Artistic Advisor and Mistress of Ceremonies
Praised by Opera News for her “shimmering tones”, Jamie Chamberlin enjoys a diverse career as a soprano, producing artist, and sought-after interpreter of new works; notably, as Marilyn Monroe in the US Premiere of Gavin Bryars’ jazz-noir opera, Marilyn Forever at Long Beach Opera. Career highlights include the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Cunegonde in Candide, Lucy in The Telephone, and Hazel George in the US Premiere of The Perfect American by Philip Glass. In late 2020, Jamie debuted the role of Fiordiligi in the world premiere of COVID Fan Tutte with Pacific Opera Project: a drive-in production of Mozart’s treasured opera, with a new English libretto by Josh Shaw to reflect current times.
In collaborations with composer and rock legend Stewart Copeland (The Police), Jamie is celebrated for her “superhuman soprano”(Schmopera) in The Invention of Morel (Faustine), and Satan’s Fall (Raphaella); both premiered alongside husband, tenor Nathan Granner. The couple are co-creators and stars of Sing Out Loud! for LA Opera Connects, a vibrant web-series produced entirely from their home during the Global Pandemic.
A force in Southern California’s new music scene from the very start, Ms. Chamberlin made her professional debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, singing the soprano solo in the World Premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonenʼs Wing on Wing during the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Ms. Chamberlin created the powerhouse role of Elyn Saks in the World Premiere of Kenneth Wellsʼ The Center Cannot Hold (based on Saksʼ Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of the same title, chronicling her battle and victory over schizophrenia) at UCLA’s Center for Health Services and Society.
Chamberlin’s varied career includes her solo debut with LA Opera as the Cretan Woman in Idomeneo alongside opera legend Placido Domingo, and appearances with Chicago Opera Theatre, SF Opera, and The Pasadena Symphony and Pops under the baton of Michael Feinstein. Jamie is a Delos Recording Artist (Terrain of the Heart and Home is a Harbor), and her recognizable voice can be heard during the epic water ballet scene in the 2016 Coen Brothers film Hail, Caesar!
A respected and emerging figure in Arts Education, Jamie recently completed an Artist in Residency at Manchester University where she sang in the world premiere of Dominique Le Gendre’s orchestrated song cycle, Songs of the Islands. Jamie earned her BA and MM from UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, where she currently serves as Lecturer in Vocal Technique.
Jamie Chamberlin, soprano


Kansas City, Missouri’s Tech N9ne recently came out with a new album entitled Killer. With each new album Tech reaches more and more people and gets closer and closer to the mainstream. This album is the closest he has ever been. He is selling out shows all across the United States, hooking up with major rap stars, and even has had his video for Bout ta Bubble, from his last album, on MTV. His new album debuted at number 12 on the charts, a very respectable debut for someone who is independent in every sense of the word. He has not had any promotion on TV or radio for this album. All the promotion has been in interviews in magazines and his amazing performances at shows.
Tech N9ne is definitely rewriting the books on being an independent rap superstar. You need no look any further than Killer for proof. Ice Cube, Paul Wall, and Scarface are a few of the bigger names that appear on the two-disc album. You can even tell that Tech is reaching for the mainstream with his selection of beats on the album. It’s not his best album, but has several great songs in the 32 track set. The best song on the album, in my opinion, is a song in which Tech does what he does best. It’s a song in which Tech takes us on a trip into his psyche and let’s us into his deepest emotions. This song is about how he wishes he could cry just once. Everything would be better if he could cry and the tears could wash away all the bad things in his life. It’s a pretty deep song and it’s not every day you hear a rapper talk about crying, let alone wishing they could cry. Have a listen and purchase the album.


ESPN reported that Steelers star Ben Roethlisberger broke his jaw and nose in a motorcycle crash Monday. He was not wearing a helmet. According to ESPN Roethlisberger remained in serious but stable condition after seven hours of surgery. ESPN also reported that Roethlisberger’s brain, spine, chest and abdomen appear to be without serious injury. ESPN.com’s John Clayton has confirmed that Roethlisberger also suffered a 9-inch laceration to the back of his head, has lost or chipped a number of teeth and has minor injuries to his knees from hitting the pavement. This really underscores the importance of wearing a helmet when riding a motorcycle, riding a bicycle, skateboarding, rollerblading, snowboarding or skiing.
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Elton John played a tremendous concert in Lima last night and we at the office are sad to see him go. We at the office are trying to keep to keep him around just a little bit longer (beyond playing his music and taking turns playing the air piano), and so are posting this photo of the kitchen at his Los Angeles apartment. Architectural Digest was kind enough to to include this in their Celebrity Kitchens article, where among others, you will see where Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, Giada De Laurentiis and Angela Lansbury cook.
Now I don’t personally care for the bright green walls, but then again, I don’t live the same fabulous life that he and his partner do! Aside from that, I really love the clean, streamlined look of the kitchen, and love the dark wood floors. And don’t forget about that chandelier! What a great piece to snag from the hotel in Milan. Actually, the more I look at this kitchen, the more it reminds me of the monochrome kitchen featured in a previous post. Of course it is scaled down, but still similar, no? What do you think?


“When I became obsessed with going too fast or too slow, my ‘coach’ took over my programming,” he explained.
Ethan Suplee has surprised all the fans of My Name is Earl who lost track of him after giving life to Randy Hickey, the inseparable good-natured brother of the protagonist. And is that the actor, who is a regular on social networks, has long been showing his new passion for sports and healthy food that have made him radically change his appearance.
Recently, the interpreter of films such as American History X, The Wolf of Wall Street or Butterfly Effect, published an image showing off his exercised legs, his muscular arms and his marked abs.
The 44-year-old actor, who finished My Name Is Earl in 2009, explained that he had reached a weight of 243 kilos with a height of 1.82 meters. But now, after losing more than 100 kilos thanks to strict training, he has achieved a body fat index of 9% and has shown that he is proud of his healthy physique.
“Last year I set out to have visible abs, and this is where I’ve gotten to. This year I’d like to have a more pronounced oblique abs,” she assured in her Instagram post where she was showing off a great body.
Ethan Suplee also showed a comparison with a photo from 20 years ago and a current one. “I’ve lost weight with every diet I’ve been on for the past 20 years,” he wrote. “When I became obsessed with going too fast or too slow, Jared Feather [his coach] took over my programming and I couldn’t be more grateful to him.”


