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      <title>Updates Coming This Way</title>
      <description>Updates from the world of Natalie Portman are expected to resume soon, possibly along with a redesign, so stick around ;)</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/63</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:30:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Revenge of the Sith Shatters Record</title>
      <description>Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith made an incredible &lt;b&gt;$158m&lt;/b&gt; its first 4 opening days, now topping the list of both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/days/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;top single day&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/4day.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;top 4-day opening&lt;/a&gt; grosses. If you&apos;ve seen the movie, be sure to &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/starwarsepisode-iii/#grade&quot;&gt;vote&lt;/a&gt;!</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/61</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2005 15:09:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>German Premiere of Star Wars Episode III</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman and the rest of the Star Wars crew met up in Berlin tonight for the German premiere of Revenge of the Sith. A number of photos are currently available over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?p=natalie+portman+berlin&amp;sm=Yahoo%21+Search&amp;toggle=1&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;c=news_photos&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;, and also some of higher quality are available in our &lt;a href=&quot;/gallery/?album=25&quot;&gt;gallery&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/60</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2005 14:47:33 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>58th International Cannes Film Festival</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman appeared at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for the screening of &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/starwarsepisode-iii/&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/a&gt; along with director George Lucas, producer Rick McCallum, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, and Anthony Daniels. Pictures are available in the &lt;a href=&quot;/gallery/?album=23&quot;&gt;gallery&lt;/a&gt;. Natalie also appeared at the &lt;a href=&quot;/gallery/?album=24&quot;&gt;screening of Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang&lt;/a&gt; on Saturday.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/59</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 06:30:12 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>V for Vendetta Press Conference</title>
      <description>Warner Brothers has on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;official V for Vendetta website&lt;/a&gt; released several clips from the movie&apos;s press conference, some in which Natalie talks about the &lt;a href=&quot;http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/press_portman_1.mov&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;film plot&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/press_portman_2.mov&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;her character&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vforvendetta/press_portman_3.mov&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;physical changes&lt;/a&gt; (yes, she did indeed shave her head...).</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/58</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2005 10:20:28 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>2005 MTV Movie Awards</title>
      <description>The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/onair/movieawards/ma05/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2005 MTV Movie Awards&lt;/a&gt; are closing in, and you can now vote for your favorites in each of the 13 categories. Natalie Portman is nominated for Best Female Performance and Best Kiss, so be sure to support her and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mtv.com/onair/movieawards/ma05/#votehub/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;cast your vote!&lt;/a&gt;</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/57</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sat,  7 May 2005 07:24:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Star Wars Trailer Debut Tomorrow</title>
      <description>From March 10, at 9:00 p.m. EST, AOL and Hyperspace.com will present the highly anticipated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nat-portman.net/movies/starwarsepisode-iii/&quot;&gt;Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith&lt;/a&gt; trailer online. The trailer will be made available to the open Web audience through Moviefone.com and StarWars.com on March 14. Revenge of the Sith hits theaters worldwide on May 19, 2005.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/56</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Wed,  9 Mar 2005 14:16:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>No Oscar For Natalie...</title>
      <description>Unfortunately, Natalie Portman didn&apos;t win last night in the category she was nominated. Instead, Cate Blanchett received the award for best supporting female actress for her appearance in The Aviator. Closer co-star, Clive Owen was also beat by Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) in the category for best supporting actor. Stay tuned for pictures.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/55</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:53:10 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Most Desirable Woman</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askmen.com/specials/2005_top_99/25.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;placed 25th&lt;/a&gt; in the AskMen.com 2005 Top 99 Most Desirable Women. The list is compiled every year by AskMen.com and ranks the year&apos;s most alluring females, based on votes cast by readers and staff and taking into account a number of criteria.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/54</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Fri,  4 Feb 2005 12:44:55 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Closer DVD Announced</title>
