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Jessica Simpson's growing baby bump was hard to miss as the 31-year-old star headed to lunch with mom Tina and nephew Bronx in Calabasas, Calif. Friday.
The mom-to-be left her 4-inch heels at home, looking comfy in oversized sweats, a plaid jacket and UGGs.
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Last week Simpson was spotted visiting a Monique Lhuillier wedding boutique in L.A. Dresses in the store range from $3,000 to $20,000.
Simpson and Eric Johnson got engaged on Nov. 11, 2010. This Halloween, the duo announced via a visual "Mummy" pun that they were expecting their first child together.
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But while Simpson might've been looking at bridal couture this weekend, she told Us Weekly last month she and her NFL beau were planning to get married after they've welcomed their little one.
"We were always going to wait [until] after the baby" she explained. "We flirted around with different dates before I found out I was pregnant, and thankfully we didn't lock anything down. I want to enjoy the day? I'm glad we didn't make a deposit."
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"I just didn't want to be stressed out," Simpson said. "Now when I get stressed out it's like 50 times worse. So I really want to enjoy that day and now I get to have my baby with me."
Another possible reason for Simpson's visit to the bridal boutique? Her BFF Cacee Cobb confirmed in August that she is engaged to Scrubs star Donald Faison.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? In 100 years of Chinese film, "The Flowers of War" is the first major title to feature a western movie star. It earned a Golden Globe nomination for best foreign language film, and is China's entry for Oscars.
Budgeted at $100 million, "Flowers of War" stars Oscar-winner Christian Bale as John Miller, an opportunist mortician on the run in 1937 as the Japanese are invading the province of Nanking, now known as Nanjing. The Japanese occupation led to the deaths of thousands of Chinese citizens and came to be known by some as the Rape of Nanking or the Nanjing Massacre.
In the film, which has a limited U.S. release this week before opening nationwide in 2012, Bale's character must save a group of schoolgirls from the clutches of the Japanese. At the same time, he falls in love with a Chinese courtesan.
Bale and Chinese director Zhang Yimou, who communicated through an interpreter while making the film, talked with Reuters about overcoming cultural barriers and revisiting an infamous episode of China's past. (The interview took place before Bale's recent run-in with Chinese officials.)
Q: This is your first time working with a western film star. Did the collaboration meet or defy your expectations?
Zhang: "First, I'm amazed at how low key and humble Christian is. The stereotype that Chinese have of Hollywood actors is they probably have an entourage and assistants. So that's definitely changed how I viewed Hollywood actors. And also Christian didn't want to stay in a five star hotel either. He lived right above me, lived with everybody else, with the crew members. And another thing is Christian gave up his weekends to work with us because we work seven days a week."
Bale: "But this seven-day week schedule became something I quite enjoyed cause I liked the momentum. Yimou is top dog in his profession, and he genuinely seemed to have a great deal of humor and laughter on the set. I didn't always know what the laughter was about but I would laugh with them. I hope they're not all laughing at me! I felt surrounded by good friends and even if I didn't understand nuances of what was being discussed, I got the essence in the presence of people."
Q: Do you find that your shared experience in filmmaking was enough to communicate despite the language barrier?
Bale: "There would be moments where Yimou would come to me and we would work it out between the two of us. And sometimes with a scene it's very small adjustments that were being asked for and I could understand from body language. And I always was convinced Yimou spoke a little bit of English, more than he ever let onto. So we'd experiment and see how it works out and sometimes it did and sometimes it didn't."
Q: How are Western actors different than Chinese?
Zhang: "Each line Christian offered three or four different ways, which is very unusual because Chinese actors normally cannot pull that off. Screening the film for a western audience I realized that the first one-third of the movie, audiences would laugh at Christian's lines. That actually surprised me because when I wrote the script in Chinese, I didn't think that was humorous, but clearly Christian added other layers to it."
Q: I understand Zhang asked you to stand before the cast and give them acting tips but it proved awkward.
Bale: "I always think it's bad to try to alter anybody else's experience. Apart from that, it's not my job. That's the director's job. And I love very much working with actors who either have no experience or very little experience. I like to try to avoid getting any technique into my acting because I feel like the more known an actor gets, you really have to be exceptional to maintain that feeling of freshness and vitality and enthusiasm instead of falling back on your usual tricks."
Q: Steven Spielberg recommended you for the part after working with you years ago on "Empire of the Sun" when you were a child. Did working with kids on this movie take you back?
Bale: "Some of the girls would say to me, 'I would never want to act ever again in my life, this is it.' And I would say to them, 'That's what I said. That's exactly what I said when I was your age.' The thing that I liked so much was the freshness that they brought in terms of this is something new but there's no consideration of this being anything that they would continue with."
Q: The movie is set around an atrocity by the Japanese that rivals in brutality what the Nazis did in Europe. Why do you think the world hasn't held the Japanese accountable?
Zhang: "Maybe the international community doesn't know much about Nanjing because China, at that time, was really far behind, and they didn't have enough voice or power to actually speak out for themselves. For me, rather than arouse sad feelings, the goal of the movie is to make people see the good side of humanity and bring peaceful feelings to an audience."
