Hilary Swank on her high-flying career Oct 31, 2009
That's what Hilary Swank told the audience after winning her second Academy Award as best actress for portraying a boxer in "Million Dollar Baby." Now, she's back with another high-profile role, Amelia Earhart in "Amelia." which opened last week ... Was there a special connection to this role as Amelia Earhart ... A: You can't not learn how to fly to play Amelia Earhart. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Women aviators help keep Earharts legacy alive Oct 30, 2009
Margot Cheel, left, of Cohasset and Trish Sauve, right, of Scituate are members of the 99s, a flying organization for women started by Amelia Earhart ... The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, whose first president was Amelia Earhart, was established to provide mutual support and advancement of aviation ... There is a resurgent interest in Amelia Earhart and all she accomplished for women s aviation because of the Hollywood biopic Amelia detailing her life premiered last... (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
Manhattan moves to Doha for Tribeca film festival Oct 30, 2009
" onclick="Next();" src="/images/butt_next. " Martin Scorsese and Ben Kingsley were among the stars who graced the digital red carpet at the entrance of the new Islamic Museum of Doha, designed by Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei. "We want to bring the best of world cinema to this part of the world, we want to inspire the new generation to make films," festival director Amanda Palmer told AFP. New York's Tribeca Film Festival -- founded by Robert De Niro in a bid to reinvigorate cultural... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Buffalo Bill Museum Curator John Rumm displays one of the two Amelia Earhart coats in the museums collection. (Photo by Sara Loven) Oct 29, 2009
Buffalo Bill Museum Curator John Rumm displays one of the two Amelia Earhart coats in the museums collection. (Photo by Sara Loven). (Cody Enterprise, WY)
Hollywood's glass ceiling Oct 29, 2009
Hilary Swank as pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart in Amelia ... The historical drama, about the pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, represents a major risk in Hollywood, where studio executives have been increasingly chary of making movies about strong women. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
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Discussion : Amelia Earhart has Wyo connection ... Amelia Earhart has Wyo connection. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Amelia Earhart has Wyo connection Oct 29, 2009
But few people know Amelia Earhart had ties to northwest Wyoming ... "Dunrud was left with these items belonging to Amelia Earhart, which he then donated to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center," Rumm said. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Local Earhart author is flying high (2) Oct 29, 2009
She was Amelia Earhart, then but not for long earthbound, and she would later become famous for a trip in another little red airplane ... "I think it's because there was a moment where she absolutely touched the psyche of the American public, maybe even the world public, because she was such a charismatic person," said Butler, author of the 1997 biography "East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart," in a telephone interview. (Lake Wales News, FL)
* Bad hair day: Shock as famed aviators hair found to be piece of thread pN@G WkYvOu Oct 28, 2009
An aviation museum in the US state of Ohio that believed it was displaying a hair sample from famed flyer Amelia Earhart made an unfortunate discovery, after DNA analysis revealed it to be a piece of thread. In a disappointing turn of events, as Clevelands International Womens Air and Space Museum described it in a statement, the lock of hair in their possession since 1986 was revealed as thread only after they put it on display this year. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Bush a Hit in Motivational Speaker Debut Oct 28, 2009
FORT WORTH, Oct. 27, 2009. Washington Post: Former President Reminisces About White House Days with Nearly 15,000 in Attendance. (CBS News -- US)
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"Amelia" is a film biography of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank). In limited release from IFC Films, Lars von Trier's graphic "Antichrist" had a modest debut, pulling in $73,500 in six theaters for a $12,250 average. (KCRA 3, CA)
Best actress category looks slim for 09 Oscars Oct 27, 2009
When it was announced that Hilary Swank would be starring as Amelia Earhart in the new biopic Amelia, Oscar-watchers everywhere thought to themselves, Well, of course. Swank, after all, took home Best Actress Oscars for two films 1999s Boys Dont Cry and 2004s Million Dollar Baby that required her to cut her hair, wear pants and communicate photogenic anguish. (MSNBC -- News)
