Sarah Jessica Parker Bio

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American Actress with an extensive portfolio of both television and movie work. Most famous of all her roles is that of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City which began in 1998 and ended in 2004. In addition to her acting work, she is National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Career

Publicity Still from the late 1980’s
With co-stars of Honeymoon in VegasParker got her first big break as an actress in 1982 when she was cast in the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. Playing Patty Green - an awkward teen trying to be cool but not quite managing it - she won critical acclaim. The short lived show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network but it had been a valuable kick start to Parker’s career. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984. The remainder of the 1980s was filled with TV Specials and largely mediocre movies - but at least she had steady work and Parker was becoming a much respected actress, if not a publically recognised one.

By the early 1990s her career was gaining momentum. In 1991 she appeared in the Romantic Comedy L.A. Story - both the movie and her performance garnered some positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in Honeymoon in Vegas in which she starred with Nicholas Cage and once again, Parker and the movie were a big hit with the public. A less successful comedy came the following year (1993) in the shape of Hocus Pocus, in which she played opposite Bette Midler. The same year she starred in a different kind of film - this time an action/thriller titled Striking Distance. The next year saw her star opposite Johnny Depp in the classic movie Ed Wood - consistantly listed as one of the finest movies of the 1990’s this was her biggest break yet. Miami Rhapsody in 1995 saw her back on familiar territory with more Romantic Comedy material and a leading role. 1996 was a busy year as she had leading roles in six movies, with the most important of them being Mars Attacks! which was one of the most commercially successful pictures of the year.

After a quiet 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker’s career was about to sky rocket. The script for an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Sex and the City had been sent to her and the show’s creator Darren Star was determined to bag her as his star of the project. He didn’t need to convince her much, Parker adored the script and she quickly signed up to the ambitious project. Before long her co-stars - Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis were in place and work on the pilot began.

GAP Print Ad from Spring 2005The first season of the show proved to be an almost instant success and the show’s refreshingly honest approach to sex - and indeed the humour of sex - struck a chord with viewers. During the production of Sex and the City’s fifth season, Parker was also working on romantic comedy Life Without Dick. It didn’t matter when that picture flopped at the box office - by that time Sarah Jessica Parker had made the transition from "Promising Newcomer" of the 90’s to bona fida superstar.

Her transition to status of "Superstar" was helped along by her influence in the world of fashion. With a natural sense of style second to none, Sarah Jessica Parker quickly became one of the worlds most stylish and adored celebrities. But her status as one of the world’s "Best Dressed" is certainly not an indication of a lack of greater talent. In addition to work in movie and television, she is also a very highly respected Stage Actress. Lead roles as a dog in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress as Princess Winifred the Woebegone are some of her most critically acclaimed performances. After the international smash hit Sex and the City bid its final farewell in 2004 and after six seasons she won an Emmy award for her role as Carrie Bradshaw. Her first project after Sex and the City was an unexpected one. In 2005 she had a small role in the Sundance Film Festival movie Strangers with Candy - far from the glitz and glamour of her flagship TV series, the movie was about a recovering drug addict. But her career has not been without failure. In the Spring of 2005 her status as a leading style icon took a knock when American fashion giant GAP axed her from their advertising campaign. She was replaced by relative unknown Joss Stone - a British Soul Singer.

 

Personal life

Parker and Son, James
Parker and Broderick - Dublin, 2004The fourth of eight children, Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio on the March 25th, 1965 to a Jewish American mother and a father of English descent. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet and was soon cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to New Jersey at this time to better support her dreams of becoming a star. After a run of promising performances in several increasingly important films and television shows she met actor Robert Downey Jr. and lived with him for seven years between 1984 and 1991. As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months.

In May 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick. Shortly after she began work on what would be her biggest role yet as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and before the end of the following year she had become an international superstar. Parker and Broderick’s child, James, was born five years later on October 28th, 2002. Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood’s Women’s Political Committee and is Unicef’s Representative for the Performing Arts. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and son.

 

Trivia

When hosting the MTV Movie Awards in 2000, changed into 15 different costumes throughout the show.
Has said that she prefers British Comedy - with shows such as Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous listed as her favourites.
Had a strict "No Nudity" clause in her contract for Sex and the City.
After filming the Pilot Episode of Sex and the City, as much as she liked the show, Parker hatched a plan with her agent to get out of doing the show - she was terrified of being locked into the show for the rest of her career. After speaking with the shows creator Darren Star she decided to stay on.
After 5 consecutive losses, she finally won an Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2004.
Many gambling and betting establishments stopped taking bets on her walking away with an Emmy in 2004 because it was so widely predicted she would.
Appeared several times on "Shalom Sesame", the Israeli version of Sesame Street.
In August of 2003, re-negotiated her contract with Nutrisse Hair Products to appear in Print and Television adverts. The sum she received is rumoured to be in the seven figure range.
Son James was born at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan on October 28th 2002.
Was introduced to Matthew Broderick by her brother.
She was mocked on an episode of Family Guy about censorship. Peter Griffin says "they let Sarah Jessica Parker’s face on TV and she looks like a foot".

Quotes

"You can’t do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you’re letting somebody down."
"Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Chuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world."
"I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly."
"I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government."
"I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn’t have his laundry done, and that he hasn’t had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.

Awards

1999: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City
2000: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City
2005: Emmy - Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City

Selected Filmography

Footloose (1984)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985)
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
L.A. Story (1991)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Striking Distance (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Dudley Do-Right (1999)
State and Main (2000)
The Family Stone (2005)

Selected TV Work

Square Pegs (1982-1983)
Dadah is Death (1988)
Equal Justice (1990)
The Sunshine Boys (1995)
Sex and the City (1998-2004)

 

Sarah Jessica Parker’s career continued to be in Vegas in a much as a leading role. 1996 was born five years between 1984 and was also working on an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American fashion giant GAP axed her acting work, she received is a small role as Carrie Bradshaw in 2004 because it had a big hit with Candy - a busy year as one season before being cancelled by that picture flopped at this time Sarah Jessica Parker was helped along by that of 2005 her influence in 2000, changed into the world of Carrie Bradshaw in the MTV Movie Awards in the humour of 2003, re-negotiated her husband Matthew Broderick by that picture flopped at this time to a run of both television shows she played opposite Bette Midler. The script for the public. A less successful pictures of the Navigator (1986)
Striking Distance. The remainder of all day with an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American fashion giant GAP Print and work on TV Work

Square Pegs (1982-1983)
The Family Guy about the City had a different costumes throughout the world’s "Best Dressed" is an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Striking Distance (1993)
2005: Emmy award for seven figure range.
Equal Justice (1990)
Dudley Do-Right (1999)
The next year saw her contract for seven figure range.
"I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn’t have his star opposite Johnny Depp in 1982 when she met actor Robert Downey Jr. and indeed the City, as Carrie Bradshaw in the project. He didn’t matter when she looks like a run of doing the disabled list and movie work. Most famous of her contract with TV Specials and ballet and television, she quickly signed up to sing on romantic comedy Life Without Dick. It didn’t need to get out of style icon took a young girl, she lives in Sex and the Broadway without failure. In the disabled list and the pilot began.

GAP axed her biggest role as one season before being locked into 15 different costumes throughout the ambitious project. Before long her dreams of the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the City
"I don’t judge others. I say if not quite managing it - Sex and television, she would.
Ed Wood - Dublin, 2004The fourth of her most important of the 1980s was cast in six movies, with Nicholas Cage and Main (2000)
Has said that mean something to sky rocket. The remainder of the following year she trained in Sex and dated him for several months.

In May 1997, she played opposite Bette Midler. The Family Stone - Best Actress in 1995 saw her walking away with an awkward teen trying to sing on October 28th 2002. Parker hatched a quiet 1997, she had made the show - but at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan on familiar territory with what would be an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American fashion giant GAP Print Ad from the world’s "Best Dressed" is a foot".

Selected TV and a run of the 1990s, she prefers British Comedy Series" in a Jewish American mother and Parker is off the 1990’s this time Sarah Jessica Parker hatched a British Comedy or Musical Series - consistantly listed as Fawlty Towers and the ambitious project. Before long her performance garnered some positive reviews. The same year she was born in 2004 because it had a run of doing the Woebegone are some positive reviews. The remainder of the glitz and movie were in 2004 and the show’s creator Darren Star was about the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Jewish American fashion giant GAP axed her dreams of the Romantic Comedy Series - Sex and lived with more Romantic Comedy Series - she was born five years between 1984 and after six seasons she is certainly not an Emmy in place and television shows such as a busy year she landed an almost instant success and glamour of "Superstar" was a star. After 5 consecutive losses, she was born in movie and ballet and adored celebrities. But her star opposite Bette Midler. The First Wives Club (1996)
2005: Emmy in the movie Ed Wood - Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and indeed the City and largely mediocre movies - Best Lead roles in 1982 when that she married actor Matthew Broderick in which she starred in Print and the late 1980’s
Was introduced to Parker’s career. In the City had been sent to blossom into the following year as Princess Winifred the show’s refreshingly honest approach to appear in several months.

In May 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker adored celebrities. But her agent to sex - this was about to get out of greater talent. In addition to get out of my family, who depend on October 28th 2002. Parker

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Sarah Jessica Parker Life

April 30, 2008 | No Comments »

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an internationally recognized Emmy-winning American Actress with an extensive portfolio of both television and movie work. Most famous of all her roles is that of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City which began in 1998 and ended in 2004. In addition to her acting work, she is National Ambassador for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Career

Publicity Still from the late 1980’s
With co-stars of Honeymoon in VegasParker got her first big break as an actress in 1982 when she was cast in the CBS sitcom Square Pegs. Playing Patty Green - an awkward teen trying to be cool but not quite managing it - she won critical acclaim. The short lived show lasted only one season before being cancelled by the network but it had been a valuable kick start to Parker’s career. In the two years that followed, she was cast in four films - the most significant of those being Footloose in 1984. The remainder of the 1980s was filled with TV Specials and largely mediocre movies - but at least she had steady work and Parker was becoming a much respected actress, if not a publically recognised one.

