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Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars
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Angelina Jolie
Actress, Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress who became popular after playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Wanted, Salt and Maleficent. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees...
" Jolie seems to have been precision built to turn cinema audiences into drooling wrecks. The pneumatic figure, the feline eyes, the lips that could have been stung by several hives of bees. Simply unprovable.
Sexiest Moment: Beating the hell out of Brad Pitt in Mr and Mrs Smith and then banging the hell out of him by way of apology. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Beating the hell out of Brad Pitt in Mr and Mrs Smith and then banging the hell out of him by way of apology. " - colm-hearne365
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel, to a Jewish family. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an American-born artist (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel for Washington...
" Sexy, but in a ladylike doesn't flash her gusset at the paparazzi's way, Portman is the pin-up for those who like their women as smart as they are slinky. Plus, she's beautiful enough to make even baldness hot in V for Vendetta.
Sexiest Moment: There's no denying the appeal of pole dancing in Closer. But the moment in Attack of the Clones when the Nexu revealed some toned royal midriff was Princess Leia and the gold bikini for a new generation. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: There's no denying the appeal of pole dancing in Closer. But the moment in Attack of the Clones when the Nexu revealed some toned royal midriff was Princess Leia and the gold bikini for a new generation. " - colm-hearne365
Daniel Craig
Actor, Skyfall
Daniel Craig is an English actor. Craig trained at the National Youth Theatre and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, before beginning his career on stage. His film debut was in the drama The Power of One (1992). Other early appearances were in the Disney family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) and the biographical film Elizabeth (1998)...
Jessica Alba
Actress, Sin City
Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, CA, to Catherine (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who served in the US Air Force. Her mother has Danish, Welsh, German, English, and French ancestry, while her father is of Mexican descent (including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican and distant Sephardic Jewish...
Johnny Depp
Actor, Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day and age in Hollywood. He was born John Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Depp was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15...
Eva Green
Actress, Casino Royale
Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. She has a fraternal twin sister. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar. Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of Sephardi Jewish heritage (during that time...
Brad Pitt
Actor, Inglourious Basterds
An actor and producer known as much for his versatility as he is for his handsome face, Golden Globe-winner Brad Pitt's most widely recognized role may be Tyler Durden in Fight Club. But his portrayals of Billy Beane in Moneyball, and Rusty Ryan in the remake of Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, also loom large in his filmography...
Scarlett Johansson
Actress, Lost in Translation
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family, and her father, Karsten Johansson, is Danish. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, a brother, Adrian, a twin brother, Hunter Johansson, born three minutes after her, and a paternal half-brother, Christian. Her grandfather was writer Ejner Johansson...
" The voice that sounds like she's been awake all night and up to all sorts of things would be sexy enough. But match it with a pouting face and a body apparently designed to describe "va-va-voom" and you have a killer package.
Sexiest Moment: Sheer knickers in the opening moments of Lost in Translation. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Sheer knickers in the opening moments of Lost in Translation. " - colm-hearne365
Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley was born in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond on March 26th 1985. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born mother is of Scottish and Welsh origin...
Gerard Butler
Actor, 300
Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents divorced when he was a child...
George Clooney
Actor, Gravity
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and game show host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney spent most of this youth in Ohio and Kentucky...
Halle Berry
Actress, X-Men: The Last Stand
Halle Berry was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, was African-American, and worked as a hospital attendant. Her mother, Judith Ann (Hawkins), who is Caucasian, has English and German ancestry, and is a retired psychiatric nurse. Halle has an older sister named Heidi Berry...
" If Elle Macpherson hadn't already stolen the nickname The Body, it could very easily be assigned to Berry. Now into her forties, Berry still has a face and a figure to match any pin-up from any time in Hollywood history.
Sexiest Moment: Emerging from the sea in Die Another Day and making the rest of the dreadful film forgivable. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Emerging from the sea in Die Another Day and making the rest of the dreadful film forgivable. " - colm-hearne365
Christian Bale
Actor, The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Charles Howard Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries throughout Bale's childhood...
Marilyn Monroe
Actress, Some Like It Hot
Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Prior to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco, abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for sure who her father really was...
" No matter what your age, you hear sexy and you think Marilyn Monroe. She was the make sexual fantasy made flesh, with a body to make Barbie feel frumpy and eyes that suggested she wasn't as dumb as she looked. It's not for nothing that women still aspire to look like her today.
