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  • Silk Stockings

    
    Legit Reviews: Musical Theater West's "Silk Stockings," however "reinvigorated" (their word) by helmer Stuart Ross's updating and rewrite, amply explains why this wan adaptation of 1939 Greta Garbo classic "Ninotchka" is almost never revived.
    on 2008-11-17 04:46:50

  • H'wood Beauties: From Classic to Botoxed

    
    From Greta Garbo to Kate Hudson, how beauty has changed in America.
    on 2008-05-12 12:45:14

  • GETTING RACY

    
    JAPANESE animation - anime, if you want to get all technical - has a few major style characteristics. You've got your exaggeratedly big eyes and mouths, your super-short skirts on the ladies, and, more often than not, your adorable animal sidekick. So whe
    on 2008-05-05 20:48:15

  • Their majesties: Great movie queens

    
    From Greta Garbo to Cate Blanchett, these regal ladies take the crown. By Dave White
    on 2007-10-16 02:23:28
  • http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-scientology18dec18,0,2963052.story?coll=la-home-headlines At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun a.. Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise studied intensively at the remote compound near Hemet while becoming a passionate messenger for the church. By Claire Hoffman and Kim Christensen, Times Staff Writers GILMAN HOT SPRINGS, Calif. — Nearly 30 years ago, the Church of Scientology bought a dilapidated and bankrupt resort here and turned the erstwhile haven for Hollywood moguls and starlets into a retreat for L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer who founded the religion. Today, the out-of-the-way 500-acre compound near Hemet has quietly grown into one of Scientology's major bases of operation, with thriving video and recording studios, elaborate offices and a multimillion-dollar mansion that former members say was built for the eventual return of "LRH," who died in 1986. Like the previous owners, the church also has used the property as a sanctuary for its own stable of stars. It is here, ex-members say, that Hollywood's most bankable actor, Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise, was assiduously courted for the cause by Scientology's most powerful leader, David Miscavige. Scientology has long recruited Hollywood luminaries. But the close friendship of these two men for nearly 20 years and their mutual devotion to Hubbard help explain Cruise's transformation from just another celebrity adherent into the public face of the church. The bond between the star and his spiritual leader was evident last year when the two traded effusive words and crisp salutes at a Scientology gala in England. Calling Cruise "the most dedicated Scientologist I know," Miscavige presented him with the church's first Freedom Medal of Valor. "Thank you for your trust, thank you for your confidence in me," Cruise replied, according to Scientology's Impact magazine. "I have never met a more competent, a more intelligent, a more tolerant, a more compassionate being outside of what I have experienced from LRH. And I've met the leaders of leaders. I've met them all." Founded in 1954, Scientology is a religion without a deity. It teaches that "spiritual release and freedom" from life's problems can be achieved through one-on-one counseling called auditing, during which members' responses are monitored on an "e-meter," similar to a polygraph. This process, along with a series of training courses, can cost Scientologists many tens of thousands of dollars. As Scientology's highest-ranking figure, Miscavige, 45, has found in Cruise, 43, not just a fervent and famous believer but an effective messenger whose passion the church has harnessed to help fuel its worldwide growth. "Across 90 nations, 5,000 people hear his word of Scientology — every hour," International Scientology News proclaimed last year. "Every minute of every hour someone reaches for LRH technology … simply because they know Tom Cruise is a Scientologist." Cruise and Miscavige declined requests for interviews. A Scientology spokesman, Mike Rinder, called them the "best of friends," men who've achieved great success through "their force of personality and their drive to excel." At the same time that Cruise's increasingly vocal advocacy of Scientology has drawn attention to his faith, it has collided with his career. While promoting "War of the Worlds" this year, the film's director, Steven Spielberg, grew concerned that Cruise was talking too little about the movie and too much about Scientology and his wide-eyed-in-love fiancee, Katie Holmes, who turns 27 today. Their romance generated even more buzz when Holmes was seen in the nearly constant company of Jessica Rodriguez, who is from a prominent family of Scientologists. Holmes, who said after becoming engaged to Cruise that she was embracing Scientology, described Rodriguez as a close friend, though she was widely seen as a church-appointed companion. Unlike Holmes' embrace of the church, Cruise's is not new. Long before he sprang onto Oprah's couch, jabbed an accusing finger at "Today" show co-anchor Matt Lauer and blasted Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants, Cruise undertook intensive Scientology study and counseling at the church's compound, according to current and former Scientologists. The vast majority of Scientologists train at the church's better-known facilities, including those in Hollywood and Clearwater, Fla. Cruise also has trained at those locations, but for much of his studies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he headed to Gilman Hot Springs. He stayed for weeks at a time, arriving by car or helicopter, according to ex-Scientologists who saw him there on repeated occasions. The former resort, 90 miles east of Los Angeles, was an ideal place for Cruise to get out of the spotlight while focusing on his Scientology training, ex-members say. Described by ex-members as the church's international nerve center, the property is largely concealed from outsiders by tall hedges and high walls. The complex's barbed-wired perimeter and driveways are monitored by video cameras, and motion sensors are placed around the property to detect intruders, ex-members say. Some also remember a perch high in the hills, dubbed "Eagle," where staffers with telescopes jotted down license plate numbers of any vehicle that lingered too long near the compound. Behind the compound's guarded gates, Cruise had a personal supervisor to oversee his studies in a private course room, ex-members say. He was unique among celebrities in the amount of time he spent at the base. Others visited, they said, but only Cruise took up temporary residence. "I was there for eight years and nobody stayed long at all, except for Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman during that period," said Bruce Hines, who clashed with Miscavige and left Scientology in 2001 after three decades in the group. He said he once provided spiritual counseling to the actress before she and Cruise divorced. Kidman, who had taken Scientology courses, has largely remained silent about the group in recent years. While at the complex, Cruise stayed in a renovated bungalow near a golf course on the property. "It was sort of like an upscale country place," said Karen Schless Pressley, a former Scientology "image officer," whose duties included interior design and creating military-style uniforms for Scientology staffers. While hardly palatial, the guest digs where Cruise stayed were luxurious compared with the drab apartments in Hemet, where Schless Pressley and hundreds of other base staffers lived, with few amenities and almost no privacy. She said she and her ex-husband shared a two-bedroom unit with another couple and were not allowed to make personal phone calls. Schless Pressley said she left the church because of what she alleged were invasions of members' privacy and other deprivations — a claim church officials say is unfounded. At the same time, she and other former members say, Miscavige was seeing to Cruise's every need, assigning a special staff to prepare his meals, do his laundry and handle a variety of other tasks, some of which required around-the-clock work. Maureen Bolstad, who was at the base for 17 years and left after a falling-out with the church, recalled a rainy night 15 years ago when a couple of dozen Scientologists scrambled to deal with "an all-hands situation" that kept them working through dawn. The emergency, she said: planting a meadow of wildflowers for Cruise to romp through with his new love, Kidman. "We were told that we needed to plant a field and that it was to help Tom impress Nicole," said Bolstad, who said she spent the night pulling up sod so the ground could be seeded in the morning. The flowers eventually bloomed, Bolstad said, "but for some mysterious reason it wasn't considered acceptable by Mr. Miscavige. So the