Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Katy Perry Christmas 2008
Katy Perry looked like a Christmas Cracker in this Christmas tree outfit at this month’s Jingle Ball in New Jersey. This Christmas new-kid-on-the-block Perry will be sleeping in, she’s not been home for a few months as she’s been working like a trooper to get her music heard. Katy’s Christmas wish is for success in 2009, or a pink pony– she might want to have a chat with Paris Hilton.
Katy Perry's Profile,Hot Pictures and video and latest news
Name: Katy Perry
Birth Name: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: October 25, 1984
Birth Place: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Profession: singer, songwriter
Education: Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California (graduated in 2003)
Relationship: Travis McCoy (member of Gym Class Heroes)
Claim to fame: her 2008 single hit 'I Kissed a Girl' from her full-length album titled 'One of the Boys'
PERRY SAVES BOYFRIEND'S LIFE
Katy Perry saved her boyfriend's life.
Gym Class Heroes singer Travis McCoy claims the "I Kissed A Girl" singer was so compassionate during a self-destructive time in his life he managed to pull himself back from the brink.
He said: "There was this really, really dark point about two years ago where I just hit rock bottom."
"And I called Katy who was in Los Angeles at the time and said to her, 'Do you mind coming out and keeping me company? I'm not in a good state of mind right now.'"
"And I honestly think had she not come - I really don't think I would be here right now. Without even talking, she just listened. I truly believe that saved my life."
Travis - who has been dating the brunette beauty since 2005 – has previously said the pair share a language which only they understand and enjoy morning cuddling sessions.
He added: "It's kind of silly, but I love it. And also just goofing around. It just works."
Kate Winslet : Actress takes on two more dark screen roles
Look at Kate Winslet’s film credits — a list that includes five Oscar-nominated performances and began when she was 17, with Peter Jackson’s trippy tale of true-life matricide, “Heavenly Creatures” — and you won’t see much that’s light and breezy.
There’s only one romantic comedy in the bunch (2006’s “The Holiday”). There is much tortured, thwarted love, and a fair amount of doom and death. (Glug-glug, there goes “Titanic.”)
And now, just in time for the holidays, comes the British actress in two extremely tough, troubling roles: Hanna Schmitz, a onetime SS guard who initiates a vigorous affair with a 15-year-old boy in post-war Germany, in “The Reader”; and April Wheeler, a 1950s wife and mother trapped in a bum marriage in “Revolutionary Road.”
“The Reader” co-stars Ralph Fiennes (and David Kross as the teen seductee). “Revolutionary Road,” with “Titanic” shipmate Leonardo DiCaprio as the callow spouse, was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, from an adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
Winslet, 33, did the two projects back-to-back — it’s hard to say which is the more disturbing. Her choices down the years make one wonder whether there’s some serious angst at work. Does Kate sit around smoking cigarettes, pondering the bleak nothingness of it all? (Yes on the cigs, and no on the rest, it turns out.)
“I am asked this question and I always find myself almost struggling to answer it,” says Winslet, sounding spry, on the phone from her adopted hometown, New York. “And I think the truth is I don’t know. I really don’t know why. I don’t have a darkness in my soul — no, I don’t.
“But I am interested in the human condition, and the emotional journeys that we all have to go on in order to figure out who the hell we are. ... It’s the actor’s privilege to be able to play those roles and to try and find out how complex and sometimes messed-up people are.”
Last week, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the Golden Globes — the forerunner (and often the forecaster) of the Academy Award nominations. Winslet was named in two categories: best actress in a drama for “Revolutionary Road,” and supporting actress for “The Reader.”
That’s one way to avoid the problem of competing against yourself, but the supporting actress nod does a disservice to her work in “The Reader,” directed by The Hours”‘ Stephen Daldry. This is a lead role, and a rich, morally tricky one.
With studios strategizing about Oscar campaigns, how is Winslet grappling with the dually lauded — and competitive — performances?
“Look, I’m going to be lucky if I get there at all,” she says about the possibility of a sixth, and perhaps seventh, Oscar nod. (Winslet has never won.) “It is out of my hands. I don’t know how those things work, I really don’t. All I can do is what I would always do when I have a film coming out, which is to support it. But in this case I’m supporting both because they’re coming out within weeks of each other.
“The only issue for me is physically creating the space and the time to be able to give that commitment to both of these films. Yeah, in equal measure. Because I’m not backing a horse at all.”
