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After years of incredibly bad dates, Charlie (Jennifer Lopez) thinks she's met the perfect man...until she meets his possessive and merciless mother! Jane Fonda returns to Hollywood to play the worst mother-in-law ever who will do everything she can to break up the happy couple!
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As an esteemed television journalist put out to pasture by the networks and faced with the engagement of her son, Jane Fonda is fierce, funny, and ready to rumble as the title character in Monster-in-Law in a way that the rest of the film itself never really is. Jennifer Lopez, the film's other above-the-title star, is set to marry handsome, wealthy Michael Vartan but has one helluva time dealing with his insanely possessive mother. The result is pretty much what you'd expect--lots of snarls and slapstick and an easy, kisses-all-around conclusion, though it is surprising (and maybe a little disheartening) to watch Fonda throw herself into such disposable comedy with such gusto. Director Robert Luketic, who slept while Reese Witherspoon tottered off with his Legally Blonde, once again relies solely on the assembled talent: He leaves a high-wattage Lopez playing things a little too cute, a reedy Vartan looking visibly disinterested, and canny comedian Wanda Sykes making what she can--which, luckily, is a lot--of her role as Fonda's wisecracking personal assistant (the type of black sidekick role that's an indication of how creakily formulaic the film is). See it for Fonda, if you feel like it, then wish her a better engagement in the future. --Steve Wiecking

In Charles Kemp, who had been working in his elder brother’s jewellery shop in the then fashionable shopping area of Stokes Croft, went into business with his younger brother Edward, who was working at the Goldsmiths’ Alliance on College Green. Their father William, an accountant, lent them ?400, a considerable sum in those days when clerks were beginning to aspire to the level of ?1 a week in remuneration, with Which to start a business of their own.

A fourth Kemp brother was able to supply them with stock from his wholesale clock business in Bridge Street. Businesses, like clocks, run on wheels within wheels. The two new merchant adventurers opened their Watchmakers and Jewellers shop at No. 4 Union Street, ideally located on the edge of the major shopping quarter bounded by Wine Street and Castle Street. Today No. 4, at the top of Union Street, is near the entrance to the Galleries Shopping Centre.

Following the age-old custom of their trade they not only sold but bought old gold, silver and gems, whose value rarely drops. Edward Kemp left Bristol for Leicester in 1900 leaving Charles to carry on aided by H E Tyrell, who stayed for forty years and became a partner soon after Edward’s departure.

Twelve years later the firm was strengthened by the addition of Charles’ son Milford and, a year later, by Sidney and, in 1921 by his third son Clifford. Milford’s two sons, Brian and Michael, also came into the business and most recently Brian’s daughter Margaret has become the fourth generation of the family in the firm after abandoning her career as a Ward Sister at Southmead Hospital. Soon after the founding of the business Kemp Brothers began making turret clocks,these were designed and made on the premises,patterns being made in wood and then cast by a firm in Fishponds.

On 15th November 1899 Queen Victoria opened the Convalescent Home near the Downs later to become Bristol Maternity Hospital and now used as offices. As she sat outside in her carriage she pressed a button to open the Home and also to start the clock that had been made by Kemp Brothers. But the pressing of the button only rang the bell in the clock tower and it was one of the Kemp Brothers' clock-makers who actually set the clock going.

Another clock made by Kemp Brothers is in the Uriah Thomas Memorial at the top of Blackboy Hill. The original dial and hands of this memorial clock are still in place but the first mechanical movement has been replaced with an electric one. Other well known clocks made by the firm included the chime clock on the former Pro-Cathedral, continuing the early Kemp tradition of making, installing and servicing church tower clocks.

The old Western Daily Press premises in Baldwin Street bore a Kemp Brothers clock dating from the days when few carried watches and relied on visible clocks on public buildings for their time keeping. Charles Hill’s Dockyard was another such clock upon which a once vital area of the Bristol economy relied.

Some of the firm’s clocks were also sent abroad, one was installed at Peking Railway Station in the early 1900s when the British and French ran the Chinese power and communications systems.

As well as clocks the manufacture of sliver and sliver-plated goods was carried out on the premises. Charles Kemp had been unable to buy articles that he thought were of a high enough standard to sell in his shop and so decided to make them himself. Tea sets, cake baskets, tankards, spoons and forks among other things were made in solid silver and silver plate.

There was a polishing shop with four electric motors and the largest silver plating vat in the West of England. The workshops were always busy, but during the First World War they had to be closed half an hour early because of the restriction on the use of electricity. When Milford Kemp came into the business he combined his duties in the shop with travelling the South West of England selling the ‘Kembro’plate to hotels, restaurants and the then popular ice-cream parlours.

Special commissions were also made by the skilled craftsmen in the silversmith workshop, including a model of a Racing Skiff in 9ct gold. The seats and foot rockers moved as in a real Skiff, and it was so much admired that two more were made in solid silver. The Skull and Crossbones Tobacco Box in silver was made in 1914 for the Bristol Savages and is still in evidence at each of their meetings. By 1933 the firm was expanding and took over, Fisher and Co’s shop next door and towards the end of the 1930s was employing fifty people.

