Celebrating Christmas and New Year with Snow

Snow in New Orleans, Louisiana. A rare event today - snow in New Orleans. Some areas of south Louisiana have an accumulation of up to four inches. Schools are closed and lots of inexperienced snow drivers are causing accidents.

Probability of at least one inch of snow on the ground Christmas Day. Note: This is not a forecast. (National Climatic Data Center map). Meteorologists can't forecast more than three or four days ahead of time whether a particular place is likely to have snow on the ground on Christmas Day.

U.S. weather records averaged over a 30-year period show that only five places with long-term weather records are practically guaranteed to have a white Christmas. They are Marquette and Sault Ste Marie in Michigan, Hibbing and International Falls in Minnesota, and Stampede Pass in Washington.

As the map shows, wide areas of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, much of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and western mountains including the Cascades of Washington and Oregon, California's Sierra, and the Rockies from Montana and Idaho south into southern Colorado have a better than 90% chance of snow on the ground at Christmas.

Most ski areas, of course, are likely to have snow on the ground on Christmas, even if they have to make it.

Source: USATODAY.com

Jennifer Aniston Hot Pose at GQ Magazine

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American film and television actor. She became famous from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s for playing the role of Rachel Green in the popular US sitcom Friends, a role for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She has starred in several Hollywood films. While most of her film roles have been in comedies such as Bruce Almighty, Office Space, Rumor Has It, and the romantic comedies Along Came Polly and The Break-Up, she has also appeared in films from other genres, such as the crime thriller Derailed.

Jennifer Aniston is pulling out all the tricks while promoting Marley & Me and not holding back has never looked so good. As one of the most fit celebs of '08, Aniston shows off her body as a wonderland as well as some pretty hilarious quotes about you know who in the January issue of GQ Magazine.

Jennifer Aniston puts on a necktie and leaves the rest in the hamper for a provocative GQ cover and sassy interview that addresses rumors about John Mayer. "I am not having his baby. And I have not popped the question," the actress, 39, tells January's GQ (on stands Dec. 23). Aniston also pokes fun at her recent swipe at Angelina Jolie.

"The funny thing is, people don't realize we all go away to The Hamptons on the weekends," jokes Aniston. "That'd be hysterical: I've got Zahara on my hip, and Knox ..." As for her feelings about Mayer, 31, she says, "Honestly, did not know much about him before I met him. I'd heard ... you know, uh 'Your Body' – that song. But what I can say is that I had no idea what an extraordinary musician he is. And it's just great to sit and be witness to that. It's kind of like, Whoa!" Aniston's currently working on a film called Pumas, which she calls "sort of a female Wedding Crashers" about two "aspiring cougars."

"It is so a comment on the sexual double standard, and what's been ironic is how hard it's been to get this movie made," she says. "Studios want it, but they are afraid of Middle America. They'd want to change it; they're saying, 'Oh, you can't do that, people just can't imagine you ..." It's part of what she sees as a disturbing problem in Hollywood.

"Look, I think all women on some level just want to rage against the machine," she says. "There are too many movies out there that don't empower women, movies in which their only way of being happy is finding a man. And you know, that's not my favorite theme."

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http://www.people.com

http://popsugar.com

Nominations for 2009 Golden Globes Awards

Nominations for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt and Frost/Nixon scoring a leading five nominations apiece on the film side. The awards will be handed out in Los Angeles Jan. 11. Here's the complete list of nominees:

FILM

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire
  

BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY

• Burn After Reading
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• En Bruges
• Mamma Mia!
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  

ACTOR, DRAMA

• Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

ACTRESS, DRAMA

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie, Changeling
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
• Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
• Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Colin Farrell, In Bruges
• James Franco, Pineapple Express
• Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges
• Dustin Hoffman, Last Chance Harvey

ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
• Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
• Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia!
• Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey
  

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
• Kate Winslet, The Reader
  

DIRECTOR

• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader
• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
• Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road
  

SCREENPLAY

• Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
• David Hare, The Reader
• Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
• Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• Everlasting Moments (Sweden)
• Gomorrah (Italy)
• I've Loved You So Long (France)
• Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood, Changeling
• James Newton Howard, Defiance
• A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
• Hans Zimmer, Frost/Nixon

ORIGINAL SONG

• "Down to Earth," WALL-E; Music by: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman; Lyrics by: Peter Gabriel
• "Gran Torino," Gran Torino; Music by: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens; Lyrics by: Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
• "I Thought I Lost You," Bolt; Music & Lyrics by: Miley Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele
• "Once In A Lifetime," Cadillac Records; Music & Lyrics by: Beyonce Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring, Jody Street
• "The Wrestler," The Wrestler; Music & Lyrics by: Bruce Springsteen

TELEVISION

TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

• Dexter
• House
• In Treatment
• Mad Men
• True Blood

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• January Jones, Mad Men
• Anna Paquin, True Blood
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA

• Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors

TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• 30 Rock
• Californication
• Entourage
• The Office
• Weeds

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• Debra Messing, The Starter Wife
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Kevin Connolly, Entourage
• David Duchovny, Californication
• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
  

MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• A Raisin in the Sun
• Bernard and Doris
• Cranford
• John Adams
• Recount

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MIN-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Judi Dench, Cranford
• Catherine Keener, An American Crime
• Laura Linney, John Adams
• Shirley MacLaine, Coco Chanel
• Susan Sarandon, Bernard and Doris
  

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Ralph Fiennes, Bernard and Doris
• Paul Giamatti, John Adams
• Kevin Spacey, Recount
• Kiefer Sutherland, 24: Redemption
• Tom Wilkinson, Recount

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Eileen Atkins, Cranford
• Laura Dern, Recount
• Melissa George, In Treatment
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
• Dianne Wiest, In Treatment
  

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Denis Leary, Recount
• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
• Blair Underwood, In Treatment
• Tom Wilkinson, John Adams
  

Source:

http://www.eonline.com