tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71318030594844043822024-03-13T16:11:01.404-07:00mylittleredcarpetfashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-738144734010393972013-09-23T22:56:00.001-07:002013-09-23T22:56:20.333-07:00Tulamben Diving Sites east of Bali<table style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">A small village on the north-east coast of Bali</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">TYPE OF DIVE:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Shore Diving, Wreck-diving, Wall-diving, Night-diving, Deep-diving, photography<br />(Batu Kelebit is a 5min outrigger journey from Tulamben)</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">VISIBILITY:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">12 - 25 metres</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">CURRENT:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Zero to mild currents</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">DEPTHS:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">3 - 40 metres (average depth 18 metres)</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">MIN LEVEL:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Introductory - suitable for every level and interest!</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td style="color: black;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">HIGHLIGHTS:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Extraordinary
diversity of marinelife, huge school of Big-eyed Trevally. 120-metre
shipwreck, beautifully coloured wall. Full Moon Night Dive. Great
photographic opportunities and colour contrast with the black sand.
AquaMarine's first choice for our special 1 Day Intro Adventure Diving
Program. Great snorkelling site.</span></td></tr>
<tr> <td valign="top"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="color: black;">CONDITIONS</span>:</span></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;">Black
sand slope with a 120-metre shipwreck, coral gardens and a wall. The
fist-sized black stones can make entry tricky when there are waves
present.</span></td></tr>
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<br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z172/mulmulmul/Bali%20Blog/tulamben_dive_site.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />Tulamben
is the most famous area for diving in Bali and therefore where you are
more probable to the photographers and the writers internationally
recognized of the meeting. The bay of Tulamben, like the rest of Bali,
is located in richer the marine biogeografy zone of the world. Being in
the northeast coast, the bay have very rich plankton waters of the main
current of the ocean that moves from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean.
This, joined with the fact that the three main sites of the plunge
provide totally diverse physical atmospheres, means that Tulamben
contains an imposingly diverse underwater ecosystem. The beach is the
fist-classified black volcanic rocks that become sand in shallows. This
black sand does not provide the reflective characteristics of the
white sand like the limestone stone, combined with the amount of
plankton in the water, it does not explain the relatively low
visibility (12-25M). Nevertheless it provides a dramatic resistance,
that brings outside towards the colors of the chorales, gorgonians, the
fish and the other marine life. 100s of the macro-species that live
here mixes and puts wonderfully in resistance with the sand.Tulamben
is a wonderful place to learn to plunge themselves and to learn on
underwater life. There is sightings occasional of the Mola-Mola
(Sunfish), Manta rays, whale shark, the tuna and the other pelagic but
is the permanent population of Tulamben. The shipwreck of the freedom
of USAT the most famous site of the plunge of Bali. Circa constructed to
east WWI cargo vessel was equipped of the arms for WWII, torpedoed by
the Japanese of Lombok; in spite of attempts to tow the ship to North
Bali it took in too much water so it was beached in Tulamben. On the
years any re-usable thing was cleared. In 1963, with the land tremors
of the eruption passed of the Agung assembly, the ruin slipped more far
under the hill where still it lies (as near the beach as it can be and
still to be underwater). The freedom almost lies parallel coast
outside of approximately 30m to the beach in the hill of the sand and
is advisable for all the levels of the qualification and the experience.
The ruin lies in depths from 9-30m; the lowest part of the ruin, where
it touches the hill of the sand, is in 5-10m. The depth throughout the
center of the ruin is 16-20m. The edge more under the ruin, the future
plain the hill, is 20-28m (in the high tide). The ruin is 120m long,
he is broken enough upon (no penetration possible) but you can
immovable consider the arms, dressing tables, the boilers, the chain of
anchor, the etc. Is a charming site of the plunge, possibly the
easiest plunge of the ruin of the world. You also can tube respirator
in the ruin - the point upper of the stern is near 4m underneath the
surface. The visibility is generally 18-25m, low when there is been
raining. There is rarely a present present, at the most he will be
smooth. During the 3 days before the Full Moon, there are waves
generally. Temperature of the air is 25-32degrees, the water
26-28degrees. Trevally (cats), ruin of the freedom, Tulamben the ruin
is very popular between the photographers then encrusted totally in
anemone, gorgonia and chorales. The black sand provides an excellent
resistance of the color for the incredible variety of marinelife, that
includes an enormous school (literally 100s) of the fish of silver
10-12inch calls Great Trevally and on 400 other species of fish. All
the fish are very domestic (partly as resulting from some guides that
feed them, something a practice of the non environmentally sound of the
Goatfish and the Wrasse that mordiscan around your feet and fins
during exit door to the Unicornfish and to the Surgeonfish that make a
(that alarms the first time slightly to you to see them) beeline for
your mask as you swim down towards the ruin. It is absolutely difficult
to enumerate what you will see because you will see just mainly in any
tour guide Hindu-Pacific of Reef if you plunge yourself here. Of the
Anglerfish meticulous, nudibranches, the Pipefish of the ghost, the
neon systems of camarón/de goby, to traverse to the areas of the eels
of the garden and clouds multi-colored of anthias and damsels and
ignited to the schools of Sweetlips, Batfish, fusiliers, Butterfly
fish, the variety is amazing. Then there are the invertebrates, the
hard and smooth chorales, choral black, sponges with crinoids,
ventilators of the sea, tunicates. If you plunge early the first
snorkeling in the ruin (only possible if you remain during the night)
you can, you can, to see the turtle. It is the best hour to plunge the
ruin. The jump at night in the ruin is great specially during the Full
Moon. You can see Spanish dancers, fish of the lantern, fosforescencia.
The wall has profuse sponges, corals, black coral bushes, gorgonian
fans - at 30M there's one that reaches 2M in width that we visit for
the Deep Dive on Advanced Courses. The wall, the lava spur, then
reverts to being a steep slope.The
fish life is similar to that found on the wreck but being a much
larger area, is less dense. However, more often than on the Wreck, you
will see white tip reef shark, large Napoleon Wrasse, big Bumphead
Parrotfish, some big Filefish (including Scrawled), and large Moray Eel.
Late afternoon is the time to see the wide variety of Lionfish that
live here, I'm not the person to ask why we see so many of them! There
have been sightings of Whale Shark in as little as 9M of water, and
much deeper, Hammerhead Shark. The back reef at the top of the Wall,
averaging 5M, contains an excellent 'aquarium section', including
cuttlefish, octopus, boxer crabs and many other unexpected treasures,
enabling you to finish your dive at around 5m for pretty much as long
as you want to. This is, of course, also very popular with snorkelers.
The Coral Garden Blue Ribbon Eel, Tulamben Coral Garden Blue Ribbon Eel
Adult Female Rhinomuraena quaesita Running along the middle section of
Tulamben beach is a shallow reef (averaging 8-12m so also excellent
for snorkelling) of mainly table and fire corals interspersed with
anemones as well as barrel and other sponges. The fishlife, as with the
Drop-off and the Wreck, is very diverse. It is here that you can see a
surprising number of Blue Ribbon Eels (the juveniles are black) and
octopus, the variety of shrimp is surprising too along with the
different anemonfish. The bigger fish seen here are Bumphead Parrotfish
and Black Tip reef shark. The depth and location make the Coral Garden a
very good, and popular, Night Dive on which you may see Spanish
Dancers and flashlight fish. In fact the diving actually extends much
deeper than 12M, if you carry on down the sand slope, you'll find
barrel sponges with many surprises: juvenile Emperor Angelfish,
Two-spot Lionfish, maybe a school of juvenile catfish; cleaning
stations with shrimp and wrasse, a shoal of Razorfish swaying in their
hiding place. If you continue along the slope, towards the start of the
Drop-off, you'll come to a dry river bed, scooped out into a
bowl-shape, marked by ridges radiating outwards. These ridges are often
the best places in Tulamben to find unexpected specimens. Although it
is certainly not an area for divers looking for a profusion of
marinelife! Batu Kelebit (Kelebit Rocks) A 15 min. jukung (local
outrigger) ride east from Tulamben Bay will take you to these two large
rocks that lie just offshore. The dive site is quite dramatic and
consists of three steep ridges encrusted with an incredible diversity
of hard corals, beautiful sea fans, fire corals and sponges and between
these ridges are channels of white sand. Coleman Shrimp in Fire Urchin
Coleman Shrimp in Fire Urchin Periclimenes colemani In fact, it is not
only the colour of the sand that differs from Tulamben Bay, the
species of even the most common reef fish are different too. The marine
life varies from the tiny up to the very large: the steepness of the
site combined with the structure of the ridges (and plankton-rich
water) means you also have much more chance to see pelagics including
barracuda, tuna, manta and white tip reef shark here than you do within
the Bay. The diving here is colder than within Tulamben Bay and not
only because the diving here is generally deeper: there's a cold water
eddy that comes up from the depths. Visibility is generally as low as
15-20M due to the amount of plankton in the water. The current can be
quite strong at times but the channels are well-protected.</div>
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fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-73331802632343465642013-09-23T22:53:00.002-07:002013-09-23T22:53:49.212-07:00Candidasa, East of Bali Tourism Area <div style="text-align: justify;">
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is Candidasa, Candidasa maybe not as popular as Kuta or Nusa Dua, but
Candidasa now days has many of Hotel and Restaurant with the lower
price of course. The rate of Hotel in candidasa aroun 10-12 US$ that is
so much cheaper than Kuta and Nusa Dua Rate.The advantage of candidasa
is the situation is quite natural and not so much crowded like in Kuta
or Nusa Dua, that why Candidasa ever be the most favourite place for
Europe Tourist in the last years.<br /></div>
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When
the new road of "Ida Bagus Mantra" opened, the way to candidasa can
take only 40 minutes from Denpasar. That is the same time of we want to
go to Nusa Dua from Denpasar.<br />Candidasa have a quiet and natural
white sand, maybe better than Kuta or Nusa Dua now days. Because there
not so many population around there.<br />Soooo... if you have plan to
visit the Nusa Dua or Kuta 30 years ago you can go to Candidasa that
has a situation like Nusa Dua or Kuta at the past. </div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-82787037228400871082013-09-23T22:52:00.002-07:002013-09-23T22:54:33.001-07:00Temple of Lempuyang Luhur <div style="text-align: justify;">
Temple of Lempuyang Luhur located in the mountain of Lempuyang,
Karangasem regency, east Bali . Hindu of named Balinese the sad
Khayangan Agung Lempuyang Luhur, that it is the place for Hyang Iswara
and Hyang Agni Jaya. Wali/piodalan(sacred day) held every six months,
exactly in wuku Dungulan, Umanis Galungan, Thursday, or the day after
the ceremony of Galungan. To go to the temple of Lempuyang from
Denpasar, is about 80 kilometers, a trip about 2 hours to the east.
Throughout the way, you will see landscape, the beautiful panoramas of
the field of the rice and rivers.<br />
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There are 3 ways to go there, that is:<br />
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Way of Kemuda/Purwayu; to pass the village of Ngis Tista, Kemuda,
Penataran Agung Lempuyang Luhur in Purwayu, Telaga But, To pass Agung
to Lempuyang Luhur.<br />
2. Way of Basangalas; passing the village of
Ngis Tista, Basangalas, Banjar Gamongan, Telaga Sawang, Mpu Gni Jaya de
Lempuyang right Madya-Parahyangan it advanced towards Luhuring
Lempuyang Madya, To finally pass Agung and to Lempuyang Luhur.<br />
3. Way
of the regency of Karangasem; of the village of Bukit straight-line to
the village of Jumeneng, temple of Kenusut, To pass then Agung and to
Lempuyang Luhur.<br />
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Be
careful, because in the rainy season the ways are very slippery and
fangosos. But for those of you who like the adventure and the love to
consider the mystery of the nature, the trip will bring to much
diversion and pleasure to you. The temple of Lempuyang contains many of
mysteries of of long term does, when Hyang Pasupati sang recommended
Hyang Gni Jaya along with Hyang Putra Jaya and Dewi Danuh to save Bali
of disaster. More ahead, according to the villagers, so or as to
request, there is also the people such as who to come to the temple of
Lempuyang for other intentions, to recover of diseases, she avoids bad,
and is even politicians or the civil employees who request that its
authority is in favor of always or tries to obtain certain position.
They come generally in means at night, to avoid the public. It comes
please to the temple of Lempuyang and obeys the rules in entering that
the sacred place, so that your security is guaranteed. To request any
direction of the Pure Pemangku (the person that is responsible for the
temple) or any civil employee so that your trip is safe.<br />
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The means of Lempuyang have three versions which is :<br />
1. Lempuyang take from the word lampu (light) that mean Lempuyang is a light from the God to stare all over the world.<br />
2. Lempuyang take from the word Lempuyang which is a kitchen seasoning that can be used for some traditional medicine.<br />
3. Lempuyang take from the word "emong or empu" that can be mean of the Guardian.<br />
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Lempuyang
is one of the six major Temple in Bali besides Andakasa Temple,
Uluwatu Temple, Watukaru Temple, Ulun Danu Batur Temple and Besakih
Temple, Lempuyang take place in the East, in Balinese Myth, East
direction is Guarding by Dewa Iswara that allways keep Bali allways stay
in peace.</div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-53001541269702717352013-09-23T22:51:00.000-07:002013-09-23T22:51:09.833-07:00Besakih Temple in Karangasem <div style="text-align: justify;">
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“
Mother of the Temple ” of Bali the overflow in the hills of theMount
Agung feels Pure Besakih, referred extensively like the “Center of All
temple” of the Hinduism in Bali. Pure Besakih, or the temple of Besakih
in English, is greatest temple in Bali 11,000 or so Hindu temples,
their 35 chapels and corridors draw throughout to devotee of Bali in
massive numbers every year. The world is lucky to have Besakih. In 1963
the Agung assembly, a volcano, entered eruption and destroyed several
next villages. Besakih was without touching. The temple is agreed
generally to date again to prehistoric times in Bali. One names for the
Naga Besukian -- the thought of the dragoon-God by pre-Hindu Balinese
to inhabit this, the highest mountain of Bali. But at the beginning of
11mo Besakih century in a while became the temple of the state in which
Bali was not no bad kingdom. It has continued being the temple of the
state in a certain form or another one since and is financed by the
government today. Like most of the temples of Balinese, Besakih is a
closed nonbuilding but a subject mainly outdoors.</div>
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is made up of patios with the altars and chapels dedicated to a number
of Gods. And those Gods have better things to do than hardly to hang
around a temple; the Balinese thinks that the Gods visit a temple
particular dates -- and those dates the festivales of the grasping of
Balinese to the honor (or to appease) the Gods. Of all the temples in
Bali seises supremely is “holy: ” Pure Besakih, Pure Lempuyang Luhur,
Pure Gua Lawah, Pure Batukaru, Pure Pusering Jagat, and Pure Uluwatu.
Of these, Besakih is stopped above than the others -- because it so
does not feel the some 3000 or feet on the ocean in the side of the
mountain, but because he is more sacred to the Balinese. It reputes the
only temple without class, casteless in the island in where any Hindu
of Balinese can come to adore itself. The Hinduism de Bali is unique.
Many scholars think that he gives a Vista us of the Hindu belief since
much they existed 1500 ago to 2000 years. It was the Hinduism once the
dominant religion in much of Asia South-Eastern and empires in the
region where governed by the God-kings -- the empires have taste of
Funan, Sri Vijaya, Angkor, and Bali.<br />The Hinduism de Bali is less
made fragments than the one of modern India. Balinese is said generally
to adore a God, the Brahman, who pronounces in several forms or
personalities. The lees Arnold, in their article on the temples of
Bali, quote an anonymous Balinese that explains its opinions: “I am as
soon as a person; it can be that he is someday farmer, another one a
conductor, another one a cook, but I continue being only one person.”
Of the same form the “Hindu Gods” Siva and Vishnu (Siwa and Visnu in
Balinese) are diverse really right manifestations of a God, Brahman, in
theology of Balinese. Whereas this can be truth, the temples finish
generally upon the portion like places in where one of the
manifestations of the Brahman is adored; and Besakih is dedicated to a
great extent to the adoration of Siva. Whereas the Hinduism de Bali can
provide a glance in the religion beyond her is of no pure way. The
religion of Balinese has kept Islam in the bay, but it has absorbed the
animism and the adoration of ancestor native cultic Malay along with
aspects of the Buddhism de Mahayana.<br />The anniversary of the temple,
Odalan, is an excellent day to visit if you are looking for boato. But
you must count on a a crowd of I vary thousand people. That ceremony
comes in the tenth month of the calendar of Balinese, generally in
April. </div>
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fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-84257114657998093602013-09-23T22:50:00.001-07:002013-09-23T22:50:48.020-07:00Tirta Gangga Karangasem Regency
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The garden of the water of Tirtagangga was constructed in 1948 by the
king of Karangasem, Anak Agung Anglurah Ketut Karangasem. This garden
of the water was constructed in a very unique architecture of Balinese
and Chinese styles.</div>
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Tirtagangga is located in the village of Ababi, districto of Abang. It
is near 83 kilometers of Denpasar and to 6 kilometers of Amlapura to
the north.<br />Facility:
The facilities available in this area are small hotels, small
restaurants and the food is clogged, stores of the art and a portion of
the parking area.<br /><br />Description: The garden of the water of
Tirtagangga scratches in an area of 1,2 hectares, that consists of three
complexes. The first complex lies more in the level under this area,
where we can find two pools and one tower of the water. The second
complex in the mean level is the location in where we can find the
swimming pools; whereas in the third part, that is the main complex, we
can find the house of the rest of the king. Before the construction of
the garden of the water, there was a water of great means in this
area. Therefore the people who surrounded the area called east place
“embukan” that she means the means water. The water of then means was
worked to also satisfy the necessity with the people of the water and of
the “purification” with the Gods (Ida Betara).<br />The monk to also
construct to this garden of the water of the tranquil for his house of
the rest and for the fresh climate of people the function and this
area, plus the vision around, inspired king leisure and the pleasure.</div>
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fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-7568329872829544782013-09-23T22:50:00.000-07:002013-09-23T22:50:02.824-07:00Silayukti Temple in Padang Bai <h3 class="post-title">
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As
a door that connected Bali to Lombok, padang Bai has a harbor for some
of ship to carry a people to moving trans island to Lombok island. Its
quite cheap to go to lombok by fery, and only take about 20 minutes.
even you can take your car also. Better than by plane that will cost you
about 3 until 5 times much expensive cost.</div>
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padang Bai you also can see a white sand shore, and lot of traditional
fishing ship that still oftenly used by the traditional fisherman
aroud the Village.<br />If you have plan to swim, Padang Bai is a good place to go.<br /><br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z172/mulmulmul/Bali%20Blog/silayukti_temple_festival.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><br />North
of the Bay, you can visit the Silayukti Temple. The temple consist of
four major Temple and some of small temple around it. People in Bali
believe Silayukti is one of the Oldest Temple in Bali.Legend say that
Silayukti Temple was built by Empu Kuturan, a sacred priest from Java,
that introduce the caste system to Bali in 11'th centuries. Every six
balinese month, or excactly 210 days, there is a celebration in the
temple. Most of Balinese people come to Silayukti Temple to pray, the
celebration usually held in three days.If you have plan to stay for a
vew days, there is some Hotel near the temple that you can visit.Maybe
the Silayukti Temple is not famous as the Besakih Temple, but if you
have time better you visit this place if you have plan to visit it as
one of the east of Bali tourism area.fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-32732580126641892292013-09-23T22:49:00.002-07:002013-09-23T22:49:20.476-07:00Labuhan Amuk Odyssey<div style="text-align: justify;">
A little bit north of Padang Bai you
can visit the Labuhan Amuk area, Labuhan amuk famous with it's Coral
reef view. Most of the tourist do the snorkeling around the Labuhan
Amuk area.</div>
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<br /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z172/mulmulmul/Bali%20Blog/labuhan_amuk_submarine.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />Now
in Labuhan amuk also build a new Odyssey Submarine that make you easy
to see the underwater coral in there, without fear that yous body will
scratch by the coral if you do a manual snorkeling because some time
the water is very swallow and not enough place to for your body between
the coral and the water.<br />With this submarine, the visitor can see
various of coral and fish in the very wonderfull marine view.The
submarine can reach 35 metres underwater for 45 minutes. For only 50 $
you can enter the submarine with 4x17 metres size and 72,6 ton weight,
after you do a reservation of course.This submarine maybe the fisrt
underwater travelling submarine in South East Asia. </div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-68522715176232727462013-09-23T22:40:00.002-07:002013-09-23T22:58:08.868-07:00Karangasem Regency <h3 class="post-title" style="text-align: justify;">
Karangasem Regency
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<img alt="" border="0" src="http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z172/mulmulmul/Bali%20Blog/karangasem.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" />Capital City : Amlapura<br />
Width: 839.54 km2<br />
Kecamatan:<br />
1. Kubu<br />
2. Rendang<br />
3. Abang<br />
4. Sidemen<br />
5. Selat<br />
6. Bebandem<br />
7. Karangasem<br />
8. Manggis</div>
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Karangasem Tourism Object</div>
<ul style="text-align: justify;">
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/silayukti-temple-in-padang-bai.html">Padangbai and Silayukti Temple</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/tirta-gangga-karangasem-regency.html">Tirtagangga</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/besakih-temple-in-karangasem.html">Besakih Temple</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/labuhan-amuk-odyssey.html">Labuhan Amuk</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/temple-of-lempuyang-luhur.html">Lempuyang Luhur Temple </a></li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/candidasa-east-of-bali-tourism-area.html">Candidasa</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/09/tulamben-diving-sites-east-of-bali.html">Tulamben Diving Sites</a> </li>
<li>Mount Agung </li>
<li>Tenganan Traditional Village </li>
<li>Andakasa Temple<br />
</li>
</ul>
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Location of Karangasem Demography the
regency of Karangasem with Amlapura like central city is one of the 9
regencies/city that located in of the east of the island of Bali. This
regional account 839,54 kilometers, consists widely of 8
secondary-district, divided in 71 administrative village resident by
369,320 people, has exotic opinion of nature of tropical climate. The
special name “Mutiara dari Timur” with the prediction becomes a new
machine the other growth in Bali specially the area of the tourism,
small area of the industry, power that cultivate dry, black and also
artistic gold-minute of its culture that does not rise in the other
location.</div>
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Beautiful of the coastal field of the terrace is archeology of the
inheritance, and the existence of the old village of Baliaga Tenganan is
looked for nowadays by the domestic and foreign tourist. To have
access to the relative which of the transport near province capital and
quite fluids penetrable direct to the airport of Ngurah RAI Denpasar
to the east, and the entrance through port of Padangbai.<br />
Industries nationals the bamboo of the mat is extended in many of
Karangasem of them used daily necessity like basket, boiler, gedeg and
another one but becomes the artistic of the interior like the place of
the fruit, the bokor, many latern, the sweepings etc. of impregnated by
hotel and the restaurant nowadays. Sentra of this doing by
hand/diligence extends the village of Tista, the village of the slopes
of Tiing, the village of Sinduwati, the village of Pempatan, the
village of Selat, the village of Budakeling, and the village of
Bebandem. Ascended near 616 units, impregnating to 665 employees. The
production of the capacities by unit of reachs 57,907 of the year with
the Rp value. 752.800.000, - with an aim of the export and the premises
of the commercialization to have taste of the regency of Gianyar.<br />
The manuscript of Lontar of the mat of such palm in beginning is
extended initially only like means to the covers bleeds spilled
referred of “Bebanten” in the secondary one of Abang, the village of
Culik. The other young leaf of the Coco of the lateral use named “sari
of Saab” becomes the administrative village of Karangasem. Throughout
the growth of the tourism, this mat extends to decide the request ot
like the purse, box of I ornament, woven fine that the etc. Theere is
near 195 efforts of the units with 48 employees, production of the
place of the capacities by 73,125 units, with the Rp value.
