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Chantal Jones on The Bold and the Beautiful

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:48:57 +0000

Thanks to milkyaqua for finding this clip of Chantal Jones, runner-up of Cycle 9 of America’s Next Top Model, on The Bold and the Beautiful. Chantal is in the clip for only a few seconds. She plays a model who is hired for a shoot involving Rick Forrester. The episode aired on November 17.

I wish she had been given a bigger role. It’s great to see Chantal getting regular work. I really liked her and thought she deserved to win over Saleisha in Cycle 9.

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Blake Fielder-Civil Feels Bad About Amy Winehouse

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:13:16 +0000

Blake Field-Civil is having some bad feelings about his role in Amy Winehouse’s decline. Fielder-Civil says it’s his fault that Amy Winehouse got into drugs in the first place.

“I dragged Amy into it, and without me there is no doubt that she would never have gone down that road,” Fielder-Civil said to News of the World. “I ruined something beautiful.”

Blake was on a role during the interview, saying all of the right things. He not only takes responsibility for his role in Amy’s downfall, but he even says he’d be willing to sacrifice himself for her good.

“Now I have to let her go to save her life. I am not abandoning her. I am doing this out of love,” he said. “I have had to live with that for the past year that I have been in prison and I have got so much remorse.”

Blake recounted that when he met Amy, the only drug she’d indulged in was marijuana. It was with his tutelage that the Brit singer began to experiment with progressively worse drugs. Eventually, her entire career and her health were threatened by her drug use.

“It was heartbreaking seeing someone you love more than yourself, someone you would die for, someone you would kill for, on the floor shaking,” he said.

Amy has kept her distance from Blake since his release from jail. Blake says that’s his fault too.

“If it wasn’t for drugs, me and Amy would be so happy. Just without that in our lives — without crack and without heroin — Amy would be making beautiful music,” he said.

Should Brad Keep the 'Stache?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:30:01 +0000

While Angie was taking Maddox toy shopping, Brad had a little fun on his own toy, tooling around his adopted home of New Orleans on his bike Sunday. Now, we know that mustache is for a movie role, but we're kind of digging it. Should Papa Pitt keep the porn 'stache or shave it off? Well, Tom Selleck he ain't, but I might not want to let him shave it off right away...

Ricki Lake Lost 140 Pounds: Fresh Dining Keeps Her Trim (Photos)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:48:41 +0000

Ricki Lake is an actress and tabloid talk show host who is best known for her long running Ricki Lake Show and a recurring role on King of Queens. She made some significant life style changes in early 2007 and has lost 140 pounds ‘the old fashioned way‘. She once tipped the scales at 270 pounds and still can’t believe that she was ever overweight now that she has become accustomed to her new form.

The 40 year old mother of two sons, credits her daily delivery of prepared meals from Fresh Dining. The organic fare satisfies her and keeps her on track but she does worry that something could throw her off balance. She stays active and is satisfied with her current weight but does admit that she is guilty of wanting to lose more. Not immune to the pressures of staying thin, she said, “According to Hollywood standards, I’m not a thin girl, I’m a normal girl.”

The holiday season can pose problems for many people who suddenly lose their resolve and succumb to full blown grazing. She weighed in on the dilemma by saying, “I will be really conscious because I have this book coming out and I want to look great. I don’t need to lose any more weight but I don’t want to go backwards. So I’m not going to pig out this Christmas.”

We checked out the website and discovered that Fresh Dining, located in Southern California, was founded in 2005 and offers five plans: Fresh Dining, Fresh Lite, Healthy Lifestyle, Fresh Mommy and Whole Family.

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Joan Bennett

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:28:12 +0000

Joan Bennett never had any desire to become an actress, she wished only to be a wife and mother. Joan married Jack Fox at the age of 16, became a mother at 17 and was divorced by the time she was 18 years old. In order to support herself and her baby, Joan decided to try acting until something better came along.

Joan went through two phases in her film career. During the thirties, resembling a golden-haired porcelain doll, Joan usually played the innocent ingénue. The most memorable of these roles was her portrayal of Amy in Little Women (1933).

The second phase of her career began with the film Trade Winds (1938) where a new raven-haired Joan appeared. "After that film everyone liked me in dark hair," explained Joan, "so I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since." Many people noted a resemblance between Joan and Hedy Lamarr who would later marry Joan's second husband screenwriter Gene Markey. Joan said, "There must have been something to it because after Trade Winds was released, I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing."

Because of her glamorous, new brunette look as well as her exceptional talent, Joan was very seriously considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, Joan claimed the part would have been hers had Vivien Leigh stayed in England.

The 1940s and 1950s were the "film noir" decades. It was during the forties that Joan Bennett, alluring and husky voiced, found her niche as a film noir femme fatale. Fritz Lang directed the films which were among the highpoints of her career beginning with Man Hunt (1941) where Joan gave perhaps her most poignant performance as a Cockney prostitute with a heart of gold. The next two Lang films both co-starred Edward G. Robinson and Dan Duryea, The Woman In The Window (1944) and Scarlet Street (1946) where Joan played "Lazy Legs", a character who was obviously lackadaisical and careless to the point of sloppiness in her surroundings but managed to be unquestionably glamorous at the same time. In The Woman In The Window, Edward G. Robinson becomes captivated by a painting of a beautiful woman and once he meets her, she sends him on the road to destruction.

