Amelia News

Amelia Earhart was a strong, successful woman and really a pioneer for women. She never allowed anyone to tell her she could not accomplish what she had put her mind to.

When I was crawling around Joe Shepherd's nicely restored Electra at AOPA Summit last week, it occurred to me that the new film, Amelia , would be worth a look.

'You need the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant' a Mira Nair, film director Photograph: Dan Callister What got you started? My impatience with waiting for life to happen.

This Amelia Earhart biopic has magnificent period settings and airplanes, majestic aerial photography and solid performances from Richard Gere and Hilary Swank.

At one point, Joe Shepherd crouched on the floor of his plane operating the controls as Hilary Swank, playing pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, taxied on a runway.

When Unfiltered last heard from two-time Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank , her production company had just purchased the rights to former Veuve Cliquot executive Mireille Guiliano 's 2004 bestseller, French Women Don't Get Fat , and was angling to play the lead in a film adaptation of the book.

Fasten your seat belt at the opening of "Amelia." A Lockheed aircraft thunders on takeoff heading directly for the viewer of this film about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

Amelia, the latest film by Mira Nair , is the story of arguably the world's most famous female pilot.

While everyone is marveling at the heroism of the female cop who stopped the Fort Hood gunman during his killing spree, it was not so long ago that women weren't allowed to serve in the military or on the police force.

Audrey Tautou, right, stars in "Coco Before Chanel." Coco Chanel and Amelia Earhart, two proto-feminists, are headlining at the multiplex.

Several members of the Zonta Club of Tallahassee recently took time off from their busy schedules to go to the movies.

Caption: Hilary Swank World premiere of 'Amelia' presented by Bloomingdale's & Vanity Fair, held at Paris theatre New York City, USA .... SWANK: 'I'LL ALWAYS BE FRIENDS WITH LOWE' HILARY SWANK is not bitter over her divorce from CHAD LOWE - she insists they will remain best friends forever.

Hilary Swank in her new role in Amelia . Photo: Ken Woroner November 8, 2009 In her latest role as Amelia Earhart, Hilary Swank again shows her skill at playing strong, courageous women, writes Gaynor Flynn.

Amelia Earhart stands in front of the Lockheed Electra she attempted to fly around the world in 1937.

LONGTIME RUMSON RESIDENT Grace McGuire is on the final approach to fulfilling her lifelong dream of completing Amelia Earhart's failed attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

Lockheed 12 owner Joe Shepherd got the rarest of opportunities: His fully restored airplane was used in the film Amelia , now playing in cinemas across the country.

Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. She was attempting to circumnavigate the globe at the equator, something that had never been done before.

A brief roundup of alleged conspiracies that may have escaped your attention. Did Japan capture Amelia Earhart? According to her fourth cousin, Wally Earhart, Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan didn't starve to death on Howland Island , nor were they killed on impact during a crash into the Pacific.

A hijacking nearly brought "Amelia" crashing to the ground. It was July 15, 2008, three days before shooting was scheduled to get under way on the $40 million film about pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart, and a 10-passenger Lockheed L-12A was being flown across the globe to Cape Town, where the movie was to shoot.

NEW YORK - Before they became staples of the runway, bomber jackets, flight suits and protective aviator sunglasses were born in the cockpit of an early - and cold - airplane.