Thompson 'Withdraws Polanski Support'
British actress Emma Thompson has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free Roman Polanski after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker. The Oscar-winning actress signed a petition to free Polanski, who has been imprisoned since September on the request of Los Angeles law officials. But on a trip to Exeter University in the U.K. earlier this month, Thompson was accosted by a student who requested she retract her support. And after a lengthy chat with Caitlin...

Thompson 'withdraws Polanski support'
British actress Emma Thompson has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free Roman Polanski after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker. The Oscar-winning actress signed a petition to free Polanski, who has been imprisoned since September (09) on the request of Los Angeles law officials. But on a trip to Exeter University in the U.K. earlier this month (Nov09), Thompson was accosted by a student who requested she retract her support. And after a lengthy chat...

Emma Thompson - Thompson Withdraws Polanski Support
British actress Emma Thompson has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free Roman Polanski after a fan called on her to stop supporting the...

Thompson 'withdraws Polanski support'
British actress Emma Thompson has agreed to withdraw her name from a petition to free Roman Polanski after a fan called on her to stop supporting the incarcerated filmmaker.. Up to the minute entertainment news.

Emma Thompson To Remove Name From Polanski Petition? [The Fugitive]: PHOTO
Those of us who are fans of Emma Thompson but not fans of child Rape were disappointed to learn the actress signed Bernard-Henri Lévy's petition to free Roman Polanski. But a Shakesville reader might just have changed Thompson's mind.

Emma Thompson quits Team Polanski - ONTD weeps with relief: PHOTO
Emma Thompson quits Team Polanski - ONTD weeps with relief | posted by Melissa McEwan | Wednesday, November 04, 2009 As you'll certainly recall, after a popular Shaker favie Emma Thompson signed the Roman Polanski petition and broke our hearts, Shaker Caitlin put together a petition asking Thompson to remove her name, which she intended to deliver to Thompson during a brief meeting. This morning, Caitlin emailed with this update: Dear All, I have just returned from meeting Emma Thompson. While...

Thompson 'talked out of support for Polanski' by 19-year-old student: PHOTO
Emma Thompson is an Oscar-winning actress whose charisma and outspoken personality have earned her admiration and a reputation as a "strong woman". But when one of her fans realised that Thompson had signed a petition calling for the release of Roman Polanski – the film director recently arrested in Switzerland for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 – she was determined to talk the actress out of it. Caitlin Hayward-Tapp, a 19-year-old student at Exeter University...

Emma Thompson removes her name from the Roman Polanski petition
A few weeks ago, I mentioned in an Emma Thompson post that she was one of the many entertainment people who signed the Roman Polanski petition . I didn't want it to be true, this cruel, cruel cut. The thought of Emma faltering after so many years of being awesome was just too difficult for me to face. Now it looks like I can love my Emma once again - because she's asking to have her name removed from the petition. According to Jezebel ( linked from LaineyGossip ), when Emma gave a scheduled...

Emma Thompson - Thompsons Struggle With Depression
British actress Emma Thompson has long struggled with depression and insists the only way to beat her condition is to use creative therapy techniques. The Oscar-winner ...

Emma Thompson: BNP would love your university: PHOTO
Emma Thompson today attacked a university for failing to accept enough ethnic minority students - and said the BNP would like it there.

Firth, Blunt & De Niro Honoured At Britannia Awards in Los Angeles: PHOTO
Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Kirk Douglas and Robert De Niro were among the honourees at the 2009 Bafta/LA Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday night (05Nov09). Firth claimed the night's Humanitarian Award, Blunt was named British Artist of the Year and Douglas took home the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. De Niro picked up the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. Filmmaker Danny Boyle was honoured with the John Schlesinger Britannia...

Amy Adams & Emily Blunt: BAFTA Beautiful: PHOTO
Sunshine Cleaning co-stars Amy Adams and Emily Blunt chat at the Beefeater 24-sponsored VIP area at Los Angeles’ BAFTA Awards on Thursday. Emily , 26, who took home the Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year, accessorized with a jeweled snake cuff and, of course, her engagement ring from actor John Krasinski . Enchanted actress Amy , 35, wore an Azzaro cocktail shirred dress with matching cascading diamond earrings. Saying that she was excited to see her friends who’d present...

