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Sexy lingerie, exotic bikini , with famous idol, and world pop idol ,world acter,actress , sport idol...smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.comBlogger771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-54315542834344547742008-09-14T22:55:00.000-07:002008-09-14T23:01:05.437-07:00Sexy Fur babe super hot Strip dance <br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/26FtxVSvFMs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/26FtxVSvFMs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />====================================================================================<br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/buy.western.digital.external.hard.drive.on.sale-20">western digital</a> | <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/buy.seagate.external.hard.drive.on.sale-20">seagate external hard drive</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5431554283434454774?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-4090583038848654772008-09-07T11:47:00.000-07:002008-09-07T13:09:02.300-07:00<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2XH4YBUZidw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2XH4YBUZidw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />MARIA SHARAPOVA - MORE THAN A FEELING<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fDhibEAAJAI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fDhibEAAJAI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKPCfiYC1Rs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hKPCfiYC1Rs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.printable-gift-shopsz.info/">gift shop</a> | <a href="http://www.packaging-gift-boxesz.info/">gift box</a> | <a href="http://www.giftcredit-cards-uk-biz.info/">gift card</a> | <a href="http://www.gift-shops-printablez.info/">gift shop2</a> | <a href="http://www.printable-online-gift-certificatesz.info/">gift certificate</a> | <a href="http://www.gift-shopping-uk-bizz.info/">gift shopping</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-409058303884865477?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-18300979496426778802008-06-27T06:47:00.001-07:002008-06-27T06:47:12.917-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>For her work in adult videos during her first year, Aoi won the "Best Breasts Award" at the AV Grand Prix awards ceremony of 2003.[7] The same year, Aoi starred in the theatrically released High School Teacher (2003). In this film she played two roles, the title character, and a girl who had committed suicide the year before the high school teacher arrived.[31]<br/><br/>While continuing to perform in hardcore AVs, Aoi appeared in the first video release of the Shuffle company's new label Believe. Entitled The Naked Body, this June 2003 release was an "image video," which has nude modeling but no sex. Naked / Sora Aoi #2 was Aoi's second "image video" for this company. This February 2004 release had Aoi modeling in Guam. By this time Aoi had become one of the most popular AV idols in Japan. Her name was the second-most popular Internet search on a female celebrity in Japan for 2005,[9] and she was the most-searched AV idol.[32] Aoi's popularity enabled her to enter mainstream entertainment, including television and radio,[9] and singing on some punk rock albums.[citation needed] Her popularity even extended to South Korea, where the Korean hip-hop group, Epik High used one of her nude pictures to promote their concerts during their underground days. They were caught by the police, and publicly apologized to her years after.[33]<br/><br/>Aoi continued to work for Alice Japan and Samantha until November 2004, when her contract was not renewed.[citation needed] She then moved to the newly formed porn film production company, S1. 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After a few very successful <br/><br/> photo shoots in the Import Racing scene, she ventured into more <br/><br/> adult stuff with shoots for Playboy magazine and so on. </font></p><br/><br/> <font face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Tila Nguyen was born <br/><br/> in Singapore where her family fled to after the Vietnam War. Her <br/><br/> family then moved to Houston, Texas when she was raised. Tila was <br/><br/> not an easy child, growing up, she became a bad girl and her bad <br/><br/> attitude created a lot of problems for her. She was sent to boarding <br/><br/> school and got kicked out from there and had to go to another school.<br/><br/></font><font face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>In high school, Tila <br/><br/> Nguyen got into many fights. She was a trouble maker an as she got <br/><br/> older, she started to use her older sister’s ID to get into <br/><br/> nightclubs where she got in with the wrong crowds. Of course, one <br/><br/> thing led to another, drugs, gangs, and the whole nine yards. She <br/><br/> says she had an identity problem. She felt Black, she felt Hispanic, <br/><br/> she never felt she belonged.<br/><br/></font><p><font face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>After seeing her life <br/><br/> was going nowhere in Houston running into problems constantly, she <br/><br/> decided to move away from there. She landed in Hollywood where she <br/><br/> decided to stay. She was spotted by a Playboy scout in the mall <br/><br/> and was offered to pose nude for the magazine. She promptly declined, <br/><br/> but after they insisted, she decided to give it a try. In April <br/><br/> of 2002, she was featured as Playboy CyberGirl of the week and then <br/><br/> became Cyber Girl of the Month.</font></p><br/><br/> <p><font face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Tila Nguyen is now crownd <br/><br/> the official Queen of MySpace.com. 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At 16, she moved to Manhattan and began work on her debut album. She dropped out of high school after the 11th grade when she secured a record deal. When Avril was almost 18, she released "Complicated" from her debut album titled: "Let Go," which went 6x platinum. As a petite skater girl from a small town, Avril has shown she is independent, full of confidence and determination, providing a good combination to make "Complicated" and Avril a musical breakthrough. "Complicated" went to number #1 on Billboards Top 100 while also earning her 5 Grammy nominations, MTV music awards, MTV European music awards and many more.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23213955@N08/2460635371"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2225/2460635371_a1357139f3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23593501@N05/2461764900"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2461764900_90bf7d1857.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26228511@N04/2460850294"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3256/2460850294_d430456ac2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26228511@N04/2460071221"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2254/2460071221_d98ef251ed.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25731249@N04/2458380431"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2377/2458380431_d6fec61987.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24099461@N03/2456818532"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2456818532_5e2b65e3ee.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24099461@N03/2455991279"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2187/2455991279_9aa1728736.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25909971@N02/2454874411"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/2454874411_232110a63a.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25191511@N06/2454921537"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2454921537_a96b4f80e9.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10514926@N08/2455514592"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2019/2455514592_f6aab7b5c3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22167513@N08/2452789125"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2333/2452789125_795f9b0ba2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24099461@N03/2445916855"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3161/2445916855_9f22c1e529.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25816828@N08/2444380953"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2242/2444380953_063438562d.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688" WIDTH="336px" HEIGHT="280px"> <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fazizweb-20%2F8014%2F49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high"><PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="#FFFFFF"><PARAM NAME="allowscriptaccess" VALUE="always"><embed src="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fazizweb-20%2F8014%2F49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="280px" width="336px"></embed></OBJECT> <NOSCRIPT><A HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fazizweb-20%2F8014%2F49ddf121-7f4e-4357-9f2d-85607ee6e688&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A></NOSCRIPT><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6803121420227383081?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-41724648655170153052008-05-01T06:23:00.001-07:002008-05-22T22:25:11.765-07:00<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><small><span style="font-family:tahoma;">Actress Maggie Q was born Maggie Denise Quigley on May 22, 1979, in Honolulu, Hi. She is of Vietnamese and Irish-American descent and was a fashion model and television personality before she became a movie actress. She has achieved stardom in Hong Kong and has appeared in Chinese films, speaking Cantonese, regardless of her non-Chinese heritage. Maggie's film debut came in 1999 in the movie "Guhuozni Jiqingpian Zhi HonXing Defeige" and has had roles in "Around The World in 80 Days," "Taped" and "Rush Hour 2." Her most famous roles are as Zhen Lei in the action film "Mission Impossible III" and as Maggie Wong in the Ping Pong adventure movie "Balls of Fury." Maggie is a supermodel in many parts of Asia, has appeared on more than 100 magazine covers, and has been romantically linked to British-Korean superstar Daniel Henney and Chinese American superstar Daniel Wu.<br />Born Maggie Quigley in Honolulu, exotic actress Maggie Q first made a name for herself in Hong Kong cinema, starring in such actioners as Gen-X Cops 2 and Naked Weapon. Her first appearance in a state-side film came with a bit part in 2001's Rush Hour 2, but her first large U.S. role wouldn't come until 2006's Mission: Impossible III. With a genuine American blockbuster under her belt, Q soon landed a number of Hollywood films. In 2007 alone, she could be seen in the sports comedy Balls of Fury, the action sequel Live Free or Die Hard, and the suspense thriller The Tourist. Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide</span></small><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21131917@N03/2405301445"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3151/2405301445_9d81c40441.jpg" /></a><br /><br />[Caption]<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25181957@N06/2379556722"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2379556722_1ba78b8408.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13682458@N00/2311334761"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2311334761_dc8c53bd96.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/11533626@N04/2301512287"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2220/2301512287_6557179444.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10472264@N05/2263066816"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2386/2263066816_b6be24e538.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10472264@N05/2262128026"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/2262128026_379b10f197.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10472264@N05/2264670406"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/2264670406_0fd14a759d.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10472264@N05/2263049084"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2322/2263049084_4f6bd58d63.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10472264@N05/2262258287"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/2262258287_99cc32863e.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4172464865517015305?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-33194767974955109962008-05-01T06:07:00.001-07:002008-05-01T06:07:26.454-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><b>Anna Lexington won the 2002 <i>Playboy</i> Scramble Model Search, defeating 25,000 entrants in the process.<br/><br/></b>nstead of moving to a smaller market to pursue her broadcast dreams, Lexington opted for a career in sales. But three years ago her life suddenly changed. "I was sitting at work and someone said, 'Are you going to do that <i>Playboy</i> Golf thing?'" recalls the 5-foot-4 model. "I was like, "What are you talking about?' I had missed the casting, so I called them up and sent them a few pictures, and they said show up at the golf course. That's pretty much what really got me started." <br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336033001'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/136/336033001_d30f357214.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336032874'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/336032874_4f3b657ff0.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336032915'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/336032915_4b23e6d6d3.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336032950'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/336032950_8321fca98a.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336032930'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/336032930_fb916d950b.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/99622089@N00/336033069'><img src='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/336033069_fd4f74f126.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-3319476797495510996?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-43284053208140762932008-04-27T05:25:00.001-07:002008-04-27T05:25:17.845-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p> Heidi Montag was born september 15 1986 in Crested Butte, Colorado. Her career began in small appearances on Mtv's Laguna Beach Season 2 reality show. Heidi and her best friend Lauren Conrad got a spin-off reality show <em>The Hills</em> which came out in summer 2006. Montag got engaged to co-star of the hills show, known as a player Spencer Pratt. </p> <br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14757628@N02/2438430351'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2438430351_abfe7cc908.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14757628@N02/2439257632'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/2439257632_8287526e1c.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14757628@N02/2439260216'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2439260216_0c5c88d96b.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/14757628@N02/2439259198'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3071/2439259198_07f8f16e8b.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/9008891@N05/2427174538'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2427174538_f1fd879e5f.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/23208447@N07/2408232456'><img src='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3178/2408232456_a9f770521a.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/22901357@N06/2402358301'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2410/2402358301_43345b3bae.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/23225930@N08/2379981115'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/2379981115_f7636e395d.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/25048710@N06/2362945341'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2362945341_56973169fe.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/25048710@N06/2363776700'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2382/2363776700_34e7976bcd.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/22665048@N07/2181991577'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2100/2181991577_4164a02b1b.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/22514390@N02/2176419092'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2176419092_29832c47ea.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4328405320814076293?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-22455754231973399292008-04-26T07:15:00.001-07:002008-04-26T07:15:34.981-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>carlett Johansson has been acting since she was eight years old. She is one of the most photographed actresses in Hollywood. Scarlett is arguably considered the sexiest woman in Hollywood with a beautiful face and a charming personality. Her exceptional acting talent has helped her tackle many challenging roles. Enjoy this Scarlett Johansson picture gallery.<br/><br/><div class='youtube-video'><object width='425' height='355'><param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/FcBt9R55gTo' name='movie'> </param><param value='transparent' name='wmode'> </param><embed width='425' height='355' wmode='transparent' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/FcBt9R55gTo'> </embed> </object></div><br/><br/>Scarlett Johansson<br/><br/><div class='youtube-video'><object width='425' height='355'><param value='http://www.youtube.com/v/kW2DDDYuJjk' name='movie'> </param><param value='transparent' name='wmode'> </param><embed width='425' height='355' wmode='transparent' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://www.youtube.com/v/kW2DDDYuJjk'> </embed> </object></div><br/><br/>Scarlett Johansson<br/><br/><a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/78606096@N00/2439732214'><img src='http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2406/2439732214_b969b2aaef.jpg'/></a><br/><br/><br/><a 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(From an April 2004 appearance on Conan O'Brien.)<br /><br />[June 2004] Engaged to longtime boyfriend Trace Ayala, best friend and personal assistant to Justin Timberlake. Broke off her engagement to Trace Ayala in November 2005.<br /><br />Shares a birthday with the following celebrities: Ben Stiller, singer Clay Aiken, "8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter" (2002) star Kaley Cuoco, 80s punk rocker Billy Idol and Dick Clark.<br /><br />Ranked #57 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002).<br /><br />Ranked #5 in FHM 100 Sexiest Women (2005).<br /><br />She left Canada at the age of 17 to move to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career. Had a deadline of 6 weeks. By the end of the 5th week was given the role of Kimberley Bauer on Fox's "24" (2001).<br /><br />Received Paris Hilton's autobiography and Paris Hilton's perfume by her House of Wax (2005) co-star Paris Hilton for Elisha's 22nd Birthday.<br /><br />Loves to visit the beach, but is unable to tan because of her fair skin.<br /><br />Both her mother and brother play on Hockey Teams in Canada.<br /><br />She's a huge hockey fan and has season tickets to the Kings. She also writes a blog for NHL.com called 'Hollywood Hockey Thoughts'.<br /><br />She loves to hang out on St-Laurent boulevard when she's in Montreal.<br /><br />She has a younger brother, Jonathan, and a younger sister, Lee-Ann<br /><br />Parents are Kevin and Patricia Cuthbert<br /><br />Named #54 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).<br /><br />Ranked #25 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.<br /><br />Auditioned but lost the lead role to Kirsten Dunst in Spider Man.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eTddzQTosTs&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eTddzQTosTs&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2295255558886568108?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-84898648829468058772008-01-06T02:59:00.000-08:002008-01-06T03:05:25.556-08:00<center><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TLqfJlHpoy0&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TLqfJlHpoy0&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object></center><br /><br /><strong>Born:</strong> 17 April 1972<br /><strong>Where:</strong> Houston, Texas, USA<br /><strong>Awards:</strong> Won 1 Golden Globe<br /><strong>Height:</strong> 5' 9"<br /><br />Growing up in small-town Charleston, Jennifer Garner had every intention of following her father into the world of science. Then, having switched her college degree to Theatre, she made a concerted assault on TV, her every effort ending in failure till Alias made her a star. Employing her comedic and physical talents, she then broke big in films with 13 Going On 30 and Daredevil, the latter earning her a headliner of her own in Elektra. The list below charts her bumpy ride to the top.<br /><br />The Kingdom (2007)<br />Catch and Release (2006)<br />Elektra (2005)<br />13 Going On 30 (2004)<br />The Ellen Degeneres Show (TV series, one episode, as herself) (2004)<br />The Simpsons (TV series, one episode, voice) (2003)<br />Mad TV (TV series, one episode) (2003)<br />Saturday Night Live (TV series, one episode, as host) (2003)<br />Daredevil (2003)<br />Catch Me If You Can (2002)<br />Felicity (TV series, one episode) (2002)<br />Alias (TV series) (2001-now)<br />Rennie's Landing (2001)<br />Pearl Harbour (2001)<br />Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)<br />Aftershock: Earthquake In New York (TV) (1999)<br />Time Of Your Life (TV series) (1999)<br />Felicity (TV series, one episode) (1999)<br />The Pretender (TV series, one episode) (1999)<br />1999 (1998)<br />Significant Others (TV series) (1998)<br />Felicity (TV series, one episode) (1998)<br />Fantasy Island (TV series, one episode) (1998)<br />In Harm's Way (short) (1997)<br />Mr Magoo (1997)<br />Washington Square (1997)<br />Deconstructing Harry (1997)<br />Rose Hill (TV) (1997)<br />Spin City (TV series, one episode) (1996)<br />Dead Man's Walk (TV miniseries) (1996)<br />Harvest Of Fire (TV) (1996)<br />Law And Order (TV series, one episode) (1996)<br />Swift Justice (TV series, one episode) (1996)<br />Zoya (TV) (1995)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yuDREr8G61A&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yuDREr8G61A&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-8489864882946805877?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-44560319820316391202008-01-06T02:48:00.000-08:002008-01-06T02:53:37.881-08:00Kristin kreuk<br /><br />Birthdate: December 30, 1982<br /><br />She never had aspirations to become a star, but Kristen Kreuk has succeeded in Hollywood anyways. Get the goods on this down-to-earth Canadian girl!<br />Kristin Kreuk's Start<br />Kristin Kreuk was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia. She started acting in high school plays but never pursued it too much. Kristin just happened to be in the right place, at the right time, when during her senior year, an open casting call was faxed to her high school! She went to the audition and snagged a starring role on the short-lived Canadian TV show, Edgemont.<br /><br />Kristin Kreuk's Super Role<br />While working on Edgemont, Kristen went on to land an even bigger role. Twenty-two year-old Kristin Kreuk has been playing Lana Lang, Clark Kent's secret crush, on the WB hit Smallville, for four seasons now! When Kristen Kreuk's not solving mysteries in Smallville, the half-Dutch, half-Chinese actress lives in Vancouver - spending time with her friends and family. In Kristin Kreuk's down time she loves to go to the movies, read, dance and do gymnastics. Most recently Kristen has been working on the flick Partition, which is set in 1940's India. It is due in theaters sometime in 2006.<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBbvIaq4hGs&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oBbvIaq4hGs&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4456031982031639120?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-78918481829704452542008-01-06T02:41:00.000-08:002008-01-06T02:42:47.006-08:00Hollywood Perfect Celebrity<br /><br />Featuring Chatherine Bell, Brook Burke, Andriana Lima, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Heidi Klum, Uma Thurman, Eva Longoria, Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, Charlize Theron, Tyra Banks, Christina Aquilera, Jennifer Aniston, Shannon Elizabeth, Kirsten Dunst, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Uma Thurman, Heather Graham, Keira|...<br /><br /><object codebase="http://go.divx.com/plugin/DivXBrowserPlugin.cab" classid="clsid:67DABFBF-D0AB-41fa-9C46-CC0F21721616" height="256" width="320"><param name="autoplay" value="false"><param name="src" value="http://video.stage6.com/1327086/.divx"><param name="custommode" value="Stage6"><param name="showpostplaybackad" value="false"><embed type="video/divx" src="http://video.stage6.com/1327086/.divx" pluginspage="http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/" showpostplaybackad="false" custommode="Stage6" autoplay="false" height="256" width="320"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7891848182970445254?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-56640974077360924452008-01-06T02:06:00.000-08:002008-01-06T02:09:51.913-08:00<span>Kim's KILLER Fitness Model portfolio</span><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sV2HGTgSVUM&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sV2HGTgSVUM&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Venice Muscle Beach Fitness Models Contest<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KjRlMbYf2P4&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KjRlMbYf2P4&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Bikinis Workouts Fitness Models Swimsuits Girls Bodybuilding<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/a2wZrOF7hP8&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a2wZrOF7hP8&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Fitness Model AVA COWAN in Sexy Photo Shoot<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KVdEk8-zZKc&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KVdEk8-zZKc&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Hot and Sexy Fitness Event I<br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ro2poUNNqhk&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ro2poUNNqhk&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />2005 Women's Tri-Fitness Fall Classic - Physique 18 - 24<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/86O-Je1vta0&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/86O-Je1vta0&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5664097407736092445?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-83904241192499807872008-01-06T01:42:00.000-08:002008-01-06T02:02:11.933-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4ClZPPqj6I/AAAAAAAACYc/7pogV7jJxGM/s1600-h/0000041075_20070705172936.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4ClZPPqj6I/AAAAAAAACYc/7pogV7jJxGM/s320/0000041075_20070705172936.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152299826719395746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4CkhfPqj4I/AAAAAAAACYM/-dwo-hxkZ2g/s1600-h/emmy2005_teri_hatcher.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4CkhfPqj4I/AAAAAAAACYM/-dwo-hxkZ2g/s320/emmy2005_teri_hatcher.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152298868941688706" border="0" /></a><br /><p> Teri Hatcher was best known for her Lois Lane role on Lois &amp; Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and now Susan Mayer on <i>Desperate Housewives</i>. She's 41 today (8th December).</p> <p>Susan Mayer is 38 years old on the show.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4Cl9PPqj7I/AAAAAAAACYk/XNSq8m_cCDE/s1600-h/0000037889_20070220115449.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4Cl9PPqj7I/AAAAAAAACYk/XNSq8m_cCDE/s320/0000037889_20070220115449.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152300445194686386" border="0" /></a></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4Ck1fPqj5I/AAAAAAAACYU/QkODILlTnvg/s1600-h/5013891.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R4Ck1fPqj5I/AAAAAAAACYU/QkODILlTnvg/s320/5013891.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152299212539072402" border="0" /></a></p><p><br /></p><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZtTDdXjv-I&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4ZtTDdXjv-I&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-8390424119249980787?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-25214796992985749512007-12-30T09:05:00.000-08:002007-12-30T09:10:28.085-08:00<span class="paragraph">The most photographed fitness model today thanks to her hard body and great assets. She is featured on a few websites and has a hot DVD out which will be coming soon to this site.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQ1fPqj3I/AAAAAAAACYE/OiYe8m6_gNg/s1600-h/dana-hamm.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQ1fPqj3I/AAAAAAAACYE/OiYe8m6_gNg/s320/dana-hamm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149814316260298610" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQkPPqj2I/AAAAAAAACX8/XDE3vfscgZw/s1600-h/dana-hamm3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQkPPqj2I/AAAAAAAACX8/XDE3vfscgZw/s320/dana-hamm3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149814019907555170" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQY_Pqj1I/AAAAAAAACX0/yBPUdjaJdTE/s1600-h/dana-hamm-naked.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQY_Pqj1I/AAAAAAAACX0/yBPUdjaJdTE/s320/dana-hamm-naked.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149813826634026834" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQOPPqj0I/AAAAAAAACXs/sImYye9syS0/s1600-h/dana-hamm-pic.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fQOPPqj0I/AAAAAAAACXs/sImYye9syS0/s320/dana-hamm-pic.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149813641950433090" border="0" /></a><br /><span class="paragraph"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2521479699298574951?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-10667256183717129222007-12-30T08:55:00.000-08:002007-12-30T09:01:07.352-08:00This German supermodel started out in <em>Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue</em><!-- google_ad_section_end --> and the Victoria's Secret catalog. She also appeared on several T.V. shows and now produces Telivision shows. Heidi Klum is one of the sexiest supermodels to have ever walked the runway, so enjoy the sexy picture gallery we put together for your viewing pleasure.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOovPqjzI/AAAAAAAACXk/7aSKD0oiI9M/s1600-h/heidi-klum-naked.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOovPqjzI/AAAAAAAACXk/7aSKD0oiI9M/s320/heidi-klum-naked.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149811898193710898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOaPPqjyI/AAAAAAAACXc/Sjl5H1wHz-o/s1600-h/heidi-klum-beach.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOaPPqjyI/AAAAAAAACXc/Sjl5H1wHz-o/s320/heidi-klum-beach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149811649085607714" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOPPPqjxI/AAAAAAAACXU/3Vh9OJLMXrQ/s1600-h/heidi-klum6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOPPPqjxI/AAAAAAAACXU/3Vh9OJLMXrQ/s320/heidi-klum6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149811460107046674" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOJ_PqjwI/AAAAAAAACXM/VebFwaB92Pc/s1600-h/heidi-klum8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fOJ_PqjwI/AAAAAAAACXM/VebFwaB92Pc/s320/heidi-klum8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149811369912733442" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fODvPqjvI/AAAAAAAACXE/Q-E8Xw9lcow/s1600-h/heidi-klum10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fODvPqjvI/AAAAAAAACXE/Q-E8Xw9lcow/s320/heidi-klum10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149811262538551026" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1066725618371712922?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-16173378672756431422007-12-30T08:37:00.000-08:002007-12-30T08:49:53.061-08:00<span class="paragraph">Michelle was born on October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the youngest player ever to qualify for an LPGA tournament at age 12, and has made several attempts to make the cut at a PGA Tour events.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fL9vPqjtI/AAAAAAAACW0/KSEbd4mBs0o/s1600-h/michelle-wie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fL9vPqjtI/AAAAAAAACW0/KSEbd4mBs0o/s320/michelle-wie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149808960436080338" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fLvfPqjsI/AAAAAAAACWs/bYdz8iaD6Ow/s1600-h/michelle-wie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fLvfPqjsI/AAAAAAAACWs/bYdz8iaD6Ow/s320/michelle-wie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149808715622944450" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3fLefPqjrI/AAAAAAAACWk/ta10SA_1BW8/s1600-h/michelle-wie3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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Patricia and Kevin Siblings; Jonathan and Lee-Ann<br />Hobbies: Skiing, Snow boarding, Drawing, Photography, Roller Blading and Painting (she has her garage set up as a paint studio)<br />Dislikes flying so much that she has certain rituals she must do: like always board the plane with her right foot first. (From an April 2004 appearence on Conan O'Brien)</p><p> 1.<a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#CatTale" class="l">Cat Tale</a> (2006) (filming) (voice) .... Cleo<br /> 2. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#TheGame24" class="l">24: The Game</a> (2005) (VG) (filming) (voice) .... Kim Bauer<br /> 3. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Captivity" class="l">Captivity</a> (2006) (post-production)<br /> 4. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#TheQuiet" class="l">The Quiet</a> (2005) (post-production) .... Nina<br /> </p><p>5. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#how" class="l">House of Wax</a> (2005) .... Carly Jones<br /> 6. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#tgnd" class="l">The Girl Next Door</a> (2004) .... Danielle<br /> 7. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#LoveActually" class="l">Love Actually</a> (2003) .... Carol-Anne, American Goddess<br /> 8. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#OldSchool" class="l">Old School</a> (2003) .... Darcie<br /> 9. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#s24" class="l">"24"</a> (2001) TV Series .... Kimberly Bauer (2001-2004)<br /> 10. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#LuckyGirl" class="l">Lucky Girl</a> (2001) (TV) .... Katlin Palmerston<br /> ... aka My Daughter's Secret Life (USA)<br /> 11. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Mail" class="l">Mail to the Chief</a> (2000) (TV) .... Madison Osgood<br /> 12. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Believe" class="l">Believe</a> (2000/I) .... Katherine Winslowe<br /> </p> <p>13. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Afraid" class="l">"Are You Afraid of the Dark?"</a> (1999) TV Series .... Megan<br /> 14. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Time" class="l">Time at the Top</a> (1999) .... Susan Shawson<br /> ... aka Ascenseur du temps, L' (Canada: French title)<br /> 15. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#House" class="l">Who Gets the House?</a> (1999) .... Emily Reece<br /> ... aka Qui garde la maison? (Canada: French title)<br /> 16. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Airspeed" class="l">Airspeed</a> (1998) .... Nicole Stone<br /> 17. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Nico" class="l">Nico the Unicorn</a> (1998) .... Carolyn Price<br /> 18. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Dancing" class="l">Dancing on the Moon</a> (1997) .... Sarah<br /> ... aka Viens danser... sur la lune (Canada: French title)<br /> 19. <a href="http://www.elisha-online.com/filmography.php#Popular" class="l">"Popular Mechanics for Kids"</a> (1997) TV Series .... Elisha (1997-2000)<br /> </p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><strong>Notable TV Guest Appearances</strong></p> <p>1. <span class="text2">"The Tony Danza Show"</span> playing "Herself" 10 May 2005<br /> 2. <span class="text2">"Mondo Thingo"</span> playing "Herself" (episode # 1.20) 15 July 2004<br /> 3. <span class="text2">"Last Call with Carson Daly"</span> playing "Herself" 16 April 2004<br /> 4. <span class="text2">"Mad TV"</span> playing "Herself" (episode # 9.20) 10 April 2004<br /> 5. <span class="text2">"E! News Daily"</span> playing "Herself" 8 April 2004<br /> 6. <span class="text2">"Late Night with Conan O'Brien"</span> playing "Herself" 6 April 2004<br /> 7. <span class="text2">"Live with Regis and Kathie Lee"</span> playing "Herself" 6 April 2004<br /> 8. <span class="text2">"T4"</span> playing "Herself" 4 April 2004<br /> 9. <span class="text2">"Tinseltown TV"</span> playing "Herself" 31 January 2004<br /> 10. <span class="text2">"Ed's Big Wham Bam"</span> playing "Herself" 22 August 2003<br /> 11. <span class="text2">"Pure 24"</span> playing "Herself" (episode # 1.3) 2 March 2003<br /> 12. <span class="text2">"This Hour Has 22 Minutes"</span> playing "Herself" 12 November 2002<br /> 13. <span class="text2">"Largo Winch"</span> playing "Abbey" in episode: "Dear Abbey" (episode # 1.17) 4 November 2001<br /> </p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="CatTale"></a>Cat Tale (2006) </p> <p>Directed by: Flix Ip<br /> Writing credits : Aaron Mendelsohn , Kevin Munroe</p> <p> Genre: Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family</p> <p> Plot Outline: Rover (Astin) is a cat who has grown up in Dogtown by accident, and voyages to Catopolis to find his roots.</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="TheGame24" id="TheGame24"></a>24: The Game (2005) (VG)</p> <p>Writing credits : Duppy Demetrius </p> <p> Genre: Action</p> <p> This game bridges the story gap between 24 Season 2 and Season 3 </p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Captivity"></a>Captivity (2006) </p> <p>Directed by: Roland Joffé<br /> Writing credits : Larry Cohen (written by)</p> <p> Genre: Thriller</p> <p> Plot Outline: A man and a woman awaken to find themselves chained to each other in a cellar. As their kidnapper psychologically drives them mad the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="TheQuiet"></a>The Quiet (2005)</p> <p>Directed by: Jamie Babbit<br /> Writing credits : Abdi Nazemian (written by)&amp; Micah Schraft (written by)</p> <p> Genre: Drama</p> <p> Plot Outline: Sent to live with a foster family, Dot, a deaf orphan girl, soon realizes that all is not copacetic in her new, seemingly average home.