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

Jennifer Garner Honored By Her Home State

It may not be an Oscar, but Jennifer Garner is still thrilled. Yesterday she was awarded the title “West Virginian of the Year.”
Charleston, West Virginia’s newspaper The Charleston Gazette-Mail proudly announced yesterday their choice to name Garner as their top pick for the honor, “For her dedication, work ethic and unique role as role model and ambassador for West Virginia,”
The “Alias” actress confessed her love for her home state (she moved there when she was four years old), saying, “I like to do the things that are familiar. I like to see people I grew up with. I always go to Taylor Books. I love going home to my church – Christ Church United Methodist. I probably visit a Dairy Queen, and I love the farmer’s market.”
And Jen’s younger sister, Susannah Carpenter (who still lives in Charleston) agrees. “Everyone in my family has a deep love of West Virginia.” Mom Pat Garner added, “She’s pretty passionate about her love of West Virginia. She just considers it home.”

Garner named West Virginian of the Year

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Actress Jennifer Garner has been honored as the 2007 West Virginian of the Year by her hometown newspaper.
The Sunday Gazette-Mail says it chose Garner for her dedication, hard work and service as an ambassador and role model for West Virginia.
Garner is balancing the raising of her 2-year-old daughter Violet, her marriage with fellow actor Ben Affleck and a career that includes a starring role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" on Broadway, the new film "Juno," and two more films yet to shoot.
Garner is actually a Texas transplant, but moved to the Mountain State as a 4-year-old and considers West Virginia home.