Helen Thomas Biography

Helen Thomas Biography, Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist. She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager.

She was a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House. She covered every President of the United States from the last years of the Eisenhower administration until the second year of the Obama administration.

She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, and the first female member of the Gridiron Club.

She has written six books; her latest, with co-author Craig Crawford, is Listen Up, Mr. President: Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do (2009). Thomas, who is of Lebanese Rûm/Melkite descent, retired on June 7, 2010, following comments she made about Israel, Jews and the Israel/Palestinian conflict.

Yubaba: Spirited Away

Yubaba: Spirited Away, Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi?, lit. “The Spiriting Away of Sen and Chihiro”) is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood, becomes trapped in an alternate reality that is inhabited by spirits and monsters. After her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba, Chihiro takes a job working in Yubaba’s bathhouse to find a way to free herself and her parents and escape back to the human world.

Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided the film would be based on his friend’s ten-year-old daughter, who came to visit his house each summer. At the time, Miyazaki was developing two personal projects, but they were rejected. Production of Spirited Away began in 2000. During production, Miyazaki based the film’s settings at a museum in Koganei, Tokyo. However, Miyazaki realized the film would be over three hours and decided to cut out several parts of the story for its July 27, 2001 release. Pixar director John Lasseter, a fan of Miyazaki, was approached by Walt Disney Pictures to supervise an English-language translation for the film’s North American release. Lasseter hired Kirk Wise as director and Donald W. Ernst as producer of the adaptation.

When released, Spirited Away became the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing over $274 million worldwide, and receiving critical acclaim. The film overtook Titanic (at the time the top grossing film worldwide) in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Bloody Sunday) and is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.

Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas:Helen Thomas, la veterana de 89 años de edad, corresponsal de la Casa Blanca, se retirará con efecto inmediato a raíz de sus comentarios ofensivos contra Israel.

“Helen Thomas anunció el lunes que se retira, con efecto inmediato,” dijo un comunicado de Hearst Newspapers. “Su decisión se produjo después de sus comentarios polémicos acerca de Israel y los palestinos fueron capturados en video y difundido ampliamente en Internet.”

Thomas, que la transición de reportero a columnista en 2000, pero mantuvo su asiento de primera fila en blanco reuniones informativas Cámara, había sido criticado por su afirmación de que Israel debe “obtener el infierno fuera de Palestina” y que en Judios de Israel debe volver a Alemania, Polonia, o los EE.UU..

Thomas se disculpó por los comentarios, diciendo:

“Lamento profundamente que mis comentarios que hice la semana pasada sobre los israelíes y los palestinos. No reflejan mi sincera creencia de que la paz llegue a Oriente Medio sólo cuando todas las partes reconocen la necesidad de respeto mutuo y la tolerancia. Mayo de ese día venga pronto. ”

La Casa Blanca pidió hoy los comentarios de Thomas “ofensivas y reprobables”.

“, Comenta Helen Thomas eran indefendibles y el consejo de la Casa Blanca Asociación de Corresponsales de firmeza se distancia de ellos”, dijo el WHCA en un comunicado. “Muchos en nuestra profesión que han conocido por años Helen fueron entristecidos por los comentarios, que fueron especialmente desafortunado a la luz de su papel como un blazer sendero a la Casa Blanca fantástico.”

La declaración WHCA añadió que el incidente “no revivir el tema de si es apropiado que un columnista de opinión a tener un asiento de primera fila en la sala de prensa WH”.