</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="how"></a>House of Wax (2005)</p> <p>Directed by: Jaume Collet-Serra<br /> Writing credits : Charles Belden (story), Chad Hayes (screenplay) ...</p> <p> Genre: Horror</p> <p> Plot Outline: Car troubles lead a group of college students to wander into a museum overseen by a sadistic curator.</p> <p> User Rating: 5.1/10</p> <p> Awards: 7 nominations </p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="tgnd"></a>The Girl Next Door (2004)</p> <p>Directed by: Luke Greenfield<br /> Writing credits : David Wagner (story)&amp; Brent Goldberg (story) ...</p> <p> Genre: Comedy / Romance</p> <p> Plot Outline: A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.</p> <p> User Rating: 6.8/10</p> <p> Awards: 4 nominations</p> <p> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="LoveActually"></a>Love Actually (2003)</p> <p>Directed by: Richard Curtis<br /> Writing credits : Richard Curtis (written by)</p> <p>Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance</p> <p> Plot Outline: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.</p> <p>User Rating: 7.8/10</p> <p>Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 9 wins &amp; 13 nominations</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="OldSchool"></a>Old School (2003)</p> <p>Directed by: Todd Phillips<br /> Writing credits : Court Crandall (story) and Todd Phillips (story) ...</p> <p>Genre: Comedy</p> <p>Plot Outline: Three men are disenchanted with life and try to recapture their college days.</p> <p>User Rating: 6.8/10</p> <p>Awards: 4 nominations</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="s24"></a>"24" (2001) [TV-Series 2001-????]</p> <p>Created by: Joel Surnow , Robert Cochran </p> <p>Genre: Action / Thriller / Drama</p> <p>Plot Outline: CTU agent Jack Bauer has to race the clock to handle both a presidential candidate assassination plot and his daughter's kidnapping, while dealing with a mole inside the agency.</p> <p>Awards: Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 21 wins &amp; 81 nominations</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="LuckyGirl"></a>Lucky Girl (2001) (TV)</p> <p>Directed by: John Fawcett<br /> Writing credits : John Frizzell (story), Graeme Manson (teleplay) ...</p> <p>Genre: Drama</p> <p>User Rating: 7.3/10</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Mail"></a>Mail to the Chief (2000) (TV)</p> <p>Directed by: Eric Champnella<br /> Writing credits : Eric Champnella (teleplay), Eric Champnella (story) ...</p> <p>Genre: Comedy / Family</p> <p>Plot Summary: A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online...</p> <p>User Rating: 6.2/10</p> <p>Awards: 1 nomination</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Believe"></a>Believe (2000/I)</p> <p>Directed by: Robert Tinnell<br /> Writing credits : Richard Goudreau , Roc LaFortune</p> <p>Genre: Family / Horror</p> <p>Plot Summary: After being continually kicked out of boarding schools, Ben is sent to live with his stern Grandfather in a small town...</p> <p>User Rating: 5.0/10</p> <p>Awards: 1 win</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Afraid"></a>"Are You Afraid of the Dark?" (1999) [TV-Series 1999-2000]</p> <p>Directed by: Sean Dwyer, Ron Oliver<br /> Writing credits : James Morris (writer) (2 episodes), Ted Elrick (writer) (episode)</p> <p>Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror</p> <p>Plot Outline: A group called The Midnight Society meet at night and tell ghost stories around a campfire.</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Time"></a>Time at the Top (1999)</p> <p>Directed by: Jim Kaufman<br /> Writing credits : Linda Brookover , Edward Ormondroyd (novel)</p> <p>Genre: Sci-Fi</p> <p>Plot Summary: 14-year old Susan Shawson travels back in time in her building's elevator. As altered by a retired physicist living in her building...</p> <p>User Rating: 4.8/10</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="House"></a>Who Gets the House? (1999)</p> <p>Directed by: Timothy J. Nelson<br /> Writing credits : Patricia Lavoie</p> <p>Genre: Comedy </p> <p>Plot Summary: Don and Rebecca Reece are facing the toughest decision of their lives whether or not to end their marriage of nearly 20 years...</p> <p>User Rating: 4.6/10</p> <p class="headers"> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Airspeed"></a>Airspeed (1998)</p> <p>Directed by: Robert Tinnell<br /> Writing credits : Richard Goudreau (screenplay), Roc LaFortune (screenplay)</p> <p>Genre: Adventure / Action / Drama / Thriller</p> <p>Plot Outline: After lightening strikes Flight 109, the only chance for survival is a young girl.</p> <p>User Rating: 2.9/10</p> <p> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Nico"></a>Nico the Unicorn (1998)</p> <p> Directed by: Graeme Campbell<br /> Writing credits : Frank Sacks (also novel)</p> <p> Genre: Adventure / Family / Fantasy</p> <p>Plot Outline: As an 11-year-old boy struggles to cope with a disability, he finds a pony who gives birth to a unicorn which he takes care of.</p> <p>User Rating: 5.6/10</p> <p> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Dancing"></a>Dancing on the Moon (1997)</p> <p> Directed by: Kit Hood<br /> Writing credits : Jacqui Manning-Albert (screenplay) and Kevin Tierney (screenplay)</p> <p>Genre: Animation / Drama / Family</p> <p>Plot Summary: Madeline is 13 years old, as are her two friends, and nothing looks the same to her. Her sister is leaving to study medicine...</p> <p>User Rating: 6.4/10</p> <p>Awards: 1 win</p> <p> </p> <p class="headers"><a name="Popular"></a>"Popular Mechanics for Kids" (1997) [TV-Series 1997-2001]</p> <p> Directed by: Jean Louis Côté, Sid Goldberg</p> <p>Genre: Family</p> <p>One of the longest and most successful running English-language television series produced in Montreal, a total of 88 episodes in all. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4106632160453220222?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-29704053124756943622007-12-27T22:11:00.000-08:002007-12-27T22:25:56.999-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SVBPPqjdI/AAAAAAAACU0/xJC8ChG9GkA/s1600-h/11.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SVBPPqjdI/AAAAAAAACU0/xJC8ChG9GkA/s320/11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148904122495962578" border="0" /></a><br />Sexy Maggie Q, otherwise known as Maggie Quigley has been around in Asian cinema and modelling for many years. She is a big star in East Asia starring with the likes of Jackie Chan. Recently, she starred in her biggest Hollywood role to date alongside Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III. She just finished starring with Bruce Willis in his latest movie - Live Free or Die Hard - from the Die Hard Series. Maggie played a world-class hacker at odds with a villain who tries to terrorize America. Check out her biography, movies and pictures.<br /><p>Born to an American father and a Vietnamese mother, Maggie Denise Quigley was raised among the palm trees and golden sand of Honolulu, Hawaii. Her destiny, however, awaited beyond her picturesque island home, and at the age of 18 she moved to Hong Kong in order to pursue a career in modeling. </p> <p> Maggie Q's unique look made her a popular attraction and before long she was gracing the covers of major publications such as Cosmopolitan, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, FHM, and Marie Claire. Her burgeoning supermodel status prompted a plethora of movie offers and Maggie finally made her big-screen debut in 1999's The Legendary Tai Fei. There was just one problem: She didn't actually speak Cantonese, meaning Maggie had to learn all of her lines phonetically.</p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SVL_PqjeI/AAAAAAAACU8/axOmUpbaO1c/s1600-h/24.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SVL_PqjeI/AAAAAAAACU8/axOmUpbaO1c/s320/24.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148904307179556322" border="0" /></a></p><table class="mainBody" width="350"><tbody><tr><th>Year</th> <th>Movie</th> <th>Role</th> </tr> <tr> <td>2008</td> <td> Resurrection of the Dragon</td> <td>Cao Yin</td> </tr> <tr> </tr><tr> <td>2007</td> <td> Live Free or Die Hard</td> <td>Mai Lihn</td> </tr> <tr> </tr><tr> <td>2007</td> <td> The Tourist</td> <td><br /></td> </tr> <tr> </tr><tr> <td>2007</td> <td> Balls of Fury</td> <td>Maggie Wong</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2006</td> <td> Mission: Impossible III</td> <td>Zhen Lei</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2006</td> <td> The Counting House</td> <td>Jade</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> <td> Dragon Squad</td> <td>Song</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> <td> House of Harmony</td> <td>Harmony</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2005</td> <td> Taped</td> <td>Maggie</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004</td> <td> Rice Rhapsody</td> <td>Gigi</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004</td> <td> Around the World in 80 Days</td> <td>Female Agent</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2004</td> <td> Magic Kitchen</td> <td>May</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2002</td> <td> Naked Weapon</td> <td>Charlene Ching</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2001</td> <td> Rush Hour 2</td> <td>Girl in Car</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2001</td> <td> Manhattan Midnight</td> <td>Susan/Hope</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td> Gen-Y Cops</td> <td>Jane Quigley</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td> Model from Hell</td> <td>Anna</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2000</td> <td> The Legendary 'Tai Fei'</td> <td>Kei, wife of Fei</td></tr></tbody></table><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SWU_PqjgI/AAAAAAAACVM/KnStTsoXzkI/s1600-h/10h.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SWU_PqjgI/AAAAAAAACVM/KnStTsoXzkI/s320/10h.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148905561310006786" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SWBPPqjfI/AAAAAAAACVE/xdyWPaQqd7g/s1600-h/26.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/R3SWBPPqjfI/AAAAAAAACVE/xdyWPaQqd7g/s320/26.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5148905222007590386" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2970405312475694362?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-62602404780891269142007-10-29T20:43:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:45:59.067-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaowJpVraI/AAAAAAAACUo/Q1ONtM8xYrk/s1600-h/ice4.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126970770984381858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaowJpVraI/AAAAAAAACUo/Q1ONtM8xYrk/s400/ice4.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaooJpVrZI/AAAAAAAACUg/1M20FILMCso/s1600-h/ice2.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126970633545428370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaooJpVrZI/AAAAAAAACUg/1M20FILMCso/s400/ice2.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Name: Apisada Kruakongka</div><div>Profession: Actress, Model</div><div>Birth date: 4 April 1985</div><div>Height: 169cm</div><div>Birthplace: Bangkok, Thailand</div><br /><div>Apisada Kruakongka is Thai actress. In the picture she look very hot it's different her nickname - Ice. Her shape is very sexy.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6260240478089126914?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-23294373084867494152007-10-29T20:38:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:40:55.998-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyankJpVrYI/AAAAAAAACUY/m4bWf9ziuo0/s1600-h/Janie_Thienphosuvan_7.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126969465314323842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyankJpVrYI/AAAAAAAACUY/m4bWf9ziuo0/s400/Janie_Thienphosuvan_7.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyancZpVrXI/AAAAAAAACUQ/Kk1QqEQMcqQ/s1600-h/Janie_Thienphosuvan_5.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126969332170337650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyancZpVrXI/AAAAAAAACUQ/Kk1QqEQMcqQ/s400/Janie_Thienphosuvan_5.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Name: Janie Thienphosuvan</div><div>Profession: Actress, Model</div><div>Birth date: 11 September 1981</div><div>Height: 167cm</div><div>Birthplace: Bangkok, Thailand</div><br /><div>Janie Thienphosuvan is Thai famous actress. She is cute girl. Her sexiness is more her sex appeal. Enjoy with her pictures!</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2329437308486749415?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-58079573477495467692007-10-29T20:30:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:34:29.551-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryalv5pVrWI/AAAAAAAACUI/YSxRA5USGKc/s1600-h/boa6.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126967468154531170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryalv5pVrWI/AAAAAAAACUI/YSxRA5USGKc/s400/boa6.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Name: Boa Kwon</div><div>Profession: Singer, Dancer and Model</div><div>Birth date: 5 November 1986</div><div>Height: 160 cm</div><div>Birthplace: Guri, South Korea</div><br /><div></div><div>Boa Kwon is a South Korean singer, commonly known by her stage name BoA. She has been active in both South Korea and Japan. On June 28, 2006 it was rumored that BoA may star in her first movie role alongside Taiwanese superstar, Jay Chou. She also speaks Japanese and conversational English.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5807957347749546769?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-46205793332901308262007-10-29T20:22:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:26:26.442-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryaj5ppVrVI/AAAAAAAACUA/5TWKf01eFrk/s1600-h/fann_wong_6.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126965436635000146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryaj5ppVrVI/AAAAAAAACUA/5TWKf01eFrk/s400/fann_wong_6.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryaj0ZpVrUI/AAAAAAAACT4/xRLZP_oBLHk/s1600-h/fann_wong_2.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126965346440686914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Ryaj0ZpVrUI/AAAAAAAACT4/xRLZP_oBLHk/s400/fann_wong_2.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Name: Fann Woon Fong</div><br /><div>Profession: Singer, Actress and Model</div><br /><div>Birth date: 27 January 1971</div><br /><div>Height: 171 cm</div><br /><div>Birthplace: Singapore</div><br /><div></div><div>Fann Wong is a Singaporean actress, singer and model. Fann Wong won a cover girl contest at age of 16 and started her modeling career, traveling occassionaly to Taiwan for TV commercial ads filming. It was until 1994 when a Singapore TV producer invited Fann to star in a TV drama series, that Fann started her acting career. She is currently in relation with her long term boyfriend, fellow Singaporean actor Chris Lee. She is also a versatile artist, she acts well, sing well and is a great fashion model and she’s beautiful.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4620579333290130826?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-67750177832568194612007-10-29T20:16:00.001-07:002007-10-29T20:17:58.219-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaiMJpVrTI/AAAAAAAACTw/5qS_0tTrSaU/s1600-h/hiroko_sato_1.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126963555439324466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyaiMJpVrTI/AAAAAAAACTw/5qS_0tTrSaU/s400/hiroko_sato_1.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Name: Hiroko Sato</div><br /><div>Profession: Actress, Singer and Model</div><br /><div>Birth date: 17 February 1985</div><br /><div>Height: 160 cm</div><br /><div>Birthplace: Kanagawa, Japan</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Hiroko Sato is a Japanese gravure idol, actress and singer. She made her acting debut in 2002 with the movie Scare. She began to model in various gravure publications soon after, including Up to Boy and Sabra. As an actress, Hiroko works mainly in horror films.Her first single was released in 2005, and she participated in a compilation single with Sayaka Isoyama and Aki Hoshino. Hiroko has not released any music since.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6775017783256819461?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-66006518820196226852007-10-29T20:10:00.000-07:002007-10-29T20:13:57.279-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyahZJpVrSI/AAAAAAAACTo/0qZ0rX1x2s0/s1600-h/pancake8.jpeg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5126962679265996066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RyahZJpVrSI/AAAAAAAACTo/0qZ0rX1x2s0/s400/pancake8.jpeg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Name: Khemanit Jamikorn</div><br /><div>Profession: Actress, Model</div><br /><div>Birth date: 27 May 1988</div><br /><div>Height: 178 cm</div><br /><div>Birthplace: Bangkok, Thailand</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Khemanit Jamikorn is Thai famous actress. Her nickname is Pancake. She was winner of the Thai Supermodel 2004 contest. She is appears on many covers of the most high profile magazines in Thailand.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6600651882019622685?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-44263909555959075552007-09-01T09:06:00.000-07:002007-09-01T09:09:48.523-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmOw54Ax6I/AAAAAAAACTg/aZ6cxdwjC8g/s1600-h/cate_blanchett_3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105268623421786018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmOw54Ax6I/AAAAAAAACTg/aZ6cxdwjC8g/s400/cate_blanchett_3.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>She was born Catherine Elise Blanchett on the 14th of May, 1969, at the Jessie McPherson Hospital in Melbourne (popularly known as the Jessie Mac, now - like so many hospitals - a vacant lot). Her father, Bob, was a Texan and ex-US Navy man who'd met Cate's mother, a teacher named June, and moved into advertising in Melbourne. There were two siblings: older brother Bob, now in computers, and younger sister Genevieve, a theatre designer. Cate claims there's some French ancestry in there somewhere, one antecedent being Louis Bleriot, the first aviator to fly across the English Channel. Or La Manche, depending on how you look at it.<br />As a kid, Cate recalls herself as "part extrovert, part wallflower". The extrovert part was fuelled early when, at a friend's birthday party at age 6, she was hugely impressed by a magician and began to dream of life as a performer. Her parents encouraged her, particularly in the field of music. She has an abiding love of classical music, even now guesting regularly on ABC Classic FM radio in Sydney, both playing and discussing.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4426390955595907555?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-54596862957327501322007-09-01T09:00:00.000-07:002008-01-06T02:39:55.993-08:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmNLp4Ax5I/AAAAAAAACTY/ovUh5-6x_ik/s1600-h/keira_knightley.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105266883960031122" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmNLp4Ax5I/AAAAAAAACTY/ovUh5-6x_ik/s400/keira_knightley.jpg" border="0" /></a> Born: 22 March 1985Where: London, EnglandAwards: 1 Oscar and 1 Golden Globe nominationsHeight: 5' 7"<br /><br />Few actresses enjoy the kind of success Keira Knightley saw in 2003. First, her major picture starring debut, Pirates Of The Caribbean, entered the all-time Top 20 of box-office hits. Then, due to this success, her earlier low-budget effort, Bend It Like Beckham, already a cult smash, found its release widened dramatically, taking it into undreamed of profit. Following these with Love, Actually, the latest cute rom-com from Richard "Notting Hill" Curtis, her rise in a few short months would be nothing short of phenomenal. And still she was only 18.<br />Yet, despite her tender years, Knightley already had a fair amount of working experience. Like such American actresses as Kirsten Dunst and Julia Stiles, she had begun her career at an absurdly young age. Unlike them, though, she had not done so through the actions of "pushy" parents. Knightley's focus was all her own, and had first become apparent at the absurdly young age of 3.<br />She was born Kiera Knightley on the 22nd of March, 1985, in Teddington, south-west London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule of "I before E except after C" but making the name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Her father was stage actor Will Knightley, who'd make the occasional foray into television, such as starring as Mr Glegg in the BBC's 1997 production of The Mill On The Floss. Her Ayrshire-born mother, Sharman MacDonald, had also been a stage and TV actress (she once appeared in Shoestring). Having joined the Drama Society at Edinburgh University in 1972, then worked as a go-go dancer to pay her Drama School fees, she'd battled against stage fright for 12 years. Eventually, pregnant with Keira and having borne son Caleb five years earlier (he'd go on to teach music to underprivileged kids), in 1984 she gave up acting and concentrated on her family.<br />She also took up a career in playwriting and, after debuting with When I Was A Girl I Used To Scream And Shout, she proceeded to deliver such notable efforts as After Juliet, All Things Nice, The Brave, Sea Urchins, Shades and The Winter Guest, the last being taken to the big screen by Alan Rickman. On top of this, she'd write Wild Flowers and The Music Practice for TV, and a BBC documentary would be made about her, called Mindscape and featuring the young Keira.<br />Most kids like to join in with whatever their parents are up to, and Keira was no exception. At the age of 3, noticing that both Will and Sharman were getting regular calls from their respective agents, the young girl demanded one of her own. She was, of course, politely refused, but was insistent in her requests for the next several years. By the time she was 6, her mother struck a bargain with her. As the child had recently been diagnosed as dyslexic, she said that if Keira came to her every day of the summer holidays and spent an hour working on her reading and maths, she would provide her with professional representation. This challenge was important. Up until this point Keira had been ridiculed by her schoolmates for her supposed stupidity. In fact, her dyslexia meant she couldn't read words and wrote numbers backwards. It got so bad that she'd get hold of book-tapes and memorise them so that no one would recognise her failings.<br />To Sharman's surprise, the child complied and then forced her mother to keep to the bargain. And, to mum's horror, the new agent did his work well. At age 7, Keira filmed her TV debut, Royal Celebration, concerning the complicated lives and loves in a London square at the time of Prince Charles' marriage to Diana Spencer and featuring the likes of Kenneth Cranham, Minnie Driver and Rupert Graves.<br />Fearing their daughter would begin to neglect her schoolwork - a potential disaster for a dyslexic - Keira's parents told her she could only pursue her new career during the summer holidays. So, throughout the mid-Nineties, she did just that. 1994 brought a minor role in Joanna Trollope's controversial drama A Village Affair, featuring a lesbian relationship between Sophie Ward and Kerry Fox. Yet again Keira found herself amidst a heavy-duty cast, including Claire Bloom and Jeremy Northam.<br />1995 brought Innocent Lies, set in 1938, where an aristocratic family in a small seaside town are suspected of complicity in a murder. Joanna Lumley played the Nazi-supporting matriarch, while daughter Gabrielle Anwar and son Stephen Dorff hid some terrible secret - Keira playing the young Anwar in flashback. The next year saw another period drama in E. Nesbit's Treasure Seekers where a poor widowered inventor worked on a breakthrough in refrigeration while his five kids tried to help - Keira playing The Princess, a neat presaging of what was soon to come. This time her lofty co-stars included James Wilby, Gina McKee and Ian Richardson.<br />Meanwhile, Keira's education continued at Teddington School, a classy and well-funded establishment thats grounds extended to the banks of the Thames, where it had its own slipway for launching boats. With 10 science laboratories, a TV studio and a Music and Drama block it offered great opportunities. Through her early teens Keira would make the most of her spare time, too, attending drama workshops at the nearby Heatham House youth club. This was an extremely forward-looking club, established some 50 years before, where artists, musicians, dramatists and youth workers would teach kids such fun subjects as photography, football, DJing, breakdancing, skateboarding and acting. This was where Keira would gain most of her early acting experience. And, remember, for her this was a normal situation. Unlike the millions who seek instant celebrity by banging out soul-less karaoke on Pop Idol or scoring a part on some wretched soap-opera, Knightley did not equate acting with fame or big bucks. Due to her parents' efforts and lifestyle, she saw it simply as a job that needed to be learned.<br />Come 1998, it was back to period drama with Rosamund Pilcher's TV epic Coming Home. This saw Keira (who was "Introduced" in the credits) as Judith Dunbar, a quiet girl sent to an English boarding school by her parents in the colonies in the 1930s. Here she's befriended by a rich girl and eventually, due to tragedy in the family, taken in by the girl's folks, the movie following the lives of the two girls as they suffer class divisions and WW2. The older Judith would be played by Emily Mortimer, who'd fall for her friend's brother Paul Bettany, the cast also featuring Peter O'Toole and, once again, Joanna Lumley.<br />While still at Teddington School, Knightley received a most extraordinary offer - to play a handmaiden of Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in the forthcoming The Phantom Menace, part one of the Star Wars saga and perhaps the most hotly anticipated movie in history. In fact, as the plot required her to dress as Portman and thus act as a decoy, she would, to all intents and purposes, be appearing AS Queen Amidala. Trouble was, with George Lucas keeping his cards so close to his chest, this plot-twist, and thus Keira's presence in the movie, was kept absolutely secret. She was, therefore, perhaps the only actress ever to not have her career boosted by a prime role in one of the biggest hits ever.<br />As said, fame was not really the point for Keira, and her next role was a satisfying one. It came at a good time, too. Upset at school due to a constant breaking up with friends mostly caused by her work, things had got so bad that a week before her 13th birthday her mother had allowed her to have her belly-button pierced - just to cheer her up. What cheered her more, though, was a part in Alan Bleasdale's adaptation of Oliver Twist, a work that courageously stretched beyond Dickens' work to enrich the characters and story. Here Keira played the young aunt of Oliver who, along with kindly executor Mr Brownlow, tries to protect the boy from his homicidal half-brother and, of course, the manipulative Fagin.<br />Now the offers of work were coming in thick and fast. 2001 saw her star in the Disney-backed TV production Princess Of Thieves where she played Gwynn, daughter of Robin Hood and Maid Marian, who, despite her father's promise to her dying mother, has secretly become an adept at archery and horse-riding. This proves helpful when Robin is imprisoned by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Malcolm McDowell) and attempts are made to assassinate Philip, the rightful heir to the throne. Only Gwynn and her dopey sidekick Froderick (who loves her on the quiet) stand between England and disaster.<br />It was an endearing romp and her first starring role (though she had headlined Star Wars I in an odd kind of way, as the Queen Amidala doll sold as merchandise had resembled Keira rather than Natalie Portman). It also introduced her to actor Del Synnott who played Froderick and would go on to star in the TV series Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and play D.S Carter in Murphy's Law. The couple would still be seeing each other when Knightley struck gold in 2003.<br />Immediately after Princess Of Thieves came another venture onto the big screen with the Brit horror flick The Hole. Here, alongside Thora Birch, Keira played one of four public schoolkids who are trapped for 2 weeks in a deep cavity originally intended as a bomb shelter. Keira's character, Frankie, is blonde, charismatic and bitchy, going topless in her more lusty moments (a tad dodgy this as Knightley was only just 16 when the movie was released). And all ends bloodily as The Hole reveals itself to be a cross between The Breakfast Club and Lord Of The Flies, the excellent Embeth Davidtz playing the psychologist who must unravel the truth behind the unholy mess. Though not a hit itself, the movie would bring Keira to the attention of the makers of both Bend It Like Beckham and Dr Zhivago.<br />Naturally, her education had to continue and, after filming the short Deflation (directed by Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Friar Tuck in Princess Of Thieves, who was assisted by her mother Sharman), Knightley sat for her GCSEs while in the middle of shooting Bend It Like Beckham (is it a sign of falling standards that she still got 6 A-grades?). Soon the schedule would be too much to bear. Having started her A-levels at her local Esher College, where she studied Art, English Literature, History and Classical Civilisations, she dropped out during the first year, in order to take on Gillies MacKinnon's Pure and the major miniseries Dr Zhivago.<br />First though came Bend It Like Beckham. Here a young Asian girl dreams of playing football for England but is dissuaded by her disapproving parents. That is, until she's spotted playing in the park by Keira, a star of semi-pro girls' team the Hounslow Harriers. So she joins up and begins to live her dream, though there's trouble when both she and Keira fall for coach Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.<br />The movie was a real charmer and a major British success. Keira stood out as the tomboy Juliette Paxton, both in the scenes with her mother Juliet Stevenson, who attempts to make her wear a Wonderbra, and in the action sequences. For these she'd trained hard, at points with Simon Clifford, a coach of some renown who'd worked with Manchester United and with a young Michael Owen. Indeed, Clifford claimed that Knightley had picked up some aspects of the game quicker than Owen had (though of course she lacked his searing pace and unscrupulous penalty-winning techniques). The performance would win her the Best Newcomer Award from the London Critics Circle in 2003.<br />But 2002 wasn't finished yet. After joining Synnott (who'd also appeared with her in Deflation) with a brief role in the silly comedy Thunderpants, where a grossly flatulent schoolboy is hired by NASA, she moved on to Pure. This saw Molly Parker as a young mother trying to bring up a 10-year-old boy while struggling with heroin addiction on an east London council estate. He's befriended by Keira, the worldly-wise waitress at the local café who understands his situation but cannot prevent her own slide into addiction and prostitution. Depressing stuff, but well played.<br />It was time for yet another period drama, this time a "sexed-up" remake of David Lean's Dr Zhivago. Here Keira took on the role of Lara Antipova, a brave move considering she had to follow the character from the age of 16 to 32, as well as match the original enigmatic performance of Julie Christie. Not easy, given that, amidst the turbulence of the Russian revolution, she must represent Russia itself as she's abused and pursued by a series of men, including Hans Matheson's Zhivago and Sam Neill's Komarovsky. For the second time Keira engaged in on-screen steaminess (the part had actually been turned down by singer Andrea Corr due to the excessive nudity), stating categorically that it was all part of the job.<br />Heavily advertised, Dr Zhivago was Knightley's breakthrough in the UK. And she enjoyed the experience throughout. Filming for three months in Slovakia and Prague, she'd had her own flat for the first time and, being as the flat was in the red light area, was pleasantly intrigued by the sleazy freedom of the dirty video shop on the corner, the prostitute who worked the turf outside her window, and the constant sex in the nearby bushes. You don't get that in Richmond.<br />She followed Dr Zhivago with three shorts. The first, The Seasons Alter, was an interpretation of Titania's famous "weather" speech in A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Keira delivering an extract alongside Cherie Lunghi's Titania and Lloyd Owen's Oberon. Then there'd be New Year's Eve, about a posh party where a fellow chats up Keira, thinking she's a respectable seventeen, only for trouble to brew when it's revealed that she's dangerously younger. Then there was the animated Gaijin, where she performed several roles, one being a British student who, unable to make friends in Tokyo, tries to program her robot to play Japanese music, only for the robot to cause more problems.<br />Now came Keira's big year. In 2003's Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl she played Elizabeth Swann, daughter of British governor Jonathan Pryce, who's kidnapped by Geoffrey Rush, an undead buccaneer needing her blood to find redemption. Pursued by her wannabe lover Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp's camp and hilarious Jack Sparrow, she remained feisty to the last, even when walking the plank.<br />Despite fears that the movie would follow Cutthroat Island down to Davy Jones' Locker, it performed exceptionally well, quickly rising over the $200 million mark in the US. At the same time, Bend It Like Beckham, taking advantage of Keira's newfound kudos, had its release widened from 119 veues to 990, its take instantly rising to $28.3 million (not bad on a budget of $4.5 million) with plenty more to come. Keira, who'd turned 18 just after the Pirates shoot ended, was now A-list and a bona fide cover girl. After all, as critic AA Gill had put it, "the camera just licks Knightley's face like an enraptured dog". Plans would immediately be put in place for Pirates 2.<br />After Pirates would come Love, Actually, which intertwined ten tales of love, featuring such luminaries as Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, and Alan Rickman. Knightley claimed to have been continuously star-struck on-set and, for once acting her age, said she was less impressed by the major league thespians Rickman and Leeson than by former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon. There'd be further exposure when she became the new face of both luxury goods firm Asprey and the British Dyslexia Association.<br />After this, it was off to Ireland to play Guinevere opposite Clive Owen's titular regent in King Arthur, like Pirates a Jerry Bruckheimer production. This would claim to be more of a historical document than another stab at the Arthurian myth, with Arthur as a Roman general at the time of the Empire's downfall. Well, Hollywood knows best. Keira's Guinevere would be a member of British royalty, a woad-smeared warrior princess who joins forces with Arthur against the invading Saxon hordes.<br />Keira's next project was to have been Tulip Fever, with Tom Stoppard adapting Deborah Moggach's novel of the crazy "tulip bubble" of 17th Century Amsterdam, Keira starring alongside Jude Law and Jim Broadbent. However, Chancellor Gordon Brown saw fit to cancel tax breaks available to British film-makers, throwing many projects into disarray, including Tulip Fever. Instead, Keira moved on to a Steven Soderbergh production, The Jacket, where Oscar-winner Adrien Brody played a Gulf War veteran charged with murder and locked in a mental institution awaiting execution. In here, like the hero in Slaughterhouse 5, he comes adrift in time, his jacket serving as a transporter. Now he travels through the past and tries to change events leading to the murder while at the same time seeking the woman of his dreams, someone he's met only once, when she was just a child, and who bears a striking resemblance to Keira, the only hospital worker who will help him. Originally planned as a mainstream thriller, The Jacket would have its budget reduced and be made as an art-house movie - and was all the darker and better for that.<br />Having missed out on Tulip Fever, Keira now found herself speaking the words of Deborah Moggach anyway, when the writer co-wrote the screenplay of her next project, a re-adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride And Prejudice. This saw Keira in the key role of Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters hoping to marry above their station and enduring all manner of misunderstanding and social intrigue. Matthew MacFadyen would play her D'Arcy. In real life, her D'Arcy had changed at the end of 2003 when, her relationship with Del Synott over, she took up with Irish model Jamie Dornan.<br />Pride and Prejudice proved to be far more than just another Jane Austen adaptation. Not only did it make money in the States, it also saw Keira, her performance described by uber-critic Roger Ebert as "light and yet fierce", nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe. It would also, eventually, bring Knightley a new beau as, having broken up with Jamie Dornan (who'd just scored his first acting role in Sophia Coppola's Marie Antionette), he took up with Rupert Friend, who'd played Mr Wickham.<br />Following hot on the heels of Pride and Prejudice would come a very different proposition in Domino, where she'd play the title role of Domino Harvey, daughter of the actor Laurence Harvey, who rebelled against her privileged background and left a career in modelling to become an LA bounty hunter. Directed by Tony Scott, the movie would be very grungey, slipping (maybe) between fantasy and reality, and Knightley would be tested by a role that required her to be almost continuously angry.