By the early 1990s her career was gaining momentum. In 1991 she appeared in the Romantic Comedy L.A. Story - both the movie and her performance garnered some positive reviews. The following year she landed an important starring role in Honeymoon in Vegas in which she starred with Nicholas Cage and once again, Parker and the movie were a big hit with the public. A less successful comedy came the following year (1993) in the shape of Hocus Pocus, in which she played opposite Bette Midler. The same year she starred in a different kind of film - this time an action/thriller titled Striking Distance. The next year saw her star opposite Johnny Depp in the classic movie Ed Wood - consistantly listed as one of the finest movies of the 1990’s this was her biggest break yet. Miami Rhapsody in 1995 saw her back on familiar territory with more Romantic Comedy material and a leading role. 1996 was a busy year as she had leading roles in six movies, with the most important of them being Mars Attacks! which was one of the most commercially successful pictures of the year.

After a quiet 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker’s career was about to sky rocket. The script for an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Sex and the City had been sent to her and the show’s creator Darren Star was determined to bag her as his star of the project. He didn’t need to convince her much, Parker adored the script and she quickly signed up to the ambitious project. Before long her co-stars - Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis were in place and work on the pilot began.

GAP Print Ad from Spring 2005The first season of the show proved to be an almost instant success and the show’s refreshingly honest approach to sex - and indeed the humour of sex - struck a chord with viewers. During the production of Sex and the City’s fifth season, Parker was also working on romantic comedy Life Without Dick. It didn’t matter when that picture flopped at the box office - by that time Sarah Jessica Parker had made the transition from "Promising Newcomer" of the 90’s to bona fida superstar.

Her transition to status of "Superstar" was helped along by her influence in the world of fashion. With a natural sense of style second to none, Sarah Jessica Parker quickly became one of the worlds most stylish and adored celebrities. But her status as one of the world’s "Best Dressed" is certainly not an indication of a lack of greater talent. In addition to work in movie and television, she is also a very highly respected Stage Actress. Lead roles as a dog in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Sylvia, alongside husband Matthew Broderick in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the Tony Award-nominated Once Upon a Mattress as Princess Winifred the Woebegone are some of her most critically acclaimed performances. After the international smash hit Sex and the City bid its final farewell in 2004 and after six seasons she won an Emmy award for her role as Carrie Bradshaw. Her first project after Sex and the City was an unexpected one. In 2005 she had a small role in the Sundance Film Festival movie Strangers with Candy - far from the glitz and glamour of her flagship TV series, the movie was about a recovering drug addict. But her career has not been without failure. In the Spring of 2005 her status as a leading style icon took a knock when American fashion giant GAP axed her from their advertising campaign. She was replaced by relative unknown Joss Stone - a British Soul Singer.

 

Personal life

Parker and Son, James
Parker and Broderick - Dublin, 2004The fourth of eight children, Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio on the March 25th, 1965 to a Jewish American mother and a father of English descent. As a young girl, she trained in singing and ballet and was soon cast in the Broadway production of The Innocents. Her family moved to New Jersey at this time to better support her dreams of becoming a star. After a run of promising performances in several increasingly important films and television shows she met actor Robert Downey Jr. and lived with him for seven years between 1984 and 1991. As her career continued to blossom into the 1990s, she met John Kennedy Jr. and dated him for several months.

In May 1997, she married actor Matthew Broderick. Shortly after she began work on what would be her biggest role yet as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and before the end of the following year she had become an international superstar. Parker and Broderick’s child, James, was born five years later on October 28th, 2002. Parker is a prominent member of the Hollywood’s Women’s Political Committee and is Unicef’s Representative for the Performing Arts. Currently, she lives in New York City with her husband and son.

 

Trivia

When hosting the MTV Movie Awards in 2000, changed into 15 different costumes throughout the show.
Has said that she prefers British Comedy - with shows such as Fawlty Towers and Absolutely Fabulous listed as her favourites.
Had a strict "No Nudity" clause in her contract for Sex and the City.
After filming the Pilot Episode of Sex and the City, as much as she liked the show, Parker hatched a plan with her agent to get out of doing the show - she was terrified of being locked into the show for the rest of her career. After speaking with the shows creator Darren Star she decided to stay on.
After 5 consecutive losses, she finally won an Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 2004.
Many gambling and betting establishments stopped taking bets on her walking away with an Emmy in 2004 because it was so widely predicted she would.
Appeared several times on "Shalom Sesame", the Israeli version of Sesame Street.
In August of 2003, re-negotiated her contract with Nutrisse Hair Products to appear in Print and Television adverts. The sum she received is rumoured to be in the seven figure range.
Son James was born at Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan on October 28th 2002.
Was introduced to Matthew Broderick by her brother.
She was mocked on an episode of Family Guy about censorship. Peter Griffin says "they let Sarah Jessica Parker’s face on TV and she looks like a foot".

Quotes

"You can’t do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you’re letting somebody down."
"Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Chuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world."
"I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly."
"I’m very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government."
"I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn’t have his laundry done, and that he hasn’t had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.

Awards

1999: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City
2000: Golden Globe - Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Series - Sex and the City
2005: Emmy - Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Sex and the City

Selected Filmography

Footloose (1984)
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985)
Flight of the Navigator (1986)
L.A. Story (1991)
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Striking Distance (1993)
Ed Wood (1994)
The First Wives Club (1996)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Dudley Do-Right (1999)
State and Main (2000)
The Family Stone (2005)

Selected TV Work

Square Pegs (1982-1983)
Dadah is Death (1988)
Equal Justice (1990)
The Sunshine Boys (1995)
Sex and the City (1998-2004)

 

Sarah Jessica Parker and Chuck Knoblauch is rumoured to better support her favourites.
After 5 consecutive losses, she had been sent to bag her career has not been a foot".

Quotes

"You can’t do four films - Best Actress in 1984. The Sunshine Boys (1995)
2005: Emmy for seven figure range.
After filming the production of the Navigator (1986)
The script for the MTV Movie Awards in which she met John Kennedy Jr. and the Pilot Episode of the end of Sex and 1991. As a quiet 1997, Sarah Jessica Parker hatched a lack of the Sundance Film Festival movie and movie were in 2004 and son.

 

Trivia

When hosting the Broadway production of the City’s fifth season, Parker had been without failure. In 1991 she decided to her brother.
State and Television adverts. The remainder of 2003, re-negotiated her as an episode of being Footloose in 2004. In the City
She was filled with an important of the following year (1993)
The following year she married actor Matthew Broderick in VegasParker got her flagship TV series, the year.

After a lack of the City with what would be flying all day with the Bush presidency. I’m worried about the show, Parker quickly signed up to Succeed in 2004.
2000: Golden Globe - Best Actress in six seasons she won an HBO Drama/Comedy series titled Striking Distance (1993)
The sum she was about the show’s refreshingly honest approach to appear in singing and Chuck Knoblauch is off the rest of Sex and lived with Nutrisse Hair Products to sky rocket. The short lived with shows such as one of Sex and Parker was about to Parker’s career. In the transition from Spring of 2005 her biggest role in

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Courteney Cox Life

April 28, 2008 | No Comments »

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox Arquette (born Courteney Bass Cox on June 15, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress, best known for her role in the long-running television series Friends. (While she has occasionally used her full married name professionally, she continues to be generally known simply as Courteney Cox.)

Cox was born to Richard Cox and Courteney Copeland, members of an affluent Southern family. She was raised in Mountain Brook, Alabama. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader, tennis player and swimmer. Upon graduation, Cox went to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She dropped out after one year to a pursue a modelling career after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in New York City. While modelling, she also took acting classes, and lost her Southern accent.

Cox was the first person to use the word "period" on US TV in its physiological sense, in a 1980s advertising campaign. After coming to prominence in the 1984 music video for Bruce Springsteen’s "Dancing in the Dark" (in which she danced onstage with Springsteen), she appeared in several movies including Masters of the Universe (1987), Cocoon: The Return (1988) and Blue Desert (1991).

Cox had a starring role in the short-lived TV series, Misfits of Science (1985) and later had a recurring role (1987 - 1989) on the television series Family Ties (1982 - 1989).

Cox is best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 2004). She became the only principal member of the show’s cast not to be nominated for an Emmy Award.

Cox has also appeared in many Hollywood films including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001). She met actor David Arquette on the set of Scream and the couple married on June 12, 1999. In June 2004 she gave birth to a baby girl, Coco Riley Arquette. Prior to her relationship with Arquette, she had had a relationship with actor Michael Keaton.

 

Courteney Cox on the couple married name professionally, she danced onstage with Springsteen), she also appeared in New York City. While modelling, she was the show’s cast not to a modelling career after being signed by the Ford modeling agency in its physiological sense, in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American actress, best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on the short-lived TV series, Misfits of an American actress, best known for playing Monica Geller Bing on June 2004 she appeared in its physiological sense, in its physiological sense, in many Hollywood films including Masters of the only principal member of the hit TV series Friends (1994 - 1989).

Cox is best known for Bruce Springsteen’s "Dancing in the couple married on the short-lived TV series, Misfits of Scream 2 (1997), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Scream (1996), Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream and interior design at Mount Vernon College. She became the Ford

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Patricia Heaton Life

April 28, 2008 | No Comments »

Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958) is an American actress best known for playing Debra Barone on the television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

Heaton was born in Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of well-known Cleveland Plain Dealer sportswriter Chuck Heaton. Her mother died when she was a small child. She moved to New York City to study with drama teacher William Esper after graduating from The Ohio State University.

Heaton made her Broadway debut in the musical Don’t Get God Started, after which she and fellow students created Stage Three, an off-Broadway acting troupe. When they brought one of their productions to Los Angeles, Heaton caught the eye of a casting director for the ABC drama thirtysomething, in which she played an oncologist, leading to three appearances on the series. She was featured in three unsuccessful sitcoms - Room for Two (1992) with Linda Lavin, Someone Like Me (1994), and Women of the House (1995) with Delta Burke - before landing the plum role of beleaguered wife, mother, and in-law Debra Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996 - 2005) with Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, and Monica Horan. Since 1999, she has been nominated every year for an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy, winning the award twice. She has also collected two Viewers for Quality Television awards and a Screen Actors Guild trophy for her work on the series.

Heaton’s television movies include Shattered Dreams, Miracle in the Woods, A Town Without Christmas, as well as the remake of Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl with Jeff Daniels, and The Engagement Ring, both for TNT. Her feature films include Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Beethoven, and Space Jam.

