For the 2007 magazine Flux, Victoria plays the part of Herself (2001).
Posh to be Liz's bridesmaid
The Pioneer
Thursday, June 9, 2005
London - Bride-to-be Liz Hurley has chosen no less than
English rose Victoria Beckham as her bridesmaid, reports
Internet portal Ananova. The recruitment of Posh Spice
only adds to the suspicion that this may be the celeb
wedding of the year. Victoria has confirmed her role in
Hurley's wedding to Indian high-flyer businessman Arun
Nayar. Victoria said: "I bet she's going to put me in
something really frumpy - and with flat shoes." The two
pals have a history of limelight stealing. Sultry Liz
ignored the Beckham's requests to wear "modest attire" at
the christening of their children Romeo and Brooklyn last
year. Instead, she turned up in a cleavage-revealing
white gown - to Victoria's annoyance.
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Why is it that every celeb/supermodel/actress who is just beginning the
descent into has-been-hood feels the need to start some sort of
cosmetic line? Are these ever truly sucessful?
Victoria Principal's line might be the exception. Most of these are
hawked first on websites, then infommercials, home shopping networks,
and finally end up in bins at dollar stores.
So many have tried this and failed. Christy Brinkley and Cindy Crawford
tried to market their own lines and weren't marginally sucessful.
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Posh 'Looks Awful Naked'
Now, we all know that clothes can cover a multitude of sins, but by
pretending she looks rough in the buff Posh Spice has surely gone loopy.
"I've got so much saggy skin on my stomach," the 31-year-old has revealed.
Talking to the Daily Mirror, Victoria also went on to state that the latest
claims of her husband playing away were rubbish.
Talking about the pictures in a Sunday newspaper of a mini-skirted brunette
apparently kissing David, she said:
"It's a pathetic joke. Fans come up to him all the time. It's like part of
his job. David is still my Goldenballs."
The former Spice Girl added that she was more concerned with her looks than
any chat about her husband...
"I've got no bum at all. People tell me my jeans are like a Wonderbra for
their bum. But I have to take their word for it because I've got nothing
back there.
"I have to stick it out and pretend. Trust me, I look awful naked," she
claimed.
Victoria with husband David
"However, my body has given me three beautiful sons so I can't complain."
Victoria went on to admit that although all the rumours about her marriage
have been tough, she doesn't want people's sympathy.
"It hasn't been easy but I don't want anyone's sympathy. I know some people
don't want to believe it but we really are happy. Everything about my life
is good."
While dismissing Rebecca Loos' claims that David sent her dirty texts, Posh
said: "There's been all this rubbish about being into porn and texts and
stuff like that.
"Let me tell you what the real David is addicted to - Extreme Makeover. He
sits in bed watching that and he loves Alan Titchmarsh in Ground Force."
She went on to reveal that the couple and their three kids have finally
found a place to call home in Madrid and plan to move in to their "Casa
Beckham" in July
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Braddock
> in new movie Cinderella Man after thoroughly researching the heavyweight
> champion's life and becoming engrossed in his story.
> feared he'd never be the actor to play Braddock.
> for the boxer after spending all his downtime between films reading up on
> his hero.
> re-achieving his normalcy. He just went back to work. He did lots of
> different things, found out the place that he was most comfortable at was
> back on the same docks where he was earning 26 cents an hour during the
> Depression.
> which is a thing to me which is so special - he didn't become a restaurant
> greeter in Vegas, he didn't become a drug addict.
his
> win in 1935, still desperately in love with his wife, having seen his
three
> children grow and his grandchildren born.
> was so important. The great thing about Jim is he didn't feel he needed to
> live up to being heavyweight champion every day."
passed the hollywod and london frosted and glassed assortment of
flibberdy-gibbet females like Meg Ryan to marry a woman he'd known and loved
for years who loved Russell for himself. The only other woman who seemed
real and down to earth that he dated was Jodie Foster and while Jodie
ocassionally walks on one side of the street, she's happier on the other.
