phyllis hyman discography

Soul singer Phyllis Hyman discography
Phyllis Hyman You Know How To Love Me Classic soul from 1979

Singles
1976: Baby ,I'm Gonna Love You
1976: Do Me
1976: Betcha By Golly Wow
1977: Loving You - Losing You
1977: No One Can Love You More
1978: Living Inside Your Love
1978: As You Are, with Pharoah Sanders
1979: Somewhere In My Lifetime
1979: You Know How To Love Me
1980: Under Your Spell
1981: Can't We Fall In Love Again, with Michael Henderson
1981: Tonight You And Me
1982: You Sure Look Good To Me
1982: Love Surrounds Us Everywhere, with McCoy Tyner
1983: Riding The Tiger
1983: Why Did You Turn Me On
1986: Living All Alone
1986: Old Friend
1987: Ain't You Had Enough Love
1990: Obsession
1991: Don't Wanna Change the World
1991: Living In Confusion
1992: I Found Love
1992: When You Get Right Down To It
1993: Remember Who You Are
1995: I Refuse To Be Lonely
1996: I'm Truly Yours
1996: It's Not About You, It's About Me
1998: Funny How Love Goes
1998: Tell Me What You're Gonna Do
2004: Can't Live Without You
2008: Never Say Never Again, released on the 4 track CD Single One More Night, by Stephen Forsyth
Phyllis Hyman Old Friend
Another cool song. This song is from one of my favorite albums: Living All Alone. I have to take it back 20 years to get quality music.

Albums
1977: Phyllis Hyman, Buddah
1979: Sing a Song, Buddah
1979: Somewhere in My Lifetime, Arista
1979: You Know How to Love Me, Arista
1981: Can't We Fall in Love Again?, Arista
1983: Goddess of Love, Arista
1986: Living All Alone, Philadelphia International
1989: Under Her Spell: Phyllis Hyman's Greatest Hits, Arista
1991: Prime of My Life, Philadelphia International
1995: I Refuse to Be Lonely, Philadelphia International
1996: Loving You, Losing You: The Classic Balladry of Phyllis Hyman, Kama Sutra
1996: The Legacy of Phyllis Hyman, Arista
1998: Forever with You, Philadelphia International
1998: Phyllis Hyman: Remembered, Roadshow Records
1998: One on One, Hip-O
1999: Phylladelphia: The Gamble-Huff Years, WestSide
2003: In Between The Heartaches: The Soul Of A Diva, Expansion
2004: Ultimate Phyllis Hyman, BMG Heritage
Living All Alone - Phyllis Hyman 1986
Amazing The Late Great Phyllis Hyman with The Late Great Billy Preston on organ and Terry Burrus on piano. Also Phyllis being interviewed by David Brenner.

Phyllis Hyman Filmography
Lenny 1974
Too Scared to Scream 1985
School Daze 1988
The Kill Reflex 1989

biography geoffrey rush best actor movie Filmography

Geoffrey Roy Rush (age 57) was born 6 July 1951. He is a Golden Globe-, BAFTA-, Emmy-, AFI- and Academy Award-winning Australian actor. He is the first Australian-born person to win an Academy Award for acting. He is also the only Australian person to win it playing an Australian character (although American Linda Hunt won one for playing an Australian character in The Year of Living Dangerously).
Originally a Queenslander from regional Toowoomba, Rush moved to Melbourne in the early 1990s via Brisbane and Sydney and currently lives in the suburb of Camberwell, Victoria.