Commitment is a big deal for Winslet. She grew up in a financially strapped family of actors and artists, and she’s been making her own way since landing that key role in “Heavenly Creatures.” She was Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility,” Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom’s underappreciated “Jude,” and played Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” And then came “Titanic,” James Cameron’s box-office behemoth, a movie that made Winslet and DiCaprio not just A-list stars, but pop-cult icons to boot. Much of Winslet’s career since the 1997 blockbuster has fought against that image: little, eccentric films like “Hideous Kinky” and “Holy Smoke,” lit-based period pieces like “Iris” and “Finding Neverland,” the sublime “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and the profoundly unsettling, sexually superheated “Little Children.”
She and Mendes, the director behind the Oscar-winning “American Beauty,” have been together seven years. Winslet’s 8-year-old daughter, Mia, from a first, short-lived marriage, and Joe, Mendes and Winslet’s son, live together in lower Manhattan, with a country house outside of London.
A few years back, when director Daldry first offered Winslet the job in “The Reader” — based on Bernhard Schlink’s bestselling novel — she had to decline. At that point, the shooting conflicted with “Revolutionary Road’s.” Nicole Kidman was going to be Hanna Schmitz instead.
“But then that became impossible for her because she was having a child,” Winslet explains. “And then, when it came back to me, the schedule had changed and I was able to do it. Fate had worked in my favor — and Nicole’s — in these wonderful ways.”
So Winslet had to wrap her head around the role of an uneducated and emotionally repressed woman who sent Jews to their deaths during World War II, who teaches a curious youth about sex and love, and then falls in love herself.
“I was terrified, because I had nothing of my own life experience that I could use to play Hanna,” Winslet says. “All I knew I could do was ... understand her. You know, she’s an ordinary person, and at the end of the day the Holocaust was created by ordinary people. And I never viewed her as a monster.
“She was a woman who had limited choices in life, and through a choice that she made in becoming an SS guard, she ended up contributing to some of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. And it was very difficult to play that.
“But as I say, I had to understand her, and I had to embrace her. I didn’t necessarily have to sympathize with her. Nor did I have to forgive her.”
As for “Revolutionary Road,” Winslet says that there was no downside to having her husband on board, even if it meant going home at the end of the day and talking shop.
“The only thing that Sam and I had to deal with very early on was — and this was really more for him than for me — was that he realized that I live it and breathe it 24/7. And whilst he knew that about me — because on films I would come home and I would just get the kids to bed and then I would rant until I passed out — he had sort of forgotten that. ... So we’d walk through the door having had an exhausting day of shooting and I would still be going on, and he would say, ‘Babe, babe, let me take my shoes off. Let me have a cup of tea.’
“And I would say, ‘No! I don’t have time for that, I have to say this now. Now now now! Because if I wait to say it tomorrow ... the thought won’t come out the same. And I really want to know what you think right now about this.”‘
Winslet had to explain to Mendes that if they weren’t living together she’d still be on the phone, firing questions at him at all hours.
“I had to remind him: ‘Don’t you remember on ‘Jarhead’? Because I was there when Jake (Gyllenhaal) would call you in the evening and you’d talk for two hours on the phone,”‘ she says. “Even if we were in the middle of a dinner that I’d spent hours cooking, he would take the call. And quite right, too.
“And so I just had to remind him: ‘Sorry, pal. ‘ And ultimately, he was very happy that we had that, because it made a big difference to the preparation we could do, the work, the forward thinking that we could do, and the constant debate about April Wheeler and these characters and what was going to happen tomorrow.”
There’s only one romantic comedy in the bunch (2006’s “The Holiday”). There is much tortured, thwarted love, and a fair amount of doom and death. (Glug-glug, there goes “Titanic.”)
And now, just in time for the holidays, comes the British actress in two extremely tough, troubling roles: Hanna Schmitz, a onetime SS guard who initiates a vigorous affair with a 15-year-old boy in post-war Germany, in “The Reader”; and April Wheeler, a 1950s wife and mother trapped in a bum marriage in “Revolutionary Road.”
“The Reader” co-stars Ralph Fiennes (and David Kross as the teen seductee). “Revolutionary Road,” with “Titanic” shipmate Leonardo DiCaprio as the callow spouse, was directed by Winslet’s husband, Sam Mendes, from an adaptation of the Richard Yates novel.
Winslet, 33, did the two projects back-to-back — it’s hard to say which is the more disturbing. Her choices down the years make one wonder whether there’s some serious angst at work. Does Kate sit around smoking cigarettes, pondering the bleak nothingness of it all? (Yes on the cigs, and no on the rest, it turns out.)