<br />Any further career expansion would be put on temporary hold as she now filmed two sequels for Pirates Of The Caribbean back to back, the first seeing Depp's Jack Sparrow attempting to save the soul he's bargained away with Davey Jones and his phantom crew, the second having Knightley kidnapped by Chow Yun-Fat's wicked corsair. While filming took place all we'd see of Knightley were tasteful nude shots as she posed alongside Scarlett Johansson for the cover of Vanity Fair. But 2007 would see her find a meatier role in Silk, based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco. Here a 19th Century French silk merchant would travel to Japan, seeking silkworms to replace those killed by an epidemic in his own country. While there, though, he falls for the sultry concubine of a rich Japanese baron, an absolutely forbidden love, leading his wife Keira, a resourceful and passionate woman, to plot rather shocking ways of both feeding and destroying his new obsession. In all senses, it would be an erotic epic.<br />Her second literary adaptation of 2007 would be Atonement, written by Ian McEwan with a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Directed by her Pride And Prejudice helmsman Joe Wright, this concerned a gathering at a country manor in 1935 where Knightley would play the educated elder daughter of a nouveau riche family who's worried about her increasingly awkward relationship with the son of the family's cleaning lady. Disaster strikes as her younger sister tells a destructive lie, bonds are shattered and eventually war intervenes, the film dramatically exploring the power of truth, lies and memory.<br />Knightley was certain to stay hot for some years to come. It had been an extraordinary success story. This dyslexic kid with no formal training had suddenly conquered Hollywood. Her films had made money, Pride And Prejudice had earned her the Academy's respect, and she STILL wasn't even 21. Absurd.<br />Dominic Wills<br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pe0t_UZ31RE&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Pe0t_UZ31RE&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5459686295732750132?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-57808146522746898002007-09-01T08:55:00.000-07:002007-09-01T09:05:49.650-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmMlp4Ax4I/AAAAAAAACTQ/jPjt4Lh6q4A/s1600-h/tn2_jodie_foster_5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105266231125002114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmMlp4Ax4I/AAAAAAAACTQ/jPjt4Lh6q4A/s400/tn2_jodie_foster_5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Born: 19 November 1962Where: Los Angeles, California, USAAwards: Won 2 Oscars, 4 BAFTAs, Golden GlobesHeight: 5' 4"<br /><br />One of the saddest by-products of the Hollywood fame game is the Teenage Burn-Out. Once puberty robs them of their angelic looks and innate cuteness, child stars traditionally have a terrible time keeping their feet on the ladder. In a time when image and box office records mean everything, they've not only become another person but also carry the burden of not being able to provide what they once did. Think Macaulay Culkin, or the awful fall of Drew Barrymore.<br />It should have happened to Jodie Foster, too. In fact, many people think it did. Popular wisdom has it that she broke precociously through as a 12-year-old whore in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, enjoyed a brief spell of success then disappeared, only to struggle heroically back with her Oscar-winning performance, ten years later, in The Accused. But this is far from the truth. Jodie had actually been a Face from the age of 3, starring in TV commercials. Then came many TV and film roles, meaning that, come Taxi Driver she was already a seasoned veteran. After that burst of teen stardom, she chose college over a short-term career, then returned in a series of deliberately chosen "interesting" roles, as she studied techniques on both sides of the camera. And now, due to these efforts, she's a producer, director, double Oscar-winner AND, as 2002's hit Panic Room proved, a $10 million-a-picture actress, capable of carrying a Number One movie on her own.<br />She was born Alicia Christian Foster on the 19th of November, 1962, in Los Angeles. She was nicknamed Jodie by her three older siblings - Buddy, Lucinda and Constance. Her father, Lucius, left the family when mother Evelyn (known as Brandy) was pregnant with Jodie. And it was the ambitious Brandy, who worked for a film producer and thus had connections, who first pushed Jodie into the spotlight.<br />Actually, she first pushed Buddy. By the mid-Sixties, he'd already made many appearances on TV and in commercials (he'd later leave it all behind and eventually become a construction worker). Then came a big campaign for Coppertone sun lotion. Buddy was up for the ad but, seeing young Jodie, the casting directors had her star instead. So, at age 3, having her swimsuit pulled down by a dog and revealing her little bottom in one of the most popular adverts of its day, she first became nationally known.<br />Brandy was persistent. By the age of 8 Jodie had appeared in over 40 commercials, and had turned up in several TV shows, such as Adam-12, The Courtship Of Eddie's Father (the father was Bill "Hulk" Bixby - Jodie played Eddie's girlfriend Joey Kelley) and Daniel Boone. She'd made her screen debut in 1968, in Mayberry RFD, a comedy series about a farmer and community council member in Mayberry, North Carolina, which sprang from the Andy Griffith Show. Buddy starred in all 76 episodes, as Mike, the near-grown son of star Ken Berry. But this is not to say Jodie's education was ignored. Fiercely intelligent, she'd been reading since age 3, and Brandy was keen to give her kids an all-round and international schooling, starting with the food they ate. She'd constantly be taking them to restaurants specialising in exotic cuisines.<br />Come the Seventies and Jodie was working in earnest. She made her TV movie debut in Vincent McEveety's Menace On The Mountain, as the sister of a young boy who has to run the family when his dad goes off to war. Next she provided the voice of Anna Chan, helping to solve ingenious crimes in the cartoon series The Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan.<br />Now came her film debut proper, in Napoleon And Samantha, directed by Bernard McEveety, Vincent's brother. Here a young kid looks after a lion for a friend in the circus then, when his guardian grandfather dies, takes off across country, with the lion and his best buddy, played by Jodie. It must have been strange for the young actress, and a mite intimidating as, while filming an ad a few years before, she'd actually been mauled by a lion and, briefly, carried around in its mouth.<br />After this came Kansas City Bomber, a roller derby drama starring sex siren Raquel Welch, then she played Becky Thatcher, girlfriend of the titular Tom Sawyer in a bizarre musical version of Mark Twain's classic, memorable mostly for the sight and sound of crusty old Warren Oates singing. Next she was the voice of Pugsley in the cartoon series of The Addams Family (which saw the mighty Ted Cassidy return as Lurch). Then came Bob & Carol &amp;amp;amp; Ted &amp; Alice, a TV series based on the hit movie, which featured Anne Archer and was part-directed by Leo Penn, father of Sean and Chris.<br />The work kept coming. Jodie now played Sharon Lee, a young girl breaking into the strictly male preserve of baseball in Rookie Of The Year (the first of many feminist roles to come), then came One Little Indian, a comedy western starring James Garner and once more directed by Bernard McEveety. Then there was Smile, Jenny, You're Dead, a pilot for the hugely successful Harry O series, with David Janssen as the scruffy private dick. As a sign of things to come, Jodie shone in the movie as a young urchin waiting for her mother to get out of jail, nabbing all the best lines and delivering them in a manner that would have seemed precocious were it not so damned professional.<br />Now, after a full decade in the biz, came the Big Time. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, directed by an up-and-coming fellow named Martin Scorsese, saw Ellen Burstyn taking off for a better life with her 11-year-old son. She gets involved with a beastly Harvey Keitel, and the son hangs out with unruly tom-boy Audrey (this is Jodie), as they seek a second chance in life. Jodie would play a tom-boy in her next production, too. This was The Secret Life Of TK Dearing, an emotional drama where she forged a relationship with her ageing grand-dad. Before this had come Paper Moon, a TV series spin-off from the hit movie starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, with Jodie playing Addie Pray, the little girl who helps her con-man father sell bibles and trick the unwary. Then there was serious drama, with Echoes Of A Summer, directed by her Tom Sawyer boss, Don Taylor. Here Jodie was Deirdre, a young girl suffering from an incurable heart condition. Her mum and dad (Richard Harris) decide to take her to Canada for the last few days of her life. She meets a boy, begins to live, then dies. Heart-warming, and heart-breaking, both.<br />When looking to cast Iris, the 12-year-old prostitute in Taxi Driver, Scorsese had to look no further than the tom-boy he'd hired for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. And Jodie - once she'd been checked by a psychiatrist to make sure she was "normal" enough to play a 12-year-old prostitute - proved to be perfect. Jodie later said this was the first time she'd really had to act, to play someone who wasn't herself, and recognised that acting was actually both work and an art. In the movie, Robert De Niro, a Vietnam vet waiting for a "real rain to come", decides to clean up the streets himself. First he considers assassinating a presidential candidate, then he goes after the pigs who are pimping Iris, who he's seen on the street and whose plight disgusts him. His revenge is unbelievably violent.<br />De Niro of course dominated the film with his "You lookin' at me?" psychosis. But his out-there performance is allowed to work by the brilliance of the supporting cast who create an almost surreally degraded world for him to rail against. And Jodie was a major part of this - hard as nails when touting for trade, a giggling girl with her friends (one of whom was played by the real-life prostitute Jodie studied for research), and a vulnerable young woman, lulled into inaction by the loving words of Harvey Keitel's disgraceful pimp, Sport. Quite rightly, she received an Oscar nomination, though that's not her in every sequence. Too young to appear in the more explicit shots, her place was taken by her sister, Constance, eight years older.<br />1976 really was an exceptional year for Jodie, by anyone's standards. After Taxi Driver, she was wonderful as the gangster's moll Tallulah, singing and pouting her way through Alan Parker's delightful Bugsy Malone, a Mob musical played entirely by kids. Then she was Annabel Andrews in the excellent Freaky Friday. This was the first and best of the switching roles movies (Dudley Moore and Judge Reinhold would later have a go) where Jodie and mum Barbara Harris, both thinking the other has it easy, exchange bodies for one day - to the bemusement of husband and father John "Gomez Addams" Astin. Jodie - spookily good - was nominated for a Golden Globe. And then came The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane, a superior thriller where Jodie claims her father is away but is clearly hiding something in the cellar. Then molester Martin Sheen takes notice.<br />Still managed by the cosmopolitan Brandy, Jodie now went international, starring alongside Jean Yanne and Sydne Rome in the French movie Moi, Fleur Bleue. Fluent in French from the age of 14, Jodie delivered all her own lines (she always dubs the French prints of her movies herself, too). Then it was off to Italy for Il Casotto, a bizarre, arty comedy about assorted oddballs on a beach. Jodie played a pregnant nymphet whose grandparents are trying to get some boy to sleep with her so they can claim he's the father. Extraordinary stuff, all the more so for the presence of the preternaturally demure Catherine Deneuve -Il Casotto was a direct forerunner of the gross-outs of the Farrelly brothers.<br />After these came Candleshoe, another kids' classic. Here hustler Leo McKern believes there's hidden treasure in the mansion of Helen Hayes, so he gets young Casey Brown (Jodie) to pose as the old lady's long lost grand-daughter, so they can get in and search. Unfortunately for McKern, Jodie has a change of heart and ends up helping the butler and a bunch of other kids save Hayes' bacon.<br />Throughout the mid-Seventies, Jodie had enjoyed enormous success - she was nearly cast as Princess Leia in Star Wars. But now her education was to come first. She was enrolled at the College Lycee Francais, a private academy in Los Angeles, and threw herself into study, eventually graduating as valedictorian in 1980. Two more Jodie films would be released that year. First came Foxes, directed by Adrian "Fatal Attraction" Lyne, where she played the leader of a bunch of girls struggling with sex, drugs, and their weight and boyfriends in the San Fernando Valley (Scott Baio appeared here, having earlier co-starred with Jodie in Bugsy Malone, and there's a very early spotting of Keanu Reeves). Then came Carny, where she played a small town waitress who takes off with the carnival, having been impressed by the antics of Gary Busey and Robbie Robertson.<br />Now Jodie took a serious break from the movies, when she enrolled at the prestigious Yale to study English Literature. It began cheerily enough, Jodie making great efforts to be just another student. She joined in with an off-campus student play called Getting Out, concerning a former prostitute jailed for murder. Sadly, she would not be able to escape into normality so easily. In Colorado, a young man named John Hinckley, obsessed by Taxi Driver and by Jodie in particular, had been following her movements. Discovering that she'd gone to Yale, he made up a story about having to attend a writers' workshop in New Haven in order to get money from his parents, and travelled to Yale. Within hours of his arrival, he called Jodie at her dorm and managed to speak to her. For four days he called, finally she wouldn't answer him any more. So he stalked her, before finally returning to Colorado and making his plans.<br />On March 30th, 1981, those plans came to fruition when John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan. Hinckley was quickly overpowered and the President survived, but Jodie's nightmare was just beginning - for Hinckley now claimed that the attempted assassination was all for her. After being committed, he wrote to Time Magazine saying "The most important thing in my life is Jodie Foster's love and admiration. If I can't have them, neither can anyone else. We are a historical couple, like Napoleon and Josephine, and a romantic couple like Romeo and Juliet". To Jodie's immense consternation, the press came down on Yale like a herd of buffalo.<br />The furore went on for months, and was enflamed once more by one Edward Richardson, who claimed that he, too, was obsessed by Jodie and had followed her across campus with a loaded gun. Eventually, he claimed, he'd decided she was "too pretty" to kill. For years, Jodie would struggle to come to terms with it all, terminating interviews the moment Hinckley's name was mentioned. Just at the point in her life when she was deliberately stepping out of the limelight into normality, she had become world-famous, tied in with one of the century's most infamous acts. The injustice of it must have been crushing. And for an exceedingly intelligent, independent, decent young woman to have her name attached to that of an obsessive crackpot, with herself powerless to prevent it, well, that was hard to swallow.<br />How she kept up her studies is anyone's guess. That she made movies in her vacations is miraculous. But she graduated, magna cum laude, in 1985 (she'd receive an Honorary Doctorate from Yale in 1997), with another four movies on her CV. There was O'Hara's Wife, where Jodie played the grown-up kid of Ed Asner, a workaholic whose dead wife returns to get him to slow down and rediscover his children. There was Svengali, with Peter O'Toole as the master teaching Jodie to sing (with Holly Hunter in only her second role). Then there was John Irving's bizarre and moving Hotel New Hampshire, where a thoroughly strange family struggles to get by, despite their individual weirdness - Nastassja Kinski, for instance, is a hideously shy girl who lives in a bear suit. And then came The Blood Of Others, written by Simone de Beauvoir and directed by Claude Chabrol, where Jodie played Helene, a woman in occupied Paris who's torn between Resistance fighter Michael Ontkean and a Nazi administrator, played by Sam Neill. Jodie also took her first real shot at directing, helming an episode of Tales From The Darkside.<br />Getting back into cinema full-time, she now chose some personally challenging, low-budget projects - her ambition being to learn the craft and eventually direct for real. She co-produced Mesmerized, set in New Zealand and based on a true case from 1880, where she played an orphaned girl who marries and is horribly abused by wealthy older man, John Lithgow. Finally, she decides to kill him via hypnosis. Then came Five Corners, an oddity set in the Bronx in 1964 where - in a strange twist on real life - she played a girl being pursued by an obsessive psycho (John Turturro) who once tried to rape her. For this she won an Independent Spirit award. Next was Mary Lambert's truly weird Siesta, and then Stealing Home, Jodie's first brilliant performance since leaving Yale. Here Mark Harmon, as a washed-up baseball player, returns home after learning that his first love (Jodie) had committed suicide. With their relationship played out in flashback, he gradually realises what he's lost, and finds himself again.<br />1988 saw Jodie back on top again, after 10 years. In The Accused, she played a woman gang-raped in a bar while onlookers cheer the perpetrators on. Being a sexually active drinker and pot-smoker, she's deemed to have "asked for it", something assistant DA Kelly McGillis must prove is absolutely not the case. Jodie could have played Sarah Tobias as a simple victim, but she didn't. Her Tobias was one of the deepest, most complicated and consequently most sympathetic characters in years and she deservedly won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.<br />Now she went to work for herself. Starting a production company, Egg, with friend Meg Le Fauve, she moved into directing and producing, and threw herself into Little Man Tate. Here she played Dede Tate, the single mother of a prodigy, who must ensure the boy is given every opportunity for happiness, rather than condemned to a 24/7 life as an academic. It was an excellent directorial debut, pointed and charming, but it was somewhat overshadowed by Jodie's other starring role that year.<br />The role of FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence Of The Lambs had already been turned down by Michelle Pfeiffer and Meg Ryan, so Jodie stepped in at the last minute to do psychological battle with Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter. Smart but often out-done, courageous but often terrified, Starling must convince Lecter to help the Bureau catch serial killer Buffalo Bill, then ends up battling Bill herself. It was a superb thriller and, after It Happened One Night and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, became only the third movie to take all 5 major Oscars, Jodie also snapping up another Golden Globe. This made Jodie the first actress to win two Oscars before the age of 30 - and this a woman who'd never taken acting classes. But when given a chance to reprise the role in Hannibal she turned it down, feeling Clarice was not well treated by the script - Julianne Moore would step in.<br />After Woody Allen's Shadows And Fog where, alongside Lily Tomlin and Kathy Bates, she played a prostitute, came Sommersby. This was a remake of the French classic Le Retour De Martin Guerre, where Gerard Depardieu came back from war to his wife Natalie Baye, but wasn't quite how she or the townsfolk remembered him. Was he her husband or an imposter and, being as he's so much nicer, does she care? Jodie took Baye's part, with Richard Gere in Gerard's and it was a strong enough romance. It's worth noting that Jodie's character owns a cow called Clarice.<br />Ever interested in feminism, Jodie now contributed to a documentary about middle-class women made homeless, lent her voice to the miniseries A Century Of Women, and hosted a profile of Bette Davis. Then, continuing her habit of balancing big-budget productions and her own, smaller films, 1994 saw her appear in both Maverick and Nell. In Maverick, based on the hit TV series starring James Garner, she played Mrs Annabella Branford (another role turned down by Meg Ryan), a smart thief who, like Mel Gibson's Maverick is trying to raise money to enter a Winner Takes All poker game in the Old West. It was a slick and action-packed comedy. Nell, on the other hand, was a deadly serious drama, where she played Nell Kellty, a girl raised by her mother in the backwoods of North Carolina who's never met another soul. When her mother dies, she's discovered (speaking her own language) by doctors and scientists who must decide whether to let her live how she is, or spend her life being studied in a laboratory.<br />Nell, Egg's first production, featured one of Jodie's best performances and she was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe yet again. Now she moved back into directing with Home For The Holidays, where Holly Hunter returns to Baltimore to celebrate Thanksgiving with her seriously deranged family. It was a strong cast to have to control, including Anne Bancroft, Geraldine Chaplin and Robert Downey Jr (hamming wildly as the gay brother), but Jodie pulled it off. And she brought on another starlet, Claire Danes, who she'd later cast as Flora Plum. Jodie would also be involved in producing The Baby Dance, where Hollywood wife Stockard Channing wants to adopt an unwanted baby from Louisiana trailer-girl Laura Dern (who'd made her debut back in Jodie's Foxes). It was a fascinating clash of cultures, with Jodie being nominated for an Emmy.<br />Now came Contact where Jodie was Dr Ellie Arroway, a scientist who, after years of searching, suddenly receives radio proof that aliens exist. It was less a sci-fi movie than a theological argument, proposing that we should combine science and religion in our search for truth. But it was stimulating, with good central performances, Jodie herself receiving another Golden Globe nomination.<br />After Contact, Jodie began a new balancing act. Her strict grip on her own privacy had meant she'd never appear in public with men, or anyone for that matter. So tongues had wagged, and rumours of lesbianism abounded - as they so often do when brilliant women fail to publicly chase after men. Then, in 1998, Jodie bore a son, Charles (the pregnancy causing her to drop out of Double Jeopardy). Yet more rumours circulated, claiming the father was Randy Stone, a casting executive at 20th Century Fox and a close friend of Jodie's. But she remained tight-lipped, as she would in 2001 when her second son, Kit, arrived (she says she'll reveal the father's identity to her sons when they're old enough). No one protects their home-life as well as Jodie (considering the Hinckley experience, no one's had as good a reason to learn). She is a shining example to anyone whining about press intrusion, and should be closely studied by all wannabe celebrities (though not to the point of stalking, please).<br />After the birth of Charles, Jodie decided to make one major picture every two years. In 1999, it was Anna And The King, about a British schoolteacher's romance with the King of Siam in the 1860s, the King being played by John Woo's favourite lead, Chow Yun Fat. Then, after playing Sister Assumpta next to Cathoic schoolboys plotting a reputation-making heist in The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys, came David "Seven" Fincher's Panic Room. This, another US Number One, came about when Nicole Kidman, who'd hurt her knee during the filming of Moulin Rouge, pulled out after 18 days. In stepped Jodie, as she had with Silence Of The Lambs, and out popped another superb performance (despite Jodie's being pregnant during filming - some re-shooting having to be done in the autumn of 2001, after Kit was born).<br />Panic Room was a wonderful thriller with Jodie playing a mother who, her husband having left her, seeks a new life in New York with her young daughter. They take a property which features a panic room, an impregnable place you can hide if intruders break in. And break in they do - a bickering trio including Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam and Jared Leto - and, unfortunately, what they're looking for is in the panic room with Jodie and daughter!<br />After a break of some two years, Foster would return with a small role in the French epic A Very Long Engagement, which saw the reunion of Audrey Tautou and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet after their worldwide hit Amelie. This would see five French soldiers in WWI accused of harming themselves to escape the trenches and sent out into No Man's Land to die. Tautou would play the girlfriend of one of them who, believing him to have survived, goes on a quest to find him, questioning all relevant parties. Foster, naturally speaking perfect French and adding weight to proceedings, would play the mistress of another of the condemned men, pining badly for her lost love.<br />2005 would see a return to Hollywood with Flightplan, a kind of airborne Panic Room where Jodie was a grieving widow returning from Germany with her daughter, her dead husband being in the hold. Waking from a nap she discovers her daughter is gone, and no one believes she was ever there. So, is Foster traumatised and fantasising or is this some creepy conspiracy? As with Panic Room she played the strong but struggling mother with great panache and the movie hit Number One at the US box office for two weeks. Her ability to carry a big movie had clearly not waned.<br />The next year would bring Inside Man, where Denzel Washington would play a tough cop trying to talk crim Clive Owen down when a smart heist degrades into a desperate hostage situation. Foster would appear as a sharp lawyer representing behind-the-scenes interests and complicating an already tense stand-off.<br />And what of Flora Plum, a pet project of Jodie's about a penniless girl in the 30s who's taken in by a circus freak? This was to see her directing once more, but would cause a great deal of heart-ache. First original star Russell Crowe injured his shoulder, then was committed to A Beautiful Mind. Then star Claire Danes had to return to Yale (she has very much in common with Jodie). Finally, finally, it would all come together - though without Crowe. And then it would stall again. There would also be talk of a biopic of Leni Riefenstahl, the model-come-director who was a favourite of Hitler and who directed a brilliant documentary on the Berlin Olympics.<br />Having closed Egg down, lessened her work-load and concentrated on her sons, Jodie Foster has built a life to be proud of. She enjoys kickboxing, yoga, karate, and weightlifting, and collects fancy kitchenware and black and white photos. Her one regret, she says, is that she'll never know what it's like to not be famous. Ah, well. Her loss has been everyone else's gain.<br />Dominic Wills</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5780814652274689800?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-51738418895422224002007-09-01T08:50:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:54:22.157-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmLCZ4Ax3I/AAAAAAAACTI/wvBRO2J1Hjc/s1600-h/toom.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105264526022985586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmLCZ4Ax3I/AAAAAAAACTI/wvBRO2J1Hjc/s400/toom.bmp" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Has complained people take her politics ''less seriously'' because she is an actress. (August 30, 2007)<br />Met with some of the 1,200 Iraqis stranded on the border between Iraq and Syria and appealed for more international support for those affected by the Iraq conflict. (August 28, 2007)<br />Said she gave up lesbian and kinky sex after falling for Brad Pitt. (August 2007)<br />Dropped her legal battle with a perfume-maker who planned to give her new fragrance the same name as the star's daughter Shiloh. Israeli/French perfume-maker Symine Salimpour claimed she was inspired by Shiloh's Hebrew meaning his gift and not Jolie and partner Brad Pitt's 13-month-old daughter. She has vowed to donate five per cent of the perfume's profits to an Israeli non profit organization that provides medical and educational services for disabled children. (August 1, 2007)<br />Angelina and Brad Pitt are reportedly planning a move to Berlin, so that they’re able to bring up their children out of the limelight. (July 29, 2007)<br />Was left floored by Brad Pitt soon after they first met because she thought he'd be nothing more than a good guy she could race motorbikes with on the set of MR &amp; MRS SMITH.<br />Says contract banning personal questions from media at the premiere of A MIGHTY HEART wasn't her idea, but her representatives'. (June 15, 2007)<br />Had her lawyer draft up a gag clause for press to participate in the premiere of A MIGHTY HEART, which, ironically, is about freedom of the press. (June 13, 2007)<br />Says she wants to be remembered for her humanitarian work, not as an actress. (June 2007)<br />Her Vietnamese adopted son, Pax Thien, is now an official member of the Brangelina clan after adding Jolie-Pitt to his surname. (June 01, 2007)<br />Plans to take a year off to spend time with her family. (May 23, 2007)<br />Admits that she didn't want to have her own children until she met Brad Pitt. (May 2007)<br />Was in Washington working to raise awareness for the millions of orphaned and vulnerable children around the world. (April 26, 2007)<br />Blames the paparazzi for the mayhem at a school in Mumbai, India where her bodyguards were accused of physically blocking parents from picking up their children during the shooting of her movie, A MIGHTY HEART. (April 21, 2007)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5173841889542222400?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-802183579766662452007-09-01T08:44:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:48:50.017-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmJ1J4Ax2I/AAAAAAAACTA/GU7lYayjK7g/s1600-h/actgal4016.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105263198878091106" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmJ1J4Ax2I/AAAAAAAACTA/GU7lYayjK7g/s400/actgal4016.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Her looks and talent made her a sure shot winner in the beauty pageants but faring equally well in films was a point to be debated. Would Aishwarya be able to deliver emotions, dialogues and dance with the same élan?Ash's first film, 'Iruvar' (in Tamil) laid an expensive egg in the south. Ditto for Aur Pyar Ho Gaya and Jeans. But eventually, the girl with a million-dollar face combined with a strong personality and intelligence conquered Bollywood. The debate concluded and went in Ash's favor. Almost all the happening directors and producers of Bollywood started booking her dates for their projects. The success of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Taal proved that she possessed and could deliver all that it takes to top the charts in Bollywood.That has given an international edge to Ash's star status, something she enjoyed even with the Miss World title.All this has done the inevitable to Ash's career graph. She has the major producers and directors chasing her for dates. Leading men in the industry send feelers to producers to cast them opposite her. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-80218357976666245?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-40763439421436173642007-09-01T08:41:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:43:54.517-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmIip4Ax1I/AAAAAAAACS4/-ABmdfuoZ94/s1600-h/sophie.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105261781538883410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmIip4Ax1I/AAAAAAAACS4/-ABmdfuoZ94/s320/sophie.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Born Sophie Maupu, Sophie Marceau grew up far away from studios spots until her 14th year. Back then, she was living in the Paris suburbs (Gentilly) and her father was a truck driver. At that time, she learned from one of her friends that Claude Pinoteau (a french movie director) was looking for new faces for a teenagers movie called Boum, La (1980). This movie was a success. She played in Boum 2, La (1982) then she bought back her contract with Gaumont when she was sixteen years old for one milion of french francs. Awards: - Cesar of Best Feminine Hope for La Boum II in 1983. - Elected Romantic actress for Chouans! (1988) at the Festival international du film romantique (International Festival of Romantic Movie) of Cabourg in 1988. - Moliere of the Best Theatrical Revelation for Eurydice et Pygmalion in 1994. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4076343942143617364?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-18201804244816903982007-09-01T08:39:00.001-07:002007-09-01T08:41:19.156-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmH5p4Ax0I/AAAAAAAACSw/ARWo7xk8l18/s1600-h/ch.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105261077164246850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmH5p4Ax0I/AAAAAAAACSw/ARWo7xk8l18/s320/ch.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Attended a boarding school in Johannesburg, South Africa. Studied dance and performed with New York's Joffrey Ballet. At age 16 she went to Italy (Milan) to attend fashion shows, where She won a modeling contest . A knee injury forced Charlize to end her ballet dancing career at 18. She then decided to go to the US for professional fashion shows.Her acting career began In 1994 when she was discovered in a bank by her manager John Crosby. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1820180424481690398?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-57229796655712252732007-09-01T08:33:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:37:54.823-07:00<div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmG-p4AxxI/AAAAAAAACSY/pGITBgicvCo/s1600-h/m14284.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105260063551964946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmG-p4AxxI/AAAAAAAACSY/pGITBgicvCo/s320/m14284.jpg" border="0" /></a><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105260291185231666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmHL54AxzI/AAAAAAAACSo/34eIrD62jKg/s320/bg2.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105260158041245474" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmHEJ4AxyI/AAAAAAAACSg/yhOBY8zguaU/s320/10101934.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May, 1968. The eldest of three children, Kylie's acting career began early, but it was her role as Charlene in the Australian soap "Neighbours" (1985) which established Kylie as an international star. Her singing career began purely by accident when a record company executive heard Kylie's rendition of Little Eva's 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion." She signed with PWL Records and hitmakers Stock/Aitken/Waterman in 1987. Five albums and a greatest hits compilation followed, and she made history by having more than 20 consecutive top ten hits in the UK. Her motion picture debut came with the starring role of Lola in Delinquents, The (1989). She left PWL Records in 1992 to head in a decidedly more mature musical direction, and her self-titled debut on deConstruction records was released in 1994, spawning chart hits like "Confide In Me" and "Put Yourself In My Place." Kylie's doings were always a favourite subject of the press, but she really made waves with her controversial 1995 duet with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Where the Wild Roses Grow." 1997 saw the release of Kylie's first single in more than 3 years, "Some Kind of Bliss" co-written and produced by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of The Manic Street Preachers. </div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5722979665571225273?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-17252124480910539422007-09-01T08:26:00.000-07:002007-09-01T08:32:42.470-07:00<div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmFSZ4AxuI/AAAAAAAACSA/5_yPEv-GJlc/s1600-h/9721909_gal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105258203831125730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmFSZ4AxuI/AAAAAAAACSA/5_yPEv-GJlc/s400/9721909_gal.jpg" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105258581788247810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmFoZ4AxwI/AAAAAAAACSQ/wdiUBu7k0Ao/s320/Levigne_JS066707353.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105258341270079218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtmFaZ4AxvI/AAAAAAAACSI/7Lxcp19o__8/s320/6169_lavigne_avril_04.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>At 16, Avril moved to Manhattan and began work on her debut album. She dropped out of high school after 11th grade when she secured a record deal. When Avril was almost 18, she released "Complicated" from her debut album titled: "Let Go" Which went 5 X platinum. A petite skater girl from a small town. Avril has shown she is Independent, full of confidence and determination. A good combo to make "Complicated" and Avril a musical breakthrough. "Complicated" went to number #1 on Billboards Top 100. Also earning her 5 Grammy nominations, MTV music awards, MTV European music awards and many more.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1725212448091053942?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-3387901820947228722007-08-30T21:01:00.000-07:002007-08-30T21:07:18.254-07:00<div><br /><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div>Meet the 2007 NBA All Star Eastern Confrence Dancers</div><br /><br /><div>Atlantic Division: <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104710372162586258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteTCZ4AxpI/AAAAAAAACRY/z4aJHFxTHEc/s400/2007AllStar_bos_courtney.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104710595500885666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteTPZ4AxqI/AAAAAAAACRg/ICVucDmbzK0/s400/2007AllStar_njn_jaclyn.jpg" border="0" /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104710840314021570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteTdp4AxsI/AAAAAAAACRw/MyAn3O0kzls/s400/2007AllStar_phi_kimmie.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104710715759969970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteTWZ4AxrI/AAAAAAAACRo/wvMKmRapkjM/s400/2007AllStar_nyk_sarah.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104711278400685778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteT3J4AxtI/AAAAAAAACR4/oRdy3Lyhgz4/s400/2007AllStar_tor_minerva.jpg" border="0" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-338790182094722872?