By Maria Vultaggio | August 22 2012 8:56 PM
New U.S. housing starts and permits unexpectedly fell to record lows in April, a government report showed on Tuesday, denting hopes that stability in the housing market was imminent.
The Commerce Department said housing starts fell 12.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 458,000 units, the lowest on records dating back to January 1959, from March's upwardly revised 525,000 units. Compared to the same period last year, housing starts tumbled 54.2 percent.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected an annual rate of 520,000 units for April.
New building permits, which give a sense of future home construction, dropped 3.3 percent to 494,000 units, the lowest since records started in January 1960, from 511,000 units in March. That was well below analysts' estimates of 530,000 units. Compared to the same period a year-ago, building permits plunged 50.2 percent.
Building completions rose 4.9 percent to 874,000 units.
(Reporting by Lucia Mutikani, Editing by Andrea Ricci)
Alexis Bledel is almost without a doubt the fan favorite to be cast as Anastasia Steele in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie, and now an imposter who has created the Twitter handle @AlexisBledel, thanked the fans who want to see her play Anastasia Steele in the movie.
The Bledel fraud posted, "I see that lots of you wants me to play "Ana" in Fifty Shades of Grey. :)"
The person who is posing as Bledel wishes her followers to have a good day and seems to avidly tweet back to their posts to her.
There are only 4,000 followers to the account and she has more than 1,000 tweets.
An official Twitter account can't be found for the "Gilmore Girls" actress, but there is a Twitter account under the name "Alexis Bledel" that has been made private.
The real Alexis Bledel has not commented on being the fan favorite to play Ana.
Ever since word broke that there was going to be a movie made from the "Fifty Shades of Grey" series fans took to the Internet to declare the "Sin City" star as their choice for Ana.
There is one glaring problem with picking Bledel to play the 22-year-old literature student Anastasia Steele-- the actress is 30 years old. However, Bledel would be quite believable as Ana considering she can portray innocent yet sexy.
While it's safe to say that most "Fifty Shades" fans agree that picking Bledel would be the best choice, there are not as united when it comes to agreeing on who should play their favorite control freak- - Christian Grey.
The most popular choices for the rich and alluring Grey are Matt Bomer and Ian Somerhalder.
Do you think Alexis Bledel will ultimately be cast as Anastasia Steele since so many people want her to play the role?

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