Julianne Moore helping to keep kids safe
Julianne Moore helping to keep kids safe
(Los Angeles-AP, May 4, 2006) - In her latest film, "Freedomland," Julianne Moore plays a woman whose son was kidnapped. In real life, Moore is helping the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to keep kids safe.
Moore will lend her celebrity to the cause Thursday to kick off the center's new Power of Parents program - a Web site with free safety information for parents.
The site encourages parents to practice safety skills with their children and keep photos and basic physical details about their kids handy and up-to-date.
"That was a truly novel idea to me," Moore told The Associated Press Wednesday. "I'm a loving parent, but I didn't realize the importance" of keeping current, straightforward headshots of her children on hand.
Moore has two children, Cal, 8, and Liz, 4, with her husband, Bart Freundlich.
前作"Freedomland"ではジュリアンは子どもが誘拐された母親役を演じていましたが、それが縁かどうかは謎ですが、今回
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(NCMEC:全米行方不明・被搾取児童センター)の親のための無料情報提供ウェブサイト宣伝のお手伝いをしたようです。
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この情報サイトでは「日頃から子どもの写真を撮っておいたり、身体的特徴をひかえておく」ことを薦めているようです。それに対し実生活で2人の子どものママ・ジュリアンは「私にとっては小説のような話に思えた。私は子どもが大好きな親なんだけれど、そんなに現在の子どもの証明写真をとっておいて手元に置いておくことの重要性を知らなかった。」とAP通信にコメント。
でもアメリカでは年間かなりの人数の子どもが失踪・行方不明になっていて、決して他人事ではないんですよね。10年前ぐらいにヒットしたSoul Asylumというロックバンドの曲"Runaway Train"のミュージックビデオがこのテーマを扱っていた記憶がありますが、今でも状況は変わっていないようですね。有名人の場合なんてそれに+アルファでパパラッチ問題なんかもあるわけだし。
最近の日本でも徐々に社会がアメリカナイズされてきていて他人事ではなくなってきています。お子さんをお持ちの方、
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(NCMEC:全米行方不明・被搾取児童センター)のサイト、参考にしてみてください。
ちなみに"Runaway Train"の歌詞はこんな感じ。
Artist: Soul Asylum Song: Runaway Train
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep
It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here no there
Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it
CHORUS
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same