(Editing by Jill Serjeant and Bob Tourtellotte)
(This story is corrected to delete reference to Chinese government funding, paragraph 2)
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But will those suing will be sued for suing?
It's irony at its finest: After mandating its users sign away their legal rights in order to access the?PlayStation Network,?Sony is on the receiving end of a?lawsuit that claims the act was an unfair business practice. The class-action suit seeks to represent all those who purchased?PlayStation 3 consoles prior to an August 2011 change to the PSN Terms of Service.
Shortly after the?PlayStation Network was hacked ??and then hacked again ??Sony quietly added a "don't sue" clause to their Terms of Service, effectively handcuffing its users' legal rights. Acceptance was mandatory, lest your?PlayStation 3 turn into an expensive paperweight.?You could only opt out by sending a physical letter to Sony ? if you noticed the clause buried in the legal document at all, of course.
If successful, the lawsuit could have wide-reaching effects: Both?Microsoft and?Electronic Arts added similar clauses to their Terms of Service after Sony did.
Gamespot via?Geek.com
This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca
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LAGOS, Nigeria?? Oil from an offshore spill has spread roughly 100 nautical miles after a leak occurred while loading a tanker, a Nigerian official said Thursday.
Royal Dutch Shell shut down a deep-water oil field off Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta on Tuesday.
Peter Idabor, the head of the country's oil spill management agency, said the offshore oil spill is likely the worst in a decade.
He expects oil to begin washing ashore on Nigeria's southern coast later Thursday.
Shell announced Wednesday it had closed its Bonga field after a leak of less than 40,000 barrels of oil that occurred while transferring crude oil to a tanker. The firm said it is cleaning up the spill.
'Natural dispersion and evaporation'
In a statement, Shell said that "up to 50 per cent of the leaked oil has already dissipated due to natural dispersion and evaporation."
It characterized the area covered by sheen as "large," but added that the sheen was "very thin in most areas."
Mutiu Sunmonu, Shell's country chairman in Nigeria, apologized for the incident.
"We are currently working with the Nigerian government to inform local communities and fishermen about the situation," he added.
Nigeria is a top supplier of crude to the U.S.
The company's website says Bonga, located 75 miles off the region's coast, has the capacity to produce more than 200,000 barrels a day of crude oil and 150 million cubic feet of gas a day.
Shell's pipelines in Nigeria's onshore Niger delta have spilled several times, which the company blames on sabotage attacks and oil theft.
said it will take as much as 30 years to clean parts of Nigeria's oil-stained Niger Delta.
The Associated Press, Reuters and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45762693/ns/world_news-world_environment/
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LONDON ? European markets bounced back Thursday as the traditional holiday slowdown began in earnest, rising a day after investors were rattled by the European Central Bank's huge loans to bolster the continent's banks.
Investors were spooked by the huge size of the ECB's euro489 billion ($639 billion) three-year loans Wednesday to 523 banks ? its biggest credit infusion to date as authorities try to steady a financial system under severe pressure from Europe's debt crisis.
Although the loans will help make sure banks have enough money to lend next year, they don't address Europe's underlying problem of too much government debt.
With Christmas looming, trading is getting lighter by the day. The flow of news is also drying up ? once a raft of U.S. economic figures are released later, there's very little on the economic calendar until the New Year. Analysts expect U.S. economic growth figures later to be left unrevised at an annualized rate of 2 percent and weekly jobless claims to remain below 400,000.
"With trading in many markets grinding to an almost complete standstill, even though price action remains choppy, it will take some large surprises ... to stir markets from their seasonal slumber," said Marc Ostwald, markets strategist at Monument Securities.
Figures earlier showing that Britain's economy grew by a slightly better-than-anticipated 0.6 percent in the third quarter had little impact, as the previous quarter was revised down by an equivalent rate to show zero growth.
Britain's FTSE was up, like others in Europe, trading 1.1 percent higher at 5,448. Germany's DAX rose 1 percent to 5,845 while the CAC-40 in France rose 1.2 percent to 3,067. The euro rose 0.2 percent higher at $1.3056.
Wall Street was poised for modest gains later ? Dow futures were up 0.4 percent at 12,070 while the broader S&P 500 futures rose an equivalent rate to 1,241.
Asian markets traded lower following the previous day's retreats in Europe and the U.S. Investors were hoping that Beijing eases curbs on bank lending and real estate sales to revive slowing economic growth, but analysts expected no immediate changes.
"If expectations of an easier monetary policy do not materialize, the market will remain unstable, but even if some loosening does emerge, the room for gains is still quite limited," said Liu Kan, an analyst at Guoyuan Securities in Shanghai.
Tokyo's main index declined 0.8 percent to 8,395.16 and China's benchmark lost 0.2 percent to 2,186.3. South Korea's Kospi was down 0.1 percent to 1,847.49.
In the oil markets, trading was lackluster with benchmark crude for February delivery up 12 cents at $98.79 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Joe McDonald in Beijing contributed to this report.
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