      <description>According to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD043396048478.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sony Pictures&lt;/a&gt; website and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dvdanswers.com/index.php?r=0&amp;s=1&amp;c=5722&amp;n=1&amp;burl=&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DVDAnswers.com&lt;/a&gt;, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment will release the DVD of &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/closer/&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;b&gt;March 29th&lt;/b&gt;. The film itself will receive a Superbit widescreen presentation along with both English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround tracks. The only extra material will be The Blower&apos;s Daughter music video performed by Damien Rice and previews for other Columbia releases. English and French subtitles will also be provided.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/53</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Tue,  1 Feb 2005 13:38:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman Fan Art</title>
      <description>I&apos;ve opened a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nat-portman.net/gallery/?album=19&quot;&gt;fan art gallery&lt;/a&gt; you may want to check out. If you have any art work of Natalie you would like put here, please feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nat-portman.net/?page=contact&quot;&gt;send it in&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/52</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:46:16 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Golden Globes Video Clip and Captures</title>
      <description>Mariana of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ewanmcgregor.net/ target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ewanmcgregor.net&lt;/a&gt; was kind enough to encode us a clip of Natalie winning her award at the Golden Globes. &lt;a href=&quot;/files/gg2005natalie.wmv&quot;&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to download it (3mb wmv). Video captures are also available &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nat-portman.net/gallery/?album=18&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/51</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:30:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman Nominated For Oscar</title>
      <description>The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oscar.com/nominees/nominees.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;nominees&lt;/a&gt; for the 77th Annual Academy Awards have been announced, and Natalie Portman has been nominated in the category &quot;Actress In A Supporting Role&quot; for her performance in &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/closer/&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt;. She is up against Cate Blanchett (The Aviator), Laura Linney (Kinsey), Virginia Madsen (Sideways), and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda).</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/50</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:19:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Snags Another Nomination</title>
      <description>The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bafta.org/film/announce.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;BAFTA&lt;/a&gt;, has nominated Natalie Portman in the category &quot;Actress in a supporting role&quot; for her performance in &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/closer/&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt;. The winners will be announed Saturday 12th February at the Odeon, Leicester Square, UK (telecast by BBC1)</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/49</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:37:37 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Another NPBB Record</title>
      <description>I&apos;m not sure how accurate the logs are, but we went pretty close to &lt;b&gt;35000&lt;/b&gt; unique hits yesterday... If things were (and still are) going a bit slow, that is probably the reason...</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/48</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:00:44 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman won the award for best supporting actress at the Golden Globes held in Beverly Hills last night. Check our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nat-portman.net/gallery/?album=17&quot;&gt;gallery&lt;/a&gt; for the latest pictures.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/47</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:03:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>New Project Titled &apos;The Free Zone&apos;</title>
      <description>Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldofwarcraft.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this game&lt;/a&gt; is getting addictive as h&#42;ll. Ok, so JC of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.natalieportman.org&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;np.org&lt;/a&gt; was kind enough to send in some info on another new Natalie Portman project called &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/thefreezone/&quot;&gt;The Free Zone&lt;/a&gt;. The movie will be a comedy about three women who run an armored vehicle business in the Middle East, and principal photography will begin in February in Israel.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/46</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:14:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman To Star In Big Budget Action Thriller!</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman has been confirmed to star in &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/vforvendetta/&quot;&gt;V for Vendetta&lt;/a&gt;, an action thriller by the Wachowski Brothers and Joel Silver coming out this fall. V for Vendatta is based on the acclaimed graphic novel under the same title by author Alan Moore and illustrator David Lloyd. It was originally collected by DC Comics as a ten-part series in 1988.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/45</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:55:33 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman In Nikki Style Magazine</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman appears in the December issue of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nikkistyle.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nikki Style Magazine&lt;/a&gt;. For scans of the complete interview, look in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbnforum.com/showthread.php?t=55&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/44</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sun,  2 Jan 2005 20:33:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Happy New Year!</title>
      <description>Despite the recent tragedy that has affected us all in one way or another, I&apos;d like to wish everyone a happy new year. May it be a good year for us all.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/43</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:01:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Garden State DVD Released</title>