292.500.000, - with the regional compartment of the market to have
taste of the regency of Gianyar and Badung, on the other hand there is
also exported. The handmade the diligence of Ties that we recognized
the first time is sub village of Gumung, Tenganan de Manggis under the
form of protector for the tradition “secret attraction of Megeret
Pandan” made once a year related to the procession of the ceremony of
Aci Sambah.<br />
They continue to make the other form like purse, the box, the bokor, the
operation, the place of the fine weave, the had etc taste by the
tourist. Until now the type of these many of the mat of I clear in the
full cross of substance of the citizen has taste of the Bungaya, the
Bebandem, the Seraya and the other places. There is no less near 3,937
units of the efforts that impregnate to near 5,637 employees with
capacities of the units of reach 165,660 of the production with value
near 8.283.000, - the wood doing by hand /de the diligence the capacity
in the manufacture of the statue of the growth of wood in Karangasem
almost flattens the Karangasem totality quickly to of class of product,
writing-desk, shock absorber, chair, window, forms “harbor art”,
another one like the statue of the cat, tulipán, primitive statue with
the raw material of albesia of wood.<br />
Extending itself in Rendang, Muncan, Nyuh Tebel, Tianyar etc. The
center of the effort of the unit of this type not less 272 units,
impregnated 1,100 employees who production per year near 37,842 the
valuable reach Rp. 1.234.500.000, -. The mat of the type of the pine of
the screw of local power of the enviromental friendly feat of the mat
of the tree of this pine of the screw is even extended and been able
nowadays to be able to the penetrated compartment of the export and the
premises of the market. The production of this mat is designed under
the form of artistic masterpiece of the purse, fine weave of the place,
map, monedero, speedboat, platform of the crystal with area of the
center in the village of Tumbu, subdistrict of Karangasem.<br />
That is a little info about Karangasem, for the detail of tourism are i will write it in another post.</div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-19788161994857105222013-09-23T22:35:00.003-07:002013-09-23T22:37:56.572-07:00Bali Villas, a Best Place for Vacations<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Villa in Bali</td></tr>
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Bali Villas is located in Bali, an island of God,
is known for heavy tourist traffic nowadays. Tourists can enjoy maximum
of the amazing weather, sun and sand while staying in Bali Villas. The
most important aspect that has helped the tourism department in Bali in
villa in Bali! Well, these are the dwelling places for the tourists
associated with all modern amenities. Please check out out website
allbalivillas.com for more information about villas in Bali.</div>
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The
tourists are literally crazy about these Bali villas as they personify
the Balinese architecture and style. The serene and calm atmosphere
surrounding these Bali villas is one of the major attractions of the
island. As the sun, sand and culture is popular of these islands, these
Bali villas are among the top ten of Bali culture. The people who visit
Bali villas once in their lifetime can never forget them because they
virtually get attached to the ambience there. Tourist can get more
information on our website allvalivillas.com before they plan their
vacations in Bali.<br />
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The most fascinating
feature of Bali villas is freedom to relax in complete privacy. The
tourists all over the world are attracted towards these Bali villas
every year and the number is increasing day by day. The calm and serene
atmospheres these Bali villas provide you are in drastic opposition to
the mainstream hotels. The excessive crowd and noise are absolutely
lacking in these villas. That is why these Bali villas are paradise for
the peace lovers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Villa in Bali</td></tr>
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Tourist can avail
various packages at Bali villas. The Bali villa is truly the best for
couples who want to enjoy their honeymoon to brim in a very quiet and
serene environment. They also can avail themselves the Bali villas
honeymoon packages and get closer to each other thus building long term
relationships. There are also many other packages available along with
these like vacation and holiday packages and others, depending upon your
requirement, you can choose the one suitable for you. Air-conditioned
bedrooms and spacious living and dining etc will also make you yearn for
extending your stay here. Please visit allbalivillas.com for more
information about packages.</div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-77339835209611896452013-09-23T22:27:00.003-07:002013-09-23T22:28:43.092-07:00Bali Travel Guide Advice And Attactions In Bali For First Time Visitors To Bali<div class="viewitem-inner" style="text-align: justify;">
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So When Should You Travel To Bali?<br />
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I will always recommend all
my friends, colleagues and associates to visit Bali during the dry
season in May-July, the best period to visit Bali in terms of weather.
However, preferences may differ depending on the type of tourist you
are, surfers like it bright and sunny while explorers and newly-weds
prefer the weather to be cool. During May-July, the beaches in the
western part of Bali is known to have beautiful waves which surfers
like! My best recommendation is to check on the weather forecast for the
days when you'll be visiting Bali and plan accordingly. I noticed that
most Aussies travel to Bali during Christmas and May-August during
their school breaks. Europeans normally in June-July. However, no matter
who you are and where you're from always remember to book your flight
tickets and accomodation early so that you can get better prices. Do
visit BALI HOTELS REVIEW to get <u><span style="color: #990000;">UNBIASED & HONEST</span></u> hotel reviews in Bali.<br />
<br />
With the mentally spiritual destination in Bali lying in the mountains,
the tourist heart of the island lies in the south, where major tourist
destinations in Bali are located. They are Kuta, Legian, Sanur and Nusa
Dua. This is the main destination or at least the embarking point for
the majority of visitors, especially those arriving by air. Those
staying in any of the above-mentioned areas will find it quite easy to
make day trips to most of the popular tourist destinations, including
Gunung Agung and Besakih temple, Kintamani, Lovina Beach, Candidasa, and
Ubud, the main art hub in Bali and for the Balinese. However... Please
do make sure that you allocate at least 2 days for UBUD, to get a real
feel of the Balinese culture, arts and attractions. Ubud is the main
cultural heart for Bali.<br />
<br />
Bali's timezone is +8 hours, same as Singapore, Bangkok and Malaysia's
timezone and 1 hour ahead of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital. Bali's main
currency is Ruppiah (IDR) with denomination notes of Ruppiah 100,000,
50,000, 20,000, 10,000, 5,000, 1,000 denominations. USD or United States
Dollar $ is also widely acceptable in Bali. Normal changing rate is IDR
10,000 for USD $1. <br />
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What Should I Do In Bali?</h3>
I say.. <u>you</u> <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">MUST</span> watch the Balinese Dance,
a pillar and famous Balinese Culture. Balinese Dances have historically
played an important role in Balinese society. Through this art, people
learn about the tales of the Ramayana, Mahabarata and other epic stories
from Balinese history. Balinese dance never fails to awe the audience
including myself, a native Balinese and they never fail to put a smile
on my face :) A place i'll recommend is Lotus Pond Restaurant in Ubud.
The settings of the garden in Lotus Pond Restaurant (Jalan Raya, Ubud)
is a beautiful environment where you can watch TRADITIONAL &
ORIGINAL Balinese Dance. The Thursday night performance by Balinese
kids from the age of 9-18 is DEFINITELY charming and enchanting.
Entrance fee is Rp 50,000 for a 75mins dance show which starts normally
at 7.30pm. The only problem is during the rainy season when a sudden
downpour may mean they dash up to perform in a hall at the back – but
trust me, that’s interesting itself and you still get to experience the
beautiful Balinese Dance.<img alt="monkey forest" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370439606131933746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXJ6Egx8K99rlZqgn1Z0XAv1vqz6lN_XBnR3G4gnWJbcQaVBmTEl0cmHw3HnV-bak9niJQYwMHeiXmmzYrHj0nJZw_YPWtnpkrLpel8EfV7i6qof2L9Cxh_VvSq0Es7Jq1mefk5hyphenhyphenNjRS/s200/monkey+forest.jpg" style="float: right; height: 126px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 190px;" /><br />
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Next on the list, I normally bring my visiting friends and associates for some monkeying around in Bali's Monkey Forest - Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary (Jalan Monkey Forest, Padangtegal, Ubud; 62-361-971304; www.monkeyforestubud.com).
The monkeys, being Ubud's most beloved residents, live in a dense
forest to the south of Ubud, complete with their own temple. If you go
to the Monkey Forest, just be careful, particularly with regards to your
children. The monkeys go for 'bright' - glasses, cameras, watches,
jewellery and can rip bags of peanuts out of your or your child's hand.
Not to forget.. leave your bananas and never buy bananas on your way to
the Monkey Forest. While this can be amusing for your kids, it can also
be distressing if the monkey escapes with your goods or worst still, an
experience that my own brother will never forget whereby he got attacked
by the playful but fierce Monkeys which leave his arm torn and bleeding
badly. He ended up getting 12 stitches on his arms and vow that he'll
never bring banana's again, even if it's for the monkeys.. Hehehe...
Admission is 10,000 rupiah, or about $1 at 10,000 rupiah to the dollar.<br />
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My favourite activity in Ubud itself is to experience Ayung River..
Wanna know why most of the expensive luxury hotels in Ubud are built
along this river? Just one answer and that is, THE VIEWS ARE SIMPLY
AWE-INSPIRING AND GORGEOUS!!! See it for yourself and click on that
cameras so that you can boast to your friends and family that will
definitely make them wanna visit Bali! Don't forget to get yourself wet
in these naturally beautiful clean river in Ubud which will definitely
gives you good memories of Ubud! Hehe.. Do climb aboard a rubber raft
while you're in Ayung River and watch the waterfalls with thick vines
along the low-flying swallows go by. Bali Adventure Tours (0361-721480, www.baliadventuretours.com) runs 90-minute trips down the river starting at $60 for a morning trip that includes a basic lunch of rice and egg rolls.<br />
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After some monkeying around and getting wet in the rivers of Ubud, you should pamper yourself with a Balinese Massage (Do read What Is Balinese Massage to get an idea of a Balinese Massage) Don't worry, it won't burn a hole in your pockets.. My elders always remind me that <span style="font-style: italic;">four hands beat two hand</span> :) so why not book a four-handed massage at Spa Hati
(Jln Raya Andong no. 14, Peliatan, Ubud; 0361-977-578), a massage
salon with stone and thatched-roof compound at the edge of Ubud. I
recommend you to try the four-handed massage packet with "Lulur", a
traditional Javanese body scrub using blends of rice flour and secret
herbs — 90minutes massage packet for only Rp 225,000. After the massage,
the unhurried staff lets you relax for as long as you want in the hot
tub, listening to little frogs make big noises in the rice paddy next
door. And about that cheap labor: spa profits help support the Bali Hati
Foundation, a non-profit organization that runs community programs and
help the needy Balinese, including building a school for the local
less-privileged kids.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1XV_8R2zWpsKJ0ZeiBTLQOc9kQnepoMtl-2sSTc35Y2vx7h2Si_8ITfBtk8ZMvKJP-mJ6LfV2c1IW23WUNuuqpJ-Ngj903mw1oAvuuOxwkhIKiqnNx8SfWXCVrNCvLXuxJc1iuU8kBA5/s1600-h/kuta+bali.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370442249894968050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1XV_8R2zWpsKJ0ZeiBTLQOc9kQnepoMtl-2sSTc35Y2vx7h2Si_8ITfBtk8ZMvKJP-mJ6LfV2c1IW23WUNuuqpJ-Ngj903mw1oAvuuOxwkhIKiqnNx8SfWXCVrNCvLXuxJc1iuU8kBA5/s320/kuta+bali.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a>Now,
for the best show in town guys! Head for Seminyak beach, to the north
of Kuta by 5.30pm so that you can get the best front-row seats in
"Breeze" an elegant and sleek beachside bar & restaurant at the Samaya Hotel
in Jalan Laksmana(Seminyak), for the MOST DAZZLING ROMANTIC SUNSET in
BALI and Indonesia!!! Don't forget to order yourself a glass, or if you
must, a bottle of WINE. The decks are so close to the surfs that you can
almost feel the foam from the breakers!<br />
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Besides witnessing the Sunset in Bali, you should experience the beaches
in Bali. Bali have many beautiful beaches that is good for swimming,
surfing, or just reading and chilling on the sand. Some hotels and
villages groom the beaches and ensure their cleanliness. Also, the
quality of a beach can change drastically between seasons, depending on
the location of the beach and the direction it faces. To be sure and get
more useful insights into the beaches in Bali, do visit Bali Beaches Guide.<br />
<br />
Bali is not complete if you don't have a night out in the club :) Night
life in Bali starts late, which means around midnight. Tourists normally
wonder why the expats and locals only start partying at around 1am –
even in Kuta where most of the top clubs are, clubs only start getting
crowded after midnight. Do visit Ku De Ta, a modern and trendy spot that faces the surf where young Balinese adults especially the beautifully-flashin<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1I2E4FeWLwlvAxEgZDfxNDhIK99eXptCvo3_h8kuhLcubc_zHiuRaTSefLJOL-kcYv3hoLuPeDFKPn76W1ZFqxq4mkNuJIt1lPm2yc9zDybtbJScEpxx799c3OxpBrvqT46p0m9Q39bfC/s1600-h/1765489486_1308bab585-300x225.jpg"><img alt="bali nightlife, ku de ta" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370450191439271794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1I2E4FeWLwlvAxEgZDfxNDhIK99eXptCvo3_h8kuhLcubc_zHiuRaTSefLJOL-kcYv3hoLuPeDFKPn76W1ZFqxq4mkNuJIt1lPm2yc9zDybtbJScEpxx799c3OxpBrvqT46p0m9Q39bfC/s200/1765489486_1308bab585-300x225.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a>g babes hangs out (Jalan Laksmana 9, Seminyak; KuDeTa).
It's a shockingly sceney — a DVD is sold showing highlights of the high
season. Get yourself seats by the beach with sights of the beautiful
waves crashing in, illuminated with the help of floodlights from the
club. After Ku De Ta, head on to Double Six Club
(Jln Double Six Blue Ocean Boulevard, Seminyak; 0361-733067 -
www.doublesixclub.com; Ruppiah 70,000 for admission), with a gigantic
dance floor and bungee jumping, YES you heard me right - bungee jumping,
on weekend nights. But don't show up before 3 a.m. For more information
on Bali Nightlife do read Bali Nightlife - Bali After Dark<br />
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After you're done with having fun and getting a feel of Bali and
Balinese cultures... it's time to do some shopping for souvenirs and
more! You can go shopping for handicrafts and arts such as antique
furnitures, balinese paintings, delicately crafted Balinese gold and
silver, wood and stone carvings, masks, woven and dyed fabrics and etc.