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Rush lives in Camberwell, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He has become involved in the preservation of heritage and architecture, becoming a figurehead for a campaign for the preservation of Camberwell Railway Station from demolition by developers and championing a National Trust of Australia (Victoria) poll for the Victorian Heritage Icons Awards.
Since 1988, Rush has been married to actress Jane Menelaus, with whom he has a daughter, Angelica was born 1992 and a son, James was born 9th Sep 1995.
Filmography
1981 Hoodwink Detective 1
Menotti TV Series
1982 Starstruck Floor Manager
1987 Twelfth Night Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1996 Shine David Helfgott (adult) Academy Award for Best Actor
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Mercury Bill Wyatt TV series
Children of the Revolution Zachary Welch
1997 Frontier Soldier Administrator David Collins TV mini-series
Oscar and Lucinda Narrator voice
1998 A Little Bit of Soul Godfrey Usher Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Les Misérables Inspector Javert
Elizabeth Sir Francis Walsingham BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Shakespeare in Love Philip Henslowe Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1999 Mystery Men Casanova Frankenstein
House on Haunted Hill Stephen H. Price
2000 Quills Marquis de Sade Nominated - Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
The Magic Pudding Bunyip Bluegum voice
2001 The Tailor of Panama Harold 'Harry' Pendel
Lantana John Knox
2002 Frida Leon Trotsky
The Banger Sisters Harry Plummer
2003 Swimming Upstream Harold Fingleton Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Ned Kelly Superintendent Francis Hare
Finding Nemo Nigel voice
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Captain Hector Barbossa
Intolerable Cruelty Donovan Donaly
Harvie Krumpet Narrator voice
Australian Film Institute Global Achievement Award
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Peter Sellers Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
2005 Munich Mossad case officer Ephraim
2006 Candy Casper Nominated - Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Captain Hector Barbossa uncredited cameo
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Captain Hector Barbossa
Elizabeth: The Golden Age Sir Francis Walsingham
2008 $9.99 Angel post-production
Laundry Warrior Town Drunk post-production
bio info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Rush

actor Thomas Jack Black Biography comedian

Thomas Jack Black (age 39) was born August 28, 1969. He is an American actor, comedian and musician. With his friend Kyle Gass, he makes up one half of the comedy and rock music duo Tenacious D. The group has two albums and a full-length movie. His acting career is extensive, starring primarily as bumbling, cocky, but internally self-conscious outsiders in comedy films. He is a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedians who have appeared together in several Hollywood films, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe award.
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Regarding exercise, Black has been quoted as saying that Ultimate is the only form of exercise that he doesn't hate. Black dated actress and comedian Laura Kightlinger from 1997 until 2005. In January 2006, he became engaged to Tanya Haden (daughter of the jazz double bassist Charlie Haden, and sister of violinist and singer Petra Haden). Haden herself is an accomplished cellist. Both attended Crossroads school, but met again 15 years after graduating, at a friend's birthday party. Black proposed marriage around Christmas 2005 with a $50,000 Neil Lane ring. They married on March 14, 2006, in Big Sur, California. Their son, Samuel Sammy Jason Black, was born on June 10, 2006, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. On May 23, 2008, Black and his wife welcomed their second child, another boy, whom they named Thomas Tommy David Black.
Black's comedic style combines many key elements from both sides of the traditional double act. Black typically begins a skit in which he presents an earnest introduction to a premise or subject that quickly reveals itself to be flawed or fundamentally ludicrous. Black then switches completely to a far-extreme caricature of human emotion.
His would-be straight-man Gass often functions to trigger these outbursts. Tenacious D’s subject matter illustrates this technique. In Tribute, Tenacious D tells a story in which they claim to have performed, The Greatest Song in the World, for a, Shiny Demon, who would otherwise EAT THEIR SOULS. In Inward Singing, Black doesn’t merely discover a new vocal technique, he discovers what he refers to as "the most powerful tool in singing technology since yodeling". Black's skits also use the catchphrase 'more cushion for the pushin', a self-deprecating reference to his abdominal body fat.
Bio Info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Black_(actor)

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born October 7, 1952, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
He is a Russian politician who was the 2nd President of the Russian Federation from 2000 to 2008 and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as the chairman of United Russia. He became acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and then won the 2000 presidential election. In 2004, he was re-elected for a second term lasting until May 7, 2008.
On July 28, 1983 Putin married Lyudmila Shkrebneva, at that time an undergraduate student of the Spanish branch of the Philology Department of the Leningrad State University and a former airline stewardess, who had been born in Kaliningrad on January 6, 1958. They have two daughters, Maria Putina was born 1985 and Yekaterina Katya Putina was born 1986 in Dresden. The daughters attended the German School in Moscow until his appointment as prime minister.
Since 1992, Putin has owned a dacha of about seven thousand square meters in Solovyovka, Priozersky district of the Leningrad region, which is located on the eastern shore of the Komsomol'skoye lake on the Karelian Isthmus near Saint Petersburg. His neighbours there are Vladimir Yakunin, Andrei Fursenko, Sergey Fursenko, Yuriy Kovalchuk, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. On November 10, 1996, together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties. This was confirmed by Putin's income and property declaration as a nominee for the presidency in 2000. However, this real estate was not listed in his income and property declaration for 1998–2002 submitted before the 2004 elections.
Putin answers questions from Time magazine