“I am asked this question and I always find myself almost struggling to answer it,” says Winslet, sounding spry, on the phone from her adopted hometown, New York. “And I think the truth is I don’t know. I really don’t know why. I don’t have a darkness in my soul — no, I don’t.
“But I am interested in the human condition, and the emotional journeys that we all have to go on in order to figure out who the hell we are. ... It’s the actor’s privilege to be able to play those roles and to try and find out how complex and sometimes messed-up people are.”
Last week, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominees for the Golden Globes — the forerunner (and often the forecaster) of the Academy Award nominations. Winslet was named in two categories: best actress in a drama for “Revolutionary Road,” and supporting actress for “The Reader.”
That’s one way to avoid the problem of competing against yourself, but the supporting actress nod does a disservice to her work in “The Reader,” directed by The Hours”‘ Stephen Daldry. This is a lead role, and a rich, morally tricky one.
With studios strategizing about Oscar campaigns, how is Winslet grappling with the dually lauded — and competitive — performances?
“Look, I’m going to be lucky if I get there at all,” she says about the possibility of a sixth, and perhaps seventh, Oscar nod. (Winslet has never won.) “It is out of my hands. I don’t know how those things work, I really don’t. All I can do is what I would always do when I have a film coming out, which is to support it. But in this case I’m supporting both because they’re coming out within weeks of each other.
“The only issue for me is physically creating the space and the time to be able to give that commitment to both of these films. Yeah, in equal measure. Because I’m not backing a horse at all.”
Commitment is a big deal for Winslet. She grew up in a financially strapped family of actors and artists, and she’s been making her own way since landing that key role in “Heavenly Creatures.” She was Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility,” Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom’s underappreciated “Jude,” and played Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet.” And then came “Titanic,” James Cameron’s box-office behemoth, a movie that made Winslet and DiCaprio not just A-list stars, but pop-cult icons to boot. Much of Winslet’s career since the 1997 blockbuster has fought against that image: little, eccentric films like “Hideous Kinky” and “Holy Smoke,” lit-based period pieces like “Iris” and “Finding Neverland,” the sublime “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and the profoundly unsettling, sexually superheated “Little Children.”
She and Mendes, the director behind the Oscar-winning “American Beauty,” have been together seven years. Winslet’s 8-year-old daughter, Mia, from a first, short-lived marriage, and Joe, Mendes and Winslet’s son, live together in lower Manhattan, with a country house outside of London.
A few years back, when director Daldry first offered Winslet the job in “The Reader” — based on Bernhard Schlink’s bestselling novel — she had to decline. At that point, the shooting conflicted with “Revolutionary Road’s.” Nicole Kidman was going to be Hanna Schmitz instead.
“But then that became impossible for her because she was having a child,” Winslet explains. “And then, when it came back to me, the schedule had changed and I was able to do it. Fate had worked in my favor — and Nicole’s — in these wonderful ways.”
So Winslet had to wrap her head around the role of an uneducated and emotionally repressed woman who sent Jews to their deaths during World War II, who teaches a curious youth about sex and love, and then falls in love herself.
“I was terrified, because I had nothing of my own life experience that I could use to play Hanna,” Winslet says. “All I knew I could do was ... understand her. You know, she’s an ordinary person, and at the end of the day the Holocaust was created by ordinary people. And I never viewed her as a monster.
“She was a woman who had limited choices in life, and through a choice that she made in becoming an SS guard, she ended up contributing to some of the greatest crimes committed against humanity. And it was very difficult to play that.
“But as I say, I had to understand her, and I had to embrace her. I didn’t necessarily have to sympathize with her. Nor did I have to forgive her.”
As for “Revolutionary Road,” Winslet says that there was no downside to having her husband on board, even if it meant going home at the end of the day and talking shop.
“The only thing that Sam and I had to deal with very early on was — and this was really more for him than for me — was that he realized that I live it and breathe it 24/7. And whilst he knew that about me — because on films I would come home and I would just get the kids to bed and then I would rant until I passed out — he had sort of forgotten that. ... So we’d walk through the door having had an exhausting day of shooting and I would still be going on, and he would say, ‘Babe, babe, let me take my shoes off. Let me have a cup of tea.’
