Don’t even try to tell me Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t a great actor. He is. Period. This Friday big movie night will once again prove it’s true.
Leonardo DiCaprio and surprisingly large Russell Crowe’ re-starring in Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies that hits movies October 10. The film is based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius’ 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris (DiCaprio), who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. Ferris is definitely the best man in U.S. Intelligence working in team with CIA veteran Ed Hoffman (Crow) to lure the terrorist out into the open. The closer the agent gets to the target, the better he understands the ambiguous nature of trust that is both dangerous and life-saving.
In case you feel like watching a really serious movie this Friday night, here’s the movie I just couldn’t overlook. Though it’s not a feature one, it’s surely worth your attention due to issues it concerns and things it reveals.
Call And Response reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. According to the film, featuring such luminaries as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, other political and cultural figures, in 2007 slave traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
Music presented by such artists like Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot and others, is a part of the movement to stop human slavery
“It’s 3 a.m. on a crowd-clogged New York City street and Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have spent the past few hours trying to fall in love.” – Entertainment Weekly
The dangerously close co-stars are very close again. It has been a long time since the making of legendary Titanic, but Kate and Leo have always stayed close friends. The Revolutionary Roads brings the two back to each others arms and the entire movie is set by Sam Mendes – Kate’s husband.
I can imagine how unavoidably awkward filming love scenes can be. While cameras roll, lights shine down and the director shouts out instructions the two supposed to show intimacy. Now imagine the same situation for Winslet, except it’s not a stranger but her best friend, and her own husband is directing them both.
Love and misery connects Kate and Leo in the movie. Their marriage slowly turns into delusion.
1950s-set film Revolutionary Road sees Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) share a passionate kiss reminiscent of their on-screen romance in the 1997 blockbuster.
Directed by Winslet’s husband, British film-maker Sam Mendes, the film is based on the 1961 novel by Richard Yates and set in New York and Connecticut.
This is a much more detailed, sophisticated love story than Titanic. It’s about two people who land in their 30s and think, ‘This isn’t what I wanted at all. How did I get here?”’
It took Kate Winslet more than two years to coax Mendes and DiCaprio to come aboard.
When I heard about it, I thought, ‘Well, I’ve done a movie about American suburbia,”’
- recalls Mendes, who made his directing debut with 1999’s Oscar-sweeping American Beauty.
The film is due for release in the US on December 26 and in the UK on January 30 next year.
Last night, the Titanic stud was spotted hamming it up at the big New York City premiere of his new movie Body of Lies, held at the Frederick P. Rose Theater.
He was looking fine in a black suit with a white button-up shirt and a black and silver striped tie as he posed alongside his hunky bearded co-star Russell Crowe.
Ok, let’s admit it! It’s not enough to be just an actor, or just a singer, or just a fashion designer nowadays. You gotta be multi-talented to dwell in Hollywood. That’s why most of celebs launch their own fashion lines, try their hand in, writing, painting, etc. Some of them prefer singing to all other kinds of part-time celeb activity. For some of them being in front of the camera and being in the recording studio isn’t equally successful. Anyway, this is my selected list of top 10 actors-turned-singers.
The Hollywood star, 23, released her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head in May, 2008 and didn’t receive positive reviews from critics. Seems like Scarlett is better in acting…
How this mother of two manages to combine two careers is still a mystery to me. Paltrow’s song collection comes mostly form her film Duets (2000). Her voice is described as “pretty good,” well tastes differ.
I don’t know if many people know that besides being a good actor and a pretty handsome man, Keanu is also a bass guitarist and once even had his band Dogstar. The last Dogstar performance was in October 2002 , and they have since folded. Reeves later performed in band Becky but left due to his working schedule, but he reportedly still plays with the band sometimes.
Mommy-to-be, 40, had her debut album Everything I’ve Got In My Pocket in 2004. Though receiving more negative than positive reviews for her musical career Ms. Driver decided to please her few fans with the second album Seastories that was released in May this year. Though not really ardent about this kind of music I did like her song ‘Beloved’. Does it make me her fan?
