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IN SEARCH OF DAGNY TAGGART

webmaster — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:18:57 +0000

Dagny Taggart, the female protagonist of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is on her way to Hollywood. It is difficult to find the real Dagny Taggart though just as everyone will continue to ask who John Galt is. Angelina Jolie, who rumored to play the role of Dagny in the much-awaited movie based on Ayn Rand’s novel, may act and sound and resurrect that image of Dagny that are only to be found between the pages of a book.

Jolie was once quoted in an interview that Atlas shrugged “is one of those, I think, once-in-a-lifetime films that you feel, ‘If I only do a few more in my lifetime, that has to be one of them.’”

So who is Dagny Taggart? She was one of those whom Ayn Rand calls as movers or shakers of the world. She embodies a highly intellectual and individualist being who discovered the world dominated by males and constantly shuns and shakes that kind of world. “This is not the world I expected,” she says.

What makes Dagny Taggart different from female-protagonists-cum-heroines? She hardly makes gender an issue. Like Ayn Rand, Dagny was interested in developing her potentials and actualizing them as an individual.

WHEN BEYONCE DROPS HER NAME

webmaster — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:10:09 +0000

Don’t call her Beyonce. She’s Sasha Fierce. That change in name was a forceful subject in the entertainment world.

“Sasha Fierce is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I’m working and when I’m on the stage,” the R&B singer reportedly said.

But will it work? Self-bestowed names by celebrities like George (T-Bone) and Jennifer Lopez (Jenny, J.Lo) were followed by fans and the media. So long as the name does not affect Beyonce’s or rather Sasha’s performance as an artist, nicknames will remain irrelevant. Call your woman whatever name you like. Her nature does not alter.

Angelina Jolie – A Hero to Refugees

webmaster — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:49:00 +0000

When Angelina Jolie isn’t battling bad guys as Lara Croft, she’s helping the world’s 35 million refugees as a United Nations goodwill ambassador.

Jolie got involved in helping refugees in 1998 while reading the script for the recently released movie Beyond Borders, a film about a woman who helps refugees. Jolie said she was so moved by the script that she wanted to travel to Africa’s war-torn Sierra Leone to witness firsthand the refugee crisis there. She called the United Nations and arranged a trip. “I wanted to learn more. I … felt I should be more responsible about what I was doing with my life,” said Jolie.

Jolie began her work for the United Nations in 2001. “I wanted to get more people interested. I get really angry at the lack of certain things being done,” she said. “You could die tomorrow and you’ve done a few movies, won some awards–that doesn’t mean anything,” Jolie said. “But if you’ve built schools … or done something to make things better for other people, then … life is better.”
The United Nations recently named Jolie its first-ever U.N. Citizen of the World.