Too bad I've had several really good friendships that sometimes because
sexual--yeah, yeah with me dominant, I can't help it, though brutalized as a
child I'm strictly an alpha male--and in ana odd way it was very nice. Well
adjusted Lesbian' who ocassionaly dabble on the straight path are a lot of
fun and can be sweet and girl but don't freak out as easily if you get
distracted by a passing pretty lady because they are interested too. Also
whil a lot of straight women can do guy stuff, fixing motorcycles and
getting on horseback and going aone a camping trip in the desert or
prospecting in the mountains I've had several Lesbain friends who were real
buds, and who's competitive instinct made them keep up with you even when a
lot o guys wuss out. I've known a few straight women like that, sort of like
Lud in Giant played by the great Mercedes MacCambridge whose affair with
James Dean's Jett Rink was only hinted at inm a fifties film unable to deal
with a harder older woman character in love with a handsome low class
younger man. Just imagine the amazing scenes they could have done.
MacCambridge radiated a tough sexuality that in simple minds mind seem
merely Lesbian but which was raw and real. Just watch her as Sadie the
cynical campigin cordinator in love with brute corrupt Huey Long style
southern politician in Robert Rossen's great "All the Kings Men". There a
wonderful implicit scene when shes brushing her hair after having bedded
Willie Stark after she has taunted him to get drunk. And the scenes when she
sees WIllie with a showgirl on each knee and she's cursring, Kill him, I'll
kill" protray a more real female in loved than most of the smarmy efforts
by glamourous actresses of even today who'se featherweight sexuality is a
bad pparody of something rightout of the Playmate trainging school. And for
Lesbian Tension, Her battle and visual and verballly tense exhanges In
Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar between Bi-lady Joan Crawford and the
heterosexual Ms. MacCambridge were some of the most implicitly sexual
moments on screen even the men were like icons for the kind of men who might
tempt and ocassional fling with a man, The amazing physical presense of
Sterling Haayden, the first real teenage delinquent homo-erotic male Turkey
and the various slick pimp ttypes and slick wavy haired good-bad guys were
like every coded sexual underground type right up there in beautiful
technicolor. And the gunfight shoot out between Crawford and MacCambridge is
one of the best western gunfights on film. I only wish they'd made more
female character centered pulp western stories. There were a few others but
not many and none with the weirdly dynamic energy and semi-camp set design
of Johnny Guitar. Lately we'v had some, that thing with Andy MacDowell and
Drew Barrymore as bank robbers, but the was painfully formulaic, and
the thing with Linda Farentino which would have been better if she'd worked
out and built up her strength enough so it wouldn't show that when she was
trying to point the gun that it wasing awavering in the air because it was
so heavy that she was struggling to balance it when she aimed. Even Kim
Darby in true Grit managed to handle that terriblly heavy ball firing 44-50?
caliber pistol which had been her fathers, with more authenticity. Then
there was that Sharon Stone thing, which I liked dispite it's improbably
overtensed somewhat repetive which was like one high noon gun fight
scene after another, but Sharon was strong and believable at least, (I'd
love to see her play Belle Starr or Clamity Jane) and while I liked Little
Joe with the beautiful Susie Amis, the cross-dressing sexual politics
weighted it down in a way that could have been avoided if someone had
delivered a western first with political overtones secondary. If your
going to rob The Major and The Minor Or that other movie With Katherine
Hepburn dressed as a boy, like Victor Victoria did or Yenty even better you
have to do it with delicate skill and care.
I really like the modern Western, Thelma and Louise, I don't know but
I'm assuming Kallie Khoury wrote her as an adventure first, and let
the politics fall where they may (with a lot, especially the ending owed to
that guy--who was it, director George Roy Hill?--who wrote the for
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.)
They keep trying but Westerns are gone for good. Though I'm clinging to
my hope of a good Belle Star with Sharon Stone and someone cool as Cole
Younger and someone cool as (was it Charlie) Star in the great deadly
western love triangle with Belle at the center. The scenes in Long Riders
with Cole and Belle and Charlie Star were classics even with an Apache knife
fight scene. Apache knife fighting being one of my recent martial arts
fixations since I completed two years study of Brazilian knife fighting
techniques.
Ok, so I digress. But I do it quite well, you must admit.
Ambrose
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By Josh Grossberg
8 minutes ago
Bob Geldof is at it again.
Two decades after he masterminded Live Aid, the largest charity concert
ever mounted, to fight famine in Africa, the 58-year-old
singer-activist has announced an encore.
On Tuesday, Geldof unveiled a Live Aid sequel, dubbed Live 8, that aims
to be bigger than the original and will feature a who's-who of the top
music acts in the world, including Paul McCartney, U2, the Rolling
Stones, Madonna and a reunited Pink Floyd, participating in a series of
mega-concerts.
