Edward Norton

Edward Norton is a fine actor who starred in such films as "Fight Club," "Primal Fear" and "Rounders. " He is also a Columbia native and one of the most famous people to admit in public that he is still an Orioles fan. Norton turned 42 today. What does he want for his birthday? For Cal Ripken to come save his Orioles . “Thanks for all the nice messages. People have been asking what I want for my birthday. This:” Norton wrote on Twitter, linking to a site asking for donations for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust . He added: “And for Cal Ripken to come back and be Manager and GM of the Orioles and revive our poor team.” Norton is going to have to wait at least another year for his birthday wish to get fulfilled.

Actor and Maryland native Edward Norton could be ready to take on the role of father. According to US Weekly, Norton's fiancee Shauna Robertson is expecting, due "any day now. " Norton's publicist told Insider Tuesday that she couldn't comment one way or the other about the star's personal life. Robertson is a film producer who has worked on a number of Judd Apatow movies including "Knocked up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin. " The couple, along with others, co-founded Crowdrise, a website that helps people raise money for causes.

Actor and Maryland native Edward Norton could be ready to take on the role of father. According to US Weekly, Norton's fiancee Shauna Robertson is expecting, due "any day now. " Norton's publicist told Insider Tuesday that she couldn't comment one way or the other about the star's personal life. Robertson is a film producer who has worked on a number of Judd Apatow movies including "Knocked up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin. " The couple, along with others, co-founded Crowdrise, a website that helps people raise money for causes.

Mozilla Firefox has challenged fundraisers to step it up over the holidays, offering $100,000 to the one who can bring in the most money through Jan. 10. Baltimore-born Edward Norton is running 5th, having raised -- as of early this week -- more than $27,000 for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, an environmental organization working to protect the region's ecosystems. In first place is Jimmy Kimmel, who'd brought in more then $41,000 for Comfort the Children, a group that does work in Kenya.

Mozilla Firefox has challenged fundraisers to step it up over the holidays, offering $100,000 to the one who can bring in the most money through Jan. 10. Baltimore-born Edward Norton is running 5th, having raised -- as of early this week -- more than $27,000 for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, an environmental organization working to protect the region's ecosystems. In first place is Jimmy Kimmel, who'd brought in more then $41,000 for Comfort the Children, a group that does work in Kenya.

In the late '70s, Toby Orenstein recalls, she gave a local child a small role in a production of "Annie Get Your Gun."Orenstein, active in Howard County dramatics since Columbia's founding in the early '70s, recollects that the child knit up his face in concentration and then asked a question that has haunted her on down the years. She had heard it from no child before or since."What," asked the 8-year-old Edward Norton, "is my objective in this scene?""He was amazing," she remembers, delightedly.

Fight Club," David Fincher's explosively violent and compulsively watchable rumination on the emasculated state of modern manhood, wants men to know that it feels their pain.Combining the chicly distressed look and brutality of Fincher's "Seven" with the head trips of his next film, "The Game," "Fight Club" just might be a tentative foray into maturity on the part of the MTV-trained director. He has made a clever and surprisingly nuanced meditation on the clash of economics, consumer fetishism and ritual tribal aggression -- think of Susan Faludi's "Stiffed" on steroids.

The distributor of the film "American History X," reviewed in yesterday's Today section, has delayed the Baltimore opening of the movie until Friday.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 11/14/98American History X" has been dogged by so much controversy recently that filmgoers may wonder whether they should wear flak jackets and safety goggles to the theater. When New Line Cinema and star Edward Norton began editing the movie themselves, its director, Tony Kaye, asked that his name be removed (at one point suggesting the pseudonym "Humpty Dumpty")

Designer Jacqueline West had her own stylish and successful women's-sportswear company when director Philip Kaufman tapped her to be a creative consultant on Henry & June (1990) and the costume designer on Rising Sun (1993) and Quills (2000). After her Oscar nomination for Quills, she turned to movie work full-time. Her credits include Down in the Valley (2004) with Edward Norton and the coming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with Brad Pitt. Pitt was to star in her current project, State of Play, but dropped out last week.

