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NICOLE SCHERZINGER

2008-09-28T08:24:00.000-07:00

Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (also known as Nicole Kea) (born June 29, 1978) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress best known for her role as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls.Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a Filipino father and a Hawaiian/Russian mother. Her mother Rosemary was 18 at the time of Nicole's birth and lived in an inner city neighborhood and separated from her father when Nicole was a baby. The family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was 6 years old, with her sister Ke'ala and German American stepfather Gary Scherzinger. She stated she had a

Scherzinger appeared on the second album by Days of the New, released in 1999. She also recorded two songs with Barry Drake's F.O.B, which were released in 2001. In 2001, Scherzinger competed in the premiere season of The WB's television show Popstars, on which she earned a spot in the all-girl pop group Eden's Crush. She became one of the main vocalists for the group. The group's 2001 single "Get Over Yourself (Goodbye)" peaked at number one in sales and hit the top ten on Billboard Hot 100. "Love This Way" was the second single chosen from the Popstars album; however, their record company, London-Sire Records, folded and the group eventually disbanded. Songwriter Kara DioGuardi contributed one track to the album, and later went on to co-write with Scherzinger for PCD, Doll Domination and Her Name Is Nicole.

In November 2007, Scherzinger talked of her time in Eden's Crush

“

...it was hell... I was in a band with five other girls and every day was torture for me. We were on TV all the time and the atmosphere was awful.... Every day I was in that band I cried my eyes out. The band was meant to be fun and frivolous but the reality was that it was miserable.... I was too sensitive back then, but I got toughened up. I couldn't have gone into the Dolls without my experience in Crush.

”

After the disbanding of Eden's Crush, Scherzinger made a few promotional solo appearances under the stage name of Nicole Kea, including covering "Breakfast in Bed" for the soundtrack to 50 First Dates in 2003. This track was produced by Nick Hexum who was her boyfriend for three years.

Scherzinger worked with Yoshiki of Japanese rock band X Japan on in his Violet UK project. She sang the English version of "I'll Be Your Love" live with the Tokyo Symphonic Orchestra. The track also appeared on the 2003 Various Artists album Exposition of Global Harmony.

"conservative Catholic" upbringing. Scherzinger began her life as a performer in Louisville, attending the Youth Performing Arts School at duPont Manual High School and performing with Actors Theatre of Louisville.^[5] Scherzinger majored in theater arts at Wright State University but put her studies on hold in 1999 to sing backing vocals for the rock band Days of the New.

SHARON STONE

2008-09-28T08:20:00.000-07:00

Mini Biography

Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania and, at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. She was a very smart girl, became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So, the 17-year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Pennsylvania beauty contest and won it. From working part-time as a McDonald's counter girl, she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in TV commercials and print ads. Finally, in 1980, she made her debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) as "pretty girl on train". Her first speaking part, though, was in Wes Craven's horror movie, Deadly Blessing (1981). She struggled through many parts in B-movies, notably in King Solomon's Mines (1985), and Action Jackson (1988). She was also married in 1984 to Michael Greenburg, the producer of "MacGyver" (1985), but they divorced two years later. She finally received her big break with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (1990) and also posed nude for Playboy, a daring move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked; she accepted a breakthrough role as a sociopath novelist, "Catherine Tramell", in Basic Instinct (1992) with Michael Douglas. Her interrogation scene has become a classic in film history and her performance captivated everyone, from MTV viewers, who honored her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. After she got famous, she didn't want to be typecast, so she played a victim in Sliver (1993) and, in Intersection (1994), she was the aloof, estranged wife of Richard Gere. These movies didn't "work", so she got herself again into more aggressive roles, such as The Specialist (1994) with Sylvester Stallone and The Quick and the Dead (1995) with Gene Hackman. But, it wasn't until she played a beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert De Niro in Casino (1995) that she got far more than just fame and fortune--she also received the acknowledgment of the movie industry for her acting ability. She received her first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She did a couple of films after wards, teaming up with Isabelle Adjani in Diabolique (1996), and as a woman waiting for her death penalty in Last Dance (1996). In 1998, she married a newspaper editor, Phil Bronstein. She also received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress that year for The Mighty (1998), a film that her company, "Chaos", also co-executive produced. The next year, she entered her first comedic role in The Muse (1999), which starred and was directed by Albert Brooks and gave her another Golden Globe nomination. Sharon Stone, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is now a mother of an adorable baby boy, Roan Joseph.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

2008-09-28T08:14:00.001-07:00

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop/R&B singer and songwriter. After appearing on local talent shows and the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club, she was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a commercial success spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. A Latin pop album, Mi Reflejo (2001), and several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, but she was displeased with the lack of input in her music and image.

