ladymarjorie

Ya tienes weblog.

Para empezar a publicar artículos y administrar tu nueva bitácora:

1. busca el enlace Administrar en esta misma página.
   
2. Deberás introducir tu clave para poder acceder.

Una vez dentro podrás:

• editar los artículos y comentarios (menú Artículos);
  
• publicar un nuevo texto (Escribir nuevo);
  
• modificar la apariencia y configurar tu bitácora (Opciones);
  
• volver a esta página y ver el blog tal y como lo verían tus visitantes (Salir al blog).

Puedes eliminar este artículo (en Artículos > eliminar). ¡Que lo disfrutes!

Vincent
Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey

Look out on a summer’s day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how, perhaps they’ll listen now

Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand

Chorus:
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry starry night
You took your life as lovers often do,
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget.
Like the stranger that you’ve met, the ragged man in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will.

Rafael Verga, born July 27, 1981, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, is a professional male model.
The Brazilian-born hunk is the new face of 2xist underwear and he is quickly making a name for himself on the modeling scene. His body is perfection, and he pops up in many ads and photo spreads in America and South America.

His first job was a commercial for L&G, como figurante, in 2000. These days, he’s in demand and very busy with upcoming photo spreads for companies such as Calvin Klein and Fruit of the Loom. With an Aussie Bum campaign on the horizon, we’re sure to see more of that body in the months to come.

He stands 6 feet tall and weighs between 170 and 185 pounds. He has light brown hair with hypnotic green eyes. Those piercing eyes and perfectly toned abs guarantee that he will be one stud to reckon with for a long time.

He says he is honest and that his flaw is believing everyone. He loves food, especially rice, beans, and burgers. During his spare time, he loves to go to the beach and surf, which is his number-one hobby
The most important moment in his life so far was when he piloted an airplane for the first time, and he hopes to work as a pilot one day. A dream trip for him would be to visit Indonesia with friends.

Birth name
Christopher Robert Evans
Nickname
Cevans
Height
6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Mini biography

Chris Evans - not to be confused with the British DJ and wild man of the same name - began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theater. But it was his rapid rise to stardom that was unusual. Bitten by the acting bug in the first grade because his older sister, Carly, started performing, Evans followed suit and began appearing in school plays. From there, it was a quick jump to theater camp and later an internship for a casting office - a position he held one summer while living in a hole-in-the-wall in Brooklyn, New York. Once Evans made friends with a few agents on the job, it was a straight shot to television and blockbuster features.

Originally from Framingham, Massachusetts, the Evans family moved to suburban Sudbury when he was 11 years-old. While at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, his obvious talent led others to lavish praise and encouragement on him, particularly his drama teacher, who cited his performance as "Leontes" in "The Winter's Tale" as exemplary of his skill. After more school plays and regional theater, he moved to New York and attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. On the advice of friends, he landed an internship at a casting office and befriended a couple of the agents he regularly communicated with - one of whom later took him on as a client. The screen - not the stage - then became his focus; Evans soon began auditioning for feature films and series television.

Evans made one of his first appearances on "The Fugitive" (2000) (CBS, 2000-2001), a remake of the 1960s series and feature film starring Harrison Ford. In the episode "Guilt", Evans played the son of a small-town sheriff who tries to exact revenge after Dr. Kimble - incognito as a liquor store owner - refuses to sell him and his friends alcohol. After small roles in Cherry Falls (2000) and The Newcomers (2000) - two unknown low-budget features - Evans appeared in "Boston Public" (2000) (Fox, 2000-2004) as a murder suspect. He then appeared in his first major feature, Not Another Teen Movie (2001), a tiresome spoof on teen comedies wherein he played a jock who makes a bet that he can turn an unpopular and unkempt girl (Chyler Leigh) into prom queen.

After filming a couple of television pilots he was confident would be successful - Just Married (2003) and Eastwick (2002) (TV) - he appeared in another listless teen comedy, The Perfect Score (2004), playing an average, ho-hum student who takes part in a plot to steal the SAT test. Hijinks naturally ensue. Then, Evans broke through to the Big Time, grabbing the lead in the kidnapping thriller, Cellular (2004), a suspenseful B movie with a cheesy gimmick - a random wrong number on his cell phone forces him into a high-stakes race to save an unknown woman's life. Despite an unassuming performance from Evans and Kim Basinger as the damsel in distress, Cellular (2004) failed to break any box office records or please a wide majority of critics. Evans then prepared himself for super stardom when he signed on to play "Johnny Storm" (a.k.a. The Human Torch)in Fantastic Four (2005), 20th Century Fox's long-awaited adaptation of the Marvel comic. Although the film was wildly uneven and disappointing, Evans nearly stole the show with his energetic, unfettered performance.

Birth name
Edward Bryant Cibrian
Height
6’ 2" (1.88 m)
Spouse
Brandi Glanville (12 May 2001 - present) 1 child
Trivia

He proposed to his longtime girlfriend Brandi Glanville "seconds before midnight New Year’s Eve 1999".

Son, Mason Edward, born 8 June 2003.

Raised in San Fernando Valley as the only child of Carlos and Hortensia Cibrian (both of Cuban descent)

Attended UCLA and majored in business/economics

Named one of the best celebrity bodies on Eonline

Named one of "Daytimes 12 Hottest Stars" by TV Guide in 1997 after being on Sunset Beach for five months.

The only child

Likes to play golf, football, tennis, and basketball

Part of the pop boy band 3 Deep

Entered UCLA’s football program in the autumn of 1991.

He is involved with many charity organizations, including the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

When trying out for The Young and the Restless, he originally auditioned for the role of Nick Newman but producers felt that he was too old for the part but they were extremely impressed by his acting so they created another character for him on the show instead.

Although CBS had signed him to a three-year contract on "The Young and the Restless", he only stayed for two.

Biography for
Wentworth Miller

Birth name
Wentworth Earl Miller III
Nickname
Stinky
Went
Miller
Height
6’ 1" (1.85 m)
Mini biography

Born in the United Kingdom, raised in Brooklyn, New York, and a graduate of Princeton University, Wentworth Miller is a compelling and critically acclaimed young actor whose credits span both television and feature film.

Miller began his career in the industry on the other side of the camera. After graduating from college with a degree in English Literature, Miller headed to Los Angeles in the spring of 1995 to work in the development department of a small production company specializing in movies made for television. However, it wasn’t long before his desire to realize the acting ambitions of his childhood became undeniable.

Within the next few years, he landed guest spots on a variety of shows including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ER and Popular. He also starred in the Hallmark "mega-series" Dinotopia.

Miller then segued to The Human Stain, a feature film directed by Robert Benton and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman. A movie examining questions of race, class and identity, it featured Hopkins as an embattled college professor struggling to conceal an incredible secret, with Miller playing the same character as a young man.

Miller subsequently appeared in the movie Underworld and guest-starred on Joan Of Arcadia and Ghost Whisperer before joining the cast of Prison Break, a groundbreaking television series that’s quickly become an international phenomenon. Playing a structural engineer who gets himself thrown into the same prison where his brother is on death row in order to break his brother out, Miller was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama in 2006.

She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light
From the stars

She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs
Love was ours

Ours a love I held tightly
Feeling the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly
But when she left, gone was the glow of

Blue velvet
But in my heart there’ll always be
Precious and warm, a memory
Through the years

And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears

She wore blue velvet
But in my heart there’ll always be
Precious and warm, a memory
Through the years
And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears


Vocal by Bobby Vinton
written by Bernie Wayne/Lee Morris




Vestía terciopelo azul
Más azul que el terciopelo era la noche
Más suave que el satín era la luz
De las estrellas

Vestía terciopelo azul
Más azules que el terciopelo eran sus ojos
Más cálidas que mayo sus miradas
Era nuestro el amor

A nuestro amor me aferré con fuerza
Sintiendo que crecía el embeleso
Como una llama que ardía brillante
Pero cuando ella se marchó, la llama se apagó

Terciopelo azul
Pero en mi corazón siempre habrá
Precioso y cálido un recuerdo
A través de los años

Usaba terciopelo azul
Pero en mi corazón siempre habrá
Precioso y cálido un recuerdo
A través de los años
Y todavía puedo ver el terciopelo azul
A través de mis lágrimas


Cantada por Bobby Vinton
Escrita por Bernie Wayne/Lee Morris
1

A shy ladies companion is staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer when she meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. Max is still troubled by the death of his wife, Rebecca in a boating accident the year before. She and Max fall in love, get married and return to Manderlay, his large country estate in Cornwall. The second Mrs. de Winter meets the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderlay.

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock

Writing credits
Daphne Du Maurier (novel)
Philip MacDonald (adaptation) ...
(more)

Cast overview, first billed only:

Laurence Olivier .... ’Maxim’ de Winter

Joan Fontaine .... The Second Mrs. de Winter
George Sanders .... Jack Favell
Judith Anderson .... Mrs. Danvers
Nigel Bruce .... Major Giles Lacy
Reginald Denny .... Frank Crawley
C. Aubrey Smith .... Colonel Julyan
Gladys Cooper .... Beatrice Lacy
Florence Bates .... Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper
Melville Cooper .... Coroner
Leo G. Carroll .... Dr. Baker
Leonard Carey .... Ben
Lumsden Hare .... Tabbs
Edward Fielding .... Frith
Forrester Harvey .... Chalcroft
(more)

Runtime: 130 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White

Woh woh ..........
Uhm uhm ..........
Uhm uhm ..........