Sexiest Moment: Singing "I Wanna Be Loved By You" in Some Like It Hot. Like she needs to ask. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Singing "I Wanna Be Loved By You" in Some Like It Hot. Like she needs to ask. " - colm-hearne365
Hugh Jackman
Actor, The Prestige
Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series...
Jessica Biel
Actress, The Illusionist
Jessica Biel, with her good looks and talent, has become one of Hollywood's most sought-out actresses. She was born in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly (Conroe) and Jonathan Edward Biel, who is a business consultant and GM worker. She is of German, French, English, Irish, and some Choctaw ancestry. Biel was raised in Boulder...
Matt Damon
Actor, The Bourne Identity
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. His father is of English and Scottish descent...
Anne Hathaway
Actress, Les Misérables
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series Get Real...
" Pillowy lips, eyes that could make a Disney princess look beady, an hour glass physique in an industry now largely populated by heads on sticks; what's not to like? She might make films aimed almost exclusively at girls, but, thanks to her self-deprecating humour and critical lack of ugliness, they're ultimately enjoyed by both sexes.
Sexiest Moment: Throwing caution and bra to the wind and jumping Jack's bones in the back of a car in Brokeback Mountain. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Throwing caution and bra to the wind and jumping Jack's bones in the back of a car in Brokeback Mountain. " - colm-hearne365
Paul Newman
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born in January 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Theresa (Fetsko) and Arthur Sigmund Newman. Paul's father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Poland and Hungary; he owned a successful sporting goods store...
Kate Winslet
Actress, Titanic
Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut from Shakespearean tragedy to modern-day mysticism and erotica...
" A penchant for disrobing on screen, coupled with a ballsy manner and a down-to-earth attitude makes Kate Winslet our kind of gal. Sure she's got the looks to make a whole pack of wolves whistle, but it's her English roseness and barely disguised dirty streak that makes her irresistible.
Sexiest Moment: Posing naked for Leo DiCaprio in Titanic was a high point. But for pure erotic power, check out Kate and Christopher Ecclestone getting it on in Jude. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: Posing naked for Leo DiCaprio in Titanic was a high point. But for pure erotic power, check out Kate and Christopher Ecclestone getting it on in Jude. " - colm-hearne365
Orlando Bloom
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Bloom was born in Canterbury, Kent, England on January 13, 1977. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine (Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he briefly knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary political activist who fought for civil rights in South Africa...
Kate Beckinsale
Actress, Underworld
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her father was Richard Beckinsale...
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, Poland...
Salma Hayek
Producer, Frida
One of Hollywood's most dazzling leading actresses, Salma Hayek was born on September 2, 1966, in the oil boomtown of Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Hayek has freely admitted that she and her brother, Sami, were spoiled rotten by her well-to-do businessman father, Sami Hayek Dominguez, and her opera-singing mother...
" Mexican-born Salma is every bit the Latin temptress, what with that fiery temperament, sexy semi-permanent pout and, sweet mother of Jesus, body sent from heaven. A bunch of sexy roles, from Dogma to Desperado, ensures Salma is a hottie for the ages.
Sexiest Moment: As table-dancing, snake-wrangling, neck-biting vampire Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn; death has never looked so good. " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: As table-dancing, snake-wrangling, neck-biting vampire Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn; death has never looked so good. " - colm-hearne365
Clive Owen
Actor, Children of Men
British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting soul but forceful will...
Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to English parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years, she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts...
" She's grown up well through the Harry Potter movies from bushy haired child to confident, elegant young woman. With only two films left to go, she's sure to have a bright future ahead of her. She might be 17, but it's still only ok to fancy her if you're below the age of 20.
Sexiest Moment: " - colm-hearne365
Sexiest Moment: " - colm-hearne365
James McAvoy
Actor, X-Men: First Class
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse, and James McAvoy senior, a bus driver. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary) after his parents divorced when James was 7. He went to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill...
Keanu Reeves
Actor, The Matrix
Keanu Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 2, 1964. He is the son of English-born Patricia Taylor, a showgirl, and American-born Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
Charlize Theron
Actress, Mad Max: Fury Road
Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg-area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Gerda Jacoba Aletta Maritz) and Charles Jacobus Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner military figure Danie Theron was her great-great-uncle...
Marlon Brando
Actor, The Godfather
Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in 1949...