The free gigs will be staged July 2 in London, Paris, Berlin,
Philadelphia and Rome and simulcast on television and the Internet.
At a news conference, Geldof stated that the goal this time around will
be to raise awareness of poverty in Third World countries, particularly
in African nations, ahead of the annual G8 meeting in Britain attended
by the leaders of the world's most powerful industrial nations, among
them President George W. Bush.
"We don't want people's money. We want them," the Irish popster told a
news conference Tuesday, adding that the July 6-8 G8 summit offered a
"unique opportunity for Britain to do something unparalleled in the
world...to tilt the world a little bit on its axis in favor of the
poor."
Coldplay, R.E.M., Mariah Carey and the Cure are among those performing
with McCartney, Madonna and U2 in London; Dave Matthews Band, Bon Jovi,
Stevie Wonder, Sarah McLachlan, Will Smith, Jay-Z and P. Diddy will
take the stage in Philadelphia; Jamiroquai, Placebo, Andrea Bocelli
and Youssou N'Dour are among the headliners in Paris; Lauryn Hill,
Brian Wilson, A-ha and Crosby, Stills and Nash will lead the Berlin
bill; and Duran Duran, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will command the stage
in Rome.
Meanwhile, several other A-list acts, including Pink Floyd, the Rolling
Stones, Usher, Snoop Dogg and Destiny's Child, have signed on to
perform, but there's no immediate word on where they'll be playing.
Speculation of a pending Spice Girls reunion was quickly squashed by
Victoria Beckham's publicist--not that the Girl Power group would have
been welcomed. According to an account in London's Daily Mirror, Live 8
organizers rejected the quintet out of concern its inclusion might
undercut the seriousness of the event.
The original Live Aid, held simultaneously in 1985 at London's Wembley
Stadium and Philadelphia's RFK Stadium, featured an all-star lineup led
by McCartney, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, Bob Dylan and Led
Zeppelin.
Geldof says Live 8 should exceed its predecessor in terms of
viewership--it will be beamed worldwide to more than 2 billion people
over various cable and satellite channels. AOL will carry the shows
live on the Internet.
Tickets for the London event, which will take place at Hyde Park, will
be given out via a lottery on June 6. Tickets for the other
venues--Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, Philly's Museum of Art, Rome's
Circus Maximus, and a venue in Paris to be announced--will be
distributed via a similar lottery system.
Live 8 organizers hope the massive turnout will help pressure G8
leaders to take immediate action to forgive Third World debt and
establish programs to eradicate poverty and injustice in developing
countries.
Organizers are also hoping to stage concerts in the three other G8
countries: Canada, Russia and Japan.
Here's a complete rundown of the acts and venues confirmed thus far.
LONDON: Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Elton John, Annie
Lennox, Paul McCartney, Muse, Razorlight, REM, Scissor Sisters, Snow
Patrol, Stereophonics, Sting , Joss Stone, Robbie Williams, U2,
Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, the Killers, Madonna, The Cure
BERLIN: A-ha, Bap, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Die Toten Hosen, Peter
Maffay, Brian Wilson
PHILADELPHIA: Will Smith, Bon Jovi, Maroon 5, Dave Mattews Band, Sarah
McLachlan, Rob Thomas, Keith Urban, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, 50 Cent,
Kaiser Chiefs, P. Diddy
PARIS: Andrea Bocelli, Craig David, Calo Gero, Jamiroqaui, Kyo,
Yannick Noah, Youssou N'Dour, Placebo, Axelle Red, Johnny Halliday,
Manu Chao, Renaud
ROME: Irene Grandi, Faith Hill, Jovanotti, Tim McGraw, Nek, Laura
Pausini, Duran Duran, Vasco Rossi, Zucchero,
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Paying for Elle's charms in charity
May 28, 2005
FOR more than 20 years the world's known her as The Body and this week in
London a mystery buyer wholeheartedly endorsed the tag, paying $385,000 for
two nude Elle Macpherson photographs.
The Australian supermodel and entrepreneur was among 44 of the world's most
desirable women who got naked in the name of art, charity - and a pair of
sought-after Jimmy Choo heels for a group of photographs that went to
auction, reports Ben English from London.
