Victoria Beckham’s exclusive LA pal club – The FOPS

June 1st, 2008 admin

London, June 1 : Victoria Beckham’s exclusive LA pal clubIt’s been barely a year since Victoria Beckham a. k. a Posh Spice move to Los Angeles with her family, but the well-accomplished style icon has already become a part of the city’s most exclusive club, The FOPS – or Friends Of Posh – which includes the likes of Julia Roberts, Heidi Klum, Katie Holmes and Eva Longoria.

Last month, the stunning singer met up with ‘Notting Hill’ star Julia Roberts at the Costume Gala in New York.

After meeting Posh said: “We got on really well – we’re both mums so we had lots to talk about. We’ve swapped numbers. I can’t wait to catch up with her.”

Victoria and supermodel Heidi Klum met at a Victoria’s Secret fashion show at the Kodak Theatre last year. The wife of soccer ace David Beckham was performing with the Spice Girls for the first time in nine years and Heidi helped calm her.

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Dolly Parton

March 12th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Dolly Rebecca Parton

Nickname
The Smoky Mountain Songbird
The Iron Butterfly
The Queen of Country
The Backwoods Barbie
The Queen of Nashville
The Book Lady

Height
5′ (1.52 m)

Mini Biography

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, one of 12 children of Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer, and Avie Lee Parton (née Owens). Dolly grew up on a run-down farm in Locust Ridge, TN. At 12, she was appearing on Knoxville TV and, at 13, she was already recording on a small label and appearing at the Grand Ole Opry. After graduating from high school in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her career as a country singer. She fell in love with Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt-paving business; they got married on May 30, 1966 (and they are still together). The next year, Dolly’s singing caught the attention of Porter Wagoner. He hired Dolly to appear on his program, “The Porter Wagoner Show” (1960). Dolly stayed with the show for 7 years, their duets became famous, and she appeared with his group at the Grand Ole Opry; she also toured and sold records. By the time her hit “Joshua” reached #1 in 1970, her fame had overshadowed Porter’s, and she struck out on her own, though still recording duets with him. She left him for good to become a solo artist in 1974. Dolly gained immense popularity as a singer/songwriter. Dolly won numerous Country Music Association awards (1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976). This petite (5′0″) beauty was a natural for television and, by the mid-1970s, Dolly was appearing frequently on TV specials and talk shows. Dolly then got her own show, aptly titled “Dolly” (1976). In 1977, Dolly got her first Grammy award: Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for her song “Here You Come Again”. Dolly’s movie debut was in Nine to Five (1980), where she got an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune, and also Grammy awards 2 and 3, Best Country Song, and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for _”Nine to Five”. Dolly got more fame for appearing in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and in Rhinestone (1984) with the song “Tennessee Homesick Blues”. She is the head of Dolly Parton Enterprises, a $100 million media empire, and, in 1986, she founded Dollywood, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, celebrating her Smokey Mountain upbringing. She appeared as herself in the “Dolly” (1987) TV series. In 1988, she won another Grammy award: Best Country Performance Duo or Group with Vocals, for “Trio”. Dolly was in the acclaimed picture Steel Magnolias (1989) with Julia Roberts, and went on to appear in 15 movies and TV-movies for the 1990s, and of course garnered more Country Music Association awards. In 2000, Dolly received her 5th Grammy award: Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. She also released a Bluegrass Album. Dolly is known for beautiful songs such as “Coat of Many Colors” and “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You”. Dolly said in an interview, “My music is what took me everywhere I’ve been and everywhere I will go. It’s my greatest love. I can’t abandon it. I’ll always keep making records”.

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Mischa Barton

March 12th, 2008 admin

Mischa Barton

Birth Name
Mischa Anne Marsden Barton

Height
5′ 8½” (1.74 m)

Mini Biography

An actress with talent and poise beyond her 21 years, born in London and raised in New York, Mischa Barton has the kind of career most actors can only dream about. From humble beginnings in New York Theater in 1994 where she trained with such esteemed Director/Writers as James Lapine (”Twelve Dreams” at Lincoln Center with Donna Murphy), Tony Kushner (”Slavs!” at New York Theater Workshop with Marissa Tomei), and Naomi Wallace (”One Flea Spare” at the Public Theatre with Dianne Weist)., she went on to work side by side with modern day screen icons including Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, “Notting Hill”., Bruce Willis and Toni Collette “The Sixth Sense” and Sam Rockwell in her Sundance critically lauded feature film debut “Lawn Dogs’ produced by Duncan Kenworthy in 1998.