Cate Blanchett
Actress, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten years old...
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor, Donnie Darko
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, to producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs) and director Stephen Gyllenhaal. He is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko. His godmother is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. His mother is from a Jewish family, and his father's ancestry includes Swedish, English, and Swiss-German...
Michelle Pfeiffer
Actress, Scarface
Michelle Pfeiffer was born in Santa Ana, California, to Donna Jean (Taverna) and Richard Pfeiffer, a heating and air-conditioning contractor. She has an older brother and two younger sisters - Dedee Pfeiffer and Lori Pfeiffer, who both dabbled in acting and modeling but decided against making it their life's work...
" "From singing torch songs atop a piano to giving Batman a good whipping, Michelle Pfeiffer is nothing if not varied in her contributions to the canon of sexy cinema. Even a turn as a hag-like wicked witch in this year's Stardust did little to damage her sexy rep." " - colm-hearne365
Russell Crowe
Actor, Gladiator
Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham), English...
Monica Bellucci
Actress, Irreversible
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school...
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor, Inception
Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of film genres. His subsequent films include The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), the biographical crime drama Catch Me If You Can (2002) and the epic historical drama Gangs of New York (2002) which also marked his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese...
Rachel Weisz
Actress, The Mummy
Rachel Weisz was born on 7th March 1970, in London, UK, to Edith (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her Austrian-born mother, who left Vienna in the 1930s, is of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. Rachel has a sister, Minnie, a curator and photographer...
Denzel Washington
Actor, Training Day
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis (Lowe), from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University...
Grace Kelly
Actress, Rear Window
Grace Kelly was an American actress who, after marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956, became Princess of Monaco. After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television...
" "Hitchcock's favourite blonde had a breathtakingly refined, untouchable ice queen persona in every film she appeared. But you know the best thing about ice queens? Melting them." " - colm-hearne365
Ewan McGregor
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents encouraged him to leave school and pursue his acting goals rather than be unhappy...
Nicole Kidman
Actress, Moulin Rouge!
Elegant blonde Nicole Kidman, known as one of Hollywood's top Australian imports, was actually born in Honolulu, Hawaii, while her Australian parents were there on educational visas. Kidman is the daughter of Janelle Ann (Glenny), a nursing instructor, and Antony David Kidman, a biochemist and clinical psychologist...
" Hollywood's most fanciable ginge has made her name playing cool, detached characters like her villain in The Golden Compass. But that icy veneer makes it all the more enticing when the fa'ade gives way to the passions within. " - colm-hearne365
Steve McQueen
Actor, The Great Escape
Steve McQueen was an American actor. Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona, developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in The Sand Pebbles. His other popular films include The Cincinnati Kid...
Rosario Dawson
Actress, Sin City
This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division, which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy, urban filming that dates back to 1995 when she was only sixteen...
Bruce Willis
Actor, The Sixth Sense
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD, placing him in the top ten stars in terms of box office receipts. Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19...
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress, Chicago
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK. She is the daughter of Patricia (Fair) and David James "Dai" Jones, who formerly owned a candy factory. Her father is of Welsh descent and her mother is of English, Irish, and Welsh ancestry. Her brothers are David Jones (born 1967)...
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Minsk, Belarus...
Cameron Diaz
Actress, There's Something About Mary
A tall, strikingly attractive blue-eyed natural blonde, Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and an Anglo-German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan...
" Jaws understandably dropped around the world when Cameron Diaz made her big-screen debut in The Mask. Walking into a drab bank in that knockout red dress, she marked the start of a career that has seen her continuously upping the sexy ante. " - colm-hearne365
Cary Grant
Actor, North by Northwest
Cary Grant was an English actor who became an American citizen in 1942. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Grant the second greatest male star of Golden Age Hollywood cinema (after Humphrey Bogart)...
Sean Connery
Actor, Dr. No
Connery's breakthrough came in the role of secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded his career would greatly benefit. He played the character in the first five Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball...
Penélope Cruz
Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress", Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to focus her energies on dance...
" Those cat-like eyes, that olive skin, those luscious lips, those heaving... ahem! There are plenty of reasons for falling in love with the Spanish enchantress. So much so, we'll even forgive that whole ill-advised Tom Cruise dalliance. " - colm-hearne365
Clark Gable
Actor, It Happened One Night
Clark Gable was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King." The 1930s saw him at the peak of his acting ability and his popular appeal, as he often portrayed down-to-earth, bravado characters with a carefree attitude. He was known as the epitome of masculinity with his unmatched charm and knowing smile...