Joan continued this film noir trend in Jean Renoir'sThe Woman on the Beach (1947) where she was a faithless wife deceiving a blind husband. She teamed with Fritz Lang once again in Secret Beyond The Door (1948) a film somewhat reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca where Joan played a bride terrified of her husband, and like Rebecca the central character of the film is the female star. Joan Bennett carries the film all the way through.

Two of her best films were Ernest Hemingway's The Macomber Affair (1947) again as a devious wife and she gave a multi-faceted portrayal of a blackmail victim of James Mason in The Reckless Moment (1949).

Just one year after giving birth to her daughter Shelley, Joan Bennett became a grandmother at the age of 39 when her eldest daughter Diana became a mother. Marlene Dietrich, consistently referred to as "The World's Most Glamorous Grandmother" sent Joan a telegram saying "Thanks for taking the heat off."

Almost directly from film noir, Joan segued into playing Spencer Tracy's wife and Elizabeth Taylor's mother in the thoroughly charming family comedies Father of the Bride and Father's Little Dividend. It was during this time, that Joan Bennett became involved in a scandal that she once said "destroyed my career in the motion picture industry".

Joan's husband producer Walter Wanger in a blinded, jealous rage shot and wounded her agent Jennings Lang in a parking lot. Wanger went to prison for four months. Lang fortunately recovered and the Wangers eventually divorced in 1965. Joan once said "I might as well have pulled the trigger myself" because after the shooting incident she was virtually blacklisted. Joan made only five films in the decade that followed. Like her sister Constance, Joan turned successfully to the stage.

In addition to the stage, Joan Bennett also found success in television. For five years Joan had a role on the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows which brought a whole new following of fans who remain loyal to this day.

In 1978 Joan married movie critic David Wilde who remained her husband until the end of her life. In December 1990, Joan Bennett passed away at the age of 80. Joan was survived by four daughters, Diana Anderson, Melinda Bena, Stephanie Guest and Shelley Wanger and 13 grandchildren. In her beautifully written book The Bennett Playbill, Joan wrote: "I'm aware of the priceless privilege of having been born into the theater. Although it was a career I rejected at first, the profession has given me an incredibly varied life and more than my fair share of success, failure, love, laughter and despair. I've not a single regret for any of it."

source: classichollywoodbios.com

Ricky Gervais Nominated For Best Actor in a Motion Picture

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:23:58 +0000

British comedian Ricky Gervais has been nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture in the International Press Academy Sattelite Awards.

The star, 47, is up against Sam Rockwell, Josh Brolin, Michael Cera and Brendan Gleeson in the Comedy or Musical category for his role as dentist Bertram Pincus in the 2008 movie Ghost Town.

Megan Fox Is Not Wonder Woman

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:37:00 +0000

Megan Fox is approached by fans for autographs as she and boyfriend Brian Austin Green arrive at LAX airport on Sunday, after a week long trip.

The 22-year-old actress has recently been rumored to star as Wonder Woman in Hollywood’s next comic book adventure, but that was all an internet hoax.

The internet hoaxer created an official-looking website with Megan Fox as Wonder Woman to create the buzz, but now says, “To be quite honest, I didn’t expect it to be this big. I apologize for misleading everyone into believing Wonder Woman was to be a movie with the lead role played by Megan Fox.”

Sienna Miller Hits British Independent Film Awards

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:34:00 +0000

Sienna Miller holds hands with The Edge of Love co-star Keira Knightley at the British Independent Film Awards 2008 held at Old Billingsgate on Sunday.

Director Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, about a poor Indian boy who gets a shot at winning millions in a television game show, swept the awards show with three prizes. Slumdog Millionaire won the best British independent film, best director and most promising newcomer categories, the latter going to young actor Dev Patel who played the lead role of Jamal.

Eric Winter Roselyn Sanchez Wedding

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:20:28 +0000

Eric Winter and Roselyn Sanchez were married in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday at the historic San Cristobal fort.

The couple dated for two years prior to their engagement on January 1, 2008.

Winter, 32, has a recurring role on ABC’s Brothers and Sisters as Jason McCallister, the brother of Senator Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe) and love interest of Kevin Walker (Matthew Rhys), however he is best known for his role as Rex Brady on NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.

Sanchez, 35, is a Puerto Rican singer, model, film and television actress currently starring as Agent Elena Delgado on the CBS drama Without a Trace.

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Matthew Gray Gubler

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:55:43 +0000

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Matthew Gray Gubler (born March 9, 1980) is an American actor, film director, sketch artist, and former fashion model. He made his début in the film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) as Intern #1, and is best known for his role as the young genius Dr. Spencer Reid in the CBS television show Criminal Minds. Gubler created several movies that were mostly filmed in his hometown of Las Vegas as well as New York City, prior to his graduation from Tisch. He is also known for his constant wearing of mismatched socks, because he says the one time he did wear matching socks he sprained his ankle.

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