Putin's father was "a model communist, genuinely believing in its ideals while trying to put them into practice in his own life." With this dedication he became secretary of the Party cell in his workshop and then after taking night classes joined the factory’s Party bureau. Though his father was a "militant atheist", Putin's mother "was a devoted Orthodox believer". Though she kept no icons at home, she attended church regularly (despite the government's persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church at that time). She ensured that Putin was secretly christened as a baby, and she regularly took him to services. His father knew of this but turned a blind eye. According to Putin's own statements, his religious awakening followed the serious car crash of his wife in 1993, and was deepened by a life-threatening fire that burned down their dacha in August 1996. Right before an official visit to Israel his mother gave him his baptismal cross telling him to get it blessed “I did as she said and then put the cross around my neck. I have never taken it off since.” Putin repeated the story to George W. Bush in June 2001, which might have inspired Bush to make his much-derided remark that he had "got a sense of Putin's soul". Putin is regularly shown on Russian television attending Orthodox services, lighting candles in front of icons and crossing himself, though there is no credible information about his actual participation in the Church's sacraments. When asked whether he believes in God during his interview with Time, he responded saying: "There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public at large for everybody's consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease."
Vladimir Putin: PERSON OF THE YEAR 2007

Putin speaks German with near-native fluency. His family used to speak German at home as well. After becoming President he was reported to be taking English lessons and could be seen conversing directly with Bush and other native speakers of English in informal situations, but he continues to use interpreters for formal talks. Putin spoke English in public for the first time during the state dinner in Buckingham Palace in 2003 saying but a few phrases while delivering his condolences to the Queen. He made a full English speech while addressing delegates at the 119th International Olympic Committee Session in Guatemala City on behalf of the successful bid of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Vladimir putin half naked

During his Presidential terms, and coming into his second term as Prime Minister, Putin has enjoyed high approval ratings amongst the Russian public for rescuing Russia from the chaos of Boris Yeltsin years. During his eight years in office, the economy bounced back from crisis seeing GDP increase six-fold (72% in PPP), poverty more than halve and average monthly salaries increase from $80 to $640, or by 150% in real rates. At the same time, his conduct in office has been questioned by domestic dissenters, as well as foreign governments and human rights organizations, for his handling of internal conflicts in Chechnya and Dagestan, his record on internal human rights and freedoms, his relations with former Soviet Republics, and his relations with the so-called oligarchs: Russian businessmen with a high degree of power and influence within both the Russian Government and economy.
This was seen by the Kremlin as a series of anti-Russian propaganda attacks orchestrated by western opponents and exiled oligarchs. While several Yeltsin era oligarchs such as Boris Berezovsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky were either exiled or put in jail, the vast majority of them such as Mikhail Fridman, Viktor Vekselberg, Leonid Fedun, Vladimir Potanin, Roman Abramovich,Alexander Abramov, Mikhail Prokhorov, maximized and consolidated their control over russian natural resources and cash flows.
Due to constitutionally mandated term limits, Putin was ineligible to run for a third consecutive Presidential term. Following the success of his hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, in the 2008 presidential elections, he was then nominated by the latter to be Russia's Prime Minister and took the post on May 8, 2008.
Bio info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Putin

Good Charlotte Joel Madden Nicole Richie pregnancy

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Joel Reuben Madden (age 29) was born Joel Reuben Combs on March 11, 1979. He is an American singer well-known as the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte.
Later that year in December 2006, Madden and Nicole Richie became a couple. In June and July 2007, numerous media outlets were stating that Richie was pregnant with Madden's baby. These rumors were unaddressed by the couple until July 31, 2007 when they confirmed in an interview with Diane Sawyer that Richie was pregnant with Madden's child. For the sake of Richie and the baby, Madden has given up smoking. Richie gave birth to the couple's daughter, Harlow Winter Kate Madden on January 11, 2008 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Madden currently resides in Glendale, California, and is still with Nicole Richie.
Joel Madden and Nicole Richie interview

