It appears Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have joined the anti-coal mining movement in NSW.

The celebrity couple have hung a placard on the gates of their multi-million-dollar Southern Highlands home in protest against coal seam gas mining, according to News Ltd.

The Sunday Telegraph says the sign was bought from a protest stall set up at the Moss Vale Farmers Market last month.

A photo in the newspaper shows the sign on the black gates at the front of the couple’s property in Sutton Forest.

The sign says “No coal or Coal Seam Gas”.

Local landholders are campaigning against plans to expand coal and gas mining operations in the area.

Southern Highlands Coal Action Group convener Peter Martin has told the newspaper that Kidman and Urban had spoken about their concerns regarding the proposed mining activity in the area at the stall last month.
“We sold them the sign for $20 when they visited the Moss Vale Farmers Market one Saturday morning on their last visit here,” he said.

source: http://au.news.yahoo.com

Actress Nicole Kidman is in talks to return to Broadway for the first time in 14 years.

The Hours star is interested in leading the cast of Terence Rattigan’s play After The Dance – about a novelist who leaves his wife for a younger woman – when it opens on the New York stage next year (13).

Kidman is reportedly in negotiations to portray wife Joan Scott-Fowler, who struggles to tell her husband David how much she cares for him as their marriage crumbles, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.

British actress Nancy Carroll previously played the role opposite War Horse star Benedict Cumberbatch in a critically-acclaimed 2010 production in London’s West End.

Kidman made her Broadway debut in director Sam Mendes’ 1998 production of The Blue Room.

source: Contactmusic

Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for playing a famous writer with a chaotic private life. Now she’s found another such character.

In “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” an HBO movie coming this spring, the Australian-born actress plays Martha Gellhorn, the pioneering war correspondent who became the muse and third wife of Ernest Hemingway. For Kidman, there were some parallels with her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the Academy Award-winning feature “The Hours.”

“It was kind of a necessity in the journey of my career to find these women and tell their stories,” Kidman, 44, told reporters Friday morning at the TV press tour in Pasadena. “I love these women that defy the odds and burn bright.”

Gellhorn was a globe-trotting war correspondent at a time when such jobs were almost exclusively the province of men. “She didn’t believe in being objective as a journalist; she believed in having an opinion,” Kidman said.

Hemingway, who is played by British actor Clive Owen, is at first attracted to Gellhorn’s independence but eventually has trouble dealing with her strong will. Kidman sees an irony given Hemingway’s evident desire to find a woman who could be his equal.

“When he finally finds it, he doesn’t know what to do with it,” she said.

source: latimes.com

SHE only went public with her boyfriend earlier this month, but it appears that things are getting serious for Isabella Cruise and Eddie Frencher.

The pair are reportedly set to announce their engagement, UK newspaper the Daily Mirror reports.

According to the paper Frencher, 23, has already spoken to Isabella’s father Tom Cruise about proposing.

A source told the paper: “Tom and Nicole think Eddie is a great kid, and couldn’t be happier. The fact that he is a Scientologist is obviously a boon, too – they’ll be Scientology royalty.

“Eddie and Bella have been dating for some time but have deliberately kept their romance under wraps. The couple decided to go public at (her brother) Connor’s birthday party recently because Eddie and Bella have discussed marriage.”

The source added: “They won’t be getting married anytime soon but they are getting pretty serious very quickly.”

The daughter of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman has also tweeted a snap of what appears to be an engagement ring, perhaps hoping that Frencher will be paying close attention.

She tweeted: “I adore this! #yesplease.” The post was later removed.

Isabella, 19, stepped out with her beau at her brother’s birthday party in Los Angeles two weeks ago. Frencher is a member of the indie music group, ae (pronounced ‘ay’) with band mate Adam Cude. Read more… »

Nicole Kidman was dressed to impress at this year’s Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee. The red headed beauty wore a strapless black gown embellished with lots of sparkle.

The strapless column dress has become Nicole Kidman‘s signature! The svelte red head attended the CMA Awards with husband, Keith Urban, in a Jean Paul Gaultier gown saturated with gunmetal bead work. A simple choker was the perfect accessory of choice!

Taylor Swift was this year’s big CMA winner.  The 21 year old country starlette was named Entertainer of the Year… the top honor handed out by Nashville’s Country Music Association.

source: stylebistro.com

Hollywood stars have been given the Downton Abbey treatment to mark the hit drama’s return this weekend.

Nicole Kidman and Bruce Willis have been given a period makeover befitting landed gentry by staff at Madame Tussaud’s, in London.

Also featuring in the temporary tableau are Russell Brand, who has been done up as a dandy groom, while Cheryl Cole‘s figure has been revamped as a maid in pinny and bonnet.

London mayor Boris Johnson also features in the display, swapping his usual tousled hair for a groomed, slicked-back style.

The attraction confirmed today that Oscar-winning The King’s Speech actor Colin Firth is to be a new addition. His figure will go on display in December.

The Downton Abbey-style display will be on show until September 19.

After Chanda, teenager-turned-prostitute in Dev. D and simple foreigner-in-desi-settings Ruth in The Girl In Yellow Boots, Kalki Koechlin wants to go glam-doll international with her latest look. Koechlin has asked her stylists to style her after Hollywood bombshell Nicole Kidman in her forthcoming film, reports DNA. The ZNMD actor wants to look like Kidman from Moulin Rouge.

“She told us that she ‘d like to look like Nicole in the song Zig Zag Zindagi, telling her stylists to refer to a song in Moulin Rouge,” says a source from UTV, the production house.

All this effort is not in vain. The 28-year-old actor is getting stylised after the Hollywood actor as a tribute to her.

“As bizarre as it may sound, we will be marketing the song as Kalki’s tribute to Nicole,” the source added.

Wonder, if Kidman is bothered at all?