Jennifer Garner Date Of Birth: April 17, 1972 – Famous April Birthdays

Jennifer Garner Date Of Birth: April 17, 1972 – Famous April Birthdays, Jennifer Anne Affleck (born April 17, 1972), better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006.

While working on Alias, she gained minor roles in hit movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and Catch Me if You Can (2002). Since then, Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead roles on the big screen in projects including Daredevil (2003), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Elektra (2005), a spin-off of Daredevil, and Juno (2007). She is married to actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom she has two daughters and a son.

Crazy Things People Did For Love

Crazy Things People Did For Love, In “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance,” Nicolas Cage punches Satan. He punches Satan in TS-EX- FACE.

Playing Ghost Rider, Cage also saves a little boy and helps people and does some other heroic stuff. But no matter what he does, the character will never be as beloved as Batman and Superman. Ghost Rider doesn’t get cheering crowds or parades. The character of Johnny Blaze – a motorcycle stuntman who turns into a flaming skeleton and sucks the souls out of people – isn’t even a superhero, really. He’s more of a man possessed, which is why the role suits Cage so well.

Unlike other upcoming Marvel Comics film adaptations such as “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Avengers,” which are due in the summer accompanied by an avalanche of hype, “Spirit of Vengeance” is riding into theaters Friday, in the middle of winter, without screening in advance for critics. That’s the same stealth approach Columbia Pictures used when they released the first “Ghost Rider” film in 2007. The reviews, when they appeared, were scathing. On the Internet, where geek culture reigns supreme, the movie was heartily ridiculed.

But “Ghost Rider” earned $228 million worldwide. That was enough to convince Cage – a diehard comic-book fan who named his son Kal-El, was once set to play Superman for director Tim Burton and appeared in the superhero satire “Kick-Ass” as the proud papa of a 12 year-old assassin – to give the role another shot.

“Spirit of Vengeance” was directed by the filmmaking duo of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (“Crank,” “Gamer”) in their usual breakneck, I-can’t-believe-what-I-just-saw style. The movie boasts some sensational 3-D effects, nifty nightmarish imagery and a curious sense of humor – not quite camp, but definitely in the same neighborhood. Early in the film, for example, there’s a scene in which an injured Blaze tries to convince a hospital nurse to give him some morphine. He explains that he transformed into a monster the night before. She assumes he’s nuts. “No, man, I’m not hallucinating!” Blaze shouts at her in a blast of unhinged lunacy. “Look, I’m flirting with you!”

Cage’s face lights up when you bring up that line. It’s a throwaway moment in a movie packed with gigantic action set pieces, elaborate chases, Satan worshippers and tattooed monks. But the scene is also the kind of small, bizarre beat Cage grooves on.

Valentine’s Day is on Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Valentine’s Day is on Tuesday, 14 February 2012, Tomorrow, Tuesday February 14 is Valentine’s Day; therefore the offices of NEWS-ONE got a bit alarmed when the paper received a red envelope containing a letter addressed to the editor and dated Friday, February10, 2012.

After opening the envelope, it was revealed the letter was from the Chief Executive of Movie Africa Production, controversial movie producer Socrate Safo.

We reproduce the contents of the letter in full for the benefit of our readers:-

“This may be my final communication to you with regards to the type of stories you publish on my person, my movies and my company.

In the first place, I hope you would be objective enough to publish this letter just the way I am writing it and not to twist it to suit your editorial style or rephrase it in a way to make me look stupid as you have always done.

I want to put on record that I am not happy at the negative image your paper has carved for me and the continuous nature of your attack on my person, my movies and my company.

If I have wronged you in any way to deserve this negative publicity, I deserve to know what my crime or crimes are so I apologise where and if necessary.

I consider it very unfair that I have committed no offence yet your newspaper continues to attack my person, my movies and my company.

I have neither slept with your wife nor broken the virginity of your daughter. I have neither taken a loan from you and refused to pay nor seized your ancestral lands. I therefore find it impossible to understand your motive and mission.

Because of your negative publications, I now walk in town with an evil tag on my neck. People see me as someone with no morals, no proper upbringing and no sense of responsibility all because of your negative stories.

All these years, I have tolerated your nonsense and held back my anger. I have decided not to write any rejoinders because my reputation and integrity is worth more than a rejoinder which I know you would hide somewhere in your middle pages. I have worked hard to earn my reputation and it is an expensive one far more than what you have reduced it to.

Valentines Day

Valentines Day, Iraq’s capital is embracing Valentine’s Day this year with a huge public display of affection in what its residents say is the nation’s most amorous celebration of the holiday ever. Street corners across Baghdad are blanketed with the synthetic red fur of teddy bears, while silken nighties and lip-shaped satin pillows hang in store fronts.