“And I would say, ‘No! I don’t have time for that, I have to say this now. Now now now! Because if I wait to say it tomorrow ... the thought won’t come out the same. And I really want to know what you think right now about this.”‘
Winslet had to explain to Mendes that if they weren’t living together she’d still be on the phone, firing questions at him at all hours.
“I had to remind him: ‘Don’t you remember on ‘Jarhead’? Because I was there when Jake (Gyllenhaal) would call you in the evening and you’d talk for two hours on the phone,”‘ she says. “Even if we were in the middle of a dinner that I’d spent hours cooking, he would take the call. And quite right, too.
“And so I just had to remind him: ‘Sorry, pal. ‘ And ultimately, he was very happy that we had that, because it made a big difference to the preparation we could do, the work, the forward thinking that we could do, and the constant debate about April Wheeler and these characters and what was going to happen tomorrow.”
Kate Winslet Profile
Name: Kate Winslet
Birth Name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: F
Nationality: British
Birth Date: October 5, 1975
Birth Place: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Profession: actress
Education: Redroofs School in Maidenhead, U.K.
studied at drama school in UK
Husband/Wife: Sam Mendes (director; born on August 1, 1965; married in May 2003), Jim Threapleton (assistant director; born in 1974; met during filming of Hideous Kinky in 1997; engaged in October 1998; married on November 22, 1998; separated in September 2001)
Relationship: Rufus Sewall (actor; born on October 29, 1967; broke up in 1996), Stephen Tredre (actor; born in 1963; died in December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34; together until 1995)
Father: Roger Winslet (actor)
Mother: Sally Winslet (née Bridges; actress, nanny)
Sister: Beth Winslet (actress; born in May 1978), Anna Winslet (actress; born in 1972)
Brother: Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
Grand Father: Oliver Bridges (theater manager)
Grand Mother: Linda Bridges (theater manager)
Uncle: Robert Bridges (actor)
Son: Joe Mendes (born on December 22, 2003 in New York; father: Sam Mendes)
Daughter: Mia (born on October 12, 2000; father: Jim Threapleton)
Claim to fame: as Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron Titanic (1997)
Kate Winslet Profile
Name: Kate Winslet
Birth Name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: F
Nationality: British
Birth Date: October 5, 1975
Birth Place: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Profession: actress
Education: Redroofs School in Maidenhead, U.K.
studied at drama school in UK
Husband/Wife: Sam Mendes (director; born on August 1, 1965; married in May 2003), Jim Threapleton (assistant director; born in 1974; met during filming of Hideous Kinky in 1997; engaged in October 1998; married on November 22, 1998; separated in September 2001)
Relationship: Rufus Sewall (actor; born on October 29, 1967; broke up in 1996), Stephen Tredre (actor; born in 1963; died in December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34; together until 1995)
Father: Roger Winslet (actor)
Mother: Sally Winslet (née Bridges; actress, nanny)
Sister: Beth Winslet (actress; born in May 1978), Anna Winslet (actress; born in 1972)
Brother: Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
Grand Father: Oliver Bridges (theater manager)
Grand Mother: Linda Bridges (theater manager)
Uncle: Robert Bridges (actor)
Son: Joe Mendes (born on December 22, 2003 in New York; father: Sam Mendes)
Daughter: Mia (born on October 12, 2000; father: Jim Threapleton)
Claim to fame: as Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron Titanic (1997)
Kate Winslet have racked up five Academy Award nominations
For Kate Winslet - New York resident, perennial Oscar nominee and the very model of a modern major movie star - the road to her own Oscar revolution may begin at Sunday's 66th annual Golden Globe Awards.
The show can be seen live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills beginning at 8 p.m. on NBC.
Winslet, who at 33 is the youngest actress to have racked up five Academy Award nominations, is a likely Globe winner for either Best Actress in a Drama for "Revolutionary Road" or Best Supporting Actress for "The Reader." A triumph for her in either category could be repeated when this year's Oscars are handed out Feb. 22.
Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 22.
Winslet goes into the evening with five unwon Globe nominations as well. Her competitors Sunday - who include Angelina Jolie ("Changeling"), Meryl Streep ("Doubt"), Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"), Penelope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona") and Marisa Tomei ("The Wrestler") - should be prepared to slip their speeches back into their purses.
But the English actress, married to her "Revolutionary Road" director Sam Mendes and mother of two kids (her and Mendes' son, Joe, is 5; Mia, her daughter with British filmmaker Jim Threapleton, is 8), considers being a New York mom her most important role. She's frequently spotted dropping her kids at school and bopping around her Chelsea neighborhood when not on film sets.
