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1. Jude Law -- David Jude Law
   Smart, sophisticated and favored with smoldering good looks, David Jude Law has been on a professional upswing ever since he dropped out of school to star in a daytime British soap opera in 1990. Born December 29, 1972, in Southeast London, Law began his formal acting training with the National Youth Music Theatre.
2. Christminster -- So Jude
   The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the fictional southwest English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford, England. In his spare time, working for his aunt's bakery, he teaches himself Greek and Latin. Before he can try to enter the university, the naïve Jude is manipulated into marrying a rather coarse and superficial local girl, Arabella Donn, who deserts him within two years. By this time, he had abandoned the classics altogether.
3. Thrush -- Darkling Thrush
   [T]o mention "The Darkling Thrush" and "Ode to a Nightingale" in the same breath is a commonplace, just for the curious tie of the rare word "darkling" and the symbolic bird in both poems. But on closer inspection, the correspondences between the two poems are startling. Keats' poem likewise opens with desolation: "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk." Its third line ... contains a reference to dregs: "Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains." And its bird is also described as "happy," "'Tis not through envy of they happy lot,/ But being too happy in thine happiness."
4. Propaganda Film
   Reeves' study provides a backdrop to the study of film propaganda in Australia during World War One, for there are interesting similarities and differences in the Australian experience. As a British Dominion, Australian culture was heavily influenced by the imperial centre, so it is no surprise to find that its cinematic history has many parallels to that of Britain. However, there were ... distinct differences, due to the unique circumstances of the Australian wartime environment.
5. Sienna Miller
   In the short time that Sienna Miller has been an actress, the 5’6” slender blonde from New York has attracted a lot attention. However, much of the attention has not focused on her acting abilities but on her relationship with Jude Law.
6. Mendelssohn -- Beginning
   From this time Mendelssohn's career was one of ever-increasing brilliance. He became (1756–1759) the leading spirit of Friedrich Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe, and ran some risk (which Frederick's good nature mitigated) by criticizing the poems of the King of Prussia. In 1762 he married Fromet Guggenheim, who survived him by twenty-six years. In the year following his marriage Mendelssohn won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for an essay on the application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics; among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant. In October 1763 the king granted Mendelssohn the privilege of Protected Jew (Schutz-Jude)—which assured his right to undisturbed residence in Berlin
7. Jennifer Jason Leigh
   Jennifer Jason Leigh, 29, is an actress who considers the comment "Oh, were you in that film?" a compliment. It means she's doing her job well. Since her debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, as the sexually precocious Stacy, that job has included playing two very different hookers in Last Exit to Brooklyn and Miami Blues and straighter roles in Backdraft, The Hitcher and The Big Picture. Her latest excursion is Rush, based on Kim Wozencraft's powerful book an undercover cop who gets mixed up with drugs.
8. Matt Damon -- School Ties
   Matt Damon's childhood was wrought with mystery and danger, after Soviet Russia discovered him while watching a live taping of his birth on The Learning Channel. Shortly afterward he fled into the wild without parental supervision after a deliberate nuclear bomb from Russian forces destroyed his home and the surrounding cabbage patch. There he lived for many days, until a hobo found him and taught him his limited speech after seeing Damon's baby-blue pajamas, which held only the phrase "Matt Damon," stitched into the soft fabric. Experts believed that after living in the wild for so many days, the words on the pajamas triggered a nerve cell in the hobo's brain, which allowed him to not only speak the two words, but teach them to young Matt as well.
9. Buddy Jewell -- Nashville Star
   Columbia Recording artist Buddy Jewell has received four nominations in the Christian Country Music Awards which will be held on November 4 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. "Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song)" has been nominated for Song of the Year and Video of the Year, Buddy has been nominated for Songwriter of the Year and Mainstream Artist of the Year. The show will air live on GAC and on a variety of Inspirational/Christian outlets. MORE
10. The Royal Tenenbaums
    As with all Wes Anderson films (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), music is an exceptionally important component. Fans have come to admire Anderson's use of unusual music choices, turning four previous soundtrack CDs of Anderson films into bestsellers topping 200,000 in sales. For The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Anderson and co-producer Randall Poster worked with Seu Jorge in a Rome studio to lay down the Bowie tracks, recorded as simple guitar/vocal songs. For the film, Anderson used performances Jorge delivered live on camera, while the studio sessions remained unreleased. Now, for the first time, the full recordings of those intimate studio sessions is available. Said David Bowie himself of Jorge's performances, "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never have heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with."

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