Monday, April 30, 2012

Lisa Lampanelli vs Dayana Mendoza in The Celebrity Apprentice

This season of The Celebrity Apprentice is getting more exciting than what we thought when Lisa and Dayana crosses their end lines. According to report, a biggest explosion between the two star stir a new controversy behind the camera and base in what we heard from a celebrity enthusiast site, they probably need to reconcile before the show finale. They made a different mistakes and telling everyone of their side is not the right step for both of them, right?

Lisa Lampanelli vs Dayana Mendoza Photo

You can see these stars yelling at each other if you watch the latest episode of the show last Sunday, April 29, 2012. Both of them argued of a nonsense stuff but in addition to this report, they are driven by their anger leading to a much tougher off-the-cam fight. The other contestants are keeping their silence just like of nobody knows of what is going on. But their friends outside of the game started to pull-down the hairs of their enemies.

Their fans and followers are now talking about them in Twitter and Facebook's unofficial fan page of the show. However, that is not a fair fight when somebody will just connect the dots without knowing the root of their misunderstanding. One of them put down the reputation of Dayana and somehow, other websites are already making fun of their battle because of that.

And as we can remember, Lisa tells everyone that they are changing the name of their name to Team Chernobyl because of their unknown explosion. We heard the name of Clay Aiken as her fellow contestant who is according to her, started the entire issue to gain the attention of Donald Trump, Jr. They are asking the man to talk about it but behind the back of Dayana.

Lisa Lampanelli and Dayana Mendoza in The Celebrity Apprentice

Whatever it is, we know that the former Miss Universe Dayana plays her right turns and Lisa is just keeping up with her side without knowing of her way to the top.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard Newly Born Daughter

Maggie Gyllenhaal along with her husband Peter Sarsgaard are now celebrating their new gift of life, Gloria Ray. That's the name of their newly born daughter who came out to see the world last April 19, 2012. She is now the second child of the two Hollywood personalities who decided to tie a knot way back in 2009. Both of them are pretty similar from the top grossing film like Lovelace and Hysteria. Aside from that, they've been in a lot of television projects as well in series of movies.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard New Baby

Their daughter Ramona is turning five this year and probably, her fortune will now be divided with her sister just like of other celebrities sons and daughters. As a parent, Maggie experienced an ups and downs especially balancing her career with her responsibility as a mother. And somehow, everything falls based in their plans and they are both proud of their two lovely kids.

Furthermore, Maggie is not yet married during the time of her pregnancy with Ramona. And her confidence continue to grow to support the needs of her siblings. Their time in front of the camera as an actress and actor can also affect their way of parenting and some folks are now getting more curious about that as comments starts to flood in a celebrity gossip sites recently.

Join us as we continue to follow this story after of this break.

Jessica Alba Hollywood Actress








Born On This Day- April 30th... Alice B. Toklas


The famous pair with Toklas on the right.

Alice Babette Toklas left Seattle for Paris when she was 30 years old. In Paris she met Gertrude Stein. The 2 women were a couple for the next 39 years, living through WW1 & WW2, the apex of The Lost Generation, & a collection of very famous friends. They were positively partners. Toklas was Stein’s secretary, editor, critic... & muse.

Their books' titles were quite deceptive; The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was written Stein & had next to nothing to do with Toklas & The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, although it contains recipes, was more a memoir of a life friends like Janet Flanner, Picasso, Hemingway, Thornton Wilder, & Virgil Thomson, along a collection of over 300 recipes.

Toklas lived another 20 years after Stein’s death. At the end of her life she was broke. The family of Stein claimed the famous paintings & royalties. In those final years Toklas was plagued with financial difficulties. She had no choice after Stein’s heirs took all the famous paintings left to her, except to write a memoir.

The much renowned recipe for marijuana brownies started when Toklas signed a contract with Harper's to write a cookbook in 1952. She was a known as a very goodcook, but what Harper’s wanted was not so much recipes but tales of her life with Gertrude Stein.