The family also has a residence in the British countryside.
"We divide our time, and it's great," Winslet told the Daily News.
"I think it also helps the kids just be regular kids. The other thing that's important to us is that the kids know that Sam and I do what we do because we love it and it's hard work. It's not just a glamorous thing."
Mendes, an Oscar winner for "American Beauty," is currently directing "The Cherry Orchard" and "The Winter's Tale" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Bridge Project, a collaboration with London's Old Vic theater. He and Winslet, together since 2001, bought their loft in the city in 2004.
"It's very possible in New York to be yourself, free of all judgment," Winslet told The News. "That's one of the great things about the city - you are who you are, and people are very accepting."
Winslet's previous Oscar and Globe nominations - Supporting Actress nods for "Sense and Sensibility" (1995) and "Iris" (2001) and Best Actress for "Titanic" (1997), "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) and "Little Children" (2006) - certainly haven't gone to her head, but she's honest enough to speak from her heart.
"I think having gone through award season so many times and not winning, I'm very good at losing and enjoying it," she joked at the "Revolutionary Road" premiere last month.
But of her Oscar chances this year, Winslet did tell a British magazine, "I want to win. ... I'm not denying that. I don't want to be sitting there with a fixed grin on my face while someone else wins."
Kate Hudson Latest News
Actress Kate Hudson, who just won a People's Choice Award for favorite leading lady, proves that she has what it takes to carry such a title - and she can add producer and mommy to her credits as well.
In the new comedy "Bride Wars," which comes out in theaters Friday, Hudson plays a woman who shares a lifelong dream with her best friend, played by Anne Hathaway, for a perfect wedding.
Having seen the film several times now, Hudson admits that she has practically memorized every scene.
"Actually, probably more than five times. I produced this with a friend of mine. So we saw it a lot," Hudson told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez.
This time around, Hudson has more of a personal and professional connection to the film, having co-produced it.
"'How To Lose A Guy,' I had a similar relationship, too, like that from the development process. And this is sort of now I actually get a credit. I actually go and I get to do it from start to finish," she said.
After five years' worth of work, Hudson deserves the credit, Rodriguez added.
"Yeah, thanks. It really was challenging and fun. I hope to do it again, but not any time soon. It takes a lot. You're kind of, like, 'Why did I do this? Why did I decide to take this on?' But the finished product on this one has been really rewarding," she gushed.
Hudson's character, Liv in "Bride Wars" is so uptight and such a control freak, which is the total opposite of Hudson.
"So type A," Hudson said. "I can get determined, but not nearly as focused and insane as Liv. And psychotic, basically."
After a while of playing her, Hudson compared her character to Miss Piggy from The Muppets.
Muppets aside, Hudson and Hathaway had such great chemistry while making the film.
"We had so much fun. The whole experience was fun because I like making fun of myself. And I think women don't get the opportunity to do that as much," she said.
Hudson pointed that it was interesting to watch both the male and female reactions to "Bride Wars."
"Because, you know, it's a chick flick. And guys kind of go, like, 'Alright, we're going to watch this chick flick.' My dad and brothers laughed the whole time. At the end the girls were crying and hugging each other," she said.
"And my dad was, like, 'Man, what is it about you girls and weddings? I mean, really. You guys are crazy.' And we're, like, 'Yeah, we are crazy.' It's sort of like a wink to guys going, 'yeah we know. We know we get a little nuts,'" Hudson admitted.
In the movie Hudson plays a bride, but in real life she's been public about the fact that her marriage ended.
But being single doesn’t seem to bother Hudson in the least bit; she has a positive outlook either way.
"I'm enjoying it. I enjoyed being married, too. You know, I'm definitely not somebody who wallows in misery for too long. Not to say that there aren't miserable days. But yeah, I'm enjoying being single," she said.
When Hudson got married she was only 21 and now she is almost 30.
"I realize I had never been single in my adult life. And that's a really nice thing to sort of have and experience. We'll see what happens. I am a mom," she said.
But a fun mom at that.
"I'm a fun girl, so I just kind of have fun, and if it happens, it happens, you know? I don't know. But dating is weird. Going on a date. I don't know. It's not my style," Hudson said.
Julianne Hough's dance Video and Profile and Cute Pictures
Name : Julianne Hough
Born: : July 20, 1988 (1988-07-20) (age 18) Provo, Utah
Occupation: : Professional dancer, Country music
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