In 1995, at the age of 16, Madden attended the Beastie Boys III Communication Tour with his brother Benji. Drawing from music introduced to them by their older brother Josh, such as Rancid and Social Distortion, as well as the influence of the Beastie Boys concert, the two started their own band with a friend. The band was short lived and the Maddens eventually recruited fellow high schoolers Paul Thomas and Aaron Escolopio to form Good Charlotte.
In the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, Joel and the other Good Charlotte members made a cameo as the band at the school's prom. He later had a cameo role in the 2004 film Fat Albert and in the 2006 film Material Girls with his brother Benji.
Madden started a clothing line called MADE Clothing along with his brothers Benji and Josh. The line is now defunct. In early 2006 MADE Clothing became DCMA Collective. The line is owned by himself, his brothers Benji Madden, Josh Madden, and friend Tal Cooperman.
In November 2007, Nicole Richie and Madden created The Richie Madden Children's Foundation. The charity will create and promote an online registry to inspire the purchases of items for moms and their families in need.
Info (c) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Madden

film director biography Sydney Pollack died

The Best film director died Sydney Pollack
Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008 at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California surrounded by family. He had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months before his death.Sydney Pollack (aged 73) was born July 1, 1934 and died May 26, 2008. He was an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor.
He directed more than 21 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films. Pollack is best known for directing films Out of Africa (Academy Awards, 1985), Tootsie (1982), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Yakuza (1975), The Way We Were and Jeremiah Johnson (1972), along with newer films The Interpreter (2005), Sabrina (1995), The Firm (1993) and Havana (1990). He appeared in over 15 films, including The Interpreter (2005), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Husbands and Wives (1992), The Player (1992), and The Electric Horseman (1979). In 2007, he appeared opposite George Clooney in Michael Clayton, a film which he also co-produced. He died of cancer on May 26th, 2008.
Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, to a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia, the son of Rebecca (Miller) and David Pollack, a professional boxer and pharmacist. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother, an alcoholic, died at the age of 37 while Pollack was a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
His brother is the costume designer, producer and actor Bernie Pollack.
Pollack was married to Claire Griswold, a former student of his, from 1958 until his death; they had three children, Rachel Pollack, Rebecca Pollack and Steven Pollack, who died in a plane crash in 1993. As a character actor, Pollack subsequently appeared in films such as A Civil Action, Changing Lanes, and Eyes Wide Shut, as well as his own, including Random Hearts and The Interpreter. He also appeared in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives as a New York lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis. He had a recurring guest star role on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, playing Will Truman's (Eric McCormack) unfaithful but loving father, George Truman. In 2007, Pollack made guest appearances on the HBO TV series The Sopranos and Entourage as well as an appearance on NBC's Just Shoot Me.
Pollack received the first annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival October 21, 2006.
As a producer he helped to guide many films that were successful with both the critic and movie audiences, such as The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Michael Clayton. He formed a production company called Mirage Enterprises with the English director Anthony Minghella (who died just a few months before Mr. Pollack in 2008).
Director Sydney Pollack Filmography
The Slender Thread (1965) director
This Property Is Condemned (1966) director
The Scalphunters' (1968) director
The Swimmer (1968) co-director
Castle Keep (1969) director
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) director
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) director
The Way We Were (1973) director
Three Days of the Condor (1975) director
The Yakuza (1975) director/producer
Bobby Deerfield (1977) director/producer
The Electric Horseman (1979) director/actor
Absence of Malice (1981) director/producer
Tootsie (1982) director/producer/actor
Out of Africa (1985) director/producer
Havana (1990) director/co-producer
The Firm (1993) director/producer
Sabrina (1995) director/producer
Random Hearts (1999) director
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2005) director
The Interpreter (2005) director, executive producer, and actor .