in many shops in the Kuta/Legian area, in Sanur, in various handicraft
villages and the Sukawati market on the way to Ubud and in Ubud itself.<br />
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Please forget the idea of DUTY FREE SHOPS and do not visit them by all
means! Local-made goods are over-priced and sold at ridiculous prices in
DFS. Imagine, just one bottle of HATTEN Rose wine which is made in
Sanur costs US$11 in DFS outlets. That is way more expensive than in
most local restaurants! It's worst if you're looking for a beautiful
French made blouse, a designer handbag, some jewellry or a dress watch
for your partner to wear at a special occasion in Bali, you'll totally
waste your time and MONEY!<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PLEASE DO BARGAIN ON THE PRICES NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHETHER YOU HAVE LOTS OF CASH OR NOT! </span><br />
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Bali is the best place to master the "Bargaining Art". Unless the
product is price-tagged, bargaining is a must and you shouldn't be
ashamed of it! Trust me, it's gonna be fun and bargaining is an exciting
thing to do! If you have never bargained before, the bargaining masters
will find it exhilarating, especially when a good deal was struck. Many
come to Bali with a 'shop until you drop' attitude, so you would
probably end up buying a few things anyhow. There are numerous
western-style department stores and shopping centers in Denpasar,
Kuta-Legian, Sanur and Nusa Dua that offer a range of clothing, shoes,
leather goods, sports gear, and toys. The service is generally good, and
the low value of the rupiah ensures excellent prices. Balinese arts and
crafts are the most popular purchases but you can also get
value-for-money goods such as clothing, music, musical instruments and
watches.<br />
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<b> Bali, Indonesia </b>- <b>the land of the Gods</b>, is a popular holiday destination among travellers from around the world. Many go there for its beautiful<b> landscape</b> - big waves that are suitable for surfing, <b>beautiful beaches, lush greenery, breath-taking rice terraces, rustic villages</b> and not forgetting, its <b>colourful and rich culture</b> intertwined with <b>religion, myths and legends</b>.<br />
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Come July, I will be going off on my very first trip to<b> Bali </b>for four days and three nights. Like every other traveller, I need to have a<b> travel itinerary </b>on the things I should see or do during my stay in<b> Bali and </b>after doing some research, here are some of the top must see and do attractions in <b>Bali</b>,<b> </b>as listed (in random order) by <b>TripAdvisor</b>. I will use it as a guide to plan my itinerary and I hope the information provided here will benefit you too.<br />
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Do let me know if I missed out anything from the list above or
feel free to recommend any places or activities that you have been or
done in<b> Bali</b>. I will share my travel itinerary as well as <b>travel experiences</b> soon. This will be the first of the many trips I will be embarking ahead. Stay tune for more posts and feel free to share your <b>travel advice</b> or experiences with me.fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-12740485337003675502013-01-19T11:18:00.000-08:002013-01-19T11:18:10.486-08:00Alexa Ray Joel Biography<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2013/01/alexa-ray-joel-biography.html">Alexa Ray Joel</a> (born December 29, 1985) is an American singer,
songwriter and pianist. She is the daughter and only child of
singer-songwriter Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley.<br /><br />Joel
released an EP Sketches (2006) and several singles on independent
record labels. Joel has performed at numerous charity events and New
York City fashion events, and in 2010 was chosen to be the spokesmodel
for Prell shampoo.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_influences"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel is the daughter of singer Billy Joel and his second wife, supermodel Christie Brinkley. Her middle name Ray is in honor of the late musician Ray Charles. She has a half-brother Jack Paris (Taubman, born 1995) and a half-sister Sailor Lee (Cook, born 1998), both children of her mother Christie Brinkley.<br /><br />Her father, Billy Joel, wrote his 1994 song "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" for her, and she has stated it is her favorite song of his. His 1989 song "The Downeaster Alexa" is titled after a boat he named after her, but is about the struggles of Long Island fishermen. Joel is also referenced in her father's 1989 song "Leningrad" (with lyrics: "...He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced..."), in which "He" refers to a Russian man who became a circus clown after being in the Red Army.)<br /><br />When she was two years old, Joel's father sang and played nursery rhymes for her on the piano. She dressed in the costume of singers and musical characters and performed for her parents<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> At the urging of her mother, beginning at age 4, and more seriously from about age 11 through 16, Joel pursued classical piano training. She later said that "piano playing was more of a skill that I had to hone,... not as easy for me as singing and songwriting," and which she humorously said sometimes involved "kicking and screaming." However, Joel later expressed gratitude for her classical piano training, saying that she considers classical music to be "the foundation of all music as well as the most 'musical' type of music,"<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>and that her classical experience made her a "very melodic" songwriter. Piano lessons were "what really got me into songwriting" and were "the platform for the melodies and ideas I would come up with." "My ear training came in a very organic way, just from futzing around, singing with my dad at the piano."<br /><br />Noting that her musical upbringing with her father gave her a "unique inside-peek into the songwriting process," in 2006 Joel remarked that "It's no wonder I write music in the same way (my father) does: melody first, and lyrics second." Joel said that by age 15 she was finishing complete songs and complementing those songs with piano accompaniment, describing her lyrics as taking on more depth during the ensuing two years because she was also writing poetry. After studying classical piano, she recalled that she hadn't "really committed to the art of songwriting" until she was about eighteen."<br /><br />Joel attended the Berklee College of Music's five week Music-Fest workshop, which reportedly "encourag(ed) her to explore her gifts as a singer and performer" and "helped her gain confidence" as she had been a shy teenager.<br /><br />Joel attended New York University (NYU) as a freshman in the musical theater program, which she said was "great" and influenced her as a songwriter since "some of my songs in their structure are sort of like theater songs." However, Joel also reported feeling "disconnected" in the musical theater program at college, retreating to the piano to focus on writing and performing her own songs. She left NYU to pursue a career in music.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sketches"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel self-released and independently distributed the six-song EP Sketches in August 2006, which she promoted by visits to 16 cities. Joel explained "It's called Sketches because it's like raw sketches, pretty much what we sound like live. About three of the songs, actually, were done in one take." "There was no specific strategy behind this EP. We simply recorded six songs that I liked because they were eclectic. ... I was just really trying to put out different styles, a whole mixture of stuff," from "jazzy" ("Song of Yesterday") to "doo-wop" ("The Heart of Me") to "funky" ("Now It's Gone").<br /><br />She cautioned that Sketches was not a "first album" but rather "a raw CD that was initially intended to be only a demo."<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>"When I was recording Sketches, just going into a studio and working out songs with other musicians was new to me. I didn't have people around me making decisions; I really did it myself. So, Sketches is really the baby, the egg that hatched." "I don't have a team of managers and assistants around me because it's very important to feel like I can do this on my own – especially considering who my father is."<br /><br />Joel designed and illustrated the CD cover, packaging and inserts that included her handwritten lyrics.</span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Sketches"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><i> </i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /> </span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel said that she wrote "The Revolution Song" near the end of her freshman year, when she was more introverted than others in NYU's musical theater program.[11] With lyrics "We spend all our days tryin' to make somebody proud, It's enough to make me wanna go and scream it out loud," she said that it was "one of the most liberating songs for me to write."[11] "There is always resistance when you're young ... wanting to have passion and desire and love. ... So I wrote about what I felt."[24]<br /><br /> Joel explained that "Now It's Gone" is about her mother's separation from her then husband amid allegations of his infidelity: "I wrote ("Now It's Gone") in a day. It came really naturally. It helped me get rid of the anger that I have. When I perform it, the anger boils back up because I get into the song. But (the anger has) kind of all washed itself away in the lyrics. "People can hear that song ('Now It's Gone') and get angry at whoever, some annoying person in their life."<br /><br /> Joel referred to "Song of Yesterday" as "my Ray Charles song, ... about being more inspired by the music of my father's generation as opposed to my own," expressing "longing for the music of the past." "It's very old-school,... (when) people focused on melodies back in the day."<br /><br /> Joel said "The Heart of Me" is "about how I reveal myself in my songs and my dependency on music. I was shyer then, so it was harder for me to communicate naturally." "'The Heart of Me'... introduce(d) me, and the fact that I do write my own music, which I wanted to make clear on my album." Of the lyrics, "I'm so tired of hearing these love songs," Joel explained "I was longing for a different time, when songwriters wrote really good songs."<br /><br /> "Resistance" was "written when I was 18, at a time when I was a very shy, awkward girl. ... I was craving a passionate, intimate connection with a man! I wrote that song when I was very into theater, so it's almost theater rock."<br /><br /> Sketches also included a pop/rock cover of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down."<br /><br />Joel's work in Sketches was characterized as including a "coiled rebellious streak that seems greatly at odds with the rich melodicism of the music,.... (displaying) anxious outsider tendencies throughout the EP." The allmusic review of Sketches said that a "restless tendency has been passed on from father to daughter, along with whatever natural musical genes, which makes Alexa Ray Joel, on the basis of this debut EP, one of the best second-generation rockers to yet emerge." The Phoenix New Times said that this, Joel's first EP, "doesn't bear the mark of a burgeoning genius so much as that of a solid, self-aware songwriter who's still fine-tuning her craft," characterizing her songs as having a "smooth, jazzy vibe, ... vocal-driven with simple piano accompaniment," and further commenting on Joel's "soulful, lilting voice and clean melodies." The West Valley View compared Joel to aspects of Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin, and Nelly Furtado, and described Sketches as having "six delicately crafted rock-infused soul songs that dance openly with pop aesthetics – catchy hooks, superb piano arrangements, full choruses, guitar-teasing melodies."</span><u></u></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="After_Sketches"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (April 2007), the 2007 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival (June 2007), and the Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival (September 2007).</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="After_Sketches"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel performed onstage with her father during the 2008 Rainforest Foundation Fund Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on May 8, 2008. Other charity events at which Joel has performed include the "Save Sag Harbor" benefit concert (2008), the "Stage For The Cure" benefit for pediatric cancer (New York City, 2008), a benefit for The Art of Elysium (artists for seriously ill children; The Hamptons, 2009), a benefit for Habitat for Humanity (Long Beach, New York, 2010), the "Right To Play Day" benefit (Sag Harbor, New York, 2010), and the Eric Trump Foundation benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (New York City, 2010). She has also supported animal rights, including the Animal Haven's Speakeasy Bash (New York City, 2012).<br /><br />Joel and her father performed his song "Baby Grand" at a Barack Obama election fundraiser at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 16, 2008.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="After_Sketches"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Joel debuted her single "Invisible" on The Wendy Williams Show in October 2009, the song being described as a "piano-driven ballad... about a bad breakup."<br /><br />Joel's "Notice Me" single, released on May 24, 2010, was listed as a "Hit-Bound song" on the Sirius XM Hits 1 satellite radio channel in August 2010. Newsday described the single as having a "carefree braininess" and "bouncy guitar riffs and an instantly hummable chorus" that made Joel's work "sound like Regina Spektor crossed with Katy Perry." "Notice Me" is Joel's first collaboration with producer Tommy Byrnes and her first since signing with Long Beach, New York management company OCD Music Group/The Hang Productions. Joel described the "Notice Me" video as using fashion to show both a modern look and a vintage throwback look.<br /><br />Joel had a residency playing in the Oak Room of New York's Plaza Hotel in late 2010 and early 2011, said to add a "contemporary vibe" to the "storied venue." </span></span></span></h3>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Fashion"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel has been active in New York fashion events. She performed at Manhattan's "Fashion's Night Out" in 2009 (Elie Tahari), 2010 (Bloomingdale's), and 2011 (Bloomingdale's). During New York Fashion Week in September 2012, Joel interviewed celebrities and designers as a host for social networking website Julib.com and she performed at the launch of Bobbi Brown's book Pretty Powerful: Beauty Stories to Inspire Confidence, also appearing with Brown on Today</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Artistry_and_influences"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Artistry_and_influences"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Joel described her music while in the Musical Theater program at NYU as taking on a musical theater tone, and, because at age 18 she "didn’t really have a boyfriend... or know as much," her music was "dreamy and idealistic," "not necessarily as edgy."<br />Portrait of Joel in early 2010.<br /><br />Joel characterized the genre of her debut 2006 EP Sketches as being "pop/soul/blues," its allmusic review describing Joel as "drawing on a lot of different styles" to create "instantly familiar pop." The following spring, Joel described this earlier work as having been "idealistic and maybe a little more poppy," explaining that her ensuing work "goes a little deeper" and focuses more on the lyrics, some of her newer songs being in the jazz and country genres. Her published works have been classified in the pop/rock, and jazz genres. Joel herself explained that it is a "mistake" for artists "to confine their music into one specific genre, ... because there are so many styles of music to be influenced by." One commentater remarked that Joel's "pitch-perfect singing and big kit bag of stylistic flourishes ... allow this versatile vocalist/songwriter to sound like a Billie Holiday or Etta James one moment, then a Carole King or even a Dolly Parton the next.<br /><br />Joel has likened her creative approach to that of her father Billy Joel: In 2006 Joel explained that, like her father, she strives to write songs that are very melodic, with a unifying theme or hook being present throughout. However, her songs are distinct: Joel was described as writing "tight, melodic, catchy songs that are as classically constructed as her father's without sounding much like his work," Joel being said to have more in common with the "classicist coffeehouse pop" of Norah Jones than with her father. Asked about their respective musical styles, Joel responded: Mine is "a bit more soulful, more blues than my dad's. He’s more pop rock."<br /><br />Asked about her approach to songwriting, Joel explained that her "pattern is that songs are easiest for me when I’m really in the throes of things. I don’t think I write as well when a lot of time has gone (by) and I look back and reflect. ... I like to write when I’m feeling it in the moment. "I usually have the melody first, and (then) the lyrics," noting that her father "focuses on the melody first, and then, the lyrics are always very fitting, ... you never say “oh, that sounds awkward.” Like the pieces of a puzzle, everything just fits together." "My favorite songs are simple songs." "I’m very, very old school,...I like songs that sound like…classics. ... like they’re timeless. I’m always trying to emulate that with my songs."[11] Even before Sketches was released, a reviewer remarked "There's nothing remotely indie or trendy about Joel. As a songwriter she's clearly absorbed the classics Carole King, Elton John, Billy Joel."[54] In 2006 Joel said "I like slow-burning jazz songs," and in 2008 cited Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Billie Holiday and Etta James as influences." In 2011, however, Joel reportedly mentioned Pink Floyd, Radiohead, June Carter, Regina Spektor and Lily Allen as influences.<br /><br />Asked in 2012 what inspires her music, Joel replied "love and relationships inspire me most of all," adding that "music from great songwriters inspires me to constantly challenge and push myself creatively, and to delve into places I might otherwise be hesitant about. "(Y)ears ago, I was ... primarily influenced by... classic singer-songwriters like Carole King, Ray Charles, and Randy Newman, so I was writing within the genre of an old-school sound with simply structured pop-chords and a Beach Boys/bluesy feel. Now, I’ve grown tired of that niche and those influences, and I’m moving fastidiously into a much darker, mature place than I would’ve ever expected through listening to artists like Radiohead, The Cure, Annie Lennox, Fiona Apple, and Rufus Wainwright. Suddenly, I have an urge to only write in minor chord (pro)gressions, and to supplement those eery melodies alongside lyrics with a tinge of tragedy and cynicism to them."<br /><br />Concerning artistic development, Joel, who described herself as having been "overly polite" and avoiding confrontation, advised in late 2010 that "Your songs are your babies, you have to protect them, and you cannot let anybody tweak them or finish them in a way that you feel isn't right."</span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/12/angelina-jolie-angelina-jolie-born.html">Angelina Jolie</a>, born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and film director. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She is often cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.</div>
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Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).<br />
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Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel The Cradle of Life (2003). She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008)—her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date[8]—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie made her directorial debut with the wartime drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011).<br />
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Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship notable for fervent media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children and three biological children.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_family"><span style="font-size: small;">After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father. When she was six years old, her mother and stepfather, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York; they returned to Los Angeles five years later. She then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions.<br /><br />At the age of 14, Jolie dropped out of her acting classes and aspired to become a funeral director. She began working as a fashion model, modeling mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and London. During this period, she wore black clothing, experimented with knife play, and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. She graduated from high school and returned to theater studies, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos."<br /><br />Jolie suffered episodes of suicidal depression throughout her teens and early twenties. She felt isolated at Beverly Hills High School among the children of some of the area's affluent families, as her mother survived on a more modest income, and she was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses and braces. She found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she started to self-harm; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me." She also began experimenting with drugs; by the age of 20, she had tried "just about every drug possible," including heroin.<br /><br />Jolie has had a difficult relationship with her father. Due to Voight's marital infidelity and the resulting breakup of her parents' marriage, she was estranged from her father for many years. They reconciled and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but their relationship again deteriorated. In July 2002, Jolie—who had long used her middle name as a stage name to establish her own identity as an actress—filed a request to legally drop Voight as her surname, which was granted on September 12, 2002. In August of that year, Voight claimed his daughter had "serious mental problems" on Access Hollywood.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>In response, Jolie released a statement in which she indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father. She explained that because she had adopted her son Maddox, she did not think it was healthy for her to associate with Voight. In the wake of her beloved mother's death from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007, Jolie again reconciled with her father after a six-year estrangement.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_work:_1982.3B_1991.E2.80.931997"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">When she was seven years old, Jolie had a small part in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), a movie co-written by and starring her father, Jon Voight. She committed to acting at the age of 16, but initially found it difficult to pass auditions, often being told that she was "too dark." She appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, as well as in several music videos, namely Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads's "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993). She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens."<br /><br />Jolie began her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget, straight-to-video science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Jolie was so disappointed with the film that she did not audition again for a year. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995). The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release.</span></span></span></span></h3>
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She next appeared in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in The Bronx, New York. In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) she played a young woman who falls for Danny Aiello's middle-aged character, while he develops feelings for her mother, played by Anne Archer. That same year, Jolie also portrayed Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_work:_1982.3B_1991.E2.80.931997"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, set in the Los Angeles underworld. The movie was not well received by critics; Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie [...] finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be Blossom's girlfriend, and maybe she is." She then appeared in the television film True Women (1997), a historical romantic drama set in the American West and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year, she also appeared as a stripper in the music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by the Rolling Stones.</span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_work:_1982.3B_1991.E2.80.931997"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jolie's career prospects began to improve after she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in TNT's George Wallace (1997). She portrayed Cornelia Wallace, the second wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, played by Gary Sinise. The film was very well received by critics and won, among other awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Jolie also received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance.<br /><br />In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award.<br /><br />In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting, Jolie preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shooting Gia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'" After Gia wrapped in 1997, Jolie announced that she had given up acting for good, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give."<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>She separated from Miller and moved to New York, where she enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attend writing classes; she later described it as "just good for me to collect myself." Encouraged by her Golden Globe Award win for George Wallace and the positive critical reception of Gia, she resumed her career.<br /><br />Jolie returned to film in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen. Later that year, she appeared in Playing by Heart, part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Jon Stewart. The film received predominantly positive reviews, and Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.<br /><br />In 1999, she starred in the comedy-drama Pushing Tin, alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film received a mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie) [is] a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." She then co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), an adaptation of a crime novel by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide, but was a critical failure. The Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."<br /><br />"Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim."<br />—Roger Ebert on Jolie's performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999)<br /><br />Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic mental patient Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), an adaptation of author Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name. While Winona Ryder played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe Award, her second Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation."<br /><br />In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, the ex-girlfriend of car thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, and The Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth." She later explained that the film had been a welcome relief after the emotionally heavy role of Lisa Rowe. It became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally</span> </span></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_family"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger." The movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star.</span></span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_family"></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_family"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline." In 2002, she starred in Life or Something Like It as an ambitious television reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."<br />Jolie at the Cologne premiere of Alexander in 2004<br /><br />Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), which established her among Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. The sequel was not as lucrative as the original, earning $156 million at the international box office. She appeared in the music video for Korn's "Did My Time", which was used to promote the film. She next starred in Beyond Borders (2003), as a socialite who joins aid workers in Africa and Asia. The film reflected Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, but it was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."<br /><br />In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives. She portrayed an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." She also provided the voice of the angelfish Lola in the DreamWorks animated movie Shark Tale (2004), and had a brief appearance in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), a science fiction adventure film shot entirely with actors in front of a bluescreen. That same year, Jolie played Olympias in Alexander, about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, which director Oliver Stone attributed to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bisexuality, but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States.<br /><br />Jolie then starred opposite Brad Pitt in the 2005 action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which tells the story of a bored married couple, John and Jane Smith, who find out that they are both secret assassins. The film received mixed reviews, but was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." The movie earned $478 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest grossing film of 2005.<br />Jolie as Christine Collins on the set of Changeling in 2007<br /><br />Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, an officer based on James Jesus Angleton and played by Matt Damon. Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret "Clover" Russell, Wilson's neglected wife. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."<br /><br />In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures daily life in 27 locations around the world during a single week. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was intended for distribution to high schools through the National Education Association. Jolie then starred as Mariane Pearl in the documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007). Based on Pearl's memoir of the same name, the film chronicles the kidnapping and murder of her husband, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan. The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving," played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent." Jolie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. She also played Grendel's mother in the animated epic Beowulf (2007), which was created through the motion capture technique.<br /><br />Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted, an adaptation of Mark Millar's graphic novel of the same name. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved an international success, earning $342 million worldwide<span style="font-size: small;">.</span> She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008). With revenue of $632 million internationally, it became the third-highest grossing film of 2008. That same year, Jolie took on the lead role in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling. Based in part on the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, the film stars Jolie as Christine Collins, who is reunited with her kidnapped son in 1928 Los Angeles—only to realize the boy is an impostor. The Chicago Tribune noted, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes [...] when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril." Jolie received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award.<br />Jolie on the Salt panel at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010<br /><br />Jolie next starred in the 2010 thriller Salt, her first film in two years. She starred alongside Liev Schreiber as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after she is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent. Originally written as male, the character Salt underwent a gender change after a Colombia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the role to director Phillip Noyce. The film was an international success with revenue of $294 million. It received mixed to positive reviews, with Jolie's performance earning praise; Empire remarked, "When it comes to selling incredible, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in the action business." She also starred opposite Johnny Depp in The Tourist (2010), which was a major critical failure. Peter Travers wrote, "Depp and Jolie hit career lows, producing the chemistry of high-fashion zombies." After a slow start at the domestic box office, the film went on to gross $278 million worldwide. Jolie received a controversial Golden Globe Award nomination, which was speculated to have been given merely to ensure her high-profile presence at the awards ceremony.<br /><br />In 2011, Jolie reprised her voice role as Master Tigress in the animated DreamWorks sequel Kung Fu Panda 2. It became the fourth-highest grossing film of 2011 and Jolie's highest grossing film to date, earning $666 million at the international box office. She also made her directorial feature debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner of war, set during the 1992–95 Bosnian War. Jolie, who had twice visited Bosnia-Herzegovina in her capacity as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, explained that she made the film to rekindle attention for the survivors of a war that took place in recent history. The film, which Jolie also scripted and co-produced, aroused both praise and criticism in the Balkans; the response from Bosniak war-victims advocacy organizations was "overwhelmingly positive," while a Serb war prisoners group decried the film for its alleged anti-Serb bias. Sarajevo's regional government named Jolie an honorary citizen of the capital for raising awareness of the war. In the Land of Blood and Honey won the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America, which honors films that highlight provocative social issues. It also received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.<br /><br />Jolie will play the Disney villain Maleficent in the upcoming film of the same name, where the character's background story will be revealed.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/12/paris-hilton-biography.html">Paris Whitney Hilton</a> (born February 17, 1981) is an American heiress,
socialite, television personality, businesswoman, fashion designer,
entrepreneur, model, actress, producer, author and singer. She is the
great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. Born
in New York City and raised in both California and New York, Hilton
began a modeling career as a teenager when she signed with Donald
Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Her hard-partying lifestyle and
rumoured short-lived relationships with Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar de
la Hoya led her to earn a position as a fixture in entertainment news.