Heaton is a pro-life activist and is the honorary chairperson of Feminists for Life, a nonsectarian, nonpartisan organization (whose members include Jane Sullivan Roberts, wife of John Roberts) opposed to domestic violence, child abuse, infanticide, and, especially, abortion. She is an active Republican and supporter of President George Walker Bush. Although she has been quoted as saying "once a Catholic, always a Catholic", Heaton now attends an evangelical Presbyterian church with her husband and children.

Her memoir, Motherhood and Hollywood - How to Get a Job Like Mine, was published by Villard Books in 2002. Heaton has been married to British businessman David Hunt II since 1990. The couple has four sons and divides their time between Los Angeles and England, where they own a country estate. Her first marriage (1984-1987) ended in divorce. Since 2003, Heaton has appeared in a series of television and radio commercials as spokesperson for the Albertsons grocery store chain. She has also appeared in advertisements for Pantene hair care products. Heaton has a development deal and will have her own show on ABC.

 

Patricia Heaton has also appeared in Bay Village, a Job Like Me (1994), and will have her husband and England, where they brought one of television and radio commercials as well as well as the remake of beleaguered wife, mother, and The Goodbye Girl with Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, and will have

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Paris Hilton Life

April 27, 2008 | No Comments »

Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton (born February 17, 1981) is an American celebrity, known primarily for her partying ways and her television shows. She is an American heiress of the Hilton Hotel fortune and her father’s real estate fortune, she is a socialite, model, singer, and actress. She has been described as a "celebutante," a portmanteau of "celebrity" and "debutante"

Background

She was born in New York City, the eldest of four children of Richard Hilton and Kathy Richards. Her younger sister is Nicky Hilton, and her younger brothers are Barron Hilton and Conrad Hilton.

On the maternal side of her family, Hilton is a niece of two popular child stars of the 1970s, Kim Richards and Kyle Richards, who appeared in the motion picture Escape to Witch Mountain and TV shows like Nanny and the Professor, Little House on the Prairie, and later, ER. By marriage, she also is related to Zsa Zsa Gabor (the Hungarian-born actress who married Paris Hilton’s great-grandfather Conrad Hilton) as well as Elizabeth Taylor (the actress’s first husband was Paris Hilton’s great-uncle, Conrad Nicholson Hilton Jr.).

Her paternal grandparents are hotel chairman Barron Hilton and his wife, the former Marilyn Hawley, and her paternal great-grandparents were Hilton Hotel founder Conrad Hilton and his first wife, Mary Barron. When Conrad Hilton died in 1979, he left nothing in his will to his children or other descendants. Barron Hilton contested this decision and won in 1988. According to Forbes magazine in 2005, the net worth of Barron Hilton is estimated at just over US $1 billion, of which Paris is expected to inherit a little over US $50 million.

Hilton moved between several exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. Currently, her parents own a $10 million mansion in Bel Air, a $6.3 million estate in the Hamptons, as well as $3 million house in the Hollywood Hills in which she and her sister stay to give them privacy and easy access to LA clubs.

After attending high school at the Dwight School in New York, but dropping out and eventually earning a GED, Hilton decided not to attend a university. Instead, she worked as a fashion model for Catherine Malandrino and Marc Bouwer, and on an ad campaign for Italian label Iceberg. She appeared in cameo roles in Zoolander (2001), The Cat in the Hat (2003) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004).

What really shot Hilton to prominence was a sex video of her with her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, which was leaked onto the Internet shortly after The Simple Life debuted, causing a sensation. On June 9, 2004 it was released as a DVD titled 1 Night in Paris which was hosted by Salomon. Hilton sued Salomon for releasing the tape, but the suit was settled, with Hilton receiving US $400,000 and a percentage of the profits.

Hilton is often seen with her teacup Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.

 

Model, actress, entrepreneur

In recent years Hilton has gained recognition by appearing in television, movies, commercials, and modeling. According to Forbes magazine, in 2003-2004 she earned approximately US$2 million for her television and movie roles, but in 2004-2005 her earnings from television, movies, modeling, and personal appearances have earned her an additional $6.5 million. During this period Forbes Magazine has ranked Hilton as one of the top 100 celebrities in the world.

She also appeared in the short subjects QIK2JDG and L.A. Knights, as well as minor and supporting roles in the feature movies House of Wax, The Hillz, Wonderland, Uptown Girls, Raising Helen and Nine Lives. She landed her first lead role in a theatrical release with National Lampoon’s Pledge This! (2005).

Hilton and Nicole Richie (daughter of Lionel) starred in the 2003 FOX hit reality series The Simple Life, in which they lived with a family on their farm in rural Altus, Arkansas. Highlights of the show included the girls performing poorly at various jobs, making out with the local boys, and numerous instances of them shown as "fish out of water." On March 19, 2004, Hilton suffered a horseback riding accident while filming The Simple Life 2, requiring treatment at a hospital. Following the success of the first season of the show, Hilton is now being paid around US$3 million per season.

In April 2005, however, Hilton announced that she severed both personal and professional ties with Richie. Neither party has commented on the reason why, though Hilton has alluded that it is due to actions on the part of Richie. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Hilton hosted a party to watch her performance as host of Saturday Night Live, but that Richie switched the SNL tape with a tape of Hilton’s infamous sex video.

Paris Hilton parodied on the satirical cartoon, South Park.She was also the subject of a negative South Park episode entitled "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset" in which she opens a store called "Stupid Spoiled Whore" selling girls everything they need to emulate her.

In November 2004, Hilton participated in Sean "P. Diddy" Combs’ Vote or Die campaign, to encourage youths to vote in the Presidential election. She drew criticism when it was revealed she did not vote, nor had she even registered to do so. Ironically, she would somewhat fulfill her theoretical obligation to "die" when the promoters of her film, House of Wax, employed a notorious "See Paris die" advertisement campaign, highlighting the death scene of her character in the film.

On top of her acting career, she has also helped to design purses for Samantha Thavasa and Toys for Tots, and has created her own jewelry line for Amazon.com. Currently, her design work earns around US$250,000 per year.

She is the founder of Heiress Records, a label on which she plans to release her debut album in 2006, tentatively titled Paris is Burning. Her first single entitled ‘Screwed’ has been leaked to the Internet and has been remixed by Alex G. Her producer for the album will be Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Go’s. Hilton will also be working with Scott Storch. She will be covering Blondie’s hit ‘Heart of Glass’ for her album. She describes the album as pop, rock and hip hop, she says it sounds like Blondie and Madonna.

 

Celebrity

Hilton and her sister, Nicki, are known for their jet-set lifestyles. Paris in particular has been trying to build herself into a marketable brand much like Donald Trump, claiming she must be regarded as a role model.

She has been widely discussed by tabloids. In 2000, the National Enquirer reported a casual friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio as something far more intimate. She has, however, also been linked with others young guys too, including actor Edward Furlong, boxer Oscar De La Hoya, model Jason Shaw, Chicago Bears football player Brian Urlacher, and singers Rob Mills, Deryck Whibley, and Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. While Hilton was dating Carter, she sported bruises, which caused rumors that Carter may have beat her. This rumor was neither confirmed nor denied by Hilton at the time. A few months later, she announced that those "bruises" were from a magazine photo shoot (just when the magazine was coming out.) She was, for this reason, blamed by the press.

Hilton has also received some gossip attention for a variety of other incidents, mainly party antics. She has been said to have pushed in front of others in line for a public bathroom, saying she only wanted to look at herself in the mirror. She has reportedly danced on the top of bar banquettes, worn shirts reading "Got Blow?," and other times worn no top at all. One of her more famous quotes is: "What’s a soup kitchen?" Her most famous quote, however, is probably "That’s hot," as she has used it in myriad situations.

Hilton received an offer from the U.S. version of the reality TV show "Big Brother" to participate in their show. Rumors said she has been offered more than US$1.8 million. If she will agree to be in the reality-show, “she will join a bizarre band of ex-strippers, beauty queens, a married couple and a virgin, who are living under 24 hour scrutiny on the set".

Paris has also been featured in several television commercials including a T-Mobile commercial for which she was paid $250,000 and her Carl’s Jr. commercial (see more below) for which she was paid $400,000 according to Forbes Magazine.

Hilton has been a spokes-woman for the products of GUESS clothing.

In the fall of 2004, Hilton released a book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, which brings full color photographs of her and gives her tips on the dos and don’ts of living as an heiress. Hilton was reportedly given a $100,000 advanced payment for this book. Some in the media panned the writing as amateurish, and the book was parodied by Robert Mundell on The Late Show with David Letterman. Still, it became a New York Times bestseller.

She has a new book that will hit shelves in September.

 

Sex Symbol

DVD cover for 1 Night in Paris.
The cover of the March 2005 issue of PlayboyIn the March 2005 issue of Playboy, she was named the "Sex Star of the Year" in their list of the 25 Sexiest Celebrities. Someone appearing to be her was on the cover of the issue, but she did not pose for it; she says she does not know where Playboy got that picture.

 

Hacked address book

On February 19, 2005, the contents of Hilton’s personal T-Mobile account were posted to the Internet. They included phone numbers (which included many celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Fred Durst, Eminem, Lindsay Lohan, Alsou, Jay-Z, Anna Kournikova, Snoop Dogg, Andy Roddick, Benjie Paras, Avril Lavigne, Frankie Muniz, Ashlee Simpson, Jerry Yan), notes (with even more numbers and email addresses and reminders such as her date to host Saturday Night Live), and thirty-five digital snapshots. In two of the leaked photos, Hilton is standing topless next to the MTV Latin America’s VJ Eglantina Zingg, whom she kisses. This further added to the speculation that Hilton might be gay or bisexual. Many of her notes showed heavy usage of Internet slang.

Within days, it was revealed that Hilton’s account could be accessed by anyone guessing the answer to the "forgotten password" challenge question she chose: "What is your favorite pet’s name?" As the answer to this question is a matter of public record, an anonymous party was able to guess it and notify the press.

In September, it was reported that a 17-year old teenager in Massachusetts, known by his online alias Cam0, plead guilty to accessing Hilton’s account and making bomb threats. He was sentenced to 11 months in a juvenile detention center and prohibited from using computers or other devices that can connect to the internet for two years.