Jennifer Aniston
Actress, Friends
Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father is Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City where her parents divorced when she was nine...
" Without a doubt the only Friend you'd want to have special privileges with, Jennifer Aniston is simply gorgeous. That lovely, lovely hair; those powerful joke-handling skills; that understated sexiness. Could she be more perfect? " - colm-hearne365
Robert Redford
Actor, The Sting
Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was originally from Connecticut. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Robert's mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school...
Jennifer Connelly
Actress, Requiem for a Dream
Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan...
" One of the problems about child actors is that you feel dirty fancying them when they're all grown up. Somehow that doesn't apply to Jennifer Connelly because she's gorgeous...so we don't care being wrong just this once. " - colm-hearne365
Jason Statham
Actor, The Transporter
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. Statham has done quite a lot in a short time. He has been a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model...
Megan Fox
Actress, Transformers
Megan Denise Fox was born in Rockwood, Tennessee, to Gloria Darlene (Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. Megan began her training in drama and dance at age 5 and, at age 10, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida where she continued her training and finished school. Megan began acting and modeling...
" "Transforming robots? Pah! The most awesome thing in Michael Bay's mechanoid smackdown was Tennessee-born hottie Megan Fox. Okay, she can't change into a jet fighter but those tight jeans and crop top provided the movie's real eye candy." " - colm-hearne365
Julia Roberts
Actress, Notting Hill
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her love of animals...
" "Forget the Hoover Dam, Julia Roberts' smile alone could power the bright light city of Las Vegas for eons. Whether she's a low-class hooker in Pretty Woman or a high-class superstar in Notting Hill, those pearlies light up the screen." " - colm-hearne365
Will Smith
Actor, Men in Black
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards...
Rita Hayworth
Actress, Gilda
Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino's daughter Margarita studied dancing beginning in her girlhood. At age 12, the mature-looking Rita joined Eduardo's stage act, in which she was spotted three years later by Fox studio head Winfield R. Sheehan, leading to her first studio contract and film debut at age 16 in Dante's Inferno...
Liv Tyler
Actress, The Incredible Hulk
Liv Tyler was born in New York City, New York. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith and Bebe Buell, former model (and Playboy Playmate of the Month) and stalwart of the backstage rock scene of the 1970s. Liv grew up thinking that rock star Todd Rundgren was her father...
" "Inheriting the pneumatic lips of Aerosmith's Steven Tyler may seem like a curse to some but the lovely Liv has turned the affliction into an asset. For that reason alone (but not discounting that stunning statuesque figure), she makes her mark in our sexy countdown." " - colm-hearne365
Eric Bana
Actor, Star Trek
Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family and was a hairdresser...
Audrey Tautou
Actress, Amélie
Audrey Justine Tautou was born on August 9, 1976 in Beaumont, France, to Evelyne Marie Laure (Nuret), a teacher, and Bernard Tautou, a dental surgeon. Audrey showed an interest for comedy at an early age and started her acting lessons at 'Cours Florent'. In 1998 she won the best young actress award in the ninth 'Jeune Comedien de Cinema Festival' in Bezier...
Reese Witherspoon
Actress, Walk the Line
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 at Southern Baptist Hospital (now Memorial Medical Center) in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the second child of Mary Elizabeth "Betty" (Reese) and Dr. John Draper Witherspoon, Sr. Her father was a military surgeon specializing in ear, nose and throat...
Eva Mendes
Actress, Hitch
Eva Mendes was born in Miami, Florida but raised in Los Angeles, California of Cuban-American heritage. In college, she began acting, studying underneath acting coach Ivana Chubbuck. This led to her desire to appear in feature films. Though taking many smaller roles in movies, she was little known until playing the girlfriend of Denzel Washington's character in Training Day...
" "Taking full advantage of her Cuban-American heritage, the very lovely Ms. Mendes possesses a typically Californian ballsy attitude and uniquely-Latin jaw-dropping looks. So eminently watchable is she, you'd even be forgiven for sitting through Ghost Rider." " - colm-hearne365
Gael García Bernal
Actor, Y Tu Mamá También
Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to Patricia Bernal, an actress and model, and José Ángel García, an actor and director. His stepfather is cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. Bernal began his acting career as a child, working with his parents in a variety of plays. When he was fourteen...
