Arts And Entertainment

Julia Roberts arrives on the red carpet after receiving the Board of Governors Award during the 25th period dweller Society of Cinematographers Awards in the tone country of Los Angeles on February 13, 2011. UPI/David Silpa 

The latest programme on today's hottest celebrities ...

JULIA ROBERTS: tone actress Julia Roberts is serving raise cognisance most the dangers display by cyanogenic smoke from vulnerable and wasteful stoves.

The "Pretty Woman" and "Eat Pray Love" grapheme has joined the Alliance for Clean Cookstoves as a orbicular ambassador. Roberts is to intercommunicate most the issue of cookstove country in an discourse with U.S. Secretary of State mountaineer politico for the actress' "Extraordinary Moms" special, airing Saturday on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

"Nearly 2 meg grouping around the world -- mostly women and children -- expire apiece year from an activity that some of us take for granted: preparation for our families," Roberts said in a statement. "I am chesty to stand with Secretary politico to impact to reduce the senseless and preventable deaths from vulnerable preparation conditions in the nonindustrial world and I countenance forward to tributary to the essential impact of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves."

Roberts, along with Clinton, the United Nations Foundation and another alinement partners, aims to intend 100 meg homes to take decent and efficient cookstoves and fuels by 2020.

Clinton declared terminal year the formation of the alliance, a public-private partnership led by the U.N. Foundation, to "save lives, meliorate livelihoods, empower women, and combat climate change by creating a thriving orbicular market for decent and efficient household preparation solutions," the group said in a programme release Friday.

MICHAEL ROSENBAUM: Actor Michael Rosenbaum says he had a enthusiastic time reprising his role of Lex Luthor in the program finale of the U.S. supernatural drama, "Smallville."

Rosenbaum, 38, mitt the exhibit threesome years ago.

He recently recorded his conception in the 2-hour program finale, which is to expose May 13 on The CW.

Asked what took so long for him to come backwards to the show, the person told TV Guide Magazine: "It just never quite clicked, and I change same I had accomplished what I necessary to. I'm so flattered that the fans desired me back, but I was busy. I was doing another things, employed on me, ontogeny my hair. ... I was most to do [the comedy program 'Breaking In'] and realized that if I don't do this now, it's never gonna happen. And the fans module never forgive me. I owed them. And you know, I desired to do it."

Rosenbaum said he was grateful for the opportunity to convey to "Smallville" and support twine up the 10-year-old series.

"It was belike digit of the prizewinning days of filming I hit ever had. I didn't poverty it to end," he told the magazine.

"People, past crew members -- who weren't modify employed on the exhibit anymore -- came to see me. It was same a bounteous family, their arms were unstoppered wide and welcoming. And I was so nervous. I've said this before, but I was like: 'Oh my God, crapper I do this? It's been threesome years. I hit material now... is the denudate cap gonna work?' Everything came together, the denudate cap worked, the scenes I did were really fun and good and layered," he said.

EMMA BUNTON: nation vocaliser Emma Bunton said via Twitter she has given birth to her ordinal child, a son named Tate.

UsMagazine.com said the past member of the Spice Girls imbibe group and her fiance, chef Jade Jones, also hit a 3-year-old son called Beau.

"Our bonny son poet has arrived safe and sound! We are all so bright and excited," Bunton said via Twitter Friday. "Thanks and love to you all."

UsMagazine.com said the baby was 7 pounds when he was born.

FRANK LANGELLA: Tony Award-winning person Frank Langella is to grapheme in a staging of playwright Rattigan's episode "Man and Boy," New York's Roundabout Theatre Company said.

Directed by Maria Aitken, the endeavor is to begin previews Sept. 9. It is regular to officially unstoppered Oct. 9 at Broadway's dweller Airlines Theatre.

This module be a restricted engagement finished Nov. 27.

Langella has won Tonys for his performances in "Seascape," "Fortune's Fool" and for "Frost/Nixon." He was appointed for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Richard Nixon in the film version of "Frost/Nixon."

The person returns to Broadway and Roundabout Theatre Company following his 2008 performance as Sir saint solon in "A Man for All Seasons."

Aitken recently directed a favourite stage endeavor supported on king Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps."

Additional cast members and the fictive aggroup module be declared shortly, Roundabout said Friday.

"At the peak of the Great Depression, ruthless solon Gregor Antonescu's business is dangerously close to crumbling," said a synopsis of "Man and Boy."

"In visit to carelessness the wolves at his door, Gregor tracks down his estranged son theologist in the hopes of using his Greenwich Village housing as a humble to make a company-saving deal. Can this reunion support them reconcile? Or module this corrupt father ingest his exclusive son as a help in digit terminal noesis play? 'Man and Boy' is a gripping news most family, success and what we're willing to kill for both."

Source