Emma Thompson opens her heart on marriage: PHOTO
Emma Thompson wrote about her spectacularly parsimonious husband, Greg Wise, last year, claiming he made "Oliver Cromwell look like Imelda Marcos". Now, however, the actress has disclosed her tips for a successful marriage.

Emma Thompson criticises son's -racist' university
LONDON - Brit actress Emma Thompson has said that historic city Exeter in Devon is a place where BNP leader Nick Griffin "would feel very comfortable" in as it has so few black faces.

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Exeter is a lovely place for the BNP says actress Emma Thompson: PHOTO
Emma Thompson, the actress, has described Exeter as a place where BNP leader Nick Griffin "would feel very comfortable" because it has so few black faces.

Bloggers: Emma Dropping Support of Polanski
Who says a blog can’t change anything? Not the folks at Shakesville , who assembled a petition opposing actress Emma Thompson’s decision to sign a petition of her own opposing Roman Polanksi’s arrest. Somehow, one member of the community finagled a meeting with Thompson, presented the document…and actually changed her mind. “She said, while she supported Polanski as a friend, a crime is a crime.”

Stephen Fry talks about quitting Twitter as Emma Thompson calls it a 'banal' hobby
Stephen Fry may have established himself as the second most popular Twitterer in Britain – at 924,399, he has only slighly fewer hanging on his every word than Sarah Brown – but Emma Thompson, his old friend from his days at Cambridge, fails to see much merit in his hobby.

Emma Thompson Tells Trafficked Woman's Story in Art: PHOTO
Academy-award winning actress Emma Thompson was so moved by the plight of a Moldovan woman who survived being trafficked for sex, she decided to create an art installation that would help viewers to put themselves in Elena's shoes and bring attention to this growing problem. "Journey," which will be exhibited in New York City November 10 - 16 in Washington Square Park, tells the story of Elena, a woman from the Eastern European republic of Moldova who, at age 18, was promised a secretarial job...

Emma Thompson to give her boy Tindy's university a lecture on race relations: PHOTO
Emma Thompson, who proudly attended the graduation ceremony of her "adopted" son, Tindyebwa Agaba, in July, is to return to the University of Exeter next month to spell out some home truths about its treatment of black students.

Celebrities donate prizes for charity auction: PHOTO
Celebrities including Lily Cole, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Sir David Attenborough have donated prizes to an online auction in aid of media charity Television Trust for the Environment (TVE).

Afternoon Crumbs: PHOTO
Suri Cruise is still on the bottle. Maybe she's waiting until she's old enough to trade in her baby bottle for a vodka bottle? She's smart like that. - Popsugar St. Angie and Bradette Jr. went to The Gap - Just Jared Jesus is trying to take the wheel - Towleroad Emma Thompson is trying to erase her name from that petition - Lainey Gossip Hayden Panatroll is a refined lady in Elle - Hollywood Tuna Sophie Monk's face is as shiny as that trophy (site NSFW) - Drunken Stepfather Megan Fox has...

Emma Thompson Was Knickerless on National Tv
Emma Thompson has mixed emotions whenever she visits pal Ellen DeGeneres' U.S. chat show - because she once appeared on the programme without her panties. The bubbly Brit decided her tight-fitting Zac Posen dress would show up any pantylines, so she ditched them - only to find out later she was expected to take part in a pole-dancing skit.In her first trip back to the daytime show, on Wednesday (12Nov08), since she went commando on U.S. TV, the Oscar winner revealed, "I was quite scared that it was going to

Emma Thompson criticises sons racist university
London, Nov 7 - ANI: Brit actress Emma Thompson has said that historic city Exeter in Devon is a place where BNP leader Nick Griffin would feel very comfortable in as it has so few black faces. Thompson, 50, revealed that her adopted son, Rwandan-born Tindyebwa Agaba, known to the family as Tindy, had a rough time as a student at Exeter University and was subjected to racist taunts. The actress, who instigated a cultural awareness campaign on campus based on the experience, aimed at promoting...

90210's AnnaLynne McCord Fights Against Human Trafficking: PHOTO
While AnnaLynne McCord has found stardom on Nip/Tuck and 90210 , she has also turned to helping victims of Human Trafficking. McCord, 22, is involved in the Blind Project, a non-profit organization that aims to tell the stories of those affected by the problem and to alleviate it. McCord joins the other celebs such as Ricky Martin, Emma Thompson and Ashley Judd in the fight against what is essentially a form of slavery. Victims are typically used for Prostitution or forced labor. The estimated...