Kevin Norwood Bacon (born July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film actor who has starred in Stir of Echoes, Wild Things, JFK, and Apollo 13, among others. He has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 3, 1988. They have two children, Travis Sedg and Sosie Ruth Bacon.
He's 48!
In 1995, Kevin and his older brother, Michael Bacon, formed a band, The Bacon Brothers, and have been touring on and off since then. Bacon's father was the noted city planner Edmund Norwood Bacon and his mother was Ruth Hilda Holmes, a teacher and liberal political activist.
In a Men's Edge article by A.D. Amorosi summarized in the February 4, 2005 issue of The Week, Bacon talks about the poor judgment he exercised in his acting career.
He said he failed to capitalize on the success of Footloose by waiting for serious roles that never came in the film's aftermath, turning down several good movie roles in the process. "People in this business say that you get three bombs before you're yesterday's news. I had four, five," going into the early 1990s.
After a tough interview with Altman, she later won the lead role of Suzanne, the free-spirited love interest to Bu d Cort's reclusive Brewster. Altman was impressed enough with Duvall's work to cast the young actress in his next films, including McCabe Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville (1975).
In 1977, Duvall was named Best Actress by the Cannes Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her portrayal of the delusional Millie Lammoreaux in Altman's 3 Women.
That same year Duvall appeared in Annie Hall playing Woody Allen's one-night stand. Her next role would be Wendy opposite Jack Nicholson in Kubrick's The Shining (1980).
The actress and director would openly argue on set, and it is said that the perfectionist Kubrick once demanded she perform 127 takes for a single scene.
Starting in the early 1980s, Duvall began to act in and produce television shows for children, often based on popular fairy tales (Fairie Tale Theatre).
The Pussycat Dolls is an American female pop singing group.
The Dolls began as a burlesque dance troupe based in Los Angeles, and expanded to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The group, which was founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995, released its first single in 2004.
1993–2003: Dance troupe beginnings Some sources claim that Antin first began exploring the idea of a modern burlesque troupe in 1993 with her friend Christina Applegate; the troupe's first performance was in 1995.
During this period they performed with numerous guest vocalists (see list below), with a repertoire of '50s and '60s pop standards, performed in lingerie and/or old-fashioned pin-up costumes. Antin reportedly drew inspiration from the choreography of Bob Fosse (Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Chicago).
They secured a Thursday night residency at Los Angeles nightclub The Viper Room, where they stayed from 1995–2001.
In June 1999 Playboy ran a Pussycat Dolls pictorial, featuring at least contemporary members Kasey Campbell, Kiva Dawson, Erica Gudis and Lindsley Allen. In 2002 they moved to The Roxy. The group became internationally popular and was featured in magazines, television specials for MTV and VH1, ad campaigns, and movies.
Carmen Electra was the group's lead performer for many of these appearances, and she has been featured most frequently of all the celebrity performers. With the involvement of music producers Jimmy Iovine and Ron Fair, the troupe was re-cast, transformed into a pop/R B recording group, and signed up as employees of Iovine's label Interscope Records.
2003-present: Music career
In 2003, Nicole Scherzinger (a.
k.a. Nicole Kea), a former member of the American Popstars winners Eden's Crush, became the group's lead singer.
The present members of the group are Scherzinger; Carmit Bachar (who joined in 1995); Jessica Sutta (who joined in 2002); and Melody Thornton, Kimberly Wyatt, and Ashley Roberts (who all joined in 2003). They opened the MTV Asia Awards 2004.
In 2005, The Pussycat Dolls released their debut album PCD.
The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, selling over 99,000 copies. It has produced four singles. "Don't Cha" (featuring Busta Rhymes, originally recorded by Tori Alamaze) became their first major hit.
The follow-up, "Stickwitu", became the group's first # 1 Billboard Pop Radio hit,it went on to sell over a million digital downloads in the world and became their second #1 single in the UK. The third single, "Beep," featured Black Eyed Peas lead singer will.i.
am. They recently released their latest single, "Buttons," featuring Snoop Dogg which followed in the success of the previous singles and went straight into the top 5 on the UK singles chart, #3.
