Theron takes up cause of chimps
Hollywood beauty Charlize Theron has taken up the cause of the African apes after meeting legendary primatologist Jane Goodall during the filming of the TV series Iconoclasts.
The Academy award winning actress was back in her home continent of Africa and met the award-winning conservationist at the Tchimpounga sanctuary, where Goodall, 76, and her staff rehabilitates orphaned chimpanzees rescued from illegal commercial hunting.
The 35-year-old actress was introduced to the juvenile chimps as she and Goodall discussed the issues that face Africa’s young people and its wildlife, reported Daily Mail online.
The Monster star opened up about the loss of her father, while Goodall also described her experiences in her early twenties, when she travelled into the African forest and discovered how similar humans are to chimpanzees. The actress then puckered up to a few of the baby chimpanzees who welcomed her enthusiastically. “As an actor I’ve always been an observer of people so I started realising that in a way we kind of do the same thing, she just does it with chimps and I do it with human chimps, the ones who have evolved from those chimps,” said Theron.
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Book exposes troubled life of Monroe
London: Actress Marilyn Monroe’s pleas to end her life in the years leading up to her tragic death have been exposed in a new book titled Fragments. The book is a compilation of the movie icon’s personal diaries, notes and letters that she left to her New York acting mentor Lee Strasberg. In the notes, she complains about the loneliness of working in Hollywood and explains her anguish about her troubled love life.
In one of the notes following the breakdown of her marriage to baseball star Joe DiMaggio, she asks herself why she “always felt in a certain way that I am subhuman, why in other words, I am the worst. Even physically, I have always been sure that something was not right with me.”
Her muddled state of mind is shown in a note penned after the collapse of her second marriage, to playwright Arthur Miller, in 1958, contactmusic.com reports. “Help, help, help. I feel life approaching when all that I want is to die,” she wrote. Monroe died from a drug overdose in 1962. The book will hit the stands this month. —IANS
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