Sister,
you’ve been on my mind
Sister, we’re two of a kind
So sister,
I’m keepin’ my eyes on you
I betcha think
I don’t know nothin’
But singin’ the blues
Oh sister, have I got news for you
I’m somethin’
I hope you think
that you’re somethin’ too

Oh, Scufflin’,
I been up that lonesome road
And I seen a lot of suns goin’ down
Oh, but trust me
No low life’s gonna run me around

So let me tell you somethin’ sister
Remember your name
No twister,
gonna steal your stuff away
My sister
Sho’ ain’t got a whole lot of time
So shake your shimmy,
Sister
’Cause honey this ’shug
is feelin’ fine

Julian Dana William McMahon (nacido el 27 de julio de 1968 en Sydney, Australia) es un actor australiano.

Julian McMahon es el segundo de tres hijos de Sir William McMahon, el anterior Primer Ministro australiano, y su mujer Lady Sonia McMahon. Fue educado en la "Sydney Grammar School", una escuela masculina privada. Pasó brevemente por la Universidad de Sydney para estudiar Derecho y por la Universidad de Wollongong para estudiar Economía, pero estos estudios le aburrían, así que inició una exitosa carrera como modelo. Empezó a ser conocido en las capitales de la moda, Milán, Nueva York, Roma y París.

Además de su carrera como modelo, McMahon empezó una carrera como actor. Su primer papel en la televisión estadounidense fue en la telenovela "Another World", representando a "Ian Rain", de 1993 a 1995.

Conocido por representar a Cole Turner o Balthazor, un fiscal medio humano y medio demonio en la serie Embrujadas, fue nominado a los Globos de oro como "Mejor actor en una serie de televisión dramática" en 2005 por su interpretación del atractivo y superficial cirujano Christian Troy en Nip tuck, a golpe de bisturí. Ha interpretado a otros personajes en el cine y la televisión, como al Doctor Doom de "Los cuatro fantásticos", la adaptación al cine en 2005 del famoso cómic del mismo nombre, o al agente John Grant en la serie "Profiler"

Ha estado casado y se ha divorciado dos veces. Se casó con la cantante australiana Danii Minogue, hermana de Kylie Minogue, y posteriormente lo hizo con la actriz estadounidense Brooke Burns, con quien tuvo una hija llamada Madison Elizabeth McMahon, nacida en Junio de 2000.

Le encanta leer, cocinar y sus dos perros.

[editar] Enlaces externos

Sweet dreams of you
Every night I go through
Why can’t I forget you and start my life anew
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

You don’t love me, it’s plain
I should know I’ll never wear your ring
I should hate you the whole night through
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

Sweet dreams of you
Things I know can’t come true
Why can’t I forget the past, start loving someone new
Instead of having sweet dreams about you

Mad about the boy
I know it’s stupid to be mad about the boy
I’m so ashamed of it but must admit the sleepless nights I’ve had
About the boy

On the silverscreen
He melts my foolish heart in every single scene
Although I’m quite aware that here and there are traces of the cad
About the boy

Lord knows I’m not a fool girl
I really shouldn’t care
Lord knows I’m not a school girl
In the fury of her first affair

Will it ever cloy
This odd diversity of misery and joy
I’m feeling quite insane and young again
And all because I’m mad about the boy

So if I could employ
A little magic that will finally destroy
This dream that pains me and enchains me
But I can’t because I’m mad...
I’m mad about the boy

Pavel Novotný (born February 5, 1977) is a pornographic actor (porn star) from the Czech Republic who has appeared in gay male, bisexual, and straight pornographic movies. He is known for his clean-cut good looks, well-defined musculature, and his large uncut penis which is confirmed as eight inches (21 cm) long when erect. He appears in both top and bottom roles, although mostly the former. He debuted in the porn industry in 1999. He has appeared under a variety of pseudonyms; along with the ones listed below, he performed in a series of solo videos under the name "Brad."

* 1 Videography
o 1.1 As Pavel Novotný
o 1.2 As Max Orloff (in Bel Ami films only)
o 1.3 As Jan Dvorak
o 1.4 As Jakub Moltin
o 1.5 As Jaroslav
o 1.6 In William Higgins films
* 2 External links
* 3 See also

[edit] Videography

[edit] As Pavel Novotný

* The Back Room (Studio 2000) with Martin Bolek, Vilem Cage, Vasil Dudov, Matus Hornay, Slavo Kopecky, Miro Lauko, Ondra Seky and Felix Slovacek.
* Czech Point (Studio 2000) with Chris Steele, Nick Savage, Steve Harper, Michael Brandon, Geoff Ashton, Thomas Lloyd and Ales Hanak.
* Prague Buddies 2 (William Higgins Productions) with Pavel Korsakov, Jirka Kalvoda, Mylan Forman, Liber Taborsky, Martin Bolshoi, Martin Pravda, Zdenek Romany, Roman Tomas, Ivan Romanoff, Jamon Ramon, Milan Dabelsky, Jarda Waldek and Marco Giacomo. Directed by William Higgins.
* Prague Rising (Studio 2000) with Ales Hanak (Jirka Kalvoda) and Pavel Novotny (aka Max Orloff, Jan Dvorak), with Jon Eric, Eric Stuart, Bobby Parks & Kristian Brooks.
* Under the Big Top (Kristen Bjorn/Sarava/Lucas Kazan) with Vilem Cage (a.k.a. Cage Kajc, Martin Karvina), Slava Petrovich, Pietro Rosselli, Ivan Andros, Antonio Armani, Antton Harri, Cesar Moreno, Tiziano Cortese, Max Veneziano and Sergio Perrini. Directed by Lucas Kazan; produced by Kristen Bjorn.

[edit] As Max Orloff (in Bel Ami films only)

* Coverboys (Bel Ami) with Lukas Ridgeston, Johan Paulik, Sebastian Bonnet, Tim Hamilton, Claude Cocteau, Jason Paradis, Max Orloff, Oleg Vronski, Adam Cartier, Adam Jannin, Paolo Estefan, Patrik Zsolt, Oliver Krist, Filip Olivier
* Julian (Bel Ami) with Julian Armanis, Chris Cameron, Alan Connery, Pierre Delon, Tommy Hansen, Adrian Kinski, Andre Pagnol and Danny Saradon.
* Out At Last 2 - Bonbons (Bel Ami) with Sebastian Bonnet, Dano Sulik, Filip Olivier, Marek Antonov, Marcel Bouvier, Ion Davidov, Paolo Estefan, Ales Hanak, Sasha Kasparov, Marek Kodes, Martin Lennox, Justin Marino, Ed Marlow, Tibor Miklos, Mikhail Palenki, Mirko Polakov, Ramon Valenti, Oleg Vronski and Pavol Zurek.
* Teamplay (Bel Ami) with Julian Armanis, Oleg Vronski, Ion Davidov, Adam Cartier, Martin Eden, Ivan Fjodorov, Nikola Gismondi, Marek Kodes, Justin Marino, Jacques Melliés, Karl Moser, Filip Olivier and Karl Tenner.

[edit] As Jan Dvorak

* BI the Blue Line (USM Sport, bisexual) with Ivan Rohan, Lucas Arthur, Robert Wild, Jan Dreifus, Vilem Cage, Michael Berg, Vivian, Nicolette, Evelynn and Jeanette.
* Carlo & Friends (William Higgins International) with Carlo Festa, Zdnek Vesper, Pavel Korsakov, Vladimir Gott, Cage Kajc (a.k.a. Vilem Cage, Martin Karvina), Boris Mateo, Bjorn Bohem and Jordi Cosimo. Directed by William Higgins.
* Czech Firemen (Man’s World/USM Sport, Czech Rep. 2002) with Vilem Cage, Lucas Arthurs, Milan Loksan, Pavel Nadvomik, Tomas Hyka, Lubos Vitek, Ruddy Rohn, Tomas Vitasek and Pavel Mikulik.
* Jan Dvorak’s High Sticking 1 (USM Sports/3D Studio Prague) with Ivan Rohan, Robert Wild, Lukas Sedlacek, Vilem Cage, Lukas Dvorak, Pavel Vichera, Honza Rejfek and Michael Berky. Directed by Alex Schnegr.

* The Jan Dvorak Story (William Higgins Productions) with Pavel Korsakov, Pavel Dubcek ( aka Max Pellion), Jirka Kalvoda (aka Ales Hanek), Jirka Bartok, Karol Bartok, Joachem von Ferstung, and Bebe. Directed by William Higgins.
* A Wank In The Woods (William Higgins European Video) with Jirka Kalvoda, Jorid Cosimo, Zdenek Vesper, Jirka Bartok, Karel Bartok, Vladimir Gott, Milan Pisek, Jarda, Cage Kauj, Gernot, Borris Meteo, Josef Gasman, Jarda, Tomas Benda, Adam Cernak, Carlo Festa, Boris Matco, Bjorn Bohem, Stanislav Otava, and Maxim. Directed by William Higgins.
* Jan Dvorak’s Wrestling Team (Man’s World/USM Sport) with Lukas Arthur, Vilem Cage, Roman Dvorak, Alan Csorba, Lucas Pehr, Lucas Roubicek, Radek Kucharik and Pavel Mikulik. Directed by Alex Schnegr. (There is a different version of this film, called "9th Warrior Gladiators Night")
* Jan Dvorak & His Friends (Man’s World/USM International) with Vilem Cage, Lukas Dvorak, Milan Loksan, Pavel Mikulas, Pavel Nadvornik, Jan Rejfek and Pavel Vichera. Directed by Alex Schnegr.

[edit] As Jakub Moltin

* Cocktail Gang Bang (Jet Set International) with Curt Studni (aka Mylan Forman), Martin Karvina (Vilem Cage, Jan Hofman), Mikhal, David Glanz, Jarda Malek, Petr Katja (Ales Hanak, Jirka Kalvoda) and Jri Sydnec.