No one has caught the pride, remorse and pain of an unloved and possibly unlovable husband better than Edward Norton in The Painted Veil. As Walter Fane, a British government bacteriologist based in Hong Kong (circa 1925), Norton has the precise carriage and clear high voice of an educated fellow of his class and time, along with the sharp ethical gaze of a man on a mission.

Edward Norton is a fine actor who starred in such films as "Fight Club," "Primal Fear" and "Rounders. " He is also a Columbia native and one of the most famous people to admit in public that he is still an Orioles fan. Norton turned 42 today. What does he want for his birthday? For Cal Ripken to come save his Orioles . “Thanks for all the nice messages. People have been asking what I want for my birthday. This:” Norton wrote on Twitter, linking to a site asking for donations for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust . He added: “And for Cal Ripken to come back and be Manager and GM of the Orioles and revive our poor team.” Norton is going to have to wait at least another year for his birthday wish to get fulfilled.

For Edward Norton making movies isn't just about giving a dynamite performance. It's about collaborating on a piece of entertainment that reflects his view of the world — and pulls that off without preaching to the audience. He leaped into stardom just 14 years ago as a choirboy accused of murder in the tricky thriller "Primal Fear. " But he set the tone of his career with 1999's "Fight Club," in which alienated Gen Xers got in touch with their inner primates via bare-knuckled scraps.

Watching "Leaves of Grass," a funny, intricate pinwheel of a movie about a classics professor and his marijuana-growing twin, you get caught up in the joy that Edward Norton had playing both these roles. Norton sparks writer-director Tim Blake Nelson's whole inspired ensemble — including Nelson himself, who plays the pot farmer's partner. Making sure to cram a press call in right before he interviewed Bruce Springsteen on Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, Norton said he cottoned to Nelson's script "because I thought it was very original and I laughed a lot when I read it. " It's a thinking man's — and feeling man's — "Pineapple Express.

Changeling What it's about : Angelina Jolie (above) plays a single mother whose missing son is returned to her. Only it's not her son, and when she tries telling that to the Los Angeles police, she gets thrown into a psychiatric ward. Based on a true story from 1928. Rated: R The scoop : Jolie is simply too modern an actress to play a 1920s mother, no matter how much they dowdy her up or layer on the pancake makeup. And director Clint Eastwood is more interested in stoking his audience's sense of outrage than telling a nuanced story.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year ** ( 2 STARS) $42 million $42 million 1 week Rated: G Running time: 113 minutes What it's about: High school sweethearts Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens, above) struggle with the idea of being separated as college approaches. Our take: It contains high-energy singing and dancing, and it's refreshing to see a high school movie that eschews gross-out gags and elevates romantic courtship rites. Saw V No stars $30.1 million $30.1 million 1 week Rated: R Running time: 88 minutes What it's about: The gory horror franchise continues as the latest Jigsaw killer works to keep his identity a secret.

Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt. Directed by Louis Leterrier Released by Universal Home Video $29.98 (blu-ray, $39.98) *** DVDS A definitive movie version of The Incredible Hulk has yet to be made, but at least this go-round, with Maryland's Edward Norton as the big guy, has it all over the existentialist exercise in what it means to be big, mean, green and angry that was Ang Lee's 2003 version. The squabbles between Norton and director Louis Leterrier are legion; apparently, Norton wanted more of a thinking-man's Hulk than Leterrier (or the folks at Marvel Comics)

You wouldn't like me when I'm hungry," says Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) near the start of The Incredible Hulk, comically mangling a signature line as he tries to speak Portuguese to some menacing co-workers at a soft-drink bottling plant in Brazil. Of course, comic-book fans love the Hulk when he's angry - and love a franchise when they feel it's hungry for success, which the Hulk movie series now officially is. After sanctioning the turgid 2003 Ang Lee version of the myth (simply called The Hulk)

With Edward Norton, what you see is what you get." At least that's what John Curran, the director of The Painted Veil, said of his unconventional star. Neil Burger, the director of The Illusionist, sees more shadows. "Edward's an actor of amazing stature, intensely smart and, at times, I'd guess, an enigma even unto himself."