After parting from her management, Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and produced substantial sales. The second single, "Beautiful", was a commercial success and sustained the album's sales amidst controversy over Aguilera's sexual image. Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics (2006), included elements of soul, jazz, and blues music, and was released to positive critical reception. She will release her greatest hits album, Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade of Hits scheduled for release on November 11, 2008.

Aguilera is currently in the studio working on her forthcoming album. Aside from being known for her vocal ability, music videos and ever-changing image, musically, she includes themes of dealing with public scrutiny, her childhood, and female empowerment. Apart from her work in music, she has also dedicated much of her time as a philanthropist for charities, human rights and world issues. Aguilera's work has earned her numerous awards including five Grammy Awards amongst eighteen nominations. She has become one of the most successful recording artists of the decade, selling more than 37 million worldwide.

PARIS HILTON burger cavort crashes website

2008-09-28T07:46:00.000-07:00

Over-excited males flocking to see a controversial TV ad featuring highly-talented heiress Paris Hilton cavorting in a bikini atop a Bentley with a sponge, a hose and a Spicy BBQ Burger brought down the Carl's Jr. website specifically set up to promote the soft-core meatfest.

According to Reuters, the company's servers went down quicker than Hilton herself as a stampede of men rushed to ogle the "seductive swimsuit-clad socialite doused in suds". The offending ad - promoting the Carl's Jr. Spicy BBQ Burger - premiered on US TV last Thursday. It features Hilton generally making a fool of herself with the aforementioned accessories before tucking into a juicy Carl's Jr. burger, while singer Eleni Mandell's "sultry version of Cole Porter's 'I Love Paris' pulsates throughout". Phwooooar!

Why on earth anyone would bother checking out Paris Hilton with her clothes on is anyone's guess, since practically every bloke on the planet has seen her going at it like a two-bit hussy in the highly-regarded "Paris Hilton gets naked then gets shagged senseless" internet skinflick.

Still, Carl's Jr. will doubtless be delighted at the coverage it's been getting for the commercial - or will it? The LA Times reports that the whole exercise may backfire on the burger chain if outraged viewers from the Parents Television Council (PTC) manage to mobilise themselves in defence of decency and the American way of life.

PTC research director, Melissa Caldwell, thundered: "This commercial is basically soft-core porn. It's inappropriate for television." Actually, she's right - it is basically soft-core porn. Whether or not it's suitable for TV is a matter for debate and ultimately the Federal Communications Commission.

And if the campaign does survive the onslaught of scandalised parents, what are the other implications for Carl's Jr? Well, Peter Sealey, adjunct marketing professor at UC Berkeley, reckons that "although the ad might be remembered by viewers, it might ultimately hurt the Carl's Jr. brand".

Sealy told the LA Times: "This is the ultimate in bimbo advertising. If you are Hooters and you have buxom young waitresses, that's fine. But Carl's Jr. is more mainstream. They've got families going in there."

Which is, as we all know, a complete load of cobblers. Paris Hilton gets down and dirty with a sponge, the whole thing kicks off in the media and before you know it you've got a boardroom full of execs looking very pleased with themselves.

ANGELINA JOLIE

2008-09-23T11:07:00.001-07:00

Voted as one of the sexiest women of the world in more than 10 internationally-distributed magazines, Angelina Jolie is at the top of almost every man’s fantasy wish list; and most women’s too. In fact, it’s hard not to drool over the self-proclaimed bad girl with her full, pouty lips, knockout chest and remarkable talent onscreen. The resemblance isn’t a coincidence; Angelina Jolie is in fact a real world-version of Lara Croft. Born in 1975 as Angelina Jolie Voight, the booming actress quickly changed her last name to avoid any resemblance or connection to the success of father Jon Voight. Although she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at a young age, by the time she turned 16, Angelina had turned her attention to a career as a professional model in big cities like London and New York . When Angelina became a star in the music world although, with famous artists like the Rolling Stones, Meatloaf and Lenny Kravitz casting her in their videos, she promptly jumped back into acting and began work at the Met Theater Group in Los Angeles after a short stint at the New York University film school.After appearing in her first starring role in the sequel to the Van Damme sci-fi hit, “Cyborg,” Angelina snatched a role in the cult film, “Hackers,” alongside future husband Johnny Lee Miller, and although their marriage lasted longer than a J-Lo engagement, by 2000, the couple was divorced after years of separation. The growing actress continued to appear in a number of other, low-budget films, but she managed to receive rave reviews for most of her performances. Angelina finally got her first big break with the HBO film, “Gia,” based on the true story of model Gia Carangi, and was garnered with a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and an Emmy nomination that would carry her into Hollywood with a waiting room full of horny studio execs ready to offer her the next big role. Nearly a star for only a year, Angelina began appearing in blockbuster films with big-name actors, and she wasn’t letting them push her around. By 2000, Angelina walked away with another Golden Globe, this time for Best Actress, and showed no signs of slowing down. Her wild lifestyle was unruly, but when she decided to marry fellow actor Billy Bob Thornton in May of 2000, fans thought she had gone nuts: the couple swapped spit in public, bore tattoos of each other’s names and carried around vials of their lover’s blood wherever they went. Angelina quickly changed from a hot punk rocker to a creepy, morbid vampire, and her questionable relationship to brother James Haven still racks the minds of most media critics. Regardless of her past choices, Angelina has sincerely turned it around for the better. She is now an active supporter of aiding third world countries in need of economical help, has adopted a young Cambodian boy who gets to wear designer baby clothes and a stylin’ Mohawk, and has continued to push the envelope in the roles she chooses. If you thought Angelina was a babe before, she’s a whole new category with class.

