Saturday, February 6, 2010
Heidi Montag - further plastic augmentation
Heidi Montag - further plastic augmentation: Before and After! People are after her efforts to look beautiful, as if they lose something personal!
Heidi Montag - plastic surgery
This is a scan showing the spots where Heidi underwent plastic surgery. The author of this upload says it's wrong to judge her on that basis. It is also suggested that she shouldn't do anymore surgeries because she's so gorgeous for it now ! What's your take on it?
Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
American actress Sandra Bullock, famous for her performance in films such as Miss Congeniality, The Proposal, etc. has been nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in the film The Blind Side, and film is nominated for the Best Motion Picture Oscar. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe (Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama), Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role), People's Choice Award (Favorite Movie Actress), and Critic’s Choice Award (Best Actress, tied with Meryl Streep). She will be competing against Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), and Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) for the Best Actress Oscar.
The Blind Side (2009) is a drama–sports film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis. It tells the story of Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron), an offensive lineman who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through his years at the school, his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Beyonce Knowles, winner of six 2010 Grammys
The photo shows Beyonce Knowles accepting the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award during the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards held at Staples Center on January 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.
The 2010 Grammy Awards night was dominated by Beyonce Knowles, who nominated for a whopping 10 awards. But the solo superstar Knowles took home six Grammys including song of the year, best female R&B vocal, and best R&B song for Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It). She lead the most winning pack closely followed by the country music star Taylor Swift, who finished the music industry extravaganza with four Grammy Awards.
Though she lost out on record of the year award, which went to the Kings of Leon's ‘Use Somebody’, the Beyonce bagged the most awards of the evening, and in addition to her other awards, she also won Grammys for best contemporary R&B album for ‘I Am… Sasha Fierce’ as well as best traditional R&B vocal performance for ‘At Last’.
The Grammy show also included a special 3D tribute to Michael Jackson by featuring a video clip he made of Earth Song as Usher, Carrie Underwood, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson sang along. Jackson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award that was accepted by his young children, Prince and Paris, on behalf of their late father.
Beyonce has set a Grammy winnings record for most Grammy wins by a female artist in one night, taking home six awards after being nominated for 10 Grammys. Before her sixth win, Beyonce was tied for the honor of most wins (five) by a female artist in one night with fellow artists Alicia Keys, Norah Jones, Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse and Alison Krauss.
In November 2009 Knowles was honored as the winner of UK's 4Music's 'World's Greatest Popstars' competition, sponsored by Rimmel, in which over 100,000 people voted and Knowles came out on top of the highly publicized vote, even ahead of the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, Eminem and Pink.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Oscar Awards Nominations 2010
Science-fiction film Avatar and the war movie The Hurt Locker are top contenders in this year's Academy Awards with nine nominations each. Avatar's James Cameron will have to battle it out with his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, who made The Hurt Locker, in the best director category. Incidentally, Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing, and the first since Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation in 2003, though no woman director has ever won the Oscars for direction. However, James Cameron had already won three Oscars in 1998 for Titanic, which included best picture, director and film editing.
The Hurt Locker is nominated for the Best Actor, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Best Picture, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Writing (Original Screenplay). The film is expected to be the favorite to win the Oscar during the ceremony on 7 March. "This is a great honour and a wonderful compliment to everyone who worked on the film," said Bigelow about the film's nine nominations, adding, "To get recognized by the various branches of the Academy is truly heart-warming." It is one of the most acclaimed films of 2009, earning numerous awards and honors. The Hurt Locker, a tense war movie about an elite bomb disposal team, has won widespread critical acclaim and triumphed at the Directors Guild of America awards. The film was shot in the Middle East, specifically in Jordan, within miles of the Iraq border.
Avatar that broke several box office records and became the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, surpassing Titanic, which had held the record for the previous 12 years, and that also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion, has already won two Golden Globes recently. It has won nominations in 9 categories: Art Direction, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Music (Original Score), Best Picture, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects.
Inglourious Basterds, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent, tells the story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership. Tarantino spent more than ten years writing the script before going into production in October 2008. Inglourious Basterds was filmed in Germany. The film was successful at the box office and received multiple awards and nominations including the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Waltz. Inglourious Basterds won 8 nominations for Best Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Writing (Original Screenplay).
Six nominations each were won by Precious (for the Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Directing, Film Editing, Best Picture, and Writing - Adapted Screenplay), and Up in the Air (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Directing, Best Picture, and Writing - Adapted Screenplay).
The film Up has won five nominations: Animated Feature Film, Music (Original Score), Best Picture, Sound Editing, and Writing (Original Screenplay), and Up's nomination for best film makes it only the second animated movie to feature in the main category after Disney's Beauty and the Beast in 1992. It is also nominated in the animated film shortlist alongside Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of Kells.