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-48734243988300448772007-08-30T20:44:00.001-07:002007-08-30T20:57:55.998-07:00<div><div><div><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteOv54AxkI/AAAAAAAACQw/HyZZ3RGbugY/s1600-h/0708_RPD.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104705656288495170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteOv54AxkI/AAAAAAAACQw/HyZZ3RGbugY/s400/0708_RPD.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104708379297760898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteROZ4AxoI/AAAAAAAACRQ/axDZ3RA_TR8/s400/rpd_dancers2007.gif" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104708052880246386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteQ7Z4AxnI/AAAAAAAACRI/A_Vgd9XWJis/s400/rockets016375334.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104707893966456418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteQyJ4AxmI/AAAAAAAACRA/yBorAWBKRKg/s400/rockets016375607.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104707619088549458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteQiJ4AxlI/AAAAAAAACQ4/ozX2SN4RphI/s400/rockets016375338.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div>2007-08 Houston Rockets Power Dancers Meet the Rockets Power Dancers – the most athletic, talented, and professional dance team in the NBA! This year alone, the Power Dancers were featured on Sports Center, CNN, and FSN, on si.com and nba.com, and in Sports Illustrated and Maxim. And speaking of magazines, your RPD were selected Best Dancers in Pro Sports this fall by Complex Magazine. Way to go, girls! Click on a dancer below for bios and photos or check out our RPD submenu to the right for more info!</div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4873424398830044877?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-48769257827788882712007-08-30T20:24:00.000-07:002007-08-30T20:38:39.821-07:00<div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteLnJ4AxhI/AAAAAAAACQY/OQhHKRv8Tg0/s1600-h/laura_gallery3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104702207429756434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteLnJ4AxhI/AAAAAAAACQY/OQhHKRv8Tg0/s400/laura_gallery3.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteLcZ4AxgI/AAAAAAAACQQ/4JModG7tNCE/s1600-h/dancers_april6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104702022746162690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteLcZ4AxgI/AAAAAAAACQQ/4JModG7tNCE/s400/dancers_april6.jpg" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104702709940930098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteMEZ4AxjI/AAAAAAAACQo/nPf1xNC6Y3Q/s400/playoff_gallery15.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104702520962369058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteL5Z4AxiI/AAAAAAAACQg/nPv55qktn7o/s400/laura_gallery4.jpg" border="0" /><br />If you think dancing for an NBA team is just about bleaching your hair blonde, suiting up in tight-fitting Spandex, and shaking what the good Lord -- or a good surgeon -- gave you, then 10 years ago you were actually correct. But times have changed, and in an era where Jason Kidd is no longer legally bound to one woman, he needs not hide his tawdry affairs and can try to make it with any nearby female partners. So we need them at their top physical condition, so as to fend off his dinner invitations.</p><br /><p>The New Jersey Nets dance team, creatively named the Nets Dancers, underwent a full day of grueling training, which involved resistance bands, swinging sledgehammers, and rolling kegs -- of which the latter two exercises helped them become excellent candidates for a Broadway revival of Donkey Kong.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4876925782778888271?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-368930699818701802007-08-30T20:15:00.000-07:002007-08-30T20:22:16.811-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJU54AxfI/AAAAAAAACQI/_0HvBqiwz0M/s1600-h/stephanie1_0607.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104699694873888242" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJU54AxfI/AAAAAAAACQI/_0HvBqiwz0M/s400/stephanie1_0607.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJN54AxeI/AAAAAAAACQA/fdf50UyD5o4/s1600-h/sonja2_0607.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104699574614803938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJN54AxeI/AAAAAAAACQA/fdf50UyD5o4/s400/sonja2_0607.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJHZ4AxdI/AAAAAAAACP4/yuM7WuW8x2I/s1600-h/marianne4_0607.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104699462945654226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJHZ4AxdI/AAAAAAAACP4/yuM7WuW8x2I/s400/marianne4_0607.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJAZ4AxcI/AAAAAAAACPw/ukQx3QhCFvs/s1600-h/katie3_0607.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104699342686569922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteJAZ4AxcI/AAAAAAAACPw/ukQx3QhCFvs/s400/katie3_0607.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Chicago Luvabulls</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>In their 27th season, the Chicago Luvabulls are synonymous with talent and beauty, glamour and glitz, as well as hard work, dedication and commitment</div><br /><div>Luvabulls must be at least twenty-one years old and have full-time employment or be full-time students. The Luvabulls are on hand at all of the Bulls home games, dazzling the crowds at the United Center. This group of beautiful, talented and articulate women also makes numerous personal appearances at conventions, trade shows, sales meetings, promotional events and charitable events around the country. They have travelled frequently to Europe appearing at international basketball tournaments in Holland, England and France.<br />The Luvabulls are one of the most recognized dance teams in sports. Members of the team also represent the club at a number of special events throughout the year including private and corporate parties, award banquets, charity events and promotional engagements.<br />Luvabulls must be at least twenty-one years old and have full-time employment or be full-time students. Dance ability is essential and high school or college dance or cheerleading experience is helpful. Selections to the group are made based on appearance, personality and dance ability. Rehearsals are held two evenings per week.</div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-36893069981870180?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-69813640930924661802007-08-30T20:10:00.000-07:002007-08-30T20:14:38.032-07:00<div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteHMp4AxaI/AAAAAAAACPg/T75FT5-jd2Q/s1600-h/celtics_dancers5.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104697354116711842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteHMp4AxaI/AAAAAAAACPg/T75FT5-jd2Q/s400/celtics_dancers5.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteHBJ4AxZI/AAAAAAAACPY/XMJ9UoZKV0k/s1600-h/celtics_dancers7.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104697156548216210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteHBJ4AxZI/AAAAAAAACPY/XMJ9UoZKV0k/s400/celtics_dancers7.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteG2p4AxYI/AAAAAAAACPQ/GpgK_04zCqM/s1600-h/celtics_1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104696976159589762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteG2p4AxYI/AAAAAAAACPQ/GpgK_04zCqM/s400/celtics_1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104697676239259058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteHfZ4AxbI/AAAAAAAACPo/5j8EeVHKxN0/s400/celtics_016373316.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div>Celtics Dancers </div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6981364093092466180?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-44349647909359372972007-08-30T20:04:00.000-07:002007-08-30T20:08:00.967-07:00<div><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteFtZ4AxVI/AAAAAAAACO4/f5b9j6-qv6g/s1600-h/cg_covergirl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104695717734171986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteFtZ4AxVI/AAAAAAAACO4/f5b9j6-qv6g/s400/cg_covergirl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div>Cavalier Girls Releases the 2006-2007 Swimsuit Calendar</div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div>The Cavalier Girls, officially unveiled their 2006-07 Swimsuit Calendar at a special launch party on Friday night. The event was held at Jac’s in downtown Cleveland’s Warehouse District. The 14-month calendar is now available for $20 on <a title="Cavalier Girls Releases the 2006-2007 Swimsuit Calendar " href="http://www.cavaliersteamshop.com/shop_details.asp?facid=3&loc=prod&amp;amp;amp;catID=16066&prodID=587266">cavs.com</a>, at the Cavaliers Team Shop located in Quicken Loans Arena, and at arena souvenir stands. All net proceeds from the calendar sales will benefit Cavaliers Charities, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation.<br />The calendar features stunning photographs of each dance team member posing at magnificent lakefront properties in the Greater Cleveland communities of Avon Lake and Pepper Pike. Under the direction of NewYork photographer and Cleveland native, Steve Vaccariello and art director Rob Babik, the photo shoot took place in early August. Each Cavalier Girl is beautifully featured on a high-gloss 18”x 15” poster-like page.<br />The Cavalier Girls are: Amanda, Bethany, Danielle, Elle, Hayley, Heather, Jennelle, Suzanne, Tiffany, Katie, Kellie, Kristen, Mannikka, Melody, Natalie, and Rhema. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104695975432209778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteF8Z4AxXI/AAAAAAAACPI/LssOa5DWGnE/s400/lakers016373769.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104695850878158178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteF1J4AxWI/AAAAAAAACPA/menXXEKkHMo/s400/lakers016373668.jpg" border="0" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4434964790935937297?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-62380653289866534682007-08-30T19:43:00.000-07:002007-08-30T19:53:09.340-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteBhp4AxUI/AAAAAAAACOw/M2Nun2gRxjY/s1600-h/mia_dance07_lrg_fin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104691117824197954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteBhp4AxUI/AAAAAAAACOw/M2Nun2gRxjY/s400/mia_dance07_lrg_fin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteA7J4AxTI/AAAAAAAACOo/0pjgOj5vWYk/s1600-h/hou_dance07_lrg_fin.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104690456399234354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RteA7J4AxTI/AAAAAAAACOo/0pjgOj5vWYk/s400/hou_dance07_lrg_fin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><br />Which dance team should be crowned the 2007 fans' favorite?<br />Heat Dancers 61%<br />Rockets Power Dancers 39% </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6238065328986653468?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-11555204624518585212007-08-30T19:27:00.000-07:002007-08-30T19:38:40.643-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rtd9154AxSI/AAAAAAAACOg/aXUNfeeKots/s1600-h/sd_070808_800.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104687067670037794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rtd9154AxSI/AAAAAAAACOg/aXUNfeeKots/s400/sd_070808_800.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Congratulations to the recently selected 2007-08 Silver Dancers!<br />Back Row: Silver Dancer Choregrapher Raquel Garcia, Sofia, Jessica Marie, Jennifer, Yasmeen, Ally, Mandy, Sarah, Heather, Brittany, Ashley,<br />Front Row: Allison, Rebecca, Tina, Monica, Nicole, Jemina<br /><br /><br /><br />related articles<br /><a href="http://www.nba.com/spurs/dance/">www.nba.com/spurs/dance/</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1155520462451858521?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-44705390519211204022007-08-30T19:21:00.000-07:002007-08-30T19:24:01.879-07:00<div>Grizzlies Dance Team - April, 2007</div><div> </div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104684348955739410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rtd7Xp4AxRI/AAAAAAAACOY/11y9PCTIlAE/s400/040307%2520SunsGrizz%2520JM199.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div></div><br /><div>April 3, 2007. (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)</div><br />Related Articles<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Grizzlies Dance Team" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/section_index.html">Grizzlies Dance Team</a><br /><br />The Grizzlies players aren't the only athletes on the court at FedExForum.<br /><br />With their fast-paced dance moves and exciting routines<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Dance Team Gallery Archive" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/dance_team_gallery-archive.html">Dance Team Gallery Archive</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4470539051921120402?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-60034195581103642752007-08-30T19:15:00.000-07:002007-08-30T19:20:27.061-07:00Grizzlies Dance Team - April, 2007<br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104683004630975746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rtd6JZ4AxQI/AAAAAAAACOQ/zV2zXwGv9Zg/s320/041607%2520SpursGrizz%2520JM129.jpg" border="0" />Amanda. (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images) </p><p><br /></p><br />Related Articles<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Grizzlies Dance Team" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/section_index.html">Grizzlies Dance Team</a><br /><br />The Grizzlies players aren't the only athletes on the court at FedExForum.<br /><br />With their fast-paced dance moves and exciting routines<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Dance Team Gallery Archive" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/dance_team_gallery-archive.html">Dance Team Gallery Archive</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6003419558110364275?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-88165201347540113412007-08-30T19:06:00.000-07:002007-08-30T19:15:37.846-07:00<div>Dance Team Galleries 2006-2007<br />We make sure to get great photos of the Grizzlies Dance Team during every home game. Come back to this page often and see the latest galleries from the previous month's games.<br />Our Grizzlies Dance Team section has much more info including individual dancer bio pages, video highlights and even information about how to book the Dance Team for an upcoming corporate event. ( from grizzles )</div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104682149932483826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rtd5Xp4AxPI/AAAAAAAACOI/caGjpXIXRZg/s320/041607%2520SpursGrizz%2520JM231.jpg" border="0" />Linea. (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)<br /><div></div><br /><div>Related Articles<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Grizzlies Dance Team" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/section_index.html">Grizzlies Dance Team</a></div><br /><div>The Grizzlies players aren't the only athletes on the court at FedExForum. </div><br /><div>With their fast-paced dance moves and exciting routines<br /><a class="rLLA" title="Dance Team Gallery Archive" href="http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/dance/dance_team_gallery-archive.html">Dance Team Gallery Archive</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-8816520134754011341?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-69148026634387759392007-08-29T21:37:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:40:26.916-07:00<div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZJ1J4AxNI/AAAAAAAACN4/be5CaTKIEO4/s1600-h/zilviuj.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104348405203780818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZJ1J4AxNI/AAAAAAAACN4/be5CaTKIEO4/s320/zilviuj.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>December doesn't mean only ice and snow for Silvia. She has a genuine Mediterranean soul and <a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZJ_Z4AxOI/AAAAAAAACOA/pXG9ZzPx6n8/s1600-h/zilvi04.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104348581297439970" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZJ_Z4AxOI/AAAAAAAACOA/pXG9ZzPx6n8/s320/zilvi04.jpg" border="0" /></a>she adores sunshine. Where she was born the winter is cold, and she doesn't like it. So she usually accepts the shoots far away from her home in December.<br /><br />"My girlfriends like it very much, because they don't like to leave at Xmas time. Of course<br /><br />I also like to spend it together with my family and I can solve it very well. I take after my mum so she often comes with me. While I'm working she is walking in the sunshine."<br /><br />Silvia's last shoot was in Sevilla that she likes very much. "Walking in the streets and enjoy the beauty of this language. I smell the olanders that can be seen everywhere. The rose ones are beautiful. This is my favourite colour and I have several lingeries in it. When I wear them I feel scents inside and I'm waiting for little honey-bees." </div></div><br /><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6914802663438775939?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-85262851091322714222007-08-29T21:32:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:34:58.549-07:00<div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZIkZ4AxLI/AAAAAAAACNo/KAmlWJ7ROxQ/s1600-h/eva02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104347017929344178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZIkZ4AxLI/AAAAAAAACNo/KAmlWJ7ROxQ/s320/eva02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>I inherited my nickname from my grandmother. She often wore a cherry-coloured hat. My grandfather called her 'Little Cherry' and later called me similarly.<br /><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZIu54AxMI/AAAAAAAACNw/AhcEMxOPm2Q/s1600-h/eva01uj.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104347198317970626" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZIu54AxMI/AAAAAAAACNw/AhcEMxOPm2Q/s320/eva01uj.jpg" border="0" /></a>My own cherry obsession started when I was eleven.<br />My family had a few weeks in Japan, where cherry-flower is a national symbol. I was crazy about the scenery with trees in blossom. There I got my first camera and I took my first photos about trees. It can't be an accident that my favourite colour is red and I adore cherry bonbon.<br />Over the years, my collection has expanded to include a straw hat covered with cherry-flowers that I wear on vacation.By the way I have more than 50 hats. I store them on nails and hangers in my closet and along my bedroom walls.<br />I can turn my nickname 'Little Cherry' to my advantage. For example when I have an invitation to a casting where there are a lot of beautiful girls, my name is uncommon. They usually like my name,<br />so I'm very lucky with it.</div></div><br /><br/><br/><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-8526285109132271422?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-20124934100202071502007-08-29T21:26:00.001-07:002007-08-29T21:31:17.431-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZHfJ4AxKI/AAAAAAAACNg/Dj5mNCXVhJY/s1600-h/minianden01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104345828223403170" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZHfJ4AxKI/AAAAAAAACNg/Dj5mNCXVhJY/s320/minianden01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />She began modelling at the age of 10 and signed with Elite when she was 15. She became a famous teen model. Since she was still at school, her modelling assignments took place at <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZHPp4AxJI/AAAAAAAACNY/xDEZDcAvYMU/s1600-h/miniandenleft01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104345561935430802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZHPp4AxJI/AAAAAAAACNY/xDEZDcAvYMU/s320/miniandenleft01.jpg" border="0" /></a>weekends and during school holidays. Of course, now that she has left school, she is able to model full time. She enjoys travelling and meeting new people, but says that the worst thing about the modelling life is having to be away from home so often. Whenever she can, she spends time in the countryside with family and friends. Mini's best friend is model Missy Rayder.<br /><br />Her international career took off immediately. Anden has done extensive editorial work for publications including Harper’s Bazaar and American Vogue, Italian Vogue and French Vogue. Her most recent advertising campaigns include Calvin Klein Jeans, Gucci,<br /><br />Hugo Boss and BCBG. Anden has also appeared in fashion shows<br /><br />in Milan, Paris and New York for such designers as Dior, Chanel, John Galliano, Gucci, Prada and Marc Jacobs. </div><br /><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2012493410020207150?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-59831263945630522672007-08-29T21:18:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:24:59.210-07:00<div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZFu54AxHI/AAAAAAAACNI/fbFznk6OxYM/s1600-h/bundchen01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104343899783087218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZFu54AxHI/AAAAAAAACNI/fbFznk6OxYM/s320/bundchen01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>A Genuine Topmodel<br />The most famous model agencies like Elite are steadily living in the spell of perfect bodies and beautiful faces. They are looking for something special "spectacle", because the visual hunger of the world is insatiable. Specially when we are talking about Gis้le Bndchen.<br /><br />The hardly smiling topmodel Gis้le has been present in the world of fashion since her childhood. The Brazilian beauty with her father leaving the small village Horizontina came to Sao Paolo, where tried to break out from the low standard of living. The young Gis้le was looking for the prosperity in the shade of fast-food restaurants, when a modelling agent approached her.<br /><br />Despite her father's resistance, moved to the city at the age of 14, and she"s lived alone ever since.<br /><br />The beginning was hard. She had to fight against the anorexic, what is one of the most dangerous trap in the life of a young model. Perhaps the reason she doesn’t fall into the anorexic trap is because of the humiliation endured for being so thin as a child. "At school they teased me because I was so thin. I looked like a little mosquito."<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZF2Z4AxII/AAAAAAAACNQ/vhMBQnE_y8Q/s1600-h/bundchen03.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104344028632106114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtZF2Z4AxII/AAAAAAAACNQ/vhMBQnE_y8Q/s320/bundchen03.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />But now Gis้le can be proud of her body. Nowdays she is called- after Naomi- the „White Panther”, who reaches the victims around the catwalk. Of course the most victims say yes. Sometimes she drops them for example Leo.<br /><br />Lady Bndchen got four covers for Vogue in 1999 as the magazine labeled her their model of the year in the process. One of her latest work was a shooting in New York, where she appeared several collectiones designed by Oscar de la Renta, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Calvin Clein. The photos were taken by the famous photographer Patrick Demarchelier. </div></div><br /><br /><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5983126394563052267?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-74097666493909000872007-08-29T20:44:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:03:38.337-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY9U54AxFI/AAAAAAAACM4/qwOCiP6wemQ/s1600-h/szilvi01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104334657013466194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY9U54AxFI/AAAAAAAACM4/qwOCiP6wemQ/s320/szilvi01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>The Sweet Girls won't be complete without Sylvia who also has a weakness for sweet things. During the interview she was conversing on phone with somebody and their main topic was a party. It sounded exciting so we were patient with it. After phone Sylvia told the whole story about a cranberry party she arranges for a friend.<br />Of course we were interested in details.<br />Cranberry party was your idea?<br />Yes, because this is the favourite of Micky who is a talented photographer at the model agency. It will be his birthday party and it fell to me to arrange. According to the plan the party will be held in a country inn with a lot of cranberry wine and an gigantic cranberry cake. What is more there will be a pool with water-candels. The place will be dominated the color purple. I think the purple shade of cranberry is very exciting.<br />So it is an erotic party?<br />No, it's not erotic, just a little sexy. Models will serve the cake and they will put some marmalade on their own skin.<br />Will you put it too?<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY9lZ4AxGI/AAAAAAAACNA/O0l6pAMnOP8/s1600-h/sylvi02uj.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104334940481307746" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY9lZ4AxGI/AAAAAAAACNA/O0l6pAMnOP8/s320/sylvi02uj.jpg" border="0" /></a>I'll just help girls. I'll stay 'clear', because my skin is very sensitive. Of course I'll wear sexy purple clothes, maybe a lingerie. On the back of the invitation is: 'You must wear sexy purple clothes!'<br />It sounds good. Can you arrange my birthday party too?<br />It depends on what you would like.<br />My favourite fruit is pineapple.<br />I'm sorry but I don't like it. It's too sweet and I don't like color yellow. If you had said raspberry I would accept your birthday party</div><br /><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7409766649390900087?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-19209159210197658852007-08-29T20:40:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:07:47.380-07:00<div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY8k54AxDI/AAAAAAAACMo/X9Yd6VrIMug/s1600-h/emoke2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104333832379745330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY8k54AxDI/AAAAAAAACMo/X9Yd6VrIMug/s320/emoke2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Em๕ke, the NBC Models latest 'sweet star' is seasoning pages of Sweet Girls. It can't be an accident.<br />She has many more common points than we think. Besides she is enthusiastic about chocolate, she will be one of the angels who present Xmas bonbon in a commercial.<br /><br />In the story Em๕ke as an angel flits to and fro in a room with a box of chocolate in her wings. She sprinkles little bonbons onto a Christmas tree.<br />'It sounds enchanting, but the shoot ws very terrible.' complains about it. 'There were a lot of sweet things around and I couldn't eat them. Can you imagine?!'<br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY80J4AxEI/AAAAAAAACMw/Z_NmpApqcOU/s1600-h/emoke01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104334094372750402" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY80J4AxEI/AAAAAAAACMw/Z_NmpApqcOU/s320/emoke01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Yes. It must has been awful for a sweet girl who has already seen several times the film 'Chocolate'.<br /><br />'After shoot I was very disappointed and right after I went to a confectioner's. I odered a big slice of chocolate cake and a cup of hot chocolate. 'Because I deserve it!</div><br /><br /><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1920915921019765885?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-54600303488782450672007-08-29T20:36:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:10:41.681-07:00<div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY7lp4AxBI/AAAAAAAACMY/EZoaN8-nOP8/s1600-h/swtimikek02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104332745753019410" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY7lp4AxBI/AAAAAAAACMY/EZoaN8-nOP8/s320/swtimikek02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>'Honey Baby'. This is the way Timi is called by her friends. Its reason is her love with honey. "I'm the girl who uses honey in her tea and on her skin too. It's useful at my 'beauty project'.<br />"It can be very effective because Timi's skin is beautiful. "Perfect skin is one of the most important advantage in front of the camera. I'm not enough tall to be a high-fashion model, but I often display lingeries for fashion magazines where the perfect skin is a key of success.<br />My other field is presentation of various kinds of beauty products like Palmolive. Last month there was a casting at the company and there were a lot of fashion model with a nice face, but their skin weren't perfect. So this casting was mine."<br />NBC Beauty Channel was invited to Honey Baby's home and we weren't surprised her honey-coloured furniture. She showed her bed too that was covered little poo figures and other bears. Meanwhile she was serving the tea she was talking about her future.<br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY7x54AxCI/AAAAAAAACMg/64w0F0NxiEA/s1600-h/swtimikek01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104332956206416930" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY7x54AxCI/AAAAAAAACMg/64w0F0NxiEA/s320/swtimikek01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />"Next month I'll go to Malaysia. A Malaysian modeling agency invited me for a month. Of course it doesn't mean I would be cover girl everywhere there. It's a chance to take part at the Malaysian castings and hopefully in many fashion or bikini shootings. It will be a great adventure and hard work at the same time."</div><div> </div><br /><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-5460030348878245067?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-12251977434294192772007-08-29T20:33:00.001-07:002007-08-29T21:12:31.585-07:00<div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY6sZ4Aw_I/AAAAAAAACMI/iysRLaPEIwE/s1600-h/dolly2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104331762205508594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY6sZ4Aw_I/AAAAAAAACMI/iysRLaPEIwE/s320/dolly2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>Dolly doesn't care about money or success and she doesn't save for things. She simply does things. Last month she walked in and said: "I like fashion and fashion likes me. I want to do it."<br />Right after Dolly was invited to a model photo shoot where we could see the 'sensual girl' inside.<br />Then I was sitting at my desk when she entered. There were two huge trunks of fashion clothes at her. In her rose chiffon dress and black boots. She loves lingery very much. Dolly was very delightful. I knew she would be the new Fresh Girl posing in lingerie or bikini.<br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY6zZ4AxAI/AAAAAAAACMQ/qV58KZjtym4/s1600-h/dollyuj2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104331882464592898" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY6zZ4AxAI/AAAAAAAACMQ/qV58KZjtym4/s320/dollyuj2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Are you the girl who is loved by fashion? asked her.<br />Before the answer a mobile rang. "Yes, Mum. Don't worry please, but I have to put it down...I love you too."<br />Two minutes later she disappeared. The shoot had already started.</div></div><br /><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1225197743429419277?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-25902196919570213362007-08-29T20:27:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:14:33.683-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY5e54Aw9I/AAAAAAAACL4/SUPO2HQ6Zks/s1600-h/dewi01.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104330430765646802" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY5e54Aw9I/AAAAAAAACL4/SUPO2HQ6Zks/s320/dewi01.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>The world of fashion is about fantasy, new trends and new models of course. Dewi Driegen is one of the most popular new model this season. She displays collections from Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren and Marc Jacobs regularly.<br />The Amsterdam native, Dewi was discovered by an Elite scout during a weekend jaunt to Paris.<br />Dewi featured in the Balenciaga campaign shot by David Sims, and Emporio A/X's campaign with Max Vadukul.<br />First show: It hasn't all been smooth sailing, so to speak: "My heel snapped at the rehearsal of my first show in Milan last season. Wow!"<br />About fashion: As glam as it gets at the shows, Dewi takes it down a few notches during normal life, sticking to "practical stuff like jeans and some cute Marc Jacobs tops. I travel a lot, so I tend to go for comfortable clothes." <a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY5tp4Aw-I/AAAAAAAACMA/LJe0h-wOspU/s1600-h/dewi02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104330684168717282" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY5tp4Aw-I/AAAAAAAACMA/LJe0h-wOspU/s320/dewi02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Important things: Dewi's priorities are pretty well-defined. "I don't have any time off at the moment, but I always have time to walk my dog." (The fortunate fido is a Scottish terrier named Betty.)<br />About shoes: "I need both! Heels make me feel feminine, but I'd never wear them crossing the Atlantic. Flats are a must." </div><br /><br /><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2590219691957021336?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-46834144790870553862007-08-29T20:14:00.000-07:002007-08-29T21:15:52.034-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY4OJ4Aw7I/AAAAAAAACLo/wEqpxty9QMI/s1600-h/klaudia.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104329043491210162" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY4OJ4Aw7I/AAAAAAAACLo/wEqpxty9QMI/s200/klaudia.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">www.nbcmodels.com/</a><br />’Thank you so much!’ squealed Claudia when she bumped into NBC’s Editor.<br /><br />’I loved my cover!’<br /><br />So did you. A year ago she was in our magazine and the issue with her as cover girl was the most popular in that year. Proof indeed that in the past year, Claudia has soared into the supermodel stratosphere.<br /><br />’She is a rare beauty,’ says NBC Beauty’s cover photographer Michael Page. ’She’s incredibly, impossibly glamorous,’ adds hairdresser Judy Manson.<br /><br />We voted for Claudia again. February is a special month with celebrations. Claudia a fantastic-size girl and takes her modeling very seriously and is fed up being ’labelled the blond’. She just wants to do ’amazing pictures’.<br /><br />Claudia is truly the model of the moment. She has just come back from Tokyo and she won’t stay long. Her December is about work, because the various magazines need her beauty. She looks angel-like and Christmas is about similar things. Her next work will be in London and after a little break she’ll go to Paris to display fashion creations for the New Year.<br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY4c54Aw8I/AAAAAAAACLw/NOnJFB50hf0/s1600-h/klaudia02.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104329296894280642" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtY4c54Aw8I/AAAAAAAACLw/NOnJFB50hf0/s200/klaudia02.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />She is never tired. ’I have always felt happy with the idea of working hard to get where I want to go- I’m an ambitious kind of person. I feel that I am traveling in the right direction and at the right speed. How many people can say that?’<br /><br />What to expect from the New Year:<br /><br />’Sun, successful work and New York. I’ve already seen London, Paris, Milan and Tokyo, but I haven’t seen yet New York. So at the New Year’s Eve I will wish it. I hope an angel fulfills my dream<br /><br /><br /><div>Related Link</div><div></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.nbcmodels.com/">http://www.nbcmodels.com/</a></div><br /><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/">Bikini Models Gallery </a></div><div>beautiful female models and fitness girlsposing</div><div>in very sexy bikinis and thongs.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://bikinimodels.nbcmodels.com/kate.html">Sexy model Kate</a></div><div>Picture gallery of female topmodels in luxury bikinis</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4683414479087055386?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-38483187903525140342007-08-28T20:08:00.000-07:002007-08-28T21:23:08.284-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTm254AwzI/AAAAAAAACKo/myfM-SX3OcE/s1600-h/Shakira_00612_17_30.sized.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103958108640690994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTm254AwzI/AAAAAAAACKo/myfM-SX3OcE/s320/Shakira_00612_17_30.sized.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div>Shakira Trivia<br /><br />Became the youngest ever goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ UNICEF on October 24, 2003<br />Postponed a concert in the Dominican Republic at the advice of her doctors because she was suffering from a throat infection -- The concert was scheduled for Wednesday night at Quisqueya Stadium in Santo Domingo, but it was postponed until Thursday night, promoter George Nader said. (March 21, 2003)<br />Donated 10,000 pairs of tennis shoes to her hometown of Barranquilla to impoverished children -- the donation was made through the Barefoot Foundation, named after one of Shakira's disks called Pies Descalzos in Spanish. (December 21, 2002)<br />Shakira proves to be a real doll – the singer has signed on with toy company Mattel, maker of Barbie, to license a collection of fashion dolls and accessories. (November 6, 2002)<br />Shakira has signed an endorsement deal with Reebok that will be marketed under the sportswear giant's Sounds & Rhythm Of Sport platform. (September 24, 2002)<br />Shakira is a walking, living, breathing, singing contradiction.<br />She's a child prodigy who wrote her first song at age eight, a blond-locked Colombian who speaks three languages and loves only in Spanish.<br />She's a perfectionist who spends hours in the studio; she needs to be close to nature but her passion is the crackle of electric guitars.<br />Made emergency helicopter landing. Bad weather forces the singer's chopper down over a baseball diamond in the Dominican Republic on Friday, August 2, 2002. She and family escaped injury.