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  • How fashion & film made a terrific fit

    
    Half a century after Audrey Hepburn finished her breakfast at Tiffany's, the "little black dress" she showcased in that film continues to anchor a whole corner of contemporary fashion.
    on 2008-11-25 04:46:43

  • OK! Interview: Leighton Meester

    
    The stylish Gossip Girl star tells OK! why she's obsessed with Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and her new huge closet! Gossip Girl cutie Leighton Meester is at the top of her game. She's on a hit show, got to make out with Entourage hottie Adrien Grenier and
    on 2008-09-19 05:01:21

  • NYC's Transport Group Will Stage 'Bury the Dead' and New Musical 'Being Audrey' (Playbill)

    
    Playbill - Off-Broadway's Transport Group, winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award, has Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead and a world premiere musical about a woman who is inspired by Audrey Hepburn for its 2008-09 season.
    on 2008-08-20 04:45:03

  • Must See Movies: Roman Holiday

    
    This week's must see movie is 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, the film that shot unknown English actress Audrey Hepburn into the spotlight. Hepburn won an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who exp
    on 2008-07-17 04:55:49

  • Audrey Hepburn Helps Cast Chanel Role

    
    Shirley Maclaine has late Hollywood star Audrey Hepburn to thank for her new role playing fashion icon Coco Chanel - because she recommended her for the part more than forty years ago. MacLaine, who will take the role in a forthcoming mini-series - entit
    on 2008-07-15 04:53:54

  • Sugar Shout Out: Redecorate Ryan Phillippe's Pool

    
    What you're wanting: Designs for Ryan Phillippe's pool Catch up on Big Love in four minutes Britney Spears on America's Got Talent? Fake tanners get burned by the snobs at Royal Ascot Ask E. Jean: I'm ready to date again what do I have to do to attract
    on 2008-06-20 04:50:45

  • Keira Plays 'Fair'

    
    ET has the latest... According to Variety, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY is in talks to reprise the role of Eliza Doolittle, first made famous by AUDREY HEPBURN in the 1964 classic 'My Fair Lady.' The story is set in 1912 and tells the story of a Cockney girl who is tr
    on 2008-06-06 12:49:13

  • Knightley Our Fair Lady?

    
    Who wants to Bend It Like Beckham when you can become a Lady? Keira Knightley is reportedly in negotiations to pull an Audrey Hepburn and star in a contemporary update of Lerner and...
    on 2008-06-06 12:46:09

  • Knightley Our Fair Lady?

    
    Who wants to Bend It Like Beckham when you can become a Lady? Keira Knightley is reportedly in negotiations to pull an Audrey Hepburn and star in a contemporary update of Lerner and...
    on 2008-06-06 12:45:51

  • Actor Mel Ferrer dies, former husband of Audrey Hepburn (AFP)

    
    AFP - Actor and filmmaker Mel Ferrer, who was once married to Audrey Hepburn, has died in California at age 90, a family spokesman said Tuesday.
    on 2008-06-04 00:45:04

  • ?Sun Also Rises? star Mel Ferrer dies at 90

    
    A family spokesman says actor-director-producer Mel Ferrer, who starred in scores of movies and directed his late wife, Audrey Hepburn in numerous others, has died at age 90.
    on 2008-06-03 20:45:36

  • Funny, That Face Looks Real Familiar

    
    Filed under: Celebrity JusticeTMZ.com: Remember that kinda awesome Gap ad from a couple years ago with Audrey Hepburn in "Funny Face" dancing to "Back in Black"? (Yeah you do.) Well the guy who directed "Funny Face" -- Stanley Donen -- wants his cut of t
    on 2008-05-23 12:49:41

  • Meryl Streep Honored by Film Society

    
    'Kramer vs. Kramer,' 'Sophie's Choice,' 'Out of Africa,' 'The Hours' and 'The Devil Wears Prada' all have one crucial element in common: MERYL STREEP. The multiple Oscar winner was honored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center Monday night at a star-stud
    on 2008-04-15 00:46:22

  • Buzz In: Whose Life Should Not Be Made Into a Movie?

    
    Some are arguing that the biopic is the new black in Hollywood these days, but this genre has been entertaining us for some time now. Sometimes they're a great way to honor a beloved figure ? Frida comes to mind, as does Ray, and HBO's Peter Sellers biopi
    on 2008-03-04 12:50:41

  • Top Ten Romantic Films - Number 6 Breakfast At Tiffany's

    
    Almost half way and Breakfast at Tiffany's enters the FemaleFirst Top Ten Romantic Films chart at number six. Blake Edwards's adaptation of Truman Capote's classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly.
    on 2008-02-07 08:46:38

  • Moviefone's Top 25 Romance Movies: Discuss

    
    The folks over at AOL's Moviefone have put on their list-making caps yet again and whittled down all of cinema history to list off the top 25 best romance films of all time. Most of the titles are from before the 2000s, which makes me wonder about the mo
    on 2008-02-06 08:47:49

  • Princess Diana Voted Top Fashion Icon

    
    Princess Diana has been voted the top style icon of the past 50 years in an online survey published today. Just over 30% chose Princess Diana above the more obvious fashion names, such as Mary Quant (25%), Audrey Hepburn (16%), Twiggy (15%) and Jackie Ona
    on 2008-02-05 08:46:22

  • Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn is still full of surprises