project was rejected and they redid it." Other ex-members say it wasn't the only time that Miscavige put them to work to please Cruise. Miscavige, a firearms enthusiast, introduced Cruise to skeet shooting at the compound, according to an ex-member who said the actor was so grateful that he sent an automated clay-pigeon launcher to replace an older, hand-pulled model. With Cruise due to return in a few days, Miscavige again ordered all hands on deck, this time to renovate the base's skeet range, the ex-member said. Dozens worked around the clock for three days "just so Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise would be impressed," the ex-member said. Rinder, head of Scientology International's Office of Special Affairs, said such accounts were fabricated by "apostates," members who had abandoned the religion. He said he knew nothing about the skeet range incident. The wildflower planting never occurred and might be a confused version of repairs done after a 1990 mudslide, he said, adding that he couldn't account for ex-members' detailed recollections, including those of Bolstad, whom he specifically described as not credible. "I don't know exactly how to explain every one of these bizarro stories that you hear," he said. Rinder also disputed the contention by numerous ex-members that Cruise's stays at the facility were exceptional, saying that many celebrity Scientologists had stayed there. Cruise has made no extended visits to the complex since the early 1990s and has done 95% of his religious training elsewhere, Rinder said. Miscavige, he said, spends only a fraction of his time there and divides the rest of his time among offices in Los Angeles, Clearwater and Britain. He also stays aboard the Freewinds, Scientology's 440-foot ship based in Curacao in the Caribbean, Rinder said. However, voter registration records list the Gilman Hot Springs complex as Miscavige's residence since the early 1990s and as recently as the 2004 general election. Rinder said the church leader simply had not updated his registration. Miscavige's wife, father, stepmother and siblings also have resided at the complex, according to voting records and interviews. The base has changed significantly in the years since Cruise spent long days in intensive training, from which he would occasionally take time out to ride dirt bikes or go sky diving with Miscavige, ex-members said. For years, the property has been home to Golden Era Productions, where Scientologists work around the clock producing videos, audio recordings and e-meters, to be sold to church members. Rinder said nearly all of the members at Golden Era have signed billion-year contracts to serve the church. Since 1998, the church has poured at least $45 million into expanding the facility and has bought dozens of nearby homes and vacant lots, public records show. The additions include an $18.5-million, 45,000-square-foot management building with a wing of offices for Miscavige. The most striking building is a mansion that sits on a hill — uninhabited. Dubbed "Bonnie View," ex-members say, it was built for the church founder, who died in secrecy on a ranch near San Luis Obispo amid a federal tax investigation that was dropped after his death. The mansion has a lap pool and a movie theater and was completed in 2000 at a cost of nearly $9.4 million, property records show. "It's high-end beautiful but not ostentatious," decorated with Craftsman furniture, and draperies and other items that were designed to be changed with the seasons, Schless Pressley said. Former members say they were told the mansion was built for Hubbard's return. "The whole theory of that house was that before Hubbard died in 1986, David Miscavige told us, Hubbard told him he was going to come back and make himself visible within 13 years," Schless Pressley said. The mansion, Rinder said, is merely a museum that contains most of Hubbard's belongings. "It's preserved because the life of L. Ron Hubbard'>L. Ron Hubbard is extremely important to Scientologists," he said. Miscavige, who spent his teenage years as one of Hubbard's cadre of young aides, rose to the head of Scientology after the founder's death. Little known outside the organization, Miscavige in the early 1990s succeeded in gaining tax-exempt status for the church after he and another Scientology official personally approached the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to negotiate a settlement. As chairman of the board of the Religious Technology Center, which holds the lucrative rights to the Scientology and Dianetics trademarks, he is the church's ultimate authority — and is treated as such. Miscavige's living quarters and offices in renovated bungalows were modest compared with Bonnie View but reflected his taste for the best of the best, including state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment, said ex-members who viewed the accommodations. "He's about five-seven, and everything was built in proportion to his body size," Schless Pressley said. "And everything was the best. You know how everybody has a pen cup on his desk? His pen cup had about 20 Montblanc pens in it." Shelly Britt, who joined Scientology at 17, said she was at the base for nearly 20 years before leaving the church in 2002. She said she worked directly with Miscavige much of that time. She recalled a Beverly Hills tailor visiting to measure Miscavige for his suits, and said moldings of his feet were taken and sent to London for custom-made shoes. "His lifestyle so far exceeds anyone else's. He had his own personal staff to handle his food and his room and his clothes and his ironing and his dogs," she said. "His uniforms were specially tailored, and he had, like, Egyptian cotton shirts, special pants, special shoes, special everything. And it was all of the highest quality." Although Hines, Britt and other ex-members describe Miscavige as extremely demanding of those under his command, they say he treated Cruise "like a king." Among other things, Britt said, Miscavige and his wife attended the star's 1990 wedding to Kidman in Colorado and then followed up with frequent gifts. "They don't do that for every celebrity," she said. "I remember one time I had to go pick up one of those big fancy picnic baskets and china and silver and take it out to Burbank to Tom's pilot. I even took pictures of it so Dave and his wife could see I took it out to the plane." Rinder said that Cruise was treated no differently from other members and that his highly public support of Scientology came straight from his heart. "It's a reflection of his own decisions and personal conviction," Rinder said. The church's belief in the power of celebrity to promote Scientology dates to its earliest days when, in 1955, the church issued "Project Celebrity," a call to arms for Scientologists to recruit show business "quarry" such as Walt Disney, Liberace and Greta Garbo to help expand the religion's reach. Although the church failed to enlist those famous figures, it has been successful in attracting many others in addition to Cruise, including John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis, Isaac Hayes, Anne Archer, Jenna Elfman, Beck and Chick Corea. More than any other celebrity, Cruise has helped fuel the growth of the church, which claims a worldwide membership of 10 million and in the last two years has opened major centers in South Africa, Russia, Britain and Venezuela. Cruise joined Miscavige last year for the opening of a church in Madrid. In his own spiritual life, Cruise has continued to climb the "Bridge to Total Freedom," Scientology's path to enlightenment. International Scientology News, a church magazine, reported last year that the actor had embarked on one of the highest levels of training, "OT VII" — for Operating Thetan VII. At these higher levels — and at a potential cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars — Scientologists learn Hubbard's secret theory of human suffering, which he traces to a galactic battle waged 75 million years ago by an evil tyrant named Xenu. According to court documents made public by The Times in the 1980s, Hubbard espoused the belief that Xenu captured the souls, or thetans, of enemies and electronically implanted false concepts in them to keep them confused about his dirty work. The goal of these advanced courses is to become aware of the trauma and free of its effects. At Cruise's high level of training, ex-members say, devotees also are charged with actively spreading the organization's less secretive beliefs and advancing its crusades, including Hubbard's deep disdain for psychiatry, a profession that once dismissed his teachings as quackery. "When you hear Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise'>Tom Cruise talking about psychiatrists and drugs," said one prominent former Scientologist who knows Cruise, "you are hearing from the grave the voice of L. Ron Hubbard'>L. Ron Hubbard speaking."