Pamela Anderson-mini biography

2008-09-21T08:16:00.000-07:00

Pamela Denise Anderson was born on July 1, 1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia in Canada at 4:08 PST. During her childhood, she moved to the city of Vancouver with her parents, Barry Anderson and Carol Anderson. As a teenager, she went to Highland Secondary School. Pamela was first "discovered" at a British Columbia Lions football game, when her image was shown on the stadium screen. The fans cheered her and she was brought down to the football field. Because of her fame in Vancouver, she signed a commercial contract with Labatt's beer to be the Blue Zone girl. More advertising assignments followed, and soon Playboy approached her. In October 1989, Pamela was on the cover of Playboy magazine. With the success from Playboy, Pamela Anderson moved to Los Angeles in 1990. In 1991, she made her television debut on "Home Improvement" (1991), where she starred as Lisa, the Tool Time Girl. Soon, she got attention from viewers nationwide, which got her the role of C.J. Parker on "Baywatch" (1989). She was on one of the most viewed television series worldwide. She made her big screen debut on Raw Justice (1994). Soon after, Pamela met Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee on New Year's Eve 1994 in New York City. In February 1995, they got married in Cancun, Mexico. They both returned to Los Angeles and stunned the world.In spring of 1996, Pamela starred in Barb Wire (1996). While filming, she suffered a miscarriage. Pamela and Tommy were devastated, but there was hope for the couple when, on June 6, 1996, Brandon Thomas Lee was born. Soon later, a pornographic video of Pamela and Tommy was stolen from their home. Both of them sued an Internet web site for stealing the video. Their case wasn't settled and the video is still on the Internet. Meanwhile, Pamela and Tommy were having a rocky marriage, but, on December 29, 1997, Dylan Jagger Lee was born. Two months later, Pamela filed for divorce when her husband assaulted her. Tommy was sentenced to six months in jail. In late 1998, she starred on a TV show called "V.I.P." (1998). Soon later, she stunned the world again by removing her breast implants. In fall of 2001, she started to date singer Kid Rock, they announced their engagement in the spring of 2002. Then, Pamela announced that she was infected with hepatitis C. The cause of it was that Pamela shared a needle with her ex-husband Tommy for a tattoo. Immediately, Pamela went into treatment and her show was canceled. In the fall of 2003, she broke up with Kid Rock and starred on a animated series by Stan Lee called "Stripperella" (2003). Pamela soon joined PETA on many issues including fur, slaughter of chickens and supporting vegetarians. In 2005, she starred on a FOX comedy show called "Stacked" (2005). She also decided to get bigger breast implants. Pamela also teaches at her sons' Sunday school and still poses for magazines.

Pamela Anderson

2008-09-21T08:09:00.000-07:00

A native of Canada, Pamela Anderson was born on Vancouver Island, and later moved to the city of Vancouver. It was while she attended a British Columbia Lions football game that Anderson was "discovered" in a most unusual way. Dressed in a Labatt's Beer T-shirt, her image was transmitted on the stadium's wide screen. The fans cheered the beautiful girl, and she was brought down to the 50-yard line and introduced to the appreciative crowd. As a result, she was signed to a commercial contract with Labatt's and became the company's "Blue Zone" girl. The campaign was so popular that other commercials and advertising assignments for Anderson soon followed. Due to the recognition from these commercials, she was soon approached to do her first cover for Playboy Magazine. Pamela has since gone on to grace the cover again an astounding five times, more than any other woman in the magazine's history. With the success and recognition she garnered from Playboy, Anderson soon moved to Los Angeles where she spent two seasons in the top-ten ABC Television hit series "Home Improvement" (1991) as Lisa, the Tool Time Girl. It was on "Home Improvement" that she captured the attention and affection of viewing audiences nationwide. At the same time, Anderson was cast as C.J. Parker on the internationally successful series "Baywatch" (1989), but because of the impossible scheduling requirements of working on two hit shows, she eventually left "Home Improvement" and remained full-time on "Baywatch". She now stars on one of the most phenomenally popular television programs of all time, which is seen in 140 countries worldwide. Recently, Anderson made the transition into the feature film arena, starring in Dark Horse Entertainment's action comedy Barb Wire (1996). In addition, Anderson was featured in the CBS movie-of-the-week, _Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery (1994) (TV)_, a hip and updated Mike Hammer mystery, co-starring Rob Estes. Pamela was married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, and they had two children, Brandon and Dylan. However, the couple divorced in early 1998. Both have had a rocky relationship in the past and continued to date on and off, but then headed to court over custody of their two sons. Meanwhile, she starred in and produced her hit TV show "V.I.P." (1998), which ran for four seasons until 2002. During the spring of 2001 she dated singer Kid Rock, but they broke up in the fall of 2003. Eventually she reunited with ex-husband Tommy Lee after she found out she was diagnosed with hepatitis C, which she contracted when they shared the same needle for their tattoo. By the fall of 2003 the new network Spike TV launched her latest action series, a cartoon developed by Stan Lee called "Stripperella" (2003). She is an active participant in various organizations, including PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), and dedicates her time by taking part in religious practices with children from around the world.