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Elizabeth Taylor is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She also is known for her love of jewelry and line of perfumes.Birth and familyElizabeth Taylor was born on February 27, 1932, as Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, in Hampstead, London. Elizabeth has an older brother, Howard Taylor.The family moved back to the United States when the United Kingdom entered World War II. They settled in Los Angeles, California, where her mother's family was living.A budding film careerElizabeth's first movie appearance was in There's One Born Every Minute, released in 1942 when she was nine years old. Her first movie with MGM was Lassie Come Home in 1943. Following a few more films, Elizabeth appeared in her first leading role in National Velvet in 1944 with Mickey Rooney. The film was a huge box-office hit, and she was signed to a long-term contract with MGM.Elizabeth attended school on the MGM lot and received a diploma from University High School in Los Angeles in 1950.A tumultuous personal lifeShe was married that year, at the age of 18, to hotel heir Conrad Hilton Jr. She has stated that she was happiest with Mike Todd and Richard Burton.Following Taylor's marriage to Richard Burton, she relinquished her American citizenship, but is a permanent resident of the United States. She received a green card and maintains her British passport.Film, television, and the stageTaylor was nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for Raintree County in 1957, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), and Suddenly, Last Summer in 1959. She finally took home the Oscar for her performance in Butterfield 8 in 1960. In 1963, Taylor became the highest-paid movie star up to that time, when she accepted $1 million to play the title role in the lavish production of Cleopatra for 20th Century Fox. She won the Best Actress Oscar again in 1966 for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.Taylor has appeared on television frequently. The most recent was a biography special, "Elizabeth Taylor: Facets" (2003). She also supplied the voice for Maggie on the "Simpsons."
She has also appeared on the stage. In 1982, she had a role in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, and in 1983 she appeared in Private Lives with Richard Burton.
Elegant enterprisesIt is well known that Elizabeth Taylor has a passion for jewelry. Two of her best-known pieces are the Krupp Diamond, weighing 33.19 carats, and the 69.42-carat Taylor-Burton Diamond, a gift from Richard Burton. In 2005, she partnered with Jack and Monty Abramov of Mirabelle Luxury Concepts of Los Angeles, to introduce the House of Taylor Jewelry.
Taylor also launched a perfume line, which includes “Passion," “White Diamonds,” and “Black Pearls." They command an estimated $200 million a year in sales.
A good heart and numerous honorsElizabeth Taylor established a AIDS foundation fund raiser, following the death of her long-time friend and co-star, Rock Hudson. By 1999, it helped to raise $50 million to fight the disease.Taylor has received numerous other awards, including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1992. In 1993, she received the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. In 1999, she was awarded a Dame Commander (DBE) by the British government and Queen Elizabeth II. Her hand- and footprints are immortalized in the front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, along with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2002. In 2005, Taylor received the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in International Entertainment.A host of health problemsIn November 2004, Taylor announced she had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure.* She has endured numerous other health problems, including breaking her back five times. She has survived a benign brain tumor operation, skin cancer, and has twice faced life-threatening bouts with pneumonia. Owing to those health issues, Taylor is now a recluse and no longer makes appearances. She is confined to a wheelchair as well.
Taylor currently resides in Bel Air, California, and has made plans to have her ashes spread over Wales. Wales is the homeland of her former husband, Richard Burton.
*A terminal condition in which the heart pumps an insufficient amount of blood throughout the body.
See also Marilyn Monroe.
The Truth About Elizabeth Taylor's Children
Elizabeth Taylor got married quite a few times. Over the course of her life, Taylor was a bride eight times, per ABC News. Two of those times, she said "I do" to Richard Burton, a romance which became a blueprint for celebrity romances and the inspiration for a questionable comeback-via-Lifetime movie for Lindsay Lohan. Taylor's personal life captured the public's attention so frequently that it almost overshadowed her career as an actress, even when she played opposite real-life romantic interests like Eddie Fisher and Burton.
For all of Taylor's liaisons, however, she had fewer children than you might expect. With her seven husbands, she produced four children: two sons with actor Michael Wilding, a daughter with producer Mike Todd, and a daughter that Taylor had adopted with Burton. While Taylor was a regular fixture in the media for most of her life, Taylor's children seemingly opted to live a more secluded life away from the prying eyes of the media.
In 1961, the Butterfield 8 star became gravely ill with pneumonia, requiring an emergency tracheotomy. "I was pronounced dead four times, so they could give me anything, just to see if they could make me breathe," Taylor later told Larry King of the incident in 2006. In 1990, the actress spent three months in the hospital with another near-fatal bout of pneumonia. She also endured a mild case in 2000.
Elizabeth Taylor's History with Mexico
Liz Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) had a long history with Mexico, Latina magazine points out. Some highlights:
Taylor married her third husband, producer Mike Todd, in Acapulco in 1957. It was the only one of her marriages not to end in divorce. In attendance were Debbie Reynolds and husband Eddie Fisher. When Todd was killed in a plane crash about a year later, Fisher comforted the widow — leading to one of the most famous home-wrecking scandales in Hollywood, and a particularly bitter Carrie Fisher.
Liz Taylor and Richard Burton set down roots in Puerto Vallarta after filming “The Night of the Iguana” (and having a torrid romance) nearby. They lived there in the pink Casa Kimberley for many years, and had a hand in putting the town on the map as chic Hollywood destination. Of special note: the little pink bridge that spanned from the house to another villa across the street. Rumor was, Burton would often be banished across it after one of the couple’s tumultuous fights.
Taylor and Burton became such a part of their community—even handing out gifts at Christmas time—that they were honored by Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez in Mexico City. Unfortunately, this was just months before their first divorce in 1974.
The Life Of The Ring
As we’ve said, the ring was made in 1968, shortly after Burton presented the diamond to Taylor. Taylor long described the ring as her favorite piece in her entire collection.
Taylor and Burton actually married twice. After they married in 1964 ended in divorce in 1974, the pair realized they needed each other. And so, they married again in 1975. This gave the engagement ring a little more validity as an actual engagement ring, rather than just another ring with a big diamond in it.
After they divorced again in 1976, Taylor sold several items from her collection that Burton had given her. These included the enormous Taylor-Burton diamond, which Burton bought from Cartier in 1969 for $1.12m. She chose to hang on to the engagement ring despite its modest size in comparison to the Taylor-Burton diamond. Although slightly bitter towards Burton at the time, she was adamant that where she went, the engagement ring would go with her.
The Trust and Its Other Beneficiaries
It wouldn't have been a surprise if Fortensky's interview with the Daily Mail had prompted Elizabeth Taylor's other beneficiaries to loosen their lips, too. But the estate settled peacefully. All other terms of her revocable living trust have remained private, just as they were intended to. It's rumored that the trust passed the majority of her assets to her children, grandchildren, and to various charities. It's also believed, according to Bloomberg Business, that Elizabeth Taylor's net worth at the time of her death was between $600 million and $1 billion.
The lesson to be learned from the course taken by Elizabeth Taylor regarding her estate is that if you want to keep the extent of your estate private, consider forming a revocable living trust just like she did—and caution your beneficiaries to keep their lips sealed after your death. When an estate doesn't pass through the court-supervised probate process, the outside world will never become privy to the details of one's financial situation.
All Liz’s Rings: A Brief History of Elizabeth Taylor’s Engagement Jewelry
Elizabeth Taylor is remembered for many things including her love for jewelry and her love for getting married. She said “I do” eight times. So what do you get for a girl who is a well-known jewelry lover? Here’s the list….
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Husband #1 – Conrad Hilton, 1950
Marrying a Hilton is a great start to collecting fabulous engagement jewelry, and Conrad didn’t disappoint. He gave the 18-year-old Taylor a 4-carat stone in a platinum setting. At the time, no one probably thought that this would become one of her less important pieces of jewelry.
Husband #2 – Michael Wilding, 1952
Taylor started a hot trend by sporting the sapphire engagement ring given to her by Wilding. Once pictures of Taylor wearing this ring surfaced, jewelry stores were swamped with requests for similar engagement rings.
Elizabeth Taylor April 1957 With Husband Mike Todd Showing Off Diamond Ring
Husband #3 – Mike Todd, 1957
When Mike Todd proposed to Taylor, he gave her one of the most incredible pieces of jewelry that she would ever own. The 29.4 carat emerald cut ring would be tough for future husbands to top. That might be why the next two husbands skipped the engagement ring altogether.
Husband #4 – Eddie Fisher, 1959
Perhaps wanting to avoid a comparison between his ring and the nearly 30-carat stunner she received from husband #3, Fisher instead gave Taylor a dazzling engagement bracelet with 50 diamonds.
Elizabeth Taylor 1970 Escorted by husband Richard Burton
Husband #5 – Richard Burton, 1964
Burton also thought giving Taylor something other than a ring was the way to go. He gave her a gorgeous 18.6 carat emerald pendant. The emerald was surrounded by diamonds and could also be worn as a pin.
Husband #6 – Richard Burton, 1975
After divorcing, Burton and Taylor decided to give it another go. This time he gave her some royal jewels. No, really. They belonged to royalty. Burton bought the emerald necklace set that had belonged to the Grand Duchess of Russia. This would long be one of Taylor’s favorite pieces. It should be noted that Burton also gave Taylor the famous Krupp diamond. This diamond is considered one of the most flawless. Burton bought the stone for $305,000. The ring containing the Krupp diamond sold at auction in 2011 for $8.9 million.
Husband #7 – John Warner, 1976
For engagement number 7, Taylor was given a very beautiful ring that included rubies, emeralds and diamonds. In Taylor’s case, it is not just diamonds that were a girl’s best friend.
Husband #8 – Larry Fortensky, 1991
It’s not likely that Taylor’s final husband gave her much bling. He was a construction worker that she met in rehab, so he wouldn’t have been able to compete with her former loves in the jewelry giving department. She wore a simple pave wedding band following her nuptials with Fortensky. The lavish wedding, which cost $2 million, was surely paid for by Taylor.
Taylor’s failed marriages are proof that beautiful jewelry can’t keep a relationship together. But at least she had some bling by which to remember her lost loves.
Taylor's Hour-Glass Figure Was Exaggerated
Taylor's face isn't the only attribute that science has found to be attractive.
"She combines that beautiful face with a very beautiful body, which is beautiful in a particular way," said Etcoff. "She's almost what we would call a super-normal stimulus, which means that her hourglass figure is exaggerated."
Taylor's two-time husband Richard Burton may have called the actress's breasts "apocalyptic" and able to "topple empires," she said, but they were paired with a tiny, little waist.
Science has shown that the the ideal waist-to-hip ratio is 0.7, she said, but Taylor's hourglass figure supposedly boasted a 0.6 ratio.
"You think of her as voluptuous, but that combined with a tiny waist made her exaggeratedly feminine and attractive," she said.
Stephen Link, a psychologist at the University of California San Diego, said his research has shown that there are even more mathematical ratios underlying Taylor's lauded looks.
In 2009, he and two colleagues, Pamela Pallett, now with Dartmouth College, and Kang Lee of the University of Toronto, tried to uncover the facial proportions in people considered to be most attractive.
"Your ideal feminine face is something that's been talked about for so long -- 'the face that launched a thousand ships,'" he said. "When you hear that, you conjure up a face, I wanted to measure what it was about that face that made it ideal."
They asked about 160 students to look at hundreds of faces with different proportions and discovered their "golden ratios": When the vertical distance between a woman's eyes and mouth was about 36 percent of the face's length, and when the horizontal distance between the eyes was about 46 percent of the face's width, the face was judged to be more attractive.
Link said Taylor was a perfect example.
"She was right there with the proportions of the beautiful face," he said. "Elizabeth Taylor was a great beauty and she has those proportions that are those of the ideal."
Of course, non-scientists are quick to point out that beauty is still in the eye of the beholder -- and the social context that shapes what they see.
Lois Banner, professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California and author of "American Beauty," said that while Taylor's natural looks certainly contributed to her fame, her image was also bolstered by smart publicity, heavy studio support and her many love affairs.
"Beauty is a quality, in someone of that great public stature, beauty is something that operates on all kinds of levels. It's not just the initial meeting the cultural expectations and standards for beauty," she said.
Burton: The Tempestuous Love of Her Life
5. Richard Burton: March 1964 - June 1974
and6. Richard Burton: Oct 1975 - Aug 1976
Their relationship is the stuff of legend. One of the most famous and turbulent duos in Hollywood history, Taylor and Burton met on the set of Cleopatra in 1962 -- both were married at the time -- and launched into a passionate affair. On their first meeting on the set, Burton said "Has anyone ever told you that you're a very pretty girl?" Taylor later recalled, "I said to myself, Oy gevalt, here's the great lover, the great wit, the great intellectual of Wales, and he comes out with a line like that."
So scandalous was their union that the Vatican denounced their relationship as an affront to morality. An undaunted Taylor said of their tempestuous relationship, "If Richard and I divorce, I swear I will never marry anyone again. I love him insanely." Their first marriage would be Taylor's longest, lasting a full decade.
In the interim between her marriages to Burton, Taylor was the companion to the Iranian ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. The relationship began while she was still with Burton -- both divorced their partners during the relationship -- and Taylor traveled with him to Tehran for a time. Ultimately, Shah Reza Pahlavi convinced Zahedi to end his affair with Taylor, and Taylor returned to Burton.
They would remarry 16 months after their divorce, in the Chobe National Park, Botswana. In 1964, the couple adopted a 3-year-old German girl they named Maria. The two starred in a number of films together, most notably in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" which was likened in the popular imagination to the couple's real-life marriage. The tumult of their stormy relationship, however, was exacerbated by Burton's drinking and within a year the couple would be divorced again. Burton would marry twice more before his death in 1984.
7. John Warner: December 1976 - November 1982
A World War II veteran, Republican politician and five-term Senator, Warner met Taylor on the Washington diplomatic circuit when he was serving as Nixon's secretary of the Navy. Despite being a lifelong Democrat, Taylor bucked her party to assiduously campaign for Warner in his first successful bid for senator of Virginia. He would hold the seat much longer than he would Taylor -- the couple divorced in 1982.
8. Larry Fortensky: Oct. 1991 - Oct. 1996
Taylor's last marriage was also her unlikeliest. She met the mullet-topped Fortensky -- a construction worker 20 years her junior -- when they were both doing a stint at the Betty Ford Clinic. The two were married at Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch. "This is it, forever," she said at the time. Five years later she would file for divorce.
Why Bulgari's Serpenti Design Is the Power Piece on Everyone&rsquos Wish List
The coveted motif now comes in more affordable everyday styles that might be within your budget.
Bulgari&rsquos iconic Serpenti design is the definitive power piece. The symbolic snake exudes a sense of seduction and boldness, and women have harnessed that spirit for decades.
When Charlize Theron arrived at the 2019 Oscars with a 75-carat diamond-studded Serpenti coiled around her neck and another on her wrist, it was clear that she ruled the red carpet with her vipers. The Serpenti can instill in its wearer a coolness, and it has been both a coveted and an instantly recognizable style for generations.
From Elizabeth Taylor, who famously wore her one-of-a-kind diamond Serpenti bracelet watch while filming Cleopatra in Rome in 1962, to fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland, who commissioned a colorful white and pink enamel Serpenti necklace that she also wore as belt, the reptile has appeared in countless variations. Even men like singer Kris Wu recognize the unabashed confidence that comes from a diamond Serpenti choker he wore one to big gala in Beijing.
&ldquoThe Serpenti is a symbol of power and seduction, but it is also transformative,&rdquo Bulgari&rsquos creative director Lucia Silvestri tells T&C. Just as the snake continuously sheds its skin, Bulgari&rsquos reptile is constantly evolving. It&rsquos newest iteration, the Serpenti Viper collection, offers everyday pieces that you can &ldquolive in&rdquo or wear stacked in multiples, like a coiled ring in gold ($1,450) and a version with diamonds ($4,650).
The new reptiles also improve upon the house&rsquos goldsmithing techniques, with softer, more supple coils. &ldquoThe Viper series features a more flexible modular construction that enable the jewels to naturally wrap around the body as a golden seductive second skin to wear on every occasion,&rdquo explains Silvestri.
Since the first Serpenti was designed during the 1940s, it has proven its relevancy by adapting to the times. The original design known as the Tubogas, inspired by flexible gas pipelines, was achieved with a bendable inner core (instead of a stiffly soldered piece). In the post-World War II years, brothers Giorgio and Constantino Bulgari used the modern Tubogas coils to create streamlined gold bracelet watches with dials in the shape of a reptile&rsquos head. In the 1950s, the sleek designs evolved into more extravagant reptiles embellished with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds.
Then, in the era of La Dolce Vita, Bulgari&rsquos famous store on Via dei Condotti in Rome served as a hub where the glamorous luminaries of the day, including Taylor and husband Richard Burton, came to shop and mingle with the Bulgari family. The Serpenti represented the house&rsquos playful bold spirit, and was showcased in large-scale jewelry and timepieces with dials cleverly concealed in the mouths of reptiles. New jewels were coated in vibrant enamel and studded with colorful cabochon-cut gemstones and diamonds.
Over the subsequent decades, the reptiles appeared in a range of styles, from bold gold pieces to abstract interpretations, which featured the snake&rsquos scales in stylized geometric patterns.
It&rsquos not surprising that Bulgari&rsquos most famous heritage design is the serpent, an animal motif that is especially significant in ancient Roman culture, representing fertility, rebirth, and protection against the evil spirits. Serpents are also one of the oldest and most famous mythological and theological symbols and have remained a source of fascination throughout history. Even the British royal family has been captivated by the snake: In 1839, Prince Albert gave his wife Queen Victoria a gold ring in the shape of a serpent with an emerald (her birthstone). Considered a sign of eternal love, the Queen cherished the ring so much that she was buried with it when she died.
Whether or not you believe in the symbolism of the serpent, there&rsquos no denying that Bulgari&rsquos Serpenti is an empowering design and now, it&rsquos offered in accessible and remarkably comfortable pieces that you can wear every day. And, if it delivers love or good luck, well that&rsquos all better.
Candid Pictures Reveal One of Elizabeth Taylor’s Lesser Known Roles: Being a Mother
Actress Elizabeth Taylor was a Hollywood legend who graced the big screen for decades in classics like Cleopatra and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. (Who can forget those stunning eyes?) But while she was under constant scrutiny, the famous mom was always careful to shelter her kids Michael Howard Wilding, Christopher Wilding, Liza Burton Tivey, and Maria Burton.
“She was this globetrotting beautiful siren who kept them out of the spotlight — she wasn’t pushing them onto TV shows as some famous parents do. There wasn’t a lot of use of her children in the media,” William J. Mann, author of How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (Buy on Amazon, $8.38), told ABCNews.
We’ll admit it was quite easy for all of us to forget that the glamorous actress mothered four children. However, her public image didn’t prevent her from being a supportive mom and friend to her kids in their times of need.
“She was more of the pal than the disciplinarian. She was the kind of mother who said, ‘I’m here if you want to talk to me.’” William also noted in his book, “She was only  when she had Michael, they weren’t that far apart in age, and she took that approach with all of them.”
Her close bond with her kids is obvious in these adorable photos below — and if it were up to us, we would have given her many “Mother of the Year” awards to go with all her Oscars.