Toklas, then in her mid-70s, didn’t have enough pages to call her tome a book. She added several recipes, including them that would become renowned: “This is the food of Paradise. It might provide an entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the DAR, with euphoria & brilliant storms of laughter, ecstatic reveries & extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better."

The editors at Harper's spotted the suspicious special ingredient- canabis ingredients & cut the recipe out, but the publisher of the British edition didn't. The press promptly went nuts. The London Times: "The late Poetess Gertrude Stein & her constant companion 7 autobiographee, Alice B. Toklas, used to have gay old times together in the kitchen. Some of the unique delicacies that were whipped up will soon be cataloged, in a wildly epicurean tome which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps the most gone concoction was her hashish fudge." The book would go on to be the best seller for either of the lesbian pair.

Here is the recipe: "Take 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, 1 whole nutmeg, 4 average sticks of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon coriander. These should all be pulverized in a mortar. About a handful each of stone dates, dried figs, shelled almonds & peanuts: chop these & mix them together. A bunch of Canibus Sativa can be pulverized. This along with the spices should be dusted over the mixed fruit & nuts, kneaded together. About a cup of sugar dissolved in a big pat of butter. Rolled into a cake & cut into pieces or made into balls about the size of a walnut, it should be eaten with care. 2 pieces are quite sufficient. Obtaining the canibus may present certain difficulties. It should be picked & dried as soon as it has gone to seed & while the plant is still green."

Just a few years ago, I had an acquaintance (now living in San Francisco with a rich boyfriend) that made a variation of this recipe. With only one half of a serving, I was unable to raise my head off the pillow. His advice: “Don’t sit down. After you eat one you need to go hiking or dancing. Keep moving.”  I was left giggling, horny & hungry & unable to move.

Although Toklas converted to Catholicism late in life, the pair of Jewish lesbians are buried next to each other in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. 

The Toklas name would become a part of the vernacular of the pot smoking world.

Universal Pictures Turns 100

It was today on 30 April 1912 that Universal Pictures was founded. It would become one of the eight major motion picture studios that dominated Hollywood from the Thirties to the Fifties (the others were MGM, Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers, RKO, Columbia, and United Artists). Today it remains one of the most important studios in the world, surviving some of the studios that were bigger than it was. Indeed, it is the oldest Hollywood studio (Paramount is second, having been founded 8 May 1912).

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) was founded on 30 April 1912 by Carl Laemmle. Carl Laemmle was an immigrant from Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany.  He had arrived in the United States in 1884, when he was only 17. He settled in Chicago, where he spent two decades working in retail stores. It was when he was 38 that he decided to change careers. He had lost his job (it is unclear whether he quit or was fired) and then contacted advertising man Robert Cochrane, with whom he had worked before, to help him find another line of business. Mr.Laemmle wanted to go into film even then, although Mr. Cochrane advised him to learn about film before he took the leap into the business. It was on 24 February 1906 that Carl Laemmle opened the White Front Nickelodeon in Chicago. Six months later he opened the Laemmle Film Service, which rented films to other exhibitors. In 1909 he formed Independent Moving Pictures Company. Independent Moving Pictures would be one of the first studios to actually credit its actors, thus helping create the star system. In fact, Independent Motion Pictures would use actress Florence Lawrence and actor King Baggot in their promotional materials in 1910, making the company perhaps the first to use its stars in their advertising.

 It was in 1912 that Independent Motion Pictures Company merged with Nestor Studios, Powers Picture Plays, Bison Life Motion Pictures, The Champion Film Company, Rex Motion Picture Company, and Éclair American Company to form the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. In 1915 Carl Laemmle opened the 230 acre Universal City Studios, the largest movie producing facility in the world. The company would be formally incorporated in 1925 under the name by which it is perhaps best known, Universal Pictures. It would go through various name changes throughout the years before it was given the other name by which it may be best known, Universal Studios.