Box Office Bloodbath: Paranormal Slays Saw VI Oct 26, 2009
" Instead, it cadged just $6.3 million. Expect no sequels du Freak. Nor will you be seeing Amelia 2: Lost and Found. The Earhart movie, originally to have been directed by Phillip Noyce, with Cate Blanchett rumored to play Amelia Earhart, was finally made with Hilary Swank starring and India-born, Harvard-educated Mira Nair behind the camera. It happens that, in every recent year divisible by five, Swank has won the Academy Award for Best Actress: in 2000 for Boys Don,t Cry and 2005 for Million... (Time.com)
"Amelia": What becomes a legend most? Oct 26, 2009
Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart ... Amelia Earhart's disappearance is one of the great mysteries of the 20th century ... Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart. (Salon)
David Denby: Tales of Amelia Earhart, Valery Gergiev, and the Paris Opera Ballet. Oct 26, 2009
Tales of Amelia Earhart, Valery Gergiev, and the Paris Opera Ballet ... In Amelia, Hilary Swank, playing Amelia Earhart, the celebrity aviatrix of the nineteen-twenties and thirties, has a big, toothy smile, high cheekbones, and short hair that seems to have been chopped with a knife. (New Yorker)
Movie capsules Oct 25, 2009
This biopic of aviator Amelia Earhart is a big, hollow white elephant with a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being. Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor play the men in Earhart s life. (Boston Globe)
The gift of flight - at 83 Oct 25, 2009
Growing up during the time of the advent of the female pilot, a 10-year-old Saylor was familiar with American aviator Amelia Earhart, who mysteriously disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean. Earhart was two-thirds of the way into a history-making flight around the world when she disappeared at the equator. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)
New Biopic: Amelia Earhart Must Be Rolling in Her Watery Grave Oct 25, 2009
Hillary Swank in Amelia Amelia (Fox Searchlight Pictures) the biopic is many things that Amelia Earhart the pilot never was: decorous, conventional, sanitized, dull ... We can't really care about the life of Amelia Earhart, this movie believes, unless she's beautiful, sweet, stylishly dressed, madly in love with her husband, and 99 ... And by all accounts, Amelia Earhart was just such an obsessive sort. (Slate)
Year of tragedy, triumph for Jennifer Hudson Oct 24, 2009
23: As a movie about Amelia Earhart hits the big screen, interest in her real life has spiked. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports. (MSNBC -- Music)
Palm Coast woman among pilots honored for service to country Oct 24, 2009
"The Navy veteran pilot with 23 years of service built his own airplane and flies out of the Flagler County Airport.Halberg is a member of the Ninety-Nines, Inc., a nonprofit international organization started by Amelia Earhart in 1929 with 99 licensed women pilots for the support and advancement of aviation. She supports its efforts, attends air shows in Gainesville, Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland and speaks on behalf of women in aviation. The Ninety-Nines also provide memorabilia for women in aviation... (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
After the film last week, members of the Tucson chapter of Ninety-Nines congregated around a poster of “Amelia” in the theater lobby. Photo by Ellen Sussman | Special to the Green Valley News Oct 24, 2009
Two days before Amelia opened in theaters nationwide, preview screenings were held across the country for members of The Ninety-Nines Inc., an international women s pilot organization whose first elected president was aviator Amelia Earhart ... I felt more of a connection with Amelia Earhart when she mentioned the Ninety-Nines in the film, she said. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Amelia Earhart's scarf flying to space Oct 24, 2009
Amelia Earhart standing in front of the Lockheed Electra in which she disappeared in July 1937 ... 23: As a movie about Amelia Earhart hits the big screen, interest in her real life has spiked ... As a new major motion picture about famed female pilot Amelia Earhart prepares to launch onto movie theater screens this weekend, a scarf she wore is being readied for its own liftoff, flying on the space shuttle with the astronaut grandson of her personal photographer. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Movie capsule reviews Oct 24, 2009
Hilary Swank (with Richard Gere, center) as pilot-celebrity Amelia Earhart in the drama Amelia ... This biopic of aviator Amelia Earhart is a big, hollow white elephant with a sharp idea struggling to get out: How does a woman marketed to the public as a star turn herself back into a human being. (Boston Globe)
Review: 'Amelia' doesn't fly Oct 24, 2009
Film stars Hilary Swank as aviator Amelia Earhart ... (Entertainment Weekly) -- "Amelia" is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen ... Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart and Richard Gere plays husband George Putnam in "Amelia.". (CNN)
Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
Hilary Swank has the face, and the swagger, to play Amelia Earhart. So why does this ambitious biopic stall out. (Salon)
Aviator Style From 'Amelia' Lands On Runways, Too Oct 23, 2009
But as aviation pioneers such as Amelia Earhart brought their style around the world, they sparked fashion trends that have been with us ever since. The leather bomber jacket shown in the new Earhart biopic "Amelia" starring Hilary Swank marries function and style in a way that finicky fashion has embraced through the years, says Franco DiCarlo, executive vice president of Belstaff USA, the brand that collaborated with the filmmakers on key wardrobe pieces. (KIRO TV, WA)
Bland biopic fails to capture Earhart's spirit Oct 23, 2009
Bland biopic fails to capture Amelia Earhart's soaring spirit - USATODAY.com ... Bland biopic fails to capture Amelia Earhart's soaring spirit ... Hilary Swank plays Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world. (USA Today -- Life)
‘Amelia’ explores how a pilot became a celebrity Oct 23, 2009
Hilary Swank assumes the role of aviatrix Amelia Earhart in Amelia ... In Amelia, she plays the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, and those big, horsey incisors of hers may at last have met their match. (Boston Globe)
Buffalo Pierce Arrow museum creates Hall of Fame Oct 23, 2009
She was Amelia Earhart, then - but not for long - earthbound, and she would later become famous for a trip in another little red airplane ... Hilary Swank is the latest actress to play Amelia Earhart ... SUSAN CLARK: The future co-star of "Webster" and "Porky's" starred in "Amelia Earhart," a 1976 NBC-TV biopic for which she earned an Emmy nomination. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Earhart Film May Spur Interest in Ind. Collection Oct 23, 2009
-- Officials hope a new movie about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart causes renewed interest in Purdue University's big collection of memorabilia about her life. "Amelia," which opens Friday, stars Hillary Swank as the aviator who vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her second attempt to fly around the world. (Newsmax)
Don't count Hill out just yet Oct 23, 2009
Amelia Earhart disappeared near there, and usually, so do the Bulldogs. Not only that, Fresno State had just lost an emotionally and physically painful game in Cincinnati. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
Amelia Earhart Paid Two Visits Here Oct 23, 2009
At least twice, Amelia Earhart came by air ... "My grandmother -- a vigorous North Carolina farm woman -- registered for a flight with Amelia Earhart when she bought a blueberry pie," Dodson says. (The Pilot Newspaper)
Hollywood's Amelia Earhart: Lost at Sea Oct 23, 2009
By Monday, Nov. 02, 2009. " and "What did you wear. (Time.com)
Stodgy Amelia never gets off the ground Oct 23, 2009
16: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank talks with TODAYs Meredith Vieira about her role as Amelia Earhart in the new movie Amelia ... 16: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank talks with TODAYs Meredith Vieira about her role as Amelia Earhart in the new movie Amelia ... Anne Fontaines recent Coco Before Chanel seemed more interested in the legendary designers romantic exploits than in her boldness of vision, and now Mira Nairs Amelia drains the life out of... (MSNBC -- News)
Amelia boresA lazy coffee-table book of a movie, "Amelia" is dressed to the... Oct 23, 2009
A lazy coffee-table book of a movie, "Amelia" is dressed to the nines with nowhere to go, its hackneyed script and Mira Nair's unfocused direc tion never allowing Hilary Swank's performance as legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart to soar ... Hilary Swank plays pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in "Amelia," a beautiful film hindered by a weak script. (New York Post -- News)
Weak script and lethargic acting ground 'Amelia' Oct 23, 2009
Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia." ... It boasts the two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, perfectly cast as Amelia Earhart, with Richard Gere as Earhart's promoter-publisher husband, George Putnam ... She was Amelia Earhart, then - but not for long - earthbound, and she would later become famous for a trip in another little red airplane. (Fresno Bee)
House leveled after explosion, two inside survive Oct 23, 2009
5020 W Amelia Earhart Dr., Salt Lake City, UT 84116. 00000000. (FOX61, CT)
"Amelia's" Aviator Style Lands on Runways Oct 22, 2009
Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart's Style Sparked Fashion Trends Around the World and Continues to do so Today ... In this film publicity image released by Fox Searchlight, Hilary Swank portrays Amelia Earhart in a scene from, "Amelia." (AP/Fox Searchlight, Ken Woroner) ... But as aviation pioneers such as Amelia Earhart brought their style around the world, they sparked fashion trends that have been with us ever since. (CBS News)