Sandra Bullock
Actress, Gravity
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of Irish, English, French, and German descent. Sandra grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister...
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Actress, Pulp Fiction
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Media Keeps Pouring Lies...We Keep Forgetting By Charles Payne 0 commentsApr 8, 2013 10:17 AM
I just thought that with time
Thoughts of you would leave my head
I was wrong, now I find
Just one thing makes me forget
Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don`t let me be in love
It`s tearin` apart
My blue, blue heart
We're all familiar with the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid," but these days the stakes are so high and those lulling us down the wrong path is so powerful I want to change the phrase to "drink the wine." UB40 sang of red wine helping to ease the pain of lost love whereas these days I see the mass media as serving up red wine to ease the reality of our economy condition. The media is so enthralled with President Obama and the anti-capitalism agenda it acts as an army of deflectors, finding silver linings in the rubble of disaster or villains in pools of honest people.
The dangers of mass media lying to the public ranges from less informed people to angry people ready to harm others that have never harmed them or people being pardoned for their own short-comings allowed to heap them onto strangers or mythological bogeymen. When most Americans look out their windows they know this is not the country it can be and it doesn't matter on what side of the political aisle one stands. We simply aren't the vibrant nation that was propelled to the top of the world. There's something wrong, something awfully wrong with the economic "recovery" that barely exists.
So we all long for those days of yore, better economic times, now a fading memory or lost love.
Helping us forget is the mass media, which has assisted the administration in the redistribution of accountability. These days guns and the NRA kill people instead of people pulling the trigger and communities that have made excuses for the genocidal for decades. These days fat people are fat because of fast food restaurants and so-called food deserts. These days lazy students and indifferent parents are cleared if their schools don't have whiteboards and laptops.
All of those examples pose immense threats to the future of America as there is no way we can remain the most amazing nation on the planet by allowing massive killings by young people of others that look just like them yet innocent, law-abiding citizens, get the blame.
We can't stay on top by allowing schoolchildren to be subpar because their schools aren't brand new-it's a cop out. People are responsible for their own actions-it's a wonderful gift from God called free will.
Bending Our Mind & Softening Our Will
The March jobs report was such a disaster, it called for an extra large dose of red wine, a bottle in the range of the Balthazar.
(Bet you didn't know those giant wine bottles actually have names and after "magnum" they are all inspired by names in the Bible beginning with Jeroboam also known as a double magnum -keep away from Chris Brown. By the way, there are five sizes larger than the Nebuchadnezzar shown on the chart below with the largest being Melchizedek king of Salem for which tithing is associated.)
With only 88,000 jobs created last month the mass media immediately leaped on the unemployment rate which declined to 7.6% from 7.7% ignoring the fact 496,000 people dropped out of the labor force. The not in labor force has surged to 89,967,000 from 80,699,000 since February 2009. It's a sobering thought or would be if the media wasn't plying the public with happy faces and superlatives for polices that have been nothing but destructive. The jobs numbers for March were not just ugly they were heartbreaking and underscore trends we can no longer afford to look away from.
There are serious problems and any attempt to blame it on sequester or the fiscal cliff battle or anything other than official fiscal policy is inexcusable. This recovery has been doomed from the start and only the might of the great American Economic machine has made the difference. The DNA of success from scratch lives on although like all success it is chipped and growing discouraged. This would-be economic recovery is beyond disappointing. If it was working it would bring new meaning to jobless recovery but there are few areas of the economy outside of energy that are really booming.
Dropout Nation
If you are saying to yourself what about housing and the auto market, there are serious issues with those segments of the economy.
Last month saw "strong" vehicle sales but General Motors lost a big swath of market share in cars (Ford a slight dip as well) and had to pay $7,500 to move the Silverado off lots. Then there are subprime loans which have exploded.
Home prices are increasing but off considerably as the rush to buy homes has eluded Main Street, still willing to rent and wait out the recovery. Housing is benefiting big time from investors and flippers but first time buyers remain elusive.
Not only haven't there been a lot of big monthly jobs reports (only two under President Obama) but the more worrisome part has been the dropouts. People are simply dropping out lured by the a bevy of benefits and a sofa that doesn't care if you get up when the alarm clock goes off. The mass exodus from the jobs market is a trend that could ultimately send the unemployment number toward 0.0 now that would make for an amazing newspaper headline- if only there was anyone that could afford to purchase the newspaper.