Yet, despite this early success in theater and film what really catapulted Mischa to the next level and made her a household name is her small screen performance as the irrepressible and irresistible Marisa on the popular Fox television show, “The O.C.” 2003 to 2006. The show fast become a global cult phenomenon and has earned many awards including a Television Critics Association Award nomination for “Outstanding New Program of the Year.”

Established as one of the most sought after young actresses of her generation Mischa was named “It Girl” in 2003 by Entertainment Weekly, she was also Hollywood Life’s “Breakthrough Actress of the Year”., she won several American Teen Choice Awards for the show, and also Cosmopolitan’s “Fun Fearless Female Award” for “Knockout Ingenue” and Glamour’s “Women of the Year’. She has been ranked as one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” from 2003 to 2007. She was awarded the VIPer Award in 2008 for “Style Icon 2007″ by Mr Karl Lagerfeld.

Most recently in 2007, she played opposite Shirley McClaine & Christopher Plummer in Sir Richard Attenborough’s “Closing the Ring”., with Hayden Christiansen in the Dino De Laurentiis film “Virgin Territory”, and starred opposite Bruce Willis in “Assassination of a High School President” for the Yari Production Company. In 2007 she filmed “Walled In” for the French production Company Canal Plus, and has starred in and produced the film “Homecoming” 2008.

Even at such an early age, Mischa has also made a major impression in the fashion and beauty world. She has already graced the covers of countless international magazines and has become the face of numerous advertising campaigns.

This commercial and theatrical success has given the young woman an opportunity to take an extremely influential role in the global community. She became the spokesperson for “Climate Star”, an organization that fights global warming through social and legislative activism. She serves as an “Entertainment Industry Foundation” ambassador teaming up with QVC to spread awareness and raise funds for women’s cancer research through the “Fashion Footwear Association” of New York “Shoes on Sale Initiative” and is also involved in the “SAFE” campaign for skin cancer awareness. She is an ambassador for “Save the Children” and the “One Water” campaign which brings water to remote locations in Africa., and is on the board of the “Lupus Research Committee” in Los Angeles.

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Cameron Diaz

March 11th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Cameron Michelle Diaz

Nickname
Cami

Height
5′ 8½” (1.74 m)

Mini Biography

A tall, strikingly attractive blue-eyed natural blonde, Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and an Anglo-German mother. Self described as “adventurous, independent and a tough kid,” Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when she auditioned for a big part in The Mask (1994) To her amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead in the film opposite Jim Carrey. Over the next 3 years, she honed her acting skills in such low budget independent films as The Last Supper (1995); Feeling Minnesota (1996); and Head Above Water (1996). She returned to main stream films in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997), in which she held her own against veteran actress Julia Roberts. She earned full fledged star status in 1998 for her performance in the box office smash There’s Something About Mary (1998). With her name near the top on virtually every list of Hollyood’s sexiest actresses, and firmly established as one of filmdom’s hottest properties and most sought after actresses, Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.

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Emma Watson

March 9th, 2008 admin

Birth Name
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson

Nickname
Em

Height
5′ 6″ (1.68 m)

Mini Biography

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in France on April 15, 1990. At school in England, she took the lead role in several plays including “Arthur: The Young Years” and “The Happy Prince”. Along with plays, Emma participated in many other school productions including the “Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition”, in which she won first place for her year at age seven. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) was her debut into the world of professional acting. Competing against many other girls for the role of Hermione Granger, she didn’t expect to get the part.

Away from the cinematic world, Emma enjoys playing hockey most of all and she also likes debating. Although her hair is brown in the movie, she’s naturally a blonde. She once dressed up as a witch for Halloween, but she had no idea that years later, she would be playing one in the Harry Potter movie. Her lawyers parents, Jacqueline and Chris, are divorced. Emma lives with her mother and younger brother Alex. Her role models are Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn, John Cleese and Sandra Bullock.

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No lipstick required: Julia Roberts and Sharon Osbourne venture out without their make-up

March 9th, 2008 admin

One is an A-list film star, the other a reality show judge. And on paper, they don’t appear to have much in common.

But for Julia Roberts and Sharon Osbourne the saying beauty is only skin deep applies, as both women were seen out looking remarkably plain without their usual carefully applied veneer of make-up.

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