The group won a Billboard Music Award for "Don't Cha" as Top Hot/Dance Club Play Single of the Year.
The song was also nominated for Top-Selling Single of the Year and Top-Selling Dance Single of the Year.
At the SXSW music conference in 2006, Interscope lawyer Darryl Franklin said, during a panel discussion, that the contract with the group is unique in that its members are actually salaried employees of the record label and, by design, completely interchangeable. This means that in addition to CD sales, the label also controls merchandise, web sites and all other commercial aspects of the group and their income, excluding song publishing.
Most recently, the Pussycat Dolls have ventured into the virtual world. In 2006, San Francisco-based company Doppelganger (along with Interscope Records) launched the PCD Music Lounge, an interactive website.
On June 30th's VSpot Top 20 Countdown, host Matt Pinfield announced that lead singer Nicole Scherzinger has written 12 new songs for the follow-up album to 2005's PCD.
Mr. Snoop! :
Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jr.
, better known by the stage name Snoop Dogg (born October 20, 1971 in Long Beach, California), is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as an MC in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of producer Dr. Dre's most notable protégés.
His mother nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a child because of the way his eyes looked, and he took the stage name Snoop Doggy Dogg when he began recording. He changed his name to Snoop Dogg in 1996, when he left his original record label Death Row Records and signed with No Limit Records. Several of his cousins also became hip hop artists and Aftermath collaborators, including RBX, Nate Dogg, and Daz Dillinger.
As a rapper, he is best known for his “lazy drawl”—a slurred, distinctively calm, laid-back, and rhythmically-complex lyrical delivery[1]. According to Soundscan he has sold 17.6 million copies from the establishment of Soundscan (1991) to January 2006.
His catch phrase is widely known as "Fo shizzle, my nizzle."
He attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School[2], where he began participating in schoolyard freestyle MCing competitions. (check out his high school graduation picture)
As a member of a local Crips gang in Long Beach called ES Rollin' 20's Crips, Snoop Dogg was in and out of jail for the three years after he graduated from high school.
Pushed by older inmates to make something of himself, he began making homemade rap tapes with his cousin Nate Dogg and best friend Warren G (stepbrother of Dr. Dre of N.W.
A.). Originally, Nate's cousin Lil' 1/2 Dead was also part of the group, called 213, named after the Long Beach area code.
This was largely in homage to Richie Rich's group 415, named for the (then) area code of Oakland, California.
Dr. Dre began collaborating with the young rapper, first on the theme song of the feature film Deep Cover, and then on Dr.
Dre's debut solo album The Chronic with the other members of his former starting group, Tha Dogg Pound. Early success with mastering the "Doggystyle" finally justified his role in the naming of his debut-solo-album, Doggystyle.
Snoop Dogg's contribution to The Chronic was considerable; the rapper's rhymes were as present as Dre's.
The huge success of Snoop's debut Doggystyle is largely due to this intense exposure.
He is often referred to by his nickname, "Sly," His middle name is sometimes cited as "Enzio," though in A E's biography of the actor, "The Rocky Road to the Top," his mother states his middle name as "Gardenzio." He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rocky and Rambo series.
His trademark sneer, lazy eyes, and slurred speech are the result of paralysis in the left side of his face caused by birth complications.
Stallone's family include his brother, former chart-topping singer Frank Stallone, his mother Jackie, who achieved fame in the middle 1990s as an astrologer and his son, Sage Stallone, who played Rocky's son in 1990's Rocky V and appeared in his 1996 movie, Daylight.
He has been married three times, to Sasha Czack (1974–1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1985–1987), and Jennifer Flavin (1997–present). He has five children, sons Sage Moonblood and Seargeoh, who has autism (with Czack, born 1976 and 1979 respectively), and daughters Sophia Rose, Sistine Rose, and Scarlet Rose (with Flavin, born 1996, 1998, 2002 respectively).