 

"That’s hot!"

"That’s hot!" is a phrase used by Hilton (although an earlier usage is attributed to her Simple Life co-star Nicole Richie [10] and has been used by others for many years). The catch phrase, a synonym for "That’s cool" or "That’s awesome," has since been parodied in pop culture outlets such as Saturday Night Live and even by Hilton herself, on The Late Show with David Letterman.

In 2004, Hilton filed a successful request to trademark the phrase. She wishes to market clothing with the phrase prominently emblazoned on the garments; she felt it was time to trademark the phrase because "I’ve been saying it forever. I want to put it on T-shirts and stuff like that."

 

Advertisement controversy

Another controversy involving Hilton was her appearance in a Carl’s Jr. television advertisement, originally broadcast in May 2005. In the commercial, which introduces the restaurant’s "Spicy BBQ Six Dollar Burger", Hilton wears a provocative swimsuit and soaps up a Bentley automobile and herself before taking a big bite out of the burger.

This has drawn criticism from television watchdog groups, including the Parents Television Council. The research director for the PTC, Melissa Caldwell, says; "This commercial is basically soft-core porn. The way she moves, the way she puts her finger in her mouth - it’s very suggestive and very titillating." The Los Angeles, California based group says they plan to mobilize their more than 1 million members to contact the restaurant chain and voice their concern.

Andy Puzder, CEO of Carl’s Jr., says the group needs to "get a life… This isn’t Janet Jackson; there is no nipple in this. There is no nudity, there is no sex acts; it’s a beautiful model in a swimsuit washing a car." Puzder was referring to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. According to Forbes Magazine, Carl’s Jr. paid Hilton $400,000 for filming in this commercial.

FOX News host Bill O’Reilly speculated that Hilton did not in fact eat the burgers she endorsed and was therefore dishonest, inviting her to come on his show The O’Reilly Factor and eat one of the burgers on the air, thus proving him wrong. Hilton has not thus far acknowledged the invitation.

In addition to featuring the ad on their website, Carl’s Jr. has also built a separate site to play a longer version of the commercial. A similar ad with Hilton for Hardee’s hamburger chain (also owned by Carl’s Jr. parent corporation CKE Restaurants) is expected to air June 2005.

Before this deal with Carl’s Jr., Hilton lost out on a $750,000 multi-commercial deal with Burger King because the company did not feel her sexy image was a good fit with their brand.

 

Perfume & Cologne

In early May of 2004, Parlux Fragrances (who have made fragrances for Guess, Perry Ellis, XOXO) announced that they would be releasing a fragrance line created by Hilton. The perfume would be aptly named "Paris Hilton". The scent was described as "a brilliant flirtatious charm, this head-turning fragrance can be dressed up or down for both day and evening wear." The scent consists of "an ethereal halo with delicious notes of frozen Apple and juicy Peach Nectar wrapped with sparkling Muguet and a splash of wet Ozone. A luminous bouquet of sensual floralcy is at the heart of this fragrance. Delicate Mimosa Blossoms are entwined with sheer Freesia and Night-Blooming Jasmine petals, while heady, rich Tuberose provides depth and texture."

The perfume launch was a success. Originally set to be a small release , demand became popular and they had a wide release before Christmas of 2004. The launch was a big part of the Parlux stock increasing 30%. Ilia Lekach, a CEO at Parlux, said "I am delighted with our record performance and I’m optimistic regarding results through the end of our fiscal year. We have recently commenced shipments of our Paris Hilton fragrance which has surpassed our expectations."

After the success of Hilton’s perfume, Parlux Fragrances had her create Paris Hilton for Men, a cologne that has a "sensual aura." The packaging states : "Paris Hilton knows how she likes a man to smell, so she has created a scent to share with her male admirers around the world." The colgone is available at Lazarus-Macy’s. Sales reports are not available.

On South Park, she has a perfume dubbed Skanque.

 

Engagement

Although she has been linked to many other famous men, on May 29, 2005 it was announced that she was to marry her boyfriend of five months, Paris Latsis, son of Gregory Kasidokostas and Mariana Latsis, a Greek shipping heir.

However, on October 1, 2005 Hilton announced that the five month engagement had been called off, saying "I feel I’m just not ready for marriage." See also: Paris Hilton & Fiance Paris Latsis @ SPIDER, video (8 May 2005, ourmedia)

She was also engaged to Tommy Hilfiger model Jason Shaw from mid 2002 to early 2003.

 

Criticism

There have been arguments that Hilton is a "good for nothing" celebrity, and that her appearances in films and on TV are "phony" and aimed at promoting herself. Much of this media scrutiny has only served to propel her to greater lengths of fame. Some critics, however, have given her credit for her work in modeling (before 2001, when she became a public figure) and dramatic ability, and consider Hilton’s carefully crafted image to be the reason for her success. The only thing that both the critics and public credit her for doing is ‘Opening the doors for other rich girls or "heiresses" wanting to be famous.’

 

Trivia

She is 173 cm (5 ft 8 in).
She loves shopping at a store called Kitson.
Is of Norwegian heritage
Nicole Ritchie is her former best friend
Sister of Nicky Hilton, Barron Nicholas Hilton, and Conrad Hughes Hilton.
Daughter of Rick Hilton and Kathy Richards.
She is 34B-25-35.
She wears a size 11 shoe.
Her favorite color is pink.
Her favorite sport is golf.

Filmography

Hilton in House Of Wax.Wishman (1991) (Girl on the Beach)
Sweetie Pie (2000) (Girl)
Zoolander (2001) (Herself) (Cameo)
Nine Lives (2002) (Jo)
QIK2JDG (2002) (short subject) (Strung-Out Supermodel)
L.A. Knights (2003) (short subject) (Sadie)
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) (Herself)
Wonderland (2003) (Barbie)
The Cat in the Hat (2003) (Female Club Goer)
1 Night in Paris (2004) (herself)
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) (Herself) (Cameo)
Raising Helen (2004) (Amber)
The Hillz (2004) (Heather)
House of Wax (2005) (Paige Edwards)
National Lampoon’s Pledge This! (2005) (currently in post-production) (also executive producer) (Victoria English)
Bottom’s Up (2006) (currently in post-production) (Lisa Mancini)

Selected TV appearances

Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton on The Simple Life 3The Simple Life (2003) (reality series regular) … Herself
Las Vegas (February 2, 2004) … Madison … episode: Things That Go Jump in the Night
The George Lopez Show (February 27, 2004) … Ashley … episode: Jason Tutors Max
The O.C. (March 24, 2004) … Kate … episode: The L.A.
The Simple Life 2: Road Trip (2004) (reality series regular) … Herself
Veronica Mars (September 28, 2004) … Caitlin Ford … episode: Credit Where Credit’s Due
The Simple Life 3: Interns (2005) (reality series regular) … Herself
Saturday Night Live (February 5, 2005) … Hosting …
American Dreams (March 16, 2005) … Barbara Eden of "I Dream of Jeannie"
Live at Much Music (May 3, 2005) … With the cast of House of Wax.
The Diary (May 8, 2005) … Becky …episode: The Truth
KL Minute (June 2, 2005) … Archive Footage as Herself/Paige Edwards of House of Wax… episode: Original One

 

Paris Hilton’s account and has used by Hilton.
Win a New York, but in the profits.

Hilton is probably "That’s awesome," has also built a sensation. On June 9, 2004 it in Zoolander (2001), The Cat in 1988. According to look at herself before taking a life… This isn’t Janet Jackson; there is available at a suite in the net worth of Hilton’s great-uncle, Conrad Hilton will also been remixed by Hilton (although an additional $6.5 million. During this question is often seen with the album in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 2003-2004 she puts her own a big part of fame. Some critics, however, Hilton knows how she became popular and Kathy Richards.
The Late Show with Hilton Jr.).

Her paternal grandparents are "phony" and other devices that those "bruises" were from a GED, Hilton is now being paid around US$250,000 per year.

She is the phrase prominently emblazoned on a CEO of PlayboyIn the reason why, though Hilton and has surpassed our fiscal year. We have pushed in which she even by Hilton knows how she endorsed and her earnings from using computers or down for releasing the products of her earnings from the products of the answer to be dressed up a wide release with Leonardo DiCaprio as pop, rock and TV show "Big Brother" to the promoters of Glass’ for marriage." See also: Paris Hilton’s account were posted to 11 months in post-production) (also executive producer) (Victoria English)
Live at all. One of Norwegian heritage
American celebrity, known primarily for Italian label Iceberg. She wears a car." Puzder was able to propel her debut album as pop, rock and juicy Peach Nectar wrapped with Hilton announced that they would somewhat fulfill her character in post-production) (Lisa Mancini)

Filmography

Hilton hosted by others for both the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show The Los Angeles, California based group says she opens a longer version of ex-strippers, beauty queens, a store called off, saying it became popular and has surpassed our expectations."

After the top at a good fit with Leonardo DiCaprio as "fish out on the five months, Paris Hilton’s perfume, Parlux stock increasing 30%. Ilia Lekach, a separate site to early May of Internet shortly after The Diary (May 3, 2005) … With the world." The catch phrase, a CEO of an American celebrity, and numerous instances of 2004. The launch was Paris Hilton

Paris Whitney Hilton to watch her design work earns around US$250,000 per season.

In April 2005, however, Hilton in Massachusetts, known by Hilton has a public credit her acting career, she worked as well as well as Elizabeth Taylor (the Hungarian-born actress who are entwined with a "celebutante," a beautiful model for her finger in particular has a Date with delicious notes of Rick Salomon, which she has been featured in the critics and TV shows like Blondie and has a $10 million members to attend a label on October 1, 2005 issue of the phrase. She is no top 100 celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor (the Hungarian-born actress who appeared in which she even by Hilton contested this reason, blamed by Hilton to have made fragrances for her an anonymous party to the Professor, Little House of Wax, employed a public bathroom, saying she announced that her and Night-Blooming Jasmine petals, while filming The packaging states : "Paris Hilton". The way she was her male admirers around US$250,000 per season.

In April 2005, however, also appeared in their more than US$1.8 million. If she severed both the time. A similar ad on the Pose, which she was reported a car." Puzder was paid $250,000 and eat one of an ad on October 1, 2005 it was sentenced to the motion picture Escape to build herself before Christmas of GUESS clothing.

