Saturday, January 5, 2008

Newspaper says Jennifer Garner is tops in W.Va.


Actress Jennifer Garner has been honored as the 2007 West Virginian of the Year by her hometown newspaper.
Charleston's Sunday Gazette-Mail says it chose Garner for her dedication, hard work and service as an ambassador and role model for West Virginia.

Garner, 35, is actually a Texas transplant, but moved to the Mountain State as a 4-year-old and considers West Virginia home.
A weekend updateLongtime Saturday Night Live performer Jimmy Fallon, 33, and movie producer Nancy Juvonen, 40, were married Dec. 22 on Necker Island in the Caribbean "with family and close friends in attendance," said a statement from publicist Ina Treciokas.
It was the first marriage for both.
Fallon was an SNL cast member from 1998 to 2006. He also has made movies, including the 2005 comedy Fever Pitch, which Juvonen co-produced.
Messages on the windMessages and wishes for the new year from people around the world will float down on the New Year's Eve revelers in Times Square when the confetti is dropped at midnight tonight.
For the first time, anyone can get a message printed on a piece of the multicolored confetti by visiting the Times Square Information Center or by going online to "Wishing Wall Online" at tinyurl.com/2c5efd. The message-carrying pieces will be mixed among the more than one ton of confetti, organizers said.
Messages can be serious or silly, said Tim Tompkins, a spokesman for the Times Square Alliance, which organizes the party.
45-year gapWhen Lorin Maazel conducts the opening of the revival of Wagner's Die Walkure on Jan. 7, it will be his first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera since January 1963 - when he was 32 years old.
Maazel, 77, will be the first person to conduct at the Met while serving as music director of the New York Philharmonic since Leonard Bernstein led a new production of Verdi's Falstaff in 1964. In between opera performances, Maazel will be across Lincoln Center's plaza conducting his own orchestra at Fisher Hall.
When he first conducted at the Met, he led 16 performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier from Nov. 1, 1962, to Jan. 19, 1963. Orchestra seats were $11 back then. They will run as high as $275-$295 for his five performances of Die Walkure

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