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Jack Black is set to host Nickelodeon's 2008 Kids' Choice Awards, for the second time since 2006. The 21st annual event will be sliming it up on March 29 at 8 pm/ET. Though TV noms like Hannah Montana, Drake & Josh and iCarly will be bringing young stars to the stage, it's a movie, Shrek the Third, that leads with the most nominations. Previous KCA winners include Dakota Fanning, Justin Timberlake and Adam Sandler. — Anna Dimond read more
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It was at the specialist arts and science school he attended afterwards that Jack rediscovered his love of acting, a love that led him on to UCLA where he majored in theatre. Here, as well as the standard theatre studies, he would learn about the activities and achievements of former UCLA students, in particular Tim Robbins. Robbins was famed for starting up his Actors' Gang at the college, then taking it out into the real world. Since graduating in 1981, he'd used his screen earnings to finance the troupe, acting as its artistic director even once he'd hit big in 1988's Bull Durham. Black took to hanging around the Actors' Gang, loving their subversive use of mime, music, masks and placards, and their motto "Dare to be stupid". Thus, though starting as a self-confessed "groupie", he became schooled in the theatre of the absurd, the commedia dell'arte and the discipline involved in an effective anarchic performance. In 1989, after less than two years at UCLA, he left college to join the Actors' Gang in a performance of Robbins' own play Carnage at the Edinburgh Festival.
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Jack Black and Tenacious D recently helped the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (www.UMDF.org) to raise awareness and funds in San Diego on June 16, 2007. This is the second time Jack Black has donated time and energy to the organization. His presence brought much needed attention to a group of hereditary disorders, now considered as common as childhood cancers, that affect the cell's ability to produce life-sustaining energy.
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Universal buys the rights to the NY Times article "In College Football, Big Paydays for Humiliation" for Jack Black to produce, the story of football teams who accept huge sums of money to have their asses kicked by more successful programs. The eventual movie, it should go without saying, "would be a lighthearted take." [THR]
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