Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Maria Menounos to host NBC's
"I'm delighted to be a part of such a great show, it's just what the holidays are all about - family-fun and giving," said Menounos. "I use to be in a choir myself growing up and I can't wait to see these hometown choirs come to life on stage."
Clash of the Choirs will begin with five celebrities -- former Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica co-star Nick Lachey; Nashville Star judge Blake Shelton; Michael Bolton; Patti LaBelle; and Kelly Rowland -- traveling back to their hometowns to assemble an amateur singing group consisting of everyday people.
The hometown choirs will then compete against one another in-front of a live studio and home-viewing audience, tackling a variety of musical genres that range from pop, rock and gospel to holiday classics and current hits.
Home viewers will be able to vote via phone, text messaging or the Internet to determine which choir wins the competition. The winning choir -- as well as the celebrity that organized them as a group -- will receive the opportunity to select a prize that will help their hometown.
Maria Menounos profile
| Name : | Maria Menounos |
|---|---|
| Profession : | Model, Actress |
| Date of Birth : | June 8, 1978 |
| Place of Birth : | Barranquilla, Colombia |
| Height : | 5' 2'' |
Maria Menounos Weight Loss Plans
"I definitely don’t deprive myself. I eat whatever I want, but in smaller portions. Then if I have a bad weekend, like I did this weekend, I’m going to make sure that the rest of this week I have fresh salads with fresh chicken on it"
"I started to cut back on my carbs and started replacing [them] with better food. I ate a grapefruit in the morning. I had heard that grapefruit burns fat, so it was the first thing I would eat. I ate a lot of spicy peppers and jalapenos and a lot of vinegar, which I already loved anyhow, because I also heard that burns fat.”
Megan Fox Profile
Name : Megan Fox
Birth Name : Megan Denise Fox
Nickname : Mega Fox , Foxy Megan
Birth Date : May 16, 1986
Birth Place : Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
Sex : Female
Nationality : American
Height : 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Weight : 114 lbs
Measurements : 34C-26-24
Hair Color : Brown - Dark
Eye Color : Blue
Zodiac Sign : Taurus
Sexual Orientation : Straight
Race or Ethnicity : White
Profession : Actress and Model
Major Genres : Comedy, Sci-Fi, Action, Documentary
First Major Screen Credit : Holiday in the Sun (2001)
Boyfriend : Brian Austin Green (Actor), David Gallagher (Actor)
Career Highlights : Entertainment Tonight, The Help, Hope & Faith
Claim to Fame : As Mikaela Banes in the Movie "Transformers" (2007)
Credits : #68 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006), #18 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list, #17 on interview magazines Hollywood faces to watch "Future Stars of Tomorrow", #1 sexiest woman by FHM readers for 2008
Favorite Movie : Scream
Favorite Band : Nirvana
Favorite Toys : Ninja Turtles
Favorite Sports : Basketball, Tennis, Volleyball, Golf.
Favorite Actress : Angelina Jolie
Sexiest Woman On Earth
The 'Transformers' star was the top choice of both male and female respondents, who were asked which sex symbols they were most excited to see on the big screen in 2009.
In the Fandango.com's survey of 2,000 readers, Jennifer Aniston was the No. 2 choice among women while a distant eighth among men.
Scarlett Johansson came third in men's list and seventh in women's list, reports the New York Post.
Charlize Theron landed the fourth spot in men's list and eight in women's list.
Salma Hayek rounded off the top five for both men and women.
Sexiest women, according to men:
1. Megan Fox
2. Jessica Alba
3. Scarlett Johansson
4. Charlize Theron
5. Salma Hayek
6. Kate Beckinsale
7. Jessica Biel
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Nicole Kidman
10. Halle Berry
Sexiest women, according to women:
1. Megan Fox
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Halle Berry
4. Jessica Alba
5. Salma Hayek
6. Kate Beckinsale
7. Scarlett Johansson
8. Charlize Theron
9. Kate Hudson
10. Julia Roberts
In the Fandango.com's survey of 2,000 readers, Jennifer Aniston was the No. 2 choice among women while a distant eighth among men.
Scarlett Johansson came third in men's list and seventh in women's list, reports the New York Post.
Charlize Theron landed the fourth spot in men's list and eight in women's list.