The price fetched for Elle's images - showing her perched daintily on a
chair with a strategically placed copy of the Financial Times - was the
fourth highest of the Christies auction, behind fellow supermodel Kate Moss
whose pic topped the bidding at $656,000.
Elle was also pipped in the bidding by Jimmy Choo proprietor Tamara Mellon,
whose pose lying across a West End bar fetched $534,600. Victoria Beckham
was next with $437,400.
Other beauties on display included supermodels Yasmin Le Bon and Heidi Klum,
singer Christina Aguilera, tennis amazon Serena Williams and Duchess of York
Sarah Ferguson.
All of the women featured in the portraits were shot wearing a pair of Jimmy
Choo "four-inch" high-heel shoes - the must-have footwear for serious female
A-listers.
Whether bidders had their eyes on the pumps is debatable, but the night
proved a success, raising a healthy $4.67 million for the Elton John AIDS
Foundation.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050520/en_nm/leisure_australia_kylie_dc
By Michael Perry
Fri May 20, 6:51 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pop princess Kylie Minogue was believed to be in
an Australian hospital awaiting surgery for breast cancer on Friday, as
her younger sister Dannii flew in from London to join family and
friends by her side.
Singer Dannii and brother Brendan, an Australian news television
cameraman, arrived at Melbourne's Cabrini private hospital on Friday.
Local media reported they believed Minogue was already in the hospital
awaiting surgery.
Minogue announced on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with breast
cancer and postponed her Australian and Asian "Showgirl Tour" concerts.
Initial tests showed the cancer was confined to the breast and Minogue
would undergo surgery this week, her management said in a statement on
Thursday.
News of Minogue's breast cancer has dominated Australian and British
media and has attracted words of sympathy and support from some of the
music industry's biggest names -- from Britain's Elton John to U.S.
pop singer Madonna.
"Aside from being tremendously talented, Kylie's a fighter and I know
this is a battle she will win," Madonna said on her Web site
(www.madonna.com).
"Let's all pray for her speedy recovery and send all of our best wishes
her way. With love and light to you Kylie. Madonna."
Minogue rose from a humble showbiz beginning as a teenage actress in
the Australian soap opera "Neighbors" in the 1980s to international
stardom as one of the world's top pop singers.
The star, signed to EMI, is worth about A$60 million (US$46 million),
according to a 2004 list of rich young Australians compiled by BRW
magazine
Australian and international media have camped outside the Minogue
family home since news of the cancer broke. Some have staked out
hospitals in Melbourne.
The government in her home state of Victoria has warned media to
respect her privacy or face legal action.
"This is not the time to be hanging at her house -- you need to leave
her alone," said Australian singer and breast cancer survivor
Olivia Newton-John, who starred in the hit 1978 movie "Grease" with
John Travolta.
Minogue's stardom has boosted the campaign to raise awareness of breast
cancer and the singer has asked fans to donate to cancer research
instead of sending her flowers.
The Cancer Council in Victoria (www.cancervic.org.au) said it had
received more than A$7,000 (US$5,300) in donations from around the
world.
Breast cancer is the biggest cause of cancer deaths in Australian
women, unlike the United States and Britain where it is second, behind
lung cancer.
Australian cancer clinics have reported a flood of women seeking breast
cancer check-ups. There is currently no cure for breast cancer, with
the medical focus on early detection as the best way to survive the
disease.
Newton-John said Minogue's diagnosis highlighted the fact that breast
cancer was a risk for women of all ages, even though young women are
less likely to contract it.
"It's a wake-up call for women that we need to self-examine on a
regular basis and there is no age limit," she said.
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> Zeta-Jones 'perfect'
> female body.
> who had the best figure and body image in the world. Angelina JolieSalma Hayek
has THE best proportioned and hot body in Hollywood - even at 5' 2".
Outside of Hollywood, you have to go for Victoria Silvstedt who is
absolutely awesome.
For models, you have to go with Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio,
Yamila Diaz, and a number of others.
Not that there aren't plenty of others. Even the best is only likely to
be ten percent better than the next best at most.
I've got 250,000 babe pictures on my hard drive - believe me, there are
incredibly gorgeous women out there with incredible bodies that you've
never heard of.
--
Richard Steven Hack
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By Michael Perry
Thu May 19, 2:24 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pop diva Kylie Minogue is undergoing medical tests
in the Australian city of Melbourne in preparation for breast cancer
surgery later this week, her management said in a statement on
Thursday.