Stanley Records is very happy to announce the signing of 2 extraordinary artists in Katie Brianna and Peta Caswell & The Lost Cause.
Katie Brianna was first “discovered” by Paul Kelly at the age of 15 and her last album was up for a Golden Guitar Award (her second nomination) but expect the unexpected when her new album arrives in September. The album is being produced by labelmate and frequent collaborator, Adam Young (ex-Daisygrinders, Big Heavy Stuff) and her song writing has never been stronger. Her band on the album features Young, as well as members of the Cruel Sea, the Re-Mains and Spurs For Jesus.
Peta Caswell’s surname may sound familiar. She is the niece of legendary Australian singer/songwriter, Allan Caswell, and talent definitely runs in the family. Peta appeared on last year’s ground-breaking Take Me To Town compilation and when many were asked what their favourite tracks on the album were, Peta’s name was the most frequent response and she received a wealth of airplay as a result. The band’s soulful alternative country rock sound is the perfect accompaniment for Peta’s powerhouse voice. The self-titled EP from Peta Caswell & The Lost Cause drops May 3, with the debut album following early in 2020.


Werner Schroeter's Operatic Cinema
Film and Media Studies
Social Influence and Political Communication
Writing about Werner Schroeter and his recent film The Kingdom of Naples (1978), Rainer Werner Fassbinder announced that "Germany thus has not only three or five or ten film directors to offer, Germany has one who has certainly been absent." Indeed, as Fassbinder knows so well, there is a certain amount of irony in this belated recognition since Schroeter has been not only the contemporary of the more celebrated German filmmakers but, in many respects, their mentor. Born in 1945, Schroeter was a seminal presence in the new wave of German cinema since its inception. He has appeared as an actor in several films, including Fassbinder's Beware of the Holy Whore; and, in Syberberg's Ludwig, he is cited, along with Rosa von Praunheim, as one of the most revolutionary artists of the age. The scope of his presence, however, extends well beyond the commercially obvious: his university training in psychology, his continuing work in theater and opera, and the politics of his homosexual perspective, all have contributed to the radical insight and influential resonances of his films from Eika Katappa (1969) to Palermo or Wolfsburg (winner of the 1980 Berlin Golden Bear award).