    
    Audrey Hepburn was an Oscar winner, an activist, an icon - she also had a pet deer. A collection of rare photos of the screen legend, collected by Life magazine for this month's 15-year anniversary of Hepburn's death, reveals that even the actress' hobbie
    on 2008-01-10 04:45:16
  • Dear god, isnt she satisfied with destroying Pride and Prejudice???!! - AManda Rick in Oz wrote: > http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/by-george-keiras-got-it/2006/04/10/1144521 > 254376.html > April 10, 2006 - 2:34PM > Award-nominated actress, is being lined up to play Eliza Doolittle in a > remake of the classic musical My Fair Lady. > Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, is said to be "thrilled" at the > prospect of taking the role made famous on film by Audrey Hepburn in the > 1960s. > aristocrat under the tutelage of the brusque Professor Henry Higgins, is one > of the most coveted roles in film and theatre. Hepburn starred in the 1964 > Warner Brothers version and the role was reprised by the former EastEnders > actress Martine McCutcheon on stage in the 2001 musical adaptation by Sir > Cameron Mackintosh. > Hepburn, has now been approached by Mackintosh to play Eliza Doolittle in a > new stage or film version. > the Caribbean in the Bahamas," a friend of the actress said. "She is due to > have a session with Sir Cameron's musical director in London. Keira is a > huge fan of musicals and is desperate to do it." > her to sing, she has proved a quick learner in the past: she took up > football in 2002 for Bend It Like Beckham, sword fighting for Pirates of the > Caribbean and even lap dancing in last year's flop Domino. > Pygmalion, will be directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, who worked on Mackintosh's > London run. It has still to be decided, however, whether the production will > first be a remake of the film or a Broadway musical. Although Knightley, the > daughter of the actor Will Knightley and the playwright Sharman Macdonald, > has > little stage experience, she is said to be prepared to star in either > version. > Harrison as Professor Higgins, her singing voice was not considered strong > enough and was dubbed by Marni Nixon. Harrison had wanted Julie Andrews, > with whom he appeared in the 1956 Broadway production, to play the part. The > producers, however, demanded a bigger name. > stage experience and withdrew from a succession of performances with a > throat infection. > wasn't perfect'," the impresario recalled. "You'd go back and say, 'It was > terrific. Listen to the audience."' > not appeared in the West End since and says she has no desire to do so. Yet, > she won an Olivier for her performance and the show was a commercial > success, transferring from the National Theatre to the West End where it > enjoyed a long run. > celebrated her 21st birthday, can make or break a film at the box office. > Born in Teddington, Middlesex, she demanded an agent at the age of three. > She left school before sitting her final exams to concentrate on acting and > has already worked with a series of high profile actors, including Judi > Dench and Johnny Depp. > grossed more than those by any other female star. But she has previously > admitted she is "desperate to do theatre" and would like the chance to play > Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter or the Greek tragic heroine > Electra. > and never get them," she said. > And the more successful I get in films, the more afraid I become."
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/by-george-keiras-got-it/2006/04/10/1144521 254376.html By George, Keira's got it April 10, 2006 - 2:34PM BY GEORGE, I think she's got it. Keira Knightley, the Academy Award-nominated actress, is being lined up to play Eliza Doolittle in a remake of the classic musical My Fair Lady. Knightley, 21, who last month was in the running for a best actress Oscar as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, is said to be "thrilled" at the prospect of taking the role made famous on film by Audrey Hepburn in the 1960s. The story of the Cockney flower girl, who passes herself off as an aristocrat under the tutelage of the brusque Professor Henry Higgins, is one of the most coveted roles in film and theatre. Hepburn starred in the 1964 Warner Brothers version and the role was reprised by the former EastEnders actress Martine McCutcheon on stage in the 2001 musical adaptation by Sir Cameron Mackintosh. Knightley, whose elfin features have inspired comparisons with the late Hepburn, has now been approached by Mackintosh to play Eliza Doolittle in a new stage or film version. "Keira was studying the madly while filming the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean in the Bahamas," a friend of the actress said. "She is due to have a session with Sir Cameron's musical director in London. Keira is a huge fan of musicals and is desperate to do it." Although none of Knightley's previous film or television roles has required her to sing, she has proved a quick learner in the past: she took up football in 2002 for Bend It Like Beckham, sword fighting for Pirates of the Caribbean and even lap dancing in last year's flop Domino. The new version of the show, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, will be directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, who worked on Mackintosh's London run. It has still to be decided, however, whether the production will first be a remake of the film or a Broadway musical. Although Knightley, the daughter of the actor Will Knightley and the playwright Sharman Macdonald, has little stage experience, she is said to be prepared to star in either version. After Hepburn was signed up to appear in My Fair Lady alongside Sir Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins, her singing voice was not considered strong enough and was dubbed by Marni Nixon. Harrison had wanted Julie Andrews, with whom he appeared in the 1956 Broadway production, to play the part. The producers, however, demanded a bigger name. Mackintosh came to regret his choice of McCutcheon, who had no significant stage experience and withdrew from a succession of performances with a throat infection. "She'd be hysterical, beating herself up and saying, 'It wasn't perfect. It wasn't perfect'," the impresario recalled. "You'd go back and say, 'It was terrific. Listen to the audience."' Although the role brought her greater prominence, McCutcheon, now 29, has not appeared in the West End since and says she has no desire to do so. Yet, she won an Olivier for her performance and the show was a commercial success, transferring from the National Theatre to the West End where it enjoyed a long run. The casting of Knightley, a rising star of British acting who recently celebrated her 21st birthday, can make or break a film at the box office. Born in Teddington, Middlesex, she demanded an agent at the age of three. She left school before sitting her final exams to concentrate on acting and has already worked with a series of high profile actors, including Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. She can now command more than $3.6 million a film and, in 2004, her films grossed more than those by any other female star. But she has previously admitted she is "desperate to do theatre" and would like the chance to play Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter or the Greek tragic heroine Electra. "The trouble is, I never got offered anything. I used to go up for auditions and never get them," she said. "The last one was when I was 15 and I blew it. But it's a hard transition. And the more successful I get in films, the more afraid I become." Telegraph, London
  • Flesha wrote: > doomella wrote: > And why is it that someone with such a "conscience" has absolutely > none > when it comes to wrecking someone else's marriage or engagement? I > mean, come on. She's done it twice in a row now. > other side of the planet, yet when it comes to personal relationships, > it is purely "survival of the fittest". It's totally OK for her to > fuck someone else's husband, because, well, she's better. In the long run Angie did Laura Dern a big favor -- preesi ~~~~~~~~~ "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth? Yeah, after The Strong Kick The Enemies Asses For You Cowards!" ~~~~~~~~~ My Websites: http://tinyurl.com/yvw45 Where I Hang Out: http://www.there.com Lets go surfing together: http://www.lluna.de/ My Pogo and AIM name: PreesiGirl (Come play with me)
  • doomella wrote: > Mark Stringer wrote: > only because she issued repeated quotes to the press about it. For > many years, that's all we ever heard about her -- never from anybody > else, only from her. Have you ever heard an Angelina Jolie'>Angelina Jolie "wild > child" or "hellraiser" or drug story that wasn't some vague deduction > based on the interviews she gave? It was all very carefully planted > by her, and -- I truly believe-- much of it greatly exaggerated. > cares about her causes. But she also cares VERY much about her public > image, as she always did, and will do everything she can to promote > it. > UNICEF, the spotlight was truly on UNICEF and the plight of the kids. > When Jolie does her work with the UN -- and I'm sure she means well > -- all the focus is on Jolie. What, exactly, do we know now that we > didn't know before, thanks to AJ? Image is everything when you're a celeb and I doubt you'll find one that isn't worried about theirs. As AJ has matured, maybe she's embarrassed about her image and wants to go that extra mile to change it? I would if I was her. Maybe she's no Audrey Hepburn'>Audrey Hepburn or Mother Teresa but, then again, I've never learnt anything about some cause or disease from any celebrity anyway. Unless they're forking over $$ themselves, all a celeb will do is, maybe, give some extra exposure or a little reminder to us about the cause they're pitching. I doubt a couple who don't want kids would watch AJ in action and decide to adopt kids. However, maybe a couple who've been waiting around trying to adopt a child in N. America might see her and ask themselves why they don't do the same? Again, I think AJ is growing up and pointing herself in the right direction. Considering she just hit 30, that's not too bad. Some celebs never get their act together or they devolve with age.