I love this guy! He’s so cute and he manages to safe his charm through years. Bet, most women came to his concerts not as much because of his music, but because of his personality. Anyways, Bruce started his musical career back in the ’80s and managed to go all the way up till now, though these days he focuses more on politics than music.
In the ‘80s he recorded a track called ‘I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando’ under the name Rus LeRoq. In the ‘90s he fronted the Australian band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, the only thing I know for sure about the band is that the name sucks. In 2006 he formed a new band called The Ordinary Fear Of God. Like his music?
Oh, Lindsay… no day without Lindsay news. She recorded her debut album Speak in 2004. It went platinum. She released her second album, A Little More Personal, the following year but it wasn’t as successful due to Lohan’s inability to promote it properly because of acting commitments. Lindsay’s next album is scheduled for release this year. Wonder what songs will be about? Samantha Ronson will co-write, I suppose…
And this is the song I liked. Watch ‘Rumors’ from Lindsay’s debut album Speak.
As for this Hollywood mommy, she must be good in everything she does. Remember her singing in Moulin Rouge? I must confess I was impressed, really. Though she’s too busy for singing nowadays her prior experience is worth praising. Check her song ‘Something Stupid’ featuring Robbie Williams
2 Evan McGregor
And once again about Moulin Rouge… Nicole Kidman had a wonderful partner, Ewan McGregor who turned out to have a good musical ear and a pretty good voice. He’s great, don’t you think?
And here’s No. 1 actor-turned-singer. Australian born pop princess Kylie started her career in showbiz as a child actor, alongside her sister Dannii. She starred as Charlene on Neighbours in 1986. She recorded her first single ‘I Should Be So Lucky’ in 1987. The song was so catchy and sweet that it went to No 1 in the UK. Since then Ms. Minogue is more into singing than acting, actually. But anyway, Kylie’s by far the hottest actor-turned-singer of the decade.
Here’s one of her latest videos ‘In my arms’
But actually, the best actor-turned-singer (even if only for a while) is Cameron Diaz with her “dazzling vocal styling” in My Best Friend’s Wedding episode. She kicks everyone’s ass here.
A new sex tape featuring Britney Spears is set to be released soon. The footage shows Brit strip off naked apart from a pink wig and romp with ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. The tape was supposedly shot while the couple holidayed in Mexico in January.
Summer is taking over celebs' bodies and minds. Juliette actress enjoys sun, sand and ocean with her boyfriend Hugh Dancy in the bay of Naples. The trendy couple was guests at the Gucci 2009 Resort Collection, held at the Villa Aurelia in Rome, Italy
This year to look in style and to be on top go for trends like asymmetry in action and strategic layers. Improvise with the unexpected. Now hair cuts are taken as an individual manifestation instead of simply the 'look of the day'.
"Mix of modernist and medieval," that's what experts say about Karl Lagerfeld's collection for Chanel. Designer's simple short skirts, hourglass dresses and satin column skirts are sure to attract customers of all age.
Giorgio Armani is doing magic - he mixes that what two decades ago was cool and funky but flushed down the toilet in 90s. He brings it back and no one does better. Corporate glam at the Paris Fashion Week belongs to Armani Prive collection. Eternally.
Men are bastards, the English love to drink, Americans are a bit square, the French are rude and Italians are bisexual, says Miss Moss as she stirs up controversy and gets super provocative for Interview magazine. But the Russians will not be offended. She said they were sexy.
After giving birth to twins this February J Lo seems to work a lot on her post pregnant body as during the pregnancy she gained as twice as she usually weighs. At a luxurious boat Lopez stripped down to two pieces bikini to reveal her new figure.
Did you ever provoke a fight with your guy? You love getting on his nerves because that makes him so obscure and funny – “cute” so we say. No, you’re not sadistic. Just the fact that after the make up, it feels so sweet to be the conqueror- to have the feeling of power! To feel the situation is under your control - to cause a fight and then to stop it. Isn’t it just so dramatically sweet to push the edges once in a while?