How come a white kid from Kansas City got
the best known rapper in the world? Starting from nowhere
and eventually ascending to a billionaire, Eminem on the
The last seven years it has been in the public eye everywhere.
you look. He’s basically gone into a black man’s business and
rose to the top over the course of a few years, but how?
On October 17, 1972, Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born in St.
Joseph, MO by his 15-year-old mother Debbie. Six months later
his father was gone and this started the fight for Marshall and
his mother; one that was just the beginning. During the
During his childhood, Marshall and his mother moved to numerous
times in different houses from Kansas City to Detroit. Tea
The maximum time spent in a home was only 3 months, which caused
Marshall to attend many different schools, making it difficult
cope with different environments and make friends. Every new
school he attended he was bullied as he was the new kid. This
It was something I couldn’t change as it was never destined
in a school for a long period of time. At the age of 12, he and
her mother eventually settled into a house in Detroit. He would do
later, she will use the bullying to his advantage to push him back
to all his bullies through songs.
By the age of 4, Marshall was already starting to rap and put
words together that rhyme. In school he was quite successful
considering the circumstances, but it was lunchtime when
He enjoyed himself as he often fought his schoolmates through free styles. TO
At the age of 14, Marshall began to get serious about rap and
felt he had a chance in business. When i get to
ninth grade failed him three times before finally falling
because he felt that school was not for him.
When he turned 17 he came up with the name M&M for himself for
combining the first letters of your first and last name, which
later it was changed to Eminem. Now that I didn’t have a school like
a distraction, he focused solely on rapping with the goal of
reaching the top. He faced a constant struggle on the way to
stardom as he was continually shunned by most rappers because
of his race, despite his true talent. This grew anger within
the one he uses in his music today. Knowing it wasn’t
it was going to be easy and he would have to work, Marshall forced
himself on radio shows and freestyle battles to prove
all wrong. He finally got a first album titled
“Infinite”, but only sold 1,000 copies. It wasn’t until 1997
that Marshall would make a name for himself.
In 1997 he was married and had a son who was trying to support his family.
with very little cash to do so. Went to rap
Olympics in Los Angeles hoping to win the $ 1,500 cash prize
in the first place, but was instead discovered by some sponsors of
Interscope. Furious at having come in second place, he later ran into
about the sponsors and gave them a copy of the “Infinite”
tape, which was then sent to Dr. Dre. Dre was extremely
impressed with Eminem’s talent and got in touch with him,
where the two recorded their second album; The LP Slim Shady.
This album set the tone for his rap style, as he lashed out
about everyone who had harassed him throughout his life. Was a
a different style than anyone had ever heard, which led him to
Eminem is by far the most popular rapper seen the most in
public. He’s been seen on Rap Pages, VIBE, Rolling Stone,
Spin, The Source, URB and Stress and keep living for
more. He became the first white person to appear on the cover.
from the source. Throughout his life he has starred in the film
“8 Mile”, based on his life growing up, has had more than 20 guests.
television appearances, has appeared on numerous different rappers
CD’s, and has recorded 5 own CD’s. His second LP, “The
Marshall Mathers LP “, sold more than 8 million records in the United States.
States only, 1.76 million copies in the first week establishing a
album for a solo artist. This album became the first rap album.
It was never nominated for “Album of the Year” at the Grammys. Hears
would win 3 Grammy Awards for the album that night. In the
2002 earned $ 29 million in earnings from his fourth album
“The Eminem Show LP” and on tour for him. Then on March 23, 2003
the song “Lose Yourself” from his movie “8 Mile” became the
first rap song to win an Oscar.
Although he is known for his explicit and horrendous behavior
lyrics in their albums and in the eyes of the public, it is
hard to overlook all that he has accomplished. From
where it did and going up to where it is currently, is
remarkable what he has done not only for himself, but for rap
world too. While it is difficult for most to like you, there are
not many who do not respect him at least for what he has
achieved from now on, and what you can do in the future.
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Source: Just It 30 December 1926, p.17. Courtesy of the Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
Louise LovelyLouise Lovelyi(A82572 works by)(birth name: LouiseCarbasse)
Born:Established:28 Feb 1895Paddington,Kings Cross area,Inner Sydney,Sydney,New South Wales,;Died:Ceased:18 Mar 1980Hobart,Southeast Tasmania,Tasmania,
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The daughter of Italian musician Ferruccio Carlo Alberti, and his Swiss wife Elise Louise Jeanne de Gruningen Lehmann, Louise Alberti made her professional acting debut at age nine (billed as Loise Carbasse) in a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Lyceum Theatre, Sydney). By the age of 15 she had secured a contract with the George Marlow Dramatic Company and soon afterwards appeared in the first of nine films for the Life Biograph company. During this period she also briefly appeared in vaudeville with her husband, fellow actor Wilton Welch. The couple married when Carbasse was just sixteen.
Sometime during the years 1913-1914 Carbasse and Welch moved to the USA, where they undertook various theatrical opportunities, including vaudeville. In 1915 Carbasse secured a Hollywood contract with Universal Studios and made her American film debut (as Louise Carbasse) alongside Lon Chaney in Father and the Boys in 1915. She starred with Chaney again in several other films including her next release Stronger Than Death (1915) and The Gilded Spider and Tangled Hearts (both 1916). Briefly credited as Louise Welch (for Dolly's Scoop, 1916) Carbasse was given the new surname, Lovely, by the head of Universal, Carl Laemmle. It was with that name that she became an international star. In all she appeared in more than 50 Hollywood films between 1915 and 1921 - 36 for Universal (1915-1918) and the rest with Fox Studios (1918-1921).
In 1922 Lovely returned to Australia where she performed in vaudeville on the Tivoli circuit. She returned to the screen in 1926, co-writing, producing and directing her final film, Jewelled Nights. Around this time her marriage to Wilton Welch disintegrated, and the two eventually divorced. Lovely retired to Hobart, Tasmania, where she married cinema manager Bert Cowan in 1930.


Like Rain, Like Music (비처럼 음악처럼) and One Rainy Evening (비오는 어느 저녁) are from Kim Hyun Sik III, the third album of Kim Hyun Sik (김현식, 1958-1990). These songs and the album are now considered a classic in Korean popular music, the album ranking at number 13 of the all time best albums compiled by the Kyunghyang Daily News.
Kim is one of the greatest singers Korea has ever had, known for vocal prowess and interpretation of music. Memorable music and the short lived fame made him a legend in Korea.
Like Rain, Like Music
비오는 어느 저녁
One Rainy Evening
Kim Hyun Sik is probably the most respected singer of the 80s. He was a musician through and through, giving all he’s got to music until the last moment of his life. Through his dedication and talent he enriched the Korean music scene tremendously and influenced many others.
His music may be categorized as a bluesy rock, with a good dose of Korean traditional slow tunes commonly called trot (트로트), similar to Japanese Enka. He had a rich timbre which he honed to perfection, and a canny sense to interpret and improvise for the greatest emotional impact, with a very skillful ad-libbing to boot. All these combined to create songs that had a direct and raw appeal to your heart and which seemed to transcend all the musical trappings. He is certainly one of the best all around singers, and probably the very best when it comes to Korean style blues ballads. Kim Hyun Sik III, which is considered his best album, contains some of the finest of his songs.
Like Rain, Like Music is on the more refined side of Kim’s songs, with a controlled and measured delivery. In a mood of composed sadness, he delivers the emotions of rueful recollection with sublime beauty.
One Rainy Evening is typical of his songs, belting out the pathos in all his soulful outpourings. He is right in his element here, in a territory he loves best.
But alas, Kim Hyun Sik might have been too deeply absorbed in his music, as he had a wild, unrestrained lifestyle with little concern for anything outside of music. He drank heavily and had a temperamental disposition, so that control of emotional and behavioral excesses was relegated to the periphery of his mind. Wild stories of brawls and other mishaps abound. All these vices finally caught up with him and his health deteriorated rapidly toward the end of the 80s. Eventually cirrhosis got the better of him from all the booze and abusive ways. Even then he continued to preoccupy himself only with his music, making a precarious excursions out of the hospital to record songs, or singing into a tape recorder microphone on his sickbed. He passed away in November of 1990, leaving some of the most heartfelt songs he made while death was looking at him squarely in the face.
Kim’s was one of the sad entertainer stories of the 90s, which there seemed to be all too many.


