Kidman hints at retirement to have more children

Kidman hints at retirement to have more children

Superstar Nicole Kidman has said she was unsure about her acting career because she wanted to have more children.

The actress said it was difficult decision for her and husband Keith Urban to leave behind their newborn daughter Sunday Rose to attend the premier of ‘Australia’.

The USD 130 million film, which has been directed by Luhrmann, opens in Sydney on 18th November.

"In terms of my future as an actor I don’t know."

"I’m in a place in my life where I have had some great opportunities but I may choose to have some more children, She said in a press conference.

"…There are many things I want to do besides act." Kidman is the second famous actress after Angelina Jolie to express a desire to retire from and active career to become a full-time mother.

Her daughter Sunday Rose, was born in August and she has two children, Connor and Isabella, from her marriage to actor Tom Cruise.

Talking about her latest film, Kidman said working on Lurhmann’s movie was an opportunity she could not pass up.

It is Luhrmann’s first film since "Moulin Rouge" in 2001 and has a budget of USD 130 million. The film is also being touted as saviour of the ailing local film and tourism industries.

The director said it was up to the film now to find the audience. "We’ve given it our all, we’ve done our best and now it’s out in the world," he said.

"This is a once in a lifetime film," Kidman said at the press conference.

"This is a celebration for me and hopefully for the country. It’s not meant to be the Second Coming but it’s about let’s have some fun and enjoy," she said.

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Mickey Mouse 80 Years On

Mickey Mouse 80 Years On

Eighty years ago, a clothes-wearing rodent named Mickey Mouse whistled his way onto the silver screen, as "Steamboat Willie" made its cinema debut at the Colony Theater in New York.

That day, 18th November 1928, is widely considered the official birthday of Mickey Mouse, even if he was born of the imagination of Walt Disney months before his movie debut and also featured in a short animated film called Plane Crazy, which was made before Steamboat Willie but released afterwards.

Mickey Mouse was created almost by accident: Walt Disney’s first cartoon character was a rabbit called Oswald, but the man who was to rise to become a pre-eminent force in global entertainment lost the rights to the rabbit in 1927 and returned to the drawing board.

He came up with a mouse, whom he wanted to call Mortimer.

According to popular legend, his wife preferred the name Mickey, and Walt Disney deferred to her choice.

The storyline of Steamboat Willie is flimsy, politically incorrect and features little, if any, comprehensible dialogue.

But the cartoon marked an animation landmark with its synchronized sound track that includes Mickey whistling and blowing raspberries at the irascible ship’s captain, a large tobacco-chewing cat called Captain Pete.

In roughly seven minutes, viewers watch as Mickey Mouse is kicked out of the steering room of a riverboat by Captain Pete; hoists Minnie Mouse on board using a crane that grabs her by the knickers; swings a cat by the tail, strangles a goose and plays keyboard on some suckling piglets as the American folk song "Turkey in the Straw" plays from the innards of a goat.

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