Charlotte Rampling

Few Minute With: Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling's is an British actress known asto film lovers for her Nazi-themed, sado-masochist performance in 1974's "The Night Porter," has been enjoying a career Renaissance in recent years with a string of European arthouse films. She has a wide reputation as a screen siren in European cinema.

Now in Sweden when she was getting a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm film festival caught by a reporter and she share few moments, Now i would post some of her conversion.


Q: In your latest movie, "The Duchess," you play what is maybe not a classic Rampling part. What attracted you to the film?

A: Saul Dibb (the director), who came to see me twice in Paris, and I talked about it over six
months and in the end I said yes because I was free at that time. I didn't have any other films and I thought that sometimes it is good to also be part of a mainstream, sort of very beautiful classical film. And with a film like this... it is maybe nice to put myself a little more into the eyes of the public.

Q: What do you normally seek in a part?

A: I decided very early on that the mainstream world wasn't the way I wanted to go on in the world of cinema. I sought out directors who were making films in different ways and with subjects that weren't necessarily commercial.

Q: Why is that?

A: Because that was how I wanted to express myself, through that medium in that way. I wanted to be in a sort of permanent Ingmar Bergman film. I wanted to vibrate and show feeling and not just to be in entertainment movies. So obviously that limited a lot, so I didn't work nearly as much as a lot of actors -- but I turned a lot of work down because that was not where I wanted to be.

Q: Are you a big Ingmar Bergman fan?


A: Yes, very big. I was amazed when I discovered in my 20s that film could be like that, and that is why I went to Italy because films were like that too. Italian directors were doing films, not quite Bergman, but exploring different ways of making cinema.

Q: Any particular Bergman movie you like?


A: There are lot of very different types of work. Like 'Persona' and 'Cries and Whispers' that are
really, really intense. But there are a lot of comic films too. Like Strindberg -- I did a (August) Strindberg play, Dance of Death, in Paris a few years ago. Strindberg is funny too -- it's terrifying but funny too. Swedes are very wild - wild and dark. You all seem very nice and all but underneath there is wildness.

Q: In your latest project you play the mother of Jesus on a Brueghel painting


A: The Polish film I've just made is with Lech Majewski, a conceptual artist, filmmaker, musician.
It's depicting the painting, and brings to life everything that happens in that day when Jesus is crucified. Brueghel paints it like it is just another day where people are just doing their thing and in the background is Christ.

Q: What can you tell us about your upcoming project with director Todd Solondz?

A: I can't really talk about it. He asked us not to. But I mean, it is his world (laughs), it carries on, with rather bizarre creatures.

Melamine in baby

Melamine in baby

US Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said: they have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in one sample of infant formula.

The formula actually found in this year in China where thousands of children fell ill & lots of died.The chemical, normally used to make plastics, has been found in milk power, wheat gluten and other Chinese-made ingredients used in products ranging from pet food to candy. Melamine's ability to make foods appear to have higher amounts of protein during testing has made it a cheap but dangerous substitute that can damage the kidneys.

Leon declined to name the manufacturer of the sample found to contain melamine. U.S.-approved makers include Abbott Nutrition, Bristol-Myers Squibb unit Mead Johnson Nutritionals and Nestle USA.

Industry trade group the International Formula Council sought to reassure consumers.

Mead Johnson Nutritionals, the maker of Enfamil baby formula, said that by testing samples of its products and raw materials using published FDA methodology, it had not detected any level of melamine.
Mead Johnson spokesman Pete Paradossi said: "We maintain stringent standards at all our manufacturing sites to ensure the high quality and safety of our products."

Leon said the FDA has deployed more sensitive tests in recent weeks as it has expended tests for melamine in all food products, including infant formula.

FDA scientists conducted two tests of the formula sample, one finding a melamine level of 137 parts per billion (ppb) and another measuring 140 ppb. A level of 250 ppb or less is considered a trace amount, Leon said.
But some consumer advocates said it was premature to say there was no risk for infants.

