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This is Part Three in a series of blog posts by Maria Bello, who is traveling with Artists For Peace And Justice in Haiti. Read Part One and Part Two of the series now.
Posted: January 26, 2010 04:23 PM
It’s almost impossible to explain what I have witnessed over the last week in Haiti. How to relay the depth of sorrow and devastation of the Haitian people and acknowledge the sheer beauty of a community coming together to help their fellow man?
Three days ago, at St. Damien’s hospital, I held the hand of a 16-year-old boy as his leg was amputated with nothing more than local anesthesia. His screams of despair, I believe, were not only from the physical pain but from the knowledge that his life as he has known it would never be the same. Haiti was a hard place to survive before the earthquake. Now, with one leg, perhaps impossible. And there are thousands of men, women and children just like him. Missing arms, legs, paralyzed from spinal cord injuries, brain injuries… and the list goes on.
How will these people survive?
That night, sleeping on the ground under the Haitian moon with hundreds of doctors, nurses, soldiers and volunteers at the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division camp, we were awakened by what sounded like the song of angels. It was quiet at first, like one mother’s mournful prayer in Creole for a lost child. And then her voice was joined by another and another and another, until the song they were singing turned into a choir of grieving voices.
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Presented by NCM Fathom and CARE, Half the Sky Event is an Uplifting Evening of Songs, Stories and Celebrity Discussion in More Than 480 Select Movie Theaters, March 4th
Today, the poverty-fighting organization CARE and NCM Fathom announced their second annual International Women’s Day event that brings the best-selling book “Half the Sky” to life on the big screen for a special one-night presentation in select movie theaters nationwide. Inspired by moving stories from the critically-acclaimed book “Half the Sky” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky Event on Thursday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m. local time will be an uplifting night of music, celebrity discussion and the world premiere of “Woinshet,” a powerful narrative documentary. Directed by Academy Award(R) winner Marisa Tomei and Lisa Leone, “Woinshet” chronicles the struggles of an Ethiopian woman who triumphs over violence and discrimination.
Tickets are available to this special in-theater event at www.FathomEvents.com and presenting theater box offices. For a complete list of theater locations and prices, please visit the web site (theaters and participants are subject to change). Visit www.halftheskylive.com for more information.
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Every pilot-casting season starts with a flurry of offers to a handful of actors who quickly become the season’s most sought-after leads.
The hottest names at the top of pilot wish lists this year include Julianne Moore, Maria Bello, Christina Applegate, Matt Dillon and Jason Isaacs. All have received multiple offers.
The Oscar-nominated Moore, who successfully tested the TV waters with a guest-starring turn on NBC’s “30 Rock,” has been pursued for at least two pilots so far: NBC’s “Prime Suspect” remake and another redo, ABC’s direct-to-series “Scoundrels,” based on the New Zealand series “Outrageous Fortune.”
Both projects, as well as NBC’s “Chase,” a Jerry Bruckheimer-produced fugitive-apprehension drama pilot, are showcases for a strong female lead character, which explains the producers’ desire to go after accomplished actresses.
Bello also has been approached for the role originated by Helen Mirren in “Prime Suspect,” while “Scoundrels” also went after Demi Moore.
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Maria Bello has teamed with Oscar winners Simon Beaufoy and Russell Crowe for a series project in the works at HBO.
Bello is set to star in the drama “Emergency Sex,” which is being written by “Slumdog Millionaire” scribe Beaufoy and executive produced by Bello, Beaufoy and Crowe.
Inspired by the book “Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story From Hell on Earth,” by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson, the project revolves around the larger-than-life exploits of expatriate nongovernment-organization workers who find their sanity tested in the face of atrocities, loneliness and primal desires.
The book chronicles the real-life experiences of Cain, Postlewait and Thomson, who met in Cambodia during the 1990s as members of a UN peacekeeping mission.
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New promotional materials for Maria’s upcoming comedy Grown Ups have been released! There’s a new International Trailer, a poster, and stills. Grown Ups is set to be released on June 25th.
 Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, is a comedy about five friends and former teammates who reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives (Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph) and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn’t mean growing up.
  
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Clips: “The Yellow Handkerchief”
The Good: Kristen Stewart, William Hurt and Maria Bello. These are three people who don’t need to do anything to attract your attention. Eddie Redmayne, on the other hand, is a lesser known actor, but manages to make a striking impact in just a few minutes of film.
The Bad: All five clips are major snoozers. There are some promising elements in each, but you’ll have to put some effort in to find them.
Promotional Power: Minimal. All intrigue comes from the impressive cast, not from the actual footage. Check out all five here.
‘Yellow Handkerchief’ Clip: May And Brett
May (Maria Bello) plays around with Brett (William Hurt) as he tries to find his favorite thing.
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“Company Men” offers grim reality in recession
“The Company Men” looks at corporate downsizing squarely in the face — that is, the faces of startled men, some still relatively young but others much older whose whole self-image crumbles in a matter of moments. American movies rarely catch the American male so nakedly powerless and shattered.
Writer-director John Wells, after a long career as a major force in television, brings the quiet muscle and energy of the small screen to the large one with this, his first feature as a director.
Naturally, Wells attracts top-flight talent, so this “first-timer” has Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones to head his cast. That ought to help out a film that could meet considerable box office resistance. Those who have been laid off know all about this and those hanging on probably don’t want to hear about it.
A distributor can expect only modest returns, although the film may show up in college courses in a decade or two when students study the calamitous recession of the early 21st century. No, it’s not the great Depression and this is not “The Grapes of Wrath.” This is about middle- and upper-class men and their families who bought into the American dream and the greed-is-good mentality only to have a corporate run pulled from under them.
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