[edit] As Jaroslav

* 101 Men Part 4

[edit] In William Higgins films

* Rapture (Non-sexual role)
* Prague Buddies (Non-sexual role)
* Prague Buddies 2
* The Jan Dvorak Story
* A Wank In The Woods
* Carlo & Friends

[edit] External links

* Pavel Novotný at the Internet Movie Database
* Photos Warning: contains sexually explicit content
* More photos Warning: this is a gallery with nude pics of him
* Vidcaps of Jan Dvorak "Warning: Adult Contents"

Jan Dvorak Nationality : Czech | Birthdate : February 10, 1977 | Sign: Aquarius | Height : 6’ 2"
Weight : 205 lbs. | Dick Size : 10" Uncut & THICK | Sexual Position : Versatile
AKAs : Pavel Novotny, Max Orloff and Jakub Moltin

Duerme, duerme, negrito
Que tu mama está en el campo, negrito
Duerme, duerme,
Que tu mama está en el campo,
Te va a traer codornices
Para ti
Te va a traer rica fruta
Para ti
Te va a traer carne de cerdo
Para ti
Te va a traer muchas cosas
Para ti.
Y si el negro no se duerme
Ven el diablo blanco
Y zas le come la patita
Chacapó, chacapó, chacapó,
Chacapó, chacapó, chacapó,
Duerme, duerme negrito
Que tu mama está en el campo
Negrito,
Trabajando,
Trabajando, duramente
Trabajando, sí.
Trabajando y va de luto
Trabajando, si
Trabajando y no le pagan
Trabajando, si
Trabajando y va tosiendo
Trabajando, si
El negrito chiquitito
El negrito, si
Trabajando, si
Trabajando, si
Duerme, duerme, negrito
Que tu mama está¡ en el campo
Negrito, negrito

At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
At last the skies above are blue
And my heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you
I found a dream that I can speak to
A dream that I could call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
You smiled, and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
And you are mine at last

All About Eve is a 1950 movie drama written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, from the story "The Wisdom of Eve", by Mary Orr.

Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a highly regarded, aging Broadway actress, with Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, a young fan who insinuates herself into Channing’s life, ultimately threatening Channing’s career and her personal relationships. Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Hugh Marlowe, Celeste Holm and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe’s earliest important roles.

It was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture. Widely regarded as a classic, it has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring Bette Davis,
Anne Baxter
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) October 13, 1950 (USA)
Running time 138 min
Language English

Margo Channing, the biggest star on Broadway, is beginning to show her age when she encounters a young woman named Eve who claims to be her biggest fan and who worms her way into Margo’s life, eventually becoming her secretary. Gradually, it is revealed Eve is more scheming and duplicitous than she seems. She begins working to supplant Margo, taking the role of her understudy and engineers Margo’s absence so she can play her role onstage. Eve gives such a good performance her own career as a theatre star begins to take off, and she becomes a bigger star than Margo. At the end of the film, Eve herself encounters an apparently besotted young fan, and it is implied the cycle will continue.

[edit] Background

While performing in The Two Mrs. Carrolls during 1943 and 1944, Elisabeth Bergner allowed a young fan to become part of her household, and employed her as an assistant, but later regretted her generosity when the woman attempted to undermine her. Referring to her only as "the terrible girl", Bergner related the events to Mary Orr, who used it as the basis for a story "The Wisdom of Eve". In the story, Orr attributed a more ruthless character to the girl, and allowed her to succeed in stealing the career of the older actress. Bergner later confirmed the basis of the story in her autobiography Bewundert Viel und Viel Gescholten (Greatly Admired and Greatly Scolded).

In 1949, Mankiewicz was considering a story about an aging actress, and upon reading The Wisdom of Eve felt the conniving girl would be a useful added element. He sent a memo to Darryl F. Zanuck saying it "fits in with an original idea [of mine] and can be combined. Superb starring role for Susan Hayward". Mankiewicz presented a film treatment of the combined stories under the title "Best Performance". He changed the main character’s name from Margola Cranston to Margo Channing and retained several of Orr’s characters, Eve Harrington, Lloyd and Karen Richards, and Miss Caswell, while removing Margo Channing’s husband completely and replacing him with a new character, Bill Sampson. The intention was to depict Channing in a new relationship, and allow Eve Harrington to threaten both Channing’s professional and personal lives. Mankiewicz also added the characters Addison DeWitt, Birdie Coonan, Max Fabian and Phoebe.

Zanuck was enthusiastic and provided numerous suggestions for improving the screenplay. In some sections he felt Mankiewicz’s writing lacked subtlety or provided excessive detail. He suggested diluting Birdie Coonan’s jealousy of Eve so the audience would not recognise Eve as a villain until much later in the story. Zanuck reduced the screenplay by about 50 pages and chose the title All About Eve from the opening scenes in which Addison DeWitt says he will soon tell "about Eve, all about Eve". [1]
Bette Davis was cast as Margot Channing only after Claudette Colbert severely injured her back and was forced to withdraw shortly before filming commenced. Davis, who had recently ended a 19-year association with Warner Brothers after several poorly received films, later commented she had read the script in one sitting and immediately accepted the role after realizing it was one of the best she had ever read. Channing had originally been conceived as genteel and knowingly humorous, but with the casting of Davis, Mankiewicz revised the character to be more abrasive. Among other actresses considered were Mankiewicz’s original inspiration, Susan Hayward, rejected by Zanuck as "too young", Marlene Dietrich, dismissed as "too German", and Gertrude Lawrence, who was ruled out of contention when her agent suggested, "Wouldn’t it be nice if Gertie sat by the piano and sang?" Zanuck favored Barbara Stanwyck, but she was not available.

Anne Baxter had spent a decade in supporting roles, and had won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Razor’s Edge the previous year. She got the role of Eve Harrington after the first choice, Jeanne Crain, became pregnant. Crain was at the height of her popularity and had established a career playing likable heroines; Zanuck believed she lacked the "bitch quality" required by the part, and audiences would not accept her as a deceitful character.

The role of Bill Sampson was originally intended for John Garfield or Ronald Reagan. Reagan’s wife Nancy Davis was considered for Karen Richards and Jose Ferrer for Addison DeWitt. Zsa Zsa Gabor actively sought the role of Phoebe without realizing the producers were considering her, along with Angela Lansbury, for Miss Caswell.
Mankiewicz greatly admired Thelma Ritter, and wrote the character of Birdie Coonan for her after working with her on A Letter to Three Wives in (1949). As Coonan was the only one immediately suspicious of Eve Harrington, he was confident Ritter would contribute a shrewd characterisation casting doubt on Harrington and providing a counterpoint to the more "theatrical" personalities of the other characters. Marilyn Monroe, relatively unknown at the time, was cast as Miss Caswell, referred to by DeWitt as a "graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art". Monroe got the part despite Zanuck’s initial antipathy and belief she was better suited to drama. Smaller roles were filled by Gregory Ratoff as the producer Max Fabian, Barbara Bates, as Phoebe, a young fan of Eve Harrington, and Walter Hampden as the master of ceremonies at an award presentation. [1]

The final cast comprised Davis and Baxter, with Gary Merrill as Bill Sampson, Hugh Marlowe as the writer Lloyd Richards, Celeste Holm as his wife Karen, and George Sanders as the "venomous fish-wife" theatre critic, Addison DeWitt.

The film opens with the image of an award trophy, described by DeWitt as the "highest honor our theater knows - the Sarah Siddons Award for Distinguished Achievement." In 1952, a small group of distinguished Chicago theater-goers began to give an award with that name and sculpted to look like the one of Siddons used in the film to actors. It has been given annually, with past honorees including Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Celeste Holm and Barbara Rush.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Academy Awards (USA)

* Best Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
* Best Supporting Actor - George Sanders
* Best Costume Design for a Black-and-White film - Edith Head and Charles Le Maire
* Best Director - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Best Writing, Screenplay - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Best Sound Recording - Thomas T. Moulton
* Nominated: Best Leading Actress - Anne Baxter
* Nominated: Best Leading Actress - Bette Davis
* Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Celeste Holm
* Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Thelma Ritter
* Nominated: Best Set Direction for a Black-and-White film - George W. Davis, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott, and Lyle R. Wheeler
* Nominated: Best Cinematography for a Black-and-White film - Milton R. Krassner
* Nominated: Best Film Editing - Barbara McLean
* Nominated: Best Music Score - Alfred Newman

[edit] Golden Globe Awards (USA)

* Best Motion Picture Screenplay - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Nominated: Best Drama Motion Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck, producer
* Nominated: Best Drama Motion Picture Actress - Bette Davis
* Nominated: Best Motion Picture Director - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture - George Sanders
* Nominated: Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Thelma Ritter

[edit] NYFCC Awards (USA)

* Best Motion Picture - Darryl F. Zanuck
* Best Director - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Best Actress - Bette Davis

[edit] DGA Awards (USA)

* Oustanding Directorial Achievement in a Motion Picture - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[edit] Cannes Film Festival (France)

* Best Actress Prize - Bette Davis
* Jury Special Prize - Joseph L. Mankiewicz
* Nominated: Grand Prize of the Jury - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

[edit] BAFTA (UK)

* Best Film - Darryl F. Zanuck

[edit] Later recognition

* In 1970, the film was made into a successful Broadway musical, Applause, with Lauren Bacall in the role of Margo Channing.
* In 1989, the movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
* The film received in 1997 a placement on the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame.
* In 1998, the movie ranked #16 on the American Film Institute list of the 100 Best American movies of all time.
* In 2003, the character of Eve Harrington (interpreted by Anne Baxter) ranked #23 on the American Film Institute list of the 50 Best Villains of American Cinema.
* In 2005, the phrase "fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night" (said on the film by the character of Margo Channing) ranked #9 on the American Film Institute list of the 100 Best Movie Quotes of American Cinema.
* It is rumored that the infamous box-office flop Showgirls was a loose remake of "All about Eve"

Date of birth May 20, 1981
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height 1,85 m
Nickname Ikerman
Position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Real Madrid
Number 1
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1999 - Real Madrid 236 (0)
National team**
2000 - Spain 64 (0)



Iker Casillas FernándezBorn in Madrid in 1981, Casillas’ entire career has been spent with his hometown club Real Madrid, which he joined as an eight-year old. He first hit the limelight at 17 when he was pulled out of a high school art class to be told he would be on the bench for a Champions League match. His breakthrough came during the 1999-2000 season, when he replaced the injured Bodo Illgner and played in Madrid’s UEFA Champions League triumph in an all-Spanish final against Valencia CF where his senior team mates Raúl González, Fernando Morientes and Steve McManaman scored in a 3-0 win.