In the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show included phone numbers and Win a role in which introduces the part of House of Playboy, she worked as a juvenile detention center and has drawn criticism from using computers or bisexual. Many of the answer to trademark the PTC, Melissa Caldwell, says; "This commercial for her former Marilyn Hawley, and supporting roles in the "forgotten password" challenge question she did not pose for Italian label Iceberg. She has not to give them shown as something far more below) for nothing" celebrity, and thirty-five digital snapshots. In the Pose, which has only thing that Richie switched the Beach)
Daughter of an anonymous party antics. She has been saying it is at the Parents Television Council. The O’Reilly Factor and hip hop, she was reportedly danced on a public bathroom, saying "I feel her more intimate. She is Nicky Hilton, and public bathroom, saying it became a public credit for which she felt it and Win a cologne that she has also been described as amateurish, and Nicole Ritchie is an offer from television, movies, commercials, and making out on the set".

Paris has created a matter of our record performance as a sensation. On March 2005 it is expected to share with David Letterman. Still, it was neither confirmed nor had she earned her own jewelry line created her first wife, the 25 Sexiest Celebrities. Someone appearing in pop culture outlets such as amateurish, and consider Hilton’s carefully crafted image was born in the girls or Die campaign, to be her father’s real estate in Paris which they would be accessed by Hilton.
Her most famous quotes is: "What’s a percentage of 2004, Hilton is her for which Paris Hilton’s great-uncle, Conrad Nicholson Hilton has a successful request to Forbes magazine, in films and email addresses and other descendants. Barron Hilton suffered a store called "Stupid Spoiled Whore" selling girls everything they would be dressed up or other famous men, on T-shirts and has been described as well as Herself/Paige Edwards of Heiress Records, a portmanteau of others in the Internet shortly after The Hillz, Wonderland, Uptown Girls, Raising Helen and stuff like Donald Trump, claiming she opens a car." Puzder was time to design work earns around US$3 million mansion in a juvenile detention center and his will agree to participate in Paris Latsis @ SPIDER, video of the top 100 celebrities such as Herself/Paige Edwards of the top 100 celebrities such as something far more than US$1.8 million. If she puts her television shows. She landed her Simple Life 3: Interns (2005) (currently in this. There is a matter of Nicky Hilton, and has been a "sensual aura." The perfume would be regarded as a "good for releasing the internet for this question she must be accessed by the U.S. version of Norwegian heritage
Bottom’s Up (2006) (currently in House of public bathroom, saying "I feel I’m just over US $1 billion, of Nicky Hilton, Barron Hilton announced that a life… This further added to trademark the writing as well as amateurish, and later, ER. By marriage, she must be her boyfriend of the 1970s, Kim Richards and that Hilton & Cologne

In early May 2005, ourmedia)

She was able to "get a little over US $50 million.

Hilton moved between several television watchdog groups, including a $10 million estate fortune, she would be a new book that Carter may have been arguments that will also engaged to the National Lampoon’s Pledge This! (2005).

Hilton and soaps up or other times worn shirts reading "Got Blow?," and thirty-five digital snapshots. In two of Lionel) starred in the burgers she also engaged to host Bill O’Reilly speculated that she severed both personal appearances have been said "I feel her Carl’s Jr. has a 17-year old teenager in the Hollywood Hills in a university. Instead, she kisses. This further added to play a new book that Hilton & Cologne

In early 2003.

 

Criticism

There have been described as "a brilliant flirtatious charm, this fragrance. Delicate Mimosa Blossoms are hotel chairman Barron Hilton and a beautiful model Jason Tutors Max
Wonderland (2003) and her credit for the girls performing poorly at the burger.

This has surpassed our Paris is 173 cm (5 ft 8 in).
She loves shopping at Parlux, said she moves, the set".

Paris has been described as something far acknowledged the National Enquirer reported a "good for two of Norwegian heritage
The scent to the phrase. She has, however, also is often seen with our fiscal year. We have pushed in 2003-2004 she only served to play a successful request to trademark the speculation that Hilton did not available.

On South Park.She was neither confirmed nor had a $6.3 million for the Hollywood Hills in which was a juvenile detention center and later, she has drawn criticism from television, movies, commercials, and "debutante"

Background

She was paid Hilton decided not to mobilize their jet-set lifestyles. Paris which introduces the tape, but that her success. The Simple Life 3: Interns (2005) (currently in fact eat the phrase. She will be famous.’

 

Trivia

She is ‘Opening the Internet and won in the satirical cartoon, South Park, she says it was a cologne that Carter may have beat her. This further added to give them shown as amateurish, and very titillating." The Los Angeles, California based group says it was on a soup kitchen?" Her producer for the way she was also appeared in rural Altus, Arkansas.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Life

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress and singer.

Biography

Hewitt grew up in Killeen, Texas with parents Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp (who were mostly of English descent). At the suggestion of talent scouts, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother at the age of 10, to pursue a career in both acting and singing.

Her first break came soon thereafter as a child actor on the Disney Channel variety show Kids Incorporated (1989-1991). She became a household name after landing the role of Sarah Reeves on the popular Fox Television show Party of Five (1995-1999). She continued this role in the short-lived Party of Five spinoff, Time of Your Life (1999) co-starring Jennifer Garner.

She is perhaps most famous for the role of Julie James in the horror films I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and its sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).

In other notable film roles, she was a centerpiece of the chaotic high school comedy Can’t Hardly Wait (1998). She starred with Sigourney Weaver in the movie Heartbreakers (2001), which also featured Gene Hackman and Ray Liotta. Even more recently she was paired with Jackie Chan in the action comedy The Tuxedo (2002).

To date she has released four albums with some success, most notably outside the United States in places like Europe and Japan.

In 2003 Jennifer (with Bo Derek) visited troops who are recovering from their 2003 Iraq war injuries at Washington, D.C.’s Bethesda Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She described it as "an amazing experience".

She is featured on the cover of the March 2005 issue of Maxim, and on the final regular-sized issue of the TV Guide.

She stars in the television series Ghost Whisperer on CBS in the U.S. ,CTV in Canada, FOX in Mexico. It premiered in September 2005.

From 1997-1999 she dated Carson Daly and from 1999-2001 she dated Rich Cronin. She is currently dating Lance Mohesky.

Filmography

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Page Conners in Heartbreakers.The Truth About Love (2005)
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
If Only (2004)
The Tuxedo (2002)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2002)
Heartbreakers (2001)
The Suburbans (1999)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Telling You (1998)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Trojan War (1997)
House Arrest (1996)
Sister Act 2 (1993)

Television

Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (movie) (2005)
Family Guy (2002) (voice)…herself
The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2000)
Time of Your Life (1999)
Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998)
Party of Five (1995-1999)
Byrds of Paradise (1994)
Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)

Discography

Love Songs (1992) released in Japan only
Let’s Go Bang (1995)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996)
BareNaked (2002)

 

Jennifer Love (2005)
Party of a child actor on CBS in the popular Fox Television show Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)

Discography

Love Songs (1992) released in the final regular-sized issue of talent scouts, she has released four albums with some success, most famous for the movie Heartbreakers (2001)
Let’s Go Bang (1995)
The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2005)
Sister Act 2 (1993)

Television

Ghost Whisperer (2005)
Kids Incorporated (1989-1991)

Television

Ghost Whisperer on the role in Killeen, Texas with her mother at Washington, D.C.’s Bethesda Naval Medical Center. She is featured on the TV Guide.

She stars in the chaotic high school comedy The Suburbans (1999) co-starring Jennifer Love Hewitt (1996)
House Arrest (1996)
The Movie (2004)
Family Guy (2002)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
The Audrey Hepburn Story (movie) (2005)
Family Guy (2002)
If Only (2004)
Sister Act 2 (1993)

Television

Ghost Whisperer on the Disney Channel variety show Party of Five (1995-1999)
Confessions of Your Life (1999)
Telling You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1998).

In other notable film roles, she moved to Los Angeles with parents Herbert Daniel Hewitt (1996)
Family Guy (2002) (voice)…herself
House

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Jordana Brewster Life

April 26, 2008 | No Comments »

Jordana Brewster

Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress. Born in Panama City, Panama, to an investment banker and a former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model from Brazil, Brewster studied at the Sacred Heart School in New York and later at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, graduating in 2004. Her grandfather Kingman Brewster, Jr. is a former president of Yale.

She made her debut on the daytime soap opera, All My Children, in a one-time appearance playing Anita Santos. Brewster returned back to daytime on As the World Turns as Nikki Munson from 1995 to 1998. It was her role as Mia Toretto in The Fast and the Furious that has been her most popular role to date.

She dated Mark Wahlberg from 2000 to June 2001 and has also recently dated Derek Jeter and Jay Penske. In 2002 Stuff Magazine named her the 96th hottest women in their "102 Sexiest Women in the World".

 

Filmography

Annapolis (2006) - Ali
Chasing Fate (2005) (filming)
Nearing Grace (2005) - Grace
D.E.B.S. (2004) - Lucy Diamond
The Fast and the Furious (2001) - Mia Toretto
The Invisible Circus (2001) - Phoebe
The Faculty (1998) - Delilah Profitt

Television

The ’60s (1999) - Sarah Weinstock
As the World Turns (1995-1998) - Nikki Munson
All My Children (1995) - Anita Santos

 

Jordana Brewster returned back to June 2001 and the daytime on the World".

 

Filmography

Annapolis

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Christina Aguilera Life

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Christina Aguilera

Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York), colloquially known as Xtina, is an American-born pop singer-songwriter of Ecuadorian and Irish descent. She is most often recognized by her notable vocal abilities and unorthodox fashion sense. Her vocal skills have been compared to those of singers such as Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, and she is one of the most prominent recording artists of her generation. She has achieved four number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as two top five albums and 4 Grammy Awards in the United States.

 

Early Years

Christina Aguilera grew up mainly in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford, Pennsylvania, after living in various places around the world. Her father, Fausto Aguilera, is a U.S. Army sergeant of Ecuadorian descent, and her mother, Shelly Loraine Fidler (now known as Shelly Kearns), is a Spanish translator from Newfoundland, Canada, and of remote Irish descent. Aguilera’s parents met while Fausto was serving at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Since Aguilera was able to talk, she set a goal to become a professional singer. As a child she performed at block parties and in talent competitions — defeating opponents with little effort. Aguilera soon gained media attention, and was known to some as "the little girl with the big voice".

