- Sep 20 Mon 2010 21:46
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self-contradictory
- Sep 20 Mon 2010 21:40
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once again
- Sep 18 Sat 2010 10:33
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演完的電影
- Sep 18 Sat 2010 10:26
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國考擬增人格測驗 沒通過不任用
〔記者楊久瑩／台北報導〕人格測驗將成為公務員任用的把關工具。即便筆試拿高分，如果人格特質不符政府單位用人需求，同樣無法當公務員！考試院長關中昨指出，考試院正著手研發公務人員專屬的人格測驗量表，將做為未來提升公務員效能，篩選不適任公務員的重要方法。依考試院的構想，初期將選定通過警察特考及高考的應考人試辦，建立常模後，再逐步擴大適用範圍。正式上路，不排除在國考時，先透過專業筆試篩選一部分應考人，再於第二試時，加入人格測驗。保訓會主委張明珠說明，公務人員人格測驗的專屬量表，將有助於協助評析受訓公務員的人格特質、個性特徵、培訓需求及訓練成效，評量結果將提供用人機關作為職能需求與人才選用參考。另外，也將針對各官等所需不同職能特性，試辦導入公務員職能評鑑系統，評估培訓需求。
- Sep 17 Fri 2010 22:34
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呆腦需要再進化
- Sep 16 Thu 2010 22:46
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一個世界的翻轉
婚姻對女人來說，是整個世界的重新翻轉和洗牌
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/freefish94/12024693
http://tw.fashion.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100910/13/wn8.html?pg=1
- Sep 14 Tue 2010 22:06
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incredible
- Sep 13 Mon 2010 23:30
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渾然天成的笨蛋
- Sep 13 Mon 2010 22:39
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I WILL SMILE
- Sep 13 Mon 2010 01:40
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funny life
- Sep 13 Mon 2010 01:20
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Mother and Mega-Star, Happily Balanced
May 2, 2010
By LEAH ROZEN
MALIBU, Calif.
TOM HANKS is on the line. “What am I,” he joked, “just another in your long line of I Love Julia calls?”
Well, yes, as it happens. Call around to movie industry associates about Julia Roberts and the love gushes forth. Mr. Hanks, who starred with her in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007), said flat out: “There’s no professional I admire more than Julia. Working with her is like having a fabulous dinner conversation with somebody you really like and who really likes you and is loaded with energy and intelligence.” Mike Nichols, who directed her in “Closer” (2004) and “Charlie Wilson,” unabashedly testified, “Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and my wife” — Diane Sawyer — “those are the three women I love.”
Her newest admirer is Ryan Murphy, who directed her in “Eat Pray Love,” which opens Aug. 13. “We laughed within 30 seconds of meeting each other and haven’t stopped since,” said Mr. Murphy, who is best known as one of the creators of “Glee.” “She was a real collaborator on making the movie and a real leader on the set.” Also a fan is Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love,” the best-selling 2006 memoir (200,000 copies in hardback and 6.2 million and counting in paperback) on which the movie is based. “There’s this luminousness to Julia,” Ms. Gilbert said. “It’s almost as if she was always lit from behind. If she wasn’t a movie star, the only other job she could have would be professional fairy.”
The object of all this affection sits curled up in a comfy chair in her sewing room, upstairs in her sprawling but unpretentious, family-friendly house in Malibu. Her latest sewing project is whipping up personalized, oversize pillows for her three young children to loll upon while reading. Ms. Roberts has asked a reporter to meet her here at 9 a.m., an hour when moms are up, not movie stars.
At 8:59 a.m., Ms. Roberts, in worn jeans and a yellow cotton cardigan, was securing her 5-year-old twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel, into a car so that her husband, the cinematographer Daniel Moder, could drive them to school. “Have fun,” she told the kids, waving goodbye as the family’s two dogs, Myrtle, a rescue mutt, and Louie, a Labrador, barked excitedly.
Fun is something Ms. Roberts is having a lot of these days. She is relishing marriage and motherhood — “We are happy as clams,” she said — and works only when she wants to. “I am fulfilled by my own life on an hourly basis. Every little moment is amazing if you let yourself access it. I learn that all the time from my kids; children are so filled with wonder. My youngest son” — Henry, almost 3 — “woke up at 5 a.m. the other morning and said to me, ‘It’s a beautiful day, Mama!’ What’s more precious than that?”
Ms. Roberts has been a major movie star — the biggest female box office draw — for 20 years, ever since she fetchingly guffawed her way through the romantic comedy “Pretty Woman” in 1990. She was 22 at the time, a slip of a girl with a gigantic smile and a boisterous laugh. “She was young, but just fearless, and she was obviously popping off the screen,” recalled Garry Marshall, who directed her in “Pretty Woman,” “Runaway Bride” (1999) and this year’s “Valentine’s Day.” “Watching her grow up has been one of my pleasures.”