The first time you listen to Elis Regina, you are overwhelmed by the emotion with which she sings. You can hear her smile and feel her joy. Her intense energy is palpable. The power and attack of her technique spellbinds the listener. Elis interprets every song in her own unique way, with raw and honest emotion. This is especially evident when she sings ballads and sad songs of saudade. Her voice trembles as the tears stream down her face. She truly feels every song and draws in the listener like no other singer can.
Sadly, you will be hard pressed to find her name on lists recognizing the greatest singers of all time. This amazing singer did not achieve international fame, in part because she was first and foremost a Brazilian. She loved her country and was dedicated to her people, but her appeal is not limited to them. Her tremendous talent was a gift that people around the world continue to discover and enjoy.
Born to a working class family in Porto Alegre on March 17, 1945, Elis Regina Carvalho Costa shot to fame at an early age, singing on the radio for the first time when she was just 11 years old. She signed her first professional contract at age 13 and recorded her first album Viva a Brotolândia (Long Live Teenage-Land) in 1961 at age 15. (Listen to Tú Serás)
Elis recorded two more albums in her hometown, Poema (listen to Pode Voltar) in 1962 and O Bem do Amor in 1963. She moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father in 1964, just before Golpe de 64, the coup d’état that led to the overthrow of President João Goulart by the Brazilian armed forces, achieved with the backing of the United States government and involvement of the CIA. This was the beginning of a brutal and repressive military dictatorship that would last until 1985. During this 20 year period, numerous Brazilian writers, musicians and intellectuals were imprisoned or exiled.
Elis Regina’s arrival in Rio de Janeiro also coincided with the decline of bossa nova, which had already peaked in popularity. Bossa nova, which means “new trend,” had arisen in the 1950s as a counterpoint to the traditional dominance of the samba. Bossa nova is considered cool and was heavily influenced by American jazz. In contrast, Elis Regina was a “hot,” emotional singer, and although she was firmly in the jazz milieu, her approach did not readily lend itself to bossa nova. Through her style and reaction to the volatile conditions in Brazil at that time, Elis would go on to write a new chapter in Brazilian popular music, not only because of her unique approach, but also because she introduced a wealth of new songs and composers to the Brazilian music scene throughout her career.
Elis gained national recognition in 1965 at the First Festival of Popular Music aired live on Excelsior TV, where she sang Arrastão (Trawling Net), written by Edu Lobo and Vinícius de Moraes. Elis skillfully rendered this song into a subtle protest against the military dictatorship, running the risk of censorship and disqualification. Her rendition resonated with the Brazilian people; Elis won the festival and firmly established herself in the pantheon of Brazilian music. Here is an excerpt from this performance:
It was around this time that Elis received the nickname “Pimentinha” (little pepper) from Vinícius de Moraes, Brazil’s poet laureate and one of the three giants who created bossa nova, in recognition of her boundless energy and fiery personality. She also became known as “Furação” (hurricane) because of her strength and temper. As with anyone who lived so passionately and emotionally, Elis was a true force to be reckoned with, and this sometimes made her difficult to work and live with. At the age of 20, she had already become a household name and her face was featured on a number of prominent Brazilian magazines, the fulfillment of her lifelong dream and the benchmark by which she measured success.
In 1965, Elis moved to São Paulo and starred in a show alongside singer Jair Rodrigues. Some of her performances with Jair are included on Samba Eu Canto Assim, and featured on the Dois na Bossa album series, all of which are on the Philips label and highly recommended as an entry point into the world of Elis Regina. These early recordings demonstrate the exciting technical prowess and dexterity she possessed. (Listen to Pot-porri (Medley))
That same year, Elis became the highest paid singer in the history of Brazil, earning six million cruzeiros a month (the next highest paid singer had been Agostinho de Santos, who earned 800,000 cruzeiros a month). She went on to record six more albums before the decade was over. These included Elis, Como Porque in 1969, which featured as its first track the unofficial national anthem of Brazil, Aquarela do Brasil (Watercolor of Brazil). This particular song highlights one of Elis’ talents: interpretation. Elis did not write the music or lyrics of the songs she sang, but she listened to a wide range of songs from a variety of composers and had knack for picking out repertoires for each studio recording or live show that expressed how she felt and what she wanted to say at that time.
Other albums from 1969 include Elis in London, made with English conductor and composer Peter Knight (listen to Você) as well as an album recorded in Sweden with Belgian jazz musician Toots Thielemans on guitar and harmonica (Elis & Toots). Here they are performing Wave:
While traveling in Europe in 1969, Elis was quoted in a Dutch newspaper as saying the Brazilian government was “made up of gorillas.” The Brazilian embassy sent the newspapers to the Serviço Nacional de Informações (National Information Service), akin to the Department of Homeland Security or NSA in the U.S. today. The Brazilian government threatened to arrest Elis, but the uproar that would have resulted due to her immense popularity may have been what saved her from this fate.
In 1970, Elis released Em Pleno Verão (listen to Fechado pra Balanço) and an album recorded live at the Praia Theatre in São Paulo featuring actor Luís Carlos Miele that included a wonderful song by Gilberto Gil called Aquele Abraço. This album provides an example of Elis’ ability to sing in languages other than Brazilian Portuguese. She also sang fluently and without an accent in French and English, as you can hear in her luscious rendition of Can’t Take My Eyes Off You by Frankie Valli.
In 1971 the album Ela was released (listen to Aviso aos Navegantes). In 1972, she recorded the first of three different albums entitled Elis. The 1972 version featured what would become one of her signature songs, Atrás da Porta (Behind the Door) by Francis Hime and Chico Buarque, as well as a personal favorite of mine called Olhos Abertos. The second Elis, recorded in 1973, is one of my favorite Elis Regina recordings overall. You can listen to the entire album here.
Despite her opposition to the political situation during this period, Elis sang the Brazilian national anthem at the Olimpíadas do Exército (Army Olympics), a celebration for the military forces during Semana da Pátria (Patriot Week). She was criticized for this, notably by the influential cartoonist and writer Henrique Filho, popularly known as “Henfil,” who said “if people didn’t resist the [government] pressure, how were we ever going to secure this country?” She later revealed that she had been coerced to participate, possibly as retribution for her “gorilla” comment back in 1969.
In 1974, Elis recorded Elis é Tom with Antonio Carlos Jobim (known in Brazil simply as “Tom”). The album begins with Águas De Março, which in 2001 was voted the all-time best Brazilian song in a poll of more than 200 Brazilian journalists. This album went on to become one of the best-selling and most popular Brazilian music albums of all time. It is an absolute must-have for the Brazilian music aficionado.
The third album titled Elis was released in 1974. This is another excellent album (listen to O Mestre-Sala dos Mares (The Master of the Seas)). Elis said she had finally “fallen in love with her voice and was really on a roll, culminating in the Falso Brilhante live show and resulting in a 1976 album of the same name. This was a conceptually complex show that in places surreptitiously criticized the military junta. Here is the full performance:
In 1977, Elis released a fourth self-titled LP (listen to Morro Velho). In 1978, she launched a new live show called Tansversal do Tempo, which yielded a live album and fortunately, video recordings:
One of the many highlights of her career was when she performed at the 1979 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. She and the band were extremely nervous, and she almost lost her nerve on stage. As the band played her intro and she was vocalizing to warm up back stage, the crowd overheard her and started cheering. She was overwhelmed with emotion and nearly unable to sing as she choked back the tears. She later explained, “I remembered that I was the daughter of a cleaning lady. What was I doing on that stage?” Fortunately, she regained her composure and after her performance ended, received an 11-minute standing ovation.
This was as close as she ever got to international fame and recognition. There was a failed attempt at making a record with American jazz musician Wayne Shorter. Had this worked out, it may have catapulted her to a wider audience outside Brazil. Certainly her music, while quintessentially Brazilian, also has universal appeal. Elis was a proud Brazilian who cared about her country and its people. This is evident in her belief that “Both Brazil and the world are full of excellent singers. I’m not interested in being an extraordinarily good singer. I just want to use the gift that Mother Nature gave me to diminish, by using it, the anguish of someone. This idea is what can give meaning to my work.”
One of her greatest attempts to diminish anguish came in 1979 with her recording of the song O Bêbado E A Equilibrista (The Drunk and the Tightrope Walker). This song became an anthem for the amnesty of Brazilians exiled by the military government. It was included on an album titled Elis, Essa Mulher. The cartoonist Henfil remembers hearing her rendition and realizing “she was singing more with emotion than with technique, I was overwhelmed. When the song ended, I realized that the amnesty would take place. We were at the beginning of the campaign, and could barely get five hundred people out in the street…I realized something: the dictatorship, the government would realize that after this song, no one could prevent the moment of amnesty. I wrote to my brother Betinho [who was in exile at that time] and told him to get ready: Now we have a hymn. And whoever has a hymn, has a revolution.”
In 1980, a new decade began with a new show called Saudade do Brasil that yielded a double album that was later sold as two separate recordings. Here is the full show:
In 1981, Elis created a new show called Trem Azul, and the album of the same name includes the track Alô Alô Marciano, which she used in live performances to showcase her sense of humor and vocal playfulness, as well as her impression of Louis Armstrong. After two failed marriages many ups and downs and more success than failure, Elis was at the peak of her abilities and she was laser-focused on her next steps. She was planning her third marriage and already putting together the repertoire for a new show as she continued to move full steam ahead at the end of 1981.
I have tried to focus on Elis Regina the singer by providing a chronological introduction to her major works peppered with links to songs and video clips I hope the reader will take the time to explore. Much has been written elsewhere about her strong personality and tumultuous personal life, but that is not focus of this essay, which abruptly ends here. It ends here, because this is where Elis ends. She died suddenly on January 19, 1982, at 36 years of age, allegedly from a fatal combination of alcohol and cocaine. The news of her death shocked and devastated her family, friends and nearly everyone in Brazil.
This may ultimately be the reason the name Elis Regina remains unknown in the wider world, and yet, 34 years after her death, she continues to touch people like us who discover her, forever alive through her musical legacy. She was a spark that lit the fire of hope and freedom, a testament to the power of music’s ability to move the hearts and minds of people everywhere.
Robert St-Louis, who translated the biography Furacão Elis into English, remarks that “Shortly after she died, a newspaper paid homage by publishing a caricature of her at the microphone, casting a shadow on the wall behind her; but instead of her shadow, it was the outline of Brazil that was projected. She was the soul of Brazilian popular music, and her death has left a void that can never be filled. In a way, this void serves to remind us of the great talent that breathed so much life into 20 years of recorded and stage music.”
Note: Many of the quotes and details in this essay came from Furacão Elis by Regina Echeverria. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about Elis Regina.


Matchbook Company, a talent consulting and communications firm that represents Janie Bryant, Costume Designer of Mad Men, Soyon An, Stylist for American Idol, Sophia Banks Coloma, celebrity stylist for young Hollywood, Amy Tara Koch, Author and Style expert for new moms, and Randall Christensen, Costume Designer of “Dancing with the Stars“ for 11 seasons, has newly announced representation of best selling New York Times author, TV personality and Business Strategist Carol Roth.
As part of her professional lifestyle efforts, Carol has started speaking and writing on the topic of "The Fashion of Business and the Business of Fashion." Carol appears regularly on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN, The Willis Report and Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, and Tom Sullivan on MSNBC. Additionally, Carol’s blog was recently named as one of the Top 10 small business blogs by Communique PR and in 2011, she was named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by SmallBizTrends.com.
Matchbook is currently seeking brand collaborations in fashion and beauty for Carol.