For much of its history during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Universal would occupy a niche somewhere between the Big Five (MGM, Fox, Paramount, Warner Brothers and, RKO) and the Poverty Row studios. While it was rare that Universal Pictures produced films with the budgets of the Big Five, over all their movies cost more and were of a higher quality than Columbia (who spent much of their history on the border between the majors and Poverty Row). The average Universal movie of the Thirties and Forties generally had a moderate budget and production values that were not quite that of the Big Five, but still well ahead of the minor studios.

While Universal would largely work in the shadow of the Big Five for much of the Thirties and Forties, in the end they would leave an imprint on Anglo-American pop culture as large as, if not larger, than the bigger studios. Indeed, if you mention "horror movies" to the average person, they are apt to think of Universal Pictures. The studio's history with horror movies actually goes back further than the classics of the Thirties and Forties. Universal's predecessor, Independent Motion Pictures, had produced one horror film, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in 1913. In 1923 Universal produced an adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a historical drama that bordered on the horror genre. It was in 1925 that the studio released its first pure horror film, Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney. The success of Phantom of the Opera would lead to more films from Universal that at least bordered on horror: The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1928).

Of course, it was in 1931 that Universal launched its adaptation of Dracula. The film proved highly successful and made Bela Lugosi a star in the horror genre. It success was followed in 1931 by Universal's Frankenstein. Frankenstein was the Star Wars of its day, making a good deal of money and making Boris Karloff a star. The success of these two films would start a cycle towards  horror movies that lasted from 1931 to 1936, with most of the major studios producing horror films during the period. In 1939 Son of Frankenstein would spark a new cycle towards horror movies, a cycle in which studios other than Universal (most notably RKO and their films produced by Val Lewton) also took part. The impact of Universal's horror movies cannot be underestimated. Frankenstein and its first sequel, Bride of Frankenstein, are counted among the greatest films ever made. Even today, after countless adaptations of the novel have been made, when most people picture Frankenstein's Creature in their heads, it is most likely to be the image of Boris Karloff in Jack Pierce's make up. Dracula, Frankenstein, and the other Universal horror films would have a lasting impact on the genre. In fact, their influence can still be felt today.

While Universal may even today be best known for its horror movies, the studio worked in a number of other genres. One of these was comedy. Over the years Universal would make several comedy films, often drawing upon stars from radio for their casts, including  Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Red Skelton. It would be from radio that Universal would draw its two best known comedy stars, the team of Abbott & Costello. Their 1941 film Buck Privates proved to be such an enormous success that it would spark a series of Abbott and Costello films that would last until 1955 (with one more film, Dance with Me, Henry, released in 1956 by United Artists). Eventually Universal would combine their Abbott & Costello films with their horror movies. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, released in 1948, would lead to a number of films in which the comedy duo met various Universal Monsters.

The Abbott & Costello movies may be the best known series Universal produced, but it was by no means the only series. In many respects the meat and potatoes of  Universal was the various series of medium budget films in a variety of genres that the studio produced. As might be expected, some of these series were in the horror genre. Universal produced a number of sequels to both Dracula and Frankenstein. The studio also produced a series based on the popular Inner Sanctum radio show. Aside from the Abbott & Costello movies and their horror series, perhaps the best known series ever produced by Universal was their series of Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson respectively. Universal made fourteen Sherlock Holmes films in the series. Universal also produced a series of Dead End Kid and Little Tough Guys movies, Baby Sandy movies, Ma & Pa Kettle movies, and others.

Here it must be pointed out that Abbott & Costello were not the only stars Universal produced. In fact, in the Forties their biggest star may have been Deanna Durbin. Deanna Durbin had been signed to MGM in 1935, but the studio had also signed another young songstress, Judy Garland, at the same time. While debate over whether to keep both raged at MGM's front offices, Miss Durbin's contract with the studio expired. MGM's loss was then Universal's gain. She made her debut at Universal with Three Smart Girls in 1936. The movie proved to be a success and soon Miss Durbin was starring in musicals for the studio. Miss Durbin would continue making movies for Universal until 1948, by which time her success at the box office had declined. Her contract with Universal was allowed to expire and she retired from film.