Steven Curtis Chapman family tragedy

Maria Sue Chapman was 5 year old. Adopted daughter of Steven Curtis Chapman. She was killed in an accident on May 21, 2008.
She was struck by an SUV driven by one of the Chapmans teenage sons as he backed down the driveway of the family's Franklin home. The entire family was home at the time celebrating their eldest daughter's engagement, and several members witnessed the tragedy. Maria Sue later died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. A spokesman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol termed it "a terrible accident" and said no charges are expected to be filed. Maria was the youngest in the family and one of three daughters adopted from China by Steven and his wife, Mary Beth.
Steven Curtis Chapman was born November 21, 1962 in Paducah, Kentucky. He is a Contemporary Christian musician.
After starting his career in the late 80s as a songwriter, Chapman has turned into one of the most prolific singers in the genre, releasing more than 20 albums to this date. As of 2007, he has sold more than 10 million albums and has 9 gold and platinum albums. Chapman has also won five Grammy awards and 51 Gospel Music Association Awards, more than any other artist in history.
Chapman is also a vocal advocate for adoption, along with his wife Mary Beth. Together, they have adopted three children from China and have started a charity organization called Shaohannah's Hope, which offers grants to qualifying families to help defray the cost of adopting, at home and abroad.
As of 2007, Chapman has been married to Mary Beth Chapman (they shared the same last name prior to their marriage) for 23 years. The couple met in the early 80s at Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana and married in the fall of 1984. They currently live in Franklin, Tennessee, and have three biological children (Emily Elizabeth, Caleb Stevenson, Will Franklin). They adopted three young girls from China (Shaohannah Hope Yan, Stevey Joy Ru, Maria Sue). Sadly, Maria Sue is deceased. (See 'Death of youngest daughter' below).
When Steven and Mary were first married, they struggled with finances and turned to God in prayer. A few days before their anniversary, they found out that Mary was pregnant. When arriving home one night, they noticed fire engines outside their apartment, and realized their apartment had burnt down. They had no insurance to cover the cost of damages, and they moved in with friends. Then Sparrow Records noticed Steven's vocal abilities and signed him.
Together, Chapman and his wife have written three children's books with adoption themes, Shaoey And Dot (2004), Shaoey and Dot: The Christmas Miracle (2005), and Shaoey and Dot: A Thunder and Lightning Bug Story (2006). Together with minister Scotty Smith, Chapman authored two books for the adult inspirational market, Speechless (1999) and Restoring Broken Things (2005). Chapman's song "All About Love" has been featured in commercials for the Fox television show, Celebrity Duets.
Chapman and his sons recorded under the name of "Stevenson" for the 2003 Veggie Rocks CD. (Song: "I Love My Lips", VeggieTales). Chapman also starred in the 2003 film Christmas Child.

Miley Ray Cyrus or Miley Cyrus

Destiny Hope Cyrus is 15 years old. She was born November 23, 1992, better known as Miley Cyrus, is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is perhaps best known for starring as Miley Stewart Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel Original Series, Hannah Montana. As of March 2008, she is in the legal process of changing her given name to "Miley Ray Cyrus". The next step in her name change process is a public hearing, due May 1, 2008.
Miley Cyrus embarrassing pictures.
On April 25, 2008, the televised entertainment program Entertainment Tonight reported that Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot with Vanity Fair. The photo, and subsequently released behind-the-scenes photos, show Cyrus without a top, her bare back exposed but her front covered with a bedsheet. The photo shoot was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz.The full photograph was published with an accompanying story on The New York Times' website on April 27, 2008.

On April 28, Vanity Fair published their full interview and photo shoot with Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus, as well as the behind-the-scenes photographs, on their website. According to the interview, Cyrus' parents and or minders were present during the entire duration of the photo shoot. The idea to pose topless was Annie Liebovitz's suggestion.

Jennifer Lopez children twins names Max and Emme

Jennifer Lynn Lopez 38 years old . She was born July 24, 1969, popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion designer, and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in America according to People en Español's list of "100 Most Influential Hispanics".
Starting in 1999, Lopez released seven albums, including two 1 albums on the Billboard 200 charts and four Billboard Hot 100 singles. She won the 2003 American Music Award for Favorite Pop Rock Female Artist and the 2007 American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. She has appeared in numerous films, and has won ALMA Awards for outstanding actress for her work in Selena, Out of Sight, and Angel Eyes. She parlayed her media fame into a fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement.
Media attention has also focused on her personal life. She has had high-profile relationships with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Sean Combs, Ben Affleck, and most recently, Marc Anthony. Her first children, fraternal twins named Max and Emme, were born on February 22, 2008.
On the last night of their "En Concierto" tour November 7, 2007, before a crowd of fans, Lopez confirmed she was expecting her first child with husband Marc Anthony. The announcement ended months of speculation over the pregnancy. Her father later confirmed on February 5, 2008, she was expecting twins. Lopez gave birth on February 22, 2008 to fraternal twins, Emme Marbiel Muñiz at 12:12 am (5 lbs, 7 oz) and Maximilian "Max" David Muñiz at 12:13 am (5 lbs, 13 oz) by C-section. The twins were introduced in the March 11, 2008 issue of People magazine for which the magazine $6 millon for.