Angelina Jolie-Early work, 1993–1997

2008-09-21T07:37:00.000-07:00

Jolie began working as a fashion model when she was 14 years old. She was signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the United States and Europe, working mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"), and The Lemonheads ("It's About Time"). At the age of 16, Jolie returned to theatre and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".
Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence, Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.
She appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) she was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. In 1996, she also played Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about Jolie's performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."
In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a film portraying a surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie's character, Claire. The movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is." She then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the American West, and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year she also played a stripper who leaves mid-performance to wander New York City in the Rolling Stones music video for the song "Anybody Seen My Baby?".

2008-09-21T07:30:00.000-07:00

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Slovak and German descent,[5][6] and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois,[7][8] although Voight claims Bertrand is "not seriously Iroquois," and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.[9]
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York.[10] As a child Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.[11] When she was eleven years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. She later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families. Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and Jolie often wore second-hand clothes. She was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces.[11] Her self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful. She started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."[12] At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director.[13] During this period, she wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend.[11] Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home.[10] She returned to theatre studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos".[14]

Angelina Jolie

2008-09-21T07:05:00.000-07:00

Voted as one of the sexiest women of the world in more than 10 internationally-distributed magazines, Angelina Jolie is at the top of almost every man’s fantasy wish list; and most women’s too. In fact, it’s hard not to drool over the self-proclaimed bad girl with her full, pouty lips, knockout chest and remarkable talent onscreen. The resemblance isn’t a coincidence; Angelina Jolie is in fact a real world-version of Lara Croft. Born in 1975 as Angelina Jolie Voight, the booming actress quickly changed her last name to avoid any resemblance or connection to the success of father Jon Voight. Although she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at a young age, by the time she turned 16, Angelina had turned her attention to a career as a professional model in big cities like London and New York . When Angelina became a star in the music world although, with famous artists like the Rolling Stones, Meatloaf and Lenny Kravitz casting her in their videos, she promptly jumped back into acting and began work at the Met Theater Group in Los Angeles after a short stint at the New York University film school.
After appearing in her first starring role in the sequel to the Van Damme sci-fi hit, “Cyborg,” Angelina snatched a role in the cult film, “Hackers,” alongside future husband Johnny Lee Miller, and although their marriage lasted longer than a J-Lo engagement, by 2000, the couple was divorced after years of separation. The growing actress continued to appear in a number of other, low-budget films, but she managed to receive rave reviews for most of her performances. Angelina finally got her first big break with the HBO film, “Gia,” based on the true story of model Gia Carangi, and was garnered with a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and an Emmy nomination that would carry her into Hollywood with a waiting room full of horny studio execs ready to offer her the next big role. Nearly a star for only a year, Angelina began appearing in blockbuster films with big-name actors, and she wasn’t letting them push her around. By 2000, Angelina walked away with another Golden Globe, this time for Best Actress, and showed no signs of slowing down. Her wild lifestyle was unruly, but when she decided to marry fellow actor Billy Bob Thornton in May of 2000, fans thought she had gone nuts: the couple swapped spit in public, bore tattoos of each other’s names and carried around vials of their lover’s blood wherever they went. Angelina quickly changed from a hot punk rocker to a creepy, morbid vampire, and her questionable relationship to brother James Haven still racks the minds of most media critics. Regardless of her past choices, Angelina has sincerely turned it around for the better. She is now an active supporter of aiding third world countries in need of economical help, has adopted a young Cambodian boy who gets to wear designer baby clothes and a stylin’ Mohawk, and has continued to push the envelope in the roles she chooses. If you thought Angelina was a babe before, she’s a whole new category with class.