For her notoriety as a socialite, Hilton was hailed by the media as "New
York's leading It Girl" in 2001.<br />
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Hilton gained significant notoriety for a sex tape, which was released shortly before the premiere of the reality series The Simple Life (2003), which was a huge success and brought Hilton and co-star Nicole Richie to an international recognition. Hilton then released her 2004 autobiography Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, landed a supporting role in the 2005 horror film House of Wax, and recorded the 2006 music album Paris. She later starred in the series Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2008) and its two spin-offs, Paris Hilton's British Best Friend (2009) and Paris Hilton’s Dubai BFF (2009). Hilton has since done a voice role in the TV movie The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (2010) and appeared in the reality show The World According to Paris (2011).<br />
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She has appeared in several lists compiled by magazines such as Maxim, FHM as well as Stuff. She is also regularly placed on lists composed by Forbes magazine and was named one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health. Critics also suggest that Hilton epitomizes the title of famous for being famous; she is an example of the modern phenomenon of the "celebutante", the celebrity who rises to fame not because of their talent or work but because of their inherited wealth and controversial lifestyle. In recent years, she has parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement — her fragrances have reportedly earned $1.5 billion. Currently, there are 42 Paris Hilton Stores worldwide and her brand includes perfumes, handbags, watches, footwear, among other products. Hilton earns over $10 million a year from her products sales and as of 2005 she was paid $300,000 for appearances in clubs and events. Her net worth is estimated to be $100 million as of 2012.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span dir="auto">Paris Hilton</span></span></h1>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hilton
was born in New York City, New York. Her mother, Kathy Hilton (née
Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino), is a socialite and former actress, and her
father, Richard Howard "Rick" Hilton, is a businessman. She is the
oldest of four children: she has one sister, Nicholai Olivia "Nicky"
Hilton (born 1983), and two brothers, Barron Nicholas Hilton II (born
1989) and Conrad Hughes Hilton III (born 1994). Her paternal
great-grandfather was Conrad Hilton, who founded the Hilton Hotels. She
is of Norwegian, German, Italian (from a maternal great-grandfather),
English, and Irish ancestry. She is a half-niece of two child stars of
the 1970s, Kim and Kyle Richards.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">She was raised Roman Catholic and still attends Mass. Hilton moved between numerous exclusive homes in her youth, including a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Beverly Hills, and the Hamptons. As a child she was good friends with other socialites, including Nicole Richie and Kim Kardashian.<br /><br />Growing up in Los Angeles, Hilton attended the Buckley School and the exclusive St. Paul the Apostle Church and School, where she graduated in 1995. She then attended her freshman year of high school at the Marywood-Palm Valley School in Rancho Mirage, California from 1995–1996. In 1996, when Hilton was 14 years old, her family moved to the East Coast. In New York, she briefly attended Convent of the Sacred Heart (while Lady Gaga was a student there) in 1996 before transferring again to the Dwight School. At 16, Hilton spent one year at the Provo Canyon School, a school for emotionally troubled teens. She then attended the Canterbury Boarding School, in New Milford, Connecticut from the fall of 1998 to February 1999 for her junior year, where she was a member of the ice hockey team. In February 1999, the month she turned 18, she was expelled from Canterbury for violating school rules. After being expelled from Canterbury, she returned to the Dwight School before dropping out a few months later as a high school junior. She later earned her GED.2000–02: Career beginnings<br /><br />Hilton began modeling as a child, initially at charity events. When she was 19, she signed with Donald Trump's modeling agency, T Management. Hilton stated that while she "wanted to model," Trump was wishing to have her at his agency, and after she signed she was "loving" the work. While working as a model, she was becoming a daily fixture in entertainment news for her heavy partying; according to Vanity Fair, Cisco Adler, producer of Sweetie Pie (where Hilton acted in) stated that she was "a young party girl who gets sucked into the L.A. party scene and grew up a little too fast". In 2001, Hilton developed a reputation as a socialite, being identified as "New York's leading It Girl" whose fame was beginning to "extend beyond the New York tabloids". Around that time, she appeared in several magazine covers such as UK's Tatler, Italy's Giola and USA's Vanity Fair and FHM.<br /><br />Hilton started to act by doing cameo appearances in films such as Zoolander (2001). In 2002, she was one of the leads in the straight-to-video horror movie Nine Lives. The film did well in sales. Beyondhollywood.com felt that "Hilton’s presence in the cast is the film’s main marketing point, which is plainly obvious by the fact that she’s front and center on the box art and is the only recognizable name in the cast" and also noted that her character was basically herself: "Hilton plays — what else? — a spoiled American socialite who shops on three continents in one day. The script is even clever enough to take a few jabs at Hilton’s real-life social standing, even mentioning that she’s been on the cover of a few sleaze rags in her day". In that year, she became engaged to fashion model Jason Shaw. However they broke up in early 2003.</span></span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hilton's
breakout role came in 2003, when she co-starred with socialite
counterpart Nicole Richie in the Fox reality series The Simple Life,
which premiered on December 2, 2003, shortly after Hilton's sex tape was
released. The show started airing to surprisingly well received
ratings; the premiere episode drew 13,000,000 viewers, increasing Fox's
Adults 18–49 rating a phenomenal 79%. "Everyone likes it because it's
for all ages. People from the city will be like, 'Oh my God, I cannot
believe you did that,' and people from the country think it's funny
because they do it every day", Hilton said about the reason why the
show was successful. Some entertainment writers felt the overnight
success of Hilton was spawned by the whole tape controversy.
Entertainment Weekly commented: "I dare say the Paris Hilton-Rick
Salomon tape received more print and television coverage in a week than
the run-up to The Simple Life received in the months since its premiere
was announced. We in the media have become Paris-ites". People
magazine wrote that the show "no doubt was helped by the very public
saga of a pirated three-year-old video tape, which recently made the
rounds on the Internet showing Hilton engaged in various sex acts with
ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon". At that time, she started to be
recognizable for her onscreen dumb blonde persona in reality television.
According to UK's Now magazine, in a 2009 interview she said that "For
five seasons I was stuck doing this character. It was kind of hard
always having to play that character when it's not who I am". In a
January 2011 interview with Movieline, she remarked: "In The Simple
Life, producers told me to play a dumb blonde and that's what I did. I
didn't realize at the time that I'd have to do that for five seasons and
keep up this character of me. I think people assume that that is how I
am in real life but I'm actually quite a businesswoman". The year
the show premiered, she started a relationship with singer Nick Carter,
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hilton launched a lifestyle brand in 2004. She helped design a collection of purses for Japanese label Samantha Thavasa. The 10-piece line collection, a jewelry line designed by Hilton, started being on sale on Amazon.com. "I grew up surrounded by the finest fashion and jewelry designs, and I really wanted to create a line that was beautiful and very high quality, yet affordable and available to everyone," Hilton stated. "This jewelry is for the heiress in everyone." The line was described as "inspired by Hilton's personal style – feminine, flirtatious and glamorous – with heart, star and cross motifs." In the autumn of 2004, Hilton released an autobiographical book, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>co-written by Merle Ginsberg, which includes full color photographs of her and her advice on life as an heiress. She mentioned in the book she was looking for a simpler life: "I don't always want the glamorous, jet-set life," she wrote. "Someday soon, I want to have children and a big house with a lot of animals – like my parents had". The book was in the New York Times bestseller list, ranking at seven. The quote "Dress cute wherever you go; life is too short to blend in", which appeared in the book was added to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in September 2009. She was involved in the creation of a perfume line by Parlux Fragrances. Originally set to be a small release, high demand led to a wider release before December 2004. The launch was followed by a 47% increase in sales of Parlux products, predominantly due to sales of the Hilton-branded perfume. After the success of Hilton's perfume, Parlux Fragrances released several more perfumes with her name, including fragrances for men. Hilton released her second book called Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All to Me in 2005 and also in that year, she launched her second fragrance Just Me.<br />Hilton in 2005, when she played a significant role in the horror movie House of Wax.<br /><br />After Hilton hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest, band Keane in February 2005, she got her first major role in the horror thriller film House of Wax, in which Elisha Cuthbert and Chad Michael Murray also starred. The movie, after being first screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, opened in May 2005, receiving mixed reviews. Giving a positive review for her performance, Matthew Turner for the View London said that Hilton "does better than you might expect". But while MTV felt that she was "actually pretty good", TV Guide called Hilton "talentless". Her role as Paige Edwards won the Teen Choice Award for "Best Scream" and earned her a nomination for "Choice Breakout Performance – Female". (It also won her the 2005 Razzie for "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 2005 Golden Raspberry Awards.) She also earned a nomination for "Best Frightened Performance" at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards. House of Wax grossed over $70,000,000. From May to October of that year, she was engaged to Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis.<br /><br />The Simple Life, which ran for three seasons on FOX, was cancelled after a dispute between Hilton and Richie in 2005. Hilton commented: "It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did, and that's all I'm ever going to say about it." Neither Richie nor Hilton spoke publicly about the cause of the split, though it was speculated that the pair fell out due to Richie showing one of Hilton's homemade sex tapes to a group of their friends. They renewed their friendship in October 2006.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">After The Simple Life was cancelled by FOX in 2005, other networks, such as NBC, The WB, VH1 and MTV were all reported to be interested in obtaining the rights to air new seasons of the show. On November 28, 2005, E! announced that they had picked up The Simple Life and had ordered production go ahead on the fourth season, along with the rights to re-air the first three seasons. Shooting for the new season began February 27, 2006. The premiere of the fourth season brought high ratings for the network with 1.3 viewers. She released her self-titled debut album, Paris, under the label on August 22, 2006. The album reached number six on the Billboard 200 for a week and sold over 600,000 copies worldwide The first single "Stars Are Blind" was a massive success in the United States as it was played at more than 125 pop stations across the country. The song also was a hit worldwide; it was a top ten in 17 countries.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Although The Guardian felt that Hilton sound "both distracted and bored stiff", Allmusic commented that the album was "more fun than anything released by Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson".<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>As a whole, critical reception was mixed.<br /><br />The straight-to-DVD motion picture Bottoms Up was released in late 2006. The film came out with negative reviews; Australia's Urban Cinefile remarked that Hilton, as the lead role, "spends most of her screen time flicking her hair as she delivers lines like 'books are those things you read'". In December 2006, Pledge This!, film in which Hilton appeared and produced, premiered in a limited release before going directly to video. She missed the premiere of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in protest to the addition of some nude scenes that were going to be included in the film. Hilton said, "I was so angry I snubbed my own premiere." In August 2008, Worldwide Entertainment Group Inc. sued Hilton in the Miami District Court, alleging she did not honor her contractual agreement to provide "reasonable promotion and publicity" for the film. It was reported she was paid $1,000,000 for her work.<br /><br />In September 2006, Hilton was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol with a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the level at which it is illegal to drive in California. The arrest complicated the shooting of the fifth season of series. Hilton's driving license was subsequently suspended in November 2006, and in January 2007 she pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge. Her punishment was 36 months' probation and fines of about $1,500.<br /><br />On January 10, 2007, Hilton released the DreamCatchers line of hair extensions in partnership with Hair Tech International. On January 22, 2007, Hilton's private life was thrust into the media spotlight with the launch of ParisExposed.com, a website that features images of personal documents, video, and other material allegedly obtained when the contents of a storage locker rented by Hilton was auctioned off due to lack of a $208 payment. The website began charging online access to this material and received 1.2 million visitors in just over 40 hours. Among the contents were medications, diaries, photographs, contracts and love letters, as well as a video of her shot by Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Hilton later obtained a temporary injunction against ParisExposed.com, closing down the website. Also in that month, Hilton was pulled over for driving with a suspended license and signed a document acknowledging that she was not permitted to drive.<br /><br />In February 2007, Hilton was caught driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone, again with a suspended license. She also did not have her headlights on even though it was after dark. Prosecutors in the office of the Los Angeles City Attorney charged that those actions, along with the failure to enroll in a court-ordered alcohol education program, constituted a violation of the terms of her probation. On May 4, Hilton was sentenced by Judge Michael T. Sauer to 45 days in jail for violating her probation. Initially, Hilton planned to appeal the sentence, and supported an online petition asking California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a pardon. The petition was created and organized on May 5, 2007, by Joshua Morales. In response, various opponents started a counter-petition to maintain the sentence. Both petitions attracted tens of thousands of signatures. Hilton later switched lawyers and dropped her plans to appeal.<br /><br />Hilton was required to begin her jail term on June 5, 2007, and checked herself into the Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail in Lynwood, California after attending the 2007 MTV Movie Awards on June 3, 2007. However Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca signed orders on June 7, reassigning Hilton to 40 days of home confinement with an electronic monitoring device due to an unspecified medical condition. Baca commented on the release saying, "My message to those who don't like celebrities is that punishing celebrities more than the average American is not justice," contesting that under normal circumstances, Hilton would not have served any time in jail, and he added that "The special treatment, in a sense, appears to be because of her celebrity status ... She got more time in jail". On the same day that Hilton was released from jail, Judge Michael Sauer summoned her to reappear in court the following morning (June 8) as the sentencing statement had explicitly said she would serve time in jail with "No work furlough. No work release. No electronic monitoring." At the hearing he declined to be briefed by Hilton's attorney in private chambers on the nature of her condition and sent her back to jail to serve out her original 45-day sentence. Upon hearing the sentence, Hilton shouted, "It's not right!" and started screaming, requesting to hug her mother who was present in the courtroom. Concern about Hilton's condition led to her being moved to the medical wing of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, and she was moved back to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood on June 13.<br /><br />While in jail, Hilton was influenced by the clergyman minister Marty Angelo: Hilton referred to starting a "new beginning" during her interview with talk show host Larry King on June 28, 2007, two days after being released from jail, and quoted from Angelo's autobiography, entitled Once Life Matters: A New Beginning. On June 9, 2007, Marty Angelo petitioned Sauer, asking to serve out the remainder of Hilton's jail sentence if the judge would release her to an alternative treatment program, but the petition was turned down. On the same show, she revealed taking Adderall for ADHD since childhood. After Hilton faced time in jail, The Simple Life finished its run at the end of the fifth season in July 2007. In early August 2007, Hilton signed a licensing agreement with Antebi for a signature footwear line, "Paris Hilton Footwear", featuring stilettos, platforms, flats, wedges, and a sports collection, expected to reach stores in 2008. In mid August 2007, Hilton launched a line of tops, dresses, coats, and jeans at the Kitson Boutique in Los Angeles. She felt the event was "a dream come true" and described the clothing line as " fun, bright and flashy". In December 2007, Hilton posed nude, covered in gold paint, to promote "Rich Prosecco", a canned version of an Italian sparkling wine.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>She also traveled to Germany to promote the drink, appearing in various print ads for the product.</span></span></span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Around that time, Hilton's grandfather, Barron Hilton, pledged 97% of his estate (the Hilton family fortune) to a charitable organization founded by their great-grandfather, Conrad N. Hilton, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. As a result, the inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished. An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made (the proceeds of the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation), with a further $1.1 billion due after his death. He cited the actions of his father, Conrad N. Hilton, as the motivation for his pledge. Conrad, Barron's father, had left 97% of his estate to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Barron subsequently contested his father's will to win back a sizeable amount of the Hilton family fortune in a settlement. By leaving his estate to the Foundation, Barron is donating not only the fortune he has amassed on his own, but he is also returning the Hilton family fortune amassed by his father, Conrad, to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, where it would have gone over 30 years ago had Barron not contested his father's will. Barron stated he is proud to follow his father's example. Also in 2007, Hilton modeled for 2 be free and her fourth perfume came out, called Can Can.</span></span></span></span><b> </b></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hilton's
love for dogs led her to create an apparel line for dogs called Little
Lily by Paris Hilton, with some of the proceeds going to benefit animal
rescue. "I have 17 dogs and I like to dress them, so I started designing
this clothing line and it's really cute, like dresses and jeans –
everything you can imagine for humans, but for dogs," she said in an
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In April 2008, she guest starred on the My Name is Earl episode "I Won't Die with a Little Help from My Friends". On August 6, 2008, Hilton appeared in a video online, Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad, directed by Adam McKay and posted on the Funny or Die website. The video featured Hilton in a parody advertisement, and was made in response to a television campaign advert Celeb, by the 2008 John McCain presidential campaign. In Celeb, McCain briefly compared his rival Barack Obama to that of celebrities such as Hilton and Britney Spears, going on to question his readiness to lead and criticize his energy policy. In what The Washington Post opined "might just be her best acting role yet," Hilton appears in the video wearing a leopard print swimsuit. The video received seven million views in two days garnering worldwide press coverage, and drew both written and verbal media response from both campaigns. In October Hilton featured in a second parody video posted on Funny or Die, Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen, alongside Hollywood actor Martin Sheen, with his son, actor Charlie Sheen, appearing in a cameo role. Hilton, heavily made up and in a green evening dress, interviews Martin Sheen in a kitchen, discussing various political issues, seeking his advice from his days playing a fictional President on The West Wing<br />Hilton at the premiere of documentary Paris, Not France at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.<br /><br />A the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, it was screened a documentary about Hilton called Paris, Not France. "I think there's a lot of misconceptions in the media. This movie is very personal. It's kind of like a diary", she said about the motion picture. Hilton admitted that when she talked with the movie director Adria Petty, she "broke it down to her and talked about things that have never been spoken about before, and people will learn a lot from that". It is shown in the documentary how she felt about the way the media had portrayed her: "I'm basically being judged, and they're creating this false person, and I can't do anything about it". Petty, during the premiere at the festival remarked that Hilton has "created a mystery about herself that a film like this maybe wouldn't have been a great thing for her in the past. But now, she's been so saturated in the media. We're so used to her. To see a new side of her is so exciting". Later, in 2009, the film was aired in July for MTV.<br /><br />Hilton starred in an MTV reality series titled Paris Hilton's My New BFF, about her search for a new best friend. The series premiered on September 30, 2008. That day, Hilton released her song "My BFF" on KIIS-FM with host Ryan Seacrest. It was the theme song for the BFF show . The series proved to be a hit; it was watched in its premiere episode by 1,200,000 viewers and averaged a 1.6 rating among spectators 12–34 in its Tuesday 10 p.m slot, topping all other cable shows in the hour. Hilton's next project was the goth/rock musical with a cult film following, Repo! The Genetic Opera, where she played the character of Amber Sweet, the surgery- and painkiller-addicted daughter of a biotech magnate. Horror.com said: " Not only is this by far Hilton's best role, she's actually got a grain of gravitas in the end". However, Jam! Movies called her a "hopeless twit as an actress". She remarked that "Just getting a role like this offered to me was new to me because I always get offered a certain role just basically playing myself". She was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actress in 2009 for her role. The film, first screened at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con International, received a limited release in the United States and Canada on November 7, 2008. Around that time, Hilton released her fifth fragrance for women called, Fairy Dust and broke up with Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden, who she was in a relationship with since early that year.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />As a result of the American version success, on January 29, 2009, Paris Hilton's British Best Friend, a spin-off, began airing on ITV2 in England. She began to film the show in October 2008. She said that she would not leave London until she could "find that amazing girl or guy who can meet the challenges of being" her "British bestie". She also felt that her friend had to be "hot", "can keep up" with her – it had to be somebody who "is real and won't be a backstabber". The show did quite well; it was watched by 428,000 viewers in its first episode and brought 605,000 viewers for its finale. The second season of Paris Hilton's My New BFF premiered on June 2, 2009. In that same month, Hilton shot Paris Hilton's Dubai BFF (which, after some complication, it was aired in 2011). Runner-up of the British series Kat McKenzie died on July 3, 2009, of a suspected overdose. Hilton guest-starred in the fifth episode of Supernatural's fifth season.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>"Paris Hilton is playing a demonic creature that takes the form of ... Paris Hilton," creator and executive producer Eric Kripke said in a statement. "It'll be a fun, irreverent episode and we here at Supernatural are thrilled that Paris agreed to do it. In July 2009, her sixth fragrance for women Siren was launched. She won the Female Celebrity Fragrance of the Year Award at the 2009 Fifi Awards. She got involved in the creation of a sunglasses line by Gripping Eyewear. She first launched the line on October 7, 2009 and the collection became available in stores in March 2010. The next month, she launched a Hair and Beauty Products line, which includes a range of shampoos, conditioners, and hair vitamins<br /><br />Also in 2009, she began dating The Hills star Doug Reinhardt;[164] Hilton referred to her intention to marry Reinhardt, saying "He's gonna be my husband." The couple broke up in June 2009, only to get back together again in August of the same year. However, on April 13, 2010, Hilton reportedly split from Reinhardt because she was worried he was just using her to further his career.</span></span></span></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In February 2010, Hilton participated in an advertising campaign for the launch of the Brazilian beer Devassa Bem Loura, whose slogan in English roughly translates to "very blonde bitch".<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>As part of the campaign, Hilton joined the brewery's float in the carnival of Rio de Janeiro. On July 2, Hilton was accused of smoking marijuana at the 2010 FIFA World Cup game between Brazil and the Netherlands. She was escorted from the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by local police, however the case was later dismissed for unknown reasons. Hilton's publicist, Dawn Miller, stated "I can confirm that the incident was a complete misunderstanding and it was actually another person in the group who did it". Two weeks later, Hilton was detained and released after being caught in possession of cannabis at Figari airport, Corsica.<br /><br />On August 10, Hilton released her 10th fragrance, Tease inspired by Marilyn Monroe.[172] On August 19, she launched a footwear line in Las Vegas. The collection costs between $60 and $160 and Hilton, during an interview, said that she "chose the styling, design, materials and colours for the line and also wanted to make sure it was super comfortable". That same month, she was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession in Las Vegas while her boyfriend, Cy Waits, was booked on charges of driving under the influence. Initially her defence claimed that the handbag containing 0.8g of cocaine was not hers as "This purse in question was a high street brand – and by no means up to her high fashion standards.". Later she claimed some of the personal items (like cash and credit cards) from the bag acknowledging it was hers. In order to avoid being convicted on felony, Hilton pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors on September 17, 2010. Under the terms of the plea bargain, she was sentenced to one year probation, 200 hours community service, $2,000 fine and ordered to complete a drug abuse program. Clark County District Attorney David Roger said that: "If she is arrested for anything besides a minor traffic violation she will spend a year in jail. There will be no discussion. The court will have no discretion." On September 21, 2010, while travelling to a press conference in Tokyo to promote fashion and fragrance lines, Hilton and her sister Nicky were stopped by immigration officers at Narita Airport, Japan because of Hilton's conviction for drug possession a day earlier. Under Japan's strict anti-drug laws, all people sentenced for any drug crime are in general denied entry. Narita officials questioned Hilton "for hours" and Hilton and her sister were forced to sleep over at the airport-hotel. On September 22, Japanese authorities decided not to grant Hilton entry into the country and she was put on a plane back to the U.S. the same day. Other stops on their Asian promotion tour were cancelled, as countries like Indonesia and Malaysia have even tougher anti-drug laws. The documentary Teenage Paparazzo, in which Hilton appeared, aired on HBO on September 27. The motion picture was met with critical acclaim.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">She provided her voice for the character of Bella in the ABC made-for-television film The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (it is her first voice-over role). She said of the film: "I just think it's a really cute film" and that "I love animal movies, I love Christmas movies, and also, my grandmother, who passed away a couple of years ago from breast cancer, actually had a standard poodle and her name was Paris. So when I'm watching this, it's kind of like watching grandma's dog. It's kind of like a sign to me."<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The film aired on November 28, 2010 and attracted good ratings with 2.611 million viewers. In December 2010 Hilton launched her own motorcycle team. In November 2011, her Spanish driver Maverick Vinales won the final race and come up third overall in the 125cc world championship.She modeled for the second time (the first time was early 2010) at the Brazil Fashion Week in 2011. In February, it was released a new collection of fragrances called the Passport collection. The perfumes are inspired by popular cities such as Paris, France; South Beach, Florida; and Tokyo, Japan, The following month, she launched a footwear collection in Mexico. On May 12, she opened her third store in Philippines. The store is located at Abreeza Mall in Davao City and it displays bags, earrings, wallets, belts, caps and perfumes.<br /><br />On June 1, 2011, Oxygen's show The World According to Paris, which marked Hilton's comeback to reality television, premiered. The show followed her in her daily life, and attracted 409,000 viewers. Although being the highest Wednesday premiere for a show, it was considered a bomb, which led to the suspicion Hilton's popularity had faded. The New York Times wrote that Hilton "is an attractive woman with proven talent for marketing and self-promotion, though as a reality heroine she seems a little passé — a Sony Walkman in an iPod era, a Friendster in the age of Facebook or, to put it in context, a single-process blonde in a triple-process world", and also remarked that she "appears to have plenty of boyfriends, present and ex. Paparazzi still snap her picture. But it’s hard to see how she can recapture the kind of audience she enjoyed in her heyday – even by streaming her premiere live on Facebook".[198] She appeared on the show alongside her boyfriend Cy Waits (a entrepreneur and co-owner of Tryst Nightclub and XS Nightclub in Las Vegas), who she broke up with in June. Hilton was named "Billion Dollar Entrepreneur" by Variety magazine and was featured on the cover. She opened up her fourth store in the Philippines on August 18, 2011. In September, she launched a footwear line in Istanbul, Turkey<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>and a Paris Hilton brand store was opened in India with plans to open 8 more stores. She also modeled during Ukraine Fashion Week for designer Andre Tan in October 2011.</span></span></span></span><b> </b></h2>
