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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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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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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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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