Catwoman Is Back Again!

Catwoman Anne Hathaway performance in the latest Batman movie on Hedy Lamarr, the glamorous 1940s film star who first inspired the character. Many actresses have played Catwoman over the years, but to prepare for her own role as the sexy masked "Batman" character in "The Dark Knight Rises," Anne Hathaway looked to the source.


Catwoman (Anne) told the Los Angeles Times that she studied late Hollywood sex icon Hedy Lamarr, who the "Batman" comic book franchise creator Bob Kane used as one of his inspirations for Catwoman, along with actress Jean Harlow and his own girlfriend.Hathaway has now revealed she went back to the character’s roots for her portrayal, basing her performance on late Hollywood legend Lamarr, who was cited as the inspiration for Catwoman by comic book artist Bob Kane.

In 2009, she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in the movie "Rachel Getting Married." A year later, she and James Franco co-hosted the Academy Awards ceremony.Hathaway is now preparing to play Fantine, a poor French woman who turns to prostitution to provide for her daughter, in the film adaptation of the musical "Les Miserables," which also stars Hugh Jackman.


She adds, “What’s come before doesn’t limit or even affect this new version. It doesn’t affect me because each Catwoman – and this is true in the comics as well – she is defined by the context of the Gotham City created around her… Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman was informed by Tim Burton’s Gotham and Eartha Kitt was informed by Adam West’s Gotham. You have to live in whatever the reality of the world is and whatever Gotham is.”

New Mozart piano music discovered

The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg announced Thursday that it had discovered two previously unknown compositions written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.


For the second time in two years, the International Mozarteum Foundation has announced the discovery of previously unknown music by Mozart.

A pianist will perform the composition Aug. 2 in a Salzburg house where the composer once resided, EarthTimes reported.

The foundation did not reveal any details of the find.

A single sheet of a Mozart work was found in September of last year in a library in Nantes, France, where it had lain unnoticed for more than 100 years.

“It’s a melody sketch, so what’s missing is the harmony and the instrumentation, but you can make sense out of it,” foundation researcher Ulrich Leisinger told the CBC.

Mozart, who lived only to be 35, published more than 600 pieces, including concertos, symphonies and operas.

Kimo Leopoldo is still alive

Reports on Tuesday of the death of early Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star Kimo Leopoldo was a big story throughout the mixed-martial-arts world. No one was more surprised by the news, in fact, than Leopoldo himself. He’s alive and well.

I am very happy to report that an earlier story I wrote this morning has turned out be false. Former UFC fighter Kimo Leopoldo is not dead. MMA Junkie wa able to confirm this through the fighter's publicist Bob Trieger.

Numerous media reports, including ones from TMZ, the New York Daily News, Orange County Register, USA Today and the Huffington Post, also reported his death.

"When I saw the sites, it scared me," Leopoldo said.

"I wondered, are they predicting the future or am I cursed?"

It was neither, though it still made for a memorable day.

The Orange County Sheriff's coroner's office received more than 200 phone calls about Leopoldo's purported death starting as early as 7 a.m., spokesman Jim Amormino said. After trying to confirm the reports through local hospitals, county health officials and the fire department, Amormino fielded inquiries until Leopoldo held a news conference at 5 p.m. outside the sheriff's office in Santa Ana.

Before the erroneous reports of his death, Leopoldo was best known for his MMA debut at UFC 3 in 1994, where he fought and lost to Royce Gracie. He ended his career in October 2006, and had been publicly linked to performance-enhancing drugs and banned stimulants because of failed drug tests.