KIDMAN TO QUIT HOLLYWOOD FOR VIETNAM
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OSCAR-winning star NICOLE KIDMAN will quit acting within five years - and is considering becoming a school teacher in Vietnam.

The DOGVILLE star is at the peak of her film career - but she has decided her future lies in quitting the movie business to help others instead.

She says, "I have set myself a deadline of five years. The film industry is not a good industry to grow old in.

"I would love to work in a school teaching children, perhaps in Vietnam. I intend to give over part of my life to others. I'm serious about this."





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Nicole Kidman Biography
http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/bio/nicole_kidman.shtml

r u serious?

holy fu-k

/me goes to vietnam and poses as a Student

I hope she gets used as a whore by officals

oh geez lee roy, do you have to call someone willing to help others out like that? You should be glad that someone like her going over there to help out and bring the better future for the childrens, unlike you just sitting here doing nothing but saying shiet.

You're right. Sorry 2
I don't think shes going to do it in the end though.

One among many stars, who will make Vietnam a trendy place to resettle or retire?

She'll be 42 in five years. She wants to live in the country side, and become a shool mistress with the little kiddies.

That was from
http://web.tintucvietnam.com/Xem-An-Choi/2004/3/41344.ttvn

Here's the same article on a Vietnamese website in Ukrainia
http://www.airland.kiev.ua/article462.html

But its cool that she brought it up, makes other people have second thought about Asian countries, and for the good of new generations.

[quote=Johannjs,Oct 8 2004, 02:27 PM]
[quote=Tav6,Oct 8 2004, 09:05 PM]r u serious?

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One among many stars, who will make Vietnam a trendy place to resettle or retire?

no i was surprise because she wanted to go to vn and not her homeland Australia

Glad to see someone is willing to do help! In the end if she really do what she intention to do then i be

I think her homeland is New Zealand?

o i don't know i always thought that she is from australia

hohoho we're both wrong! this, I found in her biography w/above link

>> Although many assume that Kidman is a native of Australia, she was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 20, 1967. <<

teaching what ? Does she have teaching credential? not even sure if she's qualify for teaching sex education courses

lol we were way off

Don't be fooled..he's not Vietnamese.

Kidman's mother was a nursing instructor, but she, Nicole, probably would fund a school in some village in the North, near Hanoi?

Sex education is not taught in Vietnam... pupils prefer to be paid to get instructed

I read this information in some magazine a while ago..I have faith in her, she'll do it!

WHAT?!!

Good for her! She's my new favorite actress now

If you guys were wondering why Kidman chose VN over all of the other places, this may explain it:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/fil...e_kidman_biog/3

"Kidman won a meaty role in the miniseries Vietnam as a gawky Sixties schoolgirl protestor who evolves into a freethinking Seventies activist, the series covering the activities of Aussie troops in Vietnam (many of them social and seedy) as well as the public and political furore back home.

Vietnam had won her an Australian Film Institute Award and an American agent and now there something genuinely meaty to work with. While at a film festival in Japan, Nicole received a call from Tom Cruise's people, asking her to come talk about his next project, Days Of Thunder, to be directed by Tony Scott. "


So she was exposed to Viet Nam from a film she did before she rose in fame.

But still, at least she remembered how she became famous, and for that, what goes around, comes around. i'd be very glad to see people go to Asia countries to help out the need of the poor people, and give the children a better future compare to unlucky people like us had to flee the countries to find our own good. I don't feel sorry for those commies, but i feel sorry for the children have to live under control of those commies.

Personally, I think this is some kind of stunt, you know to gain publicity.

Your career is in a torough and you need some impetus to ignite it again, leave and come back and be a "reborn star".

are you freaking crazy? her career has been on the rise ever since her and tom cruise had a divorce, she is basically one of the few grade A actress right now

oh btw fujisan, could you please get rid of that nerdy glasses, that style has been out for at least 15 years already

yup... that's what i'm thinking too... teaching kids in vietnam will make her the kind-hearted soul that she wants to come off as... but who cares, as long as she's doing something to help kids, it's all good wth me... and not just kids, asian kids...

And that's not fujisan btw

wtf, why is he using some dude's pix as his avatar then? is he gay or something? this is insane

wowzers...that's cool!

I'm going to fly to Vietnam in 5 years and be a student .

She is one of the 2 American actress I like, the other one being Kirsten Dunst. She's hotter than ever since she divorced Tom.