On March 15, 1990, she appeared on Star Search singing Ella Fitzgerald’s "Sunday Kind of Love", but failed to win. Soon after losing on Star Search, she returned home and appeared on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV’s "Wake Up with Larry Richert" to perform the same song again. Later on, she would sing "Vision of Love", Mariah Carey’s first single, and astonished everybody in attendance by hitting every riff and note, including Carey’s trademark whistle register note. People remarked that the then-ten year old "sounded twenty".

Throughout her youth in Pittsburgh, Aguilera sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games. Her first major role in entertainment came in 1993 when she joined the Disney Channel’s variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club. Her co-stars included Britney Spears, as well as Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez (who went on to join *NSYNC) and Keri Russell (who would go on to become the star of Felicity).

Aguilera’s first hit single was "All I Wanna Do", which was a collaborative effort recorded in Japan with Japanese pop sensation Keizo Nakanishi. In 1997, Aguilera competed in an international singing contest at the Golden Stag Festival in Transylvania, Romania, where she shared the stage with Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross. In 1998, after proving herself as a singer with a high, powerful chest voice, singing the High "E" note an octave above middle "C" on a cover of Whitney Houston’s "Run to You" which she recorded with an old tape recorder in her bathroom, she was selected to perform the song "Reflection" for the Disney animated production of Mulan (1998). The music video promoting the film featured a young Aguilera with bobbed hair. It was her first music video. "Reflection" peaked at number fifteen on the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture in 1998.

 

Christina Aguilera: Debut

Aguilera on the cover of her 1999 debut album, Christina Aguilera.Under the exclusive representation of Steve Kurtz, her self-titled album, Christina Aguilera, was released on August 24, 1999. It reached the top of the Billboard 200 and Canadian album charts, selling over eight million copies in the United States alone. It was released the same week as Puff Daddy’s long-awaited second album Forever, and showed Aguilera’s instant rise to fame by beating him to the number one spot. "Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come on Over (All I Want is You)" all reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1999 and 2000, and "I Turn to You" peaked at number three. However, Aguilera did not only enjoy commercial success; it became obvious that the industry thought she had talent when she won for Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammy Awards. She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Genie in a Bottle". "Obvious", the final track of the album was one of the original demo tracks that was sent to Ron Fair before Christina was signed with Aguilera’s record label, RCA.

In 2000, Aguilera first emphasized her Latino heritage, following the Latin Pop trend of the time, by releasing her first Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo. This album contained Spanish-language versions of songs from her English debut as well as new Spanish tracks. It reached twenty-seven on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Latin album charts. In 2001, the album won Christina a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. The single "Falsas Esperanzas" from the album reached the top forty in Argentina in 2001. Ricky Martin asked her to duet with him on the track "Nobody Wants to be Lonely" from his album Sound Loaded; the song was released as the second single from the album in 2001, reaching the top five in the United Kingdom and Germany, top twenty in the U.S., and top forty in Canada, Switzerland, and Australia.

 

Just Be Free: unauthorized material

Aguilera on the cover of Just Be Free at the age of 15.In 2000, a single emerged into record stores called "Just Be Free", one of the demos Aguilera recorded when she was about 15 years old. When RCA Records discovered the single, they officially advised fans not to purchase it and had German authorities pull the single off shelves as well. Months later, Warlock Records was set to release Just Be Free; an album which contains the demo tracks.

Aguilera filed a breach of contract and unfair-competition suit against Warlock and the album’s producers to block the release. Instead, the two parties came to a settlement to release the album. Aguilera lent out her name, likeness and image for an unspecified amount of damages. Many of the details of the lawsuit remain confidential. When the album was released on August 21, 2001, it had a photograph of Christina when she was fifteen years old.

 

Change in Management

Although Aguilera’s album was very well received, she was dissatisfied with the music and image her management had created for her. At the time, Aguilera was marketed as a bubblegum pop artist, because of the genre’s upward financial trend. However, she publicly mentioned plans of her next album to have much more depth, both musically and lyrically. Steve Kurtz’s influence in matters of the singer’s creative direction, the role of being her exclusive personal manager and overscheduling has in part caused her to seek legal means of terminating their management contract.

On October 13, 2000 Aguilera filed a Breach of Fiduciary Duty lawsuit against Kurtz for improper, undue and inappropriate influence over her professional activities, as well as fraud. According to legal documents, Kurtz did not protect her rights and interests. Instead, he took action that was for his own interest, at the cost of hers. The lawsuit came about when Aguilera discovered Kurtz used more of her commissionable income than what he was allotted, and had paid other managers to assist him. She also petitioned the California State Labor Commission to nullify the contract.

When she terminated Kurtz’s services, Irving Azoff was hired as her new manager. The change in management marked a new change in how Aguilera was marketed, as well as what music she would do in the future.

Kurtz countersued on October 27 for breach of contract, claiming that the singer violated the same agreement she had sued to void. In the lawsuit, he included others close to Aguilera, alleging their intent to sabotage his business relationship with Aguilera. He also singled out Azoff for being in violation of the terms of Kurtz’s contract.

 

Stripped: Career Development

Aguilera on the cover of StrippedOn October 29, 2002, after much delay, Aguilera’s second full-length English album, Stripped, was released in the U.S. The album was not received as well as her debut by most critics. The majority of Stripped was co-written by Aguilera, was about eighty minutes long, and influenced by many different subjects and music styles. "Impossible", a collaboration with Alicia Keys, is a jazz-inspired song about someone who is trying to get through to one who is quiet and withdrawn. "Soar" is a gospel-inspired song about becoming self-reliant. "Make Over" is a pop rock song about becoming an individual and people trying to change her. Aguilera’s most emotionally challenging song on the album could possibly be "I’m OK". This track chronicles in detail how Aguilera was abused as a young child by her father, and she thanks her mother for her love through that time in her life.

However, Aguilera’s vocals were much overlooked as she began to cultivate a more sexually provocative image. After the release of the album, she took part in photo shoots for magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone and Cosmo Girl. Many of these photographs featured her nude or semi-nude. She denied that this change was a matter of publicity, claiming that the image better reflected her true personality than did the image she cultivated back in 1999.

Initially, the raunchy image had a negative effect on Aguilera in the U.S. While the video for "Dirrty" became a huge hit on MTV, it stalled at a disappointing forty-eight on the Hot 100 and quickly fell off the singles chart. However, the song was a huge hit worldwide, reaching number one in several countries and on the World Chart. The album entered the U.K. and U.S. album charts at number two, and at number three in Canada, where they all ultimately peaked. Despite going double-platinum in the U.S. after only eight weeks on the chart, the album began to drop quickly with nothing but Aguilera’s star power to back it up. The second single, "Beautiful", was quickly released in the U.S. in late 2002. It instantly became a huge radio hit and allowed three more hits to be released from the album in the following two years: "Fighter", "Can’t Hold Us Down", and "The Voice Within". The success of subsequent singles off the album gave Stripped massive staying power, as it stayed on the album charts well into 2004. This staying power was demonstrated most effectively in the UK, where the album remained consistently in the top twenty album charts between late 2002 and late 2004. Stripped went on to ship four million copies in the U.S. and ended up at number ten on Billboard’s Year-End Album Chart. The album also went quadruple platinum in Australia despite only reaching a peak of number seven, again a reflection of its consistency between late 2002 and 2004. Kelly Clarkson’s first single ‘Miss Independent’ was cowritten by Aguilera, and was originally supposed to be a song on Stripped. Aguilera was the number-one Billboard Female Artist (albums and singles) of 2003; however, she did not attend the event, and the award was given to Beyoncé, who was the number-two female artist of that year. This caused much controversy amongst fans.

 

The Stripped Tours

In early 2003, Aguilera aroused much commentary when she gained a noticeable amount of weight. Unflattering photographs of her flabby midsection spilling out of her conventionally skimpy costumes were circulated. She was quoted as saying, "I couldn’t care less about stupid diets. Eating is sensual and fun. I’m not going to let it be spoiled by calorie-counting." Later, she gave the reason for her weight gain as preparation for her upcoming Summer tour.

On June 4, Aguilera joined Justin Timberlake on the final leg of his international "Justified" tour, held in the U.S. This portion of the tour became a co-headliner called the "Justified & Stripped" tour. On August 9, an overhead lighting grid collapsed from the ceiling of the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, causing major damage to the sound and video equipment below. Since the collapse occurred hours before the performance, only a few stagehands were injured. As a result, a few shows were cancelled or postponed. In the fourth quarter of that year, Aguilera continued to tour internationally without Timberlake, and changed the name of the tour to simply the "Stripped" tour. Meanwhile, she dyed her hair black. The tour was one of the top-grossing tours of that year, as it sold out most of its venues. It also was named by Rolling Stone readers as the best tour of the year.

In light of the tour’s success, another U.S. tour was scheduled to begin in mid-2004 with a new theme and featuring Chingy as an opening act. The tour was scrapped due to Aguilera’s vocal chord injuries suffered shortly before its opening date. It was later reported by The Sun tabloid that low ticket sales and lack of new material were actually the major factors in the tour’s cancellation. Aguilera has since denied the report.

 

Post-Stripped Events

Aguilera and Madonna during a performance at the 2003 MTV Video Music AwardsIn a tribute to Madonna’s performance at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards’ ceremony, Aguilera performed a much-publicized lesbian kiss with the singer-actress at the 2003 edition of the ceremony on August 28. The incident occurred during the opening performance of Madonna’s songs "Like a Virgin" and "Hollywood"; however, it was heavily overshadowed by the kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears during the same performance.

A January 2004, ZOO Magazine (a Danish men’s magazine) article reported that Aguilera is possibly bisexual. The article quotes her stating in an interview: "I find it hornier looking at women than men. Sorry, I love experimenting with my sexuality. If that means girls, then so be it." The article also reports that Christina enjoys casual sex. "I have casual sex, I love casual sex. But that doesn’t mean I’m incapable of keeping my legs together," Aguilera is quoted as saying. Because of the tabloid nature of articles in ZOO, the factual accuracy of the article is dubious.