RUBEN NAVARRETTE JR.: Stories that give you hope Oct 22, 2009
Considering the risks Amelia Earhart took, losing her life in the call of aviation, Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair don't put much on the line in their film biography "Amelia.". Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's life, leaving Earhart as remote and muted as she is in the black-and-white photos and news footage of the aviator included at the film's end. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Vampires Assistant juggles chills, chuckles Oct 22, 2009
16: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank talks with TODAYs Meredith Vieira about her role as Amelia Earhart in the new movie Amelia. . (MSNBC -- Movies)
Hilary Swank finds her next thrill in highflying 'Amelia' Oct 22, 2009
"A force of nature": Hilary Swank's portrayal of lost aviator Amelia Earhart arrives Friday ... Close study: Hilary Swank and Richard Gere portray real-life couple Amelia Earhart and George Putnam ... "You can't play Amelia Earhart and not learn how to fly. That's just wrong in every way," says Swank, who plans to earn her pilot's license after she's done promoting the film. (USA Today -- Life)
Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank Celebrate 'Amelia' Premiere Oct 22, 2009
She had a writer's soul,' Richard Gere says of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart ... NEW YORK Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank and Richard Gere all stepped out on Tuesday night to celebrate the New York premiere of "Amelia," their lavish biopic about legendary pilot Amelia Earhart. (VHI.com -- Music News)
What's Playing Oct 22, 2009
Amelia - Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank tries for a third with this glossy, award-baiting biopic of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly solo around the world. Co-starring Richard Gere as her husband and Ewan McGregor as her lover. (Athens Banner-Herald)
DISAPPEARANCE: Reporter's diary adds clue Oct 21, 2009
Seventy years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, clues are still turning up. Long-dismissed notes taken of a shortwave distress call beginning, "This is Amelia Earhart...," are getting another look ... Gillespie's book, along with Amelia Earhart's Shoes, a 2001 book written by four other TIGHAR volunteers, offers a bold, reasoned thesis that Earhart and Noonan crash-landed on a flat reef on Gardner, in the Phoenix Islands, 350 miles south of Howland, and survived, perhaps for months, on scant... (USA Today -- Life)
Museum's Earhart 'hair' is just thread Oct 21, 2009
CLEVELAND - A Cleveland museum has learned that what it thought was a lock of hair from Amelia Earhart is just thread. A group looking for DNA evidence of the pioneer aviator on a Pacific island recently asked the International Women's Air and Space Museum for a sample of the "hair" for comparison. (AZCentral -- News)
Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of style Oct 21, 2009
By Olivia Barker, USA TODAY. Forty years before flirted with menswear, put women in pants (and, of course, planes). (USA Today -- Life)
Search for Amelia Earhart expands to theaters this week Oct 20, 2009
"She was like a grown-up Nancy Drew a risk-taker, an adventurer in the age of adventure. She created a wonderful life for herself she had it all and looked like she was having a great time," says Susan Butler, author of East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart (1997), one of the books the new movie is based on ... "The tragic mystery that surrounds her made the press pay special attention, and that wouldn't have happened if she had just died of old age," says aviator Elgen Long, 82,... (USA Today)
Hilary Swank has the craft to back up Oscars Oct 19, 2009
16: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank talks with TODAYs Meredith Vieira about her role as Amelia Earhart in the new movie Amelia ... She will appear in theaters on Friday as aviatrix Amelia Earhart in Amelia, frequently graces the covers of major magazines, and will be honored soon at the Hollywood Film Festival ... Hilary Swank stars as legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937. (MSNBC -- News)
U.N.: Can halt violence against women Oct 19, 2009
Latest news, Latest News Headlines, news articles, news video, news photos - UPI.com (Yahoo News -- Women's Issues)
Winging itAmelia Earhart never had a plan. She didn’t have a career path or... Oct 19, 2009
70 years later, Amelia Earharts mystique and modernism lives on ... Amelia Earhart never had a plan ... Susan Wels is the author of Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It (Running Press), published this month. (New York Post -- News)
Best bets: Swank hopes to soar with Amelia Oct 19, 2009
