Catherine Zeta Jones (pronounced /ˈziːtə/ “zeeta”; born 25 September 1969), now hyphenated as Catherine Zeta-Jones, is a Welsh actress, currently based in the United States. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of UK and US television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of Chicago. In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix Sala in the action film, The Phantom, based on the comic by Lee Falk. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro.[6] Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas. She learned dancing, riding, sword-fighting and took part in dialect classes to play her role as Elena.[6] Commenting on her performance, Variety noted, “Zeta-Jones is bewitchingly lovely as the center of everyone’s attention, and she throws herself into the often physical demands of her role with impressive grace.” In 1999, she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam …
Students from around the world joined together today on the third floor of the Mary Gradon Center at American University in Washington, DC for opening day of Summer 2009. Both the Discover the World of Communication program and the communication division of the National Student Leadership Conference kicked off this morning in full swing. The day began with introductions from director Sarah Menke-Fish, Distinguished Film Producer in Residence and Director of the Center for Environmental Filmmaking, Chris Palmer, and the Film and Media Arts Division Director, John Douglass. Palmer had the students on their feet, greeting one another and discussing their goals for the next few weeks. Douglass spoke to the students about the responsibility that comes with being a storyteller through media. The teaching assistants and the faculty introduced themselves then led the students to their new classrooms to begin learning. Students checked out video equipment, learned how to use a camera and some even began filming. Others discussed characters, shots, angles and effective techniques for storytelling. Some classes critiqued examples of news shows and other forms of media to determine what strategies work best. Morning classes broke at noon for lunch, and around 12:45 pm more students arrived for similar afternoon introductions and more scheduled afternoon classes. Overall the first full day ran smoothly and the students had an excellent preview of what is to come in the next few weeks.
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