Loss of form subsequently allowed César Sánchez to take the starting position as goalkeeper, but Casillas reclaimed the limelight after coming on as substitute for the veteran in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final against Bayer Leverkusen and preserving Madrid’s 2-1 lead with a series of fine saves.Casillas came on to replace the injured Cesar with 22 minutes remaining at Hampden Park and produced a series of outstanding saves to ensure Real held on to their lead. At one point Leverkusen appeared to be queuing up to score but Casillas was at his best, his efforts to deny Yildiray Basturk and Dimitar Berbatov particularly brilliant.

Again the Real Madrid first choice in the 2002-03 season, an injury-free season saw Casillas play in 15 of his side’s Champions League games as well as all 38 Primera División matches as Madrid reclaimed the Spanish championship. In the 2003-04 season, Casillas was virtually ever-present as Madrid relinquished their crown and lost the Spanish Cup final, missing just one league game.

Despite Casillas’ stellar performances every week, Real Madrid suffered two trophyless seasons in the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. Although Casillas was widely considered the team’s most consistent performer during this lean patch, there was much gossip and speculation regarding a possible transfer to another club. Manchester United was the name that regularly cropped up in newspapers. It was speculated that Casillas was unhappy with his salary, which was paltry in comparison to the amounts earned by some of the team’s bigger stars. However, the saga ended when the player signed a contract extension on the November 30, 2005, tying him to the club till 2011.

[edit] National team

http://www.reelclassics.com/Movies/QuietMan/quietman.htm

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4220712&a=31358192&sp=169
http://imageevent.com/johnw/hrosik
http://www.g-kazety.cz/freegal/0100/065/index1.htm

Durante cuatrocientos años se pensó que eran invisibles en la obra de William Shakespeare. Ahora, una prestigiosa académica identifica una serie de heroínas lesbianas en sus obras.
Por lo que parece, Hermione, Portia y Beatrice lo eran. El palacio de Cleopatra habría sido un lugar propicio para el amor homosexual y la reina de las hadas, Titania, tenía tendencias sáficas. Esa es la perspectiva de la norteamericana Teodora Jankowski, ex profesora de literatura inglesa de la Universidad de Washington.
En Cuento de invierno, Hermione desaparece durante 16 años cuando su esposo la acusa de tener una aventura. Jankowski plantea que, secretamente correspondida, la cortesana Paulina atendía "todas las necesidades de Hermione, quien se ocultaba en una casa segura en la que una mujer podría abandonarse al erotismo con otra".
En El mercader de Venecia, explica Jankowski, Portia y Bassanio se casan "dando muy pocas evidencias de amarse". Es mucho más probable que Portia estuviera enamorada de Nerissa, su criada.
En Mucho ruido y pocas nueces, Beatrice, el personaje que interpretó Emma Thompson en el cine, podría haber sido amante de Hero, con la que comparte la cama durante un año. Jankowski declara: "Si Hero pudo pecar con un extraño antes de su boda, también es posible que pudiera haberlo hecho con su prima".
Jankowski cita cuatro escenas de Antonio y Cleopatra que tendrían "un nivel muy alto de retórica erótica". Cuando Cleopatra y sus criadas, Iras y Charmian, se reúnen, Charmian dice que prefiere "la longevidad a los higos". Eso haría referencia a la vagina de sus amantes.
Lindsay Posner, que dirige la Royal Shakespeare Company, declaró: "Toda la obra de Shakespeare es tan rica en ambigüedades, que es posible volcar cualquiera de sus obras a las imágenes de nuestra propia cultura.".
La nueva producción de Posner de Noche de Reyes en Stratford-upon-Avon, hace hincapié en la ambigüedad sexual de Viola. "No es algo que yo impuse", dijo. "Es algo que está en el texto y que también Shakespeare debe haber percibido".
"Shakespeare era muy progresista en lo que respecta a la sexualidad. No eludía esos temas. Pero escribía para una sociedad muy conservadora. Es necesario interpretar lo que dice", explica Posner.
Para Jankowski su trabajo llena el "vacío lésbico" que existe en el análisis de la obra de Shakespeare. "Si los hombres invariablemente ignoran a las mujeres del siglo XXI -ya sean lesbianas o heterosexuales-, no es de extrañarse que también se ignore a las mujeres de otras épocas y a los personajes literarios femeninos. Tal vez las lesbianas sean invisibles porque no somos observadores competentes".
Traducción de Cecilia Beltramo

Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Giving all your love to just one man
You’ll have bad times
And he’ll have good times
Doing things that you don’t understand
But if you love him you’ll forgive him
Even though he’s hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
’Cause after all he’s just a man
Stand by your man
Give him two arms to cling to
And something warm to come to
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your man
And tell the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man
Stand by your man
And show the world you love him
Keep giving all the love you can
Stand by your man

I made my reservation, I’m leaving town tomorrow
I’ll find somebody new and there’ll be no more sorrow
That’s what I do each time, but I can’t follow through
I can’t breakaway, though you make me cry
I can’t breakaway, I can’t say goodbye
No I’ll never never breakaway from you, no, no
No, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no.
I’ll make that vow to myself, you and I are through
Nothing can change my mind; I’m sorry won’t do
That’s what I’ll say each time, but I can’t follow through
I can’t breakaway, though you make me cry
I can’t breakaway, I can’t say goodbye
No I’ll never never breakaway from you, no, no
No, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no.
Even though you treat me bad and many cruel words are spoken
You have got a spell on me that just can’t be broken, no, no
I’ll take your picture down and throw it away
There’ll be no baby now, for you to call each day
That’s what I’ll say each time, but I can’t follow through
I can’t breakaway, though you make me cry
I can’t breakaway, I can’t say goodbye
No I’ll never never breakaway from you, no, no
No, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no.
I can’t breakaway, though you make me cry
I can’t breakaway, I can’t say goodbye
No I’ll never never breakaway from you, no, no
No, no, no, no, no,
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no.
I can’t breakaway, I can’t breakaway, I can’t breakaway...

Raffaella Roberta Pelloni (born in Bellaria on 18 June 1943), better known by her artistic name Raffaella Carrà, is an Italian TV hostess, singer and actress. She is especially popular in her native country and in Spain and Latin America where during the past decades she has conducted numerous popular TV shows, mainly in the Italian (RAI) and Spanish (TVE) national TV channels.

She had a big hit song with Tuca Tuca written by her long-time collaborator and boyfriend, Gianni Boncompagni. She had another long relationship with Sergio Japino.

She starred in the motion picture Von Ryan’s Express (1965) with Frank Sinatra, Edward Mulhare, and Trevor Howard. Her greatest international hit single was "A far l’amore comincia tu".

Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–November 26, 1944) was an American soprano who became famous for her complete lack of singing ability.

Biography

Born Florence Foster in 1868 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study music. Her wealthy father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a medical doctor, who became her husband (the two divorced in 1902). She earned a living there as a teacher and pianist. Upon her father’s death in 1909, Jenkins inherited a sum of money which allowed her to take up the singing career that had been discouraged by her parents and former husband. She became involved in the musical life of Philadelphia, founding and funding the Verdi Club, took singing lessons, and began to give recitals, her first in 1912. Her mother’s death in 1928 when Florence was 60 gave her additional freedom and resources to pursue singing.

From her recordings, it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Nonetheless, she became tremendously popular in her unconventional way. Her audiences apparently loved her for the amusement she provided rather than her musical ability. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.

Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favourably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the laughter which often came from the audience during her performances as coming from her rivals consumed by "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, however, saying "People may say I can’t sing, but no one can ever say I didn’t sing."

The music Jenkins tackled in her recitals was a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire by the likes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Strauss (all of them well beyond her technical ability), Lieder (including works by Johannes Brahms and Joaquín Valverde’s "Clavelitos," a favourite encore), and songs composed by herself or her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon (who was in reality the famous and talented accompanist Edwin McArthur). Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, and, for "Clavelitos," throwing flowers into the audience while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair.

After a taxicab crash in 1943 she found she could sing "a higher F than ever before." Instead of a lawsuit against the taxicab company, she sent the driver a box of expensive cigars.

In spite of public demand for more appearances, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues, and her annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance of her recitals was always limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others - she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76, Jenkins finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. So anticipated was the performance that tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later.

There have been claims that Jenkins’s entire 32-year career was an elaborate joke on the public, which seems to be in contradiction with another claim that her death after the Carnegie Hall performance was a result of derision by her critics. However, there is little evidence for either claim. All indications are that Florence Foster Jenkins died with the same happy, confident sense of fulfillment that pervaded her entire artistic life.