  • "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.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-09-20/ Garbo Wine Set for Release Bottles of wine bearing images of Greta Garbo are set to go on sale on October 1, to commemorate the 100th birthday of the Swedish actress. About 350 cases of the limited-edition sparkling wine, called the 2001 Greta Garbo Brut Rose, will available only at Napa, California's Domaine Carneros Winery at $42 a bottle. And joining the celebrity tipple crowd in selected markets later this month is a line of tequilas from the estate of esteemed Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. The beverage will be released across the US next year. Jorge Gutierrez, president of Dorado, Pizzorni & Sons, says, "(Kahlo) enjoyed tequila very much. She would drink it to inspire herself to do her paintings. She was very Mexican and proud of her country."
  • http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/2005/04/24/1011103-sun.html Walk of shame By JIM SLOTEK -- Toronto Sun "You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain." Celluloid Heroes, The Kinks --- Long before I ever actually walked down Hollywood Boulevard, I had the lyrics to Celluloid Heroes memorized, and it coloured everything I expected of that crack whore-ridden thoroughfare. Rudolf Valentino, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Bela Lugosi ... the Kinks' Ray Davies knew how to cherrypick his sidewalk stars. Real life goes like this: Scan indiscriminately as I did and you find yourself basking in the sidewalk star-power of game show hosts Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks, sportscaster Al Michaels, original Charlie's Angel Kate Jackson, Fabian and Casey Kasem. In recent years, further diluting the now-dubious "honour," they've added David Spade, Britney Spears, the Olsen Twins, Michael Bolton, Regis Philbin and Journey. Look for them on one fantastic bill at Branson-palooza in 2009. As a point of information, the "stars" are made of terrazzo and brass. And so are the ones on the sidewalk (badumbum). And just when you thought the devolution of stardom had pretty much been achieved came last week's latest inductee to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame: (drumroll please) Ryan Seacrest! That's right, it's the deejay who nominally "hosts" American Idol, the guy with whom Simon Cowell trades those endless "Simon's so old, Ryan's so gay" barbs. Seacrest is such a lightweight, physicists are engaged in angry debate over whether he even has measurable mass. And it is at this point that I have to speak out in defence of Canada's Walk Of Fame in Toronto's theatre district. Say what you will about the relative anonymity of some Canadian stars, our cheese isn't as embarrassing as their cheese. And at least our cheese gets a chance to age (under the rules, Canadian Idol host Ben Mulroney won't even be eligible for a star until 2011). But most importantly, unlike Hollywood Boulevard, no money changed hands in the awarding of our slabs of concrete. That's right. The fee down there is $15,000 U.S. -- an inflation rate of 500% since way back when I first found out these things were for sale (all these details are laid out, along with an application form, on the website for the Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce, the businessfolk who administer the Walk Of Fame). What do they do with the money? It sure isn't earmarked for urban renewal. And yes, I can hear Paris Hilton now ("Just $15,000? Ohmigod, I'll take six!"). The Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce claims to have criteria above and beyond a stack of 150 Benjamins. But to that claim we have a two-word response: James Brolin. (C'mon, I like him, but besides marrying Babs, do you remember him for anything? If you said Marcus Welby M.D., you're officially old). Ted Turner got one, ostensibly for buying MGM's catalogue and colourizing Humphrey Bogart in rouge like a cheap tramp. And Eddie Murphy's star sits but a block or two from where he played "Good Samaritan" with a transvestite. For reasons both sentimental and perverse, I'll defend Soupy Sales' star, Kermit the Frog's and Godzilla's as well. But looking around, is there anybody working who deserves to be immortalized on a concrete slab and hasn't? Ashton Kutcher is this weekend's matinee idol. A half-century from now, will he be remembered for a career that matured and reflected the zeitgeist of its times, or for being the second of Demi Moore's five husbands? And speaking of exes, why is Nicole Kidman the only one of Tom Cruise's ex-wives and girlfriends to get a star? Didn't Mimi Rogers suffer enough? Madonna's got to be ready for a star on the movie walk. I mean, Swept Away alone must have grossed nearly $15,000. And if they start inducting the religions that influence Hollywood, L. Ron Hubbard will obviously get the first star, followed by one with the Eye of Zohar for all those trendy Kaballah followers. But really, Ryan Seacrest? There really is no frame of reference now. The next one might as well go to Boston Rob and Amber, Emeril Lagasse, Lindsay Lohan or Dr. Phil. Or even -- God help us -- Carrot Top.