I wonder how long she will last if she decides to go there????????????

why is it cool for someone famous to go in vietnam and not some normal people.... haha.
i dont care... she's white. she should get outta our country lol jp jp hahaha
you know what?? she might bring the U.S. over and colonize us hahaahaha

yeah she'll do it alright
/sarcasm

Nicole wanted people to think that she had a kind heart and would go that far to the poorest countries to civilize the people there. Therefore, she picked Vietnam. Just like those priests who went to Africa or poorest countries to sacrifice their lives for god to help poor kids. Bottom line is she looked down on Vietnam and all the Vietnamese.

To the Vietnamese
Do you feel insulted by her thought? I do.

It is pro n con here, some people might think she is looking down on the VNmese, but think about it is who's willingly to do such things as her? or they just screaming about it would loose their reputation to have someone help out the poor children? and here are the children don't have a place to live, a book to read or a school to go to. As if VN officials peple do thing as her, well it is a whole different story, but they don't. It is even more insulted to me if Vietnamese kids dont' have enough education and lost for other neighbor countries. Everything have to pay for the price, but the price is reasonable, it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

I like her, she can come to VN any time

I just posted a likely reason why she chose VN of all places: she played a movie of a girl affected by the Viet Nam War. To most people, Viet Nam only brings up memories of the war, but perhaps Kidman realized Viet Nam is much more about that and grew a soft spot for the Vietnamese kids. If you look at Angelina Jolie, she went to Cambodia and adopted a little Cambodian boy....celebs aren't all superficial or fake. I would give Kidman the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure it's part publicity, but I believe she really wants to help the Vietnamese kids learn English. And the benefit is more exposure to VN and let people know that VN is more about the VN War.

I don't think it's right to say she's insulting Vietnam by chosing to go there. If so are the people in the red cross going around the world helping country in need insulting? Vietnam is poor, so we appreciate the help. Don't let ego throw people away from helping your country.

Is Nicole qualified to be a teacher in Vietnam ? What is she going to teach? English ? Australian ? What ? I assume that she was thinking that she was going to teach English. Wait a minute, number one priority for poor kids in Vietnam is to learn how to read and write Vietnamese, to learn about Vietnamese literature, Vietnamese history… English is just a secondary. She would help nothing to Vietnamese poor kids unless she donates all her money to Vietnamese education.

Most of the Whites think that all other races need them to come in to their countries and civilize them. People of color around the globe can’t survive without their help. That’s what happened in Vietnam war. The Whites decided to come in to Vietnam to “Civilize” the Vietnamese because the Vietnamese were so stupid, dumb to the point that we could not govern ourselves. The Whites came in to Vietnam to civilize, to teach us how to live. The results of that mentality were millions of death. Does Nicole have this mentality ? I think so.

Why would anyone be insulted by a someone who cares about your country enough to try and help it out? I really don't see the connection here.

hô hô, hay qúa ~~ cám ơn anh Johannjs đã loan tin tức này.
Sớm hẹn gặp cô Kidman ở quê xứ sở mình

Nicole's education is 'High School Dropout' and she already being approved by mostly all the vietnamese in here to teach our children.

Get a damn GED first.

hihihihi you don't like her do ya? Well, to me, it doesn't matter high school drop out or not, as long as she contribute to help it all good. I mean, when i was over there, the kids just love to learn English so bad that they couldn't find anyone to help them out (i'm one of them), luckily i had more fortunate than any other kids that i able to go to school. But then when i learned it, i need to practice but couldn't find anyone to help me out at all. Though, look at Bill Gate, he didn't have college degree, but see how many people he's bossing around. If the children get all the help they can get, it doesn't matter who teach them, they can be better than anyone of us now later on.

In the US with ‘No child left behind’ policy. Teachers are required to have teaching credential on top of bachelor degree in order to teach in public school K1-12. Teaching is not something that you can do when you have money.
Sure, Bill Gates has a lot of money and he can boss ppls around but he’s not a teacher and he will never be a teacher.
High school dropout doesn’t mean anything to an Actress but it means a lot when you want to teach someone.

She's not only insulting the Vietnamese but she's also insulting teaching career

to VN Nicole Kidman

Wau. This is admirable. ^___^

Not many Hollywood actors would be brave enough to leave their comfort zone to help others in poorer countries. I salute Nicole Kidman for that. *salutes Nicole Kidman*

I hope she'll live up to her promise, though. Got talk, got action. ^__~

she never promised bout it.. i thinks its all a publicity stunt. look she got our attention on a forum

I totally understand what you're saying, UglyMan, but like I said, to most Americans, they only know Viet Nam as a war. Having Kidman there will help them put a face on Viet Nam. Yes, it's unfortunate, but that's reality.

And as English is the dominant language to do business in, I think it's a positive thing kids in VN is learning English. VN's literacy rate is already high, so don't worry too much about poor kids not knowing Vietnamese.