  • doomella wrote: > "Mark Stringer" wrote in message > news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0509271801210.27608@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca... > because she issued repeated quotes to the press about it. For many years, > that's all we ever heard about her -- never from anybody else, only from > her. Have you ever heard an Angelina Jolie'>Angelina Jolie "wild child" or "hellraiser" or > drug story that wasn't some vague deduction based on the interviews she > gave? It was all very carefully planted by her, and -- I truly believe-- > much of it greatly exaggerated. > her causes. But she also cares VERY much about her public image, as she > always did, and will do everything she can to promote it. > the spotlight was truly on UNICEF and the plight of the kids. When Jolie > does her work with the UN -- and I'm sure she means well -- all the focus is > on Jolie. What, exactly, do we know now that we didn't know before, thanks > to AJ? And why is it that someone with such a "conscience" has absolutely none when it comes to wrecking someone else's marriage or engagement? I mean, come on. She's done it twice in a row now. It's like she supports the undertrodden when it comes to people on the other side of the planet, yet when it comes to personal relationships, it is purely "survival of the fittest". It's totally OK for her to fuck someone else's husband, because, well, she's better. People like that bother me.
  • doomella wrote: > "Mark Stringer" wrote in message > news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0509271801210.27608@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca... > only because she issued repeated quotes to the press about it. For > many years, that's all we ever heard about her -- never from anybody > else, only from her. Have you ever heard an Angelina Jolie'>Angelina Jolie "wild > child" or "hellraiser" or drug story that wasn't some vague deduction > based on the interviews she gave? It was all very carefully planted > by her, and -- I truly believe-- much of it greatly exaggerated. > cares about her causes. But she also cares VERY much about her public > image, as she always did, and will do everything she can to promote > it. > UNICEF, the spotlight was truly on UNICEF and the plight of the kids. > When Jolie does her work with the UN -- and I'm sure she means well > -- all the focus is on Jolie. What, exactly, do we know now that we > didn't know before, thanks to AJ? DRUGS??? Ive never heard of Ang on Drugs, Just Knives, Sex, and Blood -- preesi ~~~~~~~~~ "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth? Yeah, after The Strong Kick The Enemies Asses For You Cowards!" ~~~~~~~~~ My Websites: http://tinyurl.com/yvw45 Where I Hang Out: http://www.there.com Lets go surfing together: http://www.lluna.de/ My Pogo and AIM name: PreesiGirl (Come play with me)
  • "Mark Stringer" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0509271801210.27608@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca... > shaquille111@aol.com wrote: > prime yet. Do you really think she needs to adopt kids for the > publicity? Adopting kids isn't some flavor-of-the-month charity or > religious cult, it's a long-term commitment. > I'm sure she's milking the exposure for all it's worth to help repair > the wild, immature image she's had. The wild, immature image she had was known to everybody ad nauseam only because she issued repeated quotes to the press about it. For many years, that's all we ever heard about her -- never from anybody else, only from her. Have you ever heard an Angelina Jolie'>Angelina Jolie "wild child" or "hellraiser" or drug story that wasn't some vague deduction based on the interviews she gave? It was all very carefully planted by her, and -- I truly believe-- much of it greatly exaggerated. I do believe that she loves those kids and I do believe that she cares about her causes. But she also cares VERY much about her public image, as she always did, and will do everything she can to promote it. From what I hear and have read, when Audrey Hepburn did work with UNICEF, the spotlight was truly on UNICEF and the plight of the kids. When Jolie does her work with the UN -- and I'm sure she means well -- all the focus is on Jolie. What, exactly, do we know now that we didn't know before, thanks to AJ?
  • Margo wrote: > Personally, I'd never heard of Janice before America's Top Model. I > thought maybe she was one of the girls from "Price is Right." Hardly > Supermodel material! But I'd heard of Twiggy--of course--the first > real supermodel. Though I've also heard that Christie Brinkley was the > world's first supermodel. Technically speaking Suzy Parker was the world's first "supermodel", although that term had not been invented yet back in the 50's when she became famous... [Her older sister Dorian Leigh was also a print model, the original Revlon "Fire and Ice" girl...] Suzy appeared on most every magazine cover, both fashion and general circulation (_Look_, _McCall's_, twice on _Life_, etc.). Besides ads in the fashion books (she had an exclusive contract with Revlon, among others), she was in ads for everything from Hunt's Catsup to Cadillacs, from Moddess sanitary napkins to the Santa Fe Super Chief, from Foster Grant sunglasses to Monet costume jerwelry. She appeared on the cover of the Dave Brubeck album _Red, Hot, and _Blue_ (still in print). A talented photographer in her own right, she went to Paris in the early 50's and worked for French _Vogue_... She had an acting career, appearing in a number of films and TV programs (she did the notable1963 _Twilight Zone_ episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" which parodied beauty standards in a future society - and the premise of that episode has come true). She was Coco Chanel's favorite model of all time. She was the first model to make $100.00 per hour. Her persona was parodied by Audrey Hepburn in the 1957 musical _Funny Face_... In the mid - 60's she married actor Bradford Dillman and eventually retired to a Santa Barbara estate to raise a family. Richard Avedon visited her during those later years and said, "She was supremely happy raising a family, gardening, cooking, and doing volunteer work...and she made the best cookies I've ever tasted." Now who is this Janice Dickinson? -- Best Greg
  • 2005 MTV Movie Awards: "Memorable Moment" Tom Cruise and girlfriend Katie Holmes are said to have had a "memorable moment at this years' 2005 MTV Movie Awards. Cruise was handed a lifetime achievement gong at the MTV Movie Awards - by new girlfriend Katie Holmes. On May 23, 2005, Cruise rose some eyebrows with a frenzied appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show in which he -according to The New York Times- "jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend, the actress Katie Holmes." Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA) is an American film actor and producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies. His first leading role in a blockbuster movie was in 1986's Top Gun, as Maverick. Cruise's parents moved frequently when he was a child, residing in a number of locations throughout the United States and Canada, including Ottawa, Louisville, Kentucky, and Glen Ridge and Wayne, New Jersey. Before going into acting, Cruise attended a Franciscan seminary and aspired to become a Catholic priest. He received Academy Award nominations for Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Jerry Maguire (1996), both as Best Actor; and for Magnolia (1999), as Best Supporting Actor. In 1996, he became the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that grossed $100 million in domestic release. The films were A Few Good Men (1992), The Firm (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Cruise teamed with producer Paula Wagner to form Cruise/Wagner Productions, which has co-produced several of Cruise's films such as Mission: Impossible and its sequels, Vanilla Sky (2001), and The Last Samurai (2003). The company also co-produced The Others (2001). In 1990, 1991 and 1997, People magazine rated him among the 50 most beautiful people in the world. In 1995, Empire magazine ranked him among the 100 sexiest stars in film history. Two years later, it ranked him among the top 5 movie stars of all time. In 2002 and 2003, he was rated by Premiere among the top 20 in its annual Power 100 list. A number of Cruise's more well-known and popular movies have cast him in a similar role, one which has been half-jokingly referred to by movie fans (and some critics) as the "Generic Tom Cruise Character." In a role of this type, Cruise has portrayed a character who, as the film begins, is seen as a cocky, stuck-up, self-centered egoist who cares for little other than himself. As the events of the movie unfold, his character learns to become more open-minded and