Initial tests showed the cancer was confined to the breast.
Minogue announced on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with early
breast cancer and postponed her Australian and Asian "Showgirl Tour"
concerts.
"Kylie is currently undergoing tests at a first class medical facility
in Melbourne in preparation for an operation this week by one of
Australia's leading surgeons," said the statement.
"Thankfully, tests so far have confirmed the earlier diagnosis that the
cancer appears to be confined to the breast."
Early breast cancer means the disease is confined to the breast, has
not spread to vital organs and can be surgically removed, according to
the National Breast Cancer Center.
Surgery would usually involve cutting out just the cancer if it is
small enough, or removing the entire breast, followed by radiotherapy
and possibly chemotherapy. Such treatment can take anywhere from six
weeks to six months to complete.
Kylie Minogue rose from humble showbiz beginnings as a teenage actress
in the soap opera "Neighbors" in the 1980s to international stardom as
one of the world's top pop singers.
The music star, who is signed to EMI, is worth about A$60 million
(US$46 million), according to a 2004 list of rich young Australians
compiled by BRW magazine.
Minogue issued a short statement on Thursday thanking her worldwide
fans for their overwhelming support during the past two days and
reassured them she was being taken care of by her boyfriend, French
actor Olivier Martinez, and her family in Melbourne.
"My heartfelt thanks to the incredible number of people who have sent
messages of love and support over the last two days," said Minogue.
"I want to reassure you that I am being well taken care of. Olivier is
by my side and I have a lot of family and friends around me," she said.
Minogue also sent a message of support to women battling breast cancer
around the world and asked her fans not to send her flowers but to make
a donation to the Cancer Council in her Australian home state of
Victoria (www.cancervic.org.au/kylie).
"I would also like to extend my best wishes to all of the other women
around Australia and around the world who are dealing with the same
illness," she said.
Breast cancer is the biggest cause of cancer deaths in Australian
women, unlike the United States and Britain where it is the second
behind lung cancer, says the National Breast Cancer Center in Sydney.
Almost 12,000 women are diagnosed with the disease each year in
Australia. Latest available statistics show 2,594 women died from
breast cancer in Australia in 2001. But breast cancer in young women,
like Minogue, is rare with only 600 women in their 30s diagnosed
annually across the country.
Minogue's illness has received huge media coverage worldwide,
especially in Britain where she lives, heightening awareness of breast
cancer with analysis of the disease and warnings to women that early
detection is crucial.
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue was expected to be
admitted to hospital after revealing that she has early-stage breast
cancer, amid an outpouring of support from fans and admirers around the
world.
Anxious fans have flooded websites with messages of support while local
supporters have delivered gifts to her Melbourne home since the
announcement that the 36-year-old would begin treatment immediately.
"I think all Australians feel for her and wish her well," Prime
Minister John Howard said Wednesday.
"A young woman, Kylie Minogue, any young woman of that age to be
diagnosed with that condition, it does send a shudder through you."
Minogue's illness has forced her to call off the Asian and Australian
legs of her successful Showgirl tour which were due to begin in Sydney
on Thursday.
The singer, who found fame in the 1980s in the soap opera 'Neighbours'
before launching a pop career which has seen her sell an estimated 40
million records, has apologised to fans for the postponement of the
shows.
"I was so looking forward to bringing the Showgirl tour to Australian
audiences and am sorry to have to disappoint my fans," she said in a
statement Tuesday.
"Nevertheless, hopefully all will work out fine and I'll be back with
you all again soon."
Experts said Wednesday said that while women who suffer breast cancer
before the age of 40 generally have a more aggressive form of the
disease, the overall survival rate for all sufferers was 85-90 percent.
Minogue is also thought to have caught the disease before it spread to
other parts of the body.
"Early breast cancer is highly treatable and the survival rates are
very good," Gill Batt of the New South Wales Cancer Council told AFP.
Batt said her organisation had received an increase in calls on
Wednesday from women worried about whether they should have a breast
check-up.
Minogue is likely to have the cancer removed during surgery and then
undergo chemotherapy, radiotherapy or hormone therapy, said Dr. Karen
Luxford of the National Breast Cancer Centre, who praised the
singer for being open about the disease.
"The fact that Kylie Minogue has been honest and has informed the
public that she has early breast cancer can only make the general
public more aware and she is to be commended for doing that," she said.
