Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Marisa Miller - Great American Supermodel

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Marisa Miller: Great American Supermodel | Business

Marisa Miller is an American model that has quickly rose to widespread popularity, becoming famous for her recent appearance in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Maxim magazine recently touted her as the next great American model.

Miller has quintessential California looks with blonde hair and has hazel eyes. Her measurements are 34D-23-35, according to her website. Miller was born Marisa Bertetta in Santa Cruz, California in 1978. She dabbled in modeling for a few years as a teenager but was quickly dismayed with the business and left to return to California. She took a job managing a surf school.

In 2001 a New York City modeling agency passed a photo of Miller to famed fashion photography Mario Testino who was impressed. Soon Miller was back in the modeling business. Miller has appeared in every Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue since 2002.

In 2007 Miller garnered a lot of attention when she was photographed by Raphael Mazzucco wearing nothing but an iPod for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue. Miller was again featured in the 2008 Sports Illustrated magazine Swimsuit edition. For this photo spread she donned a painted-on bikini. Recently Miller became a part of the Victoria’s Secret “Angel” advertising campaign, which includes international models Heidi Klum, Adriana Lima and Alessandra Ambrosio.

In addition to Sports Illustrated magazine, Miller has appeared in many other magazines. Most recently she has appeared in the men’s magazines GQ, Men’s Journal and Maxim, the women’s magazines Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Elle, fitness magazines Shape and Fitness, and fashion magazines Vanity Fair and Vogue. She also continues to take catalog assignments, predominately for Victoria’s Secret swimsuit edition and J. Crew.

Miller’s popularity in 2008 translated into scoring the No. 1 spot on Maxim magazine’s “Hot 100″ rankings. This was the first time any nominee landed the No. 1 spot as a debut. Maxim also featured Miller on their July 2008 cover, declaring her “the return of the great American supermodel.”

Maxim magazine interviewed Miller for the July 2008 cover and in it Miller disputes models being ditzy, saying “Think about Cindy Crawford and Tyra Banks. They’ve built empires from a job that is basically ridiculous.”

On the Sports Illustrated magazine model interview page, Miller describes herself as a huge music fan, especially of the bands Led Zeppelin and Guns N’ Roses fan and enjoys boxing. She also describes herself as a “natural California girl.” On her website, Miller states her passions and hobbies include surfing, cooking, riding horses and dancing.

Miller is divorced from Jim Miller a lifeguard and contest promoter from Los Angeles; in 2006 she married producer Griffin Guess.
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Kevin Durant Rocked Harlem’s Rucker Park With 66 Points

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Kevin Durant Rocked Harlem’s Rucker Park With 66 Points

Where does Kevin Durant go during the off season? One thing for certain, its not some R/R time at Disney World. After a quick meet and greet tour in China on behalf of Nike Basketball, the NBA scoring champion took the opportunity to play at Harlem’s Rucker Park Monday night. In part to fulfill his life-long dream, Durant join a roster of super stars – Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julius Erving and Kobe Bryant, all took part in pick-up games at the consecrated ground of street ball. None, though, matched Durant’s performance with a score of 66 points to lead his hometown street ball team of DC Power, 8 points shy of Rucker Park’s record of 74 points by the playground legend Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Expect video loop to be on this week’s ESPN Sports Center highlight of the week reel and once again proof why the shooting guard of Oklahoma City Thunder is the NBA player to watch in the next season.
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Shirley Maclaine Biography

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Best Known As: Film Actor

Gist: Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career.

Life Facts: Named after Shirley Temple, MacLaine was born 'Shirley MacLean Beaty' in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Ira Owens Beaty, was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, and her mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a Nova Scotia-born drama teacher; her grandparents were also teachers. Through her mother she is descended from the Scottish Clan Maclean. The family was devoutly Baptist. MacLaine's father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, and then to Arlington, Virginia, while she was still a child, then to Waverley, between 1932 and 1936, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Jefferson Middle School. The Beaty family lived in a house in the Western part of the county off Wilson Boulevard where it was said that Shirley and brother, Warren were known around their neighborhood as troublemakers in their pre-adolescent days.

Her early childhood dream was to be a ballerina. Strongly motivated by ballet throughout her youth, she never missed a class. When a piece was performed, she would play the boy's role, being the tallest participant. She was so determined and so set on being a dancer that her recurring childhood nightmare was that she missed the bus to class. She finally landed a solid female role in a ballet, the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella; but, while warming up backstage, she snapped her ankle. Despite the injury, she remained determined to make it through the show. She simply tied the ankle ribbon on her toe shoes extra tight and went "on with the show". After it was over, she called for an ambulance.