While Universal would become famous for its monster movies, Abbott & Costello comedies, and Deanna Durbin musicals, like most studios at the time it would also produce a number of Westerns. Indeed, Universal would also produce or co-produce some of John Wayne's later films, including The War Wagon (1967) and Rooster Cogburn (1975). While Universal would not work with John Wayne often, they had a number of their own cowboy stars. Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, and Tex Ritter would all work for the studio at one time or another. In addition to many B-Westerns, Universal would also produce major feature films in the Western genre. Destry Rides Again (1939), Comanche Territory (1950), Winchester '73 (1950), The Far Country (1954), and others among them.

Of course, many of the B-Westerns produced by Universal would actually be serials. In fact, among aficionados of chapterplays, Universal is considered to have produced the very best serials besides Republic. Unlike Poverty Row studio Monogram and fellow major studio Columbia, Universal's serials generally had good production values and often relatively large budgets. In fact, Flash Gordon (1936), Universal Pictures' adaptation of Alex Raymond's classic comic strip, was the most expensive serial of its time. It would prove to be a huge success, followed by two sequels. Universal would also produce several other notable serials, including Secret Agent X-9 (1937), Buck Rogers (1939), The Green Hornet (1939), Don Winslow of the Navy (1941),  and many others. Universal would continue producing serials until 1946, when it ceased production of chapterplays. The studio had been producing serials since the Silent Era.

Not only did Universal produce serials, but they also produced animated cartoons. While Universal's cartoons would never gain the prestige of those of either Warner Brothers or MGM, they would prove very successful and they would have a lasting impact on pop culture. Indeed, it could well have been actions on the part of Universal that led to the creation of Mickey Mouse and the foundation of  The Walt Disney Company. Universal owned the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a popular character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Charles Mintz, whose studio produced cartoons for Universal, demanded that Messrs. Disney and Iwerks accept a lower fee for producing the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts. When Disney and Iwerks refused, Mr. Mintz took over production of the shorts himself. Messrs. Disney and Iwerks simply created a new character for their own series of animated shorts, a character who looked in his early days very similar to Oswald. His name was Mickey Mouse.

In what could be considered a bit of poetic justice, Charles Mintz hired his own successor in 1928. Animator Walter Lantz was a veteran of John Bray Studios as well as Carl Laemmle's part time chauffeur. Eventually Carl Laemmle tired of dealing with Charles Mintz and looked to found Universal's own in-house animation studio. As a result, Universal Studio Cartoons was formed, with Walter Lantz as its head. The company would become independent in 1935 as Walter Lantz Productions, although their cartoons would continue to be distributed by Universal until 1947. For a brief period from 1948 to 1949 Walter Lantz's cartoons would be distributed by United Artists. From 1951 to 1972 Universal would once more distribute the Walter Lantz cartoons.

While Walter Lantz Productions cartoons have never been considered to be of the quality of Warner Brothers, Disney, Fleischer Studios, or MGM, the company produced such popular characters as Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Chilly Willy. Walter Lantz Productions would continue to produce animated shorts long after many of the other studios had ceased doing so. The studio would not permanently close until 1972. In 1984, Lantz sold the company, its characters, and its cartoons to Universal.

By the Fifties and Sixties Universal, like most of the studios, had fallen on hard times. Music Corporation of America (MCA), originally a talent agency, had expanded into television. Its subsidiary, Revue Productions, originally formed in 1943 to produce live concerts, became the company's television production arm in 1950. Revue would become one of the most successful production companies in television. It produced such shows as Alfred Hitchock Presents, Wagon Train, Studio 57, and many others. In 1958 Universal sold its lot to MCA, who then renamed both the Revue Productions and the lot, "Revue Studios." Although MCA had only bought the lot, it would prove increasingly influential in Universal's dealings. MCA's various clients, including Doris Day, Cary Grant, and Lana Turner would sign to Universal. In 1962 MCA bought Universal outright. Revue Productions then became Universal Television.