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September 2011, at the Sun City music festival, Afrojack (who, from
December 2011 to May 2012, was rumoured to be Hilton's boyfriend<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>previewed
Good Time, an unfinished demo with Hilton's vocals. In the same month,
DJ Antoine revealed that he had met with Hilton twice to discuss
collaborating on her upcoming album. In October, Manufactured Superstars
revealed that their next single would be "Drunk Text", which stars
Hilton in the music video. The video was leaked on February 23, 2012 and
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from YouTube. However it was later stated that the song was not part of
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">In January 2012, at the 69th Golden Globe Awards After Party, she stated she was going to appear in Darren Lynn Bousman's horror film Devil's Carnival, remarking that the film was a musical. In an interview with the director, he admitted that although considering Hilton for a role in the film, he felt that "there just wasn't anything in there that was perfect for her". He told, however, he will work with Hilton in the future. In March 2012, it was reported that she will appear as herself in Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, a film about a group of teenagers who robbed the houses of celebrities such as Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom between 2008 and 2009,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>is scheduled to be released in 2013. In February 2012, she launched a new line of sunglasses in Shanghai. The launch was a "huge success", she said.<br /><br />During an interview with MTV News, she revealed Afrojack was producing her entire album and that she made a song with LMFAO. She also stated that she was working with Snoop Dogg and Flo Rida.[230] It was announced in early May that the first single, which was called "After Midnight", was going to premiere on June 5. However, in her DJ debut at the Pop Music Festival in Brazil,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>she premiered her single called "Last Night". Having attracted extremely negative reviews after some videos were posted on Youtube.com and being dissed by the DJs Deadmau5, Samantha Ronson, and even Afrojack,[235] she gained positive reviews from DJ Poet, fans and the crowd at the festival. As a whole, her set received mixed reviews. Hilton's footwear line was nominated for Best Celebrity Licensee of the Year at the 2012 International Licensing Excellence Awards. Around that time, she released her fifteen perfume, Dazzle.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span class="mw-headline" id="Life_and_career"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Hilton appeared in a music video for Korean singer, Kim Jang Hoon. The filming took place at the American resort of Malibu Beach, California from August 24 to 25, 2012. An agent for the Korean singer stated that they had considered several Hollywood stars for the lead actress role in Kim's music video, including Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johansson, as well as Hilton. However, she was finally chosen to play the role following a survey conducted by the Korean public who recognised Paris more than the other contenders. It is alleged that Hilton was paid $1 million for her appearance in the video shoot, with a 3D premiere that took place in October 2012.<br /><br />On September 20, 2012, an audio recording of her making derogatory comments about gay people appeared on the Internet. On the same day, after the backlash caused over the comments, Hilton issued an apology throughout GLAAD where she wrote she is a "huge supporter of the gay community" and labels gay people as "the strongest and most inspiring people I know". As a result of the remarks, gay-focused channel Logo pulled a documentary about her called Paris Hilton Inc., which was scheduled to air. Since that month, she has been in a relationship with Spanish model River Viiperi.<br /><br />Hilton will have a part in a Turkish film called Yarmani. Being a comedy, the movie is going to be about "an ingenious Anatolian boy who becomes a famous fashion guru". Filming will take place in Los Angeles, Instanbul and Cappodocia. The director of the film is Baris Denge and Hilton's co-star is actor Erkan Kose.<br /><br />After a falling out between Afrojack and Hilton caused over her DJ set, her single "Last Night" was handed to Pitbull for his album Global Warming. On November 20, 2012, the song that Hilton recorded was leaked online and it features a collaboration with rapper Lil Wayne. Hilton opened her fifth store in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia in early November 2012. As Mecca is considered the "holiest city in the Muslim world" and Saudi Arabia is a conservative country, a controversy regarding her personal life was ganerated on Twitter. In early December, she modeled for designers Shane and Falguni Peacock at India Fashion Week. She also made a performance as a DJ there. Like her debut, the set was met negatively after a video was posted on Youtube but received acclaim from the audience.<br /><br />She said she will be opening a beach club: "The first one is opening in the Philippines soon. It's going to have nightclubs, restaurants, bars, gyms. Everything really". It has been reported that her fragrances have grossed over $1.4 billion in revenue since 2005. As of November 2012, there are 42 Paris Hilton Stores worldwide, and her signature brand includes 17 different products lines such as t-shirts, footwear, fragrances, handbags and watches. She earns over $10 million a year from her products sales and she is estimated to have a net worth of $100 million as of 2012.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/12/taylor-swift-biography.html">Taylor Alison Swift</a> (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards.<br /><br />Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008. Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless became the top-selling album of 2009 and was supported by an extensive concert tour. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Swift's third album, 2010's Speak Now, sold over one million copies in its first week of US release and was supported by the thirteen-month Speak Now World Tour. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards. Swift's fourth album, Red, was released in 2012. Its opening US sales of 1.21 million were the highest recorded in a decade, with Swift becoming the only female artist to have two million-plus opening weeks. The lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", was Swift's first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became a worldwide hit. The Red Tour is scheduled to begin in March 2013.<br /><br />Swift is known for her hook-laden, narrative songs about her experiences as a teenager and young adult. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift's other achievements include six Grammy Awards, eleven American Music Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, six Academy of Country Music Awards and thirteen BMI Awards. She has sold over 26 million albums and 70 million song downloads worldwide. In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), the ensemble comedy Valentine's Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012). Forbes estimates that she is worth over $165 million. As a philanthropist, Swift supports arts education, children's literacy, natural disaster relief, LGBT anti-discrimination efforts, and charities for sick children.</div>
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<b>Early life</b><br /><br />Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, is a Merrill Lynch financial adviser. He was raised in Pennsylvania and is the descendant of three generations of bank presidents. Her mother, Andrea (née Finlay), is a homemaker who previously worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. Andrea spent the first ten years of her life in Singapore, before settling in Texas; her father was an oil rig engineer who worked throughout Southeast Asia. Swift was named after singer James Taylor; her mother believed a gender-neutral name would help her forge a successful business career. She has a younger brother, Austin, who attends the University of Notre Dame. She spent the early years of her life on an eleven-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and was educated at the fee-paying Wyndcroft School. When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School. She summered at her parents' vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey and has described it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed".</div>
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<br />Swift's first hobby was English horse riding. Her mother put her in a saddle when she was nine months old; Swift later competed in horse shows. Her family owned several Quarter horses and a Shetland pony.[14] At the age of nine, Swift turned her attention to musical theatre and performed in Berks Youth Theatre Academy productions of Grease, Annie, Bye Bye Birdie and The Sound of Music. She traveled regularly to Broadway, New York for vocal and acting lessons. However, "after a few years of auditioning in New York and not getting anything", Swift became interested in country music. She spent her weekends performing at local festivals, fairs, coffeehouses, karaoke contests, garden clubs, Boy Scout meetings and hospitals. At the age of eleven, after many attempts, Swift won a local talent competition by singing a rendition of LeAnn Rimes's "Big Deal", and was given the opportunity to appear as the opening act for Charlie Daniels at a Strausstown amphitheater. This growing ambition and interest in country music began to isolate Swift from her middle school peers.</div>
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<br />After watching a Behind the Music episode about Faith Hill, Swift felt sure that she needed to go to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a music career. She traveled with her mother to Nashville for spring break to leave a demo of Dolly Parton and Dixie Chicks karaoke covers with record labels along Music Row. She received label rejections and realized that "everyone in that town wanted to do what I wanted to do. So, I kept thinking to myself, I need to figure out a way to be different". She began performing the "The Star Spangled Banner" at sporting events because it was an opportunity to "get in front of 20,000 people without even having a record deal". At the age of twelve, Swift was shown by a computer repairman how to play three chords on a guitar, inspiring her to write her first song, "Lucky You". She had previously won a national poetry contest with a poem entitled "Monster in My Closet" but now began to focus on songwriting. In 2003, Swift and her parents started working with New York-based music manager Dan Dymtrow. With Dymtrow's help, Swift modelled for Abercrombie and Fitch as part of their "Rising Stars" campaign, had an original song included in a Maybelline Cosmetics compilation CD and took meetings with major record labels. After performing original songs at an RCA Records showcase, the eight-grader was given an artist development deal and began making frequent trips to Nashville.</div>
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<br />When Swift was fourteen, her father transferred to the Nashville office of Merrill Lynch and the family relocated to a lake-shore house in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Swift later described this as "an incredible sacrifice" for her family to make. "My parents saw that I was so obsessed, that I wasn't going to drop it, that it wasn't some adolescent phase. They were thrown into this." "We had no idea what we were doing. My parents bought books on what the music industry was like." In Tennessee, Swift attended Hendersonville High School for her freshman and sophomore years. Later, to accommodate her touring schedule, Swift transferred to the Aaron Academy, a private Christian school which offered homeschooling services. She earned her high school diploma in 2008, having completed her final two years of course work in twelve months.</div>
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<b>Music career<br />2004–08: Career beginnings and Taylor Swift</b><br /><br />Swift moved to Nashville at the age of fourteen. As part of her artist development deal with RCA Records, she had writing sessions with experienced Music Row songwriters such as Troy Verges, Brett Beavers, Brett James, Mac McAnally and The Warren Brothers. She eventually formed a lasting working relationship with Liz Rose. Swift saw Rose performing at an RCA songwriter event and suggested that they write together. They began meeting for two-hour writing sessions every Tuesday afternoon after school. Rose has said that the sessions were "some of the easiest I've ever done. Basically, I was just her editor. She'd write about what happened in school that day. She had such a clear vision of what she was trying to say. And she'd come in with the most incredible hooks". Swift also began recording demos with producer Nathan Chapman. After performing at a BMI Songwriter's Circle showcase at The Bitter End, New York, Swift became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Tree publishing house. She left RCA Records when she was fifteen; the company wanted her to record the work of other songwriters and wait until she was eighteen to release an album, but she felt ready to launch her career with her own material. She also parted ways with manager Dan Dymtrow, who later took legal action against Swift and her parents. "'I genuinely felt that I was running out of time," Swift later recalled. "I wanted to capture these years of my life on an album while they still represented what I was going through." At an industry showcase at Nashville's Bluebird Café in 2005, Swift caught the attention of Scott Borchetta, a Dreamworks Records executive who was preparing to form his own independent record label, Big Machine Records. She became one of the label's first signings, with her father purchasing a three per cent stake in the fledgling company. As an introduction to the country music business, Borchetta arranged for Swift to intern as an artist escort at the CMA Music Festival.Taylor Swift sits and leans over her oak guitar while picking a string<br />Swift performing at the Maverick Saloon & Grill in Santa Maria, California in 2006<br /><br /> Swift began working on her eponymous debut album shortly after signing her record deal. After experimenting with veteran Nashville producers, Swift persuaded Big Machine to hire her demo producer Nathan Chapman. It was his first time to record a studio album but Swift felt they had the right "chemistry". In the end, Chapman produced all but one of the tracks on Taylor Swift. She has described the album as the "diary" of her early teens. She has said that, although "it sounds like I've had 500 boyfriends", a lot of the songs are observational. Swift wrote three of the album's songs alone, including two singles, and co-wrote the remaining eight with writers such as Liz Rose, Robert Ellis Orrall and Angelo Petraglia. Musically, the album has been described as "a mix of trad-country instruments and spry rock guitars". Taylor Swift was released in October 2006. The New York Times described it as "a small masterpiece of pop-minded country, both wide-eyed and cynical, held together by Ms. Swift's firm, pleading voice." PopMatters hoped Swift would be "able to find an accomodation between the country tradition and her very obvious pop sensibilities, because Taylor Swift suggests she has much to offer". The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones described Swift as a "prodigy". He noted that "Our Song" "stop[ed] me in my tracks" and praised the lyrics: "He's got a one-hand feel on the steering wheel, the other on my heart". Country Weekly felt that "the more thoughtful material suggests a talent poised to last well past high school". Rolling Stone described Swift as "bright-eyed but remarkably seasoned", and admired "Our Song"'s "insanely hooky sing-song melody that's as Britney as it is Patsy".Taylor Swift, wearing a white dress and sunglasses, plays an acoustic guitar while standing at a microphone stand<br />Swift performing at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California in 2007<br />Big Machine Records was still in its infancy upon the release of the lead single "Tim McGraw" in June 2006, and Swift and her mother helped "stuff the CD singles into envelopes to send to radio". She spent much of 2006 promoting Taylor Swift in a radio tour and later commented, "Radio tours for most artists last six weeks. Mine lasted six months." Swift baked cookies and painted canvases (inspired by Jackson Pollock) to gift to radio station programmers who played her music. She made many television appearances, including on the Grand Ole Opry, Good Morning America, and TRL. She also signed endorsement deals, appearing as a spokesmodel for l.e.i. jeans and as the face of Verizon Wireless' Mobile Music campaign. Swift, a self-described "kid of the internet", used MySpace to build a fanbase. She wrote her own blog posts, left comments on her fans' accounts and personally respond to the messages that were sent to her. This was, at the time, "revolutionary in country music". Borchetta has said that his decision to sign a sixteen-year-old singer-songwriter initially raised eyebrows among his record industry peers but Swift tapped into a previously unknown market: teenage girls who listen to country music. Following "Tim McGraw", four further singles were released throughout 2007 and 2008: "Teardrops on My Guitar", "Our Song", "Picture to Burn" and "Should've Said No". All were highly successful on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, with "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" both reaching number one. "Our Song" made Swift the youngest person to single-handedly write and sing a number one country song. "Teardrops on My Guitar" became a minor pop hit; it reached number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold 39,000 copies during its first week of release and, as of March 2011, has sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. Swift also released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season: The Taylor Swift Holiday Collection, in October 2007 and an EP, Beautiful Eyes, in July 2008.</div>
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<br />Swift toured extensively in support of Taylor Swift. In addition to festival and theater dates, Swift performed as an opening act for several country artists' concert tours. In late 2006, she opened for Rascal Flatts on the final nine dates of their Me & My Gang Tour, after the previous supporting act Eric Church was fired. Swift later sent Church her first gold record with a note: "Thanks for playing too long and too loud on the Flatts tour. I sincerely appreciate it. Taylor". In 2007, she served as the opening act on twenty dates for George Strait's tour, several dates on Kenny Chesney's Flip-Flop Summer Tour, selected dates on Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour and several dates for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's joint Soul2Soul II Tour. Swift again opened for Rascal Flatts on their Still Feels Good Tour in 2008. In addition to performing her own material, Swift played covers of songs by Beyoncé, Rihanna, John Waite, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Eminem. She conducted meet-and-greet sessions with fans before and after her concerts; these lasted for up to four hours.</div>
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<br />In 2007, Swift and Alan Jackson were jointly named the Nashville Songwriters Association's Songwriter/Artist of the Year. Swift was the youngest person ever to be honored with the title. She also won the Country Music Association's Horizon Award for Best New Artist. In 2008, she was named Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards and Favorite Country Female Artist at the American Music Awards. She received seven BMI Awards for songs featured on Taylor Swift. Swift was also nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of Best New Artist, but lost to Amy Winehouse.</div>
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<b>2008–10: Fearless, VMA controversy and Grammy backlash</b><br /><br />Swift's second studio album, Fearless, was released in November 2008. Swift wrote seven of the album's songs alone, including two singles, and co-wrote the remaining six with songwriters Liz Rose, John Rich, Colbie Caillat and Hillary Lindsey. She co-produced the album with Nathan Chapman. Musically, it has been said that the record is characterized by "loud, lean guitars and rousing choruses", with the occasional "bit of fiddle and banjo tucked into the mix". The New York Times described Swift as "one of pop's finest songwriters, country's foremost pragmatist and more in touch with her inner life than most adults". The Village Voice felt she displayed "preternatural wisdom and inclusiveness", "masterfully avoiding the typical diarist's pitfalls of trite banality and pseudo-profound bullshit". Rolling Stone described her as "a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture" whose "squirmingly intimate and true" songs seemed to be "literally ripped from a suburban girl's diary". USA Today found it "a pleasure to hear a gifted teenager who sounds like a gifted teenager, rather than a mouthpiece for a bunch of older pros' collective notion of adolescent yearning."The New Yorker described it as an album "without a bad track", adding that "the album's finest effort, "Fifteen", will feature in yearbook quotes for years". Entertainment Weekly noted that the album would appeal mainly to young girls – "she sounds like a real teen, not some manufactured vixen-Lolita" – but predicted it would be "exciting to watch her precocious talent grow". Music critic Robert Christgau described Swift as "an uncommonly-to-impossibly strong and gifted teenage girl".</div>
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Taylor Swift performing in a dark purple dress with a light-brown colored guitar against a black background<br />Swift performing at the 2010 Cavendish Beach Music Festival in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island<br /><br />Swift promoted Fearless heavily upon its release. An episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show was dedicated to the album launch and Swift appeared on many other chat shows. She communicated with fans using social media platforms such as Twitter and personal video blogs. She launched a l.e.i. sundress range at Wal-Mart, as well as a line of American Greetings cards and Jakks Pacific dolls. She became a spokesperson for the NHL's Nashville Predators and Sony Cyber-shot digital cameras, and performed in a commercial for the Band Hero video game, with Rivers Cuomo, Pete Wentz and Travis Barker appearing as her backing band. The singer paid tribute to a number of fellow artists in televised performances: she performed a cover of Alan Jackson's "Drive (For Daddy Gene)" at the CMT Giants: Alan Jackson event, took part in a joint, televised concert with rock band Def Leppard in Nashville, and performed a cover of George Strait's "Run" at a televised ACM event honoring Strait as the Artist of the Decade. Swift sang her song "Fifteen" with Miley Cyrus at the 51st Grammy Awards, performed a self-penned rap skit with T-Pain at the CMT Awards and hosted Saturday Night Live. The lead single from the album, "Love Story", was released in September 2008 and became the second best-selling country single of all time, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Four more singles were released throughout 2008 and 2009: "White Horse", "You Belong with Me", "Fifteen" and "Fearless". "You Belong with Me" was the album's highest-charting single, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart with sales of 592,304 and has since sold over 8.6 million copies worldwide. It was the top-selling album of 2009 and brought Swift much crossover success.</div>
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<br />Swift carried out her first headlining tour from April 2009 to June 2010. As part of the 105-date Fearless Tour, Swift played 90 dates in North America, six dates in Europe, eight dates in Australia and one date in Asia. The elaborate stage set included a fairy-tale castle and a high school bandstand. She sang a cover of Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around" nightly, intertwined with her own "You're Not Sorry". Swift invited John Mayer, Faith Hill and Katy Perry to perform one-off duets with her at various dates during the North American tour. Justin Bieber, Kellie Pickler and Gloriana were the support acts. The tour was attended by more than 1.1 million fans and grossed over $63 million. Taylor Swift: Journey to Fearless, a concert film, was aired on television and later released on DVD and Blu-ray. Also in 2009, Swift performed as a supporting act for Keith Urban's Escape Together World Tour.</div>