  • Kingsrow wrote: > "jfred" wrote in message > news:1g9v62x.h0qpfqor9qukN%d00p@petitm0rte.net... :) -- jfred~*~*~*~*~*~Habent Abdenda Omnes Praeter Me ac Simiam Meam~*~*~*~*~ ~You can sent email to me if you change the 3 zeros to lower case "o"s~ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ How's YOUR linewrap? If using OE, you need http://flash.to/oe-quotefix/
  • "KAR" wrote in message news:... > Darn, Jan. Still no takers. Maybe you'd wanna consider writing about > something that happened within, say, the last quarter of century. Now I can gloat over the hundreds of Kennedy conspiracy people getting old. I can gloat until I masturbate. What's wrong with a sexual fantasy in which you overpower Person A so you can have sex with Person A's longtime companion, Person B ? Batman did that with the Riddler and his girlfriend. > news:fe2b4797.0407281709.3877e7e3@posting.google.com... > news:... > this > interact > really > them > of > interest. There is none. Write about sensitive faces as proof of gay > physiognomy, or something (my fave rave). You got it. In the 1980s a sensitive man's face was likely to become a skull within two years. Peter Gabriel should have put that image in his MTV videos. Morphing, you know. Oh no. oops. No one was > interested in that either. Except me. Hmmmm. And me. Mmm, mmm ! Let's dig up photographs of President Kennedy's longtime gay male friend, LeMoyne Billings. Sensitive face? Skull? Kennedy and Billings ate dinner at the White House with Greta Garbo. Just the three of them. Here's a thought: maybe it's > not the subject matter; maybe it's you and you're just patently > uninteresting because your writing is pointless. But I met Debbie Reynolds at a San Fernando Valley supermarket yesterday ! > (and Arthur Miller is a genius. He didn't get paid to write The Crucible. He paid to get it published at a vanity press. Only one is a > permanent state of being, and you seem to fall into that group, Is anything permanent? The Iron Curtain came down. Catholic priests fell. The New York Times got busted for fraud. Saddam Hussein started writing poetry. unable as > you are, to give it away here for free. No takers. Usenet doesn't tell you how many hits it gets. Jean Kirkpatrick could be reading this now. Except me. I love you, > darling. Warts and all. Kiss. Doogie Howser to you, too. > Well, no. Not at all. Your sense of tangent is not good -- really, from a > stylistic point of view, this is one of your most major egregia (amongst so > very many; how do you keep a wave upon the sand?); You photograph it like the Monty Python photographer used to do. Man on the beach dressed like a woman. you seem to think there's > a logical flow of thoughts in your writing. There is. Knowledge. Money. Power. That's the cycle democracy is built on. The man who wrote that was murdered by a teen - aged male prostitute who acted in cahoots with Anita Bryant and a company that manufactured antihistamine bottles. Poor baby. It's just that, > well, there isn't. Really, you need a massive inventory make-over; a > subject- and stylectomy, perhaps. Web page designer's eye for the Usenet font? I'm sure there's a reality show for you > somewhere where you might be able to get it for free after subjecting > yourself to massive humiliation. Amish People In The Big City? The UPN network will repeat that this Friday night. The token gay character hinted that he had faced homophobia, but he never explained how he moved from his parents' house in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Hollywood, CA at the age of 18. It's like your Usenet experience only with > more people. Think about it. Big audiences ruined the avant garde movement.
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:... > http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/07/14/story156907.html (...) > And onlookers were shocked by the dishevelled appearance of the glamorous > superstar, who paused briefly to drain the bottle dry. (...) Britney, "glamorous"? Remember when the word was reserved for the likes of Grace Kelly and Greta Garbo?
  • http://entertainment.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4459,9278015%255E10431% 255E%255Enbv,00.html Madonna immortalises Kylie By Toby Forage April 14, 2004 KYLIE Minogue has become pop folklore after being written into the lyrics of a Madonna classic. Madonna has made no secret of her love for Kylie / AP Photo The pop princess has been immortalised in a rehashing of the Material Girl's Vogue, rehearsal spies say. The spoken verse of the 1990 smash hit, in which Madonna harks back to the glamour days of Hollywood, originally begins with the line "Greta Garbo and Monroe". But that's all been changed for Madge's latest world tour, and now the verse starts with Australia's finest pop export in the line "Britney Spears and Minogue". The entire verse has been changed to: Britney Spears and Minogue, Aguilera and J-Lo, Jessica Simpson, Avril Lavigne, On the cover of a magazine. They have style, they have sass Missy E kicks some ass. Madonna famously donned a Kylie Minogue T-shirt in November 2000 for a performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Stockholm, suggesting she might be a fan. There has been no doubting Madonna's affection for Britney over the past few months, and not only because of the steamy kiss they shared at another MTV Awards bash last year. After all, Christina Aguilera also got a "peck", but wasn't afforded the privilege of a duet with Madonna in the same way Britney was. The pair collaborated on last year's hit Me Against The Music, which featured on Britney's album In The Zone. Britney has also been accused of morphing into Madonna of late, with increasingly risque film clips and a current tour - The Onyx Hotel tour - that is making headlines for its raunchy dance routines and Britney's scanty costumes. As for Kylie, the only danger she faces of being compared to Madonna would be by giving birth. The British media has been clambering to break the story of a mini-mini-Minogue, fathered by French screen hunk Olivier Martinez, and hinting at an expanding tummy for the Melbourne 30-something. Kylie has neither confirmed nor denied the rumours and was reportedly spotted buying a pregnancy test at a pharmacy in Paris recently. She has, however, said she does think about her body clock ticking. As for Madonna, she embarks on her Reinvention tour on May 24 in LA and will play to sold out venues across the United States and Europe. Australia is not on her itinerary, but Kylie could catch her in Paris on September 1, 2 or 4. NEWS.com.au From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1267&storyid=2457180 I'm not like Garbo, says ABBA star January 3, 2005 AGNETHA Faltskog has given her first full-length television interview since the late '80s, talking about Abba, money and her reputation as a recluse. Talking to Swedish TV station TV4, Faltskog said the media had created a false image of her: "I'm the same person that I've always been - nice, normal, down-to-earth, and easily stressed." She complained she had been portrayed as a recluse on the island of Ekero. Comparisons with Greta Garbo, another Swede with a reputation for withdrawing from society were unfair, Faltskog said. "It's a picture that the media has created as a punishment for me not showing myself enough," she said, adding that she would rather be an original than a bad copy. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Top 100 Beautiful Women By Dave Higgens, PA News Film legend Audrey Hepburn was today named the most naturally beautiful woman of all time by a panel of experts. The full list is: 1. Audrey Hepburn 2. Liv Tyler 3. Cate Blanchett 4. Angelina Jolie 5. Grace Kelly 6. Natalie Imbruglia 7. Juliette Binoche 8. Halle Berry 9. Helena Christensen 10. Elle MacPherson 11. Cameron Diaz 12. Princess Diana 13. Kate Moss 14. Charlize Theron 15. Scarlett Johansson 16. Isabella Rossellini 17. Nigella Lawson 18. Beyonce Knowles 19. Madonna 20. Jamelia 21. Nicole Kidman 22. Monica Bellucci 23. Audrey Tatou 24. Vanessa Paradis 25. Julianne Moore 26. Jennifer Lopez 27. Marilyn Monroe 28. Julia Roberts 29. Beyonce Knowles 30. Kylie Minogue 31. Estelle Warren 32. Gisele 33. Gwyneth Paltrow 34. Kate Winslet 35. Katherine Hepburn 36. Marilyn Monroe 37. Kiera Knightley 38. Iman 39. Jerry Hall 40. Heidi Klum 41. Ursula Andress 42. Virginie Ledoyen 43. Sophie Dahl 44. Michelle Pfeiffer 45. Uma Thurman 46. Kim Catrell 47. Jennifer Aniston 48. Eva Herzigova 49. Brigitte Bardot 50. Felicity Kendal 51. Claudia Schiffer 52. Jacqueline Kennedy 53. Marlene Dietrich 54. Milla Jovovitch 55. Lucy Liu 56. Penelope Cruz 57. Neve Campbell 58. Sharon Stone 59. Vivien Leigh 60. Sophie Marceau 61. Linda Evangelista 62. Dido 63. Catherine Zeta Jones 64. Jessica Lange 65. Ingrid Bergman 66. Greta Garbo 67. Jodie Kidd 68. Vanessa Paradis 69. Princess Caroline of Monaco 70. Kathleen Turner 71. Rachel Weisz 72. Naomi Campbell 73. Grace Jones 74. Christie Turlington 75. Famke Jensen 76. Catherine Deneuve 77. Cindy Crawford 78. Heather Graham 79. Judy Garland 80. Ginger Rogers 81. Sophia Loren 82. Yasmin Le Bon 83. Kirsten Dunst 84. Sandra Bullock 85. Melanie Sykes 86. Cleopatra 87. Lisa Snowdon 88. Rita Hayworth 89. Katie Holmes 90. Honor Blackman 91. Joely Richardson 92. Joanna Lumley 93. Andie MacDowell 94. Alicia Silverstone 95. Cat Deeley 96. Rene Russo 97. Sienna Miller 98. Rachel Hunter 99. Jade Jagger 100. Kelly Brook
  • "Rick in Oz" wrote in message news:... > http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/2004/07/14/story156907.html (...) > And onlookers were shocked by the dishevelled appearance of the glamorous > superstar, who paused briefly to drain the bottle dry. (...) Britney, "glamorous"? Remember when the word was reserved for the likes of Grace Kelly and Greta Garbo?
  • "Toni" wrote in message news:uanmuvkahmpsgg9c4c7ufapq5c3hukcmf4@4ax.com... > wrote: she that? > actual acting talent, but for the most powerful and emotional > storyline. Lots of actors get oscars who I consider had a great role > to sink their teeth into rather than actual used their own ability to > bring the role up to academy greatness. > In fact I can't see many oscars in the last 20 years given out > that were really due to the actor's talent, it was more for the story. > A good movie is a lot easier to get an oscar with than just raw talent > IMAO. Plus I really did lose faith in the whole process when Gwen > won. It looked like the perfect Pia Zadora moment to me. > We shall see to which one the Olympian grants the glory. > Email: taiat@mail.NYETSPAMcom (sub the NYETSPAM for guess what? :) I agree, you can't really put a lot of stock in the award nominating and winning process but it still chaps my ass when people win for every reason *except* their acting or that they win when there are clearly more deserving nominees. Al Pacino should have won for a lot of roles, yet he wins for "Scent of a Woman". Denzel Washington wins for "Training Day" yet not for "Malcolm X"? Huh? He was excellent in Training Day but he's always excellent. Training Day wasn't anything knew to him and the character was a clichι (Ethan Hawke should have won the supporting actor Oscar).
  • wrote in message news:eeee6ac22f077daf3125cf22af890156@news.teranews.com... > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:05:58 -0500, d00p@petitm0rte.net (jfred) wrote: in > coats on. You obviously are too stupid to know when you have been thoroughly trumped. Consider yourself plonked.
  • "Rick" wrote in message news:310520041201091096%rickjm@nyc.rr.com... : In article , Rick in Oz : wrote: : : > Film legend Audrey Hepburn was today named the most naturally beautiful : > woman of all time by a panel of experts. : : I have no problem at all with Audrey Hepburn ranking #1. But how does : Marilyn Monroe rank both #27 and #36? And Ginger Rogers more beautiful : than Sophia Loren???? Pshaw! : : -- : Rick And Liv Tyler number 2? I wouldn't put Audrey Hepburn as number one, I've always thought of her more as cute than beautiful. And Catherine Deneuve is 76 while Jerry Hall is number 40!! And Elizabeth Taylor is a no-show, wow! The full list is: 1. Audrey Hepburn 2. Liv Tyler 3. Cate Blanchett 4. Angelina Jolie 5. Grace Kelly 6. Natalie Imbruglia 7. Juliette Binoche 8. Halle Berry 9. Helena Christensen 10. Elle MacPherson 11. Cameron Diaz 12. Princess Diana 13. Kate Moss 14. Charlize Theron 15. Scarlett Johansson 16. Isabella Rossellini 17. Nigella Lawson 18. Beyonce Knowles 19. Madonna 20. Jamelia 21. Nicole Kidman 22. Monica Bellucci 23. Audrey Tatou 24. Vanessa Paradis 25. Julianne Moore 26. Jennifer Lopez 27. Marilyn Monroe 28. Julia Roberts 29. Beyonce Knowles 30. Kylie Minogue 31. Estelle Warren 32. Gisele 33. Gwyneth Paltrow 34. Kate Winslet 35. Katherine Hepburn 36. Marilyn Monroe 37. Kiera Knightley 38. Iman 39. Jerry Hall 40. Heidi Klum 41. Ursula Andress 42. Virginie Ledoyen 43. Sophie Dahl 44. Michelle Pfeiffer 45. Uma Thurman 46. Kim Catrell 47. Jennifer Aniston 48. Eva Herzigova 49. Brigitte Bardot 50. Felicity Kendal 51. Claudia Schiffer 52. Jacqueline Kennedy 53. Marlene Dietrich 54. Milla Jovovitch 55. Lucy Liu 56. Penelope Cruz 57. Neve Campbell 58. Sharon Stone 59. Vivien Leigh 60. Sophie Marceau 61. Linda Evangelista 62. Dido 63. Catherine Zeta Jones 64. Jessica Lange 65. Ingrid Bergman 66. Greta Garbo 67. Jodie Kidd 68. Vanessa Paradis 69. Princess Caroline of Monaco 70. Kathleen Turner 71. Rachel Weisz 72. Naomi Campbell 73. Grace Jones 74. Christie Turlington 75. Famke Jensen 76. Catherine Deneuve 77. Cindy Crawford 78. Heather Graham 79. Judy Garland 80. Ginger Rogers 81. Sophia Loren 82. Yasmin Le Bon 83. Kirsten Dunst 84. Sandra Bullock 85. Melanie Sykes 86. Cleopatra 87. Lisa Snowdon 88. Rita Hayworth 89. Katie Holmes 90. Honor Blackman 91. Joely Richardson 92. Joanna Lumley 93. Andie MacDowell 94. Alicia Silverstone 95. Cat Deeley 96. Rene Russo 97. Sienna Miller 98. Rachel Hunter 99. Jade Jagger 100. Kelly Brook
  • Squad (Your.Mom's.Hair@Smells.Nice) wrote: : "Microsoap" wrote in message : news:ZOXGd.8525$K03.373229@news20.bellglobal.com... : > : > : > bruin70@mail.com wrote: : > : : : > : > If that were the case, nobdody should have shown up then. : am I the only one who thinks of Gary Gygax when I see "GG"? I thought he meant George Gobal. George Gershwin? Greta Garbo? Glenn Gould? Gilbert Gotfried? Good God!!! Brad