<br /><br /><table align="center" border="0"><br /><br /><tbody><br /><br /><br /><tr><br /><br /><td><br /><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/sZbPrI0P3z9WA9svz" width="425" height="335" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cbm5_beyonce-shakirabeautiful-liar_music">Beyonce & Shakira-Beautiful Liar</a></b><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTnVp4Aw0I/AAAAAAAACKw/uktRGdHmCKk/s1600-h/Shakira_00512_17_30.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103958636921668418" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTnVp4Aw0I/AAAAAAAACKw/uktRGdHmCKk/s320/Shakira_00512_17_30.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /><td><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTn4p4Aw2I/AAAAAAAACLA/B1RCAHlc4TA/s1600-h/Shakira_00912_17_30.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103959238217089890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTn4p4Aw2I/AAAAAAAACLA/B1RCAHlc4TA/s320/Shakira_00912_17_30.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td></tr><br /><tr><br /><td colspan="2" align="center"><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTkTJ4AwwI/AAAAAAAACKQ/6wF0KuAZ2Bw/s1600-h/Shakira_00712_17_30.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103955295437112066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTkTJ4AwwI/AAAAAAAACKQ/6wF0KuAZ2Bw/s200/Shakira_00712_17_30.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><br /></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" border="0"><br /><tbody><br /></tbody></table></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-3848318790352514034?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-45934028814680516402007-08-28T19:37:00.000-07:002007-08-28T19:55:14.534-07:00<div><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTdTJ4AwtI/AAAAAAAACJ4/Yz45LQX6tkM/s1600-h/111_G.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103947598855717586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTdTJ4AwtI/AAAAAAAACJ4/Yz45LQX6tkM/s200/111_G.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on July 24, 1970. Her parents came to New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico. She is the middle of three sisters. At the age of 7, young Jennifer went on her first tour - around New York City with her dance class.At the age of 16 Jennifer got a little break with a bit part in the film ''My Little Girl'' (starring Mary Stuart Masterson). But Jennifer's first love was still dance, and when she read about a scholarship to a dance school in Manhattan, she went down and grabbed the opportunity. At this time she was taking a full time course load at Baruch, working in a law office and taking her dance classes. Eventually this would lead to a falling out with her mother, who didn't want Jennifer to pursue dance as a career. When her mother gave her the ever popular ''you live by my rules as long as you live under my roof'' speech Jennifer took that as her cue to break out on her own. Not having anywhere else to live, she took up residence in the building where she took her dance classes. A year and a half of auditioning with no success brought Jennifer to the verge of a breakdown. But salvation would come in the form of a tour that sent her dancing across Japan. Before this, she had auditioned to be a ''Fly Girl'' for the show ''In Living Color'' but she had been turned down. Upon returning from Japan, she received a call from ''In Living Color'' asking her to audition again. This time she made the cut and it was off to Hollywood. She didn't really enjoy her time on ''In Living Color'', as she longed for an acting career that would put her in the spotlight. Her first television job as an actress, on the Fox series ''South Central'' came her way because the producer of the show was married to one of the other fly girls, and he took notice of Jennifer during a special Fox aired about the Fly Girls. ''South Central'' only survived one season, but she quickly resurfaced on television screens appearing as ''Melinda Lopez'' first in the short lived ''Second Chances'' series, then ''Hotel Malibu.'' In 1995 she jumped onto the big screen in her first major role, opposite Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson in ''Money Train.'' She would go on to work opposite such talents as Robin Williams and Jack Nicholson, but it was her work with Gregory Nava, who directed her in ''My Family, Mi Familia'' that would lead her to the role that would make her a star.After an extensive nationwide search, Jennifer was chosen to play Selena Quintanilla Perez, in the official biopic of the life of the fallen Tejano star. Taking part in the production of ''Selena'' would impact Jennifer's life in many ways. On the personal side, Jennifer's fianc้้, Ojani Noa, proposed to her at the wrap party for Selena. The couple had met in Miami while Jennifer was filming ''Blood And Wine'' with Jack Nicholson. Ojani, a Cuban immigrant, was an aspiring model working as a waiter at Gloria Estefan's restaurant, Larios On The Beach. They were married in Miami on February 22, 1997, after knowing each other less than a year. Jennifer's sudden rise to fame with the release of ''Selena'' the following month would put an excessive strain on the marriage, and the couple filed for divorce just a little over a year after they were married.After news of the divorce made headlines, the gossip papers quickly had her romantically linked to the likes of rap impresario Sean ''Puffy'' Combs, Sony Music President Tommy Mottola and Salsa singer Marc Anthony. Jennifer herself remains tightlipped - and rightfully so - on the subject of her personal life (although she has recently admitted that she is in fact having a relationship with Puffy). Back on the professional level, her role as Karen Sisco in 1998's ''Out Of Sight'', opposite George Clooney, has brought her into the major leagues, making her the highest paying Latina actress in history. Playing Selena also brought back Jennifer's interests in being the ''all around'' entertainer, and she decided to record a demo of her singing, completely in Spanish. After a bidding war among a number of record companies, Jennifer was signed to Sony Music's Work Group label. Her first CD, a pop album with a Latin flavor (although mostly in English) was released June 1, 1999. Working with the likes of Emilio Estefan, Rodney Jerkins and Sean ''Puffy'' Combs, the music world is buzzing that Jennifer is ''the next Gloria Estefan'' set to become the mainstream Latin crossover star Selena herself surely would have been, had she been given the chance. That early prediction seems accurate, as her first single, ''If You Had My Love'' shot to 1 on the Billboard chart, and has been certified platinum (one million sales).<br />Nickname : ''La Guitarra'' (guitar shaped body)<br /><br /><table aling="center" border="0"><tbody></div><div><tr><td><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103948006877610738" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTdq54AwvI/AAAAAAAACKI/JsUuamhua6g/s200/00103102_G.jpg" border="0" /></div><div></td><td></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103947856553755362" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTdiJ4AwuI/AAAAAAAACKA/GaosUz-wKbw/s200/00103099_G.jpg" border="0" /></div><div></td></tr></div><div></tbody></table></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4593402881468051640?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-27457235829875595902007-08-28T10:34:00.000-07:002007-08-28T10:56:30.587-07:00"A Salute to the Eagles" was founded with the intent of filling the void left by the demise of The Eagles in 1982. By blending their extraordinary vocal and musical talents, HOTEL CALIFORNIA faithfully and accurately reproduces the sound of the Eagles studio recordings while recreating a classic sound which undeniably transcends the boundaries of Rock, R&B, and Country while delivering a modern, action packed performance that brings this timeless music into the new millennium.<br /><br />This band, comprised of five respected, multi-talented top music industry professionals, presents a dynamic exciting show saluting the music of The Eagles, a supergroup whose music has proven to have a staying power that few bands lay claim to. Finally, audiences can once again experience the energy and magic of this timeless music.<br /><br />This highly acclaimed presentation has a great reputation and excellent references. HOTEL CALIFORNIA has become one of the most sought after acts in the world, with name recognition and true marquis value paralleling today's modern recording artists.<br /><br />The group performs 150 - 200 high profile events every year, including special corporate functions, charity benefits, fund raisers, outdoor concerts, festivals, and fairs, playing main stages receiving top billing as a national act, as well as opening for some of the most prominent names in the entertainment industry. See the “clients” page for a sampling of credit, references and satisfied customers.Each concert presents an exciting showcase of The Eagles mega-hits such as “Take it Easy”, “Heartache Tonight”, and “Hotel California” as well as newer releases “Get Over It” and “Love will Keep Us Alive”. The group also performs select titles from the solo works of Don Henley, Glen Frey, and Joe Walsh.<br /><br />This timeless music is appealing to audiences of all ages, bringing back memories and touching the hearts of every generation. So join us now on a trip down a dark desert highway, feel the cool wind in your hair, and experience the Grammy Award winning sounds that defined a generation.<br /><br />Relax…It’s time to check into the<br /><table align="center" border="0"><br /><tbody><br /><tr><td><br /><div><object width="425" height="306"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4W87vERCtziNo5ycR"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4W87vERCtziNo5ycR" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="300" height="250" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xscxp_the-eagles-hotel-california-live_music">The Eagles : Hotel California Live</a></b><br /></div><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><td><br /><div><object width="400" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4hbexJh3H6jCrbYUa"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4hbexJh3H6jCrbYUa" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="280" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1p7hu_the-eagles-desperado-live_events">The Eagles - Desperado (Live)</a></b><br /></div><br /></td></tr><br /><tr><td><br /><div><object width="425" height="335"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/10Na3Y3TcVPR2e3wy"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/10Na3Y3TcVPR2e3wy" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="335" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zszi_the-eagles-take-it-easy_music">The Eagles - Take It Easy</a></b><br /></div><br /></td></tr><br /><tr><td><br /><div><object width="425" height="335"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/3JzS9S5MFBukHjjIT"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/3JzS9S5MFBukHjjIT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="335" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2qoib_eagles-love-will-keep-us-alive_music">Eagles - Love Will Keep Us Alive</a></b><br /></div><br /></td></tr><br /></tbody><br /></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2745723582987559590?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-91986083958710952592007-08-28T08:41:00.000-07:002007-08-28T10:14:41.111-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRCaJ4AwoI/AAAAAAAACJQ/P7hLRXuKDnw/s1600-h/Corrs_29.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103777294812496514" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRCaJ4AwoI/AAAAAAAACJQ/P7hLRXuKDnw/s320/Corrs_29.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>The Beginning Many moons ago, Jean and Jerry Corr were given a grand piano as a wedding present by Jerry's father. Jerry used play this grand piano as a child, little did Jean and Jerry know that this same Grand piano was going to change the face of the popular music - forever. Jean and Jerry Corr began their lives togheter in the small town of Dundalk, Ireland just 30 miles away from Dublin. They were a musical couple who traveled around Ireland filling the pubs with their renditions of old favorites. After then were married it wasn't long before the first of their four children was born. James Steven Corr (otherwise know to us all the master himself Jim) came to life in July 31st 1964 and started playing the grand piano at the tender age of four. Jim furthered his musical skills by his next door neighbor teaching him to play the guitar at the age of 9. By that time that Jim was joined by the first of his three little sisters.Sharon Corr was born on March 24th 1970 and started to play that same old piano around about the age of 4 as influenced by watching her parents play in pubs. Sharon started taking Violin lessons at the age of 7 from a local priest, only missing one lesson her whole life. Jean and Jerry Corr intended for the violin lessons to be for Caroline who was then aged 3, but she was more interested that the local priest had ginger color hair so Sharon decided to take up the violin lesson.Caroline Corr came into the world on March 17th 1973 and got her teeth into playing the piano round about the age of four. Caroline started to play the drums quite late at the age of 18 when she was taught by a former boyfriend. Within a year of Caroline being born came the youngest of the Corr family. Andrea Jane Corr was born may 17th 1974 who also successfully tried her hand on the piano when she was a toddler.The Corrs get a Record deal The eighties came and the Corr children gazed at their mother and father belting out old favorites in their band call sound affair as they were preparing themselves onto the international stage. While the girls were in their teens listening to 80 teen idols especially Andrea who had big crushes on Nick Kershaw and Prince. Jim however, was tour with his first band for a while in Germany but Jim's main dream was to get the family band together. And the wheels started to get rolling in 1990 when the four of them played together for the first time as The Corrs for an aducation for Alan Parker's move the Commitments which became to be a worldwide box office success. All four members got miner parts; Andrea got to say a few lines especially the phrase "go and shite" quite a few times. But The Corrs aduation caught the attention of musical director of the movie John Hughes when signed the band up and became their manger. Within a year he got The Corrs a publishing deal with polygram. The band got a regular slot playing at the waterfront club in Dublin but it wasn't until 1994 when The Corrs got a record deal. Jean Kennedy Smith saw the band played and was overwhelmed by their performance that she flew the band to American to play to get attention from record companies. The Corrs first got the attention of Jason Flom, head of lava records which is a subsidiary label for Atlantic records who passed the word onto David Foster, who is on paper the best producer around with no less than 12 Grammies to his name and produced hit songs for Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston to name but a few. David Foster was unable to get a meeting with the band as he was locked in a studio with Michael Jackson recording his 1995 History album. So on their last day in America, The Corrs manage to get themselves in the recording studio and played a redaction of runaway and love to love you and David Foster signed the on the spot to Atlantic records.The 1990's-2000 September 1995 was the release of the Corrs debut album "forgiven not forgotten", produced by Foster and Jim Corr. The first single to be taken off the album was runaway which was a hit all over the world especially in their native Ireland, Australia and Spain. The album sold 2 million copies worldwide within a year while the right time, love to love you and the album's title track was big successes as singles. The corrs toured and showed the world their breath-taking performance, which got them many fans. However, the Corrs and their first album made little impact in the UK, even tough they were supported by radio station radio 2 and music channel VH1, but all that was about to change. In October 1997, the band released what was to be their breakthrough album "Talk on Corners". Within a week of release the album went straight in at #7 on the UK album chart, only to fall out of the top forty within weeks. The first three singles off the album only when I sleep, I never loved you anyway and the original version of what ca I do fail to reach the UK singles chart while they were all huge hits across other parts of the world, something had to be done. John Hughes got the BBC to broadcast the bands St Patrick's day gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London which was classed as a sell-out three weeks after tickets were on sale. The show was televised on BBC1 late on St Patrick's day 1998, only about half a million people saw it but it made a huge impact to the fab fours success. Within day of the gig being broadcast, talk on Corners when back in the UK album charts top twenty at #13. Then rob Dickens who was then head of Warner brothers music heard a dance remix of The corrs version of Fleetwood Mac's dreams who they recorded for a tribute. Rob Dickens decided for it to be a single and was released in May 1998. In its first week of release, dreams entered the UK singles chart at #6, their first singles chat position in the UK after getting huge radio and TV airplay. And just a few weeks after, Talk on corners hit the top of the album chart and going to number one no fewer than nine time in the UK. It became the biggest selling album of 1998, out selling the likes of George Michael and Madonna to name but a few. And the rest they say is history. A further three top ten hit singles followed in the space of nine months, a sell out 38 date UK arena tour, a Brit. award, a Grammy nomination, several Irish music awards. Recently they've released an MTV unplugged album, which has hit double platinum in the UK and a third studio to hit the record shops round about June 2000. Andrea being voted the third sexist women in pop music behind Louise and Britney Spears and beating off the likes of Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez. So there you have all you need to know about the greatest band to ever exist on planet earth.</div><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103778252590203586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRDR54AwsI/AAAAAAAACJw/R9XIN8AnNX8/s200/Corrs_16.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103778110856282802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRDJp4AwrI/AAAAAAAACJo/YCKOH2Zuk6M/s200/Corrs_44.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103777810208572066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRC4J4AwqI/AAAAAAAACJg/0va8Mf4SzwM/s200/Corrs_17.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103777573985370770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtRCqZ4AwpI/AAAAAAAACJY/1tmkUJcCnZM/s200/Corrs_37.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><br /><div><object width="425" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4VS3aL125XFHs5FXb"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/4VS3aL125XFHs5FXb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="364" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xszwx_the-corrs-what-can-i-do-unplugged_music"> The Corrs - What Can I Do (Unplugged)</a></b><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div><a href="http://www.sing365.com/">http://www.sing365.com/</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-9198608395871095259?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-27045803490875949472007-08-28T08:15:00.000-07:002007-08-28T08:29:26.091-07:00<div><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ-1p4AwlI/AAAAAAAACI4/KA1BdW4KfNk/s1600-h/bliebirdcdonly0cx.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103773369212387922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ-1p4AwlI/AAAAAAAACI4/KA1BdW4KfNk/s320/bliebirdcdonly0cx.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Ayumi Hamasaki commonly known as “Ayu” is J-Pop singer and this is my J-Pop favorites. Ayu born October 2, 1978 inFukuoka Japan, If you try to search on Google, there are will be a lot of Ayu Fan site and of course they official website too. Almost all of Ayu song become my favorites, and ... </div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103773575370818146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ_Bp4AwmI/AAAAAAAACJA/1f5u9vxhrLs/s320/top_image.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103773777234281074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ_NZ4AwnI/AAAAAAAACJI/ZVqiKRMuWnU/s320/avbd91452ed9.jpg" border="0" /><br /><div><a href="http://avexnet.or.jp/ayu/index.html">Ayumi Hamasaki official website</a></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2704580349087594947?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-78998211215729997052007-08-28T08:12:00.000-07:002007-08-28T20:42:57.635-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ73Z4AwkI/AAAAAAAACIw/VM2lQRd7Bt0/s1600-h/PamelaAnderson.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103770100742275650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ73Z4AwkI/AAAAAAAACIw/VM2lQRd7Bt0/s320/PamelaAnderson.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_UCyctg8on3E/RsJRz4womBI/AAAAAAAAArc/JRPRYQLIrzI/s1600-h/PamelaAnderson.jpg"></a><br />Call her Pamela Anderson or Pam Anderson, you have to admit, she stays way sexy. Here is one of her sexiest pictures.Did you know she was discovered at a Canadian Football game? It's true! The camera was panning the crowd and when it came on her the crowd went crazy. In fact, the people at the stadium were so impressed that they brought her down to the field and the biggest cheer of the day was given to her and she ended up as a spokeman for the company that was sponsoring the game. You have to be sexy and hot for somethig like that to happen.</div><br /><table align="center" border="0"><tbody><br /><tr><td><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTp_p4Aw3I/AAAAAAAACLI/nxQKGYKXLOU/s1600-h/Pamela_Anderson_00214_52_40.sized.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103961557499429746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTp_p4Aw3I/AAAAAAAACLI/nxQKGYKXLOU/s200/Pamela_Anderson_00214_52_40.sized.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /><td><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTqLJ4Aw4I/AAAAAAAACLQ/fxzS62bF4u8/s1600-h/Pamela_Anderson_00814_52_40.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103961755067925378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTqLJ4Aw4I/AAAAAAAACLQ/fxzS62bF4u8/s200/Pamela_Anderson_00814_52_40.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><td><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTq554Aw5I/AAAAAAAACLY/3u_Y5FdrSzg/s1600-h/Pamela_Anderson_00514_52_40.sized.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103962558226809746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTq554Aw5I/AAAAAAAACLY/3u_Y5FdrSzg/s200/Pamela_Anderson_00514_52_40.sized.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /><td><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTrFp4Aw6I/AAAAAAAACLg/ZOMPmQQ0tCo/s1600-h/Pamela_Anderson_00414_52_40.sized.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103962760090272674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtTrFp4Aw6I/AAAAAAAACLg/ZOMPmQQ0tCo/s200/Pamela_Anderson_00414_52_40.sized.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></td><br /><tr><br /></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7899821121572999705?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-1900726217925026912007-08-28T07:59:00.000-07:002007-08-28T08:12:21.894-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ7NJ4AwjI/AAAAAAAACIo/fIth3HopHX4/s1600-h/Sophie_Falkiner.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103769374892802610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ7NJ4AwjI/AAAAAAAACIo/fIth3HopHX4/s320/Sophie_Falkiner.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtQ69J4AwiI/AAAAAAAACIg/wMhrQYGcxWg/s1600-h/Sophie_Falkiner.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><br /><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_UCyctg8on3E/RtP_8pMdZJI/AAAAAAAAAzY/txYw-6fPrJs/s1600-h/Sophie_Falkiner.jpg"></a>Okay everybody, you want hot Australian girls. Here is another one!<br />Sophie Falkiner was born 1974 in Melbourne and is a former presenter on The Great Outdoors and a former host on Wheel of Fortune. Falkiner also worked as a research assistant for Today Tonight.<br />Falkiner got her big break at Wheel of Fortune after completing a Bachelor of Media (majoring in journalism) at Macquarie University. In addition to hosting Sydney Weekender, she is the host of Crown Australian Celebrity Poker Challenge on Fox8.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-190072621792502691?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-308294445293466412007-08-28T00:11:00.000-07:002007-08-28T00:43:07.026-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPQBZ4AwhI/AAAAAAAACIY/hJjErWxgO6k/s1600-h/Gong%20Li-PPF-001538.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103651525285167634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPQBZ4AwhI/AAAAAAAACIY/hJjErWxgO6k/s320/Gong%2520Li-PPF-001538.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br />Birth Place: Shenyang, China<br />Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: December 31, 1965, Capricorn<br />Profession: Actor; singer<br /><br /><div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103648999844397522" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPNuZ4AwdI/AAAAAAAACH4/sU6FE_wmdIg/s320/Gong_Li_001.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br />Gong Li Fast Facts:<br />Starred in three films nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film: Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell, My Concubine.<br />English-speaking debut was 1998's Chinese Box.<br />Is the subject of Kam Kwok-Leung's documentary The Rising Star: Gong Li.<br />Recorded an album of songs made popular by Madonna.<br />Gong Li Relationships:<br />Ooi Hoe Seong - Husband<br />Zhang Yimou - Ex-significant Other<br />College:<br />Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, China (1989)<br /><br />some credit<br /><br />Title<br /><br />Hannibal Rising (Actor - Lady Murasaki) 2007 Movie<br />Curse Of The Golden Flower (Actor - The Empress) 2006 Movie<br />Miami Vice (Actor - Isabella) 2006 Movie<br />Memoirs Of A Geisha (Actor - Hatsumomo) 2005 Movie<br />2046 (Actor - Su Li Zhen) 2004 Movie<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103649283312239074" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPN-54AweI/AAAAAAAACIA/Qdt94fYHe6Q/s320/g01.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103651254702227970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPPxp4AwgI/AAAAAAAACIQ/HiQpKVfctP4/s320/gong-li06.jpg" border="0" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-30829444529346641?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-71229783169092083362007-08-27T23:48:00.000-07:002007-08-27T23:54:39.629-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPGo54AwYI/AAAAAAAACHQ/kvXW10VsbAQ/s1600-h/joy%252Bpimrawim.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPGo54AwYI/AAAAAAAACHQ/kvXW10VsbAQ/s320/joy%252Bpimrawim.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103641208773722498" /></a><br />Joy Pimrawim. She has been featured in Thai's Penthouse Magazine.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7122978316909208336?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-79094615669767326402007-08-27T23:45:00.000-07:002007-08-27T23:48:20.368-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPFEZ4AwXI/AAAAAAAACHI/tTEcH3aRyX8/s1600-h/Marilyn-Monroe.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RtPFEZ4AwXI/AAAAAAAACHI/tTEcH3aRyX8/s320/Marilyn-Monroe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103639482196869490" /></a><br /><br /> <br />We really need a post just for the original hot girl, Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model, pop icon and sex symbol. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. However, she faced disappointments in her career and personal life during her later years. Her death has been subject to speculation and conspiracy theories.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7909461566976732640?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-3678872397762079632007-06-25T00:45:00.000-07:002007-06-25T01:28:12.278-07:00<a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn92_o36adI/AAAAAAAACGw/ZyRwCi7UIpk/s1600-h/rowling.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079909740372978130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn92_o36adI/AAAAAAAACGw/ZyRwCi7UIpk/s320/rowling.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Joanne "Jo" Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965) is an English fiction writer who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold over 325 million copies worldwide. In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated her fortune at £576 million (just over US$1 billion and still is at the same spot in 2007), making her the first person to become a US-dollar billionaire by writing books. In 2006, Forbes named her the second richest female entertainer in the world, behind talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Forbes ranked Rowling as #48 on the 100 most powerful celebrities for 2007.<br /><br /><strong>Name</strong><br /><br />Rowling's surname is pronounced "rolling". Her full name is "Joanne Rowling", not, as is often assumed, "Joanne Kathleen Rowling". Before publishing her first volume, Bloomsbury feared that the target audience of young boys might be reluctant to buy books written by a female author. They requested that Rowling use two initials, rather than reveal her first name. As she had no middle name, she chose K, from her grandmother's name Kathleen, as the second initial of her pseudonym. The name Kathleen has never been part of her legal name. She calls herself "Jo" and claims, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry."<br /><br /><strong>Early life</strong><br /><br />Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling and Anne Volant on 31 July 1965 at Yate, South Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16.1 km) northeast of Bristol. Her sister Dianne (Di) was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four where she attended St Michael's Primary School,[11] later moving to Tutshill, near Chepstow, South Wales at the age of nine. As a child, Rowling enjoyed writing stories about fantasies, which she often read to her sister. She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College. Rowling was good with languages, but did not excel at sports and mathematics. There are numerous references to Welsh places, things, and people in Harry Potter, which could be attributed to her time in Chepstow.<br /><br />After studying French and Classics at the University of Exeter, with a year of study in Paris, Rowling moved to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International. During this period, while she was on a four-hour delayed-train trip between Manchester and London, she developed the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry. When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began writing immediately.<br /><br />On December 30, 1990, Rowling’s mother succumbed to a 10-year battle with the condition multiple sclerosis. Rowling commented, “I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter.”<br /><br />Rowling then moved to Porto, Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. While there, she married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes on 16 October 1992. They had one child, Jessica, who was named after Rowling’s heroine, Jessica Mitford. They divorced in 1993 after a fight in which Jorge threw her out of the house.<br /><br />In December 1994, Rowling and her daughter moved to be near Rowling’s sister in Edinburgh, Scotland. Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel. She did her work in numerous different cafés (e.g. Nicolson's Cafe and Elephant House Café), whenever she could get Jessica to fall asleep. There was a rumour that she wrote in local cafés to escape from her unheated flat, but in a 2001 BBC interview Rowling remarked, “I am not stupid enough to rent an unheated flat in Edinburgh in midwinter. It had heating.”<br /><br />Rowling used to work for the human rights organization Amnesty International, researching human rights abuses in Francophone Africa. A link to Amnesty International is promoted on her personal website www.jkrowling.com. In an interview in The Scotsman in 2002, Rowling described civil rights activist Jessica Mitford as "my most influential writer".<br /><br /><strong>Harry Potter</strong><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079910169869707746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn93Yo36aeI/AAAAAAAACG4/zxNPtqBGkso/s320/harrypotter.jpg" border="0" /><br />Harry Potter books<br /><br />In 1995, Rowling completed her manuscript for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on an old manual typewriter. Upon the enthusiastic response of Bryony Evans, a reader who had been asked to review the book’s first three chapters, the Fulham-based Christopher Little Literary Agents agreed to represent Rowling in her quest for a publisher. The book was handed to twelve publishing houses, all of which rejected it. A year later she was finally given the green light (and a £1500 advance) by editor Barry Cunningham from the small publisher Bloomsbury. The decision to take Rowling on was apparently largely due to Alice Newton, the eight-year-old daughter of the company’s chairman, who was given the first chapter to review by her father, and immediately demanded the next. Although Bloomsbury agreed to publish the book, Cunningham says that he advised Rowling to get a day job, since she had little chance of making money in children’s books.[23] Soon after, Rowling received an £8000 grant from the Scottish Arts Council to enable her to continue writing.<br /><br />The following spring, an auction was held in the United States for the rights to publish the novel, and was won by Scholastic Inc., who paid Rowling more than $100,000. Rowling has said she “nearly died” when she heard the news. In June 1997, Bloomsbury published Philosopher’s Stone with an initial print run of only one-thousand copies, five-hundred of which were distributed to libraries. Today, such copies are each valued at between £16,000 and £25,000.<br /><br />Five months later, the book won its first award, a Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. In February, the novel won the prestigious British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year, and, later the Children’s Book Award. In October 1998, Scholastic published Philosopher’s Stone in the US under the title of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: a change Rowling claims she now regrets and would have fought if she had been in a better position at the time.<br /><br />In December 1999, the third Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, won the Smarties Prize, making Rowling the first person to win the award three times running. She later withdrew the fourth Harry Potter novel from contention to allow other books a fair chance. In January 2000, Prisoner of Azkaban won the inaugural Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year award, though it narrowly lost the Book of the Year prize to Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf.<br /><br />To date, six of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter series, one for each of Harry’s school years, have already been published and all have broken sales records. The last three volumes in the series have been the fastest-selling books in history, grossing more in their opening 24 hours than blockbuster films.<br /><br />Rowling has completed the seventh and final book of the series. Its title was revealed on 21 December 2006 to be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. On 1 February 2007 Rowling announced on her website that its release date was to be 21 July 2007. Rowling wrote on a bust in her hotel room at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh that she had completed the seventh book in that room on 11 January 2007; this was confirmed to be authentic by Rowling's and the hotel's representatives. In February 2007, Neil Bayer, a lawyer with Rowling's literary agency, announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will not be released as an e-book. Rowling has not allowed the first six Potter stories to be released as e-books and has no plans to change that for the seventh and final work.<br /><br />In June 2006, the British public named Rowling “the greatest living British writer” in a poll by The Book Magazine. Rowling topped the poll, receiving nearly three times as many votes as the second-place author, fantasy writer Terry Pratchett.<br /><br />Several Christian writers have compared Rowling to the Inklings, a group that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, who explored Christian themes and morality in their books. A minority of Christian conservatives have accused her of promoting witchcraft and devil worshiping in her books, a charge which Rowling, who is a Christian herself, refutes. Rowling said that to her, the moral significance of the tales seems obvious. The key for her was the choice between what is right and what is easy, because that, that is how tyranny is started, with people being apathetic and taking the easy route and suddenly finding themselves in deep trouble.<br /><br />In an interview in Donny & Marie Show in 1999, Rowling described her dislike for censorship in children's books<br /><br /><strong>Harry Potter films</strong><br /><br />In October, 1998, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the first two novels for a seven-figure sum. A film version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released on 16 November 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets on 15 November 2002. Both were directed by Chris Columbus. The 4 June 2004 film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The fourth film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was directed by yet another new director, Mike Newell. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is in post-production and is scheduled to be released on 11 July 2007. David Yates is the film's director, and Michael Goldenberg is its screenwriter, having taken over the position from Steven Kloves. Half-Blood Prince is in pre-production, and is scheduled for release on 21 November 2008. David Yates will once again direct the film, and it has been confirmed that Kloves will return to screenwrite it. Nothing has been announced regarding the film version of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.