District 9 (for Film Editing, Best Picture, Visual Effects, and Writing - Adapted Screenplay) and Star Trek (for Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects and Makeup) received 4 nominations each, while An Education bagged 3 nominations for Writing (Adapted Screenplay), Best Picture, and Best Actress. Crazy Heart also received 3 nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Music (Original Song). The other films to receive 3 nominations each are The Princess and the Frog, The Young Victoria, and An Education.
This year, there are 10 films competing for the best picture, for the first time since 1944, instead of the usual five. The leading category-wise nominations are as follows.
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), and Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia).
Best Supporting Actor: And Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) and Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds).
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), and Mo'Nique (Precious).
Best Director: James Cameron (Avatar), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Lee Daniels (Precious), and Jason Reitman (Up in the Air). Lee Daniels (Precious) became only the second black filmmaker to be nominated for the best director, after John Singleton for 1991's Boyz N the Hood. Quentin Tarantino, whose Inglourious Basterds is nominated for eight awards, walked won a best screenplay award in 1995, but missed the best director Oscar.
Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, and Up in the Air.
Monday, February 1, 2010
2010 Grammy Awards: Lady Gaga Performs With Elton John
Lady Gaga and Sir Elton John presented one of this year’s Grammy Awards highlights with a piano duet. Sir John, who last performed in 2001 for the Grammy with a duet he sang with Eminem, now made up his face and suit smeared artfully with dirt for the performance set in a 'Fame Factory'. They traded verses on Gaga’s hit Speechless and Your Song, one of Sir John's most famous tracks.
The American singer Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986, appeared dressed in a green sequined leotard with giant shoulder pads, making her look like a green fairy or a butterfly, and opened the 2010 Grammy Awards show with a solo rendition of Poker Face. Gaga won two Grammys; the best dance recording for Poker Face and best electronic dance album for The Fame. The 2010 Grammy Award night's big winner was Beyonce Knowles, who won six Grammys, the biggest record single haul for a female artist.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time
James Cameron’s Sci-fi film Avatar has surpassed Titanic to become the highest grossing movie of all time, according to Gregg Brilliant, a spokesman for the film’s distributor, the News Corp-owned 20th Century Fox, with its worldwide takings in just six weeks standing at $1.859 billion beating the $1.843 billion racked up by Cameron's romantic drama Titanic in 1997-1998.
The figures are not adjusted for inflation, the higher cost of Avatar's 3D film tickets, and other decisive factors like ticket price at time of release, inflation, economic conditions, population at time of release, the number of theaters and screens, number of prints, competition of other media like television, internet, home video, and above all the impact of film piracy. According to 20th Century Fox, 72 per cent of worldwide sales came from 3-D version of the film that used the RealD 3D, Dolby 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, and the rest accounting for by the usual 2-D version.
A list of 100 all time highest grossing movies based on estimated tickets sales, US and Canada gross, adjusted for inflation as of March 5, 2009 based on data from boxofficemojo.com shows Avatar at 34th position only while at number three, ‘The Sound of Music’ holds the highest rank for a movie that was released only once, and Shrek (2001) is placed at # 100 in the list. The 10 top-grossing films of all time based on total receipts or tickets sold, with adjustment for inflation are: Gone With The Wind (1939, at #1, ticket sales $202,044,600 adjusted to $1,455,000,000), Star Wars (1977, #2, $178,119,600 adjusted to $1,282,000,000), The Sound of Music (1965, #3, $142,415,400 adjusted to $1,025,000,000), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, #4, $141,854,300 adjusted to $1,021,000,000), The Ten Commandments (1956, #5, $131,000,000 adjusted to $943,000,000), Titanic (1997, #6, $128,210,000 adjusted to $924,000,000), Jaws (1975, #7, $128,078,800 adjusted to $922,000,000), Doctor Zhivago (1965, #8, $124,135,500 adjusted to $894,000,000), The Exorcist (1973, #9, $110,568,700 adjusted to $796,000,000) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, #10, $109,000,000 adjusted to $784,000,000).
As it was more than five years in the making, Avatar was reportedly one of the most expensive films with a budget of at least $300 million, and the marketing costs are estimated at $150 million. Some sources claim the total costs could be about half a billion US dollars, because of the high-tech special effects, the creation of a new language of the aliens, development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filming with cameras that were specially designed for the film's production. For instance, the work on the language for the film's extraterrestrial Na'vi race began in 2005 and Cameron began developing the script and fictional universe in early 2006. Live action is mixed with digitally-created scenes.
Avatar was conceptualized, written and directed by James Cameron, and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau, starring Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Wes Studi and Laz Alonso, is set in the year 2154, when humans are engaged in mining a precious mineral called unobtanium and other natural resources on the fictional lush moon called Pandora of the Alpha Centauri star system. The human colonial invasion threatens the existence of the Na'vi, a race of giant blue alien humanoids who are 10 foot (3 meter) tall, inhabiting Pandora, and its ecosystem.