Salma Hayek rounded off the top five for both men and women.
Sexiest women, according to men:
1. Megan Fox
2. Jessica Alba
3. Scarlett Johansson
4. Charlize Theron
5. Salma Hayek
6. Kate Beckinsale
7. Jessica Biel
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Nicole Kidman
10. Halle Berry
Sexiest women, according to women:
1. Megan Fox
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Halle Berry
4. Jessica Alba
5. Salma Hayek
6. Kate Beckinsale
7. Scarlett Johansson
8. Charlize Theron
9. Kate Hudson
10. Julia Roberts
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Kate Winslet : Actress takes on two more dark screen roles
Look at Kate Winslet’s film credits — a list that includes five Oscar-nominated performances and began when she was 17, with Peter Jackson’s trippy tale of true-life matricide, “Heavenly Creatures” — and you won’t see much that’s light and breezy.
There’s only one romantic comedy in the bunch (2006’s “The Holiday”). There is much tortured, thwarted love, and a fair amount of doom and death. (Glug-glug, there goes “Titanic.”)
And now, just in time for the holidays, comes the British actress in two extremely tough, troubling roles: Hanna Schmitz, a onetime SS guard who initiates a vigorous affair with a 15-year-old boy in post-war Germany, in “The Reader”; and April Wheeler, a 1950s wife and mother trapped in a bum marriage in “Revolutionary Road.”
“The Reader” co-stars Ralph Fiennes (and David Kross as the teen seductee). “Revolutionary Road,” with “Titanic” shipmate Leonardo DiCaprio as the callow spouse, was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, from an adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
Winslet, 33, did the two projects back-to-back — it’s hard to say which is the more disturbing. Her choices down the years make one wonder whether there’s some serious angst at work. Does Kate sit around smoking cigarettes, pondering the bleak nothingness of it all? (Yes on the cigs, and no on the rest, it turns out.)
“I am asked this question and I always find myself almost struggling to answer it,” says Winslet, sounding spry, on the phone from her adopted hometown, New York. “And I think the truth is I don’t know. I really don’t know why. I don’t have a darkness in my soul — no, I don’t.
“But I am interested in the human condition, and the emotional journeys that we all have to go on in order to figure out who the hell we are. ... It’s the actor’s privilege to be able to play those roles and to try and find out how complex and sometimes messed-up people are.”
Last week, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the Golden Globes — the forerunner (and often the forecaster) of the Academy Award nominations. Winslet was named in two categories: best actress in a drama for “Revolutionary Road,” and supporting actress for “The Reader.”
That’s one way to avoid the problem of competing against yourself, but the supporting actress nod does a disservice to her work in “The Reader,” directed by The Hours”‘ Stephen Daldry. This is a lead role, and a rich, morally tricky one.
With studios strategizing about Oscar campaigns, how is Winslet grappling with the dually lauded — and competitive — performances?
“Look, I’m going to be lucky if I get there at all,” she says about the possibility of a sixth, and perhaps seventh, Oscar nod. (Winslet has never won.) “It is out of my hands. I don’t know how those things work, I really don’t. All I can do is what I would always do when I have a film coming out, which is to support it. But in this case I’m supporting both because they’re coming out within weeks of each other.
“The only issue for me is physically creating the space and the time to be able to give that commitment to both of these films. Yeah, in equal measure. Because I’m not backing a horse at all.”
Commitment is a big deal for Winslet. She grew up in a financially strapped family of actors and artists, and she’s been making her own way since landing that key role in “Heavenly Creatures.” She was Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility,” Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom’s underappreciated “Jude,” and played Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” And then came “Titanic,” James Cameron’s box-office behemoth, a movie that made Winslet and DiCaprio not just A-list stars, but pop-cult icons to boot. Much of Winslet’s career since the 1997 blockbuster has fought against that image: little, eccentric films like “Hideous Kinky” and “Holy Smoke,” lit-based period pieces like “Iris” and “Finding Neverland,” the sublime “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and the profoundly unsettling, sexually superheated “Little Children.”
She and Mendes, the director behind the Oscar-winning “American Beauty,” have been together seven years. Winslet’s 8-year-old daughter, Mia, from a first, short-lived marriage, and Joe, Mendes and Winslet’s son, live together in lower Manhattan, with a country house outside of London.