Robin Williams divorce Marsha Garces

Robin McLaurim Williams was born July 21, 1951 or 1952. He is an Academy Award-, six-time Golden Globe-, two-time Screen Actors Guild Award- and Grammy Award-winning American actor and comedian who has done television, stage and film work. In part, his big break was from playing Mork from Ork, which was highlighted on Mork & Mindy. Soon afterward he became a film star who is still active as an actor and headlining comic. He was voted 13th on Comedy Central's list of "100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time".

His first marriage was to Valerie Velardi on June 4, 1978, with whom he has one child, Zachary Pym (Zak) was born April 11, 1983. The marriage ended in 1988. During Williams' first marriage, he was involved in an extramarital relationship with Michelle Tish Carter, a cocktail waitress whom he met in 1984. She sued him in 1986, claiming he gave her herpes without notifying her. The case was settled out of court.

On April 30, 1989, he married Marsha Garces, his son's babysitter. They have two children, Zelda Rae was born July 31, 1989 and Cody Alan was born November 25, 1991. Williams currently resides in a large house in the upper-income Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco. However, in March 2008, Garces filed for divorce from Williams, citing irreconcilable differences. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Williams had a serious addiction to cocaine; he has since quit. Williams was a close friend and frequent partier alongside John Belushi. He says the death of his friend and the birth of his son prompted him to quit drugs: "Was it a wake-up call? Oh yeah, on a huge level. The grand jury helped too".

He was also quoted as saying, "Cocaine is God's way of telling you, you're making too much money." On August 9, 2006, Williams entered himself into a rehabilitation center for alcoholism. His publicist delivered the announcement: "After 20 years of sobriety, Robin Williams found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family. He asks that you respect his and his family's privacy during this time. He looks forward to returning to work this fall to support his upcoming film releases." On August 20, 2007, Williams' elder brother, Robert Todd Williams, died of complications from heart surgery performed in July. Robin Williams gave a speech at his memorial service.

bio actor Richard Widmark death

Richard Widmark (aged 93)was born December 26, 1914 and died March 24, 2008. He was an Academy Award-nominated American film actor.For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Widmark has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6800 Hollywood Boulevard. In 2002, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Widmark was married to his first wife, writer Jean Hazlewood, for almost 55 years, from April 5, 1942 until her death on March 2, 1997. Their daughter, Anne Heath Widmark, an artist and author, married baseball legend Sandy Koufax on January 1, 1969 (but divorced in 1982). In September 1999, Widmark married Susan Blanchard, who earlier was Henry Fonda's third wife. From the 1950s until his death on March 24, 2008, Widmark resided in Roxbury, Connecticut.Widmark died at home after a long illness, according to his wife.

Filmography Anthony Minghella Carolyn Choa

Anthony Minghella and Spouse Carolyn Choa.

Anthony Minghella (aged 54) was born 6 January 1954 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England and died 18 March 2008. He was an Academy Award-winning English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.

Minghella was married to Hong Kong-born choreographer Carolyn Choa. His brother, Dominic, is also a successful scriptwriter, and his son, Max, is an actor. His daughter Hannah worked as a production assistant on The Talented Mr. Ripley. His sister Edana is currently involved in a jazz event on the Isle of Wight, and his nephew Dante is one of the participants in Channel 4's Child Genius series.
He was a big Portsmouth F.C. fan and appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Hallowed Be Thy Game. His home has two double bedrooms dedicated to the display of Portsmouth memorabilia dating back to the club's founding in 1898.
Minghella died on 18 March 2008 of a haemorrhage in Charing Cross Hospital, London, following an operation the previous week to remove cancer of the tonsils and neck.

Filmography

1990 Truly, Madly, Deeply
1993 Mr. Wonderful
1996 The English Patient - No. of Oscar nominations 12 and No. of Oscar wins 9.
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley - No. of Oscar nominations 5.
2000 Play
2003 Cold Mountain - No. of Oscar nominations 7 and No. of Oscar wins 1.
2006 Breaking and Entering
2008 The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Rob Schneider biography Upcoming movies

Robert Michael Schneider (age 44) was born October 31, 1963. He is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. A stand-up comic and veteran of the NBC sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live, Schneider went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedies Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo and The Hot Chick. Schneider is a single father, with a daughter named Elle. He owns homes in San Francisco and Southern California.
You can do it all night long


In 1996, Schneider established the "Rob Schneider Music Foundation." The foundation brought back music education to Pacifica's elementary schools, by paying the teachers' salaries and providing funds for instruments and other equipment. Prior to the creation of Schneider's foundation, twenty years had passed without music education in those schools.
Schneider has a keen interest in music, and at one point owned a San Francisco nightclub, DNA Lounge.

