Monthly Archives: September 2008

Youth forever

How old do you think Johnny Depp is?

Edgy*, alternative and unconventional: adjectives you might associate with the eternally young actor Johnny Depp, who turned 45 in June.

Depp’s films have grossed* over $4.7 billion all around the world, according to the website www.thenumbers.com.

Tim Burton has been Depp’s most constant collaborator. They are really close*: Depp is godfather* to Burton’s son.

The actor has starred* in five of Burton’s films. Depp said: “He can ask me everything. If he wants me to have sex with an aardvark in one of his next movies”

Aardvark (porc formiguer)

* edgy: crispat

* to gross: recaptar

*to be close: ser pròxim

*godfather: padrí

*to star: protagonitzar

Do we have this problem in our country?

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The UK has recently introduced some rules to control junk food TV advertisements during kids’ TV shows, in an attempt to control the abuse of this kind of food (burgers, chips, pizzas…). But it seems it hasn’t worked that well since there are lots of TV programmes children like watching that are not thought for kids (so those rules cannot be applied), so they end up watching these adverts, anyway.

Do you think there is a problem with junk food in our country?

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Hurricane Ike leaves a trail of destruction

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Here you have some pictures of the destruction left behind after Hurricane Ike slammed Cuba on the 8th of September, and hit Texas some days later.

Eight month delay for Potter film

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Bad news for Harry Potter fans – the release of the sixth film has been delayed by eight months!

Watch the sixth film’s trailer !

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was due for release in November this year, but now studio bosses say it won’t hit cinemas until 17 July 2009.

Warner Bros said the Hollywood writers’ strike earlier this year meant some of the films that had been planned for the summer wouldn’t be ready on time.

Fans had been getting more excited about the sixth film after a trailer, giving the first glimpse of Hero Fiennes-Tiffin as the young Tom Riddle, was released two weeks ago.

Despite the delay, Warner Bros insists the seventh and final Potter films will stick to their original release dates.

Studio boss Jeff Robinov said: “The studio’s release plans for the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be affected by this change.

“We know Harry Potter fans are eagerly anticipating seeing the final chapters unfold onscreen.

“In fact, the good news for them is that the gap will now be shortened between Half-Blood Prince and the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”