A few years back, when director Daldry first offered Winslet the job in “The Reader” — based on Bernhard Schlink’s bestselling novel — she had to decline. At that point, the shooting conflicted with “Revolutionary Road’s.” Nicole Kidman was going to be Hanna Schmitz instead.
“But then that became impossible for her because she was having a child,” Winslet explains. “And then, when it came back to me, the schedule had changed and I was able to do it. Fate had worked in my favor — and Nicole’s — in these wonderful ways.”
So Winslet had to wrap her head around the role of an uneducated and emotionally repressed woman who sent Jews to their deaths during World War II, who teaches a curious youth about sex and love, and then falls in love herself.
“I was terrified, because I had nothing of my own life experience that I could use to play Hanna,” Winslet says. “All I knew I could do was ... understand her. You know, she’s an ordinary person, and at the end of the day the Holocaust was created by ordinary people. And I never viewed her as a monster.
“She was a woman who had limited choices in life, and through a choice that she made in becoming an SS guard, she ended up contributing to some of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. And it was very difficult to play that.
“But as I say, I had to understand her, and I had to embrace her. I didn’t necessarily have to sympathize with her. Nor did I have to forgive her.”
As for “Revolutionary Road,” Winslet says that there was no downside to having her husband on board, even if it meant going home at the end of the day and talking shop.
“The only thing that Sam and I had to deal with very early on was — and this was really more for him than for me — was that he realized that I live it and breathe it 24/7. And whilst he knew that about me — because on films I would come home and I would just get the kids to bed and then I would rant until I passed out — he had sort of forgotten that. ... So we’d walk through the door having had an exhausting day of shooting and I would still be going on, and he would say, ‘Babe, babe, let me take my shoes off. Let me have a cup of tea.’
“And I would say, ‘No! I don’t have time for that, I have to say this now. Now now now! Because if I wait to say it tomorrow ... the thought won’t come out the same. And I really want to know what you think right now about this.”‘
Winslet had to explain to Mendes that if they weren’t living together she’d still be on the phone, firing questions at him at all hours.
“I had to remind him: ‘Don’t you remember on ‘Jarhead’? Because I was there when Jake (Gyllenhaal) would call you in the evening and you’d talk for two hours on the phone,”‘ she says. “Even if we were in the middle of a dinner that I’d spent hours cooking, he would take the call. And quite right, too.
“And so I just had to remind him: ‘Sorry, pal. ‘ And ultimately, he was very happy that we had that, because it made a big difference to the preparation we could do, the work, the forward thinking that we could do, and the constant debate about April Wheeler and these characters and what was going to happen tomorrow.”
There’s only one romantic comedy in the bunch (2006’s “The Holiday”). There is much tortured, thwarted love, and a fair amount of doom and death. (Glug-glug, there goes “Titanic.”)
And now, just in time for the holidays, comes the British actress in two extremely tough, troubling roles: Hanna Schmitz, a onetime SS guard who initiates a vigorous affair with a 15-year-old boy in post-war Germany, in “The Reader”; and April Wheeler, a 1950s wife and mother trapped in a bum marriage in “Revolutionary Road.”
“The Reader” co-stars Ralph Fiennes (and David Kross as the teen seductee). “Revolutionary Road,” with “Titanic” shipmate Leonardo DiCaprio as the callow spouse, was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, from an adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
Winslet, 33, did the two projects back-to-back — it’s hard to say which is the more disturbing. Her choices down the years make one wonder whether there’s some serious angst at work. Does Kate sit around smoking cigarettes, pondering the bleak nothingness of it all? (Yes on the cigs, and no on the rest, it turns out.)
“I am asked this question and I always find myself almost struggling to answer it,” says Winslet, sounding spry, on the phone from her adopted hometown, New York. “And I think the truth is I don’t know. I really don’t know why. I don’t have a darkness in my soul — no, I don’t.
“But I am interested in the human condition, and the emotional journeys that we all have to go on in order to figure out who the hell we are. ... It’s the actor’s privilege to be able to play those roles and to try and find out how complex and sometimes messed-up people are.”
Last week, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the Golden Globes — the forerunner (and often the forecaster) of the Academy Award nominations. Winslet was named in two categories: best actress in a drama for “Revolutionary Road,” and supporting actress for “The Reader.”