I love pushing his triggers. Some may think I’m an evil witch, but I’m simply making our relationship tempered, exciting, resolute, pert.
If you intentionally get into a fight with him – you are not sick in a head (and no, you’re not just a bitch). Scientists say that a healthy relationship is a relationship where there are arguments, and any argument needs a solution, right? That takes out our negative energy and brings us closer. read more
Once upon a time there was a little girl who was just like a real princess, but no one knew that she was a princess. She grew up and became a very successful model. She lived up on the Manhattan tower and had almost a prince like boyfriend. One day she got tired of others not seeing that princess inside her. Ruslana Korshunova killed herself. She jumped off that high evil tower.
Parable
During my journey to Tibet I was lost. It was actually the reason why I went there. I was there to try to discover my soul. I will not get into details about my journey; there is only one meeting I have to tell you about. read more
No matter how obvious it sounds most of the rules have been created long before us. By rules I mean systematized experience of previous generations, like handshakes and etiquette, and things like going for a social smoke. There is a rule that ladies go in first into any door except the elevator.
But rules are a need for the sense of stability around one. Society needs rules to forecast the effect of a cause, to have at least some confidence of the future. And this is what disappoints people. This is when they lose their confidence because things appear not the way they expected them to be. Those who were really dependent on expectations suffer from facing the world that is unpredictable, that the rules they believed in didn’t work at some turning point.
So they say that only fools learn through their own mistakes. Don’t you remember your mom telling you not to stick your tong out and put it against the metallic balcony railing when it’s freezing cold outside? Why did I skip my SPSS class with that macho from senior class? All of my friends were telling me he was a player and had nothing else in his head except for getting laid. Why do we learn things only after we go through them? This is what humans are like. read more
What do you call it when you feel something against your will? When the call of that something inside you starts ripping your self - esteem in pieces while your consciousness tells you to stop.
I never had it when I was a child.
I always felt what I wanted and I always wanted that what I felt.
Being used to getting what I want I am stuck. Stuck in the position like being lost in the desert. There’s nowhere to go. I can’t deny what I feel but I also can’t afford to feel it. It’s against my beliefs and values. Hum… fuck the beliefs. I don’t care.
No more. The human mind is such control-freak. It kills me. And if I continue it will sound like a confession to you and this is the least I want to do. read more
Inspired by “fuck” conversation last Saturday, which is a very delicate subject.
All of us, living in a fast growing temper of big cities are busy. We go to work, go to college full time, or have kids to take care of. There are plenty of things to do. When crazy week days are over we have yoga or tango classes, and shopping to do aside the chorus, french classes and getting a good sleep.
When is there time for sex?
The right answer would be - there is always time for sex. But the stress and busyness lead some couples to pencil their intimacy. It is logical, simple and hot to know that your schedule after works has a mark “Ryan 8 pm”.
It is exciting to feel the anticipation, but on the other hand do we feel it is comfortable to set up our special moments with an important person for us on a basis of a scheduled task? It seems awkward to plan it, it is out of style, especially for femme-fatale like me, but even when sex is spontaneous, in every woman's head it is always planned. (wink!) read more
I got sms from a friend of mine which said “I heard you were robbed last night and the robber gave you two choices: you either had to give him your phone or suck his dick… I see you still got your phone…”
I thought that was stupid but hilarious and sent it to another friend of mine. He didn’t reply and I totally forgot about it. Well, I had to call him up for some business this morning and as he answered the phone he told me he was robbed last night. read more
I remember one rainy morning when I was sitting on the backseat of my Mercedes. My driver picked me up earlier than the usual. I wasn’t mad at him, no. I thought it was great so I could get to the office earlier than the usual. But when I got into the car I asked him if we could drive around for a bit. I like rain. I wanted to go to the park and have a cup of espresso at the patio outside the café on the bridge.