Jenkins recorded nine arias on five 78-rpm records, which have been reissued on three CDs. The Muse Surmounted: Florence Foster Jenkins and Eleven of Her Rivals (Homophone Records) contains only one Jenkins’ performance, Valse Caressante, for voice, flute & piano, but it includes an interview with the composer, who was also her accompanist, Mr. Cosmé McMoon. The Glory (????) of the Human Voice (RCA Victor) contains the other 8 arias, all accompanied by Mr. McMoon. Murder on the High C’s (Naxos) contains all 9 arias plus performances by others, but it lacks the interview with McMoon. In 2001, a play about Jenkins by Chris Ballance had a run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Another play about Jenkins’ life, Souvenir, opened on Broadway in November 2005, and starred Judy Kaye as Jenkins. Meanwhile, a new play about Jenkins, Glorious by Peter Quilter, opened in September 2005 in England. It has been said to provide a wonderful vehicle for Maureen Lipman who in the words of the New York Times reviewer "ably supported by William Oxborrow, Janie Booth et al, provides a thoroughly entertaining evening complete with much double entendre, theatrical in jokes to say nothing of some terrible singing! Lipman, as always, knows exactly how to create a character both funny and sad and vulnerable at the same time."

Rich And Famous is a 1981 comedy drama film made by Jaquet and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is a remake of the 1943 Warner Bros film Old Acquaintance starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins.

The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by William Allyn and Jacqueline Bisset, from a screenplay by Gerald Ayres based on the play Old Acquaintance (1941) by John Van Druten. The music score was by Georges Delerue and the cinematography by Donald Peterman.

The film stars Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner. Also featured were Matt Lattanzi, Meg Ryan and Nina Foch.
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success: Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) a young woman with literary ambitions who writes a critically acclaimed book soon after leaving college and Merry Noel Blake ((Candice Bergen), an all-American blond beauty from Atlanta who desires nothing more than a husband, a child and a life of domesticity. They are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly respected novelist, while Merry wed Doug Blake (David Selby), raised a family and lives in a house on the beach at Malibu. While Merry is happy, she can’t help but envy Liz for her glamorous career as an author. Merry decides to write a novel of her own, and with Liz’s help, the book, A House by the Sea soon finds a publisher and becomes a huge best-seller and Merry’s fame and wealth soon outstrip that of Liz, leading to jealousy between the old friends and problems in Merry’s marriage.

[edit] Cast

* Jacqueline Bisset - Liz Hamilton
* Candice Bergen - Merry Noel Blake
* Meg Ryan - Debby at Age 18
* David Selby - Doug Blake
* Hart Bochner - Chris Adams
* Steven Hill - Jules Levi
* Michael Brandon - Max
* Matt Lattanzi - Jim, the Boy
* Daniel Faraldo - Ginger Trinidad
* Frank de Felitta
* William G. Schilling - Waldorf Doorman
* Allan Warnick - Desk Clerk
* Damion Sheller - Max’s Son
* John Perkins - Limo Driver
* Oliver Hailey - Literary Party Guest
* Fay Kanin - Prof. Fields
* Charlotte Moore - Clerk in Cartier
* Randal Kleiser - Literary Party Guest
* Gavin Lambert - Literary Party Guest
* Roger Vadim - Malibu Party Guest
* Paul Morrissey - Malibu Party Guest
* Alan Berliner - Photographer
* Nicole Eggert - Debby at 8
* Nina Foch - Rich and Famous People
* Herb Graham - Waiter
* Frances Bergen - Literary Party Guest
* Dick Cavett - Himself
* Ray Bradbury - Literary Party Guest
* Ann Risley - Max’s Wife
* Pola Miller - Malibu Party Guest
* Kres Mersky - Judy Heller
* Cloyce Morrow - Martha Antilles
* Merv Griffin - Himself
* Marsha Hunt - Herself
* Joe Maross - Martin Fornam
* Christopher Isherwood - Malibu Party Guest


[edit] Notes

* Robert Mulligan was the original director, but he had to bow out because of previous engagements and was replaced by George Cukor.
* Rich and Famous was the final picture directed by George Cukor.
* The party sequences include such literary and cinematic notables as Christopher Isherwood, Ray Bradbury, Paul Morrissey, and Roger Vadim.

http://www.charliesangels.com/

Genre Action adventure
Running time 50 minutes
Creator(s) Ivan Goff
Ben Roberts
Starring Kate Jackson
Farrah Fawcett
Jaclyn Smith
Cheryl Ladd
Shelley Hack
Tanya Roberts
David Doyle
John Forsythe
Country of origin Flag of United States United States
Original channel ABC
Original run September 22, 1976–June 24, 1981
No. of episodes 115
Charlie’s Angels was a television series that broadcast on the ABC Television Network from 1976 to 1981, about three women who work for a fictional private investigation agency, the Charles Townsend Agency. Their boss, Charlie (voiced by John Forsythe), was rarely seen and is never seen full face - in some episodes he is shown from the rear only (where the viewer only sees the back of his head and his arms) and on the series finale where he appears in surgeon’s mask and outfit. He only ever contacted the "angels" by telephone, addressing them via a speakerphone on the office’s desk.

The three original "angels" were Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson), Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) and Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith). Later, when a character left (because the actress went on to other projects, etc) another "angel" was brought on to keep the number at three. Later angels were Jill’s little sister Kris Munroe (Cheryl Ladd), Tiffany Welles (Shelley Hack), and Julie Rogers (Tanya Roberts). Jaclyn Smith was the longest serving TV angel, remaining with the show for its entire five season run. Another major character throughout the series was Charlie’s assistant, John Bosley (David Doyle).

The show’s premise focused Charlie assigning the ’angels’ to a new situation each episode, where they would go undercover in order to investigate ’from the inside’. Their undercover characters often had to feign not knowing each other in the situation, until their cover was inevitably blown. The undercover aspect of the show created much of the plot interest and tension. (The show got permission to use the Alan O’Day hit song at the time, ’Undercover Angel’, and he subsequently re-recorded a version just for the show.) Under their assumed identities, the ’angels’ used a combination of sexual wiles and knowledge learned for the situation in which they were being placed.

The show became known as "T&A T.V." (or "Tits and Ass television"), because the angels would often be seen scantily or provocatively clad, (generally as part of their undercover character -- e.g., rollergirl, beauty pageant contestant, maid, female prisoner), to showcase the figures and/or sexuality of the actresses. Farrah Fawcett-Majors once attributed the show’s success to this fact, quoted as saying "When the show was number three, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.".
The original angels; (left to right) Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson
Enlarge
The original angels; (left to right) Jaclyn Smith, Farrah Fawcett and Kate Jackson
Contents
[hide]

* 1 Movies
* 2 Video games
* 3 Pop Culture Impact
* 4 Other collectible items
* 5 Comics
* 6 List of Known Angels
o 6.1 During run of TV series
o 6.2 In between TV series and movies
o 6.3 During Movies
* 7 Notes and references
* 8 External links

[edit] Movies

The television series inspired two feature films from production company Flower Films: Charlie’s Angels (2000) and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003). Each was directed by McG and starred Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu as the three angels, with John Forsythe returning to voice Charlie. Bosley was played in the first film by Bill Murray, while the second film cast Bernie Mac as Jimmy Bosley, John’s adoptive-brother.

The second movie had more nods to the TV series than the first movie in the series did, perhaps due to complaints from fans of the TV series. Whereas most movie remakes of 1970s TV shows, like Starsky and Hutch, are actually remakes, the Charlie’s Angels films are set in a different time. The mythology goes that whenever an Angel leaves, she is replaced so there are always three (seen in the TV show). Liu, Barrymore and Diaz’s characters are not based on the Angels in the show, but are their "successors". To prove this fact, Demi Moore’s character, who is a ’fallen’ Angel, quotes; "Back in my day - we used guns", which refers to the lack of martial arts in the TV series, while it is the preferred form of combat in the films. In the TV series, the Angels were more police-like, generally using guns. Physical struggles, were, however, common. In fact, the silhouette logo of the TV series does show one angel with her hands in a karate-like pose (and the other two with a gun and a walkie-talkie). The karate pose is often included when the show is being spoofed. The martial arts theme in the movies can be seen, in a way, as based on the original TV logo.

Also, Jaclyn Smith reprised her Kelly Garrett role from the TV series, who Dylan (Barrymore) meets in a Mexican cafe when she decides to leave the Angels. Kelly persuades her to rejoin the Angels with an inspiring speech. This reinforces the fact that there were not just three Angels (in fact in the TV series the viewer sees six different Angels), but there have always been three Angels at any one time.

In 2004, a television movie entitled Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie’s Angels aired on NBC. It depicted the true story of what happened during the first season of the TV show.

In 2006, all three original Angels appeared together on-stage at the 2006 Emmy Awards, in a retrospective tribute to Aaron Spelling.

[edit] Video games

In July 2003, three Charlie’s Angels games were released on three different gaming platforms: Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and the mobile phone. The versions released on both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 were virtually the same, each given the same title: Charlie’s Angels. The version released for the mobile phone was fundamentally toned down to fit the technical restrictions of the platform, and was titled Charlie’s Angels: Road Cyclone.

Despite the critical success of both the TV show and the movies, the video games, aside from the mobile phone version, were a debacle. According to Game Rankings, the GameCube version is the worst reviewed video game of all time (an average of 23%, with Metacritic garnering the same results). Although the PlayStation 2 version didn’t garner enough reviews to be officially listed, this version is virtually the same as the GameCube version. The mobile phone version averaged a respectable 79%.

[edit] Pop Culture Impact

The first season of Charlie’s Angels caused an explosion of fan hysteria and press coverage that was unheard of in the mid-1970s. It was even highlighted as a cover story in "Time" magazine which analyzed the impact of the show on popular culture.

[edit] Other collectible items

The show sold many items during its run. These included dolls, (two versions), games, trading cards, notebooks, and even record albums.