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<br />In September 2009, Swift became the first country music artist to win an MTV Video Music Award when "You Belong with Me" was named Best Female Video. Her acceptance speech was interrupted by rapper Kanye West, who had been involved in a number of other award show incidents. West declared Beyoncé's video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", nominated in the same category, to be "one of the best videos of all time." Many audience members booed West, prompting him to flip off the crowd. He then handed the microphone back to a speechless Swift. Backstage, Swift was seen "hysterically crying". According to Rolling Stone, when Swift's mother confronted West, he gave "a half-hearted apology in which he added he still thought Beyoncé's video was superior". West was removed from the event. When Beyoncé later won the award for Video of the Year, she invited Swift onstage to finish her speech. In the event's press room, Swift, who in 2008 had expressed a desire to sing a hook on a Kanye West rap song, was asked if she had "any hard feelings" towards West: "I don't know him, and I've never met him, so... I don't want to start anything because I had a great night tonight." The incident received much media attention and inspired many Internet memes. President Barack Obama, in an off the record comment, called West a "jackass". Former US President Jimmy Carter said West's interruption was "completely uncalled for". West's behavior was criticized by celebrities, including Eminem, Snoop Dogg and Madonna. West apologized for his verbal outburst in two blog entries and during an appearance on The Jay Leno Show. He maintained that, while Swift was "very talented", "Beyoncé's video was the best of this decade!!!! ... I gave my awards to Outkast when they deserved it over me ... I'm not crazy y'all, I'm just real." Two days after the VMAs, Swift told an interviewer that West had not spoken to her since the ceremony. West then contacted her to offer a personal apology, which Swift accepted: "Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology." She refused to discuss the incident in subsequent interviews so as not to make a "bigger deal" of it: "It happened on TV, so everybody saw what happened ... It's not something I feel like we need to keep talking about." It has been said that the incident and subsequent media attention turned Swift into "a bona-fide mainstream celebrity".</div>
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<br />Swift released a cover of Tom Petty's "American Girl" through Rhapsody in June 2009 and continues to make her stage entrance to Petty's recording of the song. She contributed backing vocals to John Mayer's "Half of My Heart", a single featured on his fourth album, in November 2009. Mayer wrote the song as a tribute to Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac: "I thought, 'Well, if this is going to be my love letter to that style of music, who's going to be the Stevie Nicks in this equation?' And I thought, 'This Taylor Swift girl is going to be around for a long time." Swift collaborated with a number of other artists in 2008 and 2009. She co-wrote and recorded "Best Days of Your Life" with Kellie Pickler. She co-wrote two songs for the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack – "You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home" and "Crazier" – with Martin Johnson and Robert Ellis Orrall, respectively. Swift also provided vocals for Boys Like Girls's "Two Is Better Than One", written by Martin Johnson. In January 2010, Swift contributed two songs – including "Today Was a Fairytale" – to the Valentine's Day soundtrack and recorded a cover of Better Than Ezra's "Breathless" for the Hope for Haiti Now album.Taylor Swift stands in a Time press area, wearing a black, strapless dress and curled hair<br />Swift at the 2010 Time 100 Gala, where she was honored<br /><br />Swift won four Grammy Awards in January 2010, from a total of eight nominations. Fearless was named Album of the Year and Best Country Album, while "White Horse" was named Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She was the youngest ever artist to win Album of the Year. During the ceremony, Swift sang "Rhiannon" and "You Belong with Me" with Stevie Nicks. Her vocal performance received negative reviews and sparked a widespread media backlash. Her vocals were described variously as "badly off-key", "strikingly bad" and "incredibly wretched". While The New York Times found it "refreshing to see someone so gifted make the occasional flub" and described Swift as "the most important new pop star of the past few years", music analyst Bob Lefsetz predicted that her career would end "overnight". He publicly appealed to Swift's father to hire a "crisis publicity agent" to manage the story because "Taylor's too young and dumb to understand the mistake she made". In April 2010, Stevie Nicks, writing in Time, defended the singer: "Taylor reminds me of myself in her determination and her childlike nature. It's an innocence that's so special and so rare. This girl writes the songs that make the whole world sing, like Neil Diamond or Elton John ... The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business." Fearless won many other accolades and has become the most awarded album in country music history. Swift became the youngest ever artist and one of only six women to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association. Fearless also won the Association's Album of the Year award. She was the youngest ever artist to win the Academy of Country Music's Album of the Year honor. The American Music Awards honored Swift with Artist of the Year and Favorite Country Album plaudits. She was awarded the Hal David Starlight Award by the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was named Songwriter/Artists of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association. She won four BMI Awards. Billboard named her 2009's Artist of the Year. Swift was included in Time's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in 2010.</div>
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<b>2010–12: Speak Now; live and studio collaborations</b><br /><br />Swift released her third studio album, Speak Now, in October 2010. She wrote all twelve songs alone. Swift, who co-produced the record with longtime collaborator Nathan Chapman, has described it as "a collection of confessions—things I wish I had said when I was in the moment". She originally intended to call the album Enchanted but Scott Borchetta, her record label's CEO, felt the title did not reflect the album's more adult themes. Musically, it has been said that the album "expands beyond country-pop to border both alternative rock and dirty bubblegum pop". USA Today felt that Swift's songwriting skills would remind listeners "what all the fuss was about in the first place", with the album capturing "the sweet ache of becoming an adult". The Los Angeles Times praised her ability as a songwriter to "hit on common experiences that feel unique". The New York Times described the album as savage, musically diverse and "excellent too, possibly her best". The Village Voice found that the album demanded "a true appreciation of Swift's talent, which is not confessional, but dramatic: Like a procession of country songwriters before her, she creates characters and situations—some from life—and finds potent ways to describe them." Entertainment Weekly noted that, while love may confound her, "the art of expert songcraft clearly doesn't". Music critic John Christgau found the album's songs "overlong and overworked" but remarked that "they evince an effort that bears a remarkable resemblance to care—that is, to caring in the best, broadest, and most emotional sense". Rolling Stone described Swift as one of the best songwriters in "pop, rock or country": "Swift might be a clever Nashville pro who knows all the hitmaking tricks, but she's also a high-strung, hyper-romantic gal with a melodramatic streak the size of the Atchafalaya Swamp".<b> </b></div>
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Taylor Swift, wearing a purple dress, plays a blue acoustic guitar while sitting on a stool<br />Swift performing during the Speak Now World Tour in 2011<br /><br />Swift carried out an extensive promotional campaign prior to Speak Now's release. She appeared on various talk shows and morning shows, and gave free mini-concerts in unusual locations, including an open-decker bus on Hollywood Boulevard and a departure lounge at JFK airport. She took part in a "guitar pull" alongside Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Lionel Ritchie at LA's Club Nokia; the musicians shared the stage and took turns introducing and playing acoustic versions of their songs to raise money for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. In addition to her pre-existing Sony Electronics and American Greetings endorsements, Swift also became a CoverGirl spokesmodel, launched an Elizabeth Arden fragrance entitled Wonderstruck and released a special edition of Speak Now through Target. The album's lead single, "Mine", was released in August 2010 and five further singles were released throughout 2010 and 2011: "Back to December", "Mean", "The Story of Us", "Sparks Fly" and "Ours". Speak Now was a major commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Its sales of 1,047,000 copies made it the sixteenth album in US history to sell one million copies in a single week. As of February 2012, Speak Now has sold over 5.7 million copies worldwide.</div>
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In September 2010, Kanye West used his Twitter account to apologize to Swift for his 2009 VMA interruption, referring to her as "just a lil girl with dreams like the rest of us": "I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that's so beautiful and I want her to have it. If she won't take it then I'll perform it for her." At the 2010 VMAs later that month, Swift sang "Innocent", a song widely believed to be about West, which The Washington Post described as "a small masterpiece of passive aggressiveness, a vivisection dressed up as a peace offering". Music critics found Swift's performance overly serious and "petty". In October 2010, West remarked that it was "inaccurate" for Swift's Fearless to have been named Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards earlier that year. Speaking in November 2010, West said he failed to see what was "so arrogant" about his VMA interruption and described his actions as "selfless". He argued it was "just disrespectful" and "retarded" for Swift to be included in the same award category as Beyoncé. He added that "if it was the other way around" and Swift were an established artist who had "made the video of her career, do you think she would have lost to a brand new artist? Hell no!" He claimed that his interruption caused Swift to "have 100 magazine covers and sell a million first week". Also that month, he claimed that, "If I wasn't drunk, I would have been on stage longer ... Taylor never came to my defense at any interview. And rode the waves and rode it and rode it". At the Costume Institute Gala in May 2011, Swift and West came face-to-face on the red carpet. West was observed to hold "a hand out, and the two exchanged a studiedly casual, "down low" high five".<br /><br />Swift toured throughout 2011 and early 2012 in support of Speak Now. As part of the thirteen-month, 111-date world tour, Swift played seven shows in Asia, twelve shows in Europe, 80 shows in North America and twelve shows in Australasia. The stage show was inspired by Broadway musical theatre, with choreographed routines, elaborate set-pieces, pyrotechnics and numerous costume changes. Swift invited many musicians to join her for one-off duets during the North American tour. Appearances were made by James Taylor, Jason Mraz, Shawn Colvin, Johnny Rzeznik, Andy Grammer, Tal Bachman, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Nelly, B.o.B, Usher, Flo Rida, T.I., Jon Foreman, Jim Adkins, Hayley Williams, Hot Chelle Rae, Ronnie Dunn, Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. During the North American tour leg, Swift wrote different song lyrics on her left arm for each performance and has said that the lyrics should be viewed as a nightly "mood ring". Swift performed many acoustic cover versions during her North American tour. In each city, she paid tribute to a homegrown artist. She has said the cover versions allowed her to be "spontaneous" in an otherwise well-rehearsed show. The tour was attended by over 1.6 million fans and grossed over $123 million. Swift's first live album, Speak Now World Tour: Live, featuring all seventeen performances from the North American leg of the tour, was released in November 2011. In July 2012, James Taylor invited Swift to appear as a special guest during his Tanglewood set; they performed "Fire and Rain", "Love Story" and "Ours" together. Taylor, who first met Swift when she was eighteen, has said that, "we just hit it off. I loved her songs, and her presence on stage was so great".Taylor Swift speaks into a microphone, wearing a navy polka-dot dress and red heels<br />Swift speaking during a YouTube interview in 2011<br /><br />At the 54th Grammy Awards in February 2012, Swift's song "Mean" won Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance. She also performed the song during the ceremony. Bob Lefsetz, one of the most vocal critics of her 2010 Grammy performance, believes the song is addressed to him. Lefsetz had previously been a supporter of the singer's career, and Swift and Lefsetz had corresponded occasionally by email and telephone. Time felt she "delivered her comeback on-key and with a vengeance" while USA Today remarked that the criticism in 2010 seemed to have "made her a better songwriter and live performer". Swift won various other awards for Speak Now. She was named Songwriter/Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association in both 2010 and 2011. She was named Entertainer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in both 2011 and 2012 and was named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2011. Swift was the American Music Awards's Artist of the Year in 2011, and Speak Now was named Favorite Country Album. She was also the recipient of three BMI Awards. Billboard named Swift 2011's Woman of the Year. Also that year, Billboard ranked her at number 15 in a list of the Top 20 Hot 100 Songwriters 2000–2011; she was the second highest ranking woman. Swift was ranked second on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 16 "Queen Of Pops" of the decade.</div>
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<br />Swift contributed two original songs to The Hunger Games soundtrack album in March 2012. "Safe & Sound" was co-written and recorded with The Civil Wars and T-Bone Burnett. John Paul White has said working with Swift was "a revelation. She had some great ideas. We had complete freedom. It truly was a collaboration. We brought the melancholy and the darker angle. Taylor was bringing the melody and the chords." Rolling Stone described the song as "Swift's prettiest ballad" and wondered whether the alt-country folk song was "a one-off novelty, a trial balloon cred-move, or the stirrings of a "grown-up" style". Swift and The Civil Wars debuted a live version of the song at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville in January 2012. It was released as the album's lead single and, as of July 2012, has sold over one million copies in the United States. Swift's second contribution to the album, "Eyes Open", was written solely by the singer and produced by Nathan Chapman. In May 2012, Swift contributed vocals to "Both of Us", a Dr. Luke-produced single from B.o.B's second album Strange Clouds.</div>
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<b>2012: Red and tour announcement</b><br /><br />Swift's fourth studio album, Red, was released in October 2012. She wrote nine of the album's sixteen songs alone; the remaining seven were co-written with Max Martin, Liz Rose, Dan Wilson, Ed Sheeran and Gary Lightbody. Nathan Chapman served as the album's lead producer but Jeff Bhasker, Butch Walker, Jacknife Lee, Dann Huff and Shellback also produced individual tracks. Chapman has said he encouraged Swift "to branch out and to test herself in other situations". She has described the collaborative process as "an apprenticeship". Red examines Swift's attraction to drama-filled relationships; she believes that, since writing the record, such relationships no longer appeal to her. Musically, while there is experimentation with heartland rock, dubstep and dance-pop, it is "limited to a handful of tracks sprinkled among more recognisably Swiftian fare". The Guardian described Swift as a "Brünnhilde of a rockstar" and the album as "another chapter in one of the finest fantasies pop music has ever constructed." Jon Caramanica of The New York Times placed Red at number two on his end-of-year list, characterizing it as the album on which Swift "stops pretending she’s anything but a pop megastar, one with grown-up concerns, like how two bodies speak to each other and how taste in records can be a stand-in for moral turpitude." However, he conceded that, "though often great, it is her least steady album." The Times praised her "sublime" lyrics, particularly those on the "brooding" "All Too Well". Rolling Stone enjoyed "watching Swift find her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in joining the Joni/Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional mapping ... Her self-discovery project is one of the best stories in pop." However, Salon asserted that, "more than the token Serious Female Singer Songwriters (Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams, Carole King,) Swift reminds me of masters of quirky pop sincerity like Alex Chilton and Jonathan Richman." Swift at Good Morning America in 2012<br /><br />As part of the Red promotional campaign, representatives from 72 worldwide radio stations were flown to Nashville during release week for individual interviews with Swift. She also appeared on many television chat shows and performed at award ceremonies in the US, the UK, Germany and Australia. Swift offered exclusive album promotions through Target, Papa John's and Walgreens. She became a spokesmodel for Keds sneakers, released her sophomore Elizabeth Arden fragrance, and continued her partnerships with Covergirl, Sony Electronics and American Greetings, as well as her unofficial brand tie-ins with Ralph Lauren and Shellys. The album's lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", was released in August 2012. The song became Swift's first number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, recording the highest ever one-week sales figures for a female artist.[243] Three further singles have been released: "Begin Again" (to country radio), "I Knew You Were Trouble" (to pop and international radio) and "22". Red debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.21 million copies; this marked the highest opening sales in a decade and made Swift the first female to have two million-selling album openings. The album also topped international sales charts in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. As of November 2012, Red had sold 2.8 million copies worldwide. In her career, as of November 2012, she had sold in excess of 26 million albums and 75 million song downloads. Swift will embark on the first leg of the Red Tour from March to September 2013, which will see her play 62 dates across North America.</div>
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<br />Swift and Keith Urban will provide guest vocals for an upcoming Tim McGraw song entitled "Highway Don't Care". McGraw describes the track as “breezy yet complex"; it will feature on his Two Lanes of Freedom album, due for release on February 5, 2013. Swift has written an as-yet-unreleased song with Justin Bieber. Scooter Braun, Beiber's manager, has said that the song was created with a specific project in mind; there is speculation that it will appear on Bieber's upcoming Believe Acoustic album Ed Sheeran, who features on Red and will appear as a support act on the Red Tour, has revealed that the pair plan to write further material together while touring.</div>
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<br />Swift has received three nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards; the ceremony is due to take place on 10 February. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is nominated for Record of the Year. "Safe and Sound", Swift's soundtrack collaboration with The Civil Wars, is nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written For Visual Media. "Safe & Sound" has also received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards.Swift won three MTV Europe Music Awards in 2012, including the honors for Best Female and Best Live Act. She was named Best Female Country Artist at the 2012 American Music Awards. The Nashville Songwriters Association's 2012 Songwriter/Artist Award went to Swift for the fifth year in a row.</div>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/08/lindsay-lohan-biography.html"><b>Lindsay Morgan Lohan</b></a> born Lindsay Dee Lohan; July 2, 1986) is an American actress, fashion designer, model and recording artist. She began her career as a child fashion model when she was three, and was later featured on the soap opera Another World for a year when she was 10. At age 11, Lohan made her motion picture debut in Disney's remake of The Parent Trap (1998), a critical and commercial hit. Her next motion picture, Disney's remake of Freaky Friday (2003), was also a success at the box office and with critics. With the release of Mean Girls (2004), another critical and commercial success, Lohan became a household name and a frequent target of paparazzi and tabloids. The two films earned her several MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Awards.<br /><br />Lohan's debut studio album, Speak (2004), was certified platinum. Her second album, A Little More Personal (Raw) (2005), was certified gold. Earlier in 2005, Lohan starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded, another box office success. In 2006, she received positive comments on her work in independent films, including Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and Emilio Estevez's Bobby. In 2007, two driving under the influence incidents led to Lohan being put on probation, and together with three visits to rehabilitation facilities caused the loss of several movie deals.<br /><br />In 2008 and 2009, Lohan worked as a fashion model and launched the clothing line 6126. She resumed her acting career with recurring appearances in the TV series Ugly Betty in 2008 and starred in the TV film Labor Pains in 2009. She was featured in Robert Rodriguez's feature film Machete (2010). She spent much of 2010 and 2011 entangled in legal problems stemming from probation violations and a necklace theft. After her supervised probation was lifted in 2012, she did further television work, including starring as Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical TV film Liz & Dick (2012).</div>
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<b>Life and career<br />Early life and education</b><br /><br />Lindsay Dee Lohan was born on July 2, 1986 in New York City and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, New York. She is the eldest child of Dina Lohan (born Donata Melina Nicolette Sullivan) and Michael Douglas Lohan, Sr. Lindsay has three younger siblings, all of whom have been models or actors: Michael Jr. (who appeared with Lindsay in The Parent Trap), Aliana "Ali", and Dakota "Cody", the youngest Lohan child. Both of Lohan's parents are of Irish and Italian descent; she was raised as a Catholic. Some of her maternal antecedents were "well known Irish Catholic stalwarts" and her great-grandfather, John L. Sullivan, was a co-founder of the Pro-life Party in Long Island. Lohan attended Cold Spring Harbor High School, where she did well in science and mathematics, until grade 11, when she started homeschooling.</div>
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<br />Lohan's parents have a turbulent history. They married in 1985, separated when she was three, and later reunited. They separated again in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2007. Her father, Michael, is a former Wall Street trader who has been in trouble with the law on several occasions, while her mother, Dina, is a former singer and dancer.</div>
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<b>2010–present: Legal issues, Machete and television<br />Lohan at a New York Fashion Week fashion show, September 2011.</b><br /><br />After
the Haiti earthquake, Lohan gave fund-raising assistance to the British
Red Cross in March 2010 to provide aid for the country. The same month,
Lohan commenced legal proceedings in which she sought $100 million from
financial services company E-Trade for a television advertisement that
Lohan claimed invoked her likeness without her permission. The suit was
settled on confidential terms in September.<br /><br />Lohan narrated and
presented the British television documentary Lindsay Lohan's Indian
Journey about human trafficking in India. It was filmed during a week in
India in December 2009 and aired on BBC Three in April 2010. A reviewer
for The Times said that rather than highlight trafficking "the
spotlight was effectively turned on Lohan and under it she wilted." A
review in The Independent found it "very compelling" and said that the
inclusion of Lohan was "definitely not a terrible choice. Just a very,
very odd one." Lohan said the experience was "truly humbling" and "I
hope my presence in India will bring awareness to the really important
issues raised in making this film." In April 2010 Lohan was let go from
the film The Other Side where she had been set to star, with the
director saying she was "not bankable."<br /><br />In May 2010 Lohan
traveled to the Cannes Film Festival to promote the biographical drama
Inferno, in which she was set to star as the lead, adult-film performer
Linda Lovelace. While she was in court mandated rehab in November, it
was announced that Lohan would be replaced by another actress. Because
she was in Cannes, Lohan missed a mandatory DUI progress hearing. A
bench warrant was issued for her arrest which was rescinded after she
posted bail. Lohan was ordered to attend alcohol education classes, wear
an alcohol-monitoring bracelet, and undergo random drug tests to remain
free on bail. At a July 6 hearing, the judge determined that Lohan had
violated the terms of her probation by missing several mandatory classes
and meetings. She was sentenced to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days
of inpatient rehab treatment. Lohan served only 14 days of the jail
sentence, between July 20 and August 2, due to overcrowding. She then
entered an inpatient rehabilitation facility, from where she was
released after only 23 days1 She was ordered to submit to random drug
and alcohol screenings and attend therapy<br />In June 2010, Lohan was the
subject of a fashion shoot in the photographer docu-series Double
Exposure on Bravo. Lohan appeared on the October 2010 cover of Vanity
Fair. She told the magazine: "I want my career back" and "I know that
I'm a damn good actress". Talking about her DUI incidents she said
"These were my college years ... but they were in the public eye. I was
irresponsible. I was experimenting." Lohan appears in one sketch in the
movie Underground Comedy 2010 . She is dressed up as Marilyn Monroe,
while still visibly wearing a SCRAM bracelet, and shoots at paparazzi
photographers. As of September 2010, the movie was still seeking a
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Robert Rodriguez's action exploitation film Machete opened on September
3, 2010. Lohan filmed her scenes for the movie in August and September
2009. Her character takes drugs, is naked in much of her appearance and
later dons a nun's habit while toting a machine gun. The Washington Post
described Lohan's character as "a campier, trampier version of herself –
or at least her tabloid image".Premiere.com said she was "terrible"
while Variety called it "her best work in some time." Because of her
rehabilitation and legal engagements Lohan did not participate in
promotion of the movie.<br /><br />On September 24, 2010, Lohan's probation
was revoked following a failed drug test. She spent part of the day in
jail before being released on bail. A few days later she entered the
Betty Ford Center, a drug and alcohol treatment center, where she
remained on court order for three months until early January 2011.</div>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/08/hilary-duff.html"><b>Hilary Erhard Duff</b></a> (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, author, and humanitarian. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff appeared in local theatre productions and television commercials before coming to prominence in the title role of Disney Channel's teen comedy Lizzie McGuire. Established as a teen idol, Duff reprised that role in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) and ventured into motion pictures with her early films Agent Cody Banks (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), A Cinderella Story (2004) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) being among the biggest commercial successes of her career. Most recently, she has performed in a string of independent films and television dramas like Gossip Girl in addition to sharing production credits.</div>
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After signing with Hollywood Records, Duff expanded her repertoire to include pop music and has released several albums. Her debut studio album Metamorphosis (2003) was RIAA-certified triple platinum while the subsequent studio album Hilary Duff (2004) and compilation album Most Wanted (2005) were both certified platinum. She exhibited a more adult image with the release of Dignity (2007), which displayed a shift to more of a dance-oriented sound. Certified gold, the album spawned her highest charting US single to date "With Love" which also peaked at number 1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart, becoming the first of her three consecutive number ones on that chart. Prior to the release of Best of Hilary Duff (2008), a compilation of her greatest hits, Duff had sold thirteen million albums worldwide and had performed across the world on four concert tours.</div>
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Branching into various other industries, Duff has turned her hand to fashion with the launch of her own clothing lines Stuff by Hilary Duff and Femme for DKNY Jeans in addition to being signed with IMG Models and releasing two exclusive perfume collections with Elizabeth Arden. In addition to writing a series of young adult novels, comprising Elixir (2010) and Devoted (2011), she has also contributed to several humanitarian causes. She is married to former hockey player Mike Comrie, with whom she has one child.</div>