She said up to 90 percent of women can expect to be alive five years
after diagnosis.
Minogue was resting in Melbourne ahead of the rest of her tour when the
diagnosis was made. She is believed to be bunkered down in her family's
home in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury with partner Olivier
Martinez.
Earlier Wednesday at least 20 journalists were camped outside the
two-storey home waiting for a glimpse of the diminutive star.
The media has been asked not to intrude on the superstar's privacy.
Victoria state Premier Steve Bracks warned photographers and
journalists against breaching the state's strict privacy laws which
prevent a patient's medical records being made public.
"We have very strong laws, privacy laws around medical records, about
access to details, about treatment," Bracks told reporters.
"These are private matters between the clinician and the patient and
they are enshrined in laws as private matters."
Commentators have stressed that Minogue's close-knit family, including
parents Carol and Ron, will be the best support for her at this time.
Her brother Brendan is also believed to be at the family home while
French movie star Martinez cancelled a flight back to Los Angeles to
remain with her. Sister Dannii is believed to be coming home from
London.
In London, Minogue's former on and off-screen Australian boyfriend
Jason Donovan said his thoughts were with Minogue and her family.
Donovan, currently starring in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in London's
West End, said: "I sincerely wish her well with her treatment. Kylie is
a strong woman who will fight this battle on every front."
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> wrote the music for.
Festival
> because the main character's battle to become a ballet dancer in a working
> class area of England resembled his own early years.
> Lee Hall to turn it into a stage show, with lyrics by Hall and music by
> John.
I
> didn't think I would be relaxed enough to give it my full emotions, but
from
> the word go I was away."
I'd love to see that show. The movie is incredible. In fact, it was the
first DVD I ever bought. Jamie Bell is fantastic.
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Elton weeps at Billy Elliott premiere
14/05/2005 - 10:54:19
Elton John wept at the opening night of new musical Billy Elliott, which he
wrote the music for.
John admits he cried when he first saw the film at the Cannes Film Festival
because the main character's battle to become a ballet dancer in a working
class area of England resembled his own early years.
He loved the film so much, he persuaded director Stephen Daldry and author
Lee Hall to turn it into a stage show, with lyrics by Hall and music by
John.
And tears flowed again at London's Victoria Palace Theatre this week.
John says: "The last three songs completely got me again. I was blubbing. I
didn't think I would be relaxed enough to give it my full emotions, but from
the word go I was away."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050513/en_nm/people_hilton_dc
By Mike Collett-White
2 hours, 44 minutes ago
CANNES, France (Reuters) - Long derided as a celebrity air-head, hotel
heiress Paris Hilton is starting to demand a little more respect with
her rapidly expanding business empire.
In Cannes to promote her latest film, the former wild child is prepared
to stop at nothing. She has her own canine clothing brand called Paris
Tinkerbell, named after her Chihuahua, and even a "doggie jewelry
line."
"I'm 24 years old now and the party girl days were when I was 16 years
old and I'd just moved to New York City, and now I'm too busy," she
told Reuters in an interview Friday.
"I am a businesswoman, I work every single day and I don't go out any
more, so I think people definitely realize that. I have lost that image
to people who know me."
"That image" is one of a vacuous party animal, best known until
recently for appearing in a homemade film having sex with her then
boyfriend that spread via the Internet.
But TV series "The Simple Life," in which she lives with ordinary
people and mucks in with the family chores, her businesses from
fragrances to hotels to night clubs, and even a lengthy profile in the
New York Times, are changing all of that.
Reclining on a chaise longue by the beach, Hilton's demeanour is
demure. She wears a simple white patterned dress, and refers to herself
as a "brand."
"I'm already building my own empire and I have so much going on that I
wouldn't need to," she said, when asked whether she would one day take
over the family Hilton hotel chain.
"I'm already doing my own Hotel Parises, so they're not going to be
Hiltons. They're going to be my own boutique hotels ... I'll be their
competition."
When asked to estimate just how big her business was, she said: "A
lot."
SEX AND AMBITION
Hilton believes she has inherited an ambitious streak.
"I always think it's very important to make my own money," she told a
packed press conference.
"I come from a very ambitious family. My grandfather started the Hilton
hotel chain after being a bell-boy, and I wanted to do my own thing and
make my own name for myself and not be just the Hilton hotel daughter."
Time will tell whether her business ventures turn out to be vanity
projects or financially successful companies.
