Hollywood actress and former star of hit TV drama series ”E.R”,  Ming Na, reveals she is toying with the idea of moving to Singapore.

The star of movies such as The Joy Luck Club, Street Fighter and One Night Stand told Yahoo! Singapore in an exclusive interview that she’s keen to follow in the footsteps of Chinese actors Jet Li and Gong Li, who recently took up Singapore citizenship.

“I really love Singapore,” said the 46-year-old Chinese American.

Remembering her last visit to Singapore, she said, “It was 11 years ago! I was there for a play, the Asian premiere of David Hwang’s Golden Child at the Victoria Theatre.”

“When I was in Singapore, I thought it was absolutely the perfect place to retire. It might be a good dream to retire there some day. The weather [in Singapore] is so good and everywhere is clean. I can’t believe how the malls can sell the best food, especially the food courts. I wished we had that in the States,” she said.

Born in Macau, Na and her family immigrated to the U.S. when she was at the tender age of four. Today, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Eric Michael Zee and two children, Michaela, 10, and Cooper, 5.

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It’s been more than a year since the once might MGM studios Inc announced it had debt problems. So far no-one has come forward to rescue this once mighty media empire especially considering a large $400 million bill comes due next moth, and there seems little hope that it will be paid without yet another delay.

That has led trade publication The Hollywood Reporter to speculate that at least one of the film studio’s 100 or so lenders could force it into bankruptcy.

If that happens, there’s no telling what could happen to some of MGM’s Bond key properties, and not just James Bond and “The Hobbit” — but also its Stargate properties like Syfy’s “Stargate: Universe.”

“It’s kind of become a joke,” one unnamed executive told The Hollywood Reporter, who is considering some sort of partnership with MGM. “There is a real fatigue among the lenders after all” the delays — six in all — to pay down $250 million from a revolving loan that is due, along with $200 million in related interested payments.

If another delay isn’t granted, or if any of the lenders get fed up with what’s happening, any of them can file an involuntary bankruptcy petition with the courts to put the fate of MGM in a judge’s hands. Typically, involuntary bankruptcies are hard to push through. But considering the amount of money and the number of lenders involved in the current MGM debacle, it might be easier than anticipated.

But there is a lot of question marks surrounding what would happen to MGM’s assets if a judge were in charge of restructuring. Typically, the best way to pay off debt is through liquidation, meaning the studio’s prized assets like James and Stargate would be auctioned off, or sold through deals with lenders.

Any such restructuring and sale of assets would almost mean certain death for MGM which was founded in 1924, and mean a messy situation would turn into a disaster with key properties like James Bond, “The Hobbit” and Stargate, suffering significantly.

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Propworx has announced their very first official Stargate live auction, the event will be held at the famous Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, Washington on Saturday and Sunday September the 25^th and 26^th 2010.

A special preview day is due to take place on Friday the 24^th September.

The auction is the first in a planned series of two events, featuring content from both the Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis sets.

More than 850 lots of props, costumes, set decoration and original production art will be featured at the first of the events.

Among the items for sale is the SG-1 travel Stargate, pictured above (DHD and FRED not included), the last fully articulating Asgard puppet created for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, and the Briefing Room table! Numerous other items will be announced in the days to come.

Stick with the Stargate Archive for more updates as and when they are announced.

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Beau Bridges and his family are being honoured in the Fourth Annual Champion for Families Awards Dinner 2010, the event is due to be held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Thursday October 21^st.

They have been nominated for instilling family values, Beau and his wife Wendy will be there to accept the award on behalf of the entire family.

“The family values that their parents, Dorothy and Lloyd Bridges, instilled in them have been passed on to three generations of Bridges. These very traits of gaining self-esteem and achieving goals are also the very core of El Nido’s programs that support and strengthen families,” the non-profit says.

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Details have been revealed of the character Ming-Na will play in a forthcoming episode of Eureka.

The Stargate Universe actress previously suggested on her Twitter account that she had been filming on the show.

Syfy has reportedly confirmed to TV Guide that she will play Alice Wen, a senator who arrives in Eureka to “handle a sensitive matter” involving research company Global Dynamics.

The network also admitted that the character could appear in more than one episode.

Comic legend Stan Lee also recently revealed via his Twitter feed that he had landed a cameo on the programme.

Eureka currently airs on Fridays at 9/8c on Syfy

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