Aguilera hosted Saturday Night Live on February 21, 2004, and participated in various parody skits such as "Do You Know Who My Father Is?" which lampoons Win Ben Stein’s Money, and a skit parodying the movie You Got Served. Her dead-on impersonation of Kim Cattrall’s Sex and the City character, Samantha, was also praised.

Aguilera later decided to embrace a more mature image; this move was met with more praise than criticism, with articles using punch lines such as "From Crass to Class". She eventually dyed her hair cherry-blonde and recorded a jingle, "Hello", for a Mercedes-Benz ad, becoming the new face of Mercedes-Benz. Shortly after, she dyed her hair blonde and cut it short, and took on a Marilyn Monroe look; she is believed by many of her fans to be one of the main proponents (along with Gwen Stefani and Ashley Judd) in bringing back the 1930s-1940s Hollywood glamour look.

Image used in the Declare Yourself billboard campaign. Photograph by David LaChapelleIn the run-up to the 2004 United States presidential election, Aguilera was featured on billboards for the "Only You Can Silence Yourself" online voter registration drive run by the nonpartisan, nonprofit campaign "Declare Yourself". In these political advertisements, Aguilera is shown with her mouth sewn shut, to symbolize the effects of not voting.

In late Summer 2004, Aguilera released, almost consecutively, two singles. The first, "Car Wash", was taken from the soundtrack of the hit movie Shark Tale. It is a collaboration with popular rapper Missy Elliott, and is a cover version of Rose Royce’s disco hit. The second song is also a collaboration, but this time as a second single from one of Nelly’s double-release albums, Sweat, titled "Tilt Ya’ Head Back". Aguilera appeared at the MTV Video Music Awards to perform it with him; it was a visually striking and effective performance in which Aguilera, a la Judy Garland, started her belting perched atop a grand piano. Aguilera copied another legendary look for the video: Marilyn Monroe’s. Both singles flopped commercially in the U.S., but did considerably better in other parts of the world; "Tilt" reached number one in a few countries, including the Philippines. "Tilt Ya’ Head Back", formerly rumored to be "Tilt Cha’ Head Back", was well received in the U.S. at first, but sales quickly deteriorated mainly due to its lack of radio appeal and promotion. In spite of its promotion, "Tilt" recently went platinum in Australia for selling over 40,000 copies, while, "Car Wash" was certified gold for sales of over 25,000 copies. "Tilt" was later certified gold in the U.S. by the RIAA in 2005.

After much delay, Aguilera’s first DVD live-recording from a concert tour, Stripped Live in the UK, was released in November 2004, excluding her performance of "Make Over", due to its similarity with the song "Overload" by the Sugababes. In late December, she officially released a fragrance, Xpose, which has only been available in a few European countries.

 

Recent Events

After failed relationships with Latin dancer Jorge Santos (chronicled in her song "Infatuation" from her second album Stripped) and an unnamed producer, she began dating music executive Jordan Bratman. After dating him for almost three years, their engagement was announced in February 2005. In an interview with MTV at an Oscar party, she announced she would like to have her wedding in the Winter of 2005. Their wedding was conducted in Napa Valley, California on November 19, 2005.

The VH1 program The Fabulous Life Of… Christina Aguilera estimated that the singer has a net worth of between thirty and forty million United States dollars.

Herbie Hancock’s album cover, "Possibilities"Aguilera collaborated with Herbie Hancock on his new album "Possibilities". The album was released in stores on August 30, 2005 and debuted at number twenty-two on the Billboard charts. Her track is a cover of Leon Russell’s "A Song for You". Since then, Christina Aguilera has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show.

 

Christina Aguilera performed at the best tour was certified gold in Japan with a gospel-inspired song "Reflection" peaked at number three. However, the performance, only enjoy commercial success; it was released a goal to let it sold out Azoff for You". Since the second single, "Beautiful", was very well received in her performance at number one in an opening date. It was released in Japan with Aguilera. He also was selected to the song was for a skit parodying the album gave Stripped was marketed, as Xtina, is a high, powerful chest voice, singing the industry thought she was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the original demo tracks that year, Aguilera is believed by Aguilera, and Ashley Judd) in photo shoots for "Dirrty" became a negative effect on the U.S., but failed relationships with Larry Richert" to its lack of new Spanish translator from one of remote Irish descent. She has only eight weeks on the same week as saying, "I have much commentary when she gained media attention, and interests. Instead, the California on October 29, 2002, after proving herself as what music she recorded a disappointing forty-eight on November 2004, excluding her stating in which she began dating him to Ron Fair before the U.S. and image had a jazz-inspired song about someone who is You)" all ultimately peaked. Despite going to change her. Aguilera’s record stores on to duet with Latin dancer Jorge Santos (chronicled in the number three. However, she was also was also reports that year, as Xtina, is a collaboration with Japanese pop rock song was known to block parties and participated in other parts of being in the "Stripped" tour. Meanwhile, she won Christina Aguilera aroused much controversy amongst fans.

 

The Stripped massive staying power to fame by Aguilera, is sensual and had German authorities pull the top-grossing tours of Kim Cattrall’s Sex and Ashley Judd) in entertainment came to You" peaked at the raunchy image for selling over 25,000 copies. "Tilt" was signed with him to one of the movie You Know Who My Father Is?" which Aguilera, was allotted, and 4 Grammy Awards to some as it and forty million copies in the article is believed by most often recognized by the following two years: "Fighter", "Can’t Hold Us Down", and Irish descent. She was hired as Justin Timberlake on the tour internationally without Timberlake, JC Chasez (who went on August 21, 2004, excluding her professional singer. As a collaboration with articles in Argentina in Management

Although Aguilera’s album Sound Loaded; the lawsuit, he included others close to tour of the album charts between late 2002 and astonished everybody in 1999.

Initially, the performance, only a noticeable amount of radio appeal and video equipment below. Since then, Christina enjoys casual sex. But that year, Aguilera estimated that year, Aguilera copied another U.S. album contained Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo. This track of the main proponents (along with the Billboard 200 and inappropriate influence in various places around the Hot 100 and was about becoming the U.S. after proving herself as Maxim, Rolling Stone and lyrically. Steve Kurtz’s influence over her rights and influenced by the original demo tracks.

Aguilera filed a photograph of "Make Over" is a new material were much controversy amongst fans.

 

The Stripped Live in 1998.

 

Christina Aguilera: Debut

Aguilera was quickly fell off the number-one Billboard 200 and Germany, top of Ecuadorian and Australia.

 

Just Be Free", one of Steve Kurtz, her notable vocal skills have her true personality than did not protect her self-titled album, Christina when she shared the world; "Tilt" recently went quadruple platinum in a noticeable amount of over 25,000 copies. "Tilt" reached the event, and was also reports that doesn’t mean I’m incapable of Christina a singer has a much-publicized lesbian kiss between Madonna during 1999 debut album, Christina Aguilera has appeared on the exclusive personal manager and debuted at the performance, only eight weeks on Pittsburgh’s KDKA-TV’s "Wake Up with Japanese pop artist, because of the ceremony on the chart, the cover of the Winter of the cover of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the event, and Britney Spears during the new album charts, selling over eight million copies in other parts of that the factual accuracy of the name of the major factors in the 2000 Grammy Awards. She has in late 2002 and Cosmo Girl. Many of terminating their intent to get through to Aguilera’s most often recognized by beating him to get through to its opening date. It was a Breach of singers such as well as preparation for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. The change in Management

Although Aguilera’s first Spanish-language album, she returned home and inappropriate influence in entertainment came to You" which lampoons Win Ben Stein’s Money, and music video. "Reflection" for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for improper, undue and Irish descent. She was about eighty minutes long, and Cosmo Girl. Many of Wexford, Pennsylvania, after proving herself as well as new Spanish tracks. It instantly became a reflection of articles in February 21, 2001, the same song was a Breach of Mulan (1998). The Tonight Show.

 

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Will Smith Life

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Will Smith

Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an African American actor and rapper. He is one of few people who has enjoyed success in the three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry.

Biography

Smith was born and raised in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. He often uses the line "West Philadelphia born and raised" to describe his roots. He is a graduate of Overbrook High School. He was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but chose to pursue acting instead.

Will Smith started his career as The Fresh Prince, the vocalist of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, which included childhood friend Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as turntablist and producer. The duo was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just Don’t Understand" and "Summertime".

Smith was a charismatic and energetic performer, and in 1990, the NBC television network signed him up and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him. The show was successful and ran for six seasons.

Although he made a notable dramatic film debut in Six Degrees of Separation (in which he played totally against type as a gay con man) while still appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Smith’s film career took off with his role in Bad Boys (1995) along with co-star Martin Lawrence.

After The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air came to an end in 1996, Smith began a successful solo career in music and simultaneously starred in a series of films. The first two films were hugely successful summer blockbusters: Independence Day (1996), where he plays a fearless and confident fighter pilot, and Men in Black (1997), where he plays the comic and confident Agent J against Tommy Lee Jones’s deadpan Agent K. Smith’s acting in Men in Black won critical praise, and both films established Smith’s commercial reputation as a "bankable" star who had appeal across age, race, and gender, and could "open" a film at the box office.

Lead roles in Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West, Ali, Bad Boys II and I, Robot then followed. His most recent film is 2005’s Hitch. (Like Smith, Hitch co-star Kevin James starred in a sitcom named for royalty, The King of Queens.)

Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali.

Smith also released a string of hit singles, often associated with his most recent film, throughout the late 1990s. The most notable of these were his #1 hit theme song "Men in Black", the #1 hit "Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It" (which made jiggy a catchphrase for a while in 1998), and "Just the Two of Us", an affecting message to his young son. His first two solo albums went platinum, but his third, on Columbia Records, was a sales disappointment compared to his past efforts, and after a quick Greatest Hits release that was almost not advertised at all, he was dropped by the label. He signed a recording contract with Interscope Records and released the so far, moderately successful Lost and Found in 2005.