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Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28, 1987 in Houston, Texas. She grew up between Houston and San Antonio with her father Robert Erhard Duff, a partner in a chain of convenience stores in the two areas, her mother Susan Colleen (née Cobb), a homemaker turned film/music producer, and her older sister Haylie, who is also an actress and singer. From a young age, Duff took after her older sister and, encouraged by their mother, the pair enrolled in acting, singing and ballet classes. Both girls won roles in local theatre productions and, together, at the ages of six and eight, they participated in a touring BalletMet production of The Nutcracker in San Antonio.</div>
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Increasingly interested about pursuing show business, the sisters and their mother moved to California in 1993, while their father stayed in Houston to take care of his business. The sisters auditioned for several years and were cast in several television commercials. Due to her acting career, Duff was home-schooled from the age of eight.</div>
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During her initial acting years, Duff primarily played minor roles like her uncredited part in the Hallmark Entertainment western miniseries True Women (1997) and as an uncredited extra in the ensemble dramedy Playing by Heart (1998). Her first major role was as a young witch Wendy in Casper Meets Wendy (1998) but was released to mostly unenthusiastic reviews. After appearing in the supporting role of Ellie in the television film The Soul Collector (1999), which was based on a Kathleen Kane novel, Duff accrued a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie or Pilot (Supporting Young Actress).</div>
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In March 2000, Duff appeared in the small guest role as a sick child in the medical drama Chicago Hope right before being cast as one of the children in the pilot episode of the NBC sitcom Daddio. Her Daddio co-star Michael Chiklis stated, "After working with her the first day, I remember saying to my wife, 'this young girl is going to be a movie star'. She was completely at ease with herself and comfortable in her own skin." However, prior to the airing of the show, the producers dropped Duff from the cast. Depressed, Duff was reluctant to pursue her acting career further.</div>
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A week later, she landed the title role of a newly developed Disney Channel children's television series Lizzie McGuire after her manager and mother urged her to audition. The character, a clumsy teen who dreams to fit in and be popular, made Duff a popular household name particularly with its target demographic of preteens and adolescents. Focusing on its central character, the show's mixed media format stood out from the rest of the Disney Channel's programming of the time and, in essence, became the channel's flagship and definitive show of the early 2000s.[citation needed] The show first aired on the Disney Channel on January 12, 2001 and was a ratings hit that attracted about 2.3 million viewers per episode. However, after Duff fulfilled her 65 episode contract with Lizzie McGuire, the show finished. Disney considered expanding the franchise to films and a prime-time television series. The plans however failed, because Duff's representatives said she was not being paid enough for the proposed series.</div>
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Duff's first role in a theatrical motion picture was in Human Nature (2002) in which she portrays the younger version of a female naturalist, played by Patricia Arquette. The film was showcased first at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals. Duff also starred as a free-spirited girl who struggles in a strict military school in the Disney Channel television film Cadet Kelly (2002), which became the network's most watched program in its 19-year history.</div>
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In 2003, Duff received her first major role in a feature film when she was cast alongside Frankie Muniz, playing his love interest in Agent Cody Banks. The film received positive reviews; Scott Foundas of Variety magazine labelled Duff's performance "charming," yet thought she was "sidelined with little to do much of the time." The same year, Duff reprised her role as Lizzie McGuire for The Lizzie McGuire Movie. It received mixed reviews; some slammed her acting skills whilst David Levine from Filmcritic.com called it "an unabashed promotion of Duff's image." Later that year, Duff played one of the 12 children of Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt in the family film Cheaper by the Dozen, which remains her highest grossing film to date, despite not-so-complimentary reviews of Duff's performance. Slant Magazine reviewer Nick Schager wrote that Duff "does nothing more than look perky and stylish."</div>
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Duff also made several guest appearances in television shows which included the role of a makeup salesperson in a 2003 episode of George Lopez; she later reappeared in the show in 2005 as Kenzie, a feminist poet friend of the character Carmen (Masiela Lusha). In 2003, she also portrayed one of The Shangri-Las opposite her sister Haylie in season two of American Dreams, while in 2005, she played a classmate and idolizer of the title character in Joan of Arcadia.</div>
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In 2004, she starred in the romantic comedy A Cinderella Story alongside Chad Michael Murray. Reviews of her performance mostly negative: "her appeal lies precisely in being Hilary Duff," wrote Reel critic Sarah Chauncy. However, the film went on to become a moderate box office hit, and some critics were impressed by Duff's performance. Later that year, she starred in Raise Your Voice, her first drama film. While some critics praised her for appearing in a more mature and serious role than her previous films, the film itself was heavily panned and was not successful at the box office. Several reviews were indifferent towards her acting performance and were critical of Duff's vocals, with critics pointing out what appeared to be her digitally enhanced voice. Her roles in the two films combined led to her first Razzie nomination for Worst Actress in 2004.</div>
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Her subsequent role in The Perfect Man (2005) and the reprisal of her character in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) combined accrued her second Razzie nomination for Worst Actress in 2005. The former, in which she co-stars with Heather Locklear and Chris Noth, "Duff plays her standard character—an introverted romantic who falls for a guy whose hunky exterior belies an artistic soul," wrote Matt Singer from the Village Voice. It was poorly received both critically and commercially. The latter, which was less successful as the original Cheaper by the Dozen, was panned by critics. "Duff just looks like she'd rather be in a different movie," wrote a harsh Mike Clarke from USA Today.</div>
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Additionally, the Duff sisters lent their voices to the computer animated comedy Foodfight! in late 2005, but the film has never been released. Duff paired with her sister again in the satirical comedy Material Girls (2006) but it was unsuccessful, both commercially and critically, earning both sisters a shared Razzie nomination for Worst Actress, becoming Hilary's third consecutive nomination in this field in three years. The two were also nominated for Worst Screen Couple.</div>
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<span class="mw-headline">A two-part introspective documentary television special Hilary Duff: This Is Now was produced to chronicle Duff's return to the recording industry. The show took two weeks to film and was shot in both the US and around Europe. It was broadcast on MTV in April 2007. Duff was also the guest star on The Andy Milonakis Show for its third season premiere in September 2007.</span></div>
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Duff was cast in War, Inc. (2008) a political satire. Her role as an oversexed Central Asian pop star garnered praise, despite the film receiving generally negative reviews from critics. War, Inc. opened on an extremely limited release in only two theaters across the United States. The film went on to open in a further thirty theaters across the United States.It was second in largest per theater gross. It closed on August 7, 2008 without a wide release, grossing only $580,862 domestically.</div>
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In 2009, she starred in two independent drama films. The first, as a young suicidal and rebellious teen in According to Greta which received mixed reviews; Andrew Barker of Variety magazine was unkind to Duff's "child star" approach to acting and wanted her to stay away from teen parts. However, Los Angeles Times critic Robert Abele wrote that her attempt to "transform her bright-eyed wholesomeness into rebellious snark" in Greta "is a valiant one." The second, as a narcissistic seductress in What Goes Up which also received mixed reviews. Brian Lowry of Variety magazine stated that Duff's performance "amounts to a near-adult role" yet labeled her role, and the film in general, "confused."</div>
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Despite turning down the lead role of Annie Mills in the television series 90210 in early 2008 as she was more interested in looking for projects outside the teen genre, Duff attained a recurring guest star role in the third season of Gossip Girl. She played the character of Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrols at NYU in search of a traditional college experience. The following year, she won a Teen Choice Award for Best Female Scene Stealer for her role as Olivia Burke; Enid Portugez of the LA Times also praised her performance by giving a positive review to her involvement in this adult role. In 2010, Duff starred in the ABC Family television film Beauty & the Briefcase, in which she plays a fashion magazine columnist who writes about her dating struggles in the city. The film had a rating of 2.4 million viewers.</div>
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Her most recent credits include Raven Halfacre, the teenage daughter of a promiscuous alcoholic mother, in the drama film Bloodworth (2011) in which Los Angeles Times reviewer Sheri Linden thought she "acquits herself well" despite not warming to the film. The Examiner also wrote that the "biggest surprise performance [in the film] probably belongs to Hilary Duff." She also played Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior, in the Polish brothers' comedy Stay Cool (2011) in which she co-starred with Winona Ryder, Mark Polish, Sean Astin, Chevy Chase, and Jon Cryer to neither much critical or commercial avail. In 2012, she appeared in the independent film She Wants Me, directed by Rob Margolies, as a well-known starlet Kim Powers who enters a love triangle.</div>
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In October 2011, Duff mentioned plans of a possible new album to E! Online. In January 2012, she confirmed that she had begun recording via her official website and Twitter. No official date has been announced but the album is expected to be released in 2012</div>
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<b><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/2012/12/jenny-mccarthy-jennifer-ann-jenny.html">Jennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy</a></b> (born November 1, 1972) is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and film acting career. Recently, she has written books about parenting, and has become an activist promoting research into environmental causes and alternative biomedical treatments for autism. She has claimed that vaccines cause autism and that chelation therapy helped cure her son—claims considered false by the medical community.<br />
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McCarthy was born in Evergreen Park, Illinois to a middle-class Catholic family of Polish and Irish descent. She lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood of Chicago. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named Lynette, Joanne and Amy. Her cousin is Academy Award-nominated actress Melissa McCarthy of Bridesmaids and Mike and Molly. McCarthy's mother, Linda, was a housewife and courtroom custodian, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman.<br />
As a teenager, McCarthy attended Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School (whose school sweater she donned in the pages of Playboy) and was a cheerleader at both Brother Rice High School and St. Laurence High Schools, although she has referred to herself as an "outcast" at her school and has described how she was repeatedly bullied by classmates.<br />
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After getting accepted by Playboy in 1993, the magazine offered McCarthy $20,000 (equivalent to $32,177 today) to pose for its October issue. McCarthy became the Playmate of the Month and later the Playmate of the Year and was paid a $100,000 salary. In 1994, because of her newfound public attention, McCarthy moved to Los Angeles and, for a time, hosted Hot Rocks, a Playboy TV show featuring uncensored music videos.<br />
In 1995, MTV chose McCarthy to be the host of a new dating show called Singled Out, for which she left Hot Rocks. Her job as a host was a success, and Playboy wanted her to do more modeling. That same year, she also appeared at World Wrestling Federation (WWF) pay-per-view event WrestleMania XI as a guest valet for villain Shawn Michaels, who faced heroic WWF Champion, Diesel. She left after the match with the victor, Diesel. McCarthy returned to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, formerly the WWF) on the August 2, 2008 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event to thank the fans for supporting Generation Rescue, an autism advocacy organization. In 1996, she landed a small part in the comedy The Stupids. In 1997, McCarthy launched two shows. The first one was an MTV sketch comedy show The Jenny McCarthy Show, which was sufficiently popular for NBC to sign her for an eponymous sitcom later that year, Jenny. The latter show is generally considered a disappointment and was quickly canceled.[citation needed] Also in 1997, she appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy (the other cover featured Pamela Anderson). McCarthy also released an autobiography: Jen-X: Jenny McCarthy's Open Book.<br />
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In 1998, McCarthy's first major movie role was alongside Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the comedy BASEketball. The following year, she starred in Diamonds, a movie which was directed by her then-husband John Mallory Asher. In 2000, she had a role in the horror movie Scream 3, and three years later she parodied that role in horror film spoof Scary Movie 3 along with fellow Playmate and actress Pamela Anderson. In 2005, McCarthy produced, wrote, and starred in the movie Dirty Love, where she was again directed by her husband at the time, John Asher. In March 2006, she was given Razzie Awards for "Worst Actress", "Worst Screenplay", and "Worst Picture" for her work on Dirty Love, which also earned Asher a Razzie for "Worst Director."<br />
In addition to her early TV fame on MTV and her short-lived, self-titled NBC sitcom, McCarthy has guest starred in a variety of other television shows including Stacked, Charmed, The Drew Carey Show, Wings, Fastlane, Two and a Half Men and Just Shoot Me!.[citation needed] She was the voice of Six in the third season of Canadian computer-animated science fiction cartoon Tripping the Rift. In 2005, McCarthy hosted a show on E! called Party at the Palms. The reality show, which was filmed at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, featured hotel guests, party goers, and celebrities.<br />
McCarthy has continued her work with Playboy over the years, both as a model and in other capacities. She appeared on the cover of the magazine's January 2005 issue wearing a leopard skin version of the company's iconic "bunny suit" and was featured in a pictorial shot at Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in that same issue. She was the second woman (following Carmen Electra) and first former Playmate to become a celebrity photographer for the Playboy Cyber Club, where she photographed model Jennifer Madden.[citation needed]<br />
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Jenny's younger sister Amy has also posed for Playboy. She was Cyber Girl of the Week for September 27, 2004, and Cyber Girl of the Month for January, 2005.<br />
In 2007, McCarthy starred in a five-episode online series, called In the Motherhood, along with Chelsea Handler and Leah Remini. The show aired on MSN and was based on being a mother where users could submit their stories to have it made into real webisodes.<br />
She has also appeared in two video games: playing the role of Agent Tanya in the video game Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, replacing Kari Wührer, and the fitness video game Your Shape Featuring Jenny McCarthy.<br />
On December 31, 2010, McCarthy was a correspondent in Times Square for ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.<br />
She is the host of season 2 of Love in the Wild, which began on June 7, 2012.<br />
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McCarthy once modeled for Candie's, a shoe company. In one magazine ad, McCarthy posed on a toilet seat with her underwear near her ankles. Cultural scholar Collin Gifford Brooke wrote that the ad's "taboo nature" brought it attention, while noting that the ad itself helped to weaken that taboo.Another Candie's ad depicted McCarthy passing wind in a crowded elevator.<br />
This theme was taken to a new extreme in her film Dirty Love, which featured McCarthy's character sitting in a massive pool of her own menstrual blood.<br />
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/">Kimberly Noel "Kim" Kardashian</a> (born October 21, 1980) is an American socialite, television personality, businesswoman, fashion designer, model, author and actress. She is known for starring in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the E! reality series that she shares with her family, and its spin-offs including Kourtney and Kim Take New York. She also co-owns the fashion boutique chain D-A-S-H, with her sisters Kourtney and Khloé.<br />
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Prior to the development of her career as a reality television star, Kardashian gained notoriety as the subject of a sex tape that subsequently resulted in a court awarding her $5 million. She has been involved in the production of several lines of clothing and fragrances. In 2010, she was the highest-earning reality star, with estimated earnings of $6 million. In August 2011, Kardashian married basketball player Kris Humphries in a widely publicized ceremony. That October, Kardashian filed for divorce following 72 days of marriage; a move which garnered significant widespread backlash from the media who labeled the marriage a "publicity stunt".</div>
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Kardashian was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian and his wife Kris Kardashian (née Houghton). Her father was a third-generation Armenian American. Her paternal great-grandparents, Sam and Harom Kardaschoff, were ethnic Armenian Molokan Jumpers from Karakale, Kars, Russian Empire (now Turkey). They migrated to the United States in 1913, just before the Armenian Genocide. Her mother is of Dutch and Scottish descent. Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloé, and one brother, Robert. She has stepbrothers Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, and reality TV star Brody Jenner, step-sister Casey Jenner, and half-sisters Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.She graduated from Marymount High School in 1998.</div>
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Kardashian at The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection 2010<br />
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In February 2007, a home sex video that she made with singer Ray J in 2003[8] was leaked. Vivid Entertainment bought the rights for $1 million and released the film as Kim Kardashian: Superstar on February 21. Kardashian sued Vivid for ownership of the tape. In late April 2007, Kardashian dropped the suit and settled with Vivid Entertainment for $5 million.<br />
Kardashian made her acting debut in the television series Beyond the Break, a show about an "all-female surf squad in Hawaii" in which she played Elle, an overprotective "mean girl". In October 2007, the Kardashians and Jenners became the stars of a a reality television series entitled Keeping Up with the Kardashians which airs on E!. It propelled them to fame, and seven seasons have aired as of November 2012. On April 24, 2012, E! renewed the show for two more additional seasons, a deal worth $50 million. The show has produced three spin offs. Kim stars in two of them, Kourtney and Kim Take New York and Kourtney and Kim Take Miami.<br />
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In 2008, Kardashian starred as Lisa in her first feature film Disaster Movie, which is a disaster film spoof. She starred as Summa Eve in the film Deep in the Valley (2009). Later that year, she was one of thirteen participants on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Mark Ballas, and became the third contestant to be voted off. In January 2009, she made a guest appearance as herself in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Benefits". Along with Khloé and Kourtney, she guest starred as herself on the season three premiere episode of the series 90210. On December 16, 2009, Kardashian made a guest star appearance on CBS's CSI: NY with Vanessa Minnillo. Kardashian has been a guest host of WrestleMania XXIV and guest judge on America's Next Top Model in 2009. Kardashian serves as producer of The Spin Crowd, a reality television show about Command PR, a New York City public relations firm, run by Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck. The show follows them as they settle into their new offices in Los Angeles. Kardashian is friends with both, specifically Cheban, who frequently appears on her reality shows. As in 2010, she also appeared on the the tenth season of The Apprentice.</div>
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Kardashian began dating NBA player Kris Humphries of the New Jersey Nets in October 2010. They became engaged in May 2011,[25] and married on August 20, 2011, in Montecito, California.[26] A two-part TV special showing the preparations and the wedding itself aired on E! in early October 2011, amidst what the Washington Post called a "media blitz" related to the wedding. After 72 days of marriage, Kardashian filed for divorce from Humphries on October 31, 2011, citing irreconcilable differences. After filing for the divorce, Kardashian asked the court to order Humphries to pay his own legal expenses. On December 1, 2011, Humphries filed his response to Kardashian's petition, requesting an annulment on the grounds of fraud or if the court will not grant an annulment, a decree of legal separation rather than Kardashian's requested divorce.<br />
Several news outlets surmised that Kardashian's marriage to Humphries was merely a publicity stunt, to promote the Kardashian family's brand and their subsequent television ventures. Her former publicist also claimed that her short-lived wedding was indeed staged and a ploy to generate money. Kardashian filed suit against him, saying his claims were untrue. A widely circulated petition asking to remove all Kardashian-related programming from the air has followed since their split.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/">Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson</a> (born October 25, 1984), known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Perry was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California around the influence of gospel music. Her conservative parents forbade her to listen to mainstream pop music. As a teen, she pursued a career in gospel music under her birth name and released her self-titled debut album. She recorded a solo album which never received release. In 2007, she signed with Capitol Records and adopted her stage name.</span></span></h3>
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Perry remains the only artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. She has sold 38 million digital tracks in the United States, 11 million albums worldwide, and a total of 75 million digital tracks worldwide. In 2011, MTV named her "Artist of the Year". As of 2012, she has been nominated for a total of eight Grammy Awards including Album of the Year. Her contributions to the music industry have garnered her multiple accolades. Using her celebrity status, Perry has ventured into celebrity endorsement and released her signature fragrance Purr. She has also made her film debut, voicing Smurfette in The Smurfs (2011). Perry was ranked at number fourteen on Billboard's list of top moneymakers of 2011, grossing more than $11 million. Billboard named Perry 2012's Woman of the Year.<br />
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Perry's personal life and public image have attracted a considerable amount of media attention. Noted for her unconventionality, she is recognized for her flamboyant appearances. After a failed relationship with fellow artist Travie McCoy, she married British comedian Russell Brand in 2010. In December 2011, Brand filed for the divorce, raising controversy as to the cause. She was spotlighted in her own 3D biopic-concert film Part of Me (2012), which concentrated on her life as a touring artist and the breakdown of her marriage.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) earned Johansson a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson garnered another Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress with her role in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005). She went on to star in two further Allen movies: Scoop (2006) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). Johansson has appeared in other successful films, such as Christopher Nolan's The Prestige (2006). Johansson played popular Marvel comic book character Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in the films Iron Man 2 (2010) and The Avengers (2012).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The 2010 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge gave Johansson some of her best reviews for her acting, and she received a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. As a singer, Johansson has released two albums, Anywhere I Lay My Head and Break Up. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Johansson is considered as one of Hollywood's modern female sex symbols and is often listed as one of the most beautiful women in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City on November 22, 1984. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect originally from Copenhagen, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. Melanie's ancestors emigrated to New York from Minsk, Belarus. She has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (who appeared with her in the film Manny & Lo); and an older half-brother, Christian, from her father's first marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Johansson grew up in a household with "little money", and with a mother who was a "film buff". She and her brother, Hunter, attended P.S. 41 in upper-middle-class Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan for elementary school. Johansson began her theatrical training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002.</span></div>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/">Katherine Marie Heigl</a>, born November 24, 1978) is an American actress and producer. She is possibly best known for her role as Dr. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens on ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2007. She has also starred in films such as Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Zyzzyx Road, Knocked Up, 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth, Killers, Life As We Know It, New Year's Eve, and One for the Money.<br />
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Heigl started her career as a child model with Wilhelmina Models before she turned her attention to acting. She made her debut in the coming-of-age film That Night. Heigl co-starred as Isabel Evans in the television series Roswell and movies including My Father the Hero before landing her break-out role in Grey's Anatomy. Heigl has established herself as a cover model appearing on numerous publications including Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan.</div>
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Heigl was born in Washington, D.C., at Columbia Hospital for Women. She
is the youngest of four children to Nancy (née Engelhardt), a personnel
manager, and Paul Heigl, a financial executive and accountant. Her
father is of German and Irish descent and her mother is of German
ancestry. Heigl was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. Her siblings are Meg, Jason (deceased), and Holt.[11] Heigl
lived in Virginia and then Denver before her family settled in
Connecticut, when they moved into a large, old Victorian-style farmhouse
in the wealthy town of New Canaan, where she spent most of her
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In 1986, her older brother Jason died of injuries
suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup
truck while out for lunch with some of his high school classmates.