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DJ Funkshion Tributes – Chic & Nile Rodgers
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and arranger.
The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced and performed on albums that have cumulatively sold more than 500 million units and 75 million singles worldwide.
He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, and the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for his “chucking” guitar style, Rolling Stone wrote in 2014 that “the full scope of Nile Rodgers’ career is still hard to fathom“.
13 Fonzi Thornton – I’ll Change My Game Ft Chic (Previously Unreleased) is a masterpiece and is KILLING it
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01 Chic – What About Me (Previously Unreleased Outtake)
02 Chic – Funny Bone (Previously Unreleased Outtake)
03 Johnny Mathis – Something To Sing About You (Previously Unreleased)
04 Chic – Stage Fright
05 Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You (Dimitri Form Paris Remix)
06 Diana Ross – Upside Down (Original Chic Mix)
07 Diana Ross – Im Coming Out (Original Chic Mix)
08 Chic – Good Times
09 Debbie Harry – Backfired (12 Inch Version)
10 Chic – Chic Cheer
11 Fonzi Thornton – I Work For A Living (Nile Rodgers Long Version)
12 Sheila And B Devotion – Your Love Is Good (Previous Unreleased Outtake)
13 Fonzi Thornton – I#ll Change My Game Ft Chic (Previously Unreleased)
14 Chic – Rebels Are We
15 Chic – I Want Your Love (Dimitri Form Paris Remix)
16 Chic – Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah) (12 Inch Mix)
17 Chic – Hangin’
18 Sister Sledge – Lost In Music (Dimitri Form Paris Remix)
19 Chic – Will You Cry (Previously Unreleased)
20 Chic – At Last I Am Free
DJ Funkshion Tributes – Kate Bush
This mix is dedicated to J, J & M. Lovely folks. You know who you are. Made this one using lots of loving, clever made software and my human instincts. Arrrrrgh, listening to 10 Blow Away finally brought tears to my eyes. Sooooooooo beautiful.
Catherine Bush CBE (born 30 July 1958 is an English singer, songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. In 1978, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single “Wuthering Heights”, becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song.
Bush has since released 25 UK Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hits “The Man with the Child in His Eyes”, “Babooshka”, “Running Up That Hill”, “Don’t Give Up” (a duet with Peter Gabriel), and “King of the Mountain”.
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Arin Ilejay was the third drummer for Avenged Sevenfold after Mike Portnoy left. His real name is Richard Arin Ilejay. He was born on February 17, 1988 in Palmdale, California, and is 29 years old. After he left the band in 2015, he was replaced by Brooks Wackerman of Bad Religion fame.
Richard played drums for the bands, "Tear the Sails" and "Confide" before he started playing drums for Avenged Sevenfold in early 2011. He replaced Mike Portnoy who filled in for Avenged Sevenfold's original drummer, The Rev. Arin recorded the drum track for "Not Ready to Die", "Carry On", and the album Hail to the King since he first joined the band. Despite the passing of a great friend and fantastic drummer, and the struggle to find a drummer that suits The Rev's qualities, members of Avenged Sevenfold have said they had been getting along nicely with Arin and enjoy having him in the band. Arin became an official member of Avenged Sevenfold on August 10, 2013, in Montreal, Canada on their promotional Hail to the King Tour. On July 23, 2015, it was announced that Avenged Sevenfold would part ways with Arin. The reason cited was "creative differences" (due to a generational age gap). Since leaving Avenged, he has joined the band Islander.
- Shout the Truth (2008)
- Hail to the King (2013)
- Power Under Control (2016)


Tags: Actor, Actriz, cine, Director, International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Nominados, Oscar, películas, tv
Next March 4th, the Academy will hand out awards to the most outstanding individuals in today’s film industry, a tradition it has upheld since 1929. Some nominees are seasoned pros, while others are young and promising new actors. This year, I’d like to draw your attention to those actors who got their start on TV, but now find themselves as nominees for some of the Academy’s most important awards:
Actress in a Leading Role:
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
This 41-year-old British actress began working mostly in theater, with some short stints on BBC dramas, including Casualty and Doctors, both involving hospital stories.
Her role as Elisa Esposito in The Shape of Water earned her a nomination in the category for best actress. In the film, she plays a mute cleaning lady at a laboratory, where she encounters a strange being with whom she initiates a secret relationship.
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
This U.S. native began her career in theater, where she consolidated herself as a professional actress. She participated in several TV series, including an episode of The Simpsons, where she was the voice of Melanie Upfoot. However, most of her work has been in film, and she received her first Oscar in 1996 for Fargo (1996), a film by the Coen brothers.
In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, she plays a mother seeking justice for her daughter’s murder, which the authorities in Ebbing, Missouri, have been unable to solve. To challenge them, she rents three billboards which briefly describe the situation her daughter fell victim to.
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
This 27-year-old Australian actress got her start in commercials, which evolved into playing roles on TV programs in her home country. Her most notable participation was in Neighbours, where she played Donna Freedman, a fashion designer. This role earned her a Logie Award, given to the best in Australian TV.
In I, Tonya, she plays Tonya Harding, a promising ice skater in the mid-90s who was barred from skating after an incident with Nancy Kerrigan. Her performance earned her a nomination for best actress.
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Saoirse’s career began back in 2003 with the Irish production The Clinic, a drama that takes place inside a hospital and tells the stories that happen there; however, it was her roles in film that earned her three nominations for best actress.
In Lady Bird, she plays Christine McPherson, a young woman searching for her identity. This search brings her into constant conflict with authority figures, especially her mother. She wants to go to college and move out of Sacramento, where the story is set.
Meryl Streep in The Post
Meryl, with her long career in Hollywood, began acting first in theater and then on the big screen, but she also had several roles in TV series; Soon, she will be joining the cast of Big Little Lies (HBO). Her work is renowned, and Meryl is the most-nominated actress in Oscar history.
In The Post, she plays the director of The Washington Post, who, alongside co-worker Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks), starts a legal battle with the U.S. government over the publication of secret files.
Actor in a Leading Role:
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
He began his career in theater and small British productions made for TV, but he is most recognized for his work in Hollywood.
In Darkest Hour he plays Winston Churchill, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination.
Timothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
At 22 years old, Timothee has been nominated for best actor. His first roles were in short films and a handful of TV series’ episodes, including Law & Order and Homeland, where he is most well-known for his role as Finn Walden.
In Call Me by Your Name, he plays Elio Perlman, an upper-class young man known for being a book-lover and music prodigy. When Oliver, invited by his professor (Elio’s father), comes to spend the summer at his house, a mutual attraction leads them to start a romantic relationship.
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Tread
This British actor began his career on TV shows produced by the BBC, but he is most well-known for his work in theater and film. He was nominated for several awards in 1989 for his role in My Left Foot, where he plays a young Irish artist with motor-skills’ disabilities caused by cerebral palsy.
Phantom Tread tells the story of Reynolds Woodcock (played by Daniel), a designer with obsessive-compulsive tendencies who falls in love with a young waitress, and their unconventional romance.
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Kaluuya, a British actor, was trained in theater, but has played several roles in TV series including Dr. Who, Babylon and Black Mirror. His role in Get Out, classified as a horror film, earned him a nomination for best actor.
In Get Out, he plays Chris, a young man invited to spend the weekend with his girlfriend and her family, when he starts to notice strange events that will change the course of his life forever.
Denzel Washington in Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Like many others on this list, he got his first acting jobs in New York theater. In 1982, he played Dr. Chandler for six seasons on the soap opera St. Elsewhere. In 1987, he started working in Hollywood films that consolidated his career as a top actor. This award would be his third Oscar.
The film he is nominated for tells the story of lawyer Roman Israel, who is fired after years spent working at the same firm. Unemployment forces him to make decisions that lead to big changes in his life.
Who will win this year? Click here to see a list of 2017’s most important nominations:
Call Me by Your Name
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan
Get Out, Jordan Peele
Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig
Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Lesley Manville, Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water


Following the development of British star Eddie Redmayne’s finest star winnings during the 2015 Oscars, we glance at the reason why he makes the most eligible bachelor around. All right, so he might have married his future gf Hannah Bagshawe a year ago, but we could dream!
1. He’s Hollywood royalty. Successful Best star during the Oscars features cemented Eddie Redymane’s position in highest quantities of Hollywood fame and vital recognition.
2. He understands actual royalty. Eddie was at the same 12 months as Prince William at Eton college or university.
3. Their boyish apperance. Eddie turned 33 in January this season but looks a lot younger than his many years. He’s got also modelled for deluxe trend tag Burberry double â in 2008 and 2012.
4. He’s flexible. From playing an all-singing French revolutionary to portraying a genius struggling with a degenerative disease, Eddie Redmayne has taken on their show of varied and tough functions.
5. He’s a snappy dresser. In 2015 he had been named primary in GQâs very top 50 best dressed Uk males.
6. He is able to tell their Matisse from their Mone night standst. Eddie learned reputation of Art at Cambridge University.
7. The man can sing. Eddie 1st showcased their beautiful singing vocals in 2012’s music adaptation Les MisÃ©rables alongside some significantly less well-received stars.
8. He is buddies with Tom Hiddleston AND Benedict Cumberbatch. Adequate stated.
9. His British-ness. Through the cut-glass accent towards razor-sharp three-piece suits, Eddie Redmayne is all the traditional English gentleman.
10. The guy actually amazed Stephen Hawking. Their Oscar-winning overall performance of Stephen Hawking in 2014’s the idea of Everything directed the guy themselves to comment: “at instances, I imagined it absolutely was me”. High praise undoubtedly.
Picture credit: Jake Chessum


but how does Harry go from insanely posh
to indie rocker
50 shades of harry
this reminds me of something
he might have the face of a baby, but he’s sure got one hell of a hot bod.
WARNING: THIS POST MIGHT CAUSE SEVERE OVARIES EXPLOSION.
louis and harry
thats it, really.
Best comeback still goes to Niall Horan
What they want you to see
What it’s really like
But Harry’s nipples I-
harry really likes to sing this part of rock me to louis
but like he doesn’t just move his hips like Liam and Niall
he adds a fucking tiny thrust in there. Experienced hips is all I’m saying
and Harry is luccccccccccky just grind on each other already for christ’s sake


Alexander McQueen was an amazing designer, and even though he passed away in 2010 his legacy lives on. His extremely creative, bizarre, and strange taste has taken over the runways. Most of his runway fashion will not be seen on the street, but his street wear is just as fabulous as his runway style--little quirks and flares can be seen on even the most basic Alexander McQueen designs.
At first glance, Alexander McQueen might seem to be your typical British gay man, but he was so much more. He is best known for is work with Givenchy and his own company (Alexander McQueen), which was established in 2007. His catwalks are known worldwide as being seriously outrageous, and a little on the dark side.
Alexander McQueen is definitely one of my favorite designers, and I am happy with the direction that the designers that have taken over since his passing are going in.