  • Brad Filippone wrote: > Squad (Your.Mom's.Hair@Smells.Nice) wrote: > : "Microsoap" wrote in message > : news:ZOXGd.8525$K03.373229@news20.bellglobal.com... > : > : > bruin70@mail.com wrote: > : > : > : > : am I the only one who thinks of Gary Gygax when I see "GG"? > George Gershwin? > Greta Garbo? > Glenn Gould? > Gilbert Gotfried? > Good God!!! > Leslie Caron? JimB
  • http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/22722004.htm Abba News: Agnetha Faltskog At Centre Of Feud Accusations January 11, 2005, 9:52:48 FALTSKOG SLAMS LYNGSTAD RIFT RUMOURS Pop legend AGNETHA FALTSKOG has slammed reports of a long-running feud with her former ABBA bandmate ANNIFRID LYNGSTAD. The blonde singer spoke about her former collaborator in a rare interview with TV presenter LASSE BENGTSSON on a show in her native Sweden. Faltskog says, "There is no rift. We are two people with different personalities." Meanwhile in other news: ABBA STAR SCOTCHES GARBO COMPARISONS Former ABBA singer AGNETHA FALTSKOG has blasted reports she's a reclusive star in the mould of GRETA GARBO. The WATERLOO singer is trying to change the public's perception of her as lonely and paranoid, insisting she's been labelled that way simply because she has chosen to stay out of the limelight. Faltskog says, "I'm the same person that I've always been - nice, normal, down-to-earth and easily stressed. The Greta Garbo picture was created as a punishment because I don't show myself enough. "It can be tough since that image isn't right and so I have to try and correct it and show how I really am." However, despite extensive therapy and hypnosis, Falyskog has failed to overcome her fear of flying - and she has not been on a plane for 15 years. Faltskog was the only Abba member not to attend the fifth anniversary performance of their musical MAMMA MIA! in London last year (04). From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1267&storyid=2457180 I'm not like Garbo, says ABBA star January 3, 2005 AGNETHA Faltskog has given her first full-length television interview since the late '80s, talking about Abba, money and her reputation as a recluse. Talking to Swedish TV station TV4, Faltskog said the media had created a false image of her: "I'm the same person that I've always been - nice, normal, down-to-earth, and easily stressed." She complained she had been portrayed as a recluse on the island of Ekero. Comparisons with Greta Garbo, another Swede with a reputation for withdrawing from society were unfair, Faltskog said. "It's a picture that the media has created as a punishment for me not showing myself enough," she said, adding that she would rather be an original than a bad copy. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Funniest story of the week! I think Wagner blew it when he said a "five year" affair with old Barbara. Btw, this story had been around for a few years, it's not new. Wagner used it before to prove...? I have no idea. Barbara Stanwyck was a lesbian, people, deal with it. Very old news, and the Stanwyck bio by Axel Madsen a few years ago was very timid. There's a new bio being written even more timid if that's possible. Homophobes need not worry or be so scared: Victoria Wilson, who has been working for several years on the biography of legendary movie star Barbara Stanwyck (Annie Oakley, The Cattle Queen of Montana), told The Village Voice's Michael Musto that "Stanwyck wasn't a lesbian. Most biographies have invented the fact that she was gay based on nothing. It was a persona. She was maybe in love with two women, but I don't think anything ever happened." (Although Stanwyck was married twice, rumors have persisted that those were just marriages of convenience to conceal her homosexuality; Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Tallulah Bankhead are among the women who claimed to have had affairs with Stanwyck). When Musto asked if "maybe being in love with two women" didn't make Stanwyck a lesbian, Wilson replied, "No. Women sometimes fall in love with other women." SURE. > they both kept secret for decades. Wagner, 74, reveals that when he was just > 22 years old, he embarked on a five-year romance with Stanwyck when she was > 45. But because of the stigma attached to such a relationship at the time, > they both decided it was best kept a secret. He says, "At that time, it > could never have been (revealed). It was not public, it was hidden. It just > couldn't come out. Today, it wouldn't have made any difference. Then it made > a difference and it made a big difference for her. I never really ever > mentioned it before, particularly, but... there's a book being written about > her and they came to me and it was gonna come out. She was an absolutely > wonderful, wonderful woman and it was so great for me. It was a wonderful > time. It was really great and I loved her very much. She was a wonderful > lady and for me it terrific because I was just starting in the picture > business." Stanwyck died in 1990 at the age of 82. > Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
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  • Few screen personalities have been totally successful in isolating their private lives from their public personas, but this enigmatic Swedish beauty certainly accomplished it. What's most amazing is that, in avoiding media scrutiny and public contact, she did so in a way that actually enhanced the mysterious allure that had been so vital an element in her success. Born into poverty, she worked as a shopgirl in a large department store and was chosen to appear in a short film promoting it. She made a few other such commercial appearances before deciding that acting might be her ticket out of the working class. Remarkably, she won a scholarship to the Royal Dramatic Theater acting school and, while doing some minor stage work, was spotted there by film director Mauritz Stiller. He tested her for and then signed her to play a role in The Story of Gosta Berling (1924). Garbo's feature-film debut, while wellreceived, hardly made her an overnight sensation. But Stiller believed in the young actress, and took her under his wing. She played second female lead in G. W. Pabst's The Joyless Street (1924, which also included Marlene Dietrich as an extra) before going to America with Stiller, who had been offered a Hollywood contract by MGM's Louis B. Mayer. The highly regarded director used his influence to get Garbo signed as well, a move initially resisted by Mayer. She was assigned to play the female lead, a Spanish prima donna, in Monta Bell's The Torrent (1926), opposite Ricardo Cortez, and although studio brass at first had little faith in her, they were amazed by the quality of her work. Moreover, studio publicity men crafted hard-sell promotional materials that not only sold the film but launched the Garbo mystique, creating an air of mystery surrounding the naturally quiet, reticent