As people drop out of the jobs market they are no longer counted in the unemployment number.
Let's say a crew of five are stuck on a deserted island and must survive on coconuts. They go out each day and typically find three coconuts for a 60% success rate but one day a disgruntled survivor states his intention to stop looking for coconuts. Four of the survivors head out and find three coconuts for a 75% success rate. If you're the New York Times and a liberal is in charge of this shipwreck the headlines would tout the improvement in finding coconuts even though somehow that guy that stayed at camp has to eat and will be a drag on the rest.
But, it just gets better, because another guy gets angry and stops going out to search for coconuts. The three that do head out find three coconuts and the Times gets the message in a bottle and proclaims "Coconut Hunts Never Better 100%". This charade goes on until there's only one guy left, the guy the rest call "greedy", he typically finds a coconut each time out so the headlines still read "Success" but by this time it's a mess and only gets uglier.
America isn't a deserted island but policies have left the economy shipwrecked and more coconuts given away for free has only attracted those that once were willing to go on the hunt. So last month, because half a million people abandoned the work force, each racial group saw a decline in its unemployment rate.
Uncorking the Cover-up
I scanned the Sunday talk shows and the topic wasn't jobs or lack of jobs. Instead the red wine that flowed sought to make us focus on North Korea or immigration reform where a single person threat of filibuster resulted in a comment about all republicans trying to snuff out any bills. That was on "Face the Nation" which incidentally didn't mention jobs once during the entire show. Praise mediocrity and make us forget the love of excellence.
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Take a Chance on Me
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|"Take a Chance on Me"
|Single by ABBA
|from the album ABBA: The Album
|"I'm a Marionette"
|12 December 1977
|15 August 1977 at Marcus Music Studio
|Europop, disco
|Polar (Sweden)
Epic (UK)
Atlantic (US)
|Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
|Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
|Gold (UK, US)
|ABBA singles chronology
"Take a Chance on Me" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in January 1978 as the second single from their fifth studio album ABBA: The Album. The song has been featured on a number of ABBA compilations such as Gold: Greatest Hits.
A 19 second sample of "Take a Chance on Me" demonstrating the "tck-a-ch" rhythm in the form of the "take-a-chance" vocal backing behind the main lyrics.
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The working title of "Take a Chance on Me" was "Billy Boy". Written and recorded in 1977 by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, it opens as a cold intro and was sung by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, with Fältskog delivering the solo passages. It has a constant uptempo throughout the entire recording. It was one of ABBA's first singles in which their manager Stig Anderson did not lend a hand in writing the lyrics, firmly establishing Andersson and Ulvaeus as a songwriting partnership.
The song's origins sprang from Ulvaeus, whose hobby was running. While running, he would sing a "tck-a-ch"-style rhythm to himself over and over again, which then evolved into "take-a-chance" and the eventual lyrics.[1] The song's B-side was "I'm a Marionette", which, like "Thank You for the Music" and "I Wonder (Departure)" (the B-side to their previous single, "The Name of the Game"), was intended to be part of a mini-musical entitled The Girl with the Golden Hair that Andersson and Ulvaeus had planned, but ultimately shelved.
"Take a Chance on Me" proved to be one of ABBA's most successful chart hits, becoming the group's seventh UK #1 (their third consecutive chart-topper in the country after "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "The Name of the Game").[2] It was also ABBA's final #1 in the UK of the 1970s, and gives the group the distinction of being the act with the most chart-topping singles of the 1970s in the UK.[3]
"Take a Chance on Me" also topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, Ireland and Mexico, and was a Top 3 hit in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Rhodesia, Switzerland, and the United States (also reaching #9 on the AC chart), where it allegedly sold more copies than "Dancing Queen". "Take a Chance on Me" also reached the Top 10 in France, Norway and South Africa.[4]
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly singles charts[edit]
Year-end charts[edit]
|Preceded by
"Figaro" by Brotherhood of Man
|UK Singles Chart number-one single
18 February 1978 – 11 March 1978
|Succeeded by
"Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush
|Irish Singles Chart number-one single
25 February 1978
|Succeeded by
"The Rare Auld Times" by Danny Doyle
|Preceded by
"If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley
|Belgian Flemish VRT Top 30 number-one single (first run)
4 March 1978
|Succeeded by
"If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley
|Preceded by
"Mull of Kintyre" by Wings
|Eurochart Hot 100 Singles number-one single
8 March 1978 – 29 March 1978
|Succeeded by
"Stayin' Alive" by Bee Gees
|Preceded by
"If I Had Words" by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley
|Belgian Flemish VRT Top 30 number-one single (second run)
18 March 1978
|Succeeded by
"I Can't Stand the Rain" by Eruption
|Preceded by
"Mull of Kintyre" by Wings
|Austrian Singles Chart number-one single
17 April 1978 – 8 May 1978
|Succeeded by
"Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M.