[edit] Comics

A British comic strip version was produced, written by Angus P. Allan and printed in TV comic Look-In.


[edit] List of Known Angels

[edit] During run of TV series

* Sabrina Duncan (1976-1979), played by Kate Jackson
* Kelly Garrett (1976-1981), played by Jaclyn Smith
* Jill Munroe (1976-1977), played by Farrah Fawcett-Majors
* Kris Munroe (1977-1981), played by Cheryl Ladd
* Tiffany Welles (1979-1980), played by Shelley Hack

* El INE publica en su web un listado con los nombres más habituales desde los años 20
* Es posible consultar también el número de personas con cada apellido en cada provincia



MADRID.- María y Antonio. Estos son los nombres más habituales entre los españoles, seguidos por María del Carmen y José; Carmen y Manuel; Josefa y Francisco; e Isabel y Juan. El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) ha publicado un apartado en su página web en el que analiza tantos los nombres como los apellidos más frecuentes en nuestro país.

También puede consultarse qué nombres eran más comunes en los años 20 o en la década de los 50, y cuáles son las preferencias de los nuevos padres para sus bebés: desde el año 2000, Alejandro y María. Este nombre repite como el nombre más común y el más elegido aún ahora.

De este modo, el nombre de Alejandro desbanca al de David como nombre más frecuente en los recién nacidos varones desde el año 2000, ya que éste fue el más utilizado desde la década de los 70. En los 50 y los 60 el nombre más habitual en los niños recién nacidos fue el de Antonio y con anterioridad el de José, el más común en los nacidos hasta 1940.

En las mujeres, María se confirma como el nombre preferido por los españoles, ya que desde 1990 ha sido el más utilizado para las niñas recién nacidas, después de que en los años 80 fuera el de Lucía. No obstante, el nombre de María o su compuesto María Carmen fue el más frecuente hasta esa fecha, siendo éste último el más común en las nacidas entre los 70 y los 40.
María, omnipresente

De hecho, esta utilización del nombre de María hace que se confirme como el nombre más frecuente entre los residentes en España en la actualidad, ya que 285 de cada mil mujeres tienen dicho nombre, tanto simple (31,5 de cada mil) como compuesto, mientras que 15 de cada mil hombres también tienen María de segundo nombre.

El ranking de nombres de mujer más frecuentes lo completan María Carmen (31,5 de cada mil mujeres), Carmen (22,5), Josefa (16,9), Isabel (14,5),María Dolores (12,8), Ana María (12,6) y María Pilar.

Sin embargo, en la lista de los 10 nombres de mujer más utilizados en los nacimientos a partir del año 2000 después de María (42,5) aparecen otros nombres como Lucía (33,7), Paula (31,5), Laura (27,6), Andrea (23,1), Marta (23,1), Alba (21,5), Sara (17,2), Ana (16,2) o Nerea (14,4).

En lo referente a los hombres, el nombre más frecuente entre los residentes actualmente en España es el de Antonio, ya que 37,9 de cada mil incluyen dicho nombre sus documentos. El resto de nombres más comunes son José (36,5), Manuel (32,4), Francisco (28,8), Juan (19,8), David (14,6), José Antonio (14,6), José Luis (14,3), Jesús (13,9) y Javier (12,7).

Sin embargo, y atendiendo a los nacimientos desde el año 2000, se mantiene la preferencia de nombres más comunes, como David (25,7 de cada mil recién nacidos) o Javier (21,5), pero destaca la aparición de otros nombres como Daniel (26 de cada mil), Pablo (25,5), Adrián (21,8), Álvaro (19,6), Sergio (17,2), Carlos (16,1) o Iván (13,5). También se sitúan entre los nombres más utilizados los catalanes Marc (8,8) y Pau (5,4), o el vasco Iker (5,6).

De hecho, entre los nombres más habituales en los recién nacidos a partir del año 2000 en el País Vasco destacan muchos de origen vasco como Mikel, Jon, Unai, Ander, Asier o Aitor, mientras que en Cataluña hay preferencia por nombres catalanes, tales como Pol, Arnau, Jordi, Gerard, Roger o Albert.
Los García, la ’familia’ más extensa

Por otra parte, los García son la ’familia’ más extensa. Ese apellido es el más frecuente en los ficheros específicos extraídos de la base padronal del INE, ya que 33,2 de cada mil residentes en España tienen dicho apellido y es el más frecuente en 31 provincias.

El resto de apellidos más frecuentes son González (20,8), Fernández (20,8), Rodríguez (20,7), López (19,6), Martínez (18,7), Sánchez (18,3), Pérez (17,5), Martín (11,1) y Gómez (11), que asimismo se reparten los primeros puestos del ranking en cada provincia. En este aspecto destacan las ciudades de Ceuta y Melilla, donde el apellido más frecuente de los residentes es Mohamed (86 y 81 de cada mil, respectivamente).

En lo que respecta a los extranjeros que viven en España, el INE hace ver que María es el nombre más frecuente también en las mujeres de nacionalidad rumana, belga, griega o italiana, mientras que en los hombres los más habituales son Ioan en los rumanos, Ivan en los búlgaros, Vladimir en los rusos o Volodymir en los ucranianos.

En cuanto a los ciudadanos procedentes de América Latina, Juan Carlos es el más común en ecuatorianos, colombianos, bolivianos o argentinos, mientras que en las mujeres, destacan Altagracia en las dominicanas, Ana María en las chilenas y peruanas, o María Fernanda en las ecuatorianas.

Por otro lado, Mamadou es el nombre más frecuente en los ciudadanos varones procedentes de Mali, Senegal y Guinea, siendo Mohamed el más común en los marroquíes, egipcios o argelinos.

Jean-Paul Goude (born 1940) is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and advertising film director. He created several well-known campaigns for brands such as Perrier, Citroën and Chanel. For a time he was married to his muse, model and performer Grace Jones.

[edit] Selected works

* Several music videos for Grace Jones, 1981 - 1985
* Citroën CX, ad, 1984, with the car driving into the mouth of a giant robotic head looking like Grace Jones. Banned in several countries at its time.
* Chanel Egoïste, ad, 1990
* Chanel Coco, ad, 1991, with Vanessa Paradis as a bird in a cage

[edit] References

* Goude, Jean-Paul (2006). So Far, So Goude. Assouline. ISBN 2-84323-755-6.

[edit] External links

* Ads (youtube.com):
o Chanel Egoïste at YouTube
o Chanel Coco at YouTube
o Citroën CX at YouTube
o Slave to the Rhythm at YouTube, Grace Jones music video containing excerpts from many other Goude ads.
* Jean-Paul Goude at the Internet Movie Database
* Jean-Paul Goude at Music Video Database

Question angoissante pour les hommes? Sujet de curiosité pour ces dames! Quelle "doit" être la taille d'un pénis? Au repos et au garde-à-vous? Tout en sachant que ce qui importe, ce n'est pas seulement l'outil, c'est l'ouvrier...

Un sujet sans doute préoccupant puisque l'inquiétude masculine se dévoile sur de nombreux forums et une part importante des "spams" sont consacrés à la "chose". Ces courriers électroniques comme certains sites proposent par exemple, "en exclusivité des exercices permettant le développement naturel du pénis (note : jusqu'à 6 cm en un an) et des testicules". Certaines méthodes se veulent naturelles, sans "pompes ou poids ou autres gadgets".

Mais existe-t-il une norme? Oui dans le sens où celle-ci n'est qu'une moyenne. Non, dans le sens où un homme même faiblement "membré" peut très bien satisfaire sa partenaire.

Le pénis au repos aurait une taille moyenne de 8 à 10 cm, d'autres sources disent de 7 à 11 cm. On dit que le plus petit pénis adulte du monde mesurerait 1,5 cm et le plus grand... 38 cm.

Quant au pénis en érection, il mesurerait en moyenne entre 12 et 18 cm (de 10 cm à 20 cm si l'on compte plus large), plus précisément 15 cm chez les voisins français.

Selon la société Andromedical (qui produit l'extenseur de pénis Andro-Penis), la longueur moyenne d’un pénis en érection serait de 9,6 cm chez les Coréens, 12,4 cm chez les Brésiliens, 12,9 chez les Américains, 13 chez les Japonais et les Chinois. 13,9 cm chez les Allemands, 14 cm chez les Français et 14,2 cm chez les Belges.

La taille d'un pénis au repos n'a en fait "rien" à voir avec la taille d'un pénis en érection; autrement dit, un petit zizi au repos peut se révéler tout à fait "honnête" en état d'excitation. Mais, comme déjà signalé, la taille n'a que peu d'importance puisque c'est le premier tiers du vagin qui possède le plus de terminaisons nerveuses et se révèle donc le plus sensible.

Ce couple d’artistes, qui vivent et travaillent ensemble depuis 1976, s’est, au fil des dernières décennies, construit, approprié et façonné sur la scène artistique une place à part, une niche spécifique, abolissant les frontières arbitraires et archaïques entre genres, thèmes et sources iconographiques. Un style très particulier devenu très "mode".

Après le succès retentissant de leurs expositions monographiques de Paris (Maison Européenne de la
photographie), Glasgow (Museum of Modern Art), Tokyo (Ginza Art Space), Turku (Turun Taide Museum), New York (New Museum of Contemporary Art), San Francisco (Yerba Buena Arts Center for the Arts) et plus récemment à Vienne (Kunsthaus Wien), c’est au Botanique qu’a été présentée, pour la première fois en Belgique, une rétrospective inédite de leur travail.