That’s one way to avoid the problem of competing against yourself, but the supporting actress nod does a disservice to her work in “The Reader,” directed by The Hours”‘ Stephen Daldry. This is a lead role, and a rich, morally tricky one.
With studios strategizing about Oscar campaigns, how is Winslet grappling with the dually lauded — and competitive — performances?
“Look, I’m going to be lucky if I get there at all,” she says about the possibility of a sixth, and perhaps seventh, Oscar nod. (Winslet has never won.) “It is out of my hands. I don’t know how those things work, I really don’t. All I can do is what I would always do when I have a film coming out, which is to support it. But in this case I’m supporting both because they’re coming out within weeks of each other.
“The only issue for me is physically creating the space and the time to be able to give that commitment to both of these films. Yeah, in equal measure. Because I’m not backing a horse at all.”
Commitment is a big deal for Winslet. She grew up in a financially strapped family of actors and artists, and she’s been making her own way since landing that key role in “Heavenly Creatures.” She was Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility,” Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom’s underappreciated “Jude,” and played Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” And then came “Titanic,” James Cameron’s box-office behemoth, a movie that made Winslet and DiCaprio not just A-list stars, but pop-cult icons to boot. Much of Winslet’s career since the 1997 blockbuster has fought against that image: little, eccentric films like “Hideous Kinky” and “Holy Smoke,” lit-based period pieces like “Iris” and “Finding Neverland,” the sublime “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and the profoundly unsettling, sexually superheated “Little Children.”
She and Mendes, the director behind the Oscar-winning “American Beauty,” have been together seven years. Winslet’s 8-year-old daughter, Mia, from a first, short-lived marriage, and Joe, Mendes and Winslet’s son, live together in lower Manhattan, with a country house outside of London.
A few years back, when director Daldry first offered Winslet the job in “The Reader” — based on Bernhard Schlink’s bestselling novel — she had to decline. At that point, the shooting conflicted with “Revolutionary Road’s.” Nicole Kidman was going to be Hanna Schmitz instead.
“But then that became impossible for her because she was having a child,” Winslet explains. “And then, when it came back to me, the schedule had changed and I was able to do it. Fate had worked in my favor — and Nicole’s — in these wonderful ways.”
So Winslet had to wrap her head around the role of an uneducated and emotionally repressed woman who sent Jews to their deaths during World War II, who teaches a curious youth about sex and love, and then falls in love herself.
“I was terrified, because I had nothing of my own life experience that I could use to play Hanna,” Winslet says. “All I knew I could do was ... understand her. You know, she’s an ordinary person, and at the end of the day the Holocaust was created by ordinary people. And I never viewed her as a monster.
“She was a woman who had limited choices in life, and through a choice that she made in becoming an SS guard, she ended up contributing to some of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. And it was very difficult to play that.
“But as I say, I had to understand her, and I had to embrace her. I didn’t necessarily have to sympathize with her. Nor did I have to forgive her.”
As for “Revolutionary Road,” Winslet says that there was no downside to having her husband on board, even if it meant going home at the end of the day and talking shop.
“The only thing that Sam and I had to deal with very early on was — and this was really more for him than for me — was that he realized that I live it and breathe it 24/7. And whilst he knew that about me — because on films I would come home and I would just get the kids to bed and then I would rant until I passed out — he had sort of forgotten that. ... So we’d walk through the door having had an exhausting day of shooting and I would still be going on, and he would say, ‘Babe, babe, let me take my shoes off. Let me have a cup of tea.’
“And I would say, ‘No! I don’t have time for that, I have to say this now. Now now now! Because if I wait to say it tomorrow ... the thought won’t come out the same. And I really want to know what you think right now about this.”‘
Winslet had to explain to Mendes that if they weren’t living together she’d still be on the phone, firing questions at him at all hours.
“I had to remind him: ‘Don’t you remember on ‘Jarhead’? Because I was there when Jake (Gyllenhaal) would call you in the evening and you’d talk for two hours on the phone,”‘ she says. “Even if we were in the middle of a dinner that I’d spent hours cooking, he would take the call. And quite right, too.
