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You will be so missed, more than you will ever know. Your music defined an entire generation and has a timeless quality that will never be duplicated. I hope that you are able to get the sense of peace and belonging you never found here. God bless.
Thanks for joining me and more than 80,000 other ONE members in signing the petition to the Senate in support of the Water for the World Act. Would you do me a huge favor and forward my email, below, to your friends? Together we can make a real difference for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who don’t have access to water and sanitation.
Thanks,
Matt
Dear Friend,
On my trip with ONE to Zambia, I walked two miles with a 14-year-old girl to a well—the closest water source to her village. I asked if she wanted to stay in her village when she grew up, and her face exploded into a huge smile. The translator said, “she is being very shy…she says that she wants to move to big city, Lusaka, and that she wants to be a nurse.”
Women and girls, like the one I met in Zambia, bear most of the burden of lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation. Women are more than twice as likely as men to be responsible for water collection, and on average, women in the developing world walk three and a half miles each day to collect water—time that could be spent in school or at work.
Right now there’s a bill, the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act of 2009, that will enable us to help 100 million people gain access to clean water and sanitation by 2015. But it needs at least 15 more cosponsors to move forward. Join me in signing ONE’s petition and asking your senators to cosponsor this critical legislation:
Please cosponsor the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 (S. 624), and help provide 100 million people with first-time, sustainable access to clean water and sanitation by 2015.
Economically, water is one of the smartest poverty-fighting investments we can make. My friend Ben and I met with the World Bank and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Tanzania, and we saw how a lack of good water infrastructure is holding back businesses. We talked to Prosper Mbarewoai of Allied Chemicals, who estimated his detergent-production business is operating at only 60% capacity because he spends anywhere from two hours to an entire day just getting water.
The MCC in Tanzania is working to revamp the water treatment and supply infrastructure in two major cities, decreasing the risks of water-borne illness and enabling business productivity. In fact, every $1 spent on water and sanitation generates a return of $8 in saved time, increased productivity and reduced health costs in Africa.
Improving access to clean water and sanitation is also an investment in women, making possible the dreams of young girls in Zambia and beyond. To help make this change happen for her and 884 million others worldwide who live without clean water, please ask your senators to cosponsor the Water for the World Act:
Matt Damon as Tour de France legend Lance Armstrong on the big screen?
Really?
His is the latest name in the rumor mill now that news is out that the Armstrong biopic could start shooting as early as next year.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the Columbia project, long in the planning, has hired a writer who knows how to tell the story of great sports comebacks.
According to producer Frank Marshall, Gary Ross, who wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated “Seabiscuit,” will write the Armstrong script. Marshall was co-producer of the “Seabiscuit” tale.
We’re kind of surprised to read Damon’s name associated with the pic, because it was just three or so summers ago that Jake Gyllenhaal was biking all around town with Armstrong and rumors started to float then that he would play the legendary biker on the big screen.
We still vote for Jake, and it’s not just because he looks nice in bike shorts.
Actor Matt Damon is encouraging people to join him in signing a petition asking senators to cosponsor the Durbin-Corker Water for the World Act of 2009.
The Act will help 100 million people gain access to clean water and sanitation by 2015, but currently needs at least 15 more cosponsors to move forward.
“On my trip with the ONE Campaign to Zambia, I walked two miles with a 14-year-old girl to a well—the closest water source to her village,“ said Damon. “I asked if she wanted to stay in her village when she grew up, and her face exploded into a huge smile. The translator said, “she is being very shy…she says that she wants to move to big city, Lusaka, and that she wants to be a nurse.”
“Women and girls, like the one I met in Zambia, bear most of the burden of lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation. Women are more than twice as likely as men to be responsible for water collection, and on average, women in the developing world walk three and a half miles each day to collect water—time that could be spent in school or at work.
“Economically, water is one of the smartest poverty-fighting investments we can make. My friend Ben Affleck and I met with the World Bank and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) in Tanzania, and we saw how a lack of good water infrastructure is holding back businesses. We talked to Prosper Mbarewoai of Allied Chemicals, who estimated his detergent-production business is operating at only 60% capacity because he spends anywhere from two hours to an entire day just getting water.
“The MCC in Tanzania is working to revamp the water treatment and supply infrastructure in two major cities, decreasing the risks of water-borne illness and enabling business productivity. In fact, every $1 spent on water and sanitation generates a return of $8 in saved time, increased productivity and reduced health costs in Africa.
“Improving access to clean water and sanitation is also an investment in women, making possible the dreams of young girls in Zambia and beyond. To help make this change happen for her and 884 million others worldwide who live without clean water, please ask your senators to cosponsor the Water for the World Act.“
You’d think it would be Gisele’s hood the cops would be poking around under.
But it’s her hubby, Tom Brady, Matt Damonand various other local celebs who have been the target of numerous superfluous searches by authorities across the state of Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday.
State officials privy to the audit that turned up the head-scratching statistics told the paper that law-enforcement officers performed 968 searches on Brady, looking up his home address, gun-ownership record, driver’s license info, Social Security number and other stats on the model-marrying New England Patriots quarterback.
Other high-profile types who were also the target of “repeated searches and queries” included Damon and James Taylor, who were both born in Boston, and Celtics star Paul Pierce.
