So in this day and age of young starlets seriously in need of a spanking and with the US media obsessed with their ridiculously boring and predictable antics I figured I would bring you a chick who I will always consider yummy. No only because she was the star of one of my favourite shows in the whole entire world "My So called Life" but also because she has gone on to become a wonderul actress whose films are always an indulgence for me. The Lindsey Lohans of the world not fit to lick her boots let alone be her understudy...they need to take note of how she blossomed into a actress to reckon with versus a tart of illrepute.
New York City, New York, USA. At age nine she began acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Studio in New York City and later enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts High School there. She became known through her role in the television series My So-Called Life (1994–5), and went on to star as Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996). Later films include The Rainmaker (1997), Igby Goes Down (2002), and Stage Beauty (2004).
Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932- ) is a Hollywood actress who was at her height from 1958 to 1968. At the time some said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. She had eyes of violet and married eight times - twice to her longest lasting husband, the British actor Richard Burton.
According to this blog only Sophia Loren was more beautiful when they were at the height of their beauty.
She was born in London to American parents. Her father was an art dealer and her mother an actress. When war came to Britain, they moved back to America to Los Angeles, where her grandmother lived. Her family comes from St Louis.
Even as a girl Taylor was very beautiful and so she became an actress at age ten. In 1943 she appeared in "Lassie Come Home", which showed she was a good actress. A year later she was the lead in "National Velvet", a film about a girl and her horse. It made her famous across the country.
She won the Academy Award or Oscar for best actress twice: in 1961 for "Butterfield-8", a film she hated, and in 1967 for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf".
Her best full-length films according to IMDb.com:
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" (1966)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958)
"Giant" (1956)
"A Place in the Sun" (1951)
"Jane Eyre" (1944)
"Suddenly, Last Summer" (1959)
I love "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
Not on this list: "Raintree Country" (1957) for which she almost won an Oscar and "Cleopatra", the top film of 1963.
In "Cleopatra" she arguably plays herself: the most beautiful woman in the world. She even fell in love with its Mark Antony, Richard Burton. They married a year later.
Twentieth Century Fox almost went broke making "Cleopatra", but it was a hit at the box office. She was paid a million dollars (a million crowns), which back then was unheard of.
She tends to play beautiful women who are on the edge, ruled by their heart.
Although she was one of the best actresses in Hollywood in the 1960s, she has not appeared in a good film since 1974 ("That's Entertainment"). Some of her later film and television appearances are painful to watch.
Some of her friends:
Michael Jackson, who also became famous as a child
Rock Hudson, whose death from Aids led her to raise money to find a cure
Montgomery Clift, whose life she saved in a car accident
You might assume that she is American and Christian, but she is neither: she is a British Jew. She was born in Britain and never became an American citizen. And in 1959 when she married Eddie Fisher she became Jewish.
In 2000 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
In 1962 she tried to kill herself. She has long had trouble with her drinking.
In 1997 the doctors found a growth in her head. They were able to cut it out, but she had no hair for a while.
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Sanaa Lathan (1971- ) is an American actress. She is best known as the heroine in "Alien vs. Predator" (2004) and as Omar Epps's girlfriend in "Love and Basketball" (2000). In 2006 she became an important character on the television show "Nip/Tuck".
While not yet as good as Halle Berry, she is easily one of the top ten black actresses in Hollywood.
According to this blog she is the sixth most beautiful woman in the world. I saw her in “Disappearing Acts” (2000) and could not take my eyes off her. Looking at her is like eating ice cream on a hot summer day.
And I am not alone. Ebony magazine says she has a "timeless look" and put her in their "55 Most Beautiful People". Even white-boy Maxim once put her in their "Hot 100".
She has not just beauty but also brains (degrees from Berkeley and Yale), talent and a great deal of patience and faith. Her grace and strength has been compared to Katherine Hepburn. She puts her whole self into whatever she does.
She is from New York. She grew up in Harlem and Beverly Hills in a show business family. Her mother danced on Broadway in "The Wiz" and her father directed television shows for PBS and others. She grew up dancing and hanging out at the theatre.
But she knew better than most that to succeed in show business is hard, that talent is not always rewarded. She also saw how entertainers are not respected. So she wanted to go into law. But then Yale talked her into coming there to study acting, as Angela Bassett and Meryl Streep had done before her.
Yale was hard, but by then she knew she was meant to be an actress. When she told her father, it broke his heart.
In the 1990s she tried to make it on Broadway but failed. Her father asked her to try Hollywood instead. She did. She got bit parts on some television shows - once she even tormented Urkel on "Family Matters". She landed regular parts on two shows, both short-lived. But by then she was getting parts in films.
At last she made her name as a serious actress in 2000 in "Love and Basketball". She has since appeared on Broadway and continues to do television too.
She likes film, but her true love is theatre where she has a live audience.
You do not see her in many films. She wants to be a great actress, not a famous star. So she chooses her parts with great care. She knows that films are forever, that her grandchildren will see them.
She knows that her work affects how people see black women. That is why, for example, she appears in "Alien vs Predator": the last one standing is a black woman. And why she plays the evil Michelle Landau on "Nip/Tuck": rarely on American television has a black woman been so important to white men.
There is a channel on myspacetv.com called the Minisode network. On this channel you can watch classic television shows from the Sony Pictures television archive such as Charlies Angels, T.J. Hooker, Who's the Boss, Fantasy Island and the newer cancled show Dilbert. The channel is called the Minisode Network because they convert 23 minute television shows and convert them into 5-6 minute "minisodes", showing only the most important parts of the show. So you can watch about 4 or 5 shows in the time you would have normally watched 1. I like that fact. Many of these shows have simple plots anyway so I like the less important parts being taken away. Check out the channel by visiting . Or visit myspacetv.com and click on minisode network.
Occasionally I take a quiz. Tonight, I decided to find out what famous pinup I am. There were a couple of questions I could have answered more than one way, so I took it three times to see which character won out. The votes are in and it's:
You are Bettie Page
Girl next door with a wild streak
You're a famous beauty - with unique look
And the people like you are cultish about it
You're wondering who the mysterious other pinup was, the one for whom my answers registered the 1/3 vote?
You are Maryiln Monroe
A classic tortured beauty
You're the dream girl of many men
Yet they never seem to treat you right
Imagine that. Not a red-haired result in the batch. I think I'll demand a recount.
Basically, I'm not a fan. It always reminds me of Playmates and people that put way more effort than necessary for hair. A slight Barbarella do usually looks fine, but big B hair looks like, well, that. Its messy under there and CAN look fake. Want volume? Fine. Want curl? Fine. But don't hide a birds nest underneath the top and expect us to to love it. I'm just saying.
Houston icon, Marvin Zindler, r. I've lived in Houston for 21 years and for this time have enjoyed Zindler's classic line not to mention his .
(For you non-Houstonians, one of Zindler's duties at the was to do a restaurant report and he would specifically point out those establishments which had slime in well, their ice machines.)
He is also noted for speaking up for those with little or no voice in the community. For example, the elderly who wouldn't receive their allotted social security checks and the like. These were my favorite Marvin moments, when he helped out people frustrated and affected by bureaucratic entities (the light, telephone, or cable company).
One hopes (for Marvin's sake) that his efforts for the underprivileged and unrepresented were not merely shining examples of civil virtue.
Girl next door with a wild streak