But Hilton has not forgotten that sex sells.
When asked about her new film "Pledge This," in which she plays an
American university student called Victoria who leads her colleagues
astray, she answered:
"This is a very sexy movie. It's all about hot sorority girls in
college, and everybody's beautiful. It's hot, and there are some sexy
scenes with me."
The next instalment of reality TV show "The Simple Life" is also
scheduled to be set in Hawaii, where the beaches should provide a more
glamorous setting than previous series.
Barely ever out of the limelight, Hilton's reception in Cannes had
A-list celebrity written all over it -- the arrival by boat, a media
scrum and a long section of the exclusive Cannes beach devoted to her
sizeable entourage.
"Obviously I sometimes think everybody is always watching me," she
said. "It gets hard, but that's the business I chose to be in."
"Thanatos" wrote in message
news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com...
> In article
> ,
> TranslucentAmoebae wrote:
possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/
responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/
> difference?
He can't tell you...too drunk.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/articles/18531502?source=Daily%20Mail&
ct=5
Beckham bust-up
By Nicole Lampert, Daily Mail
11 May 2005
The lavish celebrations featured a foot-long chocolate cake in the shape of
the Buddha, a top DJ and even a sprinkling of rose petals on the floor.
But for all the meticulous arrangements made by his wife Victoria, David
Beckham's 30th birthday party didn't pass off entirely as planned.
The £250,000, celebrity-studded event was marred by a row between David's
father Ted Beckham and Victoria's father Tony Adams.
Halfway through the night at Madrid's fashionable Buddha Bar, Mr Adams told
Beckham Snr he needed to sort his son out, following revelations about
further problems in the couple's marriage.
'Victoria's dad went up to David's and started having a go at him about
David's behaviour at about 2.30am,' said a partygoer who overheard the row.
'He said that he was worried about Victoria - that she is all over the
place - and it was down to the way David has been behaving. He is clearly
very unhappy about things and felt he had to get it out.
'Ted was quick to hit back, though. He accused Tony of being a "hanger on"
and said that Victoria was hysterical.
'He said Tony should stay out of what was going on in David and Victoria's
marriage.
A lot of angry words were exchanged and they were pointing their fingers at
each other.
'In the end Ted's brother pulled him away but he looked so angry that he was
practically shaking.'
Mrs Beckham's family have been heavily involved in creating the Beckham
'brand' while her husband's have remained away from the limelight.
While several people heard the argument, it is not thought the couple were
aware it was going on. It is not the first time the two men, both 56, have
clashed. They rowed at the Christening of their grandsons Brooklyn and Romeo
just before Christmas.
The latest argument follows newspaper revelations from the Beckhams' former
nanny Abbie Gibson.
She revealed how Beckham had threatened to split from his wife while she was
pregnant with their third son Cruz, how he called her a 'f****** bitch' and
said she believed he had an affair with her friend, beautician Dannielle
Heath.
Sources close to the Beckhams say that since the revelations, Mrs Beckham,
31, has had trouble sleeping and eating.
But the couple have been trying to gloss over their problems with a series
of staged photographs.
The party in Madrid, which went on until 6.30am yesterday, was attended by
Elizabeth Hurley, Elle Macpherson, Geri Halliwell and a number of Beckham's
Real Madrid teammates.
"Cassie" wrote in message
news:1115566166.800587.306310@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> southern boy would have been set for life (and THEN some!) if he had
> been able to convince her to stick with it. But then the (rumored)
> $250,000 he DID get just MIGHT set him for life in Louisiana!
>
I recall reading that Britney's mother stepped in and pretty much forced
Britney to have the marriage annulled, in fear for her monetary fortune, as
no prenup had been signed.
Victoria
http://www.smh.com.au/news/People/What-the-gossip-mags-said/2005/05/03/11150
92495747.html
What the gossip mags said
By Jacqueline Maley
May 4, 2005
There are few things more entertaining than watching a woman in the process
of letting herself go, and this week's goss mags have got the photos to
prove that in the case of Britney Spears the transformation is almost
complete.
The downhill spiral of the Britster, from pop princess to full-blown white
trash, continues unabated, and praise heaven the mags are there to document
it.
