Titi Kamal misses playing in movies

Titi Kamal misses playing in movies

JAKARTA: Having played in a number of TV soap opera, actress Titi
Kamal, who soared to fame after costarring in popular teen flick
Ada Apa Dengan Cinta, said she missed playing in movies.

Her role as Maura, a friend of Cinta played by famous Dian
Sastrowardoyo, has now made her one of the most sought-after
young actresses amid the boom in Indonesian movies.

"I've received lots of interesting offers, but I still have a
binding contract for being on TV until March next year. That's
why now I'm in a quandary," Titi, 23, said.

"I really miss playing in movies," Titi was quoted as saying
by Kompas Cyber Media on Tuesday.

She is now shooting scenes for soap opera Hantu Jatuh Cinta
broadcast on Indosiar.

Previously, Titi, who has pouting, sexy lips, starred in Pura-
pura Buta, a TV drama that did not demand great acting skill.

She did not specify why she missed playing in movies. However,
many in the industry feel movies are more prestigious for their
careers.

A number of veteran movie stars like Deddy Mizwar turned to
less challenging but more commercially successful TV dramas after
the movie industry suffered a hiatus. --JP

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Shar Jackson says she was with Federline when he met Spears
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Shar Jackson says she was with Federline when he met Spears Eds:
RECAPS and CORRECTS that Spears and Federline had a son, sted
daughter, in September[ AP Photo[

Jackson: Federline dumped me for Spears

NEW YORK: In a new interview, Shar Jackson (photo position) says
she and Kevin Federline (photo position) were still together when
he and Britney Spears began dating last year.

Jackson, then pregnant with her second child with Federline,
says the truth came out only after he flew abroad for a
commercial -- which became a month-long trip with Spears.
Federline and Spears were wed last year; their son was born in
September.

"How do you call yourself a human being knowing that you put
somebody else through that pain?" Jackson asks of Spears in the
December issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine. "That's a vicious
cycle right there, man. We gotta break that."

Jackson, 29, and Federline have a 3-year-old daughter, Kori,
and a son, Kaleb, born in July 2004. Jackson, who costarred in
the TV series Moesha, has two older children from a previous
relationship.

She and Federline "are still really good friends," Jackson
says, but she doesn't want child support.

"Hell no. I am a very, very independent woman, OK? If I wanted
child support that's an easy procedure," she tells the magazine.
Instead, "All I want from Kevin is his time with his children.
That's it, bottom line."

Jackson is working on an album, her first. A track from
Federline's debut recently appeared on the Internet. -- AP

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Neil Armstrong reflects on first moon landing in new book
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Armstrong reflects on 1st moon landing

CINCINNATI: Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon,
has never felt comfortable with the celebrity he achieved. In
fact, it puzzles him.

"Friends and colleagues, all of a sudden, looked at us,
treated us slightly differently than they had done months or
years before when we were working together," the Apollo 11
astronaut told 60 Minutes in an interview broadcast on Sunday. "I
never quite understood that."

Armstrong, 75, rarely grants interviews. He agreed to one last
month just before his only authorized biography, First Man: The
Life of Neil A. Armstrong, hit bookstores.

The interview will air on CBS, which, like the book's
publisher, Simon & Schuster, is owned by Viacom.

Author James R. Hansen, an Auburn University professor and
former NASA historian who wrote the biography, was allowed more
than 50 hours of recorded interviews with Armstrong in his
suburban Cincinnati home.

On July 20, 1969, Armstrong, then 38, stepped onto the moon
with the famous words, "That's one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind."

In the years since, he has taught at the University of
Cincinnati and served on corporate boards, all the while
rejecting interview requests.

In an e-mail response to The Cincinnati Enquirer, Armstrong
said he reluctantly agreed to the book deal.

"Many individuals whose opinions I value have urged me to find
a way to put my story in print," Armstrong said. "I concluded a
biography would be superior to an autobiography.

"I believed the author should have access to my recollections
and thoughts although he would not be bound to use or accept
them." -- AP

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Elizabeth Taylor shines at AIDS Center dedication
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Elizabeth Taylor shines at AIDS Center dedication AP Photo[ By
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Taylor shines at AIDS center opening

BEVERLY HILLS, California: Swathed in jewels and bathed in the
spotlight, Elizabeth Taylor made a rare but regal public
appearance to dedicate the new UCLA Clinical Research and
Education Center.

The 73-year-old actress, who has had severe back problems in
recent years, was dressed in a cream-colored jacket over a
billowy black pantsuit. Dozens of bracelets hung from her arms
and a massive diamond lit up her left hand.

In front of an intimate crowd that included rocker Tom Petty
and actress Carrie Fisher, Taylor, who was in a wheelchair, cut a
red ribbon to signify the center's official opening and announced
the creation of the Elizabeth Taylor Endowment Fund. The
endowment which will support the center through grants and
private donations.

Taylor, who won Academy Awards for 1960's Butterfield 8 and
1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, said she has traded in
the life of an actress for that of an activist.

"Acting is, to me now, artificial," she told The Associated
Press. "Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real.
Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's
painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done."

Taylor helped establish the American Foundation for AIDS
Research in 1985 and created the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
in 1991. The two organizations have raised a combined $243
million to fund research and improve the lives of people with HIV
and AIDS.

"There's still so much more to do," Taylor said. "I can't sit
back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around
now in a wheelchair, but I get around."

The new center will conduct research and bring innovative
treatments to patients, bridging Taylor's two charities, said Dr.
Edwin Bayrd, director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. He called the
actress "the Joan of Arc of AIDS activism."

Although the subject was serious, Taylor, married eight times
to seven men, lightened the mood when UCLA Chancellor Albert
Carnesale confessed to having had a "puppy love" infatuation with
the actress.

"Are you married?" she asked him. -- AP

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