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| Actress Helen Mirren turns ferocious in new ‘Monsters’ movie Posted: 08 Jun 2013 11:03 PM PDT
The 67-year-old veteran of stage and screen made headlines last month when she stormed out of a London theatre dressed as Queen Elizabeth to berate a group of drummers playing noisily outside in an expletive-riddled tirade. She later apologised. However the actress, who lends her voice to the terrifying winged monster heading the School of Scaring in "Monsters University", said she does try not to seem scary after being intimidated by certain actors when her career started. She was even wary she might alienate people when she was made a dame in 2003. "People may look at me and think she is so scary... but it is not what you're trying to be," Mirren told a news conference on Friday ahead of the release of 3D "Monsters University". The film is the prequel to Pixar and Disney's hit 2001 children's movie "Monsters, Inc." which made over US$550 million (RM1.7 billion) at the international box office and is still one of the top 100 best earning movies. The prequel goes back to when the small, green one-eyed monster Mike Wazowski (voiced by Billy Crystal) meets the huge, blue-and-purple monster Sulley (John Goodman) at Monsters University and the mismatched monsters can't stand each other. Mirren voices Dean Hardscrabble, a dragon-like monster with a centipede body, who throws Wazowski and Sulley out of the School of Scaring, prompting them to join other monster misfits to compete in a Scare Games tournament and become best friends. "Monsters University" is one of a list of family films being released this summer that includes 20th Century Fox's "Epic" in which singer Beyonce takes a voice part, "Despicable Me 2," "Turbo" with Ryan Reynolds as a racing snail, and "Smurfs 2". Mirren, whose list of accolades from a career spanning nearly 50 years includes an Oscar for the 2006 film "The Queen", said voicing an animated character was a new challenge for her but she had learned that fear was something to conquer. She said one of the best pieces of advice she was given came from a former headmistress who told her that the worst thing about fear is fear itself. "I have lived by this ever since," said Mirren, stressing that she had had to work hard to get to where she is now. "You have to get on with. My fears are my business and nobody else's and I deal with it. The other thing is to pretend that you are not frightened. Act." "Monsters University" opens in US theatres on June 21 and in the UK from July 12. — Reuters |
| LA judge orders probe after Paris Jackson suicide attempt Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:58 PM PDT  Paris Jackson is shown August 30, 2012 in Gary, Indiana. — AFP picLOS ANGELES, June 9 — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has ordered a probate court investigator to make recommendations about the "health, education and welfare" of Paris Jackson, teenage daughter of late singer Michael Jackson, after an apparent suicide attempt this week, according to court documents. Judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered the investigator to "address the status of the minor child, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, and recent media reports concerning her welfare," court documents filed on Thursday said. The teenager was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday after attempting suicide, her biological mother Deborah Rowe told the TV program "Entertainment Tonight." Paris' grandmother, Katherine Jackson, said a statement distributed on Wednesday by her attorney, Perry Sanders, noted that "Paris is physically fine and is getting appropriate medical attention." "Being a sensitive 15-year-old is difficult no matter who you are," Katherine Jackson said in her statement. "It is especially difficult when you lose the person closest to you." Celebrity news website TMZ first reported the apparent suicide attempt, and said Paris was under psychiatric evaluation. Pop singer Jackson died in 2009 at age 50 from a lethal dose of surgical anesthetic propofol in Los Angeles while preparing for his "This Is It" series of concerts in London. Paris and her two brothers Prince Michael and Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket, live under the joint custody of their 83-year-old grandmother Katherine and their cousin TJ Jackson, son of Jackson's older brother Tito. Rowe, who was married to Jackson from 1996 to 1999 and had two children with him, turned over custody of the children to Jackson as part of their divorce, but she had recently rekindled her relationship with Paris. — Reuters |
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