“And so I just had to remind him: ‘Sorry, pal. ‘ And ultimately, he was very happy that we had that, because it made a big difference to the preparation we could do, the work, the forward thinking that we could do, and the constant debate about April Wheeler and these characters and what was going to happen tomorrow.”
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Katy Perry Christmas 2008
Katy Perry looked like a Christmas Cracker in this Christmas tree outfit at this month’s Jingle Ball in New Jersey. This Christmas new-kid-on-the-block Perry will be sleeping in, she’s not been home for a few months as she’s been working like a trooper to get her music heard. Katy’s Christmas wish is for success in 2009, or a pink pony– she might want to have a chat with Paris Hilton.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Christmas 2008
Do Scientologists celebrate Christmas? Apparently so, and the news from the Cruise/Holmes PR machine last year was that ex-Dawson's Creek star Katie designed the family Christmas card herself... wait there's more... the card said ‘Happy holidays and best wishes for a joyous new year. Love Tom, Kate, Bella, Connor and Suri' in a brown font. The big controversy? It was signed Kate, not Katie. Apparently Tom prefers the more grown-up moniker ‘Kate'. You can have a look at the infamous card for yourself.
This year Kate took daughter Suri to see The Nutcracker at the NYC Ballet. The supercouple are planning on spending Christmas in New York, as Kate’s performing on Broadway in All My Sons.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie Christmas 2008
It’ll be awkward this Christmas in the Ritchie household. Recently divorced Queen of Pop Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie plan to bury the hatchet and spend the day together at Ashcombe House in Wiltshire for the sake of their children. But that’s a big difference from two years ago, when the married couple were said to have cancelled Christmas, maybe they’ve realised that presents can buy you favouritism after all?
Britney Spears Christmas 2008
Newly reformed Britney Spears said that Christmas is ‘family time..’ this year, although judging by the size of her tree in her Christmas message, we get the feeling that it might be an excessive Christmas. Britney also spent a day carolling with Ellen Degeneres recently and spread her holiday cheer, although we’re not too sure about the singing.
Cheryl and Ashley Cole Christmas 2008
Following a turbulent 2008, X Factor judge Cheryl Cole is planning on spending a romantic Christmas with Chelsea footballer hubby Ashley Cole. Speaking with Closer magazine, Cheryl said, “I like that idea of doing something old-fashioned for Christmas and making it very romantic. I’d love to fill stockings with romantic and thoughtful presents for Ashley!”
Nicky and Paris Hilton Christmas 2008
While last year the Hilton heiress’ spent their holidays in Maui, Hawaii. This year you’ll find Nicky and Paris skiing in Aspen, before heading to Sydney Australia to host a new year’s eve party. Paris recently bought herself an early Christmas present. The self-appointed American Princess gave herself a £100,000 pink Bentley, a childhood fantasy of the heiress’ fulfilled, as the car resembles Barbie’s own car. Joy!
David and Victoria Christmas 2008
If you believed last year's Tesco ads, Posh Spice does her own Christmas grocery shopping. Hmmmm. In 2004, David and Victoria hired a £1000-a-day butler to help them unwrap their presents. Well, it is very tiring tearing all that wrapping paper and the sellotape can be a bit finickity to get off. This year, the former Spice Girl and husband David were reported to have been arguing over where to spend the holidays. David wanted to head to the UK and see family, while Posh wanted to spend it in LA as she felt it would send the right message to her American fans. It looks like David wears the trousers (most of the time!) in this relationship, as the family made their way back to the UK on the 19th December.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Christmas 2008
As the Jolie-Pitt clan gets ever bigger, it’s no surprise that Angelina doesn’t fancy cooking a Turkey dinner for Brad and the kids come Christmas day. Last year, the Curious Case of Benjamin Button actor and the world’s most well-paid actress took the kids for a drive through McDonalds on Christmas day. Fancy! Brad recently told Hello magazine about gift giving in the Jolie-Pitt household, which we imagine to be full of expensive presents. He said, "So we have gifts, but we try to keep the money spent to a minimum. The rule is that everyone’s got to make something for someone else, you got to put time into it.” We can’t say we’re not a little disappointed.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Do you need to get in shape?