A handful of the many rave reviews Scott has received:
For Scott, From one funny guy to a funnier one. Love! Carl Reiner
Scott Wyler was incredible and we went to every show as well.
We’ve seen Scott Wyler perform before and saw him again this cruise. I think he’s great! He’s supposedly the highest-rated comedian in the Princess fleet and I believe it.
Comedy movies used to be billed, “a laugh a minute”. Scott Wyler beats that by a factor of about 5 to 1. He has the audience hanging and laughing on practically every line he utters! We saw him on a Princess Alaska cruise and eagerly bought his CD after the show. We get lots of laughs every time we play it.
Comedian Scott Wyler was the best part of the cruise very funny.
We loved the comedian, Scott Wyler and went to all his shows, he was very funny.
The entertainment was spectacular, especially the husband and wife team of Tamika, and also Scott Wyler the comedian, don’t miss his act. Most people who saw his first show went to his other two shows. Each was original and hysterical.
Scott Wyler is the best!!! Don’t miss him and go to each of his shows!! He had me laugh so hard my stomach hurt!!!
Scott Wyler was hilarious. Best comic I’ve ever seen actually, including the famous ones on TV/movies.
Comedian Scott Wyler (hysterically funny).
I hope that when you are on the C, Scott Wyler is still the comedian – he is hilarious. He did three shows (including a midnight, adult show), and they were all excellent.


The life stories of celebrities are often well known. It’s finding the untold, ‘essence’ of the person which makes the story interesting – and it’s no different when writing the life story of the every day, non-supermodel person in our midst.
“Five minutes and she’ll be there….” says one of Naomi Campbell’s three security guards over the mobile. “Five more minutes.,”
“Five minutes to go…”
The arrival time of Naomi Campbell passes through the crowd of twenty who have been granted special access, like Chinese whispers. We’ve been waiting for Ms Campbell to change outfits for her second scheduled media appointment during the Sydney leg of her Australian tour to launch her self-titled new fragrance.
And finally, in she saunters (as much as one can saunter in 10cm high Manolo Blahnik heels).
Fashion editors speak of the overwhelming presence of British supermodel Naomi Campbell on the catwalks at the international fashion shows. And to look at fashion photographs, you would imagine her to be awesomely tall with a powerful body. Not so. In fact, she’s a fine-boned, fine-featured female, 177cms tall, and reputedly 48kgs. The fine bones come from her Chinese father. The incredible muscle-tone (that she’s renown for having even though she’s allegedly never done exercise) and dark, creamy-textured skint come from her Jamaican mother. As she walks in, head hung coyly, she is nothing less than breathtaking to look at.
But I enter my ‘week in the life of Naomi launching her fragrance’ without my rose-coloured glasses. She’s rumoured to be a notorious crank to the point of physical violence. She has allegedly fought tooth and nail, literally, on the street with actress and model Troy Beyer. She has been known to simply leave a fashion show if she wasn’t first and last in the running order on the catwalk, and is rumoured to have been 13 hours late for fashion shoots. During her five days in Sydney and Melbourne for the launch, Campbell’s public relations people were sweating on the verdict from a charge of assault – ex-personal assistant Georgina Galanis was suing for $US2 million, saying Campbell grabbed her by the throat and thumped her over the head with her mobile phone. The organisers of her tour were under no false illusions that she could turn if a brave journalist asked about the case, or if the verdict didn’t please her. The verdict – Campbell pleaded guilty but was granted absolute discharge, meaning she’ll have no criminal record – was handed down during the first Sydney media conference at The Westin Hotel, just as Ms Campbell launched into a description the fragrance as a “soft floral, feminine, elegant, graceful smell,” and the bottle as “wild, probably ’cause people think I’m wild!”
This was a statement I was to hear over and over as Naomi rode out her contractual duties to Cosmopolitan Cosmetics, a subsidiary of Wella, who are the creators and backers of her new fragrance. And she did it with the all the grace and style a fragrance launch should have. She was not at all the feisty, naughty Naomi rumoured. In Australia, perhaps because the success of the fragrance is riding wholly and solely on her, we saw, Nice Naomi.
The story of Naomi Campbell the fragrance, all started when the German-owned, New York-based company, Cosmopolitan Cosmetics, approached Naomi with the idea of having her own scent. After six months of negotiation, she agreed; a smart business move for a supermodel who turns 30 this year, and who has outlasted most, with 14 years of modelling under her Versace belt. Now Naomi, like her friend and supermodel-turned-businesswoman, Elle MacPherson, is pursuing a new career direction. Already she has done numerous music videos with George Michael and Pink Floyd, featured in a few films, including Quest for Fire, released an album called Babywoman, and ghost written a book called Swan. She also mentioned the possibility of a clothing line in contract with an American designer sometime this year.
Naomi has a reputation for being extremely ambitious, which she attributes to being an ethnic model – “it’s a survival thing; the reason I’m still here after all these years is because I’m representing my minority and my race.” Her will to work hard is obvious as I move with her during the tour of Australia, the second country to launch the fragrance (the first was Germany). The morning after the arduous 22 hour flight from London to Sydney, Naomi kicks off with a media conference, then straight into a television interview, a one-on-one interview with a newspaper journalist, another television interview, and yet another, with a change of clothes and a touch up of hair and makeup between each one. Over and over again I hear, “it lingers and gets softer and softer as the day goes by”, “the special ingredient is a Jamaican flower called Queen of the Night which only opens once a year in July”, and “I’ve given some to my male friends and they wear it all the time”. A short lunch break, then on it goes: a radio interview, a fashion shoot, then a wrap up of the day with a cocktail party with magazine and newspaper beauty editors. Again, I hear her selling the fragrance over and over; “I want to be honest with the public, so it should be a fragrance that I like, and that I wear all the time”, and “I once read that after a war and times of oppression, the things women ask for most is lipstick and perfume.” It’s a positively hectic day of business, and she has to smile and be charming at every turn, lest a camera be pointed her way.
Day two is the big event: an in-store bottle signing at Grace Bros, Sydney city. There are thousands present, leaning on barricades, screams of “Naaaooomiiii” coming from every direction, and a woman steadily walking toward her, obsessively click click clicking her camera. It makes you wonder about the danger element.
But it all flows smoothly and Naomi is completely charming to her fans — her face seems to light up particularly when little children bound onto the stage to have their bottle of fragrance signed and their photo taken. Later on in our interview Naomi admits, “I can’t wait to have a family and be a mum. I really prefer this side of the beauty business, where I have more contact with the people.”
Three days later, and with more television, radio, and print interviews behind her than she has Manolo Blahnik shoes (Ok, not quite so many as her collection of shoes), it’s finally my turn to chat with her.
She cuddles up on the single seat couch at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne, and, looking exhausted, pulls at her black beaded halter neck top, saying “this is an Australian designer, Scanlan and Theodore – they gave it to me….” This is the world Naomi lives in — gifts galore, a constant crowd of admirers, unspeakable amounts of money offered to her for her face on magazine covers, her body on the catwalk, her name on a fragrance… This is the world of the extraordinarily beautiful.
So how many pairs of Manolo’s do you have? I ask. She laughs and says, “oh too many…” And we chat on about her beauty regime, how she keeps her hair beautiful, whether she misses her mum, is she religious, and, of course, her star sign…
“I’m a Gemini.”
So am I, I say.
“Nooo… what date?” she asks, getting excited. I tell her. “No way!! The day after me – what year?” And on it goes – just like school yard buddies.
And underneath it all I realise that Ms Campbell, despite the pampering, schmoozing, and temper tantrums that go hand in hand with the fashion and beauty world, despite her mega-model, superstar status, is actually, simply a woman; a powerful, sometimes opulent, yet feminine and graceful woman, who’s luxuriant presence resonates when she leaves the room. A bit like her namesake fragrance.
Personal Stats: Born – London, 22 May, 1970
Lives — all over the world, but is now based in New York and London.
Loves — Flavio Briatore, Italian motor racing entrepreneur and millionaire (whether or not they are engaged remains a mystery, but she does sport a very large rock on the right finger).
Career: Discovered – Covent Garden, London at the age of 14.
The first ethnic model on the cover of Time magazine and British and French Vogue.
First novel, Swan, ghost written and released in 1994, followed by a photographic book.
Babywoman, the album, released on Epic Records in 1995.
Her acting career includes roles in Spike Lee’s Girl 6, Alan Smithee’s Miami Rhapsody, a television guest appearance on New York Undercover, as well as numerous music videos. She is currentrly working on Michaelangelo Antoinini’s new film Destination Verna.
Charities include fundraising for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund from 1997 to 2007 (she is also his honorary grand-daughter), and the Black Girls Coalition: “a handful of us put in a days pay from an advertising modelling job, then we split it between five charities in New York City for the homeless.”
Favourites: Music – Macy Gray, Beck, Lauren Hill
Place in the World – Africa, Kenya and Morocco, and India.
Way to Relax – read, swim, eat and meditate.
Food – “Italian and anything spicy”
Admirable Women – Madonna, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston.
Film – Raging Bull, and The Women.
Actor – Robert de Niro
Fashion Designers – Azzedine Alaia, Gianni Versace.
Australian Women’s Weekly, 2000.


