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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Paris Whitney Hilton

Born onFebruary 17, 1981
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, television personality, actress, singer, model, and businesswoman.







She is known for her appearance on the television series The Simple Life, her several minor film roles (most notably her role in the horror film House of Wax in 2005), her 2004 tongue-in-cheek autobiography, her 2006 album Paris, her work in modeling, and her appearance in a sex tape in 2003. As a result of several legal incidents, Hilton also served a widely publicized sentence in a Los Angeles County jail facility in 2007

Hilton has worked as a model, actress, musician, and engaged in sometime business pursuits. According to Forbes Magazine, she earned approximately $2 million in 2003–2004, $6.5 million in 2004–2005, and $7 million in 2005–2006

Hilton began modeling as a child, initially at charity events.] When she was 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Hilton has also worked with 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 socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Girl" whose fame was beginning to "extend beyond the New York tabloids". She has appeared in several magazines, including the April 2004 issue of Maxim.

In 2007, after watching a graphic video about animals raised for their fur, Hilton announced her support of vegetarianism and her opposition to wearing fur. Hilton said:
“ From that point [
after witnessing the video shown by Heather Mills], I've never worn fur and I never will. I also haven't eaten any meat since....I was grossed out. It was disgusting"

On August 6, 2008, Paris appeared in a 1 minute 50 second long video, "Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad", directed by Adam McKay and posted on the Funny or Die website.

The video featured Paris in a parody advertisement, and was made in response to a television campaign advert "Celeb", broadcast in 11 US states by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign. In Celeb, McCain briefly compared his rival Barack Obama to that of celebrities such as Paris and Britney Spears, and goes on to question his readiness to lead and criticise his energy policy

Paris Hilton has been quoted as saying that she is the "iconic blonde of the decade"' and compared herself to Princess Diana and Marilyn Monroe (a claim she denied in the May 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar).She appeared in the 2007 Guinness World Records as the world's "Most Overrated Celebrity". 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 suggest that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous; echoing that sentiment, the Associated Press conducted what they called an experiment in February 2007, trying not to report on Hilton for a whole week.

Hilton recently posed nude, covered in gold paint, to promote "Rich Prosecco", a canned version of an Italian sparkling wine








Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Anna Faris

Born on November 29, 1976
Anna Kay Faris is an American actress and singer known for her broadly comic roles.


Her first significant film role was in the independent production, Lovers Lane (1999). Her breakout role was the horror film parody Scary Movie (2000). The 5'4" Faris, a natural blonde, dyed her hair black for the filming of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, so that her character more closely resembled Neve Campbell, who played the corresponding character in Scream, one of the films that Scary Movie parodied.

Faris gained further popularity after she became recurring character, "Erica," in the final season of the popular American sitcom Friends. She also was in the critically acclaimed film, Lost in Translation—in which she plays an actress promoting the fictional action movie, Midnight Velocity.

Faris was in the film Waiting..., with Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long. In 2005, she appeared again with Reynolds in, Just Friends, playing a supporting role as a pop-diva singer named, "Samantha James." Faris' role as the motor-mouthed "LaShawn Malone," in Brokeback Mountain (2005), brought her to the attention of a much wider audience. Faris starred with Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson in the feature film My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006). She appeared in the comedy Young Americans, playing Topher Grace's twin sister,in addition to, Mama's Boy, with Jon Heder, Jeff Daniels and Diane Keaton and in Smiley Face, with Adam Brody and John Cho. In 2007, she produced and starred in The House Bunny, a film with Happy Madison Productions about a retired Playboy bunny. In the summer 2007 season of HBO's Entourage, Faris guest-starred as herself. Faris also made an appearance in a video on eatdrinkordie.com as herself with Internet wine guru Gary Vaynerchuk.

More recently, Faris co-starred as Seth Rogen's cosmetic counter girlfriend in Jody Hill's 2009 comedy, Observe and Report.

Faris won the "Stonette of the Year" award at High Times magazine's Stony Awards, in Los Angeles, on October 13, 2007, for her role in Smiley Face.

In 2009, she was nominated in MTV's Movie Awards for Best Comedic Performance for her movie House Bunny.

Anna Faris Quotes

“I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.”

"I was anticipating that experience at the [Playboy] mansion to be a highly competitive between the women. From my distant observance, I didn't see
that at all. Everyone was much more friendly and supportive, much more so than actresses can be with each other, which was interesting and really refreshing. I have a whole new respect for those girls"

"I sleep on my stomach, usually with a pillow sort of resting on top of my head, instead of under it. I know it's terrible for your back, but I can't sleep any other way. I get nightmares if I sleep on my back."