Concept
This plan is clearly not a typical weight loss system, just as Michaels is not your typical weight loss trainer or coach. She applies her own unique perspective to making weight loss more effective, accessible and manageable with an exclusive three-pronged approach of effectively identifying goals and weaknesses, eating right, and results producing exercise; all problem areas which most plans fail to address in a comprehensive and easy to understand manner. Michaels, also provides dieters with a good dose of support so that they can build up their motivation and commitment to achieve a new healthy lifestyle.
Newcomers to her program will no doubt be happy to see that the Jillian Michaels program kicks off with a personalized assessment based on activity level, body type, and personal goals. This kind of customized assessment often makes the difference between getting a good start on a weight loss plan, and starting on murky footing, which has doomed many a dieter to diet failure. If you would like to use her program in conjunction with a quality fat burner that will also provide an awesome energy to help you enjoy the exercise, we recommend checking out NuPhedrine® which combines the two most powerful pound-shedding ingredients in one pill.
This assessment provides the basis for step-by-step instructions that are peppered with some of Michaels’ signature “tough love” quips and motivational techniques, which has been proven to be extraordinary effective in terms of inspiring users, as seen on The Biggest Loser. If you’ve seen the show, you would not forget how her winning brand of motivational support and fitness expertise pushed contestant after contestant over their dieting “hump” to attain results, which they thought were unattainable. The really incredible thing about this plan is that she has found a way to create this same result, via the Internet.
In addition to great recipes, menus, and interactive message boards, perhaps the most unique feature of the Jillian Michael’s program is its focus on behavior modification. This feature has been shown to be the best method of creating long term and sustainable weight loss, thereby effectively avoiding the well-known yo-yo affect that many dieters struggle with. To expedite this process, members are consistently reminded that weight loss is as much mental as it is physical, and are encouraged to follow the plans rather innovative “7 Steps to Behavior Modification” in order to confront self-sabotaging behaviors, in an efficient and results oriented manner.
Diet Lifestyle
Online programs can really help consumers to meet their weight loss goals, and learn about fitness, while also being integrated into a busy lifestyle. This plan also provides consumers who can’t afford a personal trainer, to have one at a rather affordable price; and realize the results that go hand in hand with working with a personal trainer. There is no down side to this aspect unless you consider losing weight and toning up to be a down side.
One of the other cool features of this plan is that it includes a guide to cardio and weightlifting, as well as printable exercise cards, which makes this process so incredibly easy to follow. If you would like to use her program in conjunction with a quality fat burner that will also provide an awesome energy to help you enjoy the exercise, we recommend checking out NuPhedrine® which combines Real South African Hoodia and the patented metabolism-booster, Advantra-Z®.
Keys: Jillian Michaels Plan
1. Customized meal plan for individual body type
2. At-home exercise plan
Keys: Additional Focused Offerings
1. Fitness diary
2. Food guides
3. Message boards to find fitness buddies
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• Incorporates both cardio and strength training
• Website posts lush testimonials with photos
• Comprehensive and taste satisfying Menus
• Workouts are personalized for each body type
• Customer response to this product has been overwhelmingly positive, which can be seen in the posts on this Jillian Michaels blog.
Negatives
• Provides so many tools and cool features consumers may spend too much time online and not in the gym
• Free sign up has made it extremely popular, and this aspect may not last long
Final Thoughts
Even dieters who have never seen Jillian Michaels in action on television will no doubt be attracted to this incredibly successful program, which can actually provide users with results. She promises to “whip” users “into shape”, and frankly this approach really delivers results, and then some. We find that she has discovered a method by which she can deliver the same support, motivation and education to regular users, as she did with the contestants on The Biggest Loser. In the end, she seems to be able to bring consumers weight loss goals out of fantasyland and into the real world all for around $4 per month, this is an extraordinary offer.
$5,300 for Scarlett Johansson's Hanky? and Hot Pictures
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Apparently $5,300 is the going rate for what is presumably the most expensive used tissue in the world.
Last week, Scarlett Johansson got into the spirit of the holiday sniffles on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno. She claimed she caught the cold from costar Samuel L. Jackson. When after Leno handed her a tissue and the starlet gave a good blow, she joked that the used hanky had some value.
To test her hypothesis, the tissue was placed on the auction block on eBay, with proceeds benefiting USA Harvest.
