Actor has third love child

Hugh Grant reportedly has a third love child with Swedish TV producer Anna Elisabet Eberstein.

The baby, which is believed to be the 53-year-old British actor child, was born in September 2012 and his name has been added to the birth certificate of the 16-month-old baby boy as 'Hugh John Mungo Grant', the Mirror reported.

Grant first became a father when daughter Tabitha Xiao Xi was born in September 2011 to girlfriend Tinglan Hong, followed by son Felix.

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Oscars biggest looser

Sound editor Kevin O'Connell holds the record for most Academy Award nominations, for films including "Pearl Harbor" and "Transformers," without a win. O'Connell has been nominated a total of 20 times, and has walked away empty-handed each time.

Kevin O'Connell (born November 27, 1957 on Long Island, New York) is a sound re-recording mixer. He holds the record for most Academy Award nominations without a win at 20, having originally set the record in 2006 with his 18th nomination and loss, making him the "unluckiest nominee in the history of the Academy Awards".

O'Connell won an Emmy for sound mixing for Lonesome Dove. In addition to his 20 Academy Award nominations, he has been nominated for 11 Cinema Audio Society Awards, two Satellite Awards, and one BAFTA Award. He was profiled by the American weekend newsmagazine CBS Sunday Morning in 2007 on the morning before the Oscar telecast, as well as by the CBS Evening News.

For his Academy Award nomination for his work on the film Transformers, he commented, "If you could bottle up the way that I felt this morning when I found out I was nominated, people wouldn't buy drugs anymore because this is just the best thing on the planet."

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Who is Austrian OAK?

Arnold Schwarzenegger began weight training at the age of 15. He won the Mr. Universe title at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest seven times. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent presence in bodybuilding and has written many books and articles on the sport. Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. He was nicknamed the "Austrian Oak" and the "Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnie" during his acting career and more recently "The Governator" (a portmanteau of "Governor" and "The Terminator" – one of his best-known movie roles).

As a boy, Schwarzenegger played several sports, heavily influenced by his father.He picked up his first barbell in 1960, when his soccer coach took his team to a local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over soccer as a career. Schwarzenegger has responded to a question asking if he was 13 when he started weightlifting: "I actually started weight training when I was 15, but I'd been participating in sports, like soccer, for years, so I felt that although I was slim, I was well-developed, at least enough so that I could start going to the gym and start Olympic lifting." However, his official website biography claims: "At 14, he started an intensive training program with Dan Farmer, studied psychology at 15 (to learn more about the power of mind over body) and at 17, officially started his competitive career.

He was so dedicated as a youngster that he broke into the local gym on weekends, when it was usually closed, so that he could train. "It would make me sick to miss a workout... I knew I couldn't look at myself in the mirror the next morning if I didn't do it."

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18 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight

                                                                      

Meryl Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) followed by, among others, Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1985), Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). In 2013, she appeared in the comedy drama film adaptation of Tracy Letts' play of the same name, August: Osage County, with Julia Roberts. In 2014, Streep will be seen in film adaptations of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and Lois Lowry's The Giver.

Streep has received 18 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two BAFTA awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination, amongst several others. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2004 and the Kennedy Center Honor in 2011 for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actor in each award's history. 

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An actor spent 83 straight months (nearly 7 years) living with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon river to understand a role.Can any one imagine this?

                                                                                          

Jon Voight did more studying for his role in the film Anaconda than one could ever imagine. He spent 83 straight months (nearly 7 years) living with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon river. Having trouble understanding their dialect, Voight immediately created his own language and accent. This explains where his thick Mongolian accent comes from in the film. Voight was very popular with many tribes up and down the river. He often BBQ'd for them during the day and led them in tribal dances at night. One could say that he did more for the Amazon than Jolie (his stepdaughter?) did for Africa.  

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Little role in My Little Girl to firsr ever Latina Actress to earn over $1 million for a film

Jennifer Lopez interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry following a minor role in the 1986 film My Little Girl, to the dismay of her Puerto Rican parents, who believed that it was an unrealistic career route for a Hispanic. Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color in 1991, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. She received her first leading role in the Selena biopic of the same name in 1997. Lopez became the first Latina actress to earn over $1 million for a role the following year , with the film Out of Sight. 

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How George Cloneey related to President Abraham Lincoln’s mother

                              

George Clooney’s maternal four times great-grandmother, Mary Ann Sparrow, was the half-sister of Nancy Hanks (Nancy Hanks was the mother of President Abraham Lincoln).Clooney has an older sister, Adelia (commonly known as Ada); his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer. He is also related to another singer,Debby Boone, who married his cousin Gabriel Ferrer (son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney).

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George Clooney working with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon for Not On Our Watch

                                               

Clooney is involved with Not On Our Watch Project, an organization that focuses global attention and resources to stop and prevent mass atrocities, along with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, David Pressman, and Jerry Weintraub.

In February 2009, he visited Goz Beida, Chad, with NY Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof.In January 2010, he organized the Telethon Hope for Haiti Now,which collected donations for the 2010 Haiti earthquake victims.

In March 2012, Clooney was featured with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black‘s play, ’8′—a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California’sProp 8 ban on same-sex marriage—as attorney David Boies.The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on YouTube to raise money for the American Foundation for Equal Rights.In September 2012, Clooney offered to take an auction winner out to lunch to benefit the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN works to create a safe space in schools for children who are or may be perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.

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Sylvester Stallone wrote the Rocky script in 20 straight hours

                                             

Stallone gained worldwide fame with his starring role in the smash hit Rocky (1976). On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw the Muhammad Ali–Chuck Wepner fight, which inspired the foundation idea of Rocky. That night Stallone went home, and after three days, 20 straight hours he had written the script. He tried to sell the script with the intention of playing the lead role.Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler liked the script.Stallone was offered increasingly larger fees to sell the script and allow a different actor to star in the film, but he turned the offers down until the studio agreed to let Stallone himself play the role.

Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Stallone. The film went on to win the Academy Awards for Best Picture,Best Directing and Best Film Editing.

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Sylvester Stallone sells dog for $50, then buys it back for $3k

                                            

The actor was desperate for cash in the early days of his career, so put his beloved pooch up for sale – only to reacquire the hound after selling the script to his breakthrough film Rocky just a week later.

He recalled: “I sold my bullmastiff Butkus to a little person. You can’t use the word ‘dwarf’ any more? Let’s just say a little person.

“I tied my dog up at the store with a sign that said a hundred bucks. I got $50 from this guy called Little Jimmy.

“When I sold the ‘Rocky’ script, I went to see Little Jimmy and begged for the dog back. He lined up his children, ‘Oh my kids love the dog’. I said, ‘You’ve only had him for a f***ing week.’

“He wanted to fight me and said he was gonna kill me – he was a crazy little person. I couldn’t fight him – they’d arrest me – so I offered to pay double. Anyway, $3,000 and several threats later…”

The 66-year-old actor went on to cast Little Jimmy in Rocky.

He explained to Shortlist magazine: “I ended up putting him in the movie. Do you remember in Rocky where the little guy goes, ‘Hey, did ya win?’ and I go, ‘What are you, deaf?’ and he goes, ‘No, I’m short.’ That’s him.”

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