altruistic, until by the time the climax has been reached, he has undergone a radical change and been transformed into a better human being. Examples of the "Generic Tom Cruise Character" can be seen in Top Gun, Rain Man, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, Cocktail, The Last Samurai, and others. He has been married twice, to Mimi Rogers (May 9, 1987 - February 4, 1990) and later Nicole Kidman (December 24, 1990 - August 8, 2001). He and Nicole Kidman adopted two children, Isabella (born 1993) and Connor (born 1995.) Cruise recently discussed his bi-racial son with the TV talkshow host Oprah Winfrey. Oprah asked Cruise if the issue of his race was ever discussed in the household. "We're from the human race, human kind," he clarified. "I mean, what's there to talk about? He's my son. Listen, that's just how I feel about it. He's my son. I've never thought about color, race, I just have not thought about that." Cruise was, for a short time, romantically linked with Penelope Cruz, the lead actress in his film Vanilla Sky. In March 2004, he announced that his relationship with Penelope Cruz had ended in January. As of April 2005, he has been dating Katie Holmes. During his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, the couple endured public speculation about their sex life and rumors that Cruise was gay. In May 2001 he filed a lawsuit against gay porn actor Chad Slater. Slater had allegedly told the celebrity magazine Actustar that he had engaged in a homosexual affair with Cruise. Both Slater and Cruise denied this, and in August 2001 Slater defaulted on the lawsuit. Cruise is a well-known member of the Church of Scientology (as of 1990). He has been vocal about this fact, and participated in the opening of the Church of Scientology of Madrid. He has also done Scientology-related fund-raisers for New York charities and is an avid spokesperson for the study technology of L. Ron Hubbard. He states that this study method helped him personally and so says that he will do everything possible to make it available to others. He has also said Scientology has "the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world." From 1990-2004 Cruise was represented by powerhouse agent Pat Kingsley. After replacing her with his sister and fellow Scientologist LeeAnne Devette, Cruise began to discuss his beliefs more openly. His contract for the 2005 film War of the Worlds stipulated that the Scientologists be given a tent on set to talk to cast and crew. In his words, they were there to "help the sick and injured." In May 2005 Cruise granted a rare half-hour interview to "infotainment" show Access Hollywood to promote Scientology. During the show he criticized former co-star Brooke Shields for her decision to use the drug Paxil to combat her post-partum depression as well as promote the drug in media appearances, saying, "Here is a woman, and I care about Brooke Shields because I think she is an incredibly talented woman, you look at (and think) where has her career gone." Sheilds responded: "Tom Cruise's comments are irresponsible and dangerous... Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment options are best for them." Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress from Ohio best known for her role as Joey Potter, the tomboy down the titular waterway on The WB television drama Dawson's Creek. Holmes' movie roles have ranged from art house films such as Pieces of April to thrillers such as Abandon. Holmes, born in Toledo, Ohio, is the youngest of the five children of Martin, an attorney, and Kathleen Holmes. She lived in Sylvania Township and attended Catholic schools in Toledo, including the all-female Notre Dame Academy. While in high school, she went with her mother to Los Angeles to audition for pilots for television shows. She did not land a television role, but was cast as the improbably named Libbets Casey in the film The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. She returned to Toledo but her audition tapes continued to circulate. One reached the producers of a new show created by Kevin Williamson for Columbia Tri-Star Television: Dawson's Creek. Her appointment to read for it was unknowingly set by the producers for the same day as her high school production of Damn Yankees (she was playing Lola), but they permitted her to send a videotape rather than make her miss the show. Holmes read for the part of Joey, the tomboyish best friend of the title character, while her mother read Dawson's lines, including dialogue about sex and masturbation. Holmes won the part. Williamson said "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness." I'm a lot like Joey," she said. "I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything--relationships, personnel, perceptions--and about being guarded." Dawson's Creek filmed its first season in the spring and summer of 1997. Holmes moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where the show filmed, and for a time lived with creator Williamson. At 5'9" (some sources say 5'7"), the tall brunette enchanted the press. "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation," was one typical comment. Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction." So good was Holmes that The New York Times Magazine would claim everyone in Hollywood was looking for the "Katie Holmes type" when casting shows. "The Katie Holmes type," the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950's: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)"--the sort represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle Williams. But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. Anywhere." Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003 and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else," she said in 2004. Holmes in 2005 characterized her film career as being a string of "bombs". "Usually I'm not even in the top ten," she said, the highest grossing film of her career being Phone Booth. Her big break came when she had a role in the movie The Ice Storm (1997) she starred in a part opposite Tobey Maguire . Her first leading role came in Disturbing Behavior (1998), a Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller where she was a loner from the wrong side of the tracks. Holmes won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the film was "just horrible". Next she was a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's stylish ensemble piece Go (1999). She had an uncredited cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets in Space (1999), which was also filmed in Wilmington. Kevin Williamson's disaffection for his own high school days spawned Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), which he wrote and directed. Holmes played a straight-A student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) threatens to keep her from a desperately needed scholarship. In Wonder Boys (2000), the film version of the Michael Chabon novel, she had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) as the tenant--and object of lust--of her English professor, played by Michael Douglas. In The Gift (2000), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, she played the antithesis of Joey Potter: a slutty rich girl carrying on with everyone in town, from a white trash wife-beater (Keanu Reeves) to the district attorney (Gary Cole), and who winds up dead for her trouble. Holmes did her first nude scene for the film and said "I just hope there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD players." Her appearance deshabille was lamented by Variety's Steven Kloter: "It seems the only time we see a naked woman on screen is when someone like Katie Holmes needs to break with her sanitized WB past and march brazenly into a new future." In Abandon (2002), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional and homicidal college student named "Katie." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times commended Holmes' performance and the film's intelligence, but other critics and audiences savaged it. Holmes was the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003). Her next starring role was in Pieces of April (2003), a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was "one of her best film perf[ormance]s." Holmes played the president's daughter in First Daughter, which was originally to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing Liberty, the Mandy Moore film about a presidential daughter, but was ultimately released in September 2004 to dismal reviews and ticket sales. First Daughter, directed by Forest Whitaker, also starred Michael Keaton as Holmes' father and Marc Blucas as her love interest. Forthcoming is her appearance in the latest installment of the Batman franchise, Batman Begins. Entertainment Weekly reported in its December 17, 2004 issue that Holmes was to play the murdered wife of Spade Cooley in a biopic written and directed by Dennis Quaid, who is to play Cooley. Also forthcoming is an adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Thank You For Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist, Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), directed by Jason Reitman. Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2001, participating in a send-up of Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Hey, Big Spender" from Damned Yankees. She was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher in November 2003. Holmes was annually named by FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 forward and was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in its May 12, 2003 issue. Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in its June/July 2003 issue. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia shampoos and The Gap. Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000 and began dating. They were engaged in 2004 but early 2005 Holmes and Klein broke off their engagement. Press accounts cited the distance imposed by their careers as a factor. In April 2005 she started dating actor Tom Cruise. In somewhat of an interesting coincidence, ten years earlier, Tom Cruise's wife at the time, Nicole Kidman played the female lead/love interest in the movie Batman Forever opposite Cruise's Top Gun co-star Val Kilmer. In the 2005 movie Batman Begins, the part of the female lead/love interest has been inherited by Katie Holmes. http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0605/entertainment/mtv_tom.html