The FDA's earlier determination that 250 ppb of melamine was a trace amount was intended for foods other than infant formula, said Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst with the Environmental Working Group.

Lunder said: "We need to have a zero-tolerance policy for contaminants in infant formula, Babies eat only formula for months and months on end."
Leon said the FDA was in the process of determining what amounts of melamine pose a risk to infants and would release a public advisory later. In the meantime, parents should not change their babies' feeding habits, she said.

"We found one positive test on one sample at a level so low that it has absolutely no impact on the health of babies whatsoever," Leon said. "So there's no reason for any parent to be concerned for any reason."
The FDA was not yet ready to release results of tests of other food products, including dietary supplements, Leon said.

Buddha boy

Buddha boy in Nepal vanishes

Its found that in Nepali, off late a boy was discovered that who is mystery now vanishes again after blessing many supporters.

Ram Bahadur Bamjon locals him Buddha boy was 17 years old used to devotees himself in meditation nearly 10 days in the forest of Ratanpuri, Kathmandu before disappearing on Friday.

He come to the manes attention in 2005 many people watch him that he sit alone and doing meditation for 10 months that Buddha used to do. The Buddha is often shown in sketches sitting under a tree in a similar posture.

Ten days ago Bamjon reappeared after almost a year when he had disappeared in order to meditate in the jungle. This is the third time Bamjon has disappeared since his first appearance three years ago.

Thousands of people, some out of sheer curiosity, including many from neighbouring India walked to the site in the middle of dense forests to see him this time.

"He gave a 25 minute religious discourse to more than 5,000 people on Friday then went into an underground site for meditation," Budhathoki said.

He said the boy had wrapped a white cloth around his body and sometimes sat for more than 12 hours at one stretch during the discourse.

Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born a prince in Lumbini, a sleepy town in Nepal's rice-growing plains about 350 km southwest of Kathmandu more than 2,600 years ago. He is believed to have attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, which borders Nepal.

Breast cancers

Breast cancers may naturally regress

Researchers who tracked breast cancer rates in women proposed the controversial notion that some tumors found with mammograms might otherwise naturally disappear on their own if left undetected.

But experts expressed doubt about the findings and urged women to continue to get regular mammograms, saying this screening technique unquestionably saves lives by finding breast cancer early on when it is most treatable. They compared the number of breast cancers detected with another group of about 110,000 Norwegian women of the same age and similar backgrounds who were screened just once at the end of the six-year period. This raises the possibility that some cancers somehow disappear naturally, although there is no biological reason to explain how this might be, according to Zahl, whose findings were published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Mammography and breast self-examination for tumors are standard methods used for early detection of breast cancer, the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide. The American Cancer Society estimated that about 465,000 women die of breast cancer globally each year, and 1.3 million new cases are diagnosed.

The researchers acknowledged many doctors might be skeptical of the idea but they cited 32 reported cases of a breast cancer regressing, a small number for such a common disease.

Autumn babies

Autumn babies at greater risk of asthma


US researchers said: babies born four months before the peak cold and flu season have a 30% higher risk of developing asthma.

Dr. Tina Hartert, director of the center for Asthma Research at Vanderbilt University said: "All infants are exposed to this and it is potentially preventable." She said it has been known for some time that infants in the Northern Hemisphere born in the fall are at higher risk of developing asthma, but the study is the first to tie this trend to peak viral activity in the winter months. Hartert and colleagues studied the medical records of 95,000 infants and their mothers in the state of Tennessee. They found that all babies in the study were at increased risk if they had bronchiolitis, a lung infection usually caused by respiratory syncytial virus or RSV. But autumn babies were at the highest risk.

While genetic risk factors predispose a child to develop asthma, Hartert thinks environmental exposure such as winter viral infection, and particularly RSV infection, may activate those genes.Nearly every child is infected with RSV early in life, with infections occurring most often between the ages of 3 and 6 months. The virus usually clears up without serious complications.

The easiest way to do that would be a vaccine, but so far, none exists. Vaccine makers GenVec Inc, AstraZeneca's MedImmune unit and others are working on RSV vaccines.