Initial verdict: The Massachusetts’ Criminal Offender Record Information system is highly flawed and is vulnerable to use “without any apparent work-related justification,” according to state Auditor A. Joseph DeNucci’s findings.
But then again, said the head of the Criminal History Systems Board, considering the system is utilized 13 million times a month, the number of inappropriate searches is relatively minuscule.
“I’m fairly comfortable in saying that 99 percent do not misuse the system,” executive director Curtis Wood told the Globe.
Hey everyone! It has been pretty slow on the Matt front since he is busy filming movies back to back BUT I did realize today that I missed a couple of small events in-between that I am adding below including a Haitian Forum, an Obama Rally, and his African trip. Look at Matt walking those dogs…so cute! Enjoy!
“Director J.J. Abrams has confirmed he originally approached Matt Damon to take on the role of Captain Kirk in the new Star Trek remake — but the actor turned him down.
The space-age franchise originally featured William Shatner as the heroic starship captain, but the veteran stars from the first films have been replaced with a younger cast for the upcoming prequel.
And Lost creator Abrams admits Damon was his first choice for the starring role of Kirk — but he is glad to have been given the chance to subsequently hire little-known star Chris Pine.
He tells Life magazine, “”I actually approached Matt and we had some discussions, but everything happens for a reason. On the one hand, it would have been great to work with Matt — but at the end of the day, it was such a better move to cast the movie with unknowns.”"
The rest of the cast is also made up of lesser-known actors, including Heroes’ Zachary Quinto as Spock and Simon Pegg as Scotty.
And Abrams is convinced the casting will help make the characters more believable.
He adds, “”It is fun to discover the stars of tomorrow, but even more so, just like with the first Star Wars, you didn’t know who those people were when you saw the movie. You believed that guy was Luke Skywalker. You didn’t recognize him from six other movies. You bought into who this guy was. It is a slippery slope when you cast any actor that is somewhat known. We weren’t beholden to any fame meter.”"
Washington, Apr 17 : Hollywood actor Matt Damon is set to re-enact the American history for a documentary in The History Channel.
Other celebs joining the ‘The Departed’ star to film dramatic performances for ‘The People Speak’ are Viggo Mortensen, Marisa Tomei etc.
The series will shed light on how the country’s democracy was shaped by ordinary Americans.
Damon will appear in a vignette about John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath while Tomei will play factory worker Harriet Hanson Robinson.
“I am a firm believer in this project, proud to be part of it and proud that we are working jointly with History,” Contactmusic quoted as him as saying.
“The message that is so critical to disseminate is that change doesn’t come from the top, but rather from the bottom, and that without everyday citizens pushing to make a difference, there would be no America,” he added.
These clips will be aired together with actual interviews and archival footage.
The last we heard about the fourth film in the Bourne franchise, is that it was definitely in the works with star Matt Damon and Supermacy/Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass coming back for another go at it. This will be the first film in the series not based in any way on one of the Robert Ludlum books, so they’ll be working from a completely original script this time around.
The shooting for the film was reportedly set to start this summer, with a release of summer 2010 in sight. As it turns out, that isn’t the case - producer Frank Marshall has let us know via Twitter that there should be a first draft due in by this summer, and that the target date for release of the film is now summer 2011.
So that gives them a good amount of time to get all of the related people’s schedules cleared for all the work it’s undoubtedly going to take to make another one of these movies. If a draft is said to be done by this summer, that gives them a fair amount of time to re-write as needed, and hopefully/logically they should be shooting by, at the latest, autumn next year. Then of course they will have a few months to get all of the post-production done in time for summer 2011.
Marshall admits that these scripts (whether he means in general or any Bourne ones) take a long time from simply getting a very first draft done to what will be put onto screen. Bourne is an example of an action franchise that’s not just about brainless action sequences and cheesy one-liners - this is one of the few modern action series’ that truly gives us action and brains. I hope they continue that with this one, even if they have no original source material to base it on (although I’ve heard from a lot of people that they didn’t stick very close to the original books with the first three, either).
Speaking of the script, Marshall stated that it’s being written by Ultimatum and Ocean’s Twelve screenwriter George Nolfi, and he has also said before that he’d like to see Bourne head to South America for his next set of escapades.
When I first saw The Bourne Ultimatum, I was absolutely adamant that they leave it at that - to me it was a perfectly ambiguous closing off of a series that had told all that it needed to. But then word came of a possible fourth film, and I had to reconsider my initially closed-minded thoughts. The more I thought about them doing another one, the more I liked the idea, especially since they’re bringing back the main star (which is the most crucial thing in my eyes) and the fantastic, talented director of the second and third.
Although there were eight books written in total, only the first three were written by Robert Ludlum, which is probably why they are going with an original screenplay as opposed to just working off a non-Ludlum written fourth book. Since Nolfi was partly responsible for Ultimatum’s screenplay (alongside Tony Gilroy and Scott Z. Burns), I have every faith in him that he’ll come up with a great original screenplay for the fourth one.
I just wonder that if this fourth installment is as successful as the first three were (particularly the third), will they go ahead with even more sequels after that? It’s certainly within the realm of possibility - and if it’s warranted after this fourth one, I see no reason why they shouldn’t make a lot more.
Are you a fan of the Bourne series? Do you think there should be a fourth film, and even more after that?
Until we hear otherwise, Bourne 4 has an expected release date of summer 2011.