The Chinese seem to be more excited about Avatar. The China Daily reported that the ‘Southern Sky Column’, a mountain in Zhangjiajie located in Hunan province, had been renamed ‘Avatar Hallelujah Mountain’ in honor of the film. According to Dylan Cole, the production designer of Avatar, the Hallelujah Mountains seen in the film were inspired by Mount Huang (Huangshan) and the mountains of the Hunan province, among others around the world. Director Cameron had noted the influence of the Chinese peaks on the design of the floating rocks, saying at a December 2009 press conference in Beijing, "all we had to do was simply recreate Huangshan Mountain in outer space."
Remarkably James Cameron holds the distinction of directing both the world's top grossing movies, Avatar and Titanic, which starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio that set many records in 1997-1998, eventually won for Cameron an Oscar for the best director.
Avatar became a worldwide sensation and became a cult film among movie-enthusiasts, especially the younger generation and dominated the box offices in countries like United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, Australia, Russia and China.
Avatar has already won many awards and honors from many film critics’ and film professional associations. The film was honored with awards, or nominated, in categories such as Best Picture, Best Action Film, Best Visual Effects, Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Director, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, etc. In December 2009, the American Film Institute recognized the film and Cameron's advances in CGI effects with their yearly ‘AFI Moments of Significance’ award claiming it ‘will have profound effects on the future of the art form.’
The film also picked up four nominations for the 67th Golden Globe Awards, winning two Golden Globes last week for Best Motion Picture -- Drama, and Best Director. The film has also been nominated by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for eight categories, including Best Film, Director, Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
After conquering the global box office and winning universal praise, Avatar is a strong contender for the Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards and also expected to dominate the technical categories. According to awards pundit Tom O'Neil at www.TheEnvelope.com, Avatar is ‘not just a sure bet for a best picture Academy Award nomination on February 2, but a leading contender to win the top Oscar on March 7’. O'Neil told Reuters, "It is the Oscar front-runner… The only cliffhanger is, will the notorious snobs in the Academy finally appreciate sci-fi?" He noted that a science fiction movie has never won a best picture Oscar.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Victoria's Secret supermodels with no belly buttons
The author of this photo upload says that 'a new discovery has surfaced regarding one of the Victoria's Secret Supermodels Karolina Kurkova has no belly button'. According to the notes, VS representatives confirmed that Kurkova indeed used no belly buttons and that one was 'installed' while photo-editing whenever her mid-riff was photographed. The models wearing white bikinis in this picture are Doutzen Kroes, Karolina Kurkova, Miranda Kerr and Alessandra Ambrosio.
Friday, December 25, 2009
South African model Candice Swanepoel on ramp
Here is a brief biography of the promising young 21-year-old (born October 20, 1988) South African fashion model Candice Swanepoel.
Swanepoel was born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. According to reports, when she was only 15 years old, she was spotted by the model scout Kevin Ellis at a flea market in Durban and it opened up a bright modeling career for her and by the age 16, Swanepoel became a popular model for many reputed brands.
Candice Swanepoel has been on fashion magazine covers such as Vogue (Greece, October 2005), Elle (Germany, June 2008) and Ocean Drive (USA, November 2009). She also has appeared in the advertisements of Diesel, Victoria's Secret, Guess, Versus Eyewear, Topshop and many others. Ready-to-wear Fashion Shows she has appeared in include Dolce & Gabbana and Tommy Hilfiger.
Candice Swanepoel is naturally endowed with the physical attributes of a beautiful fashion model that attracts designers and fashion houses, apart from her fans. Her height is 5 feet 9.5 inches (177 cm), with dark blonde hair, blue eyes and has body measurements 32-23-34 (EU: 82-58-86), US dress size 4 (EU: 34) and US shoes size 7 (EU: 37). Her main modeling agency is Ice Model Management, Cape Town, South Africa and she is also associated with such agencies as IMG Models, Elite Model Management (Barcelona), Viva Models (Paris), Munich Models, Select Model Management and others.
The ready-to-wear clothing and fashion accessories that Swanepoel modeled for include brands such as Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Diane von Furstenberg, Betsey Johnson, Trussardi, Rock & Republic, Pamella Roland, Baby Phat, Amuleti J, Zang Toi, Pin-Up Stars, Nanette Lepore, Marc Bouwer, Carmen Marc Valvo, and Miss Bikini.
Recently Swanepoel was spotted shooting for the new theme of swimwear with Victoria’s Secret models at the beach Saint Barthelemy, where at this time of the year the well-heeled and famous flock together after fleeing the frigid winter conditions elsewhere.
Saint Barthélemy (Saint-Barth or St. Barts), located about 250 km east of Puerto Rico, one of the four territories among the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean that comprise the French West Indies, has the reputation of being considered ‘the playground of the rich and famous’. It is known for its beautiful pristine beaches (21 beaches on the small island), is also the favorite location of high-end designers, fashion houses and photographers. The tropical climate and the natural beauty of St. Barts makes it a prime location for modeling photo shoots for swimwear publications such as the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and others.
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