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Interview to Geena Davis

Geena Davis talks motherhood, on screen and off.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Motherhood seems to suit Geena Davis, whether she's parent to a talking mouse on the big screen or to the energetic infant squirming on her lap.

Davis, who gave birth to a daughter in April, returns as the peppy mom in "Stuart Little 2," the sequel to the 1999 hit about a family that adopts a cuddly white rodent as their son.

With her 2-month-old daughter, Alizeh, in her arms, Davis said a round of interviews to promote the film was the "first time that we've really done anything except enjoy each other and just have fun all day."

Alizeh is the first child for Davis, 45, who married for the fourth time last year, to Reza Jarrahy, a doctor she met through friends.

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It was really a product of what's out there. I'm not the one deciding, greenlighting movies, and I'm certainly not the one deciding what movies I'm going to be right for. The things I got to look at, I just didn't see anything that I liked. And I would so much rather amuse myself than do a movie I don't like. I'm not a workaholic in any sense.

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"I would describe myself as a take-it-as-it-comes kind of person. I love acting, but it's not driving my life by any means and hasn't really for a long time. My only goal as far as acting is concerned is if there's something good that comes along that's worth leaving the house for, I'm happy to do it. (...) I have other ways that I can find fulfillment. I'm very happy to work if something great comes along, but family and friends, the quote-unquote real life, is the thing".

Interview to Pamela Anderson

Pamela Anderson embraces new phase in life.

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-OK: hepatitis C. When were you diagnosed -- how do you deal with it?

How do you deal with it? Well, when I first was diagnosed, I thought obviously I was dying. When I first -- well, actually, my doctor told me, "You know this little glitch in your blood work? You have hepatitis C." And I said, "OK, how do I get rid of it?" And he said, "You can't."

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I started reading about it and realized that there's no cure and that, you know, there's liver transplants, liver cancer, psoriasis, all this kind of stuff going on and it just scared me. I thought -- you start facing your own mortality, you start realizing that you might die. Now I realize that there's actually a cure for it.

Which is?

Interferon with these other [drugs] ...

That's a tough drug, though -- side effects.

There's lots of side effects. And I'm thinking of doing it in December. It's going to be a year of basically having the flu. Your hair falls out. It's a little kind of chemotherapy kind of -- throwing up.

You've got to do it though.

I want to do it for my kids because I don't want to die basically.

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Are you a role model?

Well, I think unfortunately celebrities get thrown into role model situations, and you think about marriage, how marriage is 58 percent divorce rate right now, and we don't really have a lot of good family role models anymore. I think that's what's most important is our family and our parenting skills and keeping our families together.
That's where all of our problems start, and that's where all the solutions start, too. And I think when you're looking at a celebrity couple, when you're at -- I mean, it's even higher divorce rate, when it comes to high-profile people, because it's who knows, getting married for the wrong reasons, whatever it is. So I feel like I can be a good role model as a mother because I love being a mom and I have great advice for everybody when it comes to mothering. I have terrible advice for relationships. I can't follow that myself. But being a role model in that I'm a free spirit, and that I've done what I've wanted. I'm self-made. I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

Paul Newman just can't quit

'I'm busier now than before'.

CHICAGO (AP) -- The reports of Paul Newman's retirement have been greatly exaggerated.

Of course, those reports originated with Newman himself, who consistently fails to follow through on his intentions to give up acting, race-car driving, political activism and management of his Newman's Own food brand, whose proceeds go to charity.

"I've been trying to quit almost everything I do for the last 10 years, and I've managed to quit absolutely nothing," Newman, 77, said in an interview to promote his latest film, "Road to Perdition."

"I was going to give up my race team, I was going to quit racing. I was going to quit films. I was going to turn the salad-dressing business over to somebody else. And get out of politics. And unfortunately, I'm busier now than before".

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What keeps him coming back?

"Restlessness, I suppose," Newman said.