In Amelia, Swank takes on the role of famous aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while trying to fly around the world. The film looks at her adventurous spirit and her great loves (played by Ewan McGregor and Richard Gere). (MSNBC -- News)
Hollywood’s love affair with aviation has had its ups, downs Oct 18, 2009
It s a big year for Amelia Earhart onscreen. In the Night at the Museum sequel Amy Adams played America s favorite missing aviatrix for laughs. (Boston Globe)
Hilary Swank: I let boyfriends son see me nude Oct 17, 2009
16: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank talks with TODAYs Meredith Vieira about her role as Amelia Earhart in the new movie Amelia ... But her revelation that she goes nude in real life in front of her boyfriends 6-year-old son has sparked such a controversy that it threatens to upstage her bid for a third Oscar: a new biopic about legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart. (MSNBC -- Health)
Vermont's Irish Oct 11, 2009
Mayor James Edmund Burke, whose parents were Irish, hosted Amelia Earhart at the opening of a Burlington, Vt. airport. (Boston Globe)
Navy ship to bear Evers' name Oct 10, 2009
Others have been named after Amelia Earhart, Sacagawea and astronaut Alan Shepard. Only one other ship in the class - the USNS Carl Brashear - has been named in honor of an African American. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Fall Film Releases 2009 Oct 9, 2009
Synopsis: The story of the famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) and her husband George Putman (Richard Gere). Trailer. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Oscar Watch: George Clooney, The Coen Brothers And More Oct 3, 2009
Based on the true story of the 1937 disappearance of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, "Amelia" places Swank in this biopic adventure with co-stars Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor. It also won't hurt that the film is directed by revered international director Mira Nair, and the script was written by Oscar-winner Ronald Bass ("Rain Man"). (VHI.com -- Music News)
Last of the Republicans Oct 3, 2009
In a flash, this memory reminds you of the swathe of history Vidal has experienced with great intimacy: he was friends with JFK, fought in the war, his father Gene, an Olympic decathlete and aeronautics teacher, founded TWA among other airlines and had a relationship with Amelia Earhart. (Vidal first flew and landed a plane when he was 10. (The American Conservative)
Aviation Day coming to Imperial County Airport Oct 2, 2009
Another key part of the event is that the Ninety-Nines, a flying group first organized by Amelia Earhart, with a local chapter in the Valley, will be on hand to give a scholarship to a young woman seeking a pilot s license. The event will include food and entertainment, along with informational booths and opening ceremony featuring the Naval Air Facility El Centro color guard and an opening address by Assemblyman Manuel Perez along with other local government leaders. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Columnist: Kindness in tough times admirable Sep 25, 2009
As I saw my fellow students' concern for one of our own, I was reminded of the famous quote by Amelia Earhart: "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.". To some degree, I think that happened this week, right here at Penn State. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Chalk it up to talent, fun Sep 21, 2009
Down the street, Alvina Nuebel, 95, of Le Mars, admired a drawing of aviator Amelia Earhart. "I'd say some are really good and some need a little extra work on them. I think it shows talent," she said of the drawing of Earhart. (Sioux City Journal)
Aiming for the sky Sep 21, 2009
Publishers of Qianjiang Evening News attended the ceremony along with Thomas C. Reed, former Secretary of the Air Force; Cindi Edwards, the great grandniece of the Wright brothers; members of the Amelia Earhart Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol; and other special guests. President of Laney College, Frank Chong, used the event to encourage Laney students to confidently pursue their dreams. (Xinhuanet, China)
Fall 2009 movie preview Sep 18, 2009
Amelia -- Sioux Cityan Ted Waitt tests the producing waters with this screen biography of Amelia Earhart. Hilary Swank (two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank) plays the aviatrix; Richard Gere turns up as her husband. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Must-see movies: We're still looking for blue skies through those falling leaves Sep 15, 2009
Hilary Swank portrays the iconic aviatrix in director Mira Nair's biography of Amelia Earhart, whose final 1937 flight over the Pacific (unfortunately, not all the way over) left more questions than answers. 10. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
A look at this fall’s movies Sep 13, 2009
Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart sounds like a no-brainer ... Hilary Swank s playing Amelia Earhart. (Boston Globe)