"I’d love to be able t
o balance things out, doing some more serious work, and then being able to come back and do a Scary Movie. It sounds pretty ideal to me. "

"It takes, truly, a lack of vanity and just being able to take some risks and being OK with looking like a fool, whic
h I am very OK with now"

"I'm not so much the "scary movie" girl in the eyes of Hollywood. I'm more the funny girl."

-Anna Faris


when asked, "Are you a funny person?"
No! I really don't think that I am. I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. So it came as a surprise to my family and friends that I was in this comedy. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life! I only do comedy now so it's funny how life takes a turn.

about working with Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner was a great sport. In that scene where he's eating all the ice cream, we were in his bedroom, it was, like, 110 degrees and he had to eat a lot of ice cream, [but] he was really great about it. He was always in a good mood and [wanted] to do it again.

about being nude in The House Bunny
I [originally] had a body double, but then we had some complicating factors with her. It was sort of a last-minute thing where I was just like, "I'll go ahead and do this." I was really uncomfortable when this crew that knows me when I put on my producer hat suddenly sees me naked, [so] it was a little humiliating.

talking about doing Scary Movie 5
I think I would. After Scary Movie 3, I was like, "no I'm done," but then, here I am and I had so much fun making this one, that I think that I would. I would definitely be open to doing it.

filmography

* Smiley Face (2007)
* Mama's Boy (2006)
* My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) ... as Hannah
* Scary Movie 4 (2006) ... as Cindy Campbell
* Just Friends (2005) ... as Samantha James
* Brokeback Mountain (2005) ... as LaShawn Malone
* Southern Belles (2005) ... as Belle
* Waiting... (2005) ... as Serena
* Friends (2004) ... as Erica (TV)
* Lost in Translation (2003) ... as Kelly
* Scary Movie 3 (2003) ... as Cindy Campbell
* The Hot Chick (2002) ... as April
* Sheer Bliss (2002) ... as Justine
* May (2002) ... as Polly
* Scary Movie 2 (2001) ... as Cindy Campbell
* Scary Movie (2000) ... as Cindy Campbell
* Lovers Lane (1999) ... as Janelle
* Eden (1996) ... as Dithy
* Deception: A Mother's Secret (1991) .... as Liz

Birthday: 11/29/1976
Nickname: Ah-na, Nut
Birthname: Anna Kay Faris
Hookups: Ben Indra
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Assets: Killer body, great calves, and she is funny
Vices: dumb blond persona
Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5'5
Job: Actress
Hobbies: Runnings
Ethnicity: White
Country of Origin: United States
Official Website : http://www.annafaris.com/

# Anna is ranked #3 in the "100 Hottest Blondes of AIM".
# Anna won the Stonette of the Year Award at High Times magazine's Stony Awards.
# She has dark blue eyes.
# She was rated #57 on the Maxim Hot 100 of 2004 list.
# She is a natural blonde. She dyed her hair black during the production of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2 so she could give her character, Cindy Campbell, a "Neve Campbell look".

Anna Faris has that sexy girl-next-door, all-American thing going on, and we can't get enough of it. Plus she has a great sense of humor (which is apparent judging by the film roles she takes). Despite a lower success rating, we'll give Ms. Faris major sex appeal points.


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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Barbara matera

This TV personality is blonde and has blue eyes. She went to La Sapienza university in Rome (Italy). She appeard in TV shows such as Mai Dire Gol, Rai 1 as TV Announcer.

With her husband, Matera founded Barbara Matera Ltd. in 1968, which produced costumes seen in the current Broadway productions of "The Lion King," "Beauty and the Beast," "Aida," "Kiss Me, Kate" and "42nd Street."

BARBARA MATERA, who has died aged 72, was a British-born stage costume designer and maker; with her husband Arthur Matera, she established New York's leading theatrical costumiers.

Barbara Matera created costumes for theatre and film, dressing stars from Bette Davis and Yul Brynner to Glenn Close and Meryl Streep. Her clients also included pop and opera singers such as Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger, Jessye Norman and Luciano Pavarotti. She even made the ball gown which Hillary Clinton wore at the Clintons' inaugural ball at the White House.

Barbara Matera's greatest gift was her skill as an interpreter of designs. The couturier Christian Lacroix was said to have been astonished by the wit and invention of her realisation of his drawings for Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Offenbach's Gaite Parisienne for the American Ballet Theatre. Glenn Close's outlandish outfits as Cruella de Vil in Disney's 101 Dalmatians and its sequel 102 Dalmatians were other masterpieces of Barbara Matera's art.

