Simon Baker does the Harlem Shake (Young Hollywood)

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Simon Baker, Minnie Driver premiere comedy "I Give It A Year"

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Oscar winner Colin Firth set for Dubai's DIFF (ARABIAN BUSINESS.COM)

The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on Tuesday announced that Oscar winning actor Colin Firth and his fashion entrepreneur wife Livia will attend the event this year to support the annual 'One Night to Change Lives' charity.

The couple who are Global Ambassadors for Oxfam, will be joined by actresses Kristin Davis and Rooney Mara at the black-tie charity evening on December 14 at the Armani Hotel in Dubai.

Amr Waked and Ali Mostafa will also attend the exclusive gala dinner and auction which will raise funds for the UAE-based Dubai Cares and Oxfam.

This will be the second year that Colin Firth has attended DIFF, following his visit to promote the multi-award winning film, The King's Speech in 2010.


Oxfam has worked with Dubai Cares since 2008 to improve access and quality education for nearly 63,000 school children in some of the world's poorest countries including Mali, Niger, and Pakistan.

Oxfam's Global Ambassadors include A-list actors Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Minnie Driver, Gael Garcia Bernal, Djimon Hounsou, Kristin Davis, Rahul Bose; musicians Coldplay and Annie Lennox; Helena Christensen and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

A number of Oxfam ambassadors are expected to attend the December event.

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Minnie Driver: 'I was young and I fell for Matt Damon' (TELEGRAPH)

By Jessica Salter
12:25PM GMT 01 Mar 2012

We were taking a break from filming a really pivotal scene in Good Will Hunting, and Matt Damon and Gus Van Sant, the director, were having an intense chat about the script – they changed a lot of it as we went along and they often broke off to have serious discussions.

I think I'm laughing at Ben Affleck, who was just out of frame – he is a very funny guy. This scene was important; it is the moment where Skylar, my character, keeps asking Will Hunting, Matt's character, how he can do her organic chemistry paper in five seconds flat, when it takes her four weeks to figure it out. Matt had been at Harvard, and the idea for Good Will Hunting came out of a writing assignment – Will Hunting is a genius who is forced to see a therapist, played by Robin Williams, and study advanced mathematics with a renowned professor, played by Stellan Skarsgård, in order to avoid going to jail.

He and Ben developed the script purely so they could have a shot at being actors. At this point they were completely unknown, but I had left drama school at 21 and made Circle of Friends (1995), Big Night and Sleepers (both 1996) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), which was just out and quite a big hit, so I was on a bit of a roll.


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