Seems an anonymous, recession-proof fan dug deep into his or her pockets and anted up the big bucks for ScarJo's snot rag during a last-minute bidding war.
The winner of the golden mucus will be confirmed and announced on tonight's Tonight Show.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Cute Emma Watson Harry Potter Interview Video
Emma Watson is a talkative young woman who's the first to admit she's similar to Hermione Granger, the straight-A student she's played in all four previous Harry Potter movies. Cast for the role when she was only ten years old, she has grown up gracefully into a poised seventeen year old. This month marks the opening of the fifth Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
"It's really funny, we get asked a lot about growing up, and being on camera, and growing up in the limelight, and that sort of thing, but it's a really funny question for us, because we can't see ourselves from the outside, if that makes sense, it's a bit like trying to look at it from a different perspective," she says. "So it's a bit funny. But I mean yeah, sometimes I feel like I barely have to act, because I feel so close to my character, and I feel like I know her so well, and I think we're quite similar in a lot of ways, so my job isn't too hard really. I'm quite lucky."
She is, of course, but one in a trio that consists of Daniel Radcliffe as Harry and Rupert Grint as Ron. "We've all grown up together. I'm, well, all of us are a teeny bit older than our characters, so it's nice in a way, because we get to experience what are characters are going through before them. So we kind of know what it's like to go through that experience, and then we can apply it to what we're doing in the film. So it works quite well, really."
Throughout the filming of the five movies, there has refreshingly not been any child-star tantrums or cast unease. "We're friends, you know? If I'm having boy troubles, I'll occasionally go and chat to Dan and Rupert, and say 'WHAT is going on here, I do NOT understand...' Just sort of friendly banter and friendly advice, just generally just supporting each other, I guess."
As always, the trio is surrounded by a nurturing cast and crew, many of whom have been involved from the very beginning. Order of the Phoenix does, however, mark the fourth new director of the series, David Yates, who previously worked in British television. "There were no introductory rituals," Watson laughs off when asked if any hazing took place. "I don't know, it's really nice. A lot of the cast and crew have been on the films...for all four or five years. So there's a nice sort of friendly, family thing about it, hopefully it's not too intimidating for newcomers, 'cause everyone's kind of family."
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Anne Hathaway has chosen the music for her wedding
The 'Bride Wars' actress - who is currently dating US actor Adam Shulman - insists she is not the type of person to get obsessed about her big day, but has recently started planning a playlist for it.
She said: "I'm not the sort of girl who dreams about her wedding. I haven't thought about the food; I haven't thought about the look; I haven't thought about my dress.
"I haven't really thought about the guy, but every once in a while, I'll listen to a song, and I'm like, 'I want that at my wedding!' " Among the songs Anne will play are Yeah Yeah Yeah's 'Maps', Wilco's 'Walken' and 'You Are the Best Thing' by Ray LaMontagne.
The 26-year-old actress is also adamant about the tracks she will not be dancing to with her new husband.
She laughed: "Don't play Celine Dion's 'All By Myself' or Donna Summers' 'Last Dance'." Anne added she has no intention of crash dieting when she ties the knot, adding she finds it odd that so many brides obsess about their weight.
She added to Modern Bride magazine: "I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That's a concept I don't find very interesting anymore.
"Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that's where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more."
Eva Mendes, Pain in the Ass?
"Yeah, I mean it was just terrible. It was really awful to work with someone so unattractive and untalented."
—Eric Balfour on playing hubby to Eva Mendes in The Spirit. Yeah, if we had to go to work next to something like that, we'd hate it, too. Unfortunately for Eric, he didn't get the chance to kiss and makeup with sexy E. Catch the flick and you'll know why.
Paris Hilton fulfils her childhood fantasy
London, Dec 19 (IANS) Socialite heiress Paris Hilton has bought herself a pink Bentley car for Christmas worth an estimated $200,000. The singer-actress got the customised car as it fulfils her childhood fantasy of being just like her heroine Barbie doll, reports thesun.co.uk.
“I’ve just always wanted a pink car. I think when you’re a little girl and you have the Barbie corvette, you’re always like ‘Oh I wish I had a car like this one day’. So I think it just comes from being a fan of Barbie for so long,” she said.
Hilton added: “This is a car that I cannot drive every single day but I will be driving a lot.”
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