Eventually, MacLaine decided that professional ballet was not for her. She said that she did not really have the right body type and that she did not want to starve herself. Also, her feet were not "beautifully constructed" (without high arches and insteps). Nor was she of "exquisite beauty". She was able to revisit her early devotion to a career in ballet in the 1977 film, "The Turning Point," in which she plays a retired ballerina, who left her New York ballet company with her dancer boyfriend-turned-husband to raise a family in Oklahoma. The film, a meditation upon the world of profession ballet, pivots upon the theme of the fleeting passage of time and the regrets that inevitably proceed from whichever choice we make as we face the turning points in our lives, and the struggle to build a life from the ruins of our past and the consequences of the choices we have made--a theme with which MacLaine, then 45, could relate.

After leaving ballet, MacLaine turned to acting. She attended Washington-Lee High School, where she was on the cheerleading squad and acted in the school's productions. The summer before her senior year, she was in New York to try acting on Broadway with some success. After she graduated, she returned and within a year she achieved her goal of becoming a star when she became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game; Haney broke her ankle, and MacLaine replaced her.

A few months after, with Haney still out of commission, film producer Hal B. Wallis was in the audience, took note of MacLaine, and signed her to work for Paramount Pictures. She would later sue Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that is credited with having ended the old-style studio system of actor management.

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until they divorced in 1982. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker (born 1956).

MacLaine's interest in spirituality is very strong and long-lived. Many of her best-selling books, such as Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light have it as their central theme. Her beliefs have compelled her to explore herself and the world. This includes walking El Camino de Santiago and working with Chris Griscom.

Her well-known interest in new-age spirituality has made its way into several films in which MacLaine has been featured. In Albert Brooks' 1991 romantic comedy "Defending Your Life," the recently-deceased lead characters, played by Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep, are astonished when, upon visiting the "Past Lives Pavilion," they find the introduction to their past lives to be provided by MacLaine. In the 2001 made-for-television movie, "These Old Broads," starring MacLaine along with Debbie Reynolds, Joan Collins and Elizabeth Taylor and written by Debbie Reynolds' daughter, Carrie Fisher, the character played my MacLaine is portrayed as a devotee of new-age spirituality.

MacLaine found her way into many law school casebooks when she sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract. She was to play a role in a film titled Bloomer Girl, but the production was cancelled.

Twentieth Century-Fox offered her a role in another film, Big Country, Big Man, in hope of getting out of its contractual obligation to pay her for the cancelled film. MacLaine's refusal led to an appeal by Twentieth Century-Fox to the Supreme Court of California in 1970, where the Court ruled against Fox. Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 474 P.2d 689 (Cal. 1970).

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She made her debut in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Trouble with Harry (1955), which won her the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress. In 1956, she took parts in Hot Spell and Around the World in Eighty Days. At the same time, she starred in Some Came Running; this film gave her her first Academy Award nomination - one of five that the film received - and a Golden Globe nomination.

She got her second nomination two years later for The Apartment, starring with Jack Lemmon. The film won 5 Oscars, including Best Director for Billy Wilder. She later said, "I thought I would win for The Apartment, but then Elizabeth Taylor had a tracheotomy". She starred in The Children's Hour (1961) also starring Audrey Hepburn, based on the play by Lillian Hellman. She was again nominated for Irma la Douce (1963), for which she reunited with Wilder and Lemmon.

In 1975, she received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary film The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. Two years later, she was once again nominated for The Turning Point, along with co-star Anne Bancroft. In 1983 she won her first Oscar for Terms of Endearment. The film won five Oscars; one for Jack Nicholson and three for director James L. Brooks. In the awards season for films of 1988, she became the first actress since the inception of the Golden Globe Awards to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama)?for Madame Sousatzka?without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance (Kate Winslet became the second for her performance in Revolutionary Road (2008)). MacLaine won her award for Madame Sousatzka in a three-way tie with Jodie Foster (The Accused) and Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist).

She continued to star in major films, like Steel Magnolias with Julia Roberts. She made her feature-film directorial debut in the quirky film Bruno, written by then new-comer David Ciminello in his Disney-Meets-David Lynch style. MacLaine starred as Helen in this film, which was released to video as The Dress Code. In 2007 she completed Closing the Ring, directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Christopher Plummer. Other notable films in which MacLaine has starred include Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) with Clint Eastwood, Being There (1979) with Peter Sellers, Used People with Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates, Guarding Tess with Nicholas Cage, Sweet Charity (1968), Rumor Has It with Kevin Costner and Jennifer Aniston and In Her Shoes with Cameron Diaz.

MacLaine is also set to star in Poor Things, a drama. The production has been delayed due to Lindsay Lohan's period in rehab.

MacLaine has also appeared in numerous television projects including Out on a Limb, an autobiographical miniseries based upon the book of the same name, The Salem Witch Trials, These Old Broads written by Carrie Fisher and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, and Joan Collins, and Coco, a Lifetime production based on the life of Coco Chanel. She also had a short-lived sit-com called Shirley's World.

MacLaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1615 Vine Street.

* Shirley's World (1971 ? 1972) and a 1977 one hour special.

* Where Do We Go From Here? (1978) Winner of the Rose D'Or

* Out on a Limb (1987)
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