woman. As Garbo's star rose, however, Stiller's fell. Slated to direct her next film, The Temptress he quarreled relentlessly with MGM management and was finally replaced with the prosaic Fred Niblo. Although the picture turned out to be a middling artistic success, Garbo's femmefatale characterization attracted curious moviegoers and made it a commercial hit. For her next film, Flesh and the Devil (1927), she was teamed with John Gilbert, then MGM's reigning male star, with whom she carried on a torrid affair that, not surprisingly, spilled over into their cinematic lovemaking. The release of Flesh her best film to date, saw Garbo a full-fledged superstar. Certainly there was no one else like her on American movie screens, although other studios rushed to import similarly exotic European beauties and shroud them in synthetic cloaks of secrecy. Love (also 1927) reunited Garbo with Gilbert; she played Anna Karenina in this Tolstoy adaptation, and once again moviegoers were treated to the sight of real-life lovers playing out their passion on the big screen. Away from the cameras, though, Garbo began to have second thoughts about Gilbert (for reasons that were never made clear). They planned to marry, but she literally left Gilbert standing at the altar, which devastated him. (By this time her mentor Stiller had returned to Sweden.) The iconoclastic Garbo resolutely clung to her individuality; she really did, as she famously said in Grand Hotel want to be left alone. And that impenetrable aloofness became an integral part of her mystique. She continued to make silent films, all successful. The Divine Woman, The Mysterious Lady, A Woman of Affairs (all 1928), Wild Orchids, The Single Standard and The Kiss (all 1929) depended almost entirely upon her presence alone. Her characters could be pure or sullied, willing or restrained, remote or accessible-it didn't much matter. It was Garbo people wanted to see. And hear. When MGM's publicity machine cranked out promotional material for her first talkie, Anna Christie (a Eugene O'Neill play that, in retrospect, was an ambitious and risky choice for the foreign-born, thickly accented actress), the dominant message was: "Garbo Talks!" And she did, in a husky voice that, although incongruous with her physical appearance, somehow suited her perfectly. In unexceptional films like Romance (1930), Inspiration, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (both 1931, in the latter opposite Clark Gable), Mata Hari and As You Desire Me (both 1932) she rose above often mediocre material; her mere presence made the films worth seeing. In Grand Hotel (1932) she created an archetype for herself, as the fatalistic ballerina, and got to work opposite John Barrymore, whom she greatly admired. Queen Christina (1933), which, at her request, reunited her with Gilbert (whose career had taken a sudden and dramatic turn for the worse with the advent of sound) was perhaps her best sound film. It contained several memorable moments, including a wordless scene in which, one morning af ter a rapturously happy tryst with Gilbert, she lingers in the room, touching and feeling furniture and objects so as to indelibly etch every detail of the joyous experience in her memory. Who but Garbo could have made the gesture so affecting? After finishing The Painted Veil (1934), Garbo took the title roles in Anna Karenina (1935, a remake of Love and Camille (1937, as the doomed heroine, one of her best-remembered talkies), delivering two more memorable performances in great parts perfectly suited to her persona. After Conquest (1937), she was off the screen for nearly two years, and W_hen she returned, it was to star in a comedy-something she'd never tried before. "Garbo Laughs!" the ads declared, and they were accurate. Ninotchka (1939), directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a Billy Wilder-Charles Brackett script, starred her as a Russian Communist functionary who, while visiting Paris, falls in love with gay blade Melvyn Douglas. Lubitsch was the perfect choice to guide her through this territory, and she was charming in her comedy debut. Two more years passed before she made another movie. While willing to try another comedy, Two-Faced Woman (1941) was a poor choice. With European distribution curtailed during World War 2, MGM tried to Americanize and "humanize" the star, with disastrous results. Stinging from this failure, Garbo weighed other script offers carefully. Several projects were planned, then abandoned, during the 1940s, and in 1949 she even submitted to a screen test for the backers of a proposed film. But nothing came to fruition, and it was speculated that with each passing year, the idea of returning to the spotlight seemed less and less desirable to the erstwhile actress. For the remainder of her life she lived as a loner, vacationing in Switzerland, on the French Riviera, and in Italy but making home base her apartment on New York City's fashionable Upper East Side. Once in a while she would speak to passersby who saw her on the street, but by and large she avoided the public eye. The woman whose passionate love affairs once filled fan-magazine stories with speculation never married. In 1954 she received a special Oscar (amazingly, she'd never won any during her career, although she'd been nominated for Anna Christie, Romance, Camille and Ninotchka for "her unforgettable screen performances." Needless to say, she did not accept the statuette in person.
  • "If you're going to die on screen, you've got to be strong and in good health."
  • "Gimme a whiskey with ginger ale on the side and don't be stingy, baby." -- Garbo's classic opening line from her very first talking film "Anna Christie"
  • [When asked in her later years by a fan if she is Greta Garbo]: "I * was* Greta Garbo."
  • "Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do." "There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead."
  • "If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is."
  • "The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secrets elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me."
  • "I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures."
  • "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is a whole world of difference."
  • "Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening."
  • "Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."
  • "I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."
  • "You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."
  • "Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game."
  • "There is no one who would have me...I can't cook."
  • Measurements: 35 1/2-26-38 (in July 1930), 35 1/2-28-33 1/2 (according to MGM designer Adrian), 35B-27-38 (noted in "Thomse Glamorous Years" book), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
  • She was orginally chosen for the lead roles in The Paradine Case (1947), My Cousin Rachel (1952), and The Wicked Dutchess. Garbo turned down these roles, with the exception of The Wicked Dutchess, which was never shot due to financial problems.