In the entertainment industry, actors are there to bring different characters to life. They can either be fun, silly, or at times, be so pumped with energy as they do all sorts of crazy stunts and fight scenes. Did you know that there are actually brilliant actors that know martial arts? Check out the toughest 5:
1. Chuck Norris
As long as you’re looking for actors that know martial arts, you’ll definitely see Chuck Norris in that list. Norris has won too many martial arts championships and even founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. He’s not just impressive in the movies. You bet he’s equally amazing in real life. He has a black belt in different martial arts such as Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Judo.
His reputation as a man of action is definitely well-deserved. As for his experience, he joined the Air Force when he was still young and was stationed in Korea where he first trained in Tang Soo Do. The techniques of the said martial art combines the elements of Shotokan, Subak, Taekkyon, and Kung Fu. When he got his black belt, Chuck Norris developed his own fighting style called the Chun Kuk Do. He was even the first westerner to be awarded an 8th-degree black belt in Taekwondo, becoming a Grand Master. Wow!
You can definitely see his impressive skills in the successful film, “Way of the Dragon,” that starred another martial arts prodigy, Bruce Lee. Since then, he played different roles in a string of action movies.
Relive the awesome-ness of Chuck Norris in this video:
2. Jason Statham
Appearance-wise, you’ll definitely expect that Jason Statham knows martial arts. You are not wrong with that. He actually emerged as one of the most badass characters in many modern action movies, and it’s not just because of his sexy British accent. Statham is famous for playing tough, irredeemable, and machiavellian characters. In fact, he regularly performs his own combats and stunts because he’s one of the actors that know martial arts.
Many say Statham can easily “choke you out” and kill you if he wants to. Partner that with his deadly gaze, and we’re going to run away in fear. This badass guy is trained in various martial arts such as kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and Wing Chun. With that kind of skillset, you can already understand why he has a lot of grappling and ground fighting scenes.
With a gorgeous face, a killer body, and actual fighting knowledge, what’s not to love about Jason Statham?
Check out his workout and martial arts training here:
3. Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman is best known for his role as the mutant Wolverine/Logan in the X-Men films franchise. But don’t think playing such character only requires fake martial arts knowledge. Jackman had to undergo extensive training regimens just to get into shape for the mutant role. After all, he doesn’t really have powerful claws in real life.
Jackman studied various martial arts as part of his training, and also to help him give the Wolverine character the ideal physical body and “animal rage.” All we can say is, well done, Hugh!
Need some Wolverine action? Watch this:
4. Ashton Kutcher
Look at the guy on the right side of the photo. Yes, this seemingly sweet and easy-going guy isn’t exactly what you think he is. Don’t underestimate Ashton Kutcher because he can easily beat you to the ground if you mess with him. Kutcher has trained Brazilian jiu-jitsu and even traveled to Brazil just to practice the art and learn new methods. He values the martial art greatly. On top of that, one of his accomplishments includes the black belt he received under the training of his mentor Ricardo De La Riva Goded.
Kutcher has a phenomenal background in wrestling and his mentor Rigan Machado even said that he was surprised to know that the actor’s skill was very “high level.” According to Machado, the actor had the right body for jiu jitsu, and would probably do well if he were to compete. His long legs and body size like that of Roger Gracie would give him an edge. Heck, back then, his mentor even thought Kutcher could probably beat McGregor in a grappling match.
Keep in mind: he can kick your ass anytime.
Do you need some proof of Ashton Kutcher’s toughness? Check out this video that shows him getting promoted to BJJ Brown Belt by Rigan Machado:
5. Ed O’Neill
The Modern Family star is apparently one of the actors that know martial arts. Who would’ve thought? He seemed so relaxed and chill as Jay in the famous American television mockumentary family sitcom. You will also remember Ed O’Neill as grumpy old Al Bundy from “Married with Children.” Guess what? He actually spent 16 years attaining his Black Belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, and has also kept up with his training for years since.
His love for the martial art was accidental because he was just invited to a class. The rest, as they say, is history. Now, Ed O’Neill just loves to roll!
Check out his first class at the Gracie jiu jitsu Academy:
Did you know any of these actors that know martial arts? If you can think of another badass person, feel free to share it with us in the comments below!
If you want another read that will blow your mind, check out this dude who climbed over 90 stories of The Shard without any safety equipment!


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Vinny Cha$e is on some Great Gatsby, four dollar sign restaurant on Google kinda luxurious shit in his video for "Hustle", the first release off upcoming project King's Landing. If it looks like the Harlem rapper is flexin the hardest on his Jackie O' tip (the headscarf game is pretty heavy); perhaps the $2.5 million record deal he signed with Epic Records back in March has something to do with the opulence. According to Billboard, Cha$e's top dollar contract is a joint partnership with his own label, Cheers Club, allowing him to retain greater publishing and production control. A former filmmaker for Lil Wayne, Juelz Santana, and Cam'Ron; Cha$e released his debut mixtape "The Plaza" in 2011. King's Landing is slated for release later this summer, if Cha$e isn't too busy re-upolstering a levitating yacht with albino chinchilla fur after washing his car with Cristal.


|Birth name||Charles Spencer Chaplin|
|Born||16 April 1889|
Walworth, London, England
|Died||25 December 1977 (aged 88)|
|Medium||Film, music, mimicry|
|Genres||Slapstick, mime, visual comedy|
The Three Stooges
|Spouse||Mildred Harris (m. 1918–1921)|
Lita Grey (m. 1924–1927)
Paulette Goddard (m. 1936–1942)
Oona O'Neill (m. 1943–1977)
While at Keystone, Chaplin appeared in and directed 35 films, starring as the Little Tramp in nearly all. In November 1914, he left Keystone and signed on at Essanay, where he made 15 films. In 1916, he signed on at Mutual and made 12 films. In June 1917, Chaplin signed up with First National Studios, after which he built Chaplin Studios. In 1919, he and Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists (UA).
Chaplin was married four times and had a total of 11 children. In 1918, he wed Mildred Harris, they had a son together, Norman Spencer Chaplin, who only lived three days. Chaplin and Mildred were divorced in 1920. He married Lita Grey in 1924, who had two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. They were divorced in 1927. In 1936, Chaplin married Paulette Goddard and his final marriage was to Oona O'Neill (Oona Chaplin), daughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1943. Oona gave birth to eight children:Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Josephine Chaplin, Victoria Chaplin, Eugene, Jane, Annette-Emilie and Christopher Chaplin. In contrast to many of his boisterous characters, Chaplin was a quiet man who kept to himself a lot.


Hayley Nichole Williams (born December 27, 1988) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is the lead vocalist of the American rock band Paramore.
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have a say in who hurts you. And I like my choices, I hope she likes hers.
the reflection of the sky in the water is too pretty 🌸
v i b e ✌ c o l s t a l
Naps, highways, snacks and surf.


Global Superstar Jasmine Webb is one of the most beautiful women in the world. In her Femdom debut, she shows her mean side... She loves having her ass and feet worshipped by whiteboys! HOT ASS WORSHIP, FACESITTING, FOOT WORSHIP, AND MORE!
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A life for L.O.V.E.
Michael Jackson stories you should have heard beforeBrigitte Bloemen, Marina Dobler, Miriam Lohr
Film, Kunst & Kultur, Biografien & Erinnerungen
Michael Jackson is one of the biggest legends of all time. The whole world celebrates his musical legacy and groundbreaking achievements in the entertainment business. Yet little is known about the fact that he also broke records with his charitable accomplishments and used his tremendous popularity, influence and amazing success to call attention to social and political problems.
“A life for L.O.V.E.” is the first book that exclusively concentrates on Michael Jackson's humanitarian achievements. It contains a potpourri of stories written by people who knew him, were his friends, worked for him or who themselves received the singer's help and encouragement. They give first-hand accounts of his concern and care for other human beings, animals and the world. This collection of true stories from around the world paints a personal portrait and a vivid picture of a man whose declared goal it was to heal the world and who started “with the man in the mirror” by showing the utmost respect to fellow human beings. With his message he inspired millions to follow his cause. To join the line of those keeping Michael Jackson's message alive, all proceeds from this book are being donated to charity.
May this book inspire even more people to follow his lead and to do their share to make this world a better place!


The Forms of Things Unknown, (FoTU)
The Outer Limits, Season 1, ep 32
Directed by: Gerd Oswald
Written by: Joseph Stephano
Cinematography by: Conrad Hall
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Joseph Stephano wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960) based on the Robert Bloch novel.
Conrad Hall went on to be nominated for 10 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, winning 3 times. He is considered one of the most influential cinematographers of all time.
Vera Miles was a famous Hitchcock girl. She starred in Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man” (1956), co-starred in “Psycho” (1960), and starred in Season 1, Ep 1 of the TV anthology show “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”.
Barbara Rush starred in both “When Worlds Collide” (1951) and “It Came from Outer Space” (1953). She was also the villainess Nora Clavicle on the Batman TV show from the 60’s.
David McCallum is best known for his portrayal of Illya Kuryakin in the TV Series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (1964~1968). MST3K fans will fondly remember him from Master Ninja II.
Sir Cedric Hardwicke made his name performing in George Bernard Shaw plays. Shaw called him his 5th favorite actor, behind the 4 Marx Brothers. Sir Cedric was in great demand in the early days of film, appearing in such classics as “The Invisible Man Returns” (1940) and “The Ghost of Frankenstein” (1942), as well as Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” (1941) and “Rope” (1948). Sadly, this appearance in FoTU was his final role.
It might be the story of two women who poison their tyrannical playboy boss to prevent him from blackmailing a rich father, and how the playboy is brought back to life by the time machine of a mad scientist.
Or, it might be the story of a tyrannical playboy who fakes his own death and pretends to come back to life in the clock filled closet of an insane person.
Or, it might be the story of a con man and his girlfriend who conspire to drive a rich female mark crazy.
Experience FoTU at Okasaville:


Open until 14 July 2013
We celebrate the life and work of actor Sir Michael Caine in a new photography exhibition.
The exhibition traces Sir Michael’s life from Cockney rebel, through to Hollywood legend and inspirational Londoner through a selection of never-before-exhibited photographs, iconic portraits by David Bailey and Terry O’Neill, and a selection of film and audio footage from some of his best-loved movies including Alfie, The Italian Job, Get Carter and Educating Rita.
‘I'm every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.’
Below: a video showing Sir Michael receiving Freedom of the City in a private ceremony held at the Museum of London on Friday 8 March, before opening the exhibit to the public.
Admission is FREE