Edward Norton Victorious.

Le sigh. Edward Norton. What a guy. "Fight Club" was only the beginning of his awesomeness. I wish he did more movies. Of course, I could say that and then all of a sudden he's Gerard Butler and I can't like him anymore. That would be tragic.

As we've mentioned before, Edward was training for the New York Marathon to raise money for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust. Well, the race was this weekend, and Edward beat the rest of the stars running it, including beating his personal goal of besting Sarah Palin's time last year of 4 hours. He ran the 26.2 miles in 3 hours, 48 minutes and 1 second.
-CE
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Twitter Torture.

I knew there was a reason I liked Edward Norton. We both feel the same way about Twitter. The better thing about him is that he can put aside his pride for a greater cause. I probably would not.

He told Parade magazine:
"I haven't personally really engaged in a lot of this new kind of social networking stuff like Twitter or Facebook or MySpace. I mean, the notion of people following what I am doing every day is like torture for me. It's absolutely the last thing that I'm looking for. It seems to me to be really just about social chatter."

But Edward is opening up a Twitter account to detail his marathon training for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, and added that,
"It's a good example of a way that you can turn that platform into something where you actually can accomplish something good. It's my first attempt. We're putting our running training log on Twitter. You can see can see pictures too on the site there. The trust conserves the wildlife and culture of the Maasai tribe of Kenya, Africa.”

He is a better person than I. Twitter is a no-go for me. It's right above having my skin slowly buffed off by a nail file and right below being chased by killer aunts like in the third Indiana Jones.
-CE
Photo courtesy of Zimbio.

Run Edward, Run!

Love Edward Norton. He is training for the New York Marathon, and for some reason it feels less fame whoring and/or ego driven than the others (Katie Holmes, P. Diddy). He has never run a marathon before, but he was a competitive rower at Yale University (hear that Megs? Yale!).

He is racing will benefit The Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, which helps preserve the Maasai tribal lands of East Africa (Kenya mostly). You can follow his training on twitter here. For those runners out there, it's actually a really interesting read.

The Maasai have a long tradition of distance running. Norton said one of the runners, safari guide Parashi Ntanin, is so fast he could probably leave the rest of the group behind and run the race in less than 2½ hours. He has run as much as 15 miles twice during his training for the 26.2-mile marathon and that despite some leg and knee pains, he's confident he'll finish the endurance race.
"I'm really enjoying it," he said after a workout Wednesday in New York. "I'm enjoying having a goal."

I studied the Maasai in my anthropology class last semester. We read "The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior" by Tepilit Ole Saitoti, which is a fascinating book. I can lend it if anyone would like. Trust, it was a great book. The Maasai need a lot of land because they are a nomadic people, who work mostly with cows- they believe that they are the sacred keepers of cows, and all the cows in the world belong to them, and are only lost from the herd. So if you've got a cow, stay away from Maasai.

Also the only way to become a true Maasai warrior is by killing a lion with a spear. How insanely B.A. is that? Technically it's illegal for them to do that now, but still. I don't think they really follow that rule too much.


Anyways, love Edward Norton, he is the ish.
-CE
Photos courtesy of Just Jared.

A Really Mysterious Edward.

Edward Norton and his girlfriend, film producer Shauna Robertson were spotted walking together in SoHo on Saturday afternoon after eating lunch together.

I love Edward Norton, but I cannot figure him out. Maybe this is part of my fascination. What kind of girl does he go for? He has been engaged to Salma Hayek and Courtney Love. I think we can safely agree that they are on very opposite ends of the spectrum. I know nothing about this girl, so I can't properly judge, but I am left alternately confused and intrigued. One can tell a lot about someone by the person by the person they date.

For instance, I loved Chris Pine. But once he had that "thing" with Audrina Patridge...ew. Gone. So in Edward Norton's case, Courtney Love is gross, while Salma Hayek I love. What's a girl to do?

Watch The Painted Veil. If you haven't seen it yet, you need to. Naomi Watts is not quite so annoying, but Edward is magic.
-CE
Photo courtesy of Just Jared.