      <description>Today, &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/gardenstate/&quot;&gt;Garden State&lt;/a&gt; was released on DVD in North America. The movie is currently one of the top rated movies here at NPBB! Should be reason enough to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&amp;tag=natportmannet0d&amp;keyword=garden%20state&amp;mode=dvd&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;claim your copy&lt;/a&gt;... And we still have some nice video clips available &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene01.avi&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene02.avi&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene03.avi&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/42</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:30:28 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman In IMDb Top 25</title>
      <description>IMDb.com, Earth&apos;s biggest movie database, has released their &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2005/starmeter&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;top 25 stars for 2004&lt;/a&gt;. These STARmeter rankings are not based upon critical assessments or box-office performance, but the actual search behavior of over 20 million users of IMDb.com. Natalie Portman received 21st place, while Johnny Depp, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.keira-online.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Keira Knightley&lt;/a&gt; topped the list.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/41</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:30:19 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>More Garden State Video Clips</title>
      <description>Now that the Garden State &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&amp;tag=natportmannet0d&amp;keyword=garden%20state&amp;mode=dvd&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DVD&lt;/a&gt; is only 10 days away, let&apos;s warm up with a couple more clips from the movie. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene02.avi&quot;&gt;first clip&lt;/a&gt; is the scene from the swimming pool with Nat and Zach. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene03.avi&quot;&gt;second clip&lt;/a&gt; is the infamous screaming into the abyss scene. Happy Holidays! :)</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/40</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:45:51 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman in Jerusalem</title>
      <description>According to &lt;a href=&quot;http://au.news.yahoo.com/041214/11/s69b.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yahoo! News&lt;/a&gt;, Natalie Portman was in Jerusalem reading a book when she got a call from her manager telling her she had been nominated in the best supporting actress category (Golden Globes) for her work in &quot;Closer.&quot; Thanks to JC of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.natalieportman.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;natalieportman.org&lt;/a&gt; for the heads up.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/39</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:13:18 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Critics&apos; Choice Awards Nominates Natalie</title>
      <description>Again, Natalie Portman has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Closer, this time by the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bfca.org/criticschoiceawards.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Critics&apos; Choice Awards&lt;/a&gt;. It looks like her chance at receiving an Oscar nomination in January is getting better by the day... &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/closer/&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt; was also nominated for Best Acting Ensamble, while &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/gardenstate/&quot;&gt;Garden State&lt;/a&gt; was nominated for best soundtrack.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/38</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:25:12 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Scene from Garden State!</title>
      <description>Here&apos;s the &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.online.no/&#126;mbozo/files/gs_scene01.avi&quot;&gt;scene&lt;/a&gt; (49 MB, dial-up users beware) from &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/gardenstate/&quot;&gt;Garden State&lt;/a&gt; when Andrew and Sam first meet. Enjoy! And in case you forgot or didn&apos;t know, Garden State will be released on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?search-type=ss&amp;tag=natportmannet0d&amp;keyword=garden%20state&amp;mode=dvd&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;DVD&lt;/a&gt; in exactly 2 weeks!</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/37</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:21:04 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Hottest Movie Babe... almost</title>
      <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://bestof.ign.com/2004/&quot;&gt;IGN FilmForce&lt;/a&gt; has their own award thing going on, and &lt;b&gt;Natalie Portman&lt;/b&gt; got the runner up spot together with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.elisha-c.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Elisha Cuthbert&lt;/a&gt; in &quot;Hottest Movie Babe&quot; of 2004. Can you guess &lt;a href=&quot;http://bestof.ign.com/2004/movies/15.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;who won&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/36</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:37:35 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Garden State Goodies...</title>
      <description>I hope you don&apos;t mind me putting up some super delicious &lt;b&gt;Garden State video clips&lt;/b&gt;. Stay tuned later today. It&apos;ll be worth the wait, I promise...</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/35</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:48:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Closer 2nd Weekend Gross</title>
      <description>Closer went slightly downhill this weekend compared to last week&apos;s opening and grossed $3.7 million, making up a total of $13.7 million. This weekend, the movie will have its widest release with more than 1000 screens.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/34</link>
      <author>mista@nat-portman.net</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:02:15 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Natalie Portman Nominated For Golden Globe!</title>
      <description>Natalie Portman has been nominated for a Golden Globe for &lt;b&gt;Best Supporting Actress&lt;/b&gt;! &lt;a href=&quot;/movies/closer/&quot;&gt;Closer&lt;/a&gt; was also nominated for &lt;b&gt;Best Picture&lt;/b&gt;, and received 5 nominations altogether. Head &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbnforum.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&amp;t=37&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for the complete list.</description>
      <link>http://www.nat-portman.net/news/33</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:41:05 -0500</pubDate>
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