Other movie releases Taipei Times A strong cast that includes Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz looks promising on the credits, but Polanski has failed to generate sufficient ensemble chemistry, fatally undermining this potentially powerful, if rather stagy, production.
Alien hunter retires after 35-year career NEWS.com.au JODIE Foster may have seen proof of alien worlds in the 1997 film "Contact," but the real-life astronomer her character is based on didn't find so much as a tentacle. After 35 years of alien hunting, Jill Tarter, the director of the SETI (Search for ...
Help Matt Damon & Jodie Foster Provide Water to Mothers Around the World The Daily Blabber from iVillage This Mother's Day, Matt Damon and Jodie Foster would like to challenge you to honor mothers everywhere by helping Water.org end the water crisis around the world. As the two stars explain, mothers around the globe do their best to provide for their ...
Famed alien hunter stepping down from ET research center Los Angeles Times In a 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster, according to the website IMDB, Arroway ?finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.? Tarter has yet to intercept a radio signal from another planet, although she ...
SETI's Jill Tarter Stepping Down Science 2.0 (blog) The book was okay but the movie "Contact" had Jodie Foster, who I would contend had the most convincing portrayal of a scientist in film ever, and that made it special. Where did she get her inspiration? The same place Carl Sagan did; from Jill Tarter, ...
Jodie Foster 'wanted to help Whitney' Belfast Telegraph Whitney never responded and Jodie eventually gave up. But reconciling with Whitney was always on her bucket list," the insider added. "She loved and admired Whitney and now she's kicking herself for not doing more when she had the chance." Jodie Foster.
Cannes Day 6 Seattle Post Intelligencer Director and actress Jodie Foster poses during the photocall of "The Beaver" presented out of competiton at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday in Cannes. AFP PHOTO / ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT Photo: ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT, AFP/Getty Images ...
At their most vulnerable, Dodgers blowing out rest of NL West CBSSports.com (blog) It's enjoyable, mostly for the superb cast and great acting: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly all are as good as you would expect. ... The weeks when Steve Rushin is back in Sports Illustrated.
Area kids give up locks for cancer patients Bloomington Pantagraph ?She resembles a young Jodie Foster when it's this short,? Angie said. Rebecca was at at Fox & Hounds Hair Studio & Day Spa in Bloomington, as one of seven Washington Elementary School students who were donating their hair to Locks of Love, ...
SETI alien hunter Jill Tarter stepping down Open Minds UFO News Tarter, who reportedly served as the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character, Ellie Arroway, in the novel and movie Contact, has spent 35 years scanning the skies for extraterrestrial radio signals. And although she is stepping down from her current ...
Scene desk picks: Strong female leads Oregon Daily Emerald I went through numerous Jodie Foster, Charlize Theron and Meryl Streep movies before I finally settled on this one. I decided that while the description of a ?strong female lead? includes a woman with a tough life who kicks ass and sticks it to the ...
SETI's world-famous alien hunter Jill Tarter to retire EarthSky But Tarter, the inspiration for Jodie Foster's character Ellie Arroway in the movie ?Contact,? will continue to devote herself to the search for ET She's shifting into a full-time fundraising role for the SETI Institute, which was forced to shut down a ...
Ma, Pa Kettle stars died in 1964 The Star Democrat The role eventually went to Jodie Foster. UPDATE: I said "86'd" meant refusing service (as in the food service) or getting rid of something, and that the origin of the phrase could have been from Gore Vidal's comedy play "Visit to a Small Planet," in ...
Action-man Gibson back to his best Sydney Morning Herald His last screen appearance in Jodie Foster's The Beaver grossed less than a million dollars in the US, although it is hard to tell whether the box office's indifference was the result of the headlines generated by his anti-Semitic rant or the wackiness ...
Jill Tarter steps down as director of SETI Washington Post Well-respected and honored in the scientific community, she is also known in popular culture as Ellie Arroway, a young woman obsessed with extraterrestrial life, played by actress Jodie Foster in the 1997 movie ?Contact.? Tarter has also long been ...
Search for ET Centers Around Newly-discovered Earth-like Planets Voice of America (blog) The recent discovery of Earth-like planets has changed the way scientists look for life on other planets, according to the scientist who inspired Jodie Foster's character in ?Contact,? a 1997 film about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Health experts say seeds pack a nutritional punch SILive.com Jodie Foster, founder and director of Ultimate Fitness and Wellness in New Springville, believes people are becoming aware of seeds' benefits as more turn toward a vegetarian diet. Although seeds may not sound appetizing on their own, the registered ...
Weekend watch: 'Bugsy Malone Sr.' at The Stage at Island Park In-Forum Silver Follies is taking its own spin on gangster musicals with ?Bugsy Malone Sr.? The stage version is based on the 1976 Scott Baio and Jodie Foster film ?Bugsy Malone,? in which kids played all the roles. Malcolm Thompson and Linda Hinrichs pose in a ...
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