Julianne Moore, author of the Freckleface Strawberry series, talks about falling in love with storytelling and reading as a young child, why she writes for kids, and how to encourage young writers.

It’s time for moms to roar! Join Julianne and the Moms Clean Air Force: http://www.momscleanairforce.org/roar

Actress and mother Julianne Moore released a new video calling on parents to join the fight against toxic air pollution. In the video, which endorses a nonpartisan grassroots group called the Moms Clean Air Force, Moore appears along with the heroine of her popular children’s books, Freckleface Strawberry.

Moms are becoming a powerful force in American politics. They are telling Washington that they will not allow their children’s health to be compromised by dirty fossil fuel power plants, the single largest source of pollution in the U.S. The Moms Clean Air Force is a growing community of tens of thousands of moms— from all across the political spectrum and all across the country—uniting to make their voices heard to protect their children’s health. “Clean air should be above politics,” Moore said. “The discussion about regulations to protect our air has gotten so polarized that we have forgotten an important thing: We all breathe the same air. And all our children suffer because of pollution. We don’t have to choose between a healthy economy and a healthy environment. We can have both. We can have what’s best for all our children.”

President Richard Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law in 1970 with overwhelming support from Democrats and Republicans; however, the law is now under dangerous political attack. The new mercury and air toxics standards signed in December, after 21 years of planning, are already under political attack, with some politicians in Congress and lobbyists for the utility and coal industries calling to annul it or defund the Environmental Protection Agency.

Responding to this threat, Moms Clean Air Force is bringing parents together in support of a simple idea: That every child has the right to breathe clean air.

Moore became interested in MCAF after Dominique Browning, the group’s Co-Founder and Senior Director and former Editor-in-Chief of House & Garden, contacted her last summer. “I wrote to Julianne, knowing she is a protective mom, asking her if she would help us spread the word about the connection between toxic—and invisible—air pollution and children’s health, and she responded immediately,” Browning said. “Julianne joins a Force of thousands of mothers with real concerns about mercury poisoning, asthma, behavioral issues, and host of other problems associated with polluted air. Together we are determined to clear the air and protect the health of our children and loved ones.”

Moms Clean Air Force is a coalition of mothers including Blythe Danner, Laila Ali, and Jessica Capshaw, and partner groups such as Healthy Child, Healthy World, Asthma Moms, Latism (Latinos in Social Media), Me and my 1000 Girlfriends, Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment (ANHE), Care2, BlogHer, Clever Girls Collective, and Me and My 1000 Girlfriends.

Julianne Moore talks about charity for childhood poverty, her family, and playing Sarah Palin for HBO!

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LOS ANGELES, Jan 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Americans may be gearing up for the 2012 presidential elections, but HBO is revisiting the drama of the 2008 race to the White House in a TV film about Sarah Palin and John McCain.

“Game Change,” starring Julianne Moore as Palin and Ed Harris as McCain, is based on the 2010 book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin that documented the behind-the-scenes action of the presidential campaign four years ago.

But the new film, which will premier on March 10, focuses on the rise of Palin as McCain’s 2008 Republican Party running mate.

“We felt that story of Sarah Palin is truly one of the great American political stories of our time,” writer Danny Strong told television reporters on Friday.

Moore said that she spent hours working with a vocal coach to master Palin’s “idiosyncratic way of speaking” as well as reading Palin’s book and watching her TV reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

“It’s a daunting task to play somebody who’s not only a living figure but also hugely well known. So for me, the most important thing was accuracy. We’re all very familiar with her and those iconic moments four years ago,” said Moore, who starred in movie drama “The Hours” and “The Kids Are Alright”.

Strong said he was given interviews with everyone he wrote into the film. Except for Palin. Instead, he used the former Alaska governor’s own book “Going Rogue” as one of his main sources.

“Her (Palin’s) situation was an extraordinary one. She was someone who was involved in state politics and suddenly thrust into international politics, and clearly wasn’t prepared,” said Moore.

“She was so incredibly charismatic and so unbelievably able to communicate, a true populist,” she said.

“Saturday Night Live” actress Tina Fey, whose Palin impersonations became one of the highlights of the 2008 presidential campaign, will also appear in “Game Change”, which incorporates news footage into the film .

“I really looked forward to the moment where Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, would be watching Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. I thought that would be interesting to the story,” said director Jay Roach.

Harris, who researched McCain in-depth before portraying him, said his respect for the Arizona Senator deepened.

“He’s a man of commended sense of honor and duty, and when he decided to go into politics, by his own admission, his ambition and his ego were constantly in conflict with his sense of honor and duty and patriotism,” the “Beautiful Mind” actor said.

Palin, 47, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, ended months of speculation last October by announcing she would not seek a presidential run in 2012.

Source: bdnews24.com

Julianne Moore is… Modigliani’s muse, a Klimt damsel, and a tousled temptress by Egon Schiele. Recently, this incredible photo shoot with the actress has surfaced out of an old Harper’s Bazaar and into the art-minded Tumblr-sphere. Check out the shots taken by the famous fashion photographer Peter Linderbergh, side-by-side with their original inspirations, as spotted by Museum Nerd. What strikes us isn’t just the meticulous styling, strategically echoing the visuals of the original artwork with couture. Moore is doing a splendid job channeling the subjects, beaming with vigor of a glamorous “cripple” by John Currin, as if she was a Currin model frozen in a frame. You be the judge. Do these do it for you?

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as The Cripple by John Currin for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Woman With a Fan by Amedeo Modigliani for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Madame X by John Singer Sargent for Harper’s Bazaar.

Julianne Moore by Peter Lindbergh as Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen by Edgar Degas.

Source: flavorwire.com