Now 42, Ms. Roberts still has a smile as wide and a laugh as infectious, but a lot has happened in her life since “Pretty Woman”: two marriages (the first to the singer Lyle Lovett, the second to Mr. Moder in 2002); motherhood to her brood of three; winning an Oscar as best actress for “Erin Brockovich” (2000); and roles in more than 30 movies, including crowd-pleasers like “My Best Friend’s Wedding”(1997), “Notting Hill” (1999) and “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001).
Along the way, she learned to handle fame — gone are her days as a tabloid staple for broken engagements and romances with actors likeKiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric and Benjamin Bratt — and blossomed as an actress. “She’s so beautiful, people don’t completely realize that she’s an actual great actress,” Mr. Nichols said.
He said she has a probing intelligence, comes to a role preternaturally prepared and has such a crystal-clear understanding of the character she is portraying that she seemingly glides through scenes. As evidence, he recalled a particularly demanding scene in the corrosive romantic drama “Closer” in which Ms. Roberts’s character is pressed by her husband (played by Clive Owen) to reveal intimate details about her adultery. “We did it seven times and she blushed at the same exact point every time,” Mr. Nichols said. “Now, who can do that? Most actors have to do work to produce emotion; Julia has to do work to suppress it.”
In “Eat Pray Love,” which also stars Javier Bardem, James Franco, Viola Davis and Richard Jenkins, Ms. Roberts gets to display bushels of emotion as a woman seeking answers to life’s big questions. The role was the most taxing she has taken on — she’s in every scene and traveled the globe during the nearly four-month shoot — since she had her children.
“I was really exhausted when it was done,” Ms. Roberts said, “and I loved every second of it.”
She first encountered “Eat, Pray, Love” when her agent sent her a copy upon publication. Thirty pages in, Ms. Roberts snapped the cover shut and put the book down.
It wasn’t that the actress didn’t like or relate to Ms. Gilbert’s perspicacious memoir about how, after a divorce, she spent a year searching for balance and harmony in her life while traveling to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Quite the opposite: “It cast a spell on me,” Ms. Roberts said, sipping from a mug of herbal tea. “I immediately got on Amazon.com and ordered a copy for my best friend in Chicago. I sent it to her with a note saying, ‘I want to be reading this while someone I love is reading it at the same time.’ ”
Ms. Roberts said the emotional and spiritual journey depicted in the book — and now, she hopes, in the movie — resonated with her. “We all kind of have that moment in our lives,” she said, “sometimes it’s just for a weekend, or a month, or even a year, when you think, ‘There’s no way out.’ You have to learn to find peace within yourself, to exorcise that restlessness and judgment. You have to learn, ‘Why can’t I just be happy with my life?’ ”
Among the things that make Ms. Roberts happy now is having her family with her when she’s working. The Roberts-Moder clan moved en masse for “Eat Pray Love,” spending time on location in New York City (where Ms. Roberts maintains an apartment), Rome, India and Bali.
Her kids got to watch as Mom gained seven pounds in Italy eating her way through platefuls of pasta and pizza; suffered a fever of 102 in India but still insisted on being on the set for Mr. Jenkins’s big scene; and endured humidity so intense in Bali that she was practically squeegeeing off the sweat. “I’ve never changed clothes so many times in the course of a day,” Ms. Roberts said.
With “Eat Pray Love” now behind her (except promoting it this summer), Ms. Roberts, next up, has a small but significant role in “Larry Crowne,” a comic drama in which Mr. Hanks, who co-wrote and is directing, plays a member of the nouveau unemployed who enrolls in a junior college. (“To be able to get her in your movie is a hail-Mary pass,” Mr. Hanks said.) After that, there are films she is considering, and she’d like to give Broadway a go again, maybe improving next time upon the decidedly mixed reviews she received for her debut effort,“Three Days of Rain,” in 2006.
“She has nothing to prove,” Mr. Nichols said. “She’s doing what she enjoys. I think that her family is her life. She loves movies and making them. She’ll do it whenever she feels like it, can find the time and, most of all, can bring her family with her.”
Ms. Roberts confirmed that she is indeed choosy about roles these days, weighing the juiciness or challenge of a part against family considerations. “I say you can call me, but I don’t necessarily call everybody back now,” she said, laughing. “I’m not off the market, but my decision-making has more components than it used to.”
She is getting within spitting distance of 45, an age when substantial movie roles tend to disappear for most actresses. There’s always one gal, however, who successfully bucks the odds: in the late ’60s and ’70s, it was Katharine Hepburn; in the ’80s and early ’90s, Shirley MacLaine; currently, it’s Ms. Streep. In terms of looks, talent and track record, Ms. Roberts would be a smart bet to fill that slot in coming years.
She name-checked Frances McDormand and Annette Bening as actresses she admires for successfully balancing formidable careers and family. “And Meryl, of course, that goes without saying,” she said. “But, then again, we have no idea what it might have taken for Meryl Streep to get out the door some days.”