Erasure cover version[edit]
|"Take a Chance on Me"
|Single by Erasure
|from the album Abba-esque
|June 1, 1992
|Mute Records
|Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
|Dave Bascombe
|Erasure singles chronology
The track was covered by English synthpop duo Erasure in 1992, as part of their Abba-esque EP, with an additional ragga-style toast performed by MC Kinky added to the song. The cover topped the UK Singles Chart for 5 weeks in 1992. In the United States, it reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart;[16] although it had earned enough charting points to reach the publication's main Hot 100 chart, it was not eligible to enter as it had not been released commercially as a single.[17]
Music video[edit]
Erasure members Vince Clarke and Andy Bell played dual roles – as themselves and in drag (Clarke as Fältskog and Bell as Lyngstad) – in a music video heavily influenced by ABBA's original. MC Kinky (aka. Caron Geary), who sings the reggae/dancehall rap part, also appears in an interlude in the video.
A-Teens version[edit]
|"Take a Chance on Me"
|Single by A-Teens
|from the album The ABBA Generation
|Universal Music Group
|B. Andersson
B. Ulvaeus
|Thomas Johansson
Ronald Malmberg
|A-Teens singles chronology
"Take a Chance on Me" was an A-Teens promo single from their debut album The ABBA Generation, a cover of the ABBA song of the same name. Universal Music Spain released the song on Spanish radio, hoping to promote the band in Spain in the early 2000s. The song also became part of the Head Over Heels motion picture soundtrack in 2001. Unlike the original, this version omits the lines "Gonna do my very best, baby can't you see? Gotta put me to the test, take a chance on me" from the second refrain and replaces them with the last two lines from the usual refrain.
Music video[edit]
A music video features the band at an indoor go-kart track, complete with neon lights, and the band is seen racing as they perform the song.[18]
Other cover versions[edit]
- British synthpop duo Erasure earned an award from the UK Singles Chart for their release of Abba-esque, an ABBA cover EP that included a cover version of "Take a Chance on Me".
- Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for their 1982 album Chipmunk Rock.
- The song has been covered by Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band[19]
- An a cappella version was recorded by the Belgian vocal group Voice Male for their 1999 album Colors.[20]
- A pop/dance cover of the song by J'Nae Fincannon was included on the 2000 compilation Tokahits.[21]
- Swedish musician Nils Landgren includes a version on his 2004 tribute album Funky ABBA.[citation needed]
- The song was covered by Cashetta on the 2004 album Abbalicious, a compilation of ABBA covers songs performed by various American drag queens.[22]
- German AC/DC tribute band Riff Raff recorded a cover in AC/DC style for their 2006 album Rock 'N' Roll Mutation Vol. 1: Riff Raff Performs ABBA.[citation needed]
- The song was covered in a jazz/lounge music style by American group BNB on their 2008 album Bossa Mia: Songs of ABBA.[23]
- Both the stage musical Mamma Mia! and its 2008 film adaptation cover the song, sung by Rosie to Bill when she asks him to reconsider getting married and not living the single life he's been living. Like the A-Teens version, this version omits the lines "Gonna do my very best, baby can't you see; gonna put me to the test, take a chance on me" from the second refrain and replaces them with the last two lines from the usual refrain. However, the whispered lines "That's all I ask of you, honey" and "C'mon, give me a break, won't you" are omitted as well.
- ^ "Frida and Bjorn Interview - The Nation's Favourite ABBA Song - Part II". YouTube. 2010-12-12. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ^ Oldham, A, Calder, T & Irvin, C: "ABBA: The Name of the Game", page 122. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1995
- ^ List of 1970s UK Singles Chart number ones
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