Universal Television continued to produce shows originally produced by Revue, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Virginian. Eventually it would produce some of the best known shows of the Sixties and Seventies, many of them airing on NBC. In its early days Universal Television produced such series as Laredo and Ironside. By the Seventies it produced the umbrella series The NBC Mystery Movie, which included such classic shows as Columbo, McCloud, and Hec Ramsey. Over the years Universal Television would produce such television classics as Ellery Queen, The A-Team, Miami Vice, The Equaliser, Northern Exposure, and the Law & Order franchise. Universal would further become involved in television through the cable channel the USA Network in the Seventies. Originally started with other companies, Universal would become the sole owner of the channel in 1987.

Among the television series Universal inherited fro Revue was Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It should then come as no surprise that Alfred Hitchcock's last few movies would be produced through Universal.  It was in 1955 that Lew Wassermann, head of MCA, approached their client Alfred Hitchcock about producing a television series, what would become Alfred Hitchcock Presents.  MCA later persuaded Alfred Hitchcock to sign a contract with Universal. Beginning with The Birds in 1963, all of Hitchcock's films were released through Universal. Universal would even acquire the distribution rights to Psycho (originally distributed by Paramount). Here it must be noted that this was not the first time Universal was associated with Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick International loaned the director to Universal for Saboteur (1942) and Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

Here it must be stressed that following the Fifties, Universal did produce more than television shows, Ma & Pa Kettle movies, and Hitchcock films. In the late Fifties and well into the Sixties it was Universal who produced the majority of Doris Day's sex comedies. Starting with Pillow Talk in 1960, Universal produced all of them until Send Me No Flowers. The success of Pillow Talk would lead to a cycle of sex comedies that lasted from 1960 until 1965 in which other studios also took part. Universal also produced such classic films as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Charade (1963), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), American Graffiti (1973), Jaws (1975), and Animal House (1978). In the Eighties Universal produced the highly popular Back to the Future trilogy. In more recent times Universal has produced films ranging from The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) to Jurassic Park (1993) to the 2005 remake of King Kong.

As famous as Universal is for their movies and television shows, they are also famous for their studio tour. The Universal Pictures studio tour goes back to the earliest days of the company's history. Unlike other heads of studios, Carl Laemmle actually encouraged tourists to visit Universal. In 1915 visitors could pay 25 cents to sit on bleachers and watch movies being made. It was in 1964 that the current Universal Studios tour official began, with tourists travelling through the lot in "GlamorTrams." Given the success of the studio tour, it should no surprise that Universal would expand into theme parks. This happened slowly with Universal Studios Hollywood, as rides and other attractions were added. In 1990 the Universal Orlando Resort was opened in Florida. In 2001 Universal Studios Japan opened. Currently Universal Studios is the third biggest amusement park operator in the world.

While Universal has survived to see its 100th birthday, it was not without changes in ownership. Indeed, in the Nineties the studio changed hands several times. It was in 2004 that then current owner, French multi-media company Vivendi, sold Universal to General Electric, parent of company of NBC. General Electric then merged the movie studio and the television network to form NBCUniversal. In many respects the merger should not seem so unusual given the close association between NBC and Universal in the past. Universal Television's predecessor, Revue, had produced shows for NBC beginning in 1950 with the series Armour Theatre. Thereafter Revue would produce several more shows for NBC. Once Revue became Universal Television, the studio would continue to produce many shows for NBC, including such high profile shows as The Rockford Files and Miami Vice.