It’s a vivid counterpoint to a place that’s still a far cry from warm and fuzzy — with bombings remaining a fact of life since the withdrawal of U.S. forces two months ago.

“Valentine’s Day is for everybody — not only for lovers,” said Lina, a school administrator who would only identify herself by her first name. She was among the throngs browsing through an array of plush kittens, scented candles, red lamps and heart-shaped purses outside a store this weekend in the Baghdad downtown shopping district of Karradah.

“It’s for you and I, for me and my brother, even for someone on the street. It’s not just about me and my fiance,” Lina said. “Iraqis need happy moments to make them forget what they have been through — we have had enough sadness.”

After decades of war and dictator rule, and with improving security, Iraqis say they are able to relax and enjoy Valentine’s this year. Others believe the recent burst of text messages, mobile phones and use of the Internet among Iraqi youth has helped foster romance like never before.

But Valentine’s Day may come with its own baggage.

Conservative Muslims, from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, have strongly frowned on the holiday’s growing popularity around the world as an encouragement of perceived Western decadence and premarital sex.

Last year, Iran banned cards, gifts and other tokens of the day, which tradition says is named after one of several early Christian martyrs. Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police launched patrols each year to stamp out any stores displaying too much red or selling heart-shaped products this time of year.

So far, however, Iraq appears to be drifting the way of other Middle East centers such as Dubai or Beirut that stock shelves high with chocolates, flowers and other trappings of the day.

Some Iraqis are using the day to proclaim that love conquers all — including studying.

At the Technology Institute in Baghdad’s southeastern Zafaraniyah area, students will hold a months-delayed meet-and-greet for university freshmen on Tuesday. Usually the gathering is held in December when the semester began, but 21-year-old Muataz Mohammed said scheduling it for Valentine’s Day might more easily stoke friendships.

“It is a very special day,” said Mohammed, who plans to wear a red shirt and carry red roses to the party. Women students are planning to wear red shirts and headscarves.

From his Karradah storefront, Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Rahaman has watched toddler-sized red teddy bears and plush hearts in high demand this year. He speculates it’s because young lovers now meet and talk more frequently with the help of their mobile phones.

Mobile phones, satellite TV and the Internet were virtually banned during Saddam’s regime, and the war and rampant violence after his ouster discouraged tech companies from marketing Iraq until the last few years.

“The new communication means help making relationships between the sexes faster than before,” Abdul-Wahab said. “I think I will sell all my Valentine’s Day products as the occasion is becoming more popular among Iraqis year after year.”

Iraq remains a relatively conservative society, and only recently have many unmarried couples dared to be without a chaperone in public.

Weirdest Valentines Day Stories

Weirdest Valentines Day Stories, Men are turned on by donuts and other funny Valentine’s Day news. Valentine’s Day may be a lot of things: romantic, sappy, sentimental, annoying, and expensive, but in the midst of booking dinner reservations or wolfing down I’m-single-and-hate-V-Day brownies, many of us forget that it’s also a little weird. After all, love does funny things to us. Need more convincing? Check out these funky V-Day stories:

1. Fall in love over pork sliders and hash browns by reserving a table for two at White Castle, the place made famous for late-night cravings (their words, not ours). Every Valentine’s Day, the burger chain provides tableside service, flowers, and candelight at select locations. They’ll even upload photos of your enchanted evening, pork sliders and all, onto their website. For dessert, stop by a Krispy Kreme store and pick up a dozen of their limited edition heart-shaped donuts, which are filled with strawberries and kreme and topped with white chocolate. Now that’s what we call a Valentine’s Day indulgence. 4 Signs That A First Date Is Going Really Well

2. Today Translations, from London, asked its linguists to name the least romantic way of saying “I love you.” The winner was Japan’s “watakushi-wa anata-wo ai shimasu,” just ahead of “qaparha,” which is in Klingon.

3. Earlier this week, the head teacher at Ashcombe Primary School in England banned Valentine’s Day cards after deciding that the angst of young love distracts children from their studies. In his newsletter, which parents scoffed at to the press, the teacher said he was saving students from the “emotional trauma” of rejection. What’s next, banning hugs? Oh, wait…

4. A woman in Winnipeg dumped her boyfriend of two and a half years after discovering dirty text messages on his phone. The thing is, they weren’t his—Virgin Mobile had preloaded automatic texts, which included one that said “booty call.” Whoops. We’re hoping she makes it up to him this weekend if they get back together in time to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Text Message Flirting For Beginners

5. As of today, the seventh most-downloaded iPhone app is the automatic love poem generator, which conjures ear candy like,”the moment I saw you my heart was sold/the two of us will never be cold.” We’re swooning already.

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