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Taylor Lautner - The quieter Twilight-er is a Karate Champion

25 July 2009 9:23 AM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

Along with co-stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner participated in the New Moon presser at Comic Con and later took time to chat with fans and media including MovieSet’s Phillipe Nakov who spent a few minutes with both Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

Taylor Lautner at Comic Con San Diego discussing New Moon

Robert Pattinson get most of the attention in the media but Taylor Lautner who plays Jacob Black in the Twilight movies, has a devoted following of fans. Here’s a bit more about this young actor’s career so far:

Taylor Lautner Bio: Taylor Lautner (Jacob) got his big break in 2005 when, at the age of 13, he won the role of Shark Boy in Robert Rodriguez’s The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D. Within months, he had successfully auditioned to play Eliot, the son of Steve Martin’s rival Jimmy Murtaugh, in the »

- Dave Olson

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Twilight star Taylor Lautner is one young man who will make it

18 June 2009 6:19 AM, PDT | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »

Before starring in 2008’s Twilight, you might have seen Taylor Lautner in a couple of children’s films, but now, even cave-dwellers can’t miss this young star. At a mere seventeen years old, the world knows this young man’s name – and will be hard-pressed to forget it any time soon. Beginning as a martial artist, Lautner’s main goal in childhood life, it seemed, was karate. Adorned with numerous awards for his stellar and ahead-of-his-time talent at this craft, Lautner endlessly impressed on-lookers and was once laughingly accused of show-boating by one news anchor. Yet, that was not all Lautner was good at – or loved. When he was seven, he began to pursue an interest in acting. Taylor Lautner got his start back in 2001 as Kismet in Shadow Fury. Paying his dues in small featurette roles in such series as Summerland and The Bernie Mac Show, Lautner climbed »

- Twilight Examiner

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David Carradine Found Dead

4 June 2009 11:43 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

TV Legend David Carradine has been found dead. The actor’s large span of roles included his iconic portrayal of Kwai Chang Caine on the show “Kung Fu.”  Carradine would go on to play his own grandson in the follow up series “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.” In his later years, Carradine became something of a pop-culture staple appearing on Lizzie McGuire, Danny Phantom,  and a Jonas Brothers video, while continuing to appear in pivotal one-off “event” roles in films like Kill Bill - he was Bill - and Crank: High Voltage.

Carradine was in Thailand preparing to shoot a new film and apparently hung himself with the cord that controlled the curtains in his hotel room.  So far, no one has come forward with any indication that the 72-year old actor had been suffering from any form of depression or mental illness.  An ex-wife, Marina Anderson, was quoted as »

- Jon Lachonis

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