Days Of Our Lives - Sweeney Expecting Baby

DAYS OF OUR LIVES actress ALISON SWEENEY is pregnant with her second child.

The 31-year-old soap star revealed the news on U.S. reality diet show The Biggest Loser, which she hosts, during filming on Monday (23Jun08).

Describing the moment to People.com, her representative Carrie Simmons says, "She told them that, in a season all about family, hers is about to get bigger."

Sweeney and her husband Dave Sanov are already parents to son Ben, three.

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Justin Timberlake - Timberlake Credits Diaz Romance For Teaching Him Most About Women

Pop superstar JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is grateful to his ex-girlfriend CAMERON DIAZ for teaching him how to put life into perspective.

The SexyBack hitmaker admits he is still confused by the fairer sex, despite having dated some of the world's most famous women, including Britney Spears and his current beau Jessica Biel.

But he credits Charlie's Angels beauty Diaz - who he split from in January 2007 after almost four years together - for helping him to figure out more about the female form.

He tells Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine, "I know a couple more things than I used to, but us men will never understand women. Ever!

"I think I learnt a lot from my relationship with Cameron, notably that you should always put things in perspective. As much as I've learnt though, I'm still a man, so I have some kind of learning disability. And women wouldn't have us any other way."

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Downloading case in the High Court

Four record companies have brought a High Court action to compel Eircom - the State's largest broadband service provider - to prevent its networks being used for the illegal downloading of music.
It's the first case to be aimed at the service provider rather than at individual illegal downloaders.
The four record companies taking the action are EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music.
Willie Kavanagh, Managing Director of EMI Ireland and Chairman of the Irish Recorded Music Association, said because of illegal downloading and other factors, the Irish music industry was experiencing a "dramatic and accelerating decline" in income. 
He said sales in the Irish market dropped 30% in the six years up to 2007.
EMI and the other companies are challenging Eircom's refusal to use filtering technology or other measures to voluntarily block or filter illegally downloaded material.
Last October Eircom told the companies it was not in a position to use the filtering software.
Eircom also told the companies that it was not on notice of specific illegal activity which infringed the companies' rights and it had no legal obligation to monitor traffic on its network.

The Counterfeiters

Winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Stefan Ruzowitzky's THE COUNTERFEITERS is the first film from Austria to ever receive that prestigious honor. Based on the memoir by Adolf Burger, the film tells the inspiring story of a pre-World War II criminal whose cunning and fiery spirit enable him to overcome deadly odds and survive life in Germany's Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Before the war, Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) was one of the world's most ingenious counterfeiters, until he was finally caught and arrested by Friedrich Herzog (Devid Striesow). Years later, as the Nazi movement is in full swing, the nefariously charming Herzog--now a Nazi leader--recruits Sorowitsch to lead an enormous counterfeiting project called Operation Bernhard. Placed in a horrific position of moral corruption, Sorowitsch is forced to decide whether or not to save his own life or prevent the Nazis from causing further damage on an even grander scale. His fellow prisoner Adolf Burger (August Diehl) is determined to sabotage the operation, but Sorowitsch understands how dangerous a proposition this is.

While THE COUNTERFEITERS is based on real-life tragedy, it never loses its primary objective as a work of dramatic entertainment. This deft balancing act is what keeps Ruzowitzky's moving tale from becoming too bleak and depressing. The result is a deeply impressive work that addresses a topic not often explored in Holocaust cinema--the dilemma of victims who were forced to act immorally and illegally for the betterment of their captors. Powerfully acted by Markovics, THE COUNTERFEITERS is the type of film that the Oscars were made for.

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