Following his death, the family decided to donate his organs. Heigl was
unnerved by this at the time, and later became a strong proponent of
organ donation, working as a spokesperson for Donate Life America. After
Jason Heigl's death, their parents converted to The Church of Jesus
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Early work, 1986–1998<br />
When Heigl was nine, an aunt visiting the family decided to take a
number of photographs of her. After returning to her home in New York,
her aunt sent the photos to a number of modeling agencies, with the
permission of Heigl's parents. Within a few weeks, Heigl was signed with
Wilhelmina Models as a child model. Soon after signing with the agency,
a client slated Heigl for use in a magazine advertisement where she
made her debut. At the time, she was earning $75 an hour posing for
Sears and Lord & Taylor catalogs. Heigl appeared in her first
national television spot for Cheerios cereal.<br />
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She made her acting
debut in the 1992 movie That Night. Heigl appeared as Christina
Sebastian in Steven Soderbergh's Depression-era drama King of the Hill
before being cast in her first leading role in the 1994 comedy My Father
the Hero. During this time, Heigl continued to attend New Canaan High
School, balancing her film and modeling work with her academic studies.
Heigl dropped out of New Canaan High School after her sophomore year to
pursue her career in Hollywood<br />
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Dark Territory. Heigl portrayed a 16-year-old travelling on a train
across a mountain pass to visit the grave of her deceased father with
uncle Casey Ryback (Seagal), an ex-SEAL counter-terrorist expert. The
main plotline has the train hijacked by mercenaries in Colorado, keeping
her as a hostage. Much of her work in the film was opposite Morris
Chestnut, Sandra Taylor and Everett McGill.<br /><br />Despite an increased
focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in
magazines such as Seventeen. She landed the lead role in Disney's
made-for-television film Wish Upon a Star in 1996, portraying two
body-swapping characters along with Danielle Harris. Also in 1996,
Heigl's parents divorced and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. After
her high school graduation in 1997, she moved into a four-bedroom house
in Malibu Canyon, Los Angeles, with her mother, who also became her
manager.<br /><br />In 1998, she co-starred with Peter Fonda in a re-working
of the classic Shakespearean play The Tempest, set during the American
Civil War. Later that year, she starred in the horror film Bride of
Chucky.<br />Rise to fame, 1999–2004<br /><br />In 1999, Heigl turned her
attention to television when she accepted the role of Isabel Evans on
the science fiction TV drama Roswell, a role that was expanded in the
show's second and third seasons. Heigl had auditioned for all three of
the show's female leads (the other two roles eventually went to Shiri
Appleby and Majandra Delfino) before she was finally cast as Isabel, an
alien human hybrid.<br /><br />Heigl was frequently featured in photo essays
in magazines such as Life, TV Guide, and Teen as well as FHM. She
appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM's annual "100 Sexiest Women
in the World", and was featured in the Girls of Maxim Gallery.[20] In
May 2006, Maxim awarded her #12 on their annual Hot 100List as well as
voted the 19th "Sexiest Woman in the World" by readers of FHM magazine.
While Roswell was in production, Heigl worked on several films,
including 100 Girls, an independent 2001 film, and Valentine, a horror
film starring David Boreanaz and Denise Richards.<br /><br />Heigl accepted a
role in Ground Zero, a television thriller scheduled to be telecast
that fall which was based on the bestselling James Mills novel The
Seventh Power, in the spring of 2001. She co-starred as a brilliant and
politically-concerned college student who helps to build a nuclear
device to illustrate the need for a change in national priorities. The
device ends up in the hands of a terrorist following betrayal by a
fellow student. However, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
the film was shelved when its plot was considered inappropriate. It
reemerged in 2003 under the title Critical Assembly. After the attacks,
Heigl recorded a public service announcement for the American Red Cross
in an effort to help raise money for victims.<br /><br />In 2003, Heigl
appeared in three television movies. She returned to the horror genre
with Evil Never Dies, a modern-day variation on the Frankenstein story
co-starring Thomas Gibson. Love Comes Softly, for Hallmark
Entertainment, found Heigl starring as Marty Claridge, a young, pregnant
newlywed traveling west. (She reprised the role of Marty in the sequel
Love's Enduring Promise the next year.) Heigl played Isabella Linton in
MTV's modern revamp of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. In October
2003, Heigl was cast opposite Johnny Knoxville in The Ringer, a Farrelly
brothers comedy that was released in December 2005. Heigl starred as
Romy in the 2005 television movie Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, a
prequel to the 1997 film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion.</span><br />
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/"><b>Anjelah Nicole Johnson</b></a> (born May 14, 1982) is an <b>American actress</b>,
comedienne, and former NFL cheerleader. Johnson is most notable for her
membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series
MADtv during its 13th Season. Her characters include a rude fast food
employee named Bon Qui Qui and a Vietnamese nail salon employee.
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three years of college, Johnson moved to Los Angeles to pursue an
entertainment career. She decided to become a comedian in 2005 and began
doing stand-up comedy after a friend suggested that she join a joke
writing class. Prior to that she had been working as an actress in Los
Angeles and was taking improv classes in church. She quickly began to
headline her own shows after being a featured comedian in just three
shows. As a featured comedian, the comedy clubs that hired her gave her
preferential treatment over even the headliners after noticing that her
routines were popular with the audiences. Her stand-up routine
comprising her impression of a Vietnamese nail salon employee received
much attention on YouTube, and a year after beginning her stand-up
career, in 2007, Johnson joined the cast of sketch comedy show MADtv, as
a featured performer. Because of the impending writers strike, Johnson
was often given only a few lines in the scripts during her tenure on the
show, as the writers had to produce more scripts at a faster pace and
thus opted to write more for the already established performers.
However, her character Bon Qui Qui, a fast food employee who treats
customers rudely, which she wrote herself was received well. The clip
made its way to YouTube where it gained a large following, quickly
outstripping her already popular nail salon routine in views. In 2008,
Johnson was nominated for an ALMA Award for Outstanding Female
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Johnson was given her own 1 hour
Comedy Central special, "Anjelah Johnson: That's How We Do It" in 2009.
She filmed a role in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel in 2009.
She also appeared as America Ferrera's sister in the comedy, Our Family
Wedding alongside Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia in 2010. She
provided her voice for the live-action adaptation of Marmaduke, which
starred Owen Wilson and Emma Stone. She was also featured on the late
night talk show Lopez Tonight, hosted by one of her comedic influences,
George Lopez, performing her stand-up routine to the audience. Johnson
became the "TC Girl", a spokesperson for Mexican restaurant Taco Cabana
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In 2012, Johnson became the
national campaign spokesperson for the "Don't be an S.O.V." campaign led
by vRide, the country's largest van pooling company. vRide's campaign
encouraged single commuters (S.O.V.s) to rideshare, carpool, or vanpool.
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was born and raised in San Jose, California in a devout Christian
family. She is of Mexican-American and Native American descent. She was a
Pop Warner cheerleader from the age of 8 and was active in sports
including soccer, softball and track. She also practiced various dancing
styles, such as hip hop and break dancing. She began acting as a senior
in high school and was especially interested in affecting different
accents. She later studied speech communications in college. She
subsequently became a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders after being
inducted in 2002. As a member of the Oakland Raiderettes she was named
Rookie of the year and performed in Super Bowl XXXVII.</div>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/">Kelly Brianne Clarkson</a> (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, and occasional actress, who came into prominence after becoming the winner of the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002. The following year, she became the runner-up on the television special World Idol.</div>
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Immediately after winning American Idol, Clarkson signed to RCA Records by talent manager Simon Fuller and music mogul Clive Davis, and released a double A-side single "Before Your Love"/"A Moment Like This" in 2002. Upon its release, the single topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart by breaking the record for the biggest jump to number 1 in the chart's history and eventually became the best-selling single of 2002 in the United States. In 2003, Clarkson released her debut album Thankful, containing elements of a pop and contemporary R&B sound, which became a commercial success. Its first single, "Miss Independent", became an international hit, earning Clarkson her first Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Having parted ways with Fuller in 2004, Clarkson developed a more rock-oriented sound with the release of her second album, Breakaway under the management of Jeff Kwatinetz. The album became a critical and commercial success with its international hit singles "Breakaway", "Since U Been Gone", "Behind These Hazel Eyes", and Because of You, becoming her most successful album to date with over 14 million copies sold.</div>
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In 2007, Clarkson took full creative direction with the release of her self-produced third album My December. Despite the album's lack of mainstream production input, it debuted at number 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was voted the fifth best album by the readers of Billboard. Its lead single, "Never Again" became a top 10 hit and has since sold over one million digital downloads. In 2009, Clarkson returned to a more mainstream-oriented sound with her fourth studio album, All I Ever Wanted, which became a critical and commercial success. Its worldwide hit single, "My Life Would Suck Without You", surpassed "Before Your Love"/"A Moment Like This" for the biggest leap to number one on a single week in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, a record it still holds today. In 2011, Clarkson followed up All I Ever Wanted with the R&B, country-pop and dance-pop-inspired Stronger, which became a commercial success. It generated international chart-topping singles, including "Mr. Know It All," and "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)", which is currently the best selling American Idol single to date - the song has sold 3.9 million copies in the U.S. alone. In October 2012, she released "Catch My Breath" as the first single off of "Greatest Hits: Chapter One", which was released in November 2012. She also released a country duet with Vince Gill titled "Don't Rush" as a single after performing it on the 2012 CMA Award.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTb1MxZWFZdZUK9B9KpZIMq9imq7cBgjTPqtUX71iJc-gU8kH3wc4vXpcmmu8tvjahQ4b_U0809VYQG0PNhtmKhfv1aMr0Ew_l1rVrInnJR5ueeAghMECDPQvsnwbtFQ-0ScdK4THJTRJ/s1600/kelly-clarkson-announces-catch-my-breath.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTb1MxZWFZdZUK9B9KpZIMq9imq7cBgjTPqtUX71iJc-gU8kH3wc4vXpcmmu8tvjahQ4b_U0809VYQG0PNhtmKhfv1aMr0Ew_l1rVrInnJR5ueeAghMECDPQvsnwbtFQ-0ScdK4THJTRJ/s200/kelly-clarkson-announces-catch-my-breath.jpg" width="200" /></a> Aside from her renowned title as the "Original American Idol",[2][3][4]
Clarkson is also widely known for her voice, vocal versatility, and
heroine image. Her music has mainly dealt with themes of heartbreak,
independence, and self-empowerment for women and young teens. Apart from
her work in music, Clarkson also ventured to television and film.
Clarkson's film debut in the romantic musical From Justin to Kelly
(2003) was met with mediocre success. She appeared in various television
series such as American Dreams and Reba, and became a guest mentor on
The Voice. In a career spanning a decade, Clarkson has become the most
successful Idol contestant internationally with album sales of over 25
million and singles sales of over 36 million worldwide,[5] according to
Billboard[6] and Nielsen SoundScan.[7][8][9] Clarkson's musical work has
also gained her numerous accolades, including two Grammy Awards, three
MTV Video Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, four American
Music Awards and a Women's World Award. Billboard also ranked Clarkson
as the 14th-best-selling artist of the 2000s, as well as also being
ranked on the top 200 album sellers of the Nielsen SoundScan era at
number 187.[10][11] In Summer 2012, she was a mentor and judge on the TV
series Duets.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/"><b>2012–present: Duets and Greatest Hits</b></a> – Chapter One<br /><br />In 2012, Clarkson became a guest mentor on Blake Shelton's contestants on season two of the American television series The Voice—with this feat, Clarkson becomes the only former television singing-competition contestant to appear on American Idol, The X Factor and The Voice. On 5 February 2012, Clarkson performed The Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XLVI to widespread critical acclaim. Clarkson performed at the 54th Grammy Awards on February 12, 2012. She and Jason Aldean sang their hit "Don't You Wanna Stay"<span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />From May to July 2012, Clarkson became a mentor on the reality television series Duets.[74] She later release the promotional single "Get Up (A Cowboys Anthem)" for use in Pepsi's NFL advertising campaign. Clarkson first compilation album is slated to be released in 2012, with newly recorded tracks with producers Stargate, Kurstin, and Darkchild.<br /><br />Since early September it was rumored that Clarkson would release her first compilation album and, on October 4, 2012, it was announced that Clarkson would be releasing a greatest hits album, called Greatest Hits – Chapter One. It was released on November 19, 2012. As with the release of Stronger, the album was accompanied by an acoustic EP, The Smoakstack Sessions Vol. 2.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The first single off the album is called "Catch My Breath", which she wrote with her music director Jason Halbert and Eric Olson. The single was released on October 15, and as of December 6, had peaked at number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100. The accompanying music video was released on November 11, 2012. On October 30, Clarkson released the soulful country duet with Vince Gill, "Don't Rush," as the second single from the album. On October 2, 2012, Blake Shelton's Christmas album, Cheers, It's Christmas, was released, featuring a duet with Clarkson on "There's a New Kid in Town." In December, she appeared on Shelton's holiday special, which aired nationally on NBC.<br /><br />On December 5, 2012, it was announced that Clarkson was nominated for three categories for the 55th Grammy Awards in 2013, Best Pop Vocal Album for Stronger, Record of the Year, and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)". The song is also up for Song of the Year—though she is not a recipient since she is not a writer of the song. Clarkson will appear on Jewel's greatest hits album due out February 5, 2013. The two will duet on Jewel's song "Foolish Games".<br />Artistry</span></span></div>
fashionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10158311533903888281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7131803059484404382.post-20193714061832815872012-04-03T07:26:00.000-07:002012-12-20T20:13:04.672-08:00Selena Gomez Biography<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/">Selena Marie Gomez</a> (born July 22, 1992)[2] is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently ventured into feature films and has starred in the television movies Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She made her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.</div>
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Her career has expanded into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and founder of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released three RIAA Gold certified studio albums, Kiss & Tell, A Year Without Rain, and When the Sun Goes Down, spawned three RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally", "Who Says" and "Love You Like a Love Song" and charted four No. 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Gomez has also contributed to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record deal with Hollywood Records. In 2008, Gomez was designated a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.</div>
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<a href="http://mylittleredcarpet.blogspot.com/"><u><b>1992–2008: Early life and career breakthrough</b></u></a><br />
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Gomez was born in Grand Prairie, Texas. She is the daughter of former stage actress Amanda Dawn "Mandy" Teefey (née Cornett) and Ricardo Joel Gomez. Her father is of Mexican ancestry; her mother, who was adopted, is of part Italian descent. Regarding her Hispanic heritage, Gomez has stated: "My family does have Quinceañeras, and we go to the communion church. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except [that we] go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church." Her birth parents divorced when she was five years old, and she was raised as an only child by her working mother. In 2006, Mandy remarried, Brian Teefey. She was named after Tejano singer Selena, who died almost three years after Gomez was born. In a 2009 interview with People, Gomez mentioned that she developed an early interest in acting from watching her mother prepare for and act in theater productions. She earned a high school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010. Gomez began her acting career at age seven, playing Gianna on Barney & Friends. She later had minor roles in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and the TV film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial By Fire. Gomez also starred in the television movie Brain Zapped.</div>
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scouting. Gomez appeared as a guest star on The Suite Life of Zack &
Cody and had a guest appearance – that later turned into a recurring
role – on Hannah Montana from seasons two to three. Gomez previously
taped two different pilots that were spin-offs to two previous Disney
series. The first one, What's Stevie Thinking?, was the spin-off to
Lizzie McGuire. Gomez played Stevie Sanchez, Miranda Sanchez's little
sister. The other show was titled Arwin!, the spin-off to The Suite Life
of Zack & Cody, in which she played Alexa. Neither series was
picked up.</div>
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In early 2007, Gomez was cast in the Disney Channel
series Wizards of Waverly Place as one of the three main characters,
Alex Russo. The show premiered to an audience of 5.9 million, becoming a
hit. Many news outlets began dubbing Gomez the next 'Miley Cyrus'
causing some controversy and a reported 'feud'. Gomez clarified that
there was no feud and that she was flattered by the comparison, saying:
"It's a little overwhelming, but I think really, it's a compliment.
She's obviously extremely successful, and I think she's a wonderful
performer ... So being compared to her, I was very, very flattered."
Gomez recorded four songs, one of which was a cover, for the Wizards of
Waverly Place soundtrack, only one single ("Magic") from the album was
released. In 2008, Gomez recorded a cover of "Cruella de Vil"—which
included a music video—for the compilation album DisneyMania 6. Gomez
also recorded "Fly to Your Heart" for the 2008 animated film Tinker
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before Gomez' sixteenth birthday, she signed a
recording deal with Hollywood Records, a music label owned by
Disney.[20] In May, of the same year, Gomez was featured, with Forever
the Sickest Kids, on a duet version of the non-album song "Whoa Oh!".
The same year Gomez appeared in Another Cinderella Story, the
direct-to-DVD sequel to the 2004 Hilary Duff film, opposite Drew Seeley.
She also had a minor voiceover role as one the Mayor's ninety-six
daughters in Horton Hears a Who! which released in March of that year.
In April, Lacey Rose, of Forbes ranked Gomez as being fifth on their
"Eight Hot Kid Stars To Watch" list; and Rose described Gomez as having
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