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In the 20 years since Kevin Costner locked lips with Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, his career has been all over the place: fronting a country band, working on environmental engineering, owning a minor-league baseball team. He?s even done a little acting.
But for Costner, 57, who is scheduled to speak at his late friend?s funeral on Saturday, his biggest recent job has been as a later-in-life dad to three young children, Cayden, 4?, Hayes, 3, and Grace, 20 months.
?It?s noisy, really noisy,? Costner said last year of his family with Christine Baumgartner, whom he married on his Aspen ranch in 2004. ?The one thing I pray for in life is not success, but being able to raise my children and that nothing happens to me in the next 20 years.?
Of course, some of the noise around the house has been created by Costner himself. In 2005, at Baumgartner?s urging, the Oscar-winning director of Dances with Wolves started a country rock band called Kevin Costner & the New West. The group is scheduled to kick off a 15-date tour in Lakeland, Fla., on March 28.
In addition, Costner is producing and starring in the cable miniseries The Hatfield and McCoys: An American Vendetta for History channel, which begins airing Memorial Day.
Aside from entertainment, Costner?s investment in technology that separates oil from water came to national attention after the tragic oil spill off the Gulf Coast.
But in the hearts of many fans, Costner will always be Frank, the intrepid bodyguard sworn to defend Rachel, the pop star in peril played by Houston. Costner fought for Houston to be in the movie, and even suggested that she try the Dolly Parton chestnut ?I Will Always Love You? for the soundtrack.
?She got enormous support from Kevin on the set, the film?s director Mick Jackson told PEOPLE this week, ?[With] The Bodyguard, we were able to catch her at the peak of her life and the peak of her ability. We caught the person and we caught what she does best.?
The Associated Press will stream Whitney Houston?s private funeral service Saturday on its Livestream site, which will be available on PEOPLE.com.
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Kevin Costner Since The Bodyguard: Acting, Activism & Fatherhood
Source: http://www.ghanamma.com/2012/02/kevin-costner-since-the-bodyguard-acting-activism-fatherhood/
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Nicolas Sarkozy described David Cameron as "a brave man"
The UK has signed a deal with France to strengthen co-operation in the development of civil nuclear energy.
The government said it reiterated the UK's commitment to nuclear energy "as part of a diversified energy mix".
The coalition said the agreement would create a number of commercial deals in the nuclear energy field, worth more than ?500m and creating 1,500 UK jobs.
The deal was signed at a summit between PM David Cameron and President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
'Joint framework'"This joint declaration will signal our shared commitment to the future of civil nuclear power, setting out a shared long term vision of safe, secure, sustainable and affordable energy, that supports growth and helps to deliver our emission reductions targets," a statement from Downing Street said.
Continue reading the main storyPersonal relations between Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron have not been warm of late.
There have been tetchy remarks flying in both directions, the French irritated by the British veto on the European fiscal treaty, the British annoyed by what seem to be sometimes rather gratuitous criticisms of the UK economy coming out of Paris.
Summits like this oblige a different tone and so the emphasis will be on the long-term and deeper shared interests between the countries, especially in the civil nuclear and military fields.
For Mr Sarkozy, this could be one his last encounters as president with David Cameron. In the polls he's way behind the socialist challenger Francois Hollande, who incidentally will himself be visiting London at the end of this month.
The two governments will work together with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "to strengthen international capability to react to nuclear emergencies and establish a joint framework for cooperation and exchanging good practice on civil nuclear security".
The move comes 11 months after a tsunami in Japan wrecked the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, leaking radioactive material into the air and sea.
UK and French public and private sector bodies in the civil nuclear power industry will also work more closely in a number of areas.
These include education and training, research and development, and security.
"As two great civil nuclear nations, we will combine our expertise to strengthen industrial partnership, improve nuclear safety and create jobs at home," said Mr Cameron.
Eight sitesLast June, ministers announced plans for the next generation of UK nuclear plants.
The government confirmed a list of eight sites it deems suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
Rolls-Royce is expected to win a ?400m ($632m) share in the building of the first of the planned power plants.
France's Areva will supply the core of the nuclear reactors and Rolls-Royce will supply other engineering work.
"Rolls-Royce will become our prime manufacturing partner to supply some ?100m of key critical components of the reactor for each EPR [next generation nuclear power plant] that's constructed in the UK," said Robert Davies from Areva UK.
Rolls-Royce plans to build a factory in Rotherham to meet orders resulting from the deal.
Earlier this month, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the first nuclear reactors to be built in the country since 1978.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/business-17069455
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