnancy.
Law recently rekindled his romance with actress Sienna Miller, whom he split with four years ago after he had an affair with his children’s nanny.
Law has three children with ex-wife Sadie Frost.
Simon Cowell and fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy stepped out this weekend for the first time since confirming they are getting married, and the American Idol makeup artist was sporting a huge diamond engagement ring.
Hussainy, 36, has worked as the lead makeup artist for Idol for seven years. She and Cowell reportedly began dating just after his split from girlfriend Terri Seymour.
According to Cowell’s publicist, Max Clifford, he has seen a big change in the “American Idol” judge since his love affair blossomed with Hussainy.
“They are very suited,” Clifford said. “She is someone who is independent and says what she thinks and feels, and he likes that. He’s probably the happiest I have ever known him in the nine years I’ve been working with him.”
Jay Leno returns to NBC’s “Tonight Show” Monday evening, March 1, 2010. He will once again be going head-to-head against his longtime rival David Letterman in the late-night time slot.
The big question will be whether Leno can be creative enough to move people beyond the still vivid memories of his failed prime-time debacle and the fiasco with Conan O’Brien and NBC.
Jay’s guest line-up this week will include SI bikini model and gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, singer Adam Lambert and the cast of “Jersey Shore“.
Don’t expect Letterman to lay down and roll over. He has booked Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, comedian Jerry Seinfeld and newsman Tom Brokaw for the first week in March.
Leno has a positive track record with “Tonight”, holding fast at No. 1 for 15 of his 17 years as host. Dave is currently king of the top spot and O’Brien is living the good life with a $45 million settlement.
Leno recently told Oprah, “The only way you can fix these things is to try and do good shows, not be bitter, not be angry or upset.”
More details have surfaced regarding the suicide of Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son Michael Blosil, who committed suicide Friday by jumping from the window of his Los Angeles apartment.
Just moments before he leapt to his death Blosil, who suffered from severe depression, sent a text to a friend with whom he was supposed to have spent the evening saying he left a note for her in his apartment.
When the woman, also a resident of the Met apartment building, arrived at Michael’s eight-floor apartment, Blosil’s roomates –who were unaware of a problem – let her in.
They found the note in which Michael wrote of being incredibly unhappy. He also talked about “things he would be doing for the very last time,” and called the woman “his only good friend in L.A.”
Within moments of reading the disturbing note, Blosil’s friend and roomate heard sirens and saw emergency vehicles on the street outside the apartment building.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department responded a 911 call reporting the suicide at 9:24 p.m. According to fire department spokesman Shawn Lenske, “We were dispatched … for an extreme fall, which is categorized as greater than 30 feet. The person had fallen from a 15-story building. The person was [dead on arrival].”
Interesting blog. Jay Leno (part of Baby Boom Generation, born 1942-1953) vs. Conan O'Brien (part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965) reflects a broader battle happening throughout Western cultures: the emergence of Generation Jones leadership vs. Boomers clinging to power. GenJoneser Obama's ascendance following 16 years of Boomer Presidencies is the most visible example, but we find it throughout the West, where more than two thirds of EU leaders are part of GenJones (following two decades of Boomer dominance).
ReplyDeleteGoogle Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten lots of media attention, and many prominent commentators from many top publications and networks (Washington Post, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) now specifically use this term. In fact, the Associated Press' annual Trend Report chose the Rise of Generation Jones as the #1 trend of 2009. Here's a page with a good overview of recent media interest in GenJones: http://generationjones.com/2009latest.html
It’s important to distinguish between the post-WWII demographic boom in births vs. the cultural generations born during that era. Generations are a function of the common formative experiences of its members, not the fertility rates of its parents. And most analysts now see generations as getting shorter (usually 10-15 years now), partly because of the acceleration of culture. Many experts now believe it breaks down more or less this way:
DEMOGRAPHIC boom in babies: 1946-1964
Baby Boom GENERATION: 1942-1953
Generation Jones: 1954-1965
Generation X: 1966-1978