Oscar's big nod to Cate OF the many potential Australian Oscar nominees to be announced on Wednesday, Cate Blanchett seems the only sure bet at a tilt at an Academy Award.Blanchett's role as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator is almost certain to get a nod by Academy voters, but Nicole Kidman's performance in Birth is rated only an outside chance.Kidman, who took home the best actress gong for The Hours in 2002, has played down her hopes of a repeat...
SCOOPLET du jour: Mayor Brown has at last picked himself a press secretary -- Kandace Bender, former political editor of The Examiner -- and she fits right into His Willikens' scheme of things: She drives a Jaguar XJS with dash and abandon . . . Master Brown is also correct in announcing that S. F. needs a ``communications czar.'' The mayor's office doesn't even have an e-mail address, folks, and that is a shocker to the cybernuts . ....
Name: Lorraine Age: 31 Online dating site: www.maybefriends.com - joined seven months ago.Why I joined: 'I had finished a long-term relationship just over a year ago and felt ready to meet someone new, but all my friends are either married or in long-term relationships. There wasn't really the chance to meet new single people.' Online dating because: It fit into her lifestyle - she uses a computer in work and is comfortable with e-mail. Also, she...
Personal ads are changing.People don't seem to be as choosy. You don't have to be a sleek, attractive professional anymore.You don't have to love jazz, taxidermy and fencing.These days, people are settling for less: Sybil: Divorced man searching for woman who doesn't hear voices.San Quentin: Single woman seeking man not currently incarcerated.I think the reason personals are changing is because the people seeking and...
No matter what people say, online dating can be an antidote to those long weeks with no plans. Most of us have family or friends who look happily married with red-cheeked babies and home theater systems. We have to listen to their advice and put up with blind introductions that further reduce our self-esteem for two reasons: 1) the other person is ugly/old/desperate (triggered reasoning: What is my friends' concept of me?) OR 2) the other person is young/great looking/fit/wealthy...