Une sélection d’œuvres inédites ou méconnues ont été présentées aux côtés de réalisations très célèbres et, en avant-première, de quelques-unes de leurs créations les plus récentes (2002). Un album embrassant l’ensemble de leur production et retraçant son évolution depuis 1976, a été réalisé à l’occasion de l’exposition.

Reconnaissable d’emblée, leur œuvre est unique à plus d’un titre. Sa singularité repose d’abord sur la spécificité d’un processus créatif, adoptant un dispositif à la fois manuel et mécanique, complexe et toujours soigneusement pensé. Avec une complémentarité rarement atteinte dans un duo d’artistes, Pierre et Gilles (inter)agissent à chaque étape de la conception et de la réalisation de leurs oeuvres.

Une technique originale

Commençant par réaliser des dessins préparatoires, ils conçoivent ensuite la mise en scène théâtrale de leur décor au gré d’objets et accessoires chinés ou spécialement fabriqués pour l’occasion. Pierre photographie alors la scène, en un unique tirage que, loin de toute manipulation digitale, Gilles retravaille ensuite par couches successives de glacis et de couches picturales, au pinceau et à l’aérographe, mutilant ainsi la possibilité de reproductibilité à l’infini de l’œuvre photographique. S’impose enfin le choix et la conception d’un encadrement spécifique, prolongement essentiel de la photographie peinte.

De cette intime imbrication des techniques photographique et picturale, leur permettant véritablement de s’exprimer l’un avec l’autre, jaillit une œuvre unique, hybride et syncrétique, abolissant les oppositions traditionnelles entre supports d’expression artistiques. Se dépouillant d’une partie de ses vertus de représentation mimétique, la photographie gagne en idéalisation, assumant les qualités affectives et sensorielles de la peinture, tandis que cette dernière tend vers un surcroît de vérité objective.

Mais ce syncrétisme trouve également sa transposition dans la façon remarquable dont Pierre et Gilles, en véritables iconophages, brassent et s’approprient une multitude de genres (du portrait à l’imagerie religieuse en passant par l’affiche publicitaire) et de thématiques, au croisement de traditions et de sources iconographiques diverses.

Le profane et le sacré, le banal, l’anodin et le consacré se côtoient dans un univers féerique, nourri de rencontres et de voyages, de souvenirs et de rêves et exaltant le regard étonné et admiratif de l’enfant qui se tapit au fond de tout un chacun.

Qu’il s’agisse de célébrités (Lio, Nina Hagen, Serge Gainsboug, Etienne Daho, Arielle Dombasle …) ou d’inconnus, le modèle, souvent abordé dans une frontalité iconique, se retrouve au centre du dispositif de Pierre et Gilles.
Métamorphosé en saint, voyou, marin, divinité ou encore en héros romanesque, il s’intègre à un univers bigarré où références à la publicité, à l’imagerie télévisuelle, à la tradition picturale, à la mythologie classique, à l’iconographie chrétienne se nourrissent l’une l’autre.

Flirtant délibérément, mais en les dépassant, avec l’imagerie "pop", l’univers de la mode et du "glamour", l’œuvre de Pierre et Gilles fait fi des distinctions traditionnelles entre Beau et Laid, Bien et Mal, culture populaire et tradition classique. Il en résulte une œuvre résolument originale et personnelle, dont le but ultime tend toujours à la recréation d’un idéal iconique et affectif.

Dans cette résolution de tout antagonisme dialectique, Pierre et Gilles opèrent donc un travail déstabilisant et subversif, sapant les hiérarchies et catégorisations convenues et mettant au défi les normes de bienséance, qu’elles soient esthétiques ou moralisatrices.

Reflet intime de leur façon de vivre, leur art livre sans doute la clef de sa popularité dans cette authenticité et cette faculté qu’il a d’exprimer l’ambivalence de notre réalité et de l’univers mental bigarré, mélangé de notre société contemporaine.

http://www.fred-deltour.com/


This is Mister France

http://seventh-seal.com/2themax/gallery.htm

Maxwell Caulfield (born on November 23, 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish-American actor.

His American stepfather, a Marine instructor at Parris Island, kicked him out of the house at the age of 15.

He moved eventually to the U.S., got his green card and found work as an exotic dancer before making his acting debut off-Broadway in the title role of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane as a drifter.

He went on to star in the musical film Grease 2 (1982) opposite Michelle Pfeiffer.

At 21, he married Juliet Mills (18 years his senior) in 1980, and became stepfather to her daughter, Melissa Miklenda (who now goes by Melissa Caulfield).

His other appearances include a role in Judith Krantz’s Till We Meet Again, and in the movie Gettysburg. In addition to his role in Grease 2, he is perhaps best known for the role of Miles Colby on the successful Dynasty spin-off The Colbys.
Main title caption from Dynasty.
Enlarge
Main title caption from Dynasty.

He also appeared in the first episode of Beverly Hills 90210 as an older man interested in Shannen Doherty until he finds out how young she is. He appeared in a humorous role as "Rex Manning", a spoiled has-been rock star, in the film Empire Records (1995).

He made his Broadway debut in J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls opposite Sian Phillips.

He voiced the character of Alistair Smythe in Spider-Man: The Animated Series from 1994-1998 and was the voice of James Bond in the videogame Nightfire.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 2004 to appear as Dr Jim Brodie in the highly-rated BBC medical drama Casualty.

Maxwell is currently performing the lead in ’Tryst’ off-Broadway.

He and Mills reside in Santa Barbara, California.

http://www.hartbochner.com/

Hart Bochner
graduated from UC San Diego in 1978 with a BA in English Literature. Initially interested in directing, he was discovered at an AFI Open House in 1975 by the wife of Franklin Schaffner, and subsequently cast in Schaffner’s film ‘Islands in the Stream’, playing George C. Scott’s son. He went on to formal training as an actor with Peggy Feury at the Loft Studio from 1979 to 1985.

After years as a successful actor, Hart made the transition into directing with his short feature ‘The Buzzz’ starring Jon Lovitz. The film led to a deal with 20th Century Fox to direct the cult film, ‘PCU’.

He currently sits on the Leadership Council of the DGA’s PAC Committee, as well as the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association. Hart divides his time between homes in Los Angeles and France.

Evangelina Sobredo Galanes, "Cecilia", (Madrid , 11 de octubre de 1948 - Benavente, 2 de agosto de 1976), cantautora española.

Como hija de diplomáticos españoles tuvo una infancia itinerante (Inglaterra, EE.UU., Portugal, Jordania) y una educación cosmopolita: aprendió a hablar en inglés antes que en castellano. Por ello sus primeras letras fueron tanto en inglés como en español. Finalmente se decantó por este último idioma. Se educó con una monja americana que la animaba a tocar la guitarra y a cantar en todas las fiestas de fin de curso. De regreso a España, tras licenciarse en Derecho, decidió dedicarse en serio a la música y a componer sus propias letras, que poseen una calidad poética y literaria notable, muy por encima de lo habitual en su tiempo, y se adscriben a corrientes existencialistas y a la canción de protesta feminista.

Junto a Nacho Saez de Tejada (Nuestro Pequeño Mundo) y Julio Seijas ("La Compañía"), Cecilia grabó en 1970 un sencillo, Expresión, cantado en inglés, y con aire bluessy-folk, y, aunque Seijas siguió siendo colaborador, el grupo se disolvió. Un año después, Cecilia grabó su primer sencillo en solitario: Mañana/Reuníos, dos temas hasta el momento inéditos en cd; el segundo es como un ruego para que se reunieran los entonces disueltos The Beatles. Aunque no supuso un gran éxito, el disco representó entonces una novedad en un panorama dominado por cantautores de influencia francesa como Mari Trini, Joan Manuel Serrat o Luis Eduardo Aute.

En 1972, la multinacional "CBS", hoy "Sony", la contrató y grabó su primer LP, por título Cecilia, en homenaje a la canción homónima de Simon y Garfunkel. Una canción social de este disco, "Dama, Dama", fue un exitazo, así como las existenciales "Nada de nada", "Mi gata Luna", "Fui" o "Señor y dueño" (que según sus propias palabras, era su canción favorita).

Al año siguiente, 1973, apareció su segundo LP, titulado Cecilia 2" con una característica foto de Ontañón en la portada; en este álbum hay recuerdos ("Cuando yo era pequeña", "Mi ciudad"), prospecciones al futuro ("Me quedaré soltera", tema fuerte para la época, y "Si no fuera porque..."), pasado colectivo ("Un millón de sueños", alusión a la Guerra Civil) y un amor existencial, elegíaco y triste muy característico de Cecila ("Canción de amor", "Me iré de aquí"). Solo "Andar", tema de apertura del disco, escapa de esa tristeza y aparece lleno de ganas de vivir. Fue también un éxito, aunque no tan resonante como el anterior, habida cuenta de que los elepés eran por entonces mucho más caros que los sencillos y todavía se estaba generalizando su uso.

Su tercer álbum fue el mayor éxito de su corta y fulminante carrera, Un ramito de violetas, por la canción que tuvo más éxito del LP y por la que se le suele recordar injustamente, ya que muchos de sus otros éxitos son también notables. Según su hermana Teresa, antes de ser canción fue un cuento. Junto a esta pieza destacan canciones como "Mi querida España", "Decir adiós" o "Sevilla".

En 1975, Televisión Española decidió que representara a España en el Festival de la OTI, y la artista aceptó a regañadientes, puesto que no le gustaban los festivales, con la canción "Amor de medianoche", compuesta por ella misma y Juan Carlos Calderón; el tema consiguió el segundo puesto. Grabó entonces un LP recopilatorio con el título de esa canción, que fue su último trabajo antes de perder la vida en un accidente de tráfico contra una carreta de bueyes, incidente que dejó desolado a todo el país, pues la cantante poseía un carisma insólito y una popularidad increíble. Sin embargo, aún llegó a editar un single en vida en 1976 con "Tu y yo" y en la segunda cara el tema "Una guerra", alusión a la Guerra Civil que aparece en otras letras suyas. "Tu y yo" nunca se reeditó en las innumerables recopilaciones posteriores. Cuando murió trabajaba en un proyecto sobre textos de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán. Está enterrada en el cementerio de La Almudena, en Madrid.

