SBY invites favorite TV actors to palace
JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has revealed he has a favorite sinetron (TV soap opera), which he and first lady Kristiani never miss at 9:30 p.m. every weekday, despite his tight schedule.
The sinetron, despite its scary title Kiamat Sudah Dekat (Doomsday is near), is a poignant and religious story about a family and their friends, rather than a tale about God's wrath and punishment.
The trivia was made public on Oct. 17, when SBY visited a market with other government officials. All of a sudden he told his staff that he liked the sinetron.
"There's a sinetron, Kiamat Sudah Dekat, with the actor, Deddy Mizwar. It's good," he told his staff, as quoted by newsportal KCM.
Deddy is a seasoned film actor who subsequently directed and produced TV programs. He made his unforgettable mark when he played in Asrul Sani's critically acclaimed 1987 film Naga Bonar.
On Oct. 25, SBY showed how much of a fan he was: He invited Deddy and all the sinetron crew to dinner at the palace.
"SBY gave us three poems about how to be sincere and wholehearted," Deddy was quoted as saying by KCM. --JP
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Brooke Shields pregnant with second child
LOS ANGELES: Actress Brooke Shields, who turned a battle with postpartum depression into a book, is pregnant with her second child, her publicist said Thursday.
The baby is due in the spring, Alan Eichorn confirmed. After Shields and husband Christopher Thomas Henchy had daughter Rowan Francis in 2003, Shields chronicled her post-pregnancy experiences in Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. The book was published in May.
The Suddenly Susan actress said she considered swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window at her lowest point. A doctor later attributed her feelings to a plunge in her estrogen and progesterone levels and prescribed the antidepressant Paxil.
Shields has played Roxie Hart in the long-running Broadway revival of Chicago since Sept. 9 and continueed in the role until Oct. 30. The show was in its ninth year on Broadway.
The actress scored a critical and popular success in New York last season when she stepped into the role of Ruth Sherwood in the revival of Wonderful Town.
Shields also has appeared on Broadway as Rizzo in the revival of Grease! and as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. -- AP
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Zeta-Jones says no junk food for her kids
NEW YORK: Catherine Zeta-Jones has some rules about what her children eat.
"I don't give them kid food," she tells Life magazine. "No candy. Almost no juice. When my kids have juice, it's like they're having their first taste of champagne."
Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, have two children, Dylan, 5, and Carys, 2{. "We have a pact that if one of us works, the other doesn't, so the children can have some sense of normalcy," the 36-year-old actress says.
She doesn't cook -- "I read about cooking" -- and she's not good at watching her children scale the jungle gym.
"I'm always afraid they're going to fall off and break their legs, whereas Michael throws them in the air!" she says.
Now that she's a working mother, Zeta-Jones says she no longer worries about whether she's on the best-dressed lists. As for Douglas, "Every time I look down at his feet, he's always got the scabbiest-looking socks. And he's obsessed with this plastic $2 hairbrush. It goes everywhere with him."
Zeta-Jones won an Oscar for her role in 2002's Chicago. Her new film, The Legend of Zorro, also starring Antonio Banderas, opens in U.S. theaters Friday. -- AP
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