In addition to his marriages, he has had romantic relationships with models Susan Anton, Angie Everhart, Pamela Anderson, and Naomi Campbell.
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Trevor Taheim Smith, Jr.
(born on May 20, 1972), better known as Busta Rhymes, is an American hip hop musician and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes (from former NFL football player George "Buster" Rhymes) after watching him perform.
Trevor John Smith was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is of Jamaican heritage.
At the age of 12, his family moved to Uniondale, a suburb of New York City on Long Island, where he was raised and eventually met up with other rappers from the growing New York area hip hop community. He graduated from George Westinghouse High School Downtown Brooklyn, the same high school attended by famous MC's Notorious B.I.
G. and Jay-Z.
Busta Rhymes' musical career began as a member of the Hip Hop crew Leaders of the New School along with fellow Long Island, natives C.
Brown, Dinco D and Cut Monitor Milo. They began recording in 1991 with the album A Future Without a Past (Elektra Records), and soon gained an amount fame.
In November of 2005, Busta Rhymes cut off his trademark dreadlocks during a photo shoot in a New York barbershop owned by producer Cory Rooney.
The shop is featured on an MTV show titled The Shop. “I started growing [my hair] in December '89. I was 17,” he said.
“I signed my [record] deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have to." He says the haircut was symbolic of a change in his music and the new record deal.
2006 has seen the release of his seventh studio album, The Big Bang. The cd became his first #1 album of his entire career. The cd sold over 209,000 copies in its first week to earn the top spot on the charts.
Some of the album was leaked on the internet, and as a result several songs were left off the album and new ones added. The Big Bang featured more production by Dr. Dre than Busta's previous releases and appearances by Raekwon and Nas.
Falco was born in Brooklyn, New York to Frank Falco (an Italian commercial artist, who now works as a sculptor) and Judith Anderson (a Swedish actress who has since retired from the profession); her siblings are Joseph, Paul, and Ruth. She was raised in Northport, on Long Island, graduating from Northport High School in 1981 after playing Eliza Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady. She attended SUNY Purchase with fellow actors Stanley Tucci and Ving Rhames, who she remains close friends with.
Falco is the only actress to have received a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a SAG Award in the same year, for her performance as Carmela Soprano in the television series The Sopranos. Prior to that, she was a regular performer on Oz. She has also had recurring roles on Law Order and Homicide: Life on the Street.
In the 2004 presidential election, Falco emerged on the political scene as a spokeswoman for M.O.B.
(Mothers Opposing Bush). She endorsed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
She is a survivor of breast cancer.
In December 2004 she adopted a son, named Anderson Falco ("Anderson" is her mother's maiden name).
She has won three Emmys, two Golden Globes and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Idol Chris Daughtry - Studio Recording of "Mystery" - Download Free Here!
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Soon to be released to radio stations, a new studio recording of "Mystery" featuring former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry has been released by Friends Of Live.
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Christopher Adam Daughtry, credited as Chris Daughtry, (born December 26, 1979) is an American singer and a rock musician. He was the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, eliminated from the competition on May 10, 2006, leaving only three contestants in the contest.
Daughtry was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. His parents are Pete and Sandra Daughtry, and they reside in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Daughtry was raised before he relocated to McLeansville outside of Greensboro. His brother, Kenneth, resides in Richmond[1].
At the age of 16, Daughtry started taking singing seriously as a professional musician and became a popular performer with other rock bands during his time in high school. He graduated in 1998 at Fluvanna County High School in Palmyra, Virginia. In 1996, he was in the made-for-television CBS movie A Mother's Instinct as Richard Mitchell.
In 2005, Daughtry auditioned for the CBS singing contest, Rock Star: INXS. He did not make the cut for the actual filming of the show.