Since the creation of NBCUniversal, the company has expanded. In 2004 NBCUniversal created the cable channel Sleuth (now called Cloo), which is entirely devoted to mysteries. In 2007 it launched Chiller, a horror oriented cable channel. That same year the company acquired the cable channel Oxygen. NBCUniversal is arguably one of the giants in cable, owning such cable channels as the USA Network SyFy Channel, Cloo, Chiller, Bravo, and Oxygen

The survival of Universal over the years could perhaps be attributed to two factors. The first is that it was perhaps one of the first studios to actually produce franchises. The Universal horror movies not only made a good deal of money when first released, but have made a good deal of money ever since. Indeed, the Universal monsters would produce an inordinate amount of merchandise. The various movie series Universal produced over the years would be rerun on television for literally decades, from Sherlock Holmes to Abbott & Costello. Here it must be pointed that, unlike other studios, Universal kept many of its films while acquiring the rights to others. The Universal library is one of the largest in the movie industry, consisting of everything from serials to Walter Lantz cartoons to classics like To Kill a Mockingbird.

The other factor which has permitted Universal's survival is perhaps the fact that the studio changed with the times when other studios did not. In the Sixties when many of the studios continued to produce big budget blockbusters (many of which flopped), Universal moved into television and continued to produce more moderately budgeted films. In the Seventies Universal would expand into cable with the USA Network. Universal has always had a degree of adaptability that saved it from total extinction.

In the end Universal has had an impact on pop culture which few movie studios could match. The movie monsters it created in the Thirties are still as recognisable today as they were 80 years ago. Abbott & Costello are still one of the best known comedy teams of all time. The many sex comedies Universal produced are still shown on television today. Such television characters as Lt. Columbo and Jim Rockford continue to be popular. Universal would also produce several classic films, including Destry Rides Again, The Naked City, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting, and may others. Given the studio's long history, it seems likely it will survive for another hundred years.

Born On This Day- April 30th... Eunice M. Quedens


Eve Arden is one of the Husband’s favorite stars, & he introduced me to her most famous role with re-runs on TV. I was just a smidgen too young to have watched the 1st broadcasts of Our Miss Brooks, but watching them with him gave me even more appreciation for her considerable talents. I did have the pleasure of seeing Eve Arden in the title role in Hello, Dolly while I was doing summer stock on Cape Cod in the early 1970s. She was a terrific Dolly Levi.

I never met her, but I wanted to be her, or rather I wanted to receive a review that would claim- “Stephen Rutledge has the charm & the crack top timing of a male Eve Arden.” If my demented memory serves me right, I had a better chance at being compared to Kay Ballard.




Her 50 year career doing supporting & leading roles on stage, in films, radio & TV included an Oscar nomination for Mildred Pierce, but she is best remembered for playing the sardonic high school teacher in the classic Our Miss Brooks on radio & television, & to another generation as the Rydell High School principal in Grease & Grease 2. Ironically. she never finished high school, leaving at 16 to join a stock company.


Eve Arden had an approximately 30 second guest role in a 1955 I Love Lucy episode- L.A. at Last in which she played herself. While awaiting their food at The Brown Derby, Lucy & Ethel argue over whether a certain portrait on the wall is of Shelley Winters or Judy Holliday. Ethel decides to ask a lady sitting in the booth next to them, who replies: "Neither. That's Eve Arden." Ethel suddenly realizes she'd just been talking to Arden herself. As the star is leaving she is gawked by Lucy & Ethel. This same episode also guest starred William Holden.


Desilu Productions, was owned by Desi Arnaz & Lucille Ball, & was the production company for the Our Miss Brooks television show, which was filming during the same period as I Love Lucy. Ms. Ball & Ms. Arden were acquaintances, having worked together in Stage Door in 1937; it was Ball, who suggested Arden for the radio & TV versions of Our Miss Brooks.


Arden's comic talent & timing were absolute perfection for her best known role, Madison High School English teacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks. Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, & on TV from 1952 to 1956, & in a 1956 feature film. Arden's character clashed with the school's principal, Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), & was burdened by an unrequited crush on fellow teacher Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler, & on TV by Robert Rockwell).