<br /><br />In contrast to the treatment of most authors by Hollywood studios, Warner Bros. took considerable notice of Rowling's desires and thoughts in their attempt to bring her books to the screen. One of her principal stipulations was the films be shot in Britain with an all-British cast, which has so far been adhered to strictly. In an unprecedented move, Rowling also demanded that Coca-Cola, the victor in the race to tie-in their products to the film series, donate $18 million to the American charity Reading is Fundamental, as well as a number of community charity programs.<br /><br />The first four films were scripted by Steve Kloves; Rowling assisted him in the writing process, ensuring that his scripts did not contradict future books in the series. She says she has told him more about the later books than anybody else, but not everything. She has also said that she has told Alan Rickman (Snape) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) certain secrets about their characters that have not yet been revealed. Steven Spielberg was approached to direct the first film, but dropped out. The press has repeatedly claimed that Rowling played a role in his departure, but Rowling stated on her website that she has no say in who directs the films. Rowling's first choice for the director of the first Harry Potter film had been Monty Python alumnus Terry Gilliam, being a fan of Gilliam's work. Warner Bros. studios wanted a more family friendly film, however, and eventually they settled for Chris Columbus.<br /><br /><strong>Other aspects</strong><br /><br />Rowling has been praised for the effect of her books and efforts to promote reading and literacy. Charlie Griffiths, director of the National Literacy Association, said "Anyone who can persuade children to read should be treasured and what she’s given us in Harry Potter is little short of miraculous."<br /><br />In addition to her books, Rowling's influence on hard-core fans extends to her personal website where she tests fans on their civic knowledge, albeit in the fictional wizarding world, by administering a limited number of WOMBAT exams. Her students are tested on fictional political issues such as Goblin rebellions, and what lead to the downfall of certain Ministers of Magic. Rowling also occasionally visits some of the myriad of fansites to quell rumors and occasionally answer questions.<br /><br />According to a press release by Amnesty International, Rowling is cited as having written a letter to the Czech government in support of the ban of "cage beds" in mental institutions in that country. This decision to ban these cage beds was made days after the authorities received her letter.<br /><br /><strong>Current life and family</strong><br /><br />In 2001, Rowling purchased a luxurious 19th century estate house, Killiechassie House, on the banks of the River Tay, near Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Rowling also owns a home in Merchiston, Edinburgh, and a Georgian house in London, on a street where, according to The Guardian, the average price of a house is £4.27 million ($8 million), including an underground swimming pool and 24-hour security.<br /><br />On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Murray, an anaesthetist, in a private ceremony at her home in Aberfeldy.[45] Their son David Gordon Rowling Murray was born on 24 March 2003. Shortly after Rowling began writing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, she took a break from working on the novel to care for him in his early infancy. Rowling's youngest child, Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, to whom she dedicated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was born in January of 2005.<br /><br /><strong>After Harry Potter</strong><br /><br />Rowling has stated that she plans to continue writing after the publication of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. She declared in a recent interview that she will most likely not use a new pen name as the press would quickly discover her true identity.<br /><br />In 2006, Rowling revealed that she had completed a few short stories and another children's book (a "political fairy story") about a monster, aimed at a younger audience than Harry Potter readers.<br /><br />She is not planning to write an eighth Harry Potter book, but has suggested she might publish an "encyclopedia" of the Harry Potter world consisting of all her unpublished material and notes. Any profits from such a book would be given to charity.<br /><br /><strong>Contributions to charities</strong><br /><br />J.K. Rowling contributes substantially to charities that combat poverty and social inequality. She also gives to organizations that aid children, one parent families, and multiple sclerosis research.<br /><br />According to The Guardian, Rowling is a friend of Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his wife, Sarah, with which she collaborated on a book of children's stories to aid the charity One Parent Families. Rowling, along with Nelson Mandella, Al Gore, and Alan Greenspan, wrote an introduction to a collection of Gordon Brown's speeches, of which the proceeds are being donated to the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory.<br /><br /><strong>Comic Relief</strong><br /><br />In 2001, the UK fundraiser Comic Relief asked three bestselling British authors, (Rowling, cookery writer and TV presenter Delia Smith, and Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding), to submit booklets related to their most famous works for publication. For every pound raised, a pound would go towards combatting poverty and social inequality across the globe. Rowling's two booklets, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, are ostensibly facsimiles of books found in the Hogwarts library, and are written under the names of their fictional authors, Newt Scamander and Kennilworthy Whisp. Since going on sale in March, 2001, the books have raised £15.7 million (US$30 million) for the fund. The £10.8 million (US$20 million) raised outside the UK has been channelled into a newly created International Fund for Children and Young People in Crisis. She has also personally given £22 million to Comic Relief.<br /><br /><strong>Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland</strong><br /><br />Rowling has contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, from which her mother died in 1990. This death heavily affected her writing, according to Rowling. In 2006, Rowling contributed a substantial sum toward the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University. For reasons unknown, Scotland, Rowling's country of adoption, has the highest rate of MS in the world.<br /><br /><strong>Other donations</strong><br /><br />In January 2006, Rowling went to Bucharest to raise funds for the Children's High Level Group, an organization devoted to enforcing the human rights of children, particularly in eastern Europe. On 1 August and 2 August 2006 she read alongside Stephen King and John Irving at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Profits from the event were donated to the Haven Foundation, a charity that aids artists and performers left uninsurable and unable to work, and the medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières. In May 2007, Rowling gave US$495,000 to a reward fund of over $4.5 million for the safe return of a young British girl, Madeleine McCann, who was kidnapped in Portugal.<br /><br /><strong>Honors</strong><br /><br />In June 2000, Queen Elizabeth II honoured Rowling by making her an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.<br /><br />In April 2006, the asteroid (43844) Rowling was named in her honour.[66] The name was submitted to the International Astronomical Union by astronomer Dr. Mark Hammergren, who has been a fan of the Harry Potter series since 2004.<br /><br />In May 2006, the newly-discovered Pachycephalosaurid dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, currently at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis, was named in honour of her world.<br /><br />In July 2006 Rowling received a Doctor of Laws (LLD) honorary degree from University of Aberdeen for her "significant contribution to many charitable causes" and "her many contributions to society".<br /><br />There is a housing development in Bristol, near to her childhood home, called Rowling Gate.<br /><br /><strong>Controversy</strong><br /><br />J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series has faced a number of controversies. The books have been the subject of a number of legal proceedings, largely stemming either from claims by religious groups that the magic in the books promotes witchcraft among children, or from various conflicts over copyright and trademark infringements. The immense popularity and high market value of the books has led to Rowling, her publishers, and film distributor Warner Bros. taking legal measures to protect their copyright, which has included banning the sale of Harry Potter imitations, targeting the owners of websites over the "Harry Potter" domain name, and suing author Nancy Stouffer for claiming Rowling had plagiarized her work.<br /><br /><strong>Bibliography</strong><br /><br />-Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997) (titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States)<br />-Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998)<br />-Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 September 1999)<br />-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (8 July 2000)<br />-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001)<br />-Quidditch Through the Ages (2001)<br />-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003)<br />-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)<br />-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (to be released 21 July 2007)<br /><br />By: www.wikipedia.org<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-367887239776207963?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-68333916139716689422007-06-23T21:34:00.000-07:002007-06-23T22:00:36.444-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn35do36abI/AAAAAAAACGg/YZF0RzTGCjY/s1600-h/Paris_hilton.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079490242327243186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn35do36abI/AAAAAAAACGg/YZF0RzTGCjY/s320/Paris_hilton.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn35Qo36aaI/AAAAAAAACGY/FQHD6wEn3Sc/s1600-h/paris-hilton2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079490018988943778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn35Qo36aaI/AAAAAAAACGY/FQHD6wEn3Sc/s320/paris-hilton2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity, socialite, model, actress and recording artist. She is an heiress to a share of both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton.<br /><br />Hilton rose to fame when an amateur sex video depicting her was leaked onto the Internet in late 2003. The release of the tape, later titled 1 Night in Paris (2004), attracted worldwide publicity and helped spur the creation of Hilton's Fox reality series The Simple Life. As an actress, she has appeared in several minor roles, most notably in the horror film House of Wax (2005), and in 2006, she released the self-titled album Paris. Hilton has since garnered greater notoriety as a result of several legal incidents, the repercussions of which have caused Hilton to receive a short jail sentence while being the subject of intense media attention, public controversy and parody.<br /><br /><strong>Early life and family background</strong><br /><br />Born in Nampa, Idaho, Idaho, Hilton is the oldest of four children of Richard and Kathy Hilton. Her younger brother is Nicky Hilton, and her younger sisters are Barron Hilton II, and Conrad Hilton III. On the maternal side of her family, Hilton is a niece of two child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards. By marriage, she also is related to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Elizabeth Taylor. Her paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Darrel Hay, and his wife, the former Marilyn Manson; Hilton's paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left nothing in his will to his children or other descendants. Barron Hilton contested this decision and prevailed in court in 1988. The value of Paris's inheritance has been variously estimated at between $30 and $50 million.<br /><br />Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. She attended her freshman year of high school in Rancho Mirage, California at the Marywood-Palm Valley School and her sophomore and junior years of high school at the Dwight School in New York, but dropped out, and eventually earned a GED.<br /><br /><strong>Media career</strong><br /><br /><strong>Model</strong><br /><br />Hilton began modeling as a child, appearing first in charity events.[5] At 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has worked with modeling agencies such as Ford Models in New York, Models 1 Agency in London, Nous Model Management in Los Angeles, and Premier Model Management in London. She has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns, including Iceberg Vodka, GUESS, Tommy Hilfiger, Christian Dior, and Marciano. In 2001, Hilton began to develop a reputation as a 19-year-old socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Girl" whose fame was beginning to "extend beyond the New York tabloids".<br /><br /><strong>Actress</strong><br /><br />Hilton gained significant notoriety when she co-starred along with Nicole Richie, the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, in the Fox reality series The Simple Life, which premiered on December 2, 2003. During the course of the season, Hilton and Richie lived with a family on their farm in rural Altus, Arkansas. The show, which was a major success for Fox, featured the two working at a variety of blue-collar jobs, making out with local men, and performing menial tasks associated with farm life. The pair's inability to appreciate or engage in the "simple life" was a central theme on the series.<br /><br />After the success of the first season, The Simple Life was followed by two more seasons on Fox. The network then canceled the show after a dispute between Hilton and Richie, but the show was subsequently aired by E! Entertainment Television for a fourth season. A fifth season was scheduled to premiere in May 2007 on E!.<br /><br />Hilton also amassed other television credits, guest-starring in episodes of The O.C., The George Lopez Show, Las Vegas, American Dreams and Veronica Mars. Furthermore, she appeared in several music videos, including It Girl by John Oates and Just Lose It by Eminem.<br /><br />Moreover, Hilton made cameo appearances in several films, most notably Zoolander (2001). She landed minor and supporting roles in the feature films Nine Lives (2002), Raising Helen (2004), The Hillz (2004), and House of Wax (2005). Her role as Paige Edwards in House of Wax won the Teen Choice Award for "Best Scream" and earned her a nomination for "Choice Breakout Performance – Female". She also earned a nomination for "Best Frightened Performance" at the 2006. She landed her first lead roles in 2006 with the straight-to-DVD releases National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006) and Bottom's Up (2006).<br /><br />She is currently scheduled to appear as the lead role in several upcoming theatrical releases, including an as yet untitled superhero movie involving Stan Lee. Plans for an eponymous cartoon series following the animated life of Paris, her sister Nicky, and her dog Tinkerbell are also in production.<br /><br /><strong>Recording artist</strong><br /><br />Hilton founded Heiress Records, a sub-label of Warner Bros. Records, in 2004. She released her self-titled debut album, Paris, under the Heiress Records label on August 22, 2006. Although the album reached number six on the Billboard 200 for a week, its total sales volume has been low. Producers for Paris included Greg Wells, Kara DioGuardi, Jane Wiedlin and Scott Storch. Hilton collaborated with Fat Joe and Jadakiss on the song "Fighting Over Me." The first single from Paris, "Stars Are Blind," produced by Fernando Garibay, was released for download on June 20, 2006 and peaked at number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100; "Turn It Up" and "Nothing in This World" followed as worldwide singles. While All Music Guide commented that the album was "more fun than anything released by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, and a lot fresher, too," critical reception as a whole was mixed.<br /><br />In August 2006, it was revealed that artists Banksy and Danger Mouse replaced 500 copies of Hilton's debut album in various UK record stores with their own album—featuring parody remixes, revised cover art, and reworded liner notes that included topless photos of Hilton defaced with various ironic slogans.[12][13]<br /><br />As of June 2007, Heiress Records' only release has been Paris, though Hilton has said that she plans to sign new artists in the future.<br /><br /><strong>Business ventures</strong><br /><br />In the autumn of 2004, Hilton released an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photographs of her and gives her advice on the life as an heiress. Hilton reportedly received a $100,000 in advanced payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. Nonetheless, the book became a New York Times bestseller. Hilton followed it up with a designer diary, also with Ginsberg, called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All To Me.<br /><br />Hilton has helped design a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa, and has also been involved in the design of a jewelry line for Amazon.com. In 2004, Hilton was involved in the creation of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a small release, demand was high and necessitated a wider release before Christmas of 2004. The launch was followed by a 47% increase in sales for Parlux, which was predominantly due to sales of the Hilton-branded perfume. After the success of Hilton's perfume, Parlux Fragrances released several more perfumes with Hilton's name, including fragrances lines for men.<br /><br />Hilton lent her name to a chain of nightclubs known as Club Paris in 2005. The first of which in Orlando, Florida has been a success, and a second club located in Jacksonville, Florida opened in July 2006. Hilton was fired in January 2007 by the owner of Club Paris, Fred Khalilian, after she had failed to attend several scheduled promotional appearances.<br /><br />According to Forbes Magazine, Hilton earned approximately $2 million in 2003–2004, $6.5 million in 2004–2005, and $7 million in 2005–2006.<br /><br /><strong>Personal life</strong><br /><br />Hilton was engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw from mid-2002 to early 2003. On May 29, 2005, she announced her engagement to Paris Latsis, a Greek shipping heir; the engagement was called off five months later. Thereafter, she began dating another Greek shipping heir, Stavros Niarchos III, but in May 2006, Hilton publicist Elliot Mintz informed the press Paris and Stavros had broken up. In an attempt to rediscover herself, Hilton imposed a ban on sexual activity for one year starting in July 2006. She told Regis and Kelly: "One-night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up. Guys want you more, if you don't just hand it to them on a platter."<br /><br />In July 2006, Hilton was photographed kissing her best male friend Brandon Davis, the man who "ranted against" Lindsay Lohan on national television, five days later.<br /><br />In January 2007, Hilton's private life again created headlines with the launch of ParisExposed.com, a website that featured images of personal and medical documents, video, and other private material, allegedly obtained when the contents of a storage locker rented by Hilton were auctioned off due to lack of payment. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 discussed footage obtained from the website which features Hilton using several ethnic slurs.[25] On February 3, 2007 Hilton obtained a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website for a short period of time before the site went back online.<br /><br />In a June 11, 2007 phone interview from jail, Hilton told Barbara Walters that while serving time in jail, God has given her a new chance, and that she will no longer "act dumb"<br /><br /><strong>Sex video</strong> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079489520772737426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn34zo36aZI/AAAAAAAACGQ/C7bTixb-T9E/s320/paris-hilton3.jpg" border="0" /><br />The leak of a three-year-old home-made sex video of Hilton with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon a week prior to the premiere of her Fox reality series The Simple Life attracted worldwide attention in late 2003. The release of the tape led to speculation that it was a deliberate publicity stunt, but Hilton has strongly denied such claims and stated she was "embarrassed" and "humiliated" by the publicity brought by the tape. The sex video, subsequently titled 1 Night in Paris in 2004, was later released on DVD and Hilton received directorial credit. The film earned three AVN Awards in 2005, including "Best Selling Title of the Year". Hilton originally sued Salomon over the release of the tape, but settled out of court in July 2005. Hilton was reportedly awarded up to $400,000 and planned to donate a percentage to charity, although in a 2006 interview with GQ magazine she stated that she never received money from the sale of the video.<br /><br /><strong>Civic involvement</strong><br /><br />In November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean "Diddy" Combs' Citizen Change campaign to encourage youths to vote in the presidential election. She drew criticism after it was revealed she had neither voted nor registered to do so.<br /><br /><strong>Legal problems</strong><br /><br /><strong>Restraining order</strong><br /><br />On March 8, 2006, Brian Quintana, an event producer, was granted a three-year restraining order against Hilton after he testified that she harassed and threatened him.<br /><br /><strong>Driving violations</strong><br /><br />In September 2006, Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the minimum at which it is illegal to drive in California. Hilton's drivers license was subsequently suspended in November 2006,[34] and in January 2007 she pled no contest to the alcohol-related reckless driving charge. Her punishment was 36 months' probation and fines of about $1,500.<br /><br />On January 15, 2007, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging that she was not permitted to drive. On February 27, 2007 Hilton was caught driving 70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone, again with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program constituted a violation of the terms of her probation.<br /><br />On May 4, 2007 Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. Initially, Hilton planned to appeal the sentence, and supported an online petition[38] asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. In response, various opponents started a petition to maintain the sentence. Both petitions attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Paris later switched lawyers, and dropped her plans to appeal.<br /><br /><strong>Jail sentence</strong><br /><br />Hilton was required to begin her jail term on June 5, 2007, or risk a doubling of her sentence. On June 3, 2007, after attending the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Hilton checked herself into the Men's Central Jail of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles at 11:38 pm PDT. From there, Hilton was transferred by authorities to a special section "reserved for police officers, public officials, celebrities and other high-profile inmates" within the Century Regional Detention Facility, an all female jail in Lynwood. Hilton was given the inmate booking number 9818783. With credit for good behavior, it was anticipated that Hilton would only serve 23 days of her 45 day sentence.<br /><br />In an unexpected turn of events, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca signed orders on the morning of June 7, reassigning Hilton to 40 days of home confinement with an electronic monitoring device due to an unspecified medical condition. Sheriff Baca commented on the release saying, "My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice." According to Baca, under normal circumstances, Hilton would not have served any time in jail, and he added that "The special treatment, in a sense, appears to be because of her celebrity status ... She got more time in jail".<br /><br />The same day Paris was released from jail, Judge Michael Sauer ordered Hilton to reappear back in his court the following morning (June 8). At the hearing he declined to be briefed by Hilton's attorney in private chambers on the nature of her condition and sent her back to jail to serve out her original 45-day sentence. Upon hearing the sentence, Hilton shouted, "It's not right!" and started screaming requesting to hug her mother, who was present in the courtroom. She was then escorted out. Concern about Hilton's condition has led to her being moved to the medical wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles. On June 13 Hilton was moved back to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood due to improvements in her condition.<br /><br /><strong>Copyright violation</strong><br /><br />In June 2007 British reggae band UB40 started legal action against Hilton and Warner Chappell Music for plagiarism due to similarities between the song "Stars Are Blind" and their 1990 song "Kingston Town".<br /><br /><strong>Copyright violation</strong><br /><br />In June 2007 British reggae band UB40 started legal action against Hilton and Warner Chappell Music for plagiarism due to similarities between the song "Stars Are Blind" and their 1990 song "Kingston Town".<br /><br /><strong>In popular culture</strong><br /><br />While Hilton has been quoted as saying that she is the "iconic blonde of the decade"' and comparing herself to Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe (a claim she later denied in the May 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar), she will reportedly appear in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Overrated Celebrity".[53] In a poll conducted by the Associated Press and AOL, Hilton was voted the second "Worst Celebrity Role Model of 2006", behind Britney Spears. Critics have alleged that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous; echoing that sentiment, the Associated Press conducted what they called an experiment in late February 2007, trying not to report on Hilton for a whole week.<br /><br />On May 11, 2007, a statue by Daniel Edwards entitled Paris Hilton Autopsy was revealed at Capla Kesting Fine Art in New York. Hilton is depicted by a clay model as dead, naked, and with her legs spread. The sculpture is aimed at stopping young women from drinking and driving.<br /><br /><strong>Parodies</strong><br /><br />-In the South Park episode titled "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset," Paris shows up in South Park to open a new store and attempts to purchase Butters after her dog Tinkerbell commits suicide.<br />-In the computer-animated series Bratz, more specifically the episode "Kidnapped!", a parody character named London Milton appears as one of the guest characters.<br />-In the The Simpsons episode "Homerazzi", Bart mocks "Paris Texan" (a Hilton parody character) in a store for the sex tape she was in.<br />-In the MMOG World of Warcraft, Haris Pilton can be found in the World's End Tavern of the lower part of Shattrath City accompanied by her dog Tinkerbell, and her job tag reads "Socialite".<br />-In The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, London Tipton, the daughter of the Tipton Hotel's mega-rich owner, is a parody of Paris Hilton.<br /><br /><strong>Filmography</strong><br />-Wishman (1991)<br />-Sweetie Pie (2000)<br />-Zoolander (2001; cameo)<br />-Nine Lives (2002)<br />-QIK2JDG (2002)<br />-L.A. Knights (2003)<br />-Wonderland (2003)<br />-The Cat in the Hat (2003)<br />-The Hillz (2004)<br />-Raising Helen (2004)<br />-House of Wax (2005)<br />-Bottoms Up (2006)<br />-1 Night in Paris (2006)<br />-Pledge This! (2006)<br />-The Hottie and the Nottie (2008)<br /><br />By: <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">www.wikipedia.org</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-6833391613971668942?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-14498926709091030202007-06-23T10:14:00.000-07:002007-06-23T10:28:13.280-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn1YFY36aYI/AAAAAAAACGI/ZIp50li2ilo/s1600-h/jessicaalba11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn1YFY36aYI/AAAAAAAACGI/ZIp50li2ilo/s320/jessicaalba11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079312804343343490" /></a><br /><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn1XzI36aXI/AAAAAAAACGA/W_1ar25c8vE/s1600-h/alba.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rn1XzI36aXI/AAAAAAAACGA/W_1ar25c8vE/s320/alba.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079312490810730866" /></a><br />Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Dark Angel, Sin City, Fantastic Four and Into the Blue.<br /><br /><strong>Biography</strong><br /><br /><strong>Early life</strong><br /><br />Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of Jessica Alba's paternal grandparents were born in California),and Catherine Jensen, who has French and Danish ancestry; the two married while in their teenage years.Her maternal grandfather was a Marine noncom for thirty years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua, an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel, and her grandparents until she was 17 years old. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.<br /><br />She has also acknowledged suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood.<br /><br /><strong>Career</strong><br /><br />Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a two month job when the actress in one of the prominent roles dropped out.<br /><br />Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child; she was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the TV series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.<br /><br />In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999, she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S.. After graduating from high school, Alba studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet.<br /><br />Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa. Her big break came when writer/director James Cameron picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the FOX sci-fi TV series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, Alba was the star in the series which ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2002. Since then her most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four. Jessica went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code.<br /><br />Alba on the controversial cover of the March 2006 issue of Playboy magazine.On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, which she contends gave the appearance that she was featured in the issue in a "nude pictorial". However, she later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner who agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba has supported.<br /><br />In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women,while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their Top 100, Both GQ and In Style magazines had Alba on their June covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM named Alba the winner as 2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World.<br /><br />Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten based on the bulk of parts offered to her. "Somehow, I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman," laments Alba. In the interview, Alba says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress but believes she needs to do movies that she would otherwise not be interested in to build her career, stating that eventually she hopes to be more selective in her film projects.<br /><br /><strong>Personal life</strong><br /><br />Alba has revealed that she envisions a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. "I have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much."<br /><br />Regarding children, Alba said, "I'm really girly when it comes to kids. I've been surrounded by kids my whole life because I'm the oldest of 15 cousins — I've been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure".<br /><br />She has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybird on the back of her neck, the Sanskrit symbol for the lotus flower, padma, on her wrist, and a lower back tattoo of a bow.<br /><br /><strong>Religion</strong><br /><br />Alba was raised Catholic and still considers herself "spiritual". In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian,[15] but left the church -<br /><br />“ "'when older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn't. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman.' She also [...] disagrees with the church's condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and was bothered by the lack of strong female role models in the Bible. '[…] it certainly wasn't how I was going to live my life.'" ” <br /><br />As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad: "They didn't want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, 'If I'm gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties".<br /><br />Alba was given the option to appear naked by the film's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez but declined the offer saying, "I don't do nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety".<br /><br /><strong>Awards</strong><br /><br />2000: Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television — Dark Angel <br />2001: TV Guide Awards for Breakout Star of the Year — Dark Angel <br />2001: Teen Choice Awards for Choice Actress — Dark Angel <br />2006: (Maxim) top 100- Most beautiful woman alive <br />2006: MTV Movie Awards 2006 for Sexiest Performance - Sin City <br />2007: Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards, June 13, 2007. Named "Hottest Jessica", over Jessica Biel<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-1449892670909103020?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-41595497006061142832007-06-14T01:55:00.000-07:002007-06-14T02:13:05.034-07:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RnEGOo36aWI/AAAAAAAACF4/9Tubhnn2vBg/s1600-h/yao_ming.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075845103583127906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RnEGOo36aWI/AAAAAAAACF4/9Tubhnn2vBg/s320/yao_ming.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Yao Ming (born September 12, 1980, in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese professional basketball player and one of the premier centers in the National Basketball Association. He is the only son of his father Yao Zhiyaun and Fang Fengdi. He played for the Shanghai Sharks for five years, and now plays center for the Houston Rockets in the NBA. He was selected by Houston as the 1st overall pick of the 2002 NBA Draft and signed with them on October 21, 2002.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Career in China</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Early life and Pre-CBA career</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>Yao was born to his 6’7” (2.08 meter) tall father Yao Zhiyuan, and his 6'2" (1.88 m) mother Fang Fengdi, who was the captain of the women’s national team that won the first Asian Championship in 1976. He was born with the weight of 11 pounds, twice the average size in China, and was 5’5” by age ten, and 6’6” (2 meters) by the time he was thirteen. He developed a sickness at age seven that resulted in him losing his hearing in his left ear.</div><br /><div>He first started playing basketball when he was age nine, and he went to the junior sports school at the same age. When he was examined at age ten he was predicted to grow to the height of 7’3”. The Sharks invited him to try out for their junior team when he was thirteen, where he had to practice for 10 hours a day to make the team. He first dunked at age fifteen, and he made the senior team of the Sharks when he was seventeen.</div><br /><div>Yao Ming first went overseas to go to a 1997 Nike camp in Paris, and then went to America the next year to play on an AAU team called High Five.</div><br /><div><strong>Career with the Sharks</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>Yao was prevented from going to the senior Sharks team because he broke his foot while on the junior team. When he joined the team a year later, he averaged 10 points and 8 rebounds a game in his rookie season. The next year, he broke his foot again, which Yao says decreased his jumping ability by 4 to 6 inches.</div><br /><div>The Sharks made the finals of the CBA in Yao Ming’s third season and again the next year, but lost both times to the Bayi Rockets. When Wang Zhizhi left for the NBA the following year, the Sharks finally won their first championship. During the playoffs in his final year, Yao Ming averaged 38.9 points and 20.2 rebounds a game, while shooting 76.6% from the field, and made all 21 of his shots during one game in the finals.</div><br /><div>Yao Ming was initially pressured to enter the NBA draft in 1999 by Li Yaomin, the deputy general manager of the Shanghai Sharks.[14] Li also pressured Yao into signing a contract with Evergreen Sports Inc., which stated that Yao would have to give Evergreen 33% of his earnings. However, Yao quickly terminated the contract after it was determined invalid. </div><br /><div>When Yao Ming decided to enter the NBA draft, a team of advisors was formed that was collectively dubbed “Team Yao”.The team consisted of Yao’s negotiator, Erik Zhang, his NBA agent, Bill Duffy, his Chinese agent, Lu Hao, a professor at the University of Chicago, John Huizinga, and Bill Sanders, the vice president for marketing at BDA Sports Management, the company that Duffy started.</div><br /><div></div><div><strong>NBA career</strong></div><br /><div><strong>2002-2003</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>seasonYao Ming’s first meeting with Shaquille O'Neal garnered large media attention over the fact that O’Neal had previously said "Tell Yao Ming, ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh", which many Asian-Americans considered racist. One online petition urging O’Neal to apologize garned 9,365 signatures. In the game, Yao Ming scored six points and blocked O’Neal twice in the opening minutes, as well as having the game-winning dunk with 10 seconds left in overtime. However, Yao finished with only 10 points and 10 rebounds compared to O’Neal’s 31 points and 13 rebounds.