I asked him to wait for me and he walked me carrying the umbrella. I hate it cause when he does it he always sings “Under my umbrella, ella-ella-ella…” Rihanna’s song, you know. It’s cute but he makes me smile and I don’t like that. He’s my driver. That’s it. He’s supposed to take me where I want, not make me smile. read more
Preface: My last article made few men, whom I asked to read it, say it was bitchy to compare them with dogs, so this time I decided to distinguish women into a few different groups. I got the idea from a friend of mine who I think is more or less an expert in women. Sorry girls if you will find yourself offended when realizing this is who you can be sometimes.
Woman has always been a mystery to men. It is difficult to predict the way she will act in a certain situation. Whether she will through a scandal and tell all the girls, or will she keep it low. May be it will clear few things up and will surely make you smile. read more
Men - hunting is a very special elite kind of sport among women. Even golf and horse riding lose their pathos and sophistication next to it. In this hunt there are three simple elements: “v” – victim, “w” – woman and the most important one – “d” – desire.
This kind of activity keeps you in a good shape and helps you stay in a positive frame of mind for many years. But being a real Venus and Artemis at the same time is hard work.
Factors, such as weak self - restrain and lack of knowledge of the way to handle the male kind may become more complex when completing the mission. But nevertheless, it is time to start the season. read more
April 1st was packed at The Pure club inside The Caesar’s Palace. Aoki’s boisterous beats kept the dance floor pumping all night long. I would say its one of the hottest bashes in Las Vegas.
Last time I was there was for K-Fed’s birthday party on March, 21st. He got fucking drunk! That night I changed my mind on what I thought of him. I thought he was a little better than that. Sorry, won’t tell you the details… read more
Sex sells! JBS knows how to sell underwear to men. The line is out with slogan "Men do not want to look at naked men"and that means hot naked model stars in the hilarious ad. Sizzling, provocative the girls are really naughty. Truly must see. Ouch!
Britney was asked to tape her performance for Madonna's "Sticky & Sweet" tour. Madge still can't forget that famous passionate and burning hot kiss they shared during their performance at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards while singing 'Like a virgin.'
The Wackness brings us Mary-Kate Olsen back. The Wackness is an offbeat tale about two lost souls stumbling towards maturity. It's centered upon a troubled high school student, a teenage pot dealer who makes friends with a psychiatrist
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins teaser - trailer is unleashed to the Web ahead of its bow on the big screen in front of The Dark Knight. Get a handful of apocalyptic shots of the Earth and a brief PG-13-friendly explosion.
Ashanti's recently released album is a comeback to music industry. See the video of the song from her long awaited album Declaration. Ashanti's unusual voice strikes. It's a broken hearted woman who sees nothing but death of her cheating man.
Kabluey's described as "a hilarious, unique and heartfelt comedy" and tells a story of a guy named Salman who helps his sis-in-law take care of her toddlers while her hubby's fighting in Iraq. Salman's the one to help hold the family together.
Sensual and young Angelina Jolie at the start of her career. 16 year old 'A' list celebrity acts in Italian music video featuring kissing and bed scenes. Jolie was as twice as young but her acting was as good as it is nowadays. Can't miss it!
Wanted is coming out June, 27 and to tease yourself watch the fast and furious Angelina Jolie racing cars, chasing bad guys, shooting guns, and breaking the law of physics all in the search for destiny. The movie is hit #1 this summer. You must see!
Carla Bruni Sarkozy, 40, the first lady of France, former top model and a singer, is desperately trying for a baby. She admits the time might be against her. Watch Carla Bruni sing 'Quelqu'un M'a Dit' (Someone Told Me) in her velvet-like voice.
Super model Agyness sings and she does well. Watch absolutely adorable single with the band Five O'Clock Heroes. The song is called 'Who' and the video is really cool shot pretty much all in black & white. Agyness is extremely sexy creature.
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