As NW shows, just as her husband Kevin Federline, aka The Rat, cannot rouse
himself to pull his trousers up, it appears brushing her hair has become all
a bit much for Brits. In another photograph, Mrs Federline examines videos
at the local store. It's a touching tableau of imminent motherhood - ugh
boots, smeared mascara, and acne.
More worryingly, the mag prints an inventory of Britney's recent meals, and
it's enough to make Elvis's deep fried peanut butter sandwiches look like
light, healthy snacks. Burgers, chicken wings, fries topped with bacon and
cheese - Britney will stop at nothing to improve the share price of
America's fast food outlets.
In other news, NW offers a terrifying insight into the marriage/brand merger
of Victoria and David Beckham, citing revelations from the couple's former
nanny, who, in a shock move, has sold her story to the British tabloid News
of the World. It's good dirt.
According to the informant, David is really mean to Posh and teases her
constantly that he is more famous than her. When Posh feels she is losing
her hold on David's affections she goes on a bizarre diet consisting of
pineapples (a ploy sure to win back the heart of any wandering husband).
Alas, as Posh's rib cage becomes ever more prominent David's eye wanders
further from his wife, the nanny alleges.
On the Brangelina beat - all the mags carry photos of Angelina Jolie, Brad
Pitt and her son cavorting at a beach resort in Africa. Poor Jennifer
Anniston - this time the "we were promoting a movie" excuse will probably
not wash.
New Idea tries hard to suppress its rage that it didn't pick Princess Mary's
pregnancy sooner, eventually blaming it on the fact she is too damn thin.
NW also gives us a priceless interview with the rocker Tommy Lee, former
husband of Pamela Anderson. Lee is promoting his contribution to the
rock'n'roll literary canon, Tommyland. Taking the "auto" out of
"autobiography", Tommy penned the work with a "co-writer", who suggested
opening the book with the hilarious motif of Tommy chatting with his, um,
favourite body part. Tommy thought that idea was, like, "the funniest s--t
I've ever heard".
Although he admits his life was once ruled by the aforementioned body part,
he has toned down his act now he has two sons. The two boys occasionally go
on tour with him, but, being a responsible father, Tommy puts them to bed
before the "TittieCam" is brought out, and women in the audience are
encouraged to expose their bosoms.
Despite his arrest for wife beating, he is really a lover, not a fighter.
"Smoot" wrote in message
news:54rs51pit37nne1ub6qketn2eahjflheg9@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:28:18 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:
> that verdict unlike OJ's. Unfortunately his career was ruined and the
> public at the time was given the impression by the press that he
> killed the young woman who bled to death. Still I guess as far as
> disgrace goes, his was pretty servere, innocence aside.
> for it but his career recovered fully.
> Michael Jackson likes his boys though. I know he faced threats of
> exposure from at least one mother, but I don't know that he was ever
> disgraced. (It was kept pretty quiet.)
> celebs. I would think that OJ and Jackson would be miles above Grant
> though.
I'd include the scary and looney Mark Tyson in the list, too.
Victoria
NY DAILY NEWS...RUSH AND MOLLOY
British icons David and Victoria Beckham have been rocked by the public
confessions of their former nanny, who alleges that the hunky soccer
superstar and former Posh Spice had constant fights, struggled with
David's infidelity - and remained together only because of "Brand
Beckham."
"At first I was even told I had to walk way behind them when we were
all out in public," the nanny, Abbie Gibson, told the News of the
World. She said the picture-perfect marriage was necessary to maintain
a number of squeaky-clean million-dollar endorsement deals. "They
wanted everyone to believe they did everything as a family and didn't
need help. ... It's all part of the charade they put on to protect the
brand."
Gibson violated a signed confidentiality agreement with David, 29, and
Victoria, 31, to air the couple's dirty laundry. It is unknown how much
the paper paid her.
Gibson, whose claims are strongly denied by the couple, said she even
found risque text messages between the soccer star and a mystery woman,
and that a pregnant Victoria confessed to the nanny that she was
worried about her husband having an affair.
The Beckhams, who just gave birth to their third son, Cruz, in
February, have announced plans to sue Gibson.
"robbielynn" wrote in message
news:1114529488.217800.310460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Surely you can't be serious that you think that Donatella Versace looks
> good.
> face and curves, I mean for her age and all those drug
> years, she looks better than the woman I described who
> really changed. Does anyone have a link to a young
> Donatella?
>
I could only find this:
http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/005357.html
but admittedly I didn't try too hard...
Victoria
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