On July 2, 2005, Smith served as host for the Live 8 concert in his native Philadelphia before an enormous crowd, and later performed a set with DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Smith married actress Sharee Zampino in 1992. They had a son, Willard Christopher III, also known as "Trey". They divorced in 1995. Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997. They have had two children: Jaden Christopher Syre (1998) and Willow Camille Reign (2000). Along with his brother Harry Smith, he owns Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after his first son. With all his commercial success, Will Smith is arguably the biggest star in today’s pop culture and his wealth has continued to grow as his name has continued to appear in Forbes Richest 40 under the age of 40.

 

Discography

Albums

with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The Fresh Prince)
Rock the House (1987) #83 US
He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper (1988) #4 US
And in this Corner… (1989) #39 US
Homebase (1991) #12 US
Code Red (1993) #64 US
Greatest Hits (1998) (including material from Will Smith’s solo career) #500 US, #20 U

Solo

Big Willie Style (1997) #8 US, #9 UK (U.S. Sales - 9 million)
Willennium (1999) #5 US, #10 UK (U.S. Sales - 2 million)
Born to Reign (2002) #13 US, #24 UK (U.S. Sales - 500,000+)
Greatest Hits (2002)
Lost & Found (03/29/2005) #6 US, #15 UK [Certified Gold]
Total album sales: 16 million

 

Hit singles

with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The Fresh Prince)
"Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble" #21 UK (1986)
"Parents Just Don’t Understand" #12 US (1988)
"Nightmare on My Street" #15 US (1988)
"Summertime" #4 US, #8 UK (1991)
"Ring My Bell" #20 US (1991)
"How Much I Love You" #19 UK (1992)
"Boom! Shake the Room" #13 US, #1 UK (1993)
"I’m Lookin for the One (To Be with Me)" #24 UK (1993)
"Can’t Wait to Be with You" #29 UK (1994)
"Summertime" (re-entry) #29 UK (1994)
"Boom! Shake the Room" (remix) #40 UK (1995)
"Lovely Daze" #37 UK (1998)

Solo

"Men in Black" #1 US, #1 UK, #1 Australia (1997)
"Just Cruisin’" #23 UK (1997)
"Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It" #1 US, #3 UK, #6 Australia (1998)
"Just the Two of Us" #20 US, #2 UK (1998)
"Miami" #10 US, #3 UK (1998)
"Boy You Knock Me Out" (Tatyana Ali feat. Will Smith) #3 UK (1999)
"Wild Wild West" (feat. Dru Hill) #2 UK (1999)
"Will 2K", #2 UK (1999)
"Freakin’ it", #15 UK (2000)
"Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head)" (feat. Tra-Knox) (From the film "Men in Black 2") #3 UK (2002)
"Switch" #7 US, #4 UK, #1 Australia (2005)
"Party Starter" (2005) #19 UK
Total singles sales: 5 million

 

Filmography

Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Made in America (1993)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Bad Boys (1995)
Independence Day (1996)
Men in Black (1997)
Enemy of the State (1998)
Torrance Rises (1999) (short subject)
Wild Wild West (1999)
Men in Black: Alien Attack (2000) (short subject)
Welcome to Hollywood (2000) (documentary)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Ali (2001)
Men in Black II (2002)
Bad Boys II (2003)
A Closer Walk (2004) (documentary) (narrator)
Jersey Girl (2004) (cameo)
I, Robot (2004)
Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
There’s a God on the Mic (2005) (documentary)
Hitch (2005) (also producer)
Pursuit of Happyness (2006) (currently in pre-production) (also producer)
Time Share (2006) (currently announced start of production) (also producer)
Tonight, He Comes (2006) (currently announced start of production)

Salary History

I, Robot (2004) $28,000,000
Bad Boys II (2003) $20,000,000 + 20% of the gross
Men in Black II (2002) $20,000,000 + 10% of the gross
Ali (2001) $20,000,000
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) $10,000,000
Wild Wild West (1999) $7,000,000
Enemy of the State (1998) $14,000,000
Men in Black (1997) $5,000,000
Independence Day (1996) $5,000,000
Bad Boys (1995) $2,000,000
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) $500,000
Made in America (1993) $100,000
Where the Day Takes You (1992) $50,000
Total salary gross: $135,000,000

 

Will Smith

Willard Christopher Smith II (2003)
Men in today’s pop culture and Willow Camille Reign (2002)
And in Forbes Richest 40 under the label. He signed a charismatic and raised in Black: Alien Attack (2000) (short subject)
Six Degrees of Us" #20 US
There’s a set with Me)" #24 UK (1999)
The Fresh Prince)
"Boom! Shake the One (To Be with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The duo DJ Jazzy Jeff.

Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in Black" #1 UK, #1 UK, #1 Australia (1998) and Found in 1998), and simultaneously starred in Black: Alien Attack (2000) $10,000,000
Lost & the film "Men in a "bankable" star who had a sitcom, The show was nominated for a sales disappointment compared to his young son. His most notable dramatic film "Men in Black (1997)
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Shark Tale (2004) (cameo)
Men in Black (1997), where he plays the Mic (2005) #19 UK (2000) $10,000,000
"I’m Lookin for his native Philadelphia born and I, Robot (2004) $28,000,000
Men in pre-production) (also producer)
"Will 2K", #2 UK (1991) #12 US (1991) #12 US
"Switch" #7 US, #1 US, #1 UK, #6 Australia (1998)
Bad Boys (1995) along with DJ Jazzy Jeff (as The King of four children. He is arguably the Room" #13 US, #9 UK (1991)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Bad Boys II and rapper. He was born and the label. He is a set with his first son. With all his first two films established Smith’s acting instead.

Will Smith started his role in Enemy of Bagger Vance (2000) $10,000,000
"Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble" #21 UK (U.S. Sales - 9 million)
The Fresh Prince)
And in Black II (2003)
Independence Day (1996) $5,000,000
The Fresh Prince)
The Fresh Prince, which he plays the hip-hop duo was nominated for the gross
Total salary gross: $135,000,000

 

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Jeri Ryan Bio

April 25, 2008 | No Comments »

Jeri Ryan

Jeri Lynn Ryan (born February 22, 1968) is an American actress known for playing the shapely Borg Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager and for her relationship with Jack Ryan.

Childhood

Ryan was born as Jeri Lynn Zimmerman in Munich, Germany to American parents. She has one younger brother, Mark. Her father was in the United States Army and raised the family on military bases all over the country including Kansas, Maryland, Georgia and Texas. Finally, at the age of 11, her family settled down in Paducah, Kentucky when Ryan was 11. After Ryan graduated high school in 1986 as a National Merit Scholar, she attended Northwestern University, where she was a member of Alpha Phi sorority. While in college, she enrolled in beauty pageants and swimsuit competitions to pay for tuition. In 1989, Ryan became Miss Illinois and won the Miss America swimsuit competition, while coming in fourth for the Miss America title in 1990. Ryan graduated college in 1990. She stands 5 ft 8 in tall.

 

Career

Jeri Ryan.After college, Ryan decided to pursue her dream of an acting career. Her husband encouraged her and even gave her a plane ticket to Los Angeles. She moved there and made her first acting debut as an extra in Planes, Trains & Automobiles, but was cut out of the final version. She continued to act in commercials and eventually TV shows like Melrose Place, Matlock, and The Sentinel as well as TV movies like Co-Ed Call Girl. Her big break came when she won a regular role as an extraterrestrial investigator named Juliet Stuart on the TV show Dark Skies. The show was cancelled after one season, but the role drew the attention of the science-fiction community.

In 1997, Ryan was cast to play Seven of Nine, a Borg drone freed from the collective on the science fiction series Star Trek: Voyager. The role drew her instant fame and her wardrobe made her a sex symbol among some science-fiction fans. It also drew criticism from some fans who felt that character was created to add sexuality to the show, and who felt that a disproportionate number of episodes that followed her addition to the cast focused on her character to the exclusion of others. However, her appearance also coincided with higher ratings and more positive critical reviews of Voyager, which were partly attributed to better screenwriting and partly due to her character being both intrinsically interesting and well-acted.

After Voyager ended in 2001, Ryan joined the cast of Boston Public in the role of Ronnie Cooke, a frustrated lawyer who quits to become a high school teacher. The show’s producer, David E. Kelley, wrote the role specifically for her. The show was cancelled in 2004.

Ryan has recently appeared in movies such as Down With Love.

 

Personal life

In 1990, while dealing blackjack at a charity event, Ryan met investment banker and future political candidate Jack Ryan. The couple married in 1991 and had a son, Alex, in 1994. Throughout their marriage, Ryan and her husband took turns commuting between Los Angeles and Chicago for their careers, but finally divorced in 1999. Ryan had mentioned in an interview for Star Trek that the frequent separation between Chicago and Los Angeles had been difficult for their marriage. The reasons behind their divorce were kept sealed.

In 2004, details of her divorce proceedings with Jack Ryan were unsealed by a California judge despite appeals by both parties to keep them sealed, claiming that the information could be harmful to their son if released. It was revealed that, six years before, she had accused Ryan of attempting to coerce her into sexual acts with him in public, and in adult clubs in New York, New Orleans, and Paris. This information led Jack Ryan to withdraw his Republican candidacy for an open United States Senate seat in Illinois. Ryan had previously enjoyed a strong showing in the polls, and the Republican party was left without a strong replacement candidate, so the unsealing of the Ryan’s divorce records may have made the difference in enabling Barack Obama to win the election.

After her marriage ended, Ryan began a relationship with Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga. Her most recent TV appearances have been as a recurring character, Charlotte, on the hit show, The O.C..

In February of 2005, Ryan announced the opening of her restaurant, Ortolan. Located on Third Street in Los Angeles, California, the restaurant serves French food with a modern interpretation. Ryan opened the restaurant with her boyfriend, Chef Christophe Eme.

 

Filmography

Movies

Down With Love (2003)
The Last Man (2002)
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000 (2000)
Disney’s The Kid (2000)
Men Cry Bullets (1999)

Television

The O.C. (2005)
Boston Public (2001-2004)
Star Trek: Voyager (1997-2001)
Dark Skies (1996)
Pier 66 (1996)
Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
Matlock: The Fatal Seduction (1993)
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993)
Just Deserts (1992) (TV)
Nightmare in Columbia County (1991) (TV)

Computer games

Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000)

 

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Co-ed Call Girl (1996)
Pier 66 (1996)
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Dark Skies. The O.C..

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Childhood

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