  • Although it was believed that Garbo lived as an invalid in her post- Hollywood career, this is incorrect. Garbo was a real jet setter, traveling with international tycoons and socialites. In the seventies, she traveled less, and grew more and more eccentric, although she still took daily walks through Central Park with close friends and walkers. Due to failing health in the late eighties, her mobility was challenged. In her final year, it was her family that cared for her, including taking her to dialysis treatments. She died with them by her side.
  • Greta is related to Anna Sundstrand of the Swedish singing group, Play.
  • Never married, she invested wisely and was known for her extreme frugality.
  • She was as secretive about her relatives as she was about herself, and, upon her death, the names of her survivors could not immediately be determined.
  • Garbo actually hoped to return to films after the war but, for whatever reason, no projects ever materialized.
  • Her volatile mentor/director Mauritz Stiller, who brought her to Hollywood, was abruptly fired from directing her second MGM Hollywood film, The Temptress, after repeated arguments with MGM execs and was soon let go. Unable to hold a job in Hollywood, he returned to Sweden in 1928 and died shortly after at the age of 45. Garbo was devastated.
  • Except at the very beginning of her career, she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres, and answered no fan mail.
  • Garbo was prone to chronic depression and spent many years attacking it through Eastern philosophy and a solid health food regiment. However, she never gave up smoking and cocktails.
  • Garbo was criticized for not aiding the Allies during WWII, but it was later disclosed that she had helped Britain by identifying influential Nazi sympathizers in Stockholm and by providing introductions and carrying messsages for British agents.
  • Garbo's sets were closed to all visitors and sometimes even the director! When asked why, she said: "During these scenes I allow only the cameraman and lighting man on the set. The director goes out for a coffee or a milkshake. When people are watching, I'm just a woman making faces for the camera. It destroys the illusion. If I am by myself, my face will do things I cannot do with it otherwise."
  • Became a US citizen. [1951]
  • In the mid-1950s she bought a seven-room-apartment in New York City (450 East 52nd Street) and lived there until she died.
  • During filming, W_henever there was something going on that wasn't to her liking she would simply say "I think I'll go back to Sweden!" which frightened the studio heads so much that they gave in to her every whim.
  • Before making it big, she worked as a soap-latherer in a barber's shop back in Sweden.
  • Left John Gilbert standing at the altar in 1927 W_hen she got cold feet about marrying him.
  • She disliked Clark Gable, a feeling that was mutual. She thought his acting was wooden while he considered her a snob.
  • Her personal favourite movie of her own was _Camille (1937)_
  • Her parents were Karl and Anna Gustafson, and she also had an older sister and brother, Alva and Sven. Her father died W_hen she was 14 of nephritis, and her sister was also dead of lymphatic cancer by the time Greta was 21 years old.
  • Once voted by The Guinness Book of World Records as the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
  • Garbo according to movie director Jacques Feyder: "At 9 o'clock a.m. the work may begin. "Tell Mrs. Garbo we're ready" says the director. "I'm here" a low voice answers, and she appears, perfectly dressed and combed as the scene needs. Nobody could say by what door she came but she's there. And at 6 o'clock PM, even if the shot could be finished in five minutes, she points at the watch and goes away giving you a sorry smile. She's very strict with herself and hardly pleased with her work. She never looks rushes nor goes to the premières but some days later, early in the afternoon, enters all alone an outskirts movie house, takes place in a cheap seat and gets out only W_hen the projection finishes, masked with her sunglasses".
  • Letters and correspondence between Garbo and poet, socialite and notorious lesbian Mercedes De Acosta were unsealed on April 15, 2000, exactly 10 years after Garbo's death (per De Acosta's instructions). The letters revealed no love affair between the two, as had been fervently rumored.
  • Ranked #38 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
  • Lived the last few year of her life in absolute seclusion.
  • Interred at Skogskyrkogården Cemetery, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Greta Lovisa Gustafsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden on September 18, 1905. She was 14 W_hen her father died, leaving the family destitute. Greta was forced to leave school and go to work in a department store. The store used her for her modeling abilities for newspaper ads. She had no film aspirations until she appeared in an advertising short at that same department store while she was still a teenager. This led to another short film when Eric Petscher, a comedy director, saw the film. He gave her a small part in the film, PETER THE TRAMP (1920). Encouraged by her own performance she applied for and won a scholarship in a Swedish drama school. While there she appeared in two films, EN LYCKORIDDARE in 1921 and LUFFARPETTER the following year. Both were small parts, but it was a start. Finally famed Swedish director, Mauritz Stiller, pulled her from drama school for the leading role in THE ATONEMENT OF GOSTA BERLING in 1923. At 18, Greta was on a roll. Following DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE (1925) both Greta and Stiller were offered contracts with MGM. Her first US film was THE TORRENT in 1925. It was a silent film where she didn't have to speak a word of English. After a few more films, such as THE TEMPTRESS (1926), LOVE (1927), and A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS (1928), Greta starred in 1930's ANNA CHRISTIE (her first 'talkie') which not only gave her a powerful screen presence, but also gave her an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. Unfortunately she didn't win. Later that year she filmed ROMANCE which was somewhat of a letdown, but bounced back as lead role in SUSAN LENOX: HER RISE AND FALL with Clark Gable. The film was a hit and led to another exciting title role in MATA HARI in 1931. Greta continued to give intensified performances in whatever was handed her. The next year Greta was cast in another hit GRAND HOTEL. But it was MGM 1935's ANNA KARENINA where she, perhaps, gave the performance of her life. She was absolutely breathtaking in the title role as a woman torn between two lovers and her son. In 1939, Greta starred in NINOTCHKA which showcased her comedic side. It wasn't until two years later she made what was to be her last film that being TWO-FACED WOMAN, another comedy. After World War II, Greta, by her own admission, felt that the world had changed perhaps forever and she retired, never again to face the camera. She would work for the rest of her life to perpetuate the Garbo mystique. Her films, she felt, had their proper place in history and would gain in value. She abandoned Hollywood and moved to New York City. She would jet-set with some of the world's best known personalities such as Aristotle Onassis and others. She spent time gardening flowers and vegetables. In 1954, Greta was given a special Oscar for past unforgettable performances. She even penned her biography in 1990. On April 15, 1990, Greta died of natural causes in New York and with it the "Garbo Mystique". She was 84.
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