En septiembre de 1976, un mes tras su fallecimiento, salió el single póstumo que llevaba por título en la cara A "El viaje" y en la cara B, "Lluvia". A los siete años de su óbito su casa de discos editó un álbum con 12 canciones inéditas recopiladas desde maquetas y arregladas por Juan Carlos Calderón. En 1991 la llegada del sonido digital posibilitó la remasterización de una recopilación y en 1996 se editó un doble álbum con dúos de Cecilia con cantantes como Mercedes Corisco que apenas había nacido cuando murió, con Miguel Bosé, Ana Belén, Manolo Tena, Julio Iglesias etc... Además se logró recuperar "Desde que tu te has ido", una canción que dio título a esta colección de dúos y que fue reconstruida y digitalizada desde una maqueta que grabó Cecilia como prueba sólo con su voz y guitarra; se debe la reconstrucción al músico Juan Carlos Calderón.

Como intérprete usó unas veces de una voz frágil de una niña pequeña y otras de una voz firme e indomesticable. En sus versos refleja, con una gran tensión lírica e ironía, una España gris que empezaba a dejar de ser la España negra y rural del Franquismo.

Murió con 27 años en un accidente de tráfico tras chocar contra una carreta de bueyes.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John was an American lawyer, journalist, socialite, and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy.
Contents
[hide]

* 1 Early life
* 2 Education
* 3 Career
* 4 Death
* 5 See also
* 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Born less than a month after his father was elected to the presidency, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was in the public spotlight from infancy. He had lived for most of the first three years of his life in the White House and under the eye of the media who adored his antics. The nickname "John-John" came from a reporter mishearing his father calling him ("John" spoken twice in quick succession), and the name stuck. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, three days before Kennedy Jr.’s third birthday, and the son’s salute of his father’s flag-draped casket during the funeral procession on his third birthday became a heartbreaking and iconic image of the 1960s.

John Jr. grew up primarily on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Even as a boy, he was often photographed and still referred to publicly as "John-John" although Kennedy family members themselves did not use the nickname [1]. After his father’s death, his mother was married to Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until Onassis’s death in 1975, when John was 14 years old. By most accounts, his stepfather did not play a particularly significant role in young John’s life. However, his real paternal figure from the ages of 3 to 8 was his uncle, Bobby Kennedy, who took Jackie, John, and Caroline under his wing following JFK’s death. This led to some jealousies and tensions between them and his own children, who felt neglected, and between Jackie and Ethel Kennedy, because Bobby also had the same affection for Jackie that her husband had.

[edit] Education

Although John F. Kennedy, Jr. attended Collegiate School in New York City for the first through tenth grades, he graduated high school from Phillips Academy. Subsequently, Kennedy matriculated at Brown University, graduating in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in history. At Brown, Kennedy was a member of Phi Psi, an inactive chapter of the national Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. In 1989, he earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from New York University School of Law. He failed the New York Bar exam twice before passing on the third try.

[edit] Career

He spoke at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a New York City assistant district attorney from 1989 to 1993. In 1995, he founded George, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family. The magazine ceased publication shortly after Kennedy’s death.

Through the 1980s until his death, Kennedy was an often-seen and much-photographed personality in Manhattan. He married Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996 on Cumberland Island in Georgia. He dated Madonna and Daryl Hannah prior to his marriage.

[edit] Death

On July 16, 1999, Kennedy was killed along with his wife and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, when the aircraft he was piloting, N9253N, a Piper Saratoga II HP, crashed on a hazy night into the Atlantic Ocean en route from Essex County Airport in West Caldwell, New Jersey, to Martha’s Vineyard, where the Kennedy family has a vacation house. Kennedy and his wife were traveling to the wedding of cousin Rory Kennedy, which was then postponed. Lauren was to have been dropped off at Martha’s Vineyard.

Kennedy was a relatively inexperienced pilot, with 310 hours of flight experience, including 55 hours of night flying and 36 hours in the high-performance Piper Saratoga. He had completed about half of an instrument training course but was not rated for flying in low visibility conditions. The National Transportation Safety Board investigation found no evidence of mechanical malfunction and determined that the probable cause was "the pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident were haze, and the dark night." The report noted that spatial disorientation as a result of continued VFR flight into adverse weather conditions is a regular cause of fatal airplane accidents. According to literature found in most FAA approved flight training books, a pilot’s inability to see the horizon leads to spatial disorientation. The inner ear may give the pilot the impression that the plane is turning when it isn’t. It takes many hours of instrument training for a pilot to be able to fly in IFR conditions, conditions that most likely existed when Kennedy was flying on his route to Martha’s Vineyard. Over the water at night there are few lights and the lights that existed were most likely obscured by the haze.

Kyle Bailey, a pilot believed to have been the last person to see Kennedy alive at Essex County Airport, subsequently stated that he had cancelled his own intended journey to Martha’s Vineyard because the weather on the route was "a little too hazy." It also emerged that while Kennedy had made the journey from Essex County Airport to the Vineyard several times before, he had never made it without an instructor aboard or at night — factors which can make a flight challenging, especially for a relatively inexperienced, non-instrument-rated pilot. Kennedy’s flight instructor (CFI) stated that he offered to fly with Kennedy on the fatal journey but Kennedy replied that, "I want to do it alone." The instructor also stated that he was uncomfortable with Kennedy making a flight alone in a high-performance airplane at night, over open water and into haze, but did not insist that Kennedy remain on the ground.

During the memorial service on July 23, Kennedy’s uncle, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, said that, "We dared to think…that this John Kennedy would live to comb grey hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But, like his father, he had every gift but length of years." [2] And of his nephew’s marriage, he invoked what had been said of his brother’s Presidency: both lasted 1,000 days. U.S. President Bill Clinton attended the service, and ordered that the flag at the White House be lowered to half-staff in honor of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

At President Clinton’s orders, warships of the U.S. Navy earlier assisted in the search for the downed plane, which was somewhat unusual. With the permission of Secretary of Defense William Cohen, Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were buried at sea off the Massachusetts coast after a ceremony aboard the destroyer USS Briscoe.

A large undisclosed payment was made to the Bessette family from the Kennedy family [3]. It was reported that this payment was made to avoid a possible high-profile lawsuit, since the accident was caused by human error.

Just as his father’s death is mired in conspiracy theory controversy, the story of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s death has also drawn the attention of conspiracy theorists.

http://www.alisonjackson.com/

Alison Jackson (born 1960) is a English photographer. She hit the headlines in 2000 with her lookalike photographs of celebrities in compromising positions, and went on to win a BAFTA for BBC 2’s series Double Take
Contents
[hide]

* 1 Biography
* 2 Personal life


[edit] Biography

A BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture from the Chelsea College of Art as an adult student, was followed by an MA Fine Art Photography from The Royal College of Art, London.

Jackson became notorious in Britain during 1999 for producing black-and-white photographs that apparently showed Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed with a mixed-race love child. Since the couple died without producing offspring the photographs were clearly impossible. They appeared convincing because Jackson had employed look-alike models to pose as Di and Dodi. The photos, part of her graduation series entitled Mental Images, were technically assured, beautifully composed and lit in a manner reminiscent of Old Master paintings of the Holy Family. Jackson was attracted to the subject of Diana because she was a national icon at the time of her death and by the fact that millions mourned her even though the majority only knew her through mass media images. It was also clear to Jackson that people fantasised about Diana’s love life.

Jackson was also the artist behind BBC Two’s series Double Take, for which she won a BAFTA [1]. Her next targets are rumoured to include George W Bush and: "Tony Blair. Like Sven, he’s on his way out."

[edit] Personal life

Her father was a wealthy eccentric who’s life as owner of his family’s Georgian estate near Portsmouth was shattered in 1972 when he received a government purchase order to run the new M23 through his parkland. "It devastated him. He was so upset that he arranged to have the house burned down" The Jackson family - Alison has an older brother - moved to an equally impressive Gloucestershire mansion, originally an 11th-century Gilbertine monastery, with its own chapel and network of secret tunnels.

Her childhood was spent largely at Croft House, a "miserable" Sussex boarding school "for complete dunces, where it was all about needlework and dressage". Sarah Ferguson was a pupil. Her eccecentric father died when she was a teenager.

Jackson is single and childless. She has a "relatively long-term" boyfriend called Anthony, a film producer. She lives in one of Chelsea’s most opulent streets, in a house which used to be Turner’s art studio. Jackson bought it as a derelict shell, and turned it into one big, sparse, starkly minimalist space decorated with a white chaise longue, a shelf of rare books, a Bang & Olufsen music system and the a grand piano. Guests who come to her dinner parties apparently include Lord Brocket and Notting Hill socialite Melissa Chassay

Jack Vettriano (born 17 November 1951 Fife) is a Scottish painter. Originally Jack Hoggan, he grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He left school at 16 and became an apprentice mining engineer, but later took up painting as a hobby in his twenties. His earliest paintings were copies or pastiches of impressionist paintings (his first painting was a copy of Monet’s Poppy Fields).

Vettriano’s breakthrough year was 1988, when he felt ready to display his paintings in public and submitted two canvases for the Royal Scottish Academy annual show. Both paintings sold on the first day and Vettriano was approached by several galleries who wanted to sell his other work. The success and attention contributed to the breakdown of h