</div><br /><div>Yao Ming ended the season by being voted the Sporting News Rookie of the Year and being a unanimous NBA All-Rookie First Team selection).</div><br /><div><strong>2003-04</strong> </div><br /><div></div><div>seasonBefore the start of Yao's sophomore season, the Rockets' head coach Rudy Tomjanovich had resigned due to health issues, and long time New York Knicks head coach Jeff Van Gundy was brought in. After Van Gundy focused the offense on Yao, averaged career highs in points and rebounds a game, and had a career-high 41 points and 7 assists in a triple-overtime win against the Atlanta Hawks in February of 2004. He was also voted to be the starting center in the 2004 NBA All-Star Game for the second straight year. He played in the playoffs for the first time, as the Rockets claimed the seventh seed in the Western Conference. However, eventual NBA finalists Lakers eliminated Houston in the first round, as the Rockets only won one game.</div><br /><div><strong>2004-05</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>seasonBefore the start of Yao Ming’s third season, the Rockets acquired Tracy McGrady in a seven-player trade, which also sent Steve Francis and Cuttino Mobley to Orlando.</div><br /><div>He was once again voted as the starting center for the Western Conference in the 2005 NBA All-Star Game, after shattering the record for most All-Star votes with 2,558,278, breaking Michael Jordan's previous record. The Rockets made the playoffs for the second consecutive year, but lost to the Dallas Mavericks in seven games. The Rockets lost Game 7 by 40 points, an NBA record for playoff Game Sevens, and also became only the third team to lose a series after winning the first two games on the road.</div><br /><div>In 2005, Yao became the subject of a documentary film, The Year of the Yao, which focuses on his NBA rookie year and his first year living in the United States, his parents and Colin Pine.</div><br /><div><strong>2005-06</strong> </div><br /><div></div><div>seasonYao had missed only two games in three years up till 2005, but twenty-two games into his fourth season Yao was forced onto the inactive list for an extended period for the first time in his career due to an acute case of osteomyelitis in the big toe on his left foot. On December 18, 2005, with the rest of the team staying in Los Angeles to play the Lakers, Yao returned to Houston to have surgery performed on the toe. He was placed on the inactive list and missed a total of 21 games, returning to the lineup on January 30 against the Memphis Grizzlies.<br /></div><br /><div>In the 25 games after the All-Star break, Yao averaged 25.7 points and 11.6 rebounds per game, while shooting 53.7% from the field and 87.8% at the free throw line. His final averages in 57 games were 22.3 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. This was the first time that Yao had ended the season with a "20/10" average.</div><br /><div>However, before the season ended, he suffered another major injury in a game against the Utah Jazz on April 10, 2006 - an accidental collision with opposing center Mehmet Okur left him with a broken bone in his left foot. The injury required fully 6 months of rest.<br />In the 2006 NBA All-Star game balloting, Yao again led all NBA players with 2,342,738 votes, and therefore started for the fourth straight time of his career.</div><br /><div><strong>2006-07</strong> </div><br /><div></div><div>seasonOn December 23, Yao fractured his right tibia. At that point he was leading the team with 26.8 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game. Before his injury, he had been mentioned as an MVP candidate. He was medically cleared to play on March 4.</div><br /><div>The Rockets made the playoffs for the first time since 2005, playing with home court advantage against the Utah Jazz in the first round. However, although Yao averaged 25.1 points, after winning the first two games, the Rockets lost four of five games, and were eliminated in Game 7 at home. After the series, Yao said “I didn't do my job”. during the offseason Yao has worked with Hakeem Olajuwon</div><br /><div>After being selected to the All-NBA third team twice, Yao was selected to the All-NBA second team for the first time in his career.</div><br /><div></div><div><strong>International career</strong></div><br /><div></div><div><strong>2004 Olympics</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Yao carried the Chinese flag during the opening ceremony, which he said was a “long dream come true”. He then vowed to abstain from shaving his beard for half a year unless the Chinese national basketball team made it into the quarter-finals. After Yao Ming scored 39 points in a win against New Zealand, China lost 58–83, 57–82, and 52–89 against Spain, Argentina and Italy respectively. But in the final group game, a 67–66 win over reigning world champions Serbia and Montenegro moved them into the quarterfinals. Yao scored 27 points and had 13 rebounds, and hit two free throws with 28 seconds left that proved to be the winning margin. He was selected to the All-Olympics team with his performance, averaging 20.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game while shooting 55.9% from the field).</div><br /><div><strong>2006 World Championships</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>Yao’s injury at the end of the 2005-06 NBA season required fully 6 months of rest, which left some in doubt as to whether Yao would play in the 2006 FIBA World Championship.However, he recovered before the start of the tournament, and he carried the Chinese national team to the knockout stage of the World Championships, but was then defeated by Greece in the first knockout round.</div><br /><div>Yao Ming averaged 25.3 points, the most in the tournaments, and 9 rebounds a game, which was fourth overall.<br /><br /><strong>Off the court</strong></div><br /><div></div><div>Yao Ming is currently dating Ye Li, whom he met when he was seventeen. Ye first rejected Yao, but finally accepted him after he gave her team pins from the 2000 Olympics.</div><br /><div>Yao has participated in several charity events during his career. During the NBA's offseason in 2003, Yao hosted a telethon, which raised $300,000 to help stop the spread of SARS. In 2006, Yao Ming promised never to eat shark fin soup again, in order to raise awareness of wildlife protection. He has also participated in the NBA's Basketball Without Borders program.</div><br /><div>Yao Ming has several sponsorship deals, including McDonald’s, Pepsi, Visa, Apple, Reebok,and Garmin.</div><br /><div></div><div>By <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">http://www.wikipedia.org/</a> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-4159549700606114283?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-9028417151789254042007-06-11T01:29:00.000-07:002007-06-11T02:06:27.523-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rm0QMY36aRI/AAAAAAAACFQ/th2QhsVDqW0/s1600-h/David_Beckham.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074730160137857298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rm0QMY36aRI/AAAAAAAACFQ/th2QhsVDqW0/s320/David_Beckham.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rm0QII36aQI/AAAAAAAACFI/U8JHsM8ZoTo/s1600-h/david-beckham2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074730087123413250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rm0QII36aQI/AAAAAAAACFI/U8JHsM8ZoTo/s320/david-beckham2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (born 2 May 1975) is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Real Madrid and the England national football team. Beckham was named as a member of Pelé's FIFA 100. In addition to his success on the pitch, Beckham has been recognized by Time magazine as one of 2004's Time 100 (Heroes & Icons), as well as an elite global advertising brand.<br /><br />Beckham is the fifth most capped English player of all time, has twice been the runner up in the FIFA World Player Of The Year Award in 1999 and 2001 and in addition to being the only Englishman to score in three different World Cups, is also the fifth player in World Cup history to score twice from direct free kicks. He was captain of the English national team from 15 November 2000 to 2 July 2006.<br /><br />Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with Manchester United, making his debut first-team appearance in 1992, at the age of 17. While with Manchester United he played a key role in their dominance of the FA Premier League in the 1990s and early 2000s, being pivotal in accomplishing The Treble of the League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League in 1999. He left the club to become only the third Englishman to sign for Real Madrid in 2003, after Laurie Cunningham and Steve McManaman.<br /><br />In 2006, after England's quarter-final exit at the World Cup in Germany, he stood down as captain. Beckham was dropped from the England national team squad selected by coach Steve McClaren on 11 August 2006, an exile that lasted nine international games, until May 26, 2007, when McClaren named him as one of the England squad for upcoming games against Brazil and Estonia. Beckham assisted three of England's total of four goals in those two games.<br />On 10 January 2007 Real Madrid Sporting Director Predrag Mijatovic announced Beckham would leave the club when his contract expires in June 2007. On 11 January 2007, Beckham agreed to a move to the Major League Soccer (MLS) team Los Angeles Galaxy on a five year contract commencing on 1 July 2007, after his current deal with Real Madrid expires.<br /><br /><strong>Childhood and early career</strong><br /><br />Beckham was born in Leytonstone, East London, the son of David Edward Alan "Ted" Beckham, a kitchen fitter and Manchester United fan, and Sandra Georgina West, a hairdresser. He regularly played football in Ridgeway park, Chingford as a child. His maternal grandfather, Joseph West, is Jewish, and Beckham has spoken of the influence the religion has had on him but is not known to practice Judaism or any other faith, though he stated in his book Both Feet on the Ground that growing up he always attended church with his parents and sisters.<br /><br />His parents were fanatical Manchester United supporters who would frequently travel to Old Trafford from London to attend Manchester United's home matches. David inherited his parents' love of Manchester United and his main sporting passion was football. He attended one of Bobby Charlton's football schools in Manchester and won the chance to take part in a training session at FC Barcelona, as part of a talent competition. As a child he played for a local youth team called the Ridgeway Rovers coached by his father, Stuart Underwood and Steve Kirby.<br /><br />He was Manchester United's mascot for a match against West Ham United in 1986. Young Beckham had trials with his local club, Leyton Orient, and attended Tottenham Hotspur's, which was the first club he played for, school of excellence. He also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy, but signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United on his fourteenth birthday, and subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract on 8 July 1991.<br /><br />He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players at the club who guided the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992, with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace. He made his first appearance for United's first-team that year, as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards. United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year, with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United, and he won another medal in 1994 when the club's reserve team won their league.<br /><br />He went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994–95 season to get some first team experience, then made his first Premier League appearance for Manchester United on 2 April 1995, in a goalless draw against Leeds United.<br /><br /><strong>Manchester United</strong><br /><strong>Becoming a first-team player</strong><br /><br />United manager Alex Ferguson had a great deal of confidence in the club's young players. When three of his first-team players left the club at the end of the 1994-95 season, his decision to let youth team players replace them instead of buying players from other clubs, drew a great deal of criticism. The criticism increased when United started the season with a 3–1 defeat at Aston Villa, with Beckham scoring United's only goal of the game; however, United won their next five matches and the young players performed well. Beckham became a regular player on the team and helped them to win the Premiership and FA Cup double that season, scoring the winner in the semi-final against Chelsea and also taking the corner that Éric Cantona scored from in the FA Cup Final. Still, Beckham's form was not good enough to break into the England squad before Euro 96.<br /><br />In August 1996, Beckham became something of a household name when he scored a spectacular goal in a match against Wimbledon. With United ahead 2–0, Beckham noticed that Wimbledon's goalkeeper Neil Sullivan was standing a long way out of his goal, and hit a shot from the halfway line that floated over the goalkeeper and into the net. Beckham was frequently mentioned in the press, and he made his first appearance for the England national football team on 1 September 1996, in a World Cup qualifying match against Moldova. He became an automatic first-choice player at United during the 1996-97 season, helping them to retain the Premier League championship, and was voted PFA Young Player of the Year by his peers.<br /><br />United started the 1997-98 season well, but their performance deteriorated when several players got injured. They finished the season in second place, behind Arsenal.<br /><br /><strong>World Cup 1998</strong><br /><br />Beckham had played in all of England's qualifying matches for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and was part of the England squad at the World Cup finals in France, but the team's manager Glenn Hoddle publicly accused him of not concentrating on the tournament, and he did not start in either of England's first two matches. He was picked for their third match against Colombia and scored from a long-range free kick in a 2–0 victory, which was his first goal for England.<br /><br />In the Second Round (last 16) of that competition, he received a red card for violent conduct in England's match against Argentina. Beckham, after having been fouled by Diego Simeone, he kicked out at Diego Simeone, striking him on the calf. Simeone later admitted to trying to get Beckham sent off by over-reacting to the kick and then, along with other members of his team, urging the referee to send Beckham off. The match finished in a draw and England were eliminated in a penalty shootout. Many supporters and journalists blamed him for England's elimination and he became the target of criticism and abuse, including the hanging of an effigy outside a London pub, and the Daily Mirror printing a dartboard with a picture of him centred on the bullseye. Beckham also received death threats after the world cup and the incident is also the topic for his Adidas advert.<br /><br /><strong>1998-99 season (the Treble)</strong><br /><br />In the 1998-99 season, he was part of the United team that won the treble — Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, a unique feat in English football. There had been speculation that the criticism that he had received after being sent off in the World Cup would lead to him leaving England, but he decided to stay at Manchester United.<br /><br />Throughout the season, Beckham was jeered by opposition supporters whenever he touched the ball, but he consistently played well and his crossing provided a significant number of goals for United's forwards Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole. United's supporters had mostly forgiven him for the problems he'd had with England, and were frequently heard to chant "Argentina" in response to the other supporters' taunts.<br /><br />To ensure they would win the league championship, United needed to win their final league match of the season, at home to Tottenham Hotspur, but Tottenham took an early lead in the match. Beckham scored the equaliser and United went on to win the match and the league.<br />Beckham played centre-midfield in United's FA Cup final win over Newcastle United and for the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayern Munich, since United's first string centre-midfielders were suspended for the match. United were losing the match 1–0 at the end of normal time, but won the trophy by scoring two goals in injury time. Both of the goals came from corners taken by Beckham. Those kicks, coupled with great performances over the rest of the season, led to him finishing runner up to Rivaldo for 1999's European Footballer of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year awards.<br /><br /><strong>1999-2000 season</strong><br /><br />Despite Beckham's achievements in the 1998-99 season, he was still unpopular among opposition fans and many journalists, and he was heavily criticised after being sent off for a deliberate foul in Manchester United's World Club Championship match against Necaxa. It was suggested in the press that his wife was a bad influence on him, and that it might be in United's interests to sell him, but his manager publicly backed him and he stayed at the club.<br /><br />The relationship between Ferguson and Beckham began to deteriorate, possibly as a result of Beckham's fame and commitments away from football. In 2000, Beckham was given permission to miss training to look after his son Brooklyn, who had gastroenteritis, but Ferguson was furious when Victoria Beckham was photographed at a London Fashion Week event on the same night, claiming that Beckham would have been able to train if Victoria had looked after Brooklyn that day. He responded by fining Beckham the maximum amount that was permitted (two weeks' wages – then £50,000) and dropping him for a crucial match against United's rivals Leeds United. He later criticised Beckham for this in his autobiography, claiming he hadn't been "fair to his team mates". Beckham had a good season for his club, though, and helped United to win the Premier League by a record margin.<br /><br /><strong>Winning over the England fans</strong><br /><br />The abuse that Beckham was receiving from English supporters peaked during England's 3–2 defeat by Portugal in Euro 2000, when a group of England supporters taunted him throughout the match. Beckham responded with a one-fingered gesture and, while the gesture attracted some criticism, many of the newspapers that had previously encouraged his vilification asked their readers to stop abusing him.<br /><br />On 15 November 2000, following Kevin Keegan's resignation as England manager in October, Beckham was promoted to team captain by the caretaker manager Peter Taylor, and then kept the role under new manager Sven-Göran Eriksson. He helped England to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Finals, with their performances including an impressive 5–1 victory over Germany in Munich. The final step in Beckham's conversion from villain to hero happened in England's 2–2 draw against Greece on 6 October 2001. England needed to win or draw the match in order to qualify outright for the World Cup, but were losing 2–1 with little time remaining. The rest of the England team were playing relatively poorly, and it was Beckham's inspirational performance that lifted his teammates. When Teddy Sheringham was fouled some eight yards outside the Greek penalty area, England were awarded a free-kick and Beckham ensured England's qualification with a curling strike of the kind that had become his trademark. Shortly afterwards, he was voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2001. He once again finished runner-up, to Luis Figo of Portugal, for the FIFA World Player of the Year award.<br /><br /><strong>Metatarsal injury</strong><br /><br />On 10 April 2002, Beckham was injured during a Champions League match against Deportivo La Coruña, breaking the second metatarsal bone in his left foot. There was speculation in the British media that the injury might have been caused deliberately, as the player who had injured Beckham was Argentinian Aldo Duscher, and England and Argentina were due to meet in that year's World Cup. The injury prevented Beckham from playing for United for the rest of the season, but he signed a three-year contract in May, following months of negotiations with the club, mostly concerning extra payments for his image rights. The income from his new contract, and his many endorsement deals, made him the highest-paid player in the world at the time.<br /><br /><strong>World Cup 2002 and final season at United</strong><br /><br />He was partially fit by the time of the 2002 FIFA World Cup and played in the first match against Sweden. Beckham scored the winning goal of the match against Argentina with a penalty, causing Argentina to fail to qualify for the playoff stage. England were knocked out of the tournament in the quarter-finals by eventual winners Brazil. The following month, at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Beckham escorted Kirsty Howard as she presented the Jubilee Baton to the Queen.<br /><br />Following an injury early in the 2002-03 season, Beckham was unable to regain his place on the Manchester United team, with Ole Gunnar Solskjær having replaced him on the right side of midfield. His relationship with his manager deteriorated further on 15 February 2003 when, in the changing room following a defeat to Arsenal, Sir Alex Ferguson kicked a football boot that struck Beckham over the eye, causing a cut that required stitches. The incident led to a great deal of transfer speculation involving Beckham, with bookmakers offering odds on whether he or Ferguson would be first to leave the club. Although the team had started the season badly, their results improved greatly from December onwards and they won the league. He was still a first-choice player for England, however, and he was awarded an OBE for services to football on 13 June.<br /><br />During his 11 years stint at United, Beckham made 266 appearances for them and scored 61 goals.<br /><br />He won 6 Premiership titles, 2 FA Cup's, 1 UEFA Champions League, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 FA Youth Cup with his time at United.<br /><br /><strong>Honours</strong><br /><br /><strong>With Manchester United (1992 - 2003)</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />-FA Premier League - Champion (6): 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03<br />-FA Premier League - Runner Up: 1994-95, 1997-98<br />-FA Youth Cup Winner: 1992 FA Cup Winner (2): 1996, 1999<br />-FA Cup Runner Up: 1995<br />-UEFA Champions League Winner: 1998-99<br />-Intercontinental Cup: 1999<br />-UEFA Super Cup Runner Up: 1999<br />-Community Shield Winner (5): 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003<br />-Community Shield Runner Up: 1998, 2000, 2001<br /><br /><strong>Real Madrid</strong><br /><br />Beckham (right) and Zinedine Zidane at Real MadridManchester United had been keen to sell Beckham to Barcelona but he refused to go there, instead signing a four-year contract with Real Madrid, worth a potential €35 million. The transfer was completed on 1 July and made him the third Englishman to play for the club after Laurie Cunningham and Steve McManaman.<br />It was speculated that Real's desire to sign him came from the merchandising opportunities he would bring as well as from his football ability. For example, Real Madrid shirts bearing his name and number sold out in Madrid on the day his transfer was completed and the club were expected to receive €624,000 for the sale of the shirts. Although Beckham had worn the number seven shirt for Manchester United and England, he was unable to wear it at Madrid as Raúl had the right to wear it written into his contract. He decided to wear number 23 instead, citing his admirartion of Basketball player Michael Jordan, who also wore the number 23 shirt, as the reason behind his decision.<br /><br /><strong>First season 2003-04</strong><br /><br />Beckham immediately became a favourite with the Real Madrid supporters, scoring five times in his first 16 matches, but the team, whose club president expected them to win either the Spanish league or the Champions League each season, was not performing well. He had further problems in April 2004, when the British tabloid News of the World carried claims by his former personal assistant Rebecca Loos that he and Loos had had an extramarital affair. A week later, the Malaysian-born Australian model Sarah Marbeck claimed that she had slept with Beckham on two occasions. Beckham dismissed both accusations as "ludicrous". Real Madrid finished the season in a disappointing fourth place, and were knocked out of the UEFA Champions League at the quarter-final stage.<br /><br /><strong>Euro 2004</strong><br /><br />Beckham played in all of England's matches at Euro 2004, but the tournament was a disappointment for him. He had a penalty saved in England's 2-1 defeat to France and badly missed another in a penalty shootout in the quarter final against Portugal. England lost the shootout and went out of the competition.<br /><br /><strong>Second season, 2004-05</strong><br /><br />In July 2004, while Beckham was in pre-season training in Spain, an intruder scaled a wall at the Beckhams' home while carrying a can of petrol. Victoria and their children were in the house at the time, but security guards apprehended the man before he reached the house. Beckham made more headlines on 9 October 2004 when he admitted intentionally fouling Ben Thatcher in an England match against Wales in order to get himself booked. Beckham was due to receive a one-match suspension for his next caution, and had picked up an injury which he knew would keep him out of England's next match, so he deliberately fouled Thatcher in order to serve his suspension in a match that he would have had to miss anyway. The Football Association asked Beckham for an explanation of his actions and he admitted that he had "made a mistake" and apologised.<br /><br />Beckham became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in January 2005 and was involved in promoting London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.<br /><br /><strong>Third season, 2005-06</strong><br /><br />Real Madrid had another disappointing season, finishing second to Barcelona (with a 12 point gap) in the La Liga and only reaching the last sixteen in the Champions League after losing to Arsenal by a goal. Although there is the notable fact that Beckham led La Liga in assists for the season.<br /><br />Warming upIn October 2005, Beckham's sending off against Austria made him the first ever England captain to be sent off and the first (and only) player to be sent off twice while playing for England. He captained England for the 50th time in a friendly international against Argentina the following month. He was sent off again shortly afterwards, this time in a league match for Real Madrid against Valencia CF. Having received a yellow card, he appeared to sarcastically applaud the referee and was given a second yellow card, causing an automatic dismissal, although the suspension was cancelled on appeal two days later. He was sent off for the third time that season on 3 December 2005 in a league match against Getafe.<br /><br />During the season, Beckham established football academies in Los Angeles and east London and he was named a judge for the 2006 British Book Awards.<br /><br /><strong>Fourth season, 2006-07</strong><br /><strong></strong><br />Out of favour with manager Fabio Capello, Beckham started only a few games in that season, normally as a substitute, as Jose Antonio Reyes was normally preferred on the right wing. In the nine matches Beckham started, Real had lost seven.<br /><br />On 10 January 2007, after prolonged contract negotiations, Real Madrid's sporting director Predrag Mijatović announced that Beckham would not remain at Real Madrid after the end of the season. However, he later claimed that he was mistranslated and that he actually said that Beckham's contract had not been renewed yet.<br /><br />On 11 January 2007 Beckham announced that he had signed a five-year deal to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy from 1 July 2007. The deal is worth $250 million over the 5 years. On 13 January 2007 Fabio Capello said that Beckham had played his last game for Real Madrid, although he would continue to train with the team. Capello back-tracked on that statement and Beckham rejoined the team for their match against Real Sociedad on 10 February 2007 – he scored and Real Madrid won. However the next game at home against Real Betis ended up with Beckham being shown a straight red card for a professional foul in the 90th minute.But in the next UEFA Champions League match vs Bayern Munich, he carried out two assists to help Real Madrid win by 3-2 and won fans' appreciation. If Beckham moves to Los Angeles and transfers to the Galaxy as currently planned, this match would seem to mark his final appearance in the UEFA Champions League as Real Madrid were knocked out of the competition (by the away goals rule) at the conclusion of their second leg away tie in Munich on 7 March 2007. He has made a total of 103 appearances in the League, the third highest number of any player at the time.<br /><br />After his good performances for Real Madrid, Steve McClaren announced Beckham could be recalled for England's two Euro 2008 qualifiers against Israel and Andorra. However on 4 March 2007 Beckham damaged a ligament in his right knee during a game between Real Madrid and Getafe CF. Following a cross his momentum carried him into an advertising boarding along the touchline causing him to go down. On 21 April 2007 he marked his return from injury by coming off the bench to set up the winning goal for Sergio Ramos in a 2-1 victory over Valencia.<br /><br />On 26 May 2007, Steve McClaren announced that Beckham would be recalled to the England squad for the first time since relinquishing the captaincy after England's exit from the 2006 World Cup. Beckham started against Brazil in England's first match at the new Wembley and put in a positive performance and had a first half free-kick just brush the post. However in the second half he set up England's goal as he sent in a beautifully weighted cross to be converted by Captain John Terry. It looked as though England would claim victory over Brazil however new-comer Diego equalized in the dying seconds. Beckham had been taken off by this point.<br /><br /><strong>World Cup 2006</strong><br /><br />During the FIFA World Cup 2006, England were seen as a potential winner by many, but since the start of the competition the team had several slow paced matches and Beckham's performance was criticised by the majority of the press and public. However, many still considered Beckham's contribution to England important as the team progressed to the quarter-finals of the tournament.<br /><br />In England's opening game against Paraguay on 10 June 2006 Beckham's free kick led to an own-goal by Carlos Gamarra, and England won 1-0. In England's next match, played against Trinidad and Tobago on 15 June 2006, Beckham's cross in the 83rd minute led to Peter Crouch's goal which put England ahead 1-0. Beckham gave another assist to Steven Gerrard. In the end they won 2-0. He was named Man-of-the-Match by tournament sponsor Budweiser for this game. The English media criticised Beckham's performance in England's final Group B match against Sweden on 20 June 2006,[citation needed] citing his apparent inability to take the ball around players as an increasing hindrance to England's chances of winning the World Cup.<br /><br />During England's second round match against Ecuador, Beckham scored from a free kick in the 59th minute, becoming the first ever English player to score in three World Cups, and giving England a 1-0 victory and a place in the quarter-finals. He was sick before the game and vomited several times as a result of dehydration and illness after he scored the winning goal.<br /><br />In the quarter finals stage of the World Cup against Portugal, Beckham was substituted following an injury shortly after half time and the England team went on to lose the match on penalties (3-1), the scores having been 0-0 after extra time. After his substitution, Beckham was visibly shaken and emotional for not being able to play, being in tears at one point.<br /><br />A day after England was knocked out of the World Cup, an emotional Beckham made a statement in a news conference saying that he had stepped down as England captain, saying, "It has been an honour and privilege to captain my country but, having been captain for 58 of my 95 games." This was an error on Beckham's part - he had to date won 94 caps, not 95. caps, I feel the time is right to pass on the armband as we enter a new era under Steve McClaren." He was then succeeded by Chelsea captain John Terry.<br /><br />Having stepped down as captain after the World Cup, Beckham was dropped completely from the England national team selected by new coach Steve McClaren on 11 August 2006. McClaren claimed that he was "looking to go in a different direction" with the team, and that Beckham "wasn't included within that". McClaren said Beckham could be recalled in future. Shaun Wright-Phillips, Kieran Richardson and the World Cup alternative to Beckham Aaron Lennon were all included, and are likely to compete for what was Beckham's place on the right-wing in future, although it seems that McClaren will employ Steven Gerrard on that side.<br /><br />There was talk that McClaren could recall Beckham after Aaron Lennon sustained an injury in early September and Owen Hargreaves subsequently broke his leg.[citation needed] However despite pressure from the media and high profile sports figures Bobby Robson, Glenn Hoddle, Mark Lawrenson and Alan Hansen all saying he should be in the England team,[citation needed] McClaren did not recall Beckham. In December, 2006, McClaren suggested that Steven Gerrard had supplanted Beckham's role in the team: "We all know about David Beckham and his delivery from the right-hand side. But Stevie's set-plays and crosses from the right are as good as anybody in the world."<br /><br /><strong>England recall</strong><br /><br />Beckham takes a freekickOn 26 May 2007 David Beckham was recalled to the national team for the first time since the 2006 World Cup after some excellent performances for Real Madrid and after England's poor form during qualification for Euro 2008. Beckham's comeback game was against Brazil in a friendly international, England's first game at the rebuilt Wembley Stadium, on June 1, 2007, where Beckham set up his successor as England captain John Terry with a trademark cross from a free kick . He has stated his intent to continue to play for England after his move to the MLS. The LA Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas stated he would not stand in the way of a player representing his country, and would not stop Beckham from doing so, but that they would have to be appropriate games. However, FIFA have said that if Beckham is called up for any England match, Galaxy must release him as per FIFA rules.<br /><br /><strong>L.A. Galaxy and U.S. Soccer</strong><br /><br />It was confirmed on 11 January 2007 that David Beckham would be leaving Real Madrid to join MLS team Los Angeles Galaxy on a 5 year deal worth $250 million that will see Beckham earn up to $10 million a year in direct salary, but with endorsements and profit-sharing, Beckham could earn up to $50 million a year and earning about 90 dollars every second on the field.<br />Beckham said, "After considering several options to stay in Madrid or join other major British and European teams, I have decided to join LA Galaxy."<br /><br />Beckham had departed Manchester United in July 2003 to sign for Real, who paid £25m for the midfielder's services. However, in the three-and-a-half seasons since his arrival, the Spanish giants have failed to win any major trophies. The 2006-07 season proved particularly disappointing for Beckham, who was dropped by England coach Steve McClaren and then fell out of favour with Real boss, Fabio Capello, who has allowed Beckham only seven starts in over 25 matches this season. As of January 2007, his form had been disappointing, with just 12 league goals scored in his entire time at Real Madrid.<br /><br />On 12 January 2007, Beckham's official press conference was held, via satellite from Madrid, in conjunction with the 2007 MLS SuperDraft in Indianapolis, IN. All MLS announcements concerning Beckham's signing and his press conference (as well as the Super Draft) were a part of the NSCAA National Soccer Coaches Association of America annual convention. At the press conference, Beckham told reporters "I'm coming there not to be a superstar. I'm coming there to be part of the team, to work hard and to hopefully win things. With me, it's about football. I'm coming there to make a difference. I'm coming there to play football... I'm not saying me coming over to the States is going to make soccer the biggest sport in America. That would be difficult to achieve. Baseball, basketball, American football, they've been around. But I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think I could make a difference."<br /><br />On 13 January 2007, Real Madrid manager Fabio Capello stated during a news conference that Beckham would never again play for the team, saying that he could practice, but would not be permitted to put in any minutes in actual matches for the remainder of his time under contract. A month later however, Beckham not only returned to the first team with a start against Real Sociedad, but he also scored the game's equalizing goal in a 2-1 victory.<br /><br />On 14 January 2007, when a new "SuperLiga" was announced for a new North American championship, it was reported that Beckham could make his Galaxy debut during that tournament.<br /><br />On 15 January 2007, published reports quoted Major League Soccer spokesman Stephen Rodriguez as saying that MLS would now try to get Beckham over to the LA Galaxy in time for the start of the MLS season in April. Such a move would require a buy-out of his remaining Real Madrid contract, which would amount to a transfer fee. Later the same day, MLS Commissioner Don Garber denied that his league was attempting to secure an early MLS debut for Beckham.