Daughtry is the lead vocalist of the rock band Absent Element, based in Raleigh
In a segment on the 2006 season of American Idol, Daughtry revealed that he is balding, as a result of approaching middle age (male pattern baldness), and made the decision to shave his head completely in order to retain an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
He tells the New York Daily News, "Apparently, Paris is cleaning up her image. I personally believe it's a little too late for that, but she's trying." Psst!
It will NEVER happen!
Born Gloria Frances Stewart in Santa Monica, California, she changed the spelling of her name when she commenced her acting career.
After acting in college and in other amateur productions, Stuart was signed to a contract by Universal Studios in 1932. She was also selected as one of the thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932.
As a glamorous blonde, she was quickly cast in a variety of films and became a favourite of director, James Whale, appearing in his films The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933).
In old age, she achieved a level of celebrity she had never experienced during her years as a Hollywood contract player, when cast in Titanic (1997). As the 101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, she received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination as well as a Golden Globe Nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Award win.
However the Oscar and the Golden Globe were eventually won by Kim Basinger, but she did tie with Stuart for the SAG Award.
Cassie was born in 1986 in New London, Connecticut. Cassie attended the preparatory Williams School on the Connecticut College campus in New London, graduating in 2004.
She is best known for her single "Me U," which is ascending the Billboard charts. She is of African American and Hawai'ian (mother) and Filipino and Latino (father) descent.
Cassandra Ventura became a recording artist unexpectedly.
Shortly after being introduced to music producer, Ryan Leslie, her mother requested that Cassie record a song for her as a birthday gift. Cassie approached Ryan about producing the song, and Ryan put together a duet for them called "Kiss Me". As it turned out, Cassie's mother wasn't the only one who loved the song.
Ryan played "Kiss Me" for Tommy Mottola, former chairman of Sony, and the record mogul behind the careers of Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Simpson, and most notably Mariah Carey. He offered Cassie a management deal, and weeks later she struck a deal with Ryan to produce her debut album. Cassie signed with Sean Combs's record label Bad Boy Recordings, after he heard her track "Me U" played in a club.
Before the launch of her music career, Cassie was a model for the Wilhelmina modelling agency, where she worked with Adidas, Complex magazine and Abercrombie Fitch campaigns among others. As early in her modeling career as 2002 Cassie modelled for local department stores, the Delia's fashion catalogue and the popular magazine Seventeen.
Fort Minor is a hip hop side project created by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park.
They are best known for the singles "Where'd You Go", "Remember The Name", "Believe Me" and "Petrified" from their debut album The Rising Tied.
Shinoda's goal for the project was to create music while having fun with his friends rather than to showcase the hottest names in hip hop.
- "It's called Fort Minor, instead of my name because there are a bunch of other people involved in the project.
But I only wanted to work with family and friends; people that I feel are really close to me and we see eye-to-eye." -- Mike Shinoda, BallerStatus.
Marcia Cross, 44, who plays tightly wound widow Bree Van De Kamp on ABC's Desperate Housewives, married her stockbroker fiancé, Tom Mahoney, 48, on Saturday.
• Site: Church of Our Savior Episcopal Paris in San Gabriel.
• Guests: The wedding took place before about 200 guests, says Cross' spokeswoman, who confirmed that her client's Desperate Housewives' co-stars, Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman, attended.
Longoria was accompanied by her boyfriend, Tony Parker of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs, TV's Entertainment Tonight reports.
• Details: Cross wore a dress by Reem Acra and jewelry by Neil Lane. ET reports that members of the wedding party arrived in a black Lincoln Town Car and black Cadillac Escalade SUV.
Police were present outside the church.
• Entourage: Cross had seven flower girls, ranging in age from 3 to 12 — the children of some of her closest friends, People reports.
• Couple's history: It's the first marriage for both.
Cross and Mahoney started dating early last year and were engaged in August.
• Final word: The actress told ET recently that she was "thrilled that I met someone that I want to spend the rest of my life with."
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