A practicing environmentalist who drives a Toyota Prius hybrid automobile, Schneider served as host for the Environmental Media Awards.
Schneider is a devoted fan of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. He owns a West Highland white terrier named Oscar who has appeared in short films with Adam Sandler's bulldog.
Schneider's mother has made cameo appearances in her son's films, playing a cheerleading contest judge in The Hot Chick, a restaurant patron in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and a nosy neighbor in The Animal.
Schneider is good friends with fellow SNL alums Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, and Norm Macdonald. He was good friends with Chris Farley until Farley died in 1997 from a drug overdose.

you dont mess with the zohan Official Movie Trailer of 2008

Filmography
Upcoming:
Big Stan (2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Noah's Ark: The New Beginning (2008)
The Chosen One (2008)

In 2007, The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) criticized Schneider for donning prosthetic make up to play a Japanese minister in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry by likening it to “yellow face.” Richard Roeper said in his review that “Rob Schneider’s Filipino background hardly excuses his portrayal of an Asian minister in perhaps the most egregious stereotype of its kind since Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
MANAA also criticized Schneider for an Asian character’s dialogue in 2005's Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, which he co-wrote. The organization stated that the portrayal of the character “perpetuated the tired stereotype that Asian men have small penises.”
In Schneider's movies, the main character often undergoes some type of transformation, be it an unlikely career change, or a supernatural or science-fictional transmogrification. This formula was spoofed on the satirical animated television series South Park, in the episode "The Biggest Douche in the Universe." (The title refers to television psychic John Edward, and not to Schneider.) In the show, trailers are shown for a series of movies that feature Schneider undergoing absurd transformations: a stapler, a carrot, and even the South Park character Kenny. Asked about being parodied on South Park, Schneider responded in an About.com interview: "I loved it. That was genius. I thought the only thing, they were too nice to me...When you’re spoofed by the best people in the business, that’s an honor."
In early July 2007, film reviewers in Australia noted the similiarites between the 2007 American movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and the 2004 Australian feature Strange Bedfellows. On July 18, 2007, the Sydney Morning Herald published an online article in which Strange Bedfellows director and co-writer Dean Murphy aired his concerns that Chuck and Larry may infringe on his copyright. The article reported that Michael Caton had stated he had passed a DVD of Strange Bedfellows to Rob Schneider when the two actors were working on The Animal. Caton was then quoted as saying, "I'm going to have to get onto Rob Schneider and say you owe me one pal … or Adam Sandler owes me one. They're really good mates and it's obvious [Schneider] said 'Hey, have a look at this'." In August 2007, Schneider took out a full-page ad on Page 10 of the Sydney Morning Herald in the form of an open letter, in which he repudiated the charges. Caton replied through the Herald that he was disappointed with Schneider for not understanding his earlier criticisms were "obviously tongue in cheek."

Schneider's directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, is scheduled to be released in 2008. In the film, he stars as a con artist who is arrested for perpetrating real-estate scams. He's sentenced to prison, so he takes a crash-course in martial arts to survive incarceration. On June 29, 2006, Schneider collapsed from heat exhaustion and food poisoning on the set of Big Stan, but he returned to work the following day.

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Leticia Cline was born October 1, 1978. She is an model and a former interviewer for TNA Wrestling. Cline has son. Latisha has the Irish and Swedish descent. In 2002, she has finished University of Staff of Kentucky with degree in psychology and the finance and is the Diplomaed bookkeeper. Relations Leticia with Ben Spies (2006 and 2007 AMA the Champion of the Superbike) recently was broken off. Cline beganmodelling when to her was 14 years old. She continued to appear in magazines -Saks 5th Ave, Beauty Handbook, Makes and Models, Harley Davidson, Maxim, Triumph, and worked one year in Japan. On October 23, 2006, Jessie Ward (producer Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) has taken Cline for work to TNA. Her television debut was on the November 30, 2006 episode of TNA Impact. On November 25, 2007 as the reporter, addition Jeremy Borash.