<br /><br />On 17 January 2007, the U.S. publication Sports Illustrated released a detailed report on the blockbuster contract and the economics behind it.<br /><br />On 10th June 2007, Real Madrid revealed that they still hoped to keep Beckham and a clause existed<br /><br />in the deal David signed with LA Galaxy that Real could still keep him if Beckham wished to stay. However, Beckham's agent stated that Beckham intends to honour the contract and LA Galaxy president and general manager Alexi Lalas has stated that there is no escape clause.<br /><br /><strong>Discipline</strong><br /><br />Beckham spent long hours on the training pitch honing his talents to perfection, particularly his trademark free kick. Former manager Sir Alex Ferguson said that he "practiced with a discipline to achieve an accuracy that other players wouldn't care about". He maintained his training routine at Real Madrid and even when his relationship with management was strained in early 2007, Ramon Calderon and Fabio Capello have praised Beckham for maintaining his professionalism and commitment to the club.<br /><br />Beckham was the first England player to ever collect two red cards and the first captain to be sent off for the England team.[62] Beckham's most notorious red was during the 1998 FIFA World Cup: after Argentina's Diego Simeone had fouled him, Beckham appeared to lash out with his leg and the Argentinean timed his fall to make it appear that he had been kicked. At the time, Beckham's reaction was mostly criticized as selfish and bad sportsmanship on Beckham's part and the front page of the Daily Mirror read "10 heroic lions,one stupid boy". England went on to lose the game on penalties, Beckham was vilified back in England for the act but was later to redeem himself with many sterling performances. He was also somewhat vindicated as Simeone's "fall" was criticized as an example of the Argentineans' play-acting, and Simeone himself later admitted to purposely trying to foul Beckham.<br /><br />For Real Madrid he has so far amassed 26 yellow cards and 4 red cards.<br /><br />Beckham has also been described as a "gentleman" multiple times. During his time as England captain, Beckham helped to keep Wayne Rooney's temper in check on several occasions.<br /><br /><strong>Personal life</strong><br /><br />In 1997, Beckham started dating Victoria Adams, widely known as "Posh Spice" of the pop music group Spice Girls, and their relationship attracted a great deal of media interest. The couple were dubbed "Posh and Becks" by the media. He proposed to Victoria on 24 January, 1998 in a restaurant at Cheshunt.<br /><br />He married Adams at Luttrellstown Castle, Ireland on 4 July 1999. The wedding attracted tremendous media coverage. Beckham's teammate Gary Neville was the best man, and the couple's son Brooklyn, then four months old, was the ring bearer. The media were kept away from the ceremony, as the Beckhams had an exclusive deal with OK! Magazine, but newspapers were still able to obtain photographs showing them sitting on golden thrones. 437 staff were employed for the wedding reception, which was estimated to have cost £500,000.<br /><br />The Beckhams, who came to be known almost universally as "Posh and Becks", have three sons: Brooklyn Joseph Beckham (born 1999), Romeo James Beckham (2002) and Cruz David Beckham (2005).<br /><br />In April 2004, Beckham's former personal assistant Rebecca Loos, sold a story to a tabloid newspaper in which she claimed to have had a four month affair with Beckham, which he described as "ludicrous".<br /><br />In an 3 April 2006 interview, Beckham told The Daily Mail that he suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Fame beyond football</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Beckham's fame extends beyond the pitch; in much of the world his name is "as instantly recognisable as that of multinational companies like Coca-Cola and IBM." Beckham's relationship and marriage to Victoria, who had been famous in her own right as part of the musical group Spice Girls, contributed towards him becoming a major celebrity outside of football. He has recently moved into the world of aftershave along with Victoria with the release of his own line of scents, David Beckham Instinct. The Beckhams are reported to be getting paid $13.7 million to launch their perfume in the US. (January 25, 2007). Beckham's name was searched for on Google more than that of any other sporting personality in 2003 and 2004.</div><div><br />Beckham has also become an internationally recognized sex symbol because of his 'metrosexual' tendencies in fashion and because of his immense gay following,[citation needed] which he recognized and has publicly appreciated.</div><br /><div><strong>Charitable work</strong></div><div></div><div> </div><div>-Beckham has supported UNICEF since his days at Manchester United and in January 2005 the England Football Captain became a Goodwill Ambassador with a special focus on UNICEF's Sports for Development programme. </div><br /><div>-He recently hosted the "World Cup Party - Full Length and Fabulous" at his mansion in Hertfordshire, raising money for three charities, including the Beckhams' own charity. Over 500 of the richest and most famous faces in England made appearances. </div><br /><div>-On 17 January 2007, Rebecca Johnstone, a 19 year old cancer patient in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada had a surprise phone call from Beckham. After the conversation, he sent her a Real Madrid Jersey with his signature on it. Rebecca passed away on 29 January 2007. </div><br /><div>-In March 2007, it has been suggested that David made an appearance in the Comic Relief video for "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", which was performed by The Proclaimers alongside Peter Kay as Brian Potter and Matt Lucas as Andy Pipkin. The video featured a range of British television, music and sports personalities, such as Elton John, Tony Blackburn, Sonia and Des Lynam chanting along with the track. However it was claimed in Heat magazine that it was in fact only a 'look-a-like' and not the actual David Beckham<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Appearances in films</strong></div><br /><div>Beckham never appeared in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham except in archive footage. He and his wife wanted to make cameo appearances but scheduling proved difficult so the director used lookalikes instead.</div><div><br />Beckham makes a cameo appearance with Zidane and Raùl in the 2005 fictional film Goal! where he says hello to the main character during a party about halfway through the film. In Goal! 2: Living the Dream..., Beckham appears as himself again, when the film's lead gets a roster spot on the Real Madrid squad. This 2006 sequel is also the second part of a trilogy, and the story this time centres around the Real Madrid team. Besides Beckham, other real life Real players also appear on and off the pitch alongside the fictional characters.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Records</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Beckham captained England 58 times during his tenure as England captain.</div><div><br />With his free kick goal against Ecuador in the second round of the 2006 World Cup, Beckham gained membership into two of football's most exclusive clubs: he became the only English player — and the 21st player regardless of nationality — to score in three world cups. Real Madrid team-mate Raùl also achieved this feat a few days earlier. It also made him only the fifth player in World Cup history to score twice from direct free kicks; the other four were Pelé, Rivelino, Teófilo Cubillas and Bernard Genghini (Beckham had previously scored this way against Colombia in the first round of the 1998 World Cup). All three goals were against South American teams (Colombia, Argentina, and Ecuador) and from set pieces (the two aforementioned free kicks and a penalty against Argentina).<br /></div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Tattoos controversy</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Beckham has many tattoos on his body, one of which is the name of his wife Victoria but it is written in Hindi rather than English because Beckham thought it would be "tacky" to have it written in English. The tattoo is misspelt, however, so the tattoo actually reads "Vhictoria" rather than "Victoria".Another tattoo, written in Hebrew reads אני לדודי ודודי לי הרעה בשושנים, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, that shepherds among the lilies." This is from the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible, and a popular Jewish paean to fidelity. Beckham has also been ridiculed in the press for looking like a "Hell's Angel biker" and a "football yob" due to his ever-expanding number of tattoos, their design and location.</div><div><br />A chronology of Beckham's tattoos includes:<br />-April 1999 - Son Brooklyn's name on his back.<br />-April 1999 - An angel on his back.<br />-2000 - Hindi "Victoria" design on his left arm.<br />-April 2002 - Roman numeral VII on right forearm<br />-May 2003 - Latin phrase "Perfectio In Spiritu", meaning "Spiritual Perfection", on his right arm<br />-May 2003 - More Latin, "Ut Amem Et Foveam" or "So That I Love And Cherish", on his left arm.<br />-2003 - Romeo's name on his back.<br />-2003 - Classical art design on his right shoulder.<br />-2004 - Winged cross on his neck.<br />-2004 - Angel with motto "In The Face of Adversity" on right arm.<br />-Mar 2005 - Cruz's name on his back.<br />-June 2006 - Second angel and clouds added to right arm and shoulder. </div><div></div><br /><div>By <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">http://www.wikipedia.org</a> </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-902841715178925404?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-78405515242843848022007-06-09T20:19:00.000-07:002007-06-11T02:08:19.284-07:00<a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rmtys436aNI/AAAAAAAACEw/B-pzbSfVC9I/s1600-h/sharapova2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074275520669706450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rmtys436aNI/AAAAAAAACEw/B-pzbSfVC9I/s320/sharapova2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmtyWY36aMI/AAAAAAAACEo/Np6E6Cx_a6I/s1600-h/sharapova.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5074275134122649794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmtyWY36aMI/AAAAAAAACEo/Np6E6Cx_a6I/s320/sharapova.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon.</div><br /><div><strong>Personal life</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Sharapova's parents moved from Homyel, Belarus, to Siberia, Russia, in 1986, after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. She was born the following year in Nyagan, Russia.<br />Sharapova's father, Yuri Sharapov, brought Maria to the United States to attend the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida when she was 7 years old. Her mother, Yelena, who could not come with them because of visa restrictions, followed a few years later. Sharapova has lived in the United States since then but retains her Russian citizenship.<br />In 2002, Sharapova bought a beach home in Manhattan Beach, California,a suburb of Los Angeles, but lives most of the year near the IMG training facility in Bradenton.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Career</strong></div><div><br /><strong>2004 and 2005</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div>In 2004, a year after reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon as a wild card, Sharapova became the third-youngest Wimbledon women's champion (after Lottie Dod and Martina Hingis) and second-youngest in the open era by defeating Ai Sugiyama (5-7, 7-5, 6-1) in a quarterfinal, Lindsay Davenport (2-6, 7-6, 6-1) in a semifinal, and two-time defending champion Serena Williams (6-1, 6-4) in the final. She also became the first Russian to win that tournament. At the U.S. Open a few months later, she lost to French player and two-time Grand Slam champion Mary Pierce. Sharapova ended 2004 with a victory at the season-ending WTA Championships, defeating an injured Serena Williams (4-6, 6-2, 6-4) after coming back from 0-4 in the final set. After losing to Sharapova in a semifinal of this event, Anastasia Myskina said: "He [Sharapova's father] was just yelling and screaming instructions to her and I thought he just might jump right on the court at one point in the match."</div><div><br />From June 2004 until her Wimbledon semifinal appearance in 2005, Sharapova won 22 straight matches on grass, including consecutive Birmingham titles and the Wimbledon title. She reached the semifinals of the 2005 Australian Open, where she held three match points against Serena Williams before losing 2-6, 7-5, 8-6. Off court, she was paid for numerous commercial endorsements.</div><div><br />Maria Sharapova at Indian Wells in 2005Defending her Wimbledon title in 2005, Sharapova reached the semifinals without losing a set but then fell to a rejuvenated Venus Williams (7-6, 6-1). Sharapova's streak on grass was ended, as was her quest to dethrone top-ranked Davenport.</div><div><br />However, Davenport injured her back in the Wimbledon final, preventing her from defending the ranking points she obtained during the U.S. hard-court season of 2004. Sharapova had fewer points to defend and therefore rose to the No. 1 ranking on August 22, 2005. Her reign lasted only one week, however, as Davenport re-ascended to the top ranking after winning the title in New Haven. Sharapova rose to the No. 1 ranking again on September 12, 2005, despite losing in the semifinals of the U.S. Open. Sharapova kept the No. 1 ranking for six weeks before relinquishing it again to Davenport following the 2005 Zurich Open.</div><div><br />Sharapova's loss in a semifinal of the 2005 U.S. Open against Kim Clijsters marked the fourth time that year she had lost at a Grand Slam tournament to the eventual champion: Australian Open-SF-Serena Williams, French Open-QF-Justine Henin, Wimbledon-SF-Venus Williams, U.S. Open-SF-Clijsters.</div><div><br /><strong>2006</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>At the 2006 Australian Open, Sharapova lost in the semifinals to Justine Henin 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, the only match of the year that she lost after winning the first set.</div><div><br />Sharapova claimed her first title of 2006 and eleventh of her career at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, a Tier 1 event at which she was the third seed. Sharapova and No. 4 seed Elena Dementieva became the first Russians to reach the event's final, with Sharapova triumphing 6-1, 6-2. Soon after, Sharapova lost in the final of the Nasdaq-100 Open to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-4, 6-3.</div><div><br />Sharapova participated at the 2006 French Open without having played any of the clay-court tune-ups. After saving three match points in the first round against Mashona Washington, Sharapova was eliminated in the fourth round by Dinara Safina 7-5, 2-6, 7-5, after Sharapova led 5-1 in the third set. Sharapova lost 18 of the match's last 21 points.</div><div><br />Sharapova welcomed the onset of the grass season but failed to add a third successive Birmingham title to her collection, losing in the semifinals to American Jamea Jackson.<br />For the second consecutive year, Sharapova was defeated in the semifinals of Wimbledon, losing to eventual winner Amelie Mauresmo 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.</div><div><br />Sharapova claimed her second title of 2006 as the second seed at the Acura Classic in San Diego, defeating top-seeded Kim Clijsters 7-5, 7-5. This was Sharapova's first victory over Clijsters in five meetings.</div><div><br />Sharapova entered the 2006 U.S. Open seeded third after Clijsters dropped out of the tournament with a wrist injury. Favored to reach the final, she defeated Mauresmo, the top-ranked player in the world, in a semifinal 6-0, 4-6, 6-0. Sharapova then prevailed over Henin in the final 6-4, 6-4 to win her second Grand Slam title.</div><div><br />Maria Sharapova at the Zurich Open 2006Sharapova won the Zurich Open, defeating Daniela Hantuchova 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 in the final. Sharapova then won the Generali Ladies Linz, defeating fellow Russian and defending champion Nadia Petrova 7-5, 6-2, to take her fifth title of 2006 and the 15th title of her career.</div><div><br />Until her loss in the semifinals of the WTA Tour Championships, Sharapova had won 19 consecutive matches. She finished the year with a 59-9 record and won more Tier I titles than any other player.<br />It has been announced that Sharapova will play for the Russian Fed Cup team for the first time in 2007. </div><div><br /><strong>2007</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Sharapova began 2007 by reaching the final of the Watson Water Champions Challenge, an exhibition tournament and warm-up for the 2007 Australian Open, where she was defeated by Kim Clijsters 6-3, 7-6(8).</div><div><br />At the Australian Open, the top-seeded Sharapova defeated the 62nd-ranked Camille Pin in the first round 6-3, 4-6, 9-7 on her fourth match point. The match was played in air temperatures that exceeded 40 °C (104 °F) and on-court temperatures that exceeded 50 °C (122 °F). In the fourth round, Sharapova defeated compatriot Vera Zvonareva 7-5, 6-4. In the quarterfinals, Sharapova defeated the twelfth-seeded Anna Chakvetadze 7-6(5), 7-5. She then defeated fourth-seeded Clijsters 6-4, 6-2 in the semifinals to reach her first Australian Open final and gain the opportunity to win the only Grand Slam singles title that a Russian woman had not yet won. However, Serena Williams, ranked No. 81 in the world, won easily 6-1, 6-2. Williams was the third-lowest-ranked player in the open era to win a Grand Slam singles title.</div><div><br />Sharapova then played in the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, and after beating Francesca Schiavone in the second round and Ai Sugiyama in the quarterfinals, she retired from her semifinal match against Ana Ivanović due to a hamstring injury while trailing 1-6, 1-0.</div><div><br />Her next tournament was the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, where she was the defending champion and top seed. However, she lost to Zvonareva in the fourth round 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 after leading 5-4 in the second set.</div><div><br />At the Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Sharapova again lost easily to Serena Williams, this time in the fourth round 6-1, 6-1. In her previous rounds, she had defeated Yung-Jan Chan of Taipei and Venus Williams.</div><div></div><div>Sharapova was scheduled to play in the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, South Carolina, but a shoulder injury kept her off the tour and prevented her from playing in the Fed Cup tie against Spain and the Qatar Telecom German Open. She was scheduled to make her return to the tour at the Telecom Italia Masters Roma in Rome, but she had to pull out again because, as she said on her official website, she was not ready to play there even though her body was slowly getting better. She finally made her return at the Istanbul Cup, her first clay tournament of the year, which began on May 21, 2007. In Istanbul Sharapova was given the first seed and defeated Bulgarian teenager Tsvetana Pironkova and seventh-seed Agnieszka Radwanska before falling to Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai in the semifinals with a score of 6-2, 6-4.</div><div><br />As of June 5th, Sharapova has reached her first ever semifinals at the French Open. After defeating Schnyder in the fourth round after Schnyder had several match points, Maria then defeated Anna Chakvetadzke in the quarterfinals 6-3, 6-4 to make it to her first French Open semifinals ever. She lost in the semis to Serbian Ana Ivanovic 2-6 1-6.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Awards</strong></div><div><strong></strong><br /><strong>2003 </strong></div><div><br />Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Newcomer of the Year </div><div><br /><strong>2004</strong></div><div></div><div>WTA Player of the Year<br />WTA Most Improved Player of the Year<br />WTA Player Service </div><div><br /><strong>2005</strong> </div><div><br />ESPY Best Female Tennis Player<br />Named the country's best female player for the year by Russia's tennis federation<br />Master of Sports of Russia<br />Prix de Citron Roland Garros </div><div><br /><strong>2006</strong> </div><div><br />Named the country's best female player for the year by Russia's tennis federation<br /><br /><strong>Endorsements and media publicity</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>-Honda - Following her Wimbledon victory in 2004, Sharapova signed a one-year deal with automobile manufacturer, but the deal was only in Japan. </div><div></div><div>-Land Rover - In April 2006, Sharapova signed a three-year deal to endorse their vehicles. One source with knowledge of the deal said it was worth approximately U.S. $2 million per year. Sharapova gets a free Land Rover Range Rover Sport in Florida and a chauffeured Land Rover Discovery wherever she wants. </div><br /><div>-Motorola - a fee, plus a mobile phone and all her mobile phone bills paid, plus a share of the income of downloads from HelloMoto/Maria. She was criticized at the U.S. Open by some members of the American press for holding a RAZR to her ear at roughly the same time her father was seen talking on a similar phone, as this may have violated the United States Tennis Association's no sideline-coaching rule. </div><br /><div>-Gatorade - energy drink </div><br /><div>-Tropicana - orange juice </div><br /><div>-TAG Heuer - In December 2004, she signed a deal with Swiss sports watch TAG Heuer to become their latest "sport and glamour" ambassador. </div><br /><div>-Nike Inc. - Sharapova has been known to wear somewhat eccentric or revealing outfits from Nike on court, best exemplified by a Breakfast at Tiffany's-inspired dress at the 2006 U.S. Open, which many admired for its use of sequins and futuristic neckline. She also has been featured in several Nike marketing campaigns, including one advertisement in 2006 that has her walking and riding through the streets of New York City and Arthur Ashe Stadium while everyone around her sings "I Feel Pretty" until she returns a serve with her trademark loud grunt. </div><br /><div>-Prince Sports, Inc. - Sharapova has committed to a "lifetime" of sponsoring the only tennis racket brand she's used as a pro. The endorsement deal will last until the end of her playing career and beyond. </div><br /><div>-Canon Inc. - Sharapova promotes both their office and camera products. </div><div></div><br /><div>Sharapova's endorsements have earned her considerably more than she has won in tournament play. In June 2005, Forbes magazine listed her as the highest-paid female athlete in the world, with annual earnings of U.S. $18 million. (CBS, the American television network, reported in August 2006 that the figure is over U.S. $20 million.) In total, she earns over UK£13.4 million per year, over 90 percent of which comes from endorsements. When asked about her income, she said, "It's never enough. Bring on the money. There's no limit to how much you can make." In a later interview, she said, "You know, one of the greatest things about being an athlete and, you know, making money is realising that you can help, you know, help the world, and especially children, who I absolutely love working with."</div><div><br />Sharapova is visible in and outside of the court for her looks. Sharapova posed in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the 2006 issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, annual magazine that debuted on Valentine's Day, along with 25 scantily-clad supermodels. Sharapova joined the ranks of other athletes who have previously appeared in the publication. In April 2005, Sharapova was listed by People Magazine as among the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world. In 2006, Maxim magazine named Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world for the fourth consecutive year.</div><div><br />In a poll run by Britain's FHM magazine, Sharapova was voted the seventh most eligible bachelorette. Voting took into consideration both "wealth and looks."</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Racquet</strong> </div><div></div><br /><div>Sharapova during her second-round match at the 2007 Australian Open.Sharapova's first racquet (before she entered the professional circuit) was one given to her by a family friend.</div><div><br />Sharapova used the Prince Tour Diablo for part of 2003 and then used several different Prince racquets until the 2004 U.S. Open. Sharapova began using the Prince Shark MP at that tournament and had a major part in the production of the Shark racquet. She then switched to the Prince O3 White racquet in January 2006, and this is currently the racquet that Sharapova uses and the best selling racquet in the world.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Controversies</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>Sharapova has been criticized by many for what sometimes appears to be sideline-coaching from her father during matches. At the 2006 U.S. Open she was observed receiving coaching gestures from her father and another coach. Cameras caught both Sharapova's father and her coach Michael Joyce holding up signals to tell her when to drink and eat a banana. When the press later inquired about this incident, Sharapova refused to discuss it. At the 2004 WTA Tour Championships Yuri Sharapov, Maria Sharapova's father, was warned by the chair umpire for coaching during his daughter's win over Anastasia Myskina.</div><div></div><div>At the 2006 Australian Open, Yuri Sharapov was accused of yelling out to distract Justine Henin during his daughter's losing semifinal appearance. He yelled "VAMOS" in the middle of a rally and when Henin looked in his direction, he twirled around, looking behind him and pretending that the yelling was done by someone else. The following year, Sharapova was one of four women and three men to be warned and fined for receiving sideline coaching at the event. Sharapova denied having received any coaching, but Tony Roche said the cheating was obvious and supervisors needed to improve surveillance of the stands.</div><div><br />Sharapova has been accused of using her trademark "Sharapova Shriek" to distract opponents. John Newcombe has said, "It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings." Elena Dementieva complained about the distraction during a 2006 Wimbledon quarterfinal. Later in the U.S. Open, Tatiana Golovin said: "Shrieking is not going to make the tennis ball come to me faster."</div><div><br />At the 2007 Australian Open, Sharapova was fined $2,000 for sideline-coaching. Her father made many obvious gestures and hand movements, which were allegedly to advise Sharapova of which shots to play against opponent Anna Chakvetadze.</div><div><br />At the 2007 French Open, Sharapova was criticized and booed by the audience when her opponent, Patty Schnyder, became distracted over someone yelling in the audience. Patty stood straight and held her hand up, signaling that she had been distracted. Rather than doing the serve over, Sharapova instead moved to the other side of her court and refused to replay the point.<br /></div><br /><div><strong>Activism</strong></div><div></div><br /><div>On February 14, 2007, Sharapova was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and donated US$100,000 to UNDP Chernobyl-recovery projects.</div><div></div><br /><div><strong>Trivia</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div>This article contains a trivia section.</div><br /><div>Content in this section should be integrated into the body of the article or removed.<br />This article has been tagged since May 2007.</div><div></div><br /><div>-Sharapova strictly adheres to a pre-service routine or ritual. While standing near the baseline, she hops while hitting the ball downwards with her racquet four times, tucks her hair behind both her ears, and then gently drops the ball on the ground twice. </div><br /><div>-Sharapova is good friends with fellow Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko.</div><br /><div>-Sharapova gave the racquet she used in the 2004 Wimbledon final to Regis Philbin when taping Live with Regis and Kelly. </div><br /><div>-Sharapova has held the "Hottest Female Athlete of the Year" award from Maxim Magazine for four consecutive years. </div><br /><div>-Sharapova is ambidextrous. She was originally going to play with her left hand, but decided to use her right. She sometimes hits left-handed forehands in matches. </div><br /><div>-During her match against Mary Pierce in the 2004 U.S. Open, Sharapova and several other Russian women tennis players wore a black ribbon in observance of the tragedy after the Beslan school hostage crisis which took place only a few days before.</div><div> </div><div>By http://www.wikipedia.org</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-7840551524284384802?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-33180518678235043752007-06-08T01:01:00.000-07:002007-06-11T02:09:00.998-07:00<a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOq436aLI/AAAAAAAACEg/eS-Ms7inse0/s1600-h/rain.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073602585193769138" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOq436aLI/AAAAAAAACEg/eS-Ms7inse0/s320/rain.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOlo36aKI/AAAAAAAACEY/joB-F5MebW0/s1600-h/rain4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073602494999455906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOlo36aKI/AAAAAAAACEY/joB-F5MebW0/s320/rain4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOZ436aJI/AAAAAAAACEQ/1dUtaBpM9mM/s1600-h/rain2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073602293135992978" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkOZ436aJI/AAAAAAAACEQ/1dUtaBpM9mM/s320/rain2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><a href="http://www.kpopmusic.co.uk/Bi_Rain.htm" target="_blank">Rain</a> (also known as <a href="http://www.kpopmusic.co.uk/Bi_Rain.htm" target="_blank">Bi</a>) is a Korean pop singer whose real name is actually Jung Ji Hoon. He was born on June 25, 1982, and debuted in April of 2001. He is a popular solo singer in South Korea with a very deep and rich voice and amazing dancing skills. Bi / Rain ( Jung Ji Hoon ) has also done acting, being a very well-rounded entertainer. Bi / Rain is very down-to-earth and friendly, even a little shy.</div><div><br />Rain Bi ( Jung Ji Hoon ) is a korean pop singer as well as actor, and will be one of koreans most influential up and coming pop singers of all time</div><br /><div></div><div><strong>Bi / Rain<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073602078387628162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/RmkONY36aII/AAAAAAAACEI/Jlzlrr8_Yq4/s320/rain3.jpg" border="0" /></strong></div><br /><div><strong>Name:</strong> Bi / Rain (Jung Ji Hoon)</div><div><strong>Date of Birth</strong>: June 25 1982 </div><div><strong>Height:</strong> 184 cm </div><div><strong>Weight:</strong> 74 kg </div><div><strong>Debut:</strong> 2002 May 1 'n001' </div><br /><div>Information: His ideal partner would be someone who looks good on first impressions, and someone who is kind and has a great sense of style.</div><div><br /><strong>Jung Ji Hoon (Bi Rain) Korean Pop Star</strong></div><div><br />International REcognistion.</div><br /><div>Over the last 2 years Bi Rain 's popularity has grown after his third album Its Raining sold over 1 million copies in Asia alone. According to JYP Entertainment, Bi Rains agency in Korea, rain has topped the chars in Korean, Japan, China, Thailand and Singapore. This to date makes hs album the most successful album to date for both domestic and international markets. Further more, it was reported that Rain Bi's concert tickets sold out in the first day it was placed on sale, for Korean and Japan. </div><div><br />2004 saw Rain Bi gain recognistion by winning the MTV Asia Grand Slam awards which involved various asian countries and was broadcasted all over asia. That year Bi Rain also went on to win other numerous awards into 2005 and even managed to perform his american artists such as ashanti and hoobastank. In 2005 he embarked on a Rainy Day 2005 tour in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. As a result of his growing fan base and excellent on stage performance, his concert tickets sold out in quick succession, and has been tipped to gain even more awards in years to come.</div><div><br />More recently, in 2006 he was voted as Time magazine most influential artist, second only to Ang Lee. The magazine also noted that Rain may collaborate with P.Diddy after he performed a 2 day concert in Madison Square Gardens in February 2006. </div><div> </div><div>By http://www.wikipedia.org</div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-3318051867823504375?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2230248585126983489.post-22174673179218529792007-05-26T11:59:00.000-07:002007-05-26T11:59:21.136-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068941686539729090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rlh_m4VeuMI/AAAAAAAACEA/g5sQY-UiVa0/s320/collision_course.jpg" border="0" /><br /><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rlh_moVeuKI/AAAAAAAACDw/HCeC_fc5GPI/s1600-h/meteora.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068941682244761762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rlh_moVeuKI/AAAAAAAACDw/HCeC_fc5GPI/s320/meteora.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rlh_moVeuLI/AAAAAAAACD4/Y9CKbRTUFRA/s1600-h/hybrid_theory.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068941682244761778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_X701TPjzBN0/Rlh_moVeuLI/AAAAAAAACD4/Y9CKbRTUFRA/s320/hybrid_theory.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Linkin Park is a truly unique band. They are not just Rock, Rap, or Electronica band. They comprimise of a veritable mixture of different stylesand stylists in music, This makes them a hybrid in the type of music theyplay and their fan-base too. We are true lovers of Linkin Park<br />Linkin Park's origin began in 1996 when rapper guitarist Brad Delson and theinfamouis Mike Shinoda started a band called Xero. Other members of theband were Mark Wakefield the vocalist, JosephHahn the DJ, Rob Bourdon the drummer, and "Phoenix" Farrell the bassist. Xero made a four track demo tape including: Fuse, Stick N' Move, Rhinestone,and Reading My Eyes.When Mark Wakefield left the band, they changed their name to HybridTheory. Later "Phoenix" chose to leave the band to tour with another band,called"The Snax". The rest of the gang continued to play together primarilyfor fun. They later, signed with Zomba Music an occasion that came aboutwhen they played at The Whiskey Club in Los Angeles. The final addition tothe band came in the form of Chester Bennington.Magical Chester, in our humble opinion, was absolutely the missing catalyst.His extra-ordinary voice lets him deliver the lyrics at a gentle yetaggressive pace. He can hit pitch notes like no other. Chester humbly evenblames this on "years of singing" and "scar tissue". We absolutely love him.His arrival completed the Band. Thus in 1999 Carousel, And One, Technique,Step up, High Voltage & Part of me were born as a six track EP, totremendous applause.Some legal wrangling made it necessary to change the band's name. True totheir "hybrid' spirit Linkin Park was chosen. Members drove by Lincoln Parkregularly so why not use a similar sounding, unique name. Chester has beenrecorded to say he wanted a name which was unique, "where the music coulddefine the name rather than the name define the music". Phoneix pulled amythical rebirth and rejoined the band fulfilling his destiny. New demoswere made and the chase for a record label was on. Warner Records were luckyto hear the music, like it and sign up Linkin Park. A massive page in theirhistory was written.<br />Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory In October 2000,. Hitslike One Step Closer, Crawling, and In The End were born. Hybrid Theoryeventually received 8x platinum. Hybrid Theory does not follow a trend setup by a lot of other bands in that it doesn't contain any curses or swearwords. This was because the band wanted to write lyrics honestly and theythought that unnecessary swear words take away attention from the music.They wanted something that the public could listen to over and over againand enjoy repeatedly. At it's completion they felt they had achieved thisfeat with Hybrid Theory.After Hybrid Theory was released, Linkin Park's fame permitted them to tourall over the world. They toured with bands like POD, 3 Doors Down, andSystem Of a Down.July of 2002, saw LP release the Hybrid Theory Remix album, Reanimation.These remixes included talent from rappers like Black Thought and 20 trackswere cut.In March of 2003, LP released their 2nd year album, Meteora. This albumincludes hits like Somewhere I Belong, Numb,, and Faint. Included on Meteoraand Reanimation were ground breaking extras. They contained enhancedportions. These parts of the discs included videos and other extra 'goodies"fans could view on their PC. The band wanted to use technology and let thefans to see the process of making albums . This helped them share all the"Blood, Sweat and Tears," they put into making the albums .Linkin Park has won numerous awards including an award at the VMAs. Theirpopularity has grown world-wide. They are now truly international with amultitude of fans. From their hybrid genres to their non offensiveswear-free lyrics, to their use of turntables and samples, Linkin Park covera truly versatile ground and provide an entertaining and unique performance</div><div><br />Michael Kenji Shinoda (February, 11, 1977) - Emcee/Vocalist<br />Chester Bennington (March, 20, 1976) - Vocals<br />Phoenix Farrell (David Michael Farrell) (February, 8, 1977) - Bass<br />Joseph Hahn (March, 15, 1977) - Deejay<br />Rob Bourdon (January, 20, 1979) - Drums<br />Brad Delson (December, 1, 1977) - Guitar </div><div> </div><div>Sources: <a class="smallfont" href="http://www.angelfire.com/band2/lp2k1/biography.htm" target="_blank">Angelfire</a>, <a class="smallfont" href="http://www.pushmeaway.com/howtheycameabout.html" target="_blank">Pushmeaway.com</a>, <a class="smallfont" href="http://launch.yahoo.com/ar-303254-bio--Linkin-Park" target="_blank">Yahoo! Music</a>, <a class="smallfont" href="http://www.linkin-park.com/Biography.html" target="_blank">Linkin Park Fan Site</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2230248585126983489-2217467317921852979?l=world-idols.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>smiletravel[ GDSDNFC10252316 ]noreply@blogger.com0