  • MaryLong2 wrote: > Brad Pitt is astonished by the amount of money big-hearted actress > Angelina > Jolie donates to charity - and is convinced the screen beauty is more > Oh be still my heart. Brad is sooo deep. Not only can he build things > with his hands but now he is going to help save the world. It's a > shame he can't do it like Paul Newman == quietly. No, he has to be a > publicity whore. And Angelina, she's a piece of work. Wouldn't you > just love to be the United Nations or whomever she represents getting > all this negative publicity about her sex life on a daily basis. > Whatever happened to dignity. You can be famous and still live a > quiet, dignified life. Audrey Hepburn doesn't live here anymore. Now pass the blood vial and how do you like Angelina's new Mr & Mrs. Smith ass tattoo? Not to worry, the girl's grown up and wiser now: it's a temporary tatto; wonder what Pitt-Jolie's expiration date is - coinciding with the DVD relase of M&MS possiblly.
  • On Sat, 7 May 2005 00:05:27 +1000, "Rick in Oz" wrote: >http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-05-06/#2 If she does this show, I am *so* there. She will make Anna Nicole Smith look like Audrey Hepburn in the class & Miss Manners department. -worm "Stone Age, here I come!" -- Mrs. Hilyard, LADY IN A CAGE
  • >Watching Revelations tonight got me thinking who has been the most >attractive/hottest actress to play a nun on TV I would think that casting a NUN would require that the actress have little or zero degree of "hotness" whatsoever. Unibrow....palid complexion...steel wool for hair. But then I remember Audrey Hepburn as a nun, and she's not "hot" but she's surely not a "nun" type. Same with Julie Andrews.
  • On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:28:16 -0500, TopKat wrote: >In article , mikki721@charter.net >says... >This I think is a film that *requires* repeated viewings. The first time >I watched it, I was like..umm, that was ok, I guess. Each subsequent >viewing made the movie better and now, I just crack up during the whole >thing. Here's my list in no particular order: Napoleon Dynamite: DLed it off the internet, brought the DVD. It was that good. Gets better with repeat screenings. Though this might drop off my list, it's a current fav. Casablanca: Classic movie, always moved by the message of love and sacrifice. 2 Cary Grant movies: Trouble with Baby and Arsenic and Lace. Funny, funny, funny. Shawshank Redemption: I adore this movie, great pace and delightful ending. Patton: A bit too long, but I love it anyway. I might watch this every other year, but its a joy to watch. Serena: My fav Audrey Hepburn movie, just delightful to see Bogart doing a comedy. I despise the remake, Harrison shame on you! 2 Harrison Ford movies: Raiders of the lost Ark and Empire Strikes back. Just great movies, always fun to watch, even if Empire is only on vidoe. I refuse to buy the remade DVD copy. My Fair Lady: Another Hepburn movie, but I just enjoy the songs more than her preformance, okay I know it was really Julie Andrews singing, but you know what I mean. Princess Bride: A movie I can even show the kids and we can all laugh together. Plus there is Buttercup. The Blues Brothers: Best car chase ever :-) And all the cameos! My Cousin Vinnie: Loved Pesci in this one. Funny courtroom trial movie. Loved all the cross examination scenes. Young Frankenstein: Best Mel Brookes movie ever! These are the movies I would watch if I had some spare time or wanted a pick me up and have a fun time. Honourable mention: Back to the Future, Lawrence of Arabia, Aliens (extended), Terminator 1 & 2 and several Steven Seagal movies (I don't know why I keep watching his crappy movies!) and Miss Congeniality. === You're reading the words of Toni === We shall see to which one the Olympian grants the glory. Email: taiat@mail.NYETSPAMcom (sub the NYETSPAM for guess what? :)
  • http://www.smh.com.au/news/Music/Jack-doesnt-live-here/2005/03/03/1109700599 918.html Jack doesn't live here March 4, 2005 Holly Golightly pioneers that instrument beloved of beat poets everywhere, the bongo. Holly Golightly has been asked two questions in her life more times than she cares to remember. The first, "Is that your real name?", is followed closely by "Are you dating Jack White?" The answers, to save her the trouble, are yes and no. The first question is Audrey Hepburn's fault. Holly Golightly is her character's name from the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Apart from the name and a nice line in vintage style, Golightly has little in common with her diamond-desiring namesake. But the White Stripes question is probably her own fault, spawned after she sang It's True That We Love One Another with Jack and Meg in 2003. It was through her that the duo recorded Elephant in London's analog Toe Rag studios, the studio where Golightly has made all nine of her records. It wasn't an anti-digital statement by her: "I don't know any better," she says. Golightly's latest record Slowly but Surely features nine originals and three carefully selected covers, including My Love Is by Billy Myles. He also wrote the classic Fever made famous by Peggy Lee, whose sound Golightly's latest incarnation most clearly recalls. "That's very flattering, I think she's a brilliant singer, even though I wouldn't listen to much of her music. But a white woman singing a country song is going to sound a certain way, there's a sentiment to it." Golightly says she specialises in the grand tradition of love-gone-wrong songs. "I can vent all my venom in song but I'm really quite a nice person the rest of the time." Like Gillian Welch, Golightly's vintage style must come from somewhere. She says it's what she loves listening to: "What goes in comes out." She says she was raised by her grandparents who played a lot of "old-timey music". "I don't know if I can even differentiate between genres of contemporary music. I don't listen to the radio, I don't watch music on the television. I've collected records for a long time and I'm interested in how things came about and in trying to make my own version of it." The White Stripes' midas touch helped nudge Golightly into the mainstream music press, but she wasn't looking to get there. The veteran performer formed her first band, an all-girl garage group Thee Headcoatees, a splinter group from Billy Childish's Headcoats, in London in 1991. She started writing her own material a decade ago, averaging a new album a year since. She shrugs off the "prolific" tag. "Anyone who writes songs ought to be able to come up with 12 decent ones a year." Until recently, fame has not been an issue. "It's not something I've courted," Golightly says. "The acknowledgements that I get are very nice and it's all quite amusing to me, but it's not the reason I do it." She laughs. "I don't think I'd like it if people knew who I was in the street." It might make her occasional day job as a manager of public housing in London a little more challenging, too. "That's actually not what I'm qualified in - I'm a horse rider by trade," she says. "I was a professional horse rider until I had an accident, so that's why I had to get a desk job." This is by far the most unusual career trajectory I've ever heard of, let alone run in parallel with a busy, independent music career. She explains it best herself. "When I first left school, I did an apprenticeship [as a jockey] and worked in racing for a few years, then went up to London where I proceeded to do f--- all except be a punk rocker and buy records for about five years," she says. "I got fed up with London and moved back out to the country. I was working in California training endurance horses when I got a very busted foot about three years ago." That would explain White's line in the song: "Y'know I gave that horse a carrot so he'd break your foot." Golightly laughs. "Yes, I had my foot in plaster when we recorded the White Stripes song." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/544639.html Moreover / The curse of the Oscar By Uri Klein Will lightning strike twice for the talented Hilary Swank? One of the main dramas of next Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony is the fact that Hilary Swank was nominated for the Best Actress award for her role in Clint Eastwood's film "Million Dollar Baby." Five years have passed since Swank, then 25 years old, won the Oscar for the film "Boys Don't Cry," directed by Kimberly Pierce, and joined the very exclusive group of actresses who have won Oscars for leading roles in their first major films. There have been precedents for such wins: Audrey Hepburn won the Oscar in 1953 for her performance in "Roman Holiday" (previously she had appeared in a series of very minor roles in British films). Barbra Streisand won the Oscar in 1968 for her debut film performance in the film "Funny Girl" (both films, by the way, were directed by William Wyler). But as opposed to Hepburn and Streisand, whose awards marked the beginning of glorious and successful careers, there was a fear that for Swank, winning the Oscar at such an early stage would prove a curse rather than a blessing. The concept "the curse of the Oscar" was coined during the course of the 77 years of the prize to describe the large number of cases in which winning the Oscar did not promote the careers of the actors who won it, but in effect, did just the opposite. There have even been a number of actors and actresses who won the prizes in the main categories, and suffered as a result. One outstanding example is Austrian actress Luise Rainer, who won two Oscars in a row, in 1936 (for her role in Robert Z. Leonard's film "The Great Ziegfield") and in 1937 (for her performance as a Chinese farmer in Sidney Franklin's "The Good Earth"). Despite her two consecutive wins, Hollywood didn't know what to do with Rainer and she disappeared almost entirely from the silver screen. For the most part, the curse of the Oscar is the lot of actors and actresses who have won Oscars for supporting roles, because usually they are not stars whose names represent financial clout at the box office. In an interview several years after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1981 as Emma Goldman in Warren Beatty's film "Reds," actress Maureen Stapleton said that for over a year after winning the award, she received no further offers to appear in a film. The reason was that her winning an Oscar led to a sudden increase in her pay scale, and most of the producers didn't think that her name justified so much money. Instead, they preferred another character actress, who was as good as Stapleton but whose status did not entail such a high salary; to the audience, it wouldn't make any difference. Dramatic comeback Few actors or actresses have rehabilitated their careers as dramatically as did Hilary Swank this year. A survey of Oscar winners in recent years demonstrates just how exceptional she is: The careers of Helen Hunt ("As Good as it Gets," by James L. Brooks, 1997), Gwyneth Paltrow ("Shakespeare in Love," by John Madden, 1998) or Kevin Spacey ("American Beauty," by Sam Mendes, 1998) have not exactly flourished since they won the awards. Denzel Washington ("Training Day" by Antoine Fuqua) and Halle Berry (Marc Forster's "Monster's Ball") have not had box-office successes since they won Oscars at a particularly dramatic ceremony in 2001; and Nicole Kidman's Oscar for her performance in Stephen Daldry's "The Hours" was the climax of her career to date. Since then, all her films have failed. And this is only a list of actors who have won Best Actor awards. The situation is just as bad in the category of Best Supporting Actor; can anyone honestly say that awarding the Oscar to Mira Sorvino in 1995 in front of her teary-eyed father, actor Paul Sorvino, for her performance in Woody Allen's film "Mighty Aphrodite," has made a significant contribution to her career? In the five years that have passed since Swank won the Oscar, there has been a feeling that her win was a kind of curiosity in the history of the award. Her best-known role until then had been in the series "Beverly Hills 90210," in which she played a single mother for two seasons (in 1997 and 1998), and nobody expected her to become an actress who would one day win an Oscar, and maybe two (since among the five actresses who are nominated for the award this year, she is the one who deserves to win). It's not that anyone doubted Swank's talent or the fact that she deserved the Oscar that year: She did fascinating work in Pierce's film, which deserved the praise and the prizes she received. But there was a feeling that she had received the Oscar too early in her career, and that Hollywood, which is not generous when it comes to the variety of roles it offers women today, would not know how to make use of her. And in fact, during the five years that separate "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby," Swank starred almost exclusively in strange roles in failing films, such as the period drama "The Affair of the Necklace," directed by Charles Shyer, in 2001, and "The Core," John Amiel's special effects-laden disaster film, whose large budget was in inverse proportion to its box office revenues. In 2002 Swank played a policewoman in Christopher Nolan's film "Insomnia." It was the most prestigious film in which she had acted since winning the Oscar, but the film, which was not a financial success either, belonged to its two male stars, Al Pacino and Robin Williams. So it looked as though Swank would descend into the type of supporting female roles that seem to be the lot of most Hollywood actresses. All that changed this year after her performance in Eastwood's film. The Golden Globe she received, and the fact that she is a candidate for the Oscar, prove not only that the first Oscar was no coincidence - but that like other good actresses, Swank first of all needs a good part and a good director who knows how to guide her. And among the directors active today, Swank could not have found a better guide than Clint Eastwood. Two kinds of Oscar winners Oscar winners can be divided into two main categories. Either the Oscars have been awarded to actors whose Hollywood star status was in any case so high that winning the prize served only as a confirmation of the fact, and didn't change the course of their careers significantly (Jack Nicholson, who in 1997 won his third Oscar for his performance in "As Good as it Gets," and Julia Roberts, who won her first Oscar in 2000 for "Erin Brockovich"); or the awards were granted to actors whose careers were still in the formative stage, and the honor bestowed on them did not signify any real advance in their careers, and sometimes even had a detrimental effect. Hilary Swank is, of course, an extreme example of the second category. To a somewhat lesser degree, the same is true of Charlize Theron, who won the Oscar last year for her performance in the film "Monster," directed by Patty Jenkins. Theron was better known than Swank when she won her Oscar; before "Monster," she had already acted in several films, including Taylor Hackford's "The Devil's Advocate" in 1997, "The Cider House Rules" by Lasse Halstrom in 1999, and "The Italian Job" by Gary Gray in 2003. But she hadn't yet become a star, and her career could have advanced or just as easily disappeared. The award constituted a great victory for Theron, who in order to play the role of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, concealed her delicate blonde looks with the help of extra pounds, rough skin and false teeth. But now she will have to prove that her award for the role, which was based to a great extent on a gimmick, was not just a random event. During the year since she won the Oscar, that still hasn't happened (despite the fact that Theron was a candidate for the Golden Globe award in the category of Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Made for Television, for her performance as Britt Eckland in the film "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"). The return of Hilary Swank to the summit this year is particularly impressive, because in Hollywood, it is always harder for women to survive than for men. In other words, Charlize Theron's situation is a greater cause for concern than that of Adrien Brody, who was almost completely unknown when in 2002 he unexpectedly won the Oscar for his performance in Roman Polanski's film, "The Pianist." Brody's career has not taken off since he won the award, either; but one has a feeling that he will survive more easily than Theron, and he always has the option - more so than an actress in his position - of becoming a character actor, who will appear in films in critically acclaimed supporting roles. The range of possibilities for an actress is usually more limited (unless she is already considered a character actress, like Kathy Bates, who won the Oscar in 1990 for her performance in Rob Reiner's "Misery"). That is why, whether or not Hilary Swank wins her second Oscar next Sunday, the story of this talented actress is the tale of a major victory. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • NY POST...SUSAN M KIRSCHBAUM March 2, 2004 -- Diane Lane's curves, Holly Hunter's shoulders, Angelina Jolie's decolletage - there was more than enough old-style Hollywood glamour to go around at the Oscars, even among the former grunge and Goth set. The post-Oscar buzz among fashion insiders was all about flawless image, especially among those who've sinned before. Among those in the cleaned-up-real-nice category were the formerly barefoot, newly married Julia Roberts in flesh-toned Armani and former Goth gal Jolie in a white Marc Bouwer halter gown plunging to a low V in front with diamonds cascading down her cleavage. With her hair pulled up and back to reveal stud earrings, she wore just enough to titillate the crowd, even if it didn't quite hide her tattoo. "Her dress was beautiful, but she was wearing nothing," said Michael Gallagher, who collects and sells vintage fashion magazines. "I don't know what kept it all up." Fashion insiders also agree that Roberts has come of age. "She's become a real woman," said Robert Verdi, stylist for "Full Frontal Fashion." "She's grown into a fashion icon of beauty and good taste." Mary Alice Stephenson, a fashion editor, agreed. "I was pleasantly surprised. She seemed very at ease. This was definitely not some fashionista moment." Naomi Watts, Jennifer Garner and Lane went for Audrey Hepburn style with swept-up hair. Watts lit up the room in silver-beaded, flesh-toned Versace. In her vintage, one-shoulder-bared Valentino, Garner looked like "Hollywood's next sweetheart," said Cayli Cavaco, editor at Teen Vogue. And Lane picked a slender white gown with silver circles by Loris Azzaro, the vintage designer of the-moment. "A dress like that would cost six to ten thousand," fashion historian Tiffany Dubin tells The Post. "Diane was a thin creative goddess who took a vintage leap." Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Moore and Hunter were lauded for their sexy, flowing locks and sophistication. Hunter elegantly revealed shapely shoulders in Vera Wang, while Moore's auburn hair barely skimmed her silver-beaded Versace halter gown. According to celebrity hair stylist Marc Garrison: "Her hair had volume in the crown and the middle, a bit Goldie Hawnish but great." And Zeta-Jones va-voomed in a fire-engine red Versace. "She dared to wear red in a sea of muted colors and white," proclaimed Montgomery Frazier, image guru. Last but not least, Nicole Kidman conquered all in gray-blue strapless Chanel. "Shockingly gorgeous," said Verdi. With her "windswept" hair, he continued, she looked "like she left the convertible top down." Julia Roberts The pretty woman becomes her own Oscar statuette in glorious bronze Armani. Jennifer Garner No alias needed as she vamps in tangerine vintage Valentino and clutches a Fendi bag. Diane Lane As if her own curves weren't enough, she encircles her cleavage, courtesy of vintage Loris Azzaro. Nicole Kidman She turned heads in turn-of-the-century Chanel, a Bulgari green diamond necklace at her throat. Naomi Watts The Aussi princess brilliantly emerged from the land down under in Versace. Hilary Swank She could make boys and girls cry in this vintage Valentino. Most improved since Saturday's Indie Spirit Awards. Holly Hunter Pink and poised huntress Holly chose Vera Wang. Angelina Jolie In Marc Bouwer's dipping decolletage or the H. Stern diamonds, this vixen's tempting. Shohreh Aghdashloo Shohreh Aghdashloo hints I'm a lady in Simin while carrying a Bernard Jacobs bag. Julianne Moore The auburn stunner looks so good, she's laughing in this silver peek-a-boo Versace.
  • AP BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - He was a cowboy, a Green Beret, a jet pilot and a detective during his long acting career. Now, John Wayne will grace a postage stamp. The United States Postal Service unveiled its annual "Legends of Hollywood" commemorative postage stamp Saturday night at a private fund-raiser. The fund-raiser was for the John Wayne Cancer Institute and was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This is not the first time Wayne's likeness has appeared on a stamp. In 1990, he was pictured on one of four 25-cent U.S. commemorative postage stamps honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp featured Wayne as the Ringo Kid in "Stagecoach." Previous honorees in the "Legends of Hollywood" series including Marilyn Monroe (1995), James Dean (1996), Humphrey Bogart (1997), Alfred Hitchcock (1998), James Cagney (1999), Edward G. Robinson (2000), Lucille Ball (2001), Cary Grant (2002) and Audrey Hepburn (2003). "He would be glad to know he will be visiting the homes and businesses of millions of his fans every day," said Ethan Wayne, one of the Duke's seven children.
  • "chemqueries" wrote in message news:1105066248.810370.286300@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... > "goodwill" > ************************************************************************** > I have a feeling that Angelina will adopt, or try to adopt, a Sri > Lankan baby orphaned by the tsunami. > colon cancer (or some form of gastrointestinal cancer), she spent a > considerable amount of time in Somalia. Wasn't she also a "Goodwill > Ambassador"? She took lots of trips to various countries as Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. I doubt she ever issued a press release announcing the fact that she *hoped* to be able to squeeze a goodwill trip to some country sometime in the next three months, schedule allowing.
  • AP BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - He was a cowboy, a Green Beret, a jet pilot and a detective during his long acting career. Now, John Wayne will grace a postage stamp. The United States Postal Service unveiled its annual "Legends of Hollywood" commemorative postage stamp Saturday night at a private fund-raiser. The fund-raiser was for the John Wayne Cancer Institute and was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This is not the first time Wayne's likeness has appeared on a stamp. In 1990, he was pictured on one of four 25-cent U.S. commemorative postage stamps honoring classic films released in 1939. The stamp featured Wayne as the Ringo Kid in "Stagecoach." Previous honorees in the "Legends of Hollywood" series including Marilyn Monroe (1995), James Dean (1996), Humphrey Bogart (1997), Alfred Hitchcock (1998), James Cagney (1999), Edward G. Robinson (2000), Lucille Ball (2001), Cary Grant (2002) and Audrey Hepburn (2003). "He would be glad to know he will be visiting the homes and businesses of millions of his fans every day," said Ethan Wayne, one of the Duke's seven children.
  • http://canoe.ca/JamMovies/nov29_portman-sun.html A 'Closer' look at Natalie Portman Portman bares all, then backs off racy role By LOUIS B. HOBSON -- Calgary Sun HOLLYWOOD -- Natalie Portman's performance in the dark relationship drama Closer is being heralded as her arrival as an adult actor. In this story of four people whose emotional and sexual lives become intertwined, Portman, 23, plays Alice, a young American stripper working in London's sex clubs. She becomes the lover of the struggling writer Dan (Jude Law) and then of the doctor Larry (Clive Owen) who are both rivals for the affections of Anna (Julia Roberts), a photographer. Directed by Mike Nichols, Closer recalls his work on such landmark sexual dramas as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge. "I don't feel like an adult in my real life so I certainly don't see Closer as some kind of passage into adulthood," says Portman. "Nor did I do Closer to change my image. I was just trying to keep my career interesting." Nichols says when he decided to direct the film version of Closer, Patrick Marber's award-winning stage play, Portman was the first actor he thought of and contacted. "Natalie has been a friend of mine for a long time," explains Nichols. "I directed her as Nina in a stage version of The Seagull when she was 19. You're not supposed to be able to understand the complexities of this character at such a young age but Natalie did. She is a remarkable actor and she is so beautiful that, had they been contemporaries, Audrey Hepburn would have had cause to worry." The screenplay for Closer required a brief nude scene from Alice when Larry pays for a private session with her at a sex club. Portman had threatened to walk off the movie Anywhere But Here when the director Wayne Wang insisted on a brief nude scene. Her co-star Susan Sarandon went to battle for Portman and the scene was rewritten. She also turned down the lead in Adrian Lyne's Lolita because she felt it was too sensational and exploited women. In recalling the day she and Nichols discussed the nude scene in Closer, Portman says: "When you trust someone as implicitly as I trust Mike, you are ready to do anything even if that means exposing yourself emotionally and physically." They agreed that Nichols could film the scene two ways and Portman could choose which version she wanted. Nichols is adamant that "It was only ever meant to be 90 seconds of nudity. We were to see Alice fastening her bra. I filmed it from the front and from the back. Natalie chose to go with the shot from her back with Clive looking on." Portman says it wasn't just a case of modesty that saw her choose the less revealing scene. "When I saw the rough cut of the movie, I didn't think the nudity was crucial to that scene. I actually thought it was distracting. I think it's best for the movie that it was taken out. I didn't want to be walking down some street months or years later and catch some guy looking at me, knowing he'd probably seen my breasts." Portman admits she was initially just as nervous about the subject matter in Closer and the calibre of her co-stars as she was about the question of nudity. "I always feel it's a sign I should do a project if it scares me and the prospect of working with Julia, Clive and Jude in such an intense drama certainly scared me." Portman's dedication to her role in Closer profoundly affected Law. "The day we did the scene in which I break up with Natalie broke my heart. Her reactions were so real and powerful," says Law. Next summer, with the arrival of Star Wars: Episode III -- The Revenge of the Sith, Portman will relinquish her reign as queen of the sci-fi universe. She has played Amidala in the newest Star Wars trilogy since 1999. "When George Lucas first came to me about the role, I didn't know Star Wars from Star Trek. I had never seen even one of the original Star Wars movies," recalls Portman. She says the end of her trilogy brings mixed emotions. "I'm sad because I know I won't be seeing these people I've worked with for all these years in this capacity again. I'm saying good-bye to my Star Wars family. "I'm also excited because it means I'm starting on a new phase in my career. When The Revenge of the Sith opens next year it will mark 10 years of my life from the time I first spoke with George Lucas. That's a huge chunk of my life." Portman says she can't talk about The Revenge of the Sith except to say "it's a lot darker than the other two." She says she is also of two minds when it comes to acting as a career. "I want to live my life not just other people's. I've always taken as much time off as I can between projects and I'll continue to do that so I can read, travel, study, learn and meet new people." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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  • When thinking of this dark, almost luminously beautiful actress, especially as a young woman, the words "waiflike" and "gamine" frequently spring to mind. It's true that Hepburn's large, hypnotic eyes, slender figure, and distinctive voice marked her as a true original in an era W_hen Marilyn Monroe was everyone's favorite pinup, but physical attributes don't explain her appeal. Winsome, delicate almost to fragility, she brought to her performances an effortless charm perhaps best described as ethereal. A former ballet dancer, Hepburn broke into movies in 1948, playing bits in several European and English productions, most notably a walk-on in the opening scene of The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). In 1953, she came to Hollywood to star as the princess on the run in Roman Holiday she subsequently won an Oscar for the role, confirming her newfound stardom. Hepburn opted to work at a leisurely pace, seeking a variety of roles; these include a chauffeur's daughter in Sabrina (1954, which brought her another Oscar nomination), Natasha in War and Peace (1956), a Greenwich Village intellectual in Funny Face (1957, in which she sang and danced with Fred Astaire), a Parisian romantic in Love in the Afternoon (also 1957), a South American "bird woman" in Green Mansions (1959, one of her best remembered-if least successful films), the lead role in The Nun's Story (1959, another Academy Award nomination), a half-Indian in The Unforgiven (1960), the blithe Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961, which snagged her yet another Oscar nod), a newly widowed target in Charade (1963), Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1964), a bickering wife in the delicious Two for the Road (1967). It was she who asked Henry Mancini to compose the (memorable) score for that movie, as he had for several of her best films; it was also she who fought to keep "Moon River" from being cut from Breakfast at Tiffany's She introduced that Oscarwinning Mancini-Johnny Mercer song in the film, in her own pleasing voice, but when she starred in My Fair Lady it was decided that she had to be dubbed! Hepburn earned her final Oscar nomination playing a terrorized blind woman in Wait Until Dark (1967), which was produced by her longtime husband Mel Ferrer (who also acted with her in War and Peace and directed her in Green Mansions). Soon after, she divorced him, and began to devote herself to a variety of causes, notably world hunger. She became a tireless supporter of UNICEF and traveled the world raising funds and calling attention to the plight of needy children. More or less retired, she was lured back to the camera occasionally-as an aging Maid Marian opposite Sean Connery in Robin and Marian (1976), another damsel in distress in Bloodline (1979), an elegant jewel thief in the made-for-TV Love Among Thieves (1987), or as an angel in Always (1989)-but seemed content to stay busy with more important things than movies. She appeared with her son Sean Ferrer in Peter Bogdanovich's They All Laughed (1981). Just months after her death, he appeared on stage to accept her posthumous Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1993 Oscar ceremony.
  • "I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies. It doesn't stand out a mile, but it's there."
  • "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
  • "My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses."
  • "I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."
  • "I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing."
  • "For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart."
  • "My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I've had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I've gone through, I've always gotten a prize at the end."
  • "I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."
  • "In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection." - Rex Reed
  • "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."
  • "I was asked to act W_hen I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."
  • "I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
  • Measurements: 34A-20-34 (as recorded in 1953), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
  • During World War II, 16-year-old Audrey was a volunteer nurse in a Dutch hospital. During the battle of Arnhem, Hepburn's hospital received many wounded Allied soldiers. One of the injured soldiers young Audrey helped nurse back to health was a young British paratrooper - and future director - named Terence Young. More than 20 years later, Young directed Hepburn in "Wait Until Dark".
  • Like Humphrey Bogart, Hepburn also starred in five of the movies listed by American Film Institute in its Top 100 U.S. love stories (2002). They are Roman Holiday (1953), ranked #4 on the list, Sabrina (1954) ranked #54, which co-starred Bogart, My Fair Lady (1964) ranked #12, Two for the Road (1967) at #57 and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) #61.
  • Turned down a role in the film "The Diary of Anne Frank" because, as a young girl in Holland during the war, she had witnessed Nazi soldiers publicly executing people in the streets and herding Jews onto railroad cars to be sent to the death camps. She said that participating in the film would bring back too many painful memories for her.
  • Henry Mancini said of her: "'Moon River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely. There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is inquestionably the greatest".
  • Broke her back during filming of a horse-riding scene in Unforgiven, The (1960)
  • Was trained as a dental assistant before making it big.
  • Fell in love with William Holden, her co-star in Sabrina (1954) but broke off the relationship on learning that Holden could not have children.
  • Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) although it was one of her most popular roles.
  • She confessed to eating tulip bulbs and tried to bake grass into bread during the hard days of World War II.
  • Was briefly considered for the main role in Cleopatra (1963) but the part went to Elizabeth Taylor
  • Was fluent in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian, and Flemish.
  • Christened simply Andrey Kathleen Ruston, the actress was later known briefly as Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston by her societally conscious and aspiring mother. "Andrey" is rarely used feminine version of Andre or Andrei.
  • Audrey Hepburn won the 1953 Best Actress Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). On March 25th, 1954, she accepted the award from the much revered Academy president Jean Hersholt. After accepting the award, Audrey kissed him smack on the mouth, instead of the cheek, in childish excitement. Minutes after accepting her 1953 Oscar, Audrey realized that she'd misplaced it. Turning quickly on the steps of the Center Theater in New York, she raced back to the ladies' room, retrieved the award, and was ready to pose for photographs.
  • Died on January 20, 1993, the 67th birthday of Patricia Neal. They starred together in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
  • Had a breed of tulip named after her in 1990.
  • Everyone remembers W_hen Marilyn Monroe serenaded President John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. What is often forgotten is that Audrey Hepburn sang "Happy Birthday Mr. President" to JFK for his final birthday in 1963.
  • Turned down the film "Gigi" after creating the character in the Broadway nonmusical play.
  • Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#8). [1995]
  • Interred in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.
  • After "Wait Until Dark" was offered the leads in "Forty Carats", "Nicholas and Alexandria" and "The Turning Point" but decided to stay in retirement and raise her sons.
  • Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. [1990]
  • Son, Luca Dotti (b. 8 February 1970), with second husband, Dr. Andrea Dotti.
  • Mother of Sean H. Ferrer, with first husband, Mel Ferrer.
  • Ranked #50 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
  • Was first choice for the lead in Taste of Honey, A (1961).
  • Edda Hepburn was a cosmopolitan from birth as her father was an English banker and her mother a Dutch baroness. In the movies she appeared as a delicate adolescent, a look which remained until her last movie Always (1989) directed by Steven Spielberg. Her career as actress began in the English cinema and after having been selected for the Broadway musical "Gigi" she debuted in Hollywood in 1953. With Roman Holiday (1953) she won an oscar; her favorite genres were the comedies like Sabrina (1954) or Love in the Afternoon (1957). At the end of the sixties she retired from Hollywood but appeared from time on the set for a few films. From 1988 on she worked also for UNICEF.
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