All this came to a disastrous end when the Blitz of 24th November 1940 totally destroyed much of the Bristol shopping centre including Kemp Brother’s shop and factory, the building burning for several days as several tons of coal had just been delivered for the boiler fire. Fortunately a shop near to the Odeon Cinema at 29 Union Street was vacant.

John Jones who worked for the firm as clock maker for forty years until he was

Mick Jagger's Ex significant other was ever so thrilled to bump into me as she fled gatecrashers at Stansted Airport, I had to point to Jerry just in case the photographer forgot which one of us was the star, it was a bit frantic as she kept trying to dodge past, but I managed to keep my foot on her baggage wheels long enough for this relaxed photograph

Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress, also known for her long-term relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children.

Early lifeHall was born in Gonzales, Texas, the daughter of Marjorie (nee Sheffield) and John P. Hall, a truck-driver.[2]

She is of English descent.

Hall was raised in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas, where she graduated from North Mesquite High School.

She also attended Kim Dawson Modeling Agency.

She has a twin sister, Terry, along with three older sisters; including actress Cyndy Hall.

Following a car accident, she used the insurance money she received to move to France

Top model

Hall was staying at a hostel on the French Riviera when she was discovered sunbathing on a Saint Tropez beach by a fashion agent, Claude Haddad.

She moved to Paris where she shared an apartment with singer Grace Jones (who at that time was also a model) and immersed herself in the Parisian nightlife, often performing risque cabaret acts in clubs and parties with Jones.

Soon after, she moved in with fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez and her modelling career began.

In 1975 she appeared, in the guise of a mermaid, on the cover of Roxy Music's album Siren.

Five months later, lead singer Bryan Ferry gave her an engagement ring.[5]

Her relationship with Ferry continued and she also appeared in the video for his 1976 solo hit "Let's Stick Together".

By 1977, Hall had been on forty magazine covers including Italian Vogue and Cosmopolitan.

She was earning modelling fees in excess of $1000 per day.[5]

Her trademark long blonde hair and height of six feet quickly made her one of the most visible and photographed models in the industry during that period.

That same year, she met Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger at a dinner party in Manhattan, for whom she would eventually leave Bryan Ferry.

Hall and Jagger were seen together constantly around New York, frequenting trendy nightspots such as Studio 54 and 21 Club.

The Rolling Stones song "Miss You" was written by Jagger for Hall[6] (many years later, Hall was also the subject of the Bryan Ferry song "Kiss and Tell" following the publishing of her 1985 autobiographical expose Tall Tales that included details of their relationship).

Jagger's wife, Bianca Jagger, began divorce proceedings as a result of her husband's involvement with Hall

With the large fees she commanded daily as a top model, Hall was able to buy herself a 200-acre (0.81 km2) ranch in Lone Oak, Texas. On March 2, 1984 in New York City, she gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth Scarlett, the first of the four children she would have with Jagger.

She continued her high-profile modelling career and later moved into acting and television work.

Celebrity marriageHall started dating Mick Jagger in 1977, after first meeting in 1976.

She married him on November 21, 1990 in an unofficial Balinese ceremony consisting largely of Hindu ritual

This common-law marriage to Jagger ended in 1999.

They have four children together: Elizabeth (born 1984), James (born 1985), Georgia May (born 1992) and Gabriel (born 1997).

The couple lived together at Downe House, Richmond Hill in Greater London, which Jagger bought in the early nineties.

Entertainment career

In 1989, Hall appeared in director Tim Burton's Batman, in a supporting role as Alicia Hunt, a gangster's moll who is disfigured by The Joker (played by Jack Nicholson).

In 1990, she joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.

She also starred in commercials for Bovril.

In 1994 she played the role of Miss Scarlett in the British television show Cluedo.

In the early 2000s, she appeared as Mrs. Robinson in a Broadway production of The Graduate, which included a nude scene on stage. In 2001, she appeared as herself in the documentary Being Mick.

In 2002 she appeared in Brighton in the play Picasso’s Women.

In 2005, Hall starred in a new reality series on VH1 called Kept, revolving around her search for a "boytoy".

The 12 American contestants were asked to transform from boys to refined gentlemen through a series of challenges, and mastering skills like arts, sports, cooking, and fitting into high society.

According to an interview with the winner, he never saw Hall again following the show, and there had been no sexual intimacy between Hall and any of the contestants.

Also in 2005, Hall appeared on the West End stage playing Mother Lord in the London revival of Cole Porter's High Society, and also provided the voice for Sister Penelope in

Michael Hill, from the Bronx, is an outstanding guitarist with a social worker's acute awareness of life around him--a pair of attributes that meld together effectively for the modern blues of his second album. His able singing of lyrics--on bigotry, homelessness, street violence, Mother Africa, gender equality, and other topics--is integrated with his Blues Mob's alluring blend of electric blues, high- decibel rock, funk, and reggae. Hill's frequent solos are real head- turners, telling exclamatory stories that emphasize the message in the words of his original songs. He also transforms the age-old, tough-guy tale "Staggerlee" into a modern parable and takes his band way, way deep into Chicago blues for as rousing a treatment of boogie man Hound Dog Taylor's "She's Gone" as you'll hear anywhere. --Frank-John Hadley