1 maggio: Un po' di news!

	Kim Basinger to Bare All at 50 - Movie beauty Kim Basinger is set to shock audiences in her next film by appearing completely naked - at the age of 50. The Oscar-winning actress defies her advancing years in The Door In The Floor, and has a raunchy sex scene with teenager Jon Foster. A source says, "She's still got the body of a young woman in her prime.".
	Sleazy Kim Basinger's stripping act! - She might be 50, but that does not decrease her sleaze quotient. Kim Basinger, is out to prove that she is still very much hot and happening. According to Ananova, the actress is set to bare all in scenes alongside newcomer Jon Foster in The Door In The Floor. Foster admitted to being completely overawed to be shooting the scenes with the Oscar-winning actress. This will not be the first time Kim has revealed all on screen.She most famously stripped off in the raunchy 1986 movie Nine And A Half Weeks.The Door In The Floor is due for release in the United States this summer.
	Kim Basinger: per gli animali, all'asta ciò che rimaneva del vecchio amore - Quando le storie d'amore finiscono, di solito, gli anelli di fidanzamento o vengono restituiti all'ex-compagno, oppure vengono riposti in un cassetto e conservati come il ricordo di una relazione giunta al capolinea. Kim Basinger non ha optato per nessuna delle due soluzioni. L'indimenticabile interprete di 'Nove settmane e 1/2', infatti, ha pensato bene di mettere all'asta, oltre a vari pezzi della sua collezione di preziosi, anche un diamante da 3,7 carati che l'ex-fidanzato Alec Baldwin le aveva comprato da Tiffany. Il valore del gioiello è stato stimato da Crhisties intorno ai 30/40 mila dollari. Così, dopo quattro anni dalla fine della storia che Kim ha avuto con l'attore, la star di Hollywood ha deciso di sbarazzarsi di un ricordo tanto ingombrante ed ha, come si suol dire, unito l'utile al dilettevole: il ricavato della vendita è andato alla Performing Animal Welfar Society. Alec Baldwin sarà molto contento di sapere che, oltre all'anello, la sua ex-fidanzata ha venduto, al doppio del valore originario, un altro suo regalo: una collana tempestata di pietre preziose. Ma, per gli animali si fa questo ed altro...
	Event to allow a final goodbye to aging building - Alps Road Elementary School - Butcher paper and masking tape over the windows to keep out the sun, a now-famous name in an old library book, recesses spent among the speakers of a drive-in movie theater across the street - those memories and more are being brought to life at Alps Road Elementary School as students and teachers begin packing their emotional boxes in preparation for a move to a new building. The elementary school is scheduled to move in the fall into a new $6 million building under construction on a patch of former field and playground next to the current building, which opened in 1956 at the corner of Alps Road and Baxter Street. Teachers and administrators will be hosting a Sunday event - part reunion, part homecoming - for former students, retired teachers, parents and other community members to drop in, visit the old building a last time and share their memories of the school. ''We wanted to provide an opportunity for people who have fond memories to come and walk our halls and share those memories,'' principal Kathy Rojek said. For Mary Hopper, a student at Alps Road the year it opened, those memories include playing at a drive-in theater across the road - at the time, practically the only business in the now busy area that includes the Beechwood shopping center. Students were taken across the street to play in the concrete theater area during the first year the school was open, former teacher Flora Faircloth remembers, because the school wasn't completed and the area around it was too muddy. Faircloth, who started teaching at the school the year it opened and remained for 11 years, remembers her first class of 43 fourth-graders, the woods that were around the school then ... and more prosaically, her struggles with the butcher paper that was taped over her classroom windows to keep out the sunlight and some of the heat before shades were installed. ''About 10:30 or 11 o'clock, the tape had gotten hot and the whole thing just started falling off the window,'' she said with a laugh. ''We brought in ladders, and I got up there and put the stuff back up.'' Faircloth still runs into many of her students, as does Lou Plant, who taught fifth-graders at Alps Road for 26 years. Plant remembers her students helping her with the bulletin board and other classroom tasks, and she recalls how she would get her quickest students to help other children with schoolwork - the students were able to relate to each other better than an adult could, she said. ''Some of the fifth-graders were bigger than I am, but I loved that grade,'' she said. ''They were good helpers.'' Hopper was in Plant's class and her fond memories include her former teacher. Hopper's own son, Jeff, is a fifth-grader at the school now. He is a member of the last class that will graduate from the old building, as long as construction stays on schedule. Hopper also is an officer in the school's Parent-Teacher Organization. ''It's been fun being back as a parent,'' she said. ''The interior is almost exactly the way I remember it. It was kind of a shock, walking into that cafeteria that I remember being enormous. It had kind of shrunk.'' They also recently found a library book that had been signed out by actress Kim Basinger - one of the school's most famous alumni. Others include former University of Georgia football player Damien Gary, former Athens-Clarke mayor Doc Eldredge and Clarke County Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens. The old school building will be demolished after the new structure is complete, and the playground will be built on the current building site. The project is part of a $78 million list of projects funded by the Clarke County School District's special-purpose, local-option sales tax. ''I suppose I have mixed feelings,'' Hopper said. ''The building really does need to be updated, there are structural problems and the teachers need better space to teach. But it is sad to see the old building torn down.'' The reunion will be held from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at Alps Road Elementary School. For more information, call the school at (706) 548-2261.

2 maggio: Basinger's jewelry fetches $140,000 for PAWS at auction - Diamonds are an elephant's best friend. Thanks to actress Kim Basinger, the pachyderms and other creatures of Northern California's Performing Animal Welfare Society scored a major windfall this week. A collection of Basinger's baubles, sold in an auction sponsored by Christie's in New York, fetched about $140,000 for PAWS, said Pat Derby, founder of the rescue organization. Basinger, who won an Academy Award for her role in the movie "L.A. Confidential," is a longtime friend of the organization that houses abandoned and retired animals from circuses and other parts of the entertainment industry. PAWS residents include lions, tigers, bobcats, bears, primates and wolves. Among the jewels the actress donated to PAWS was a diamond engagement ring from Tiffany's and a gemstone necklace with a butterfly motif. A pair of diamond and gold ear studs, valued at $2,000 to $3,000 before the sale, went for $6,752, according to Christie's. A diamond bracelet valued at $25,000 to $35,000 sold for $47,800. "We expected to get about $90,000, so this is fantastic," said Derby, who with her partner Ed Stewart runs sanctuaries in Galt, at Rancho Seco Park and in Calaveras County. "We are so grateful to Kim." The "celebrity factor" associated with Basinger's collection, as well as her connection to PAWS, "helped generate plenty of interest," said Christie's spokeswoman Katherine Adler. "We love to have items like these in our sales." Basinger donated the jewelry with "no strings attached," Derby said, but the actress has a special affinity for elephants and said she hoped some of the money would be used to complete a new barn for them at the Calaveras County sanctuary. The money also will help feed 39 tigers that soon will become PAWS residents. Authorities seized the big cats last year from an organization in Riverside County whose owner was charged with animal abuse. The Folsom Zoo has taken in two of the rescued tiger cubs. Basinger's donation, which generated international media attention, is helping PAWS in unexpected ways, said Derby. "We got $140,000 and about a million dollars worth of publicity," she said. "Our name and our logo went all over the world. We are getting lots of new members and Internet donations from all kinds of people who heard or read about the auction."

3 maggio: New Line Cinema has bumped CELLULAR back another month until September 17th, where it will go up against another movie formerly scheduled for summer: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.