Many of Barbara Matera's clients became close personal friends: Dame Joan Sutherland even made her some curtains and loose covers, and her walls were papered by Dame Joan's husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge.

Barbara Matera was born Barbara Gray in Kent on July 16 1929. She learned her craft in the 1950s working for various companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Old Vic and Ballet Rambert.

Eventually she started a business with a colleague, Pat Scott, in a tiny attic in Monmouth Street, Covent Garden. From these cramped premises emerged costumes for plays, musicals, operas and ballets. They became expert in the art of making ballet tutus, creating most of those worn by Dame Margot Fonteyn at Covent Garden.

Their successful professional relationships with performers often led to private requests for help. On one occasion, the two women were discovered agonising over a black "New Look" evening dress that had been a gift to Dame Margot from Christian Dior, but which was slightly too big. Its monastic simplicity concealed five layers of boned and corseted underpinnings, prompting them to observe that it would have been easier to alter the Forth Bridge.

In 1960, at the invitation of Sir Tyrone Guthrie, they closed their business and moved to Stratford, Ontario, to work on the inaugural season of the Shakespeare Festival there. Subsequently, Pat Scott married one of the festival's founders. Barbara Gray moved to New York, where she worked as a cutter for various companies, marrying Arthur Matera in 1962.

In 1968 the Materas opened their own business, only to close their doors almost immediately at the request of the film and stage designer Irene Sharaff, who had asked them to travel to Hollywood to make Barbra Streisand's costumes for Funny Girl.

Back in New York again, Barbara Matera made the costumes for hundreds of different productions on stage and screen. For the original staging of Sondheim's Follies (designed by Florence Klotz) she stitched sumptuously beautiful re-creations of Ziegfeld's fantasies. She also dressed such shows as Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Crazy For You, The Lion King and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard.

For Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom she created the 1930s-style sequin and jewel-encrusted evening gown worn by the film's female star Kate Capshaw. During the filming, the dress was rendered more backless than intended by apparently being nibbled by an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle. Barbara Matera had to be flown to London and installed in a suite at the Ritz Hotel to repair the damage. The "Reason For Claim" (which was prodigious) on the insurance form read: "Dress eaten by elephant".

Several of the films Barbara Matera worked on won Oscars for their costumes, including The Great Gatsby, Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile, and Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence.

Earlier this year, when Glenn Close presented Barbara Matera with the Irene Sharaff Award, the actress chose to wear her costume from The World According to Garp (1982), the film that had launched Glenn Close on her career in Hollywood.

The actress described how the character of the role had seemed to emerge during the course of her sessions in the Matera fitting rooms, and showed her what to do. In 1996 the Lincoln Centre put on a retrospective exhibition of Barbara Matera's work. Entitled "Inside and Out", it displayed the superb craftsmanship and construction techniques that lay behind her success.

Away from her atelier, Barbara Matera created a beautiful garden at her country house in Athens, New York State, where she held two fetes champetres every year - one for friends and colleagues, the other for her beloved ballet companies. In recent years she made frequent trips to England for the Chelsea and Hampton Court flower shows, and to visit Wisley and the Savile Gardens at Windsor.

Barbara Matera was sustained by her deep religious faith, attending Mass every day and arranging the flowers at her local church.

She is survived by her husband.

Filmography

1. 102 Dalmatians (2000) (costumes executed by)
2. 101 Dalmatians (1996) (costumes executed by)
3. The Age of Innocence (1993) (costume executor) (uncredited)
4. The Addams Family (1991) (costumer)
5. Ironweed (1987) (costumes executed by)
6. Moonstruck (1987) (costume executor) (uncredited)
7. Jagged Edge (1985) (costumes executed by)
8. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (costumes executor) (uncredited)
9. Evil Under the Sun (1982) (costume maker)
... aka Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (UK: complete title)
10. The Wiz (1978) (principal costume execution)
11. Death on the Nile (1978) (costume maker) (uncredited)
... aka Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile (UK: complete title)
12. The Nutcracker (1977) (TV) (costumes executed by)
13. The Great Gatsby (1974) (costumes executed by)

Birthname:Barbara Matera
Hometown:Lucera
Assets:boobs
Sign:Sagittarius
Height:5'6
Job:TV personality
Ethnicity:White
Country of Origin:Italy


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