Eve Arden was born Eunice M. Quedens in Mill Valley, California, & she made her Broadway in 1934 in the Ziegfeld Follies , & her last work was in Grease 2 in 1982. She chose her stage name while shopping for cosmetics & spotting the names Evening in Paris &  Elizabeth Arden. She was married to actor Brooks West for 32 years, until his death in 1984. Eve Arden passed away in 1990 at the age of 82. Happy Birthday, Eve!





"I've worked with a lot of great glamorous girls in movies and the theater. And I'll admit, I've often thought it would be wonderful to be a femme fatale. But then I'd always come back to thinking that if they only had what I've had - a family, real love, an anchor - they would have been so much happier during all the hours when the marquees and the floodlights are dark."

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard welcome baby girl no. 2

 Peter and Maggie © Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard have welcomed a daughter on Thursday, April 19th, in New York City. Their little girl was named Gloria Ray. Baby girl Gloria joins big sister Ramona, 5.

Maggie, 34, announced the pregnancy when she was three and a half monts along in her pregnancy. Maggie's first appearance on the silver screen is Won't Back Down. Peter, 41, will star in Lovelace.

New York City. The Most Exciting City On Earth

Pictured below, a man helps a woman with her coat's zipper (or is the woman helping the man with his coat's zipper?). Either way, we are the world.


AVRIL NO MESMO CAMINHO DE LADY GAGA?



O colunista Shawn Graham, do site Fast Company, especialista marketing, publicou um artigo no qual destaca o sucesso da web-marketing usado por Avril Lavigne e sua equipe junto aJustFabulous na parceria de sua marca, Abbey Dawn. Ele não chega a citar Lady Gaga, no entanto, eu cito aqui e explico porquê. Gostando ou não da música, é inegável o poder que Lady Gaga tem de criar uma marca mundial em torno do seu nome. Muito mais que um penteado ousado, Avril Lavignee Lady Gaga têm muito mais coisas em comum do que você pode imaginar.
O social media Australiano, Jesse Desjardins, provavelmente concordaria comigo e eu vou lhes dizer o porquê. Ele nos deu 10 maneiras de ser um gênio do marketing como Lady Gaga(Em Inglês), elas são: 1 – Ter uma opinião. 2 – Popularidade nas mídias sociais. 3 – Ser diferente. 4 –Não tem medo de ganhar muito dinheiro. 5 – Dá aos seus fãs algo para se conectar a ele. 6 – Ame seus monstrinhos. 7 – Não tenha medo de experimentar: você não pode agradar a todos. 8 – Ter as pessoas certas ao seu lado. 9 – Produzem materiais avassaladores. 10 – Ter um propósito.
1 – Ter uma opinião; “Eu basicamente micro administro tudo, especialmente agora que tem muito mais que minha musica acontecendo. É engraçado porque você provavelmente não olha pra mim e sabe quanto os negócios estão envolvidos em tudo. Eu gasto muito tempo em reuniões” diz Avril pararevista Z!nk, em 2009. Ela está totalmente envolvida no designer de sua linha de roupas, Abbey Dawn, e para seu perfume, Black Star, ela não apenas escolheu a fragrância e a embalagem, ela também escreveu o anúncio. “Eu me diverti muito, é tipo uma canção de ninar.” completa. 2 – Popularidade nas mídias sociais; Rihanna, Bob Marley e Avril Lavigne foram os músicos mais citados pelos usuáros da maior rede social do mundo, o Facebook e a dos artistas mais buscados no Google no país, em 2011. 3 – Ser diferente; Ela não só é diferente como lançou tendências. Antes de aparecer com seu hit “Complicated”, as mulheres sofriam com a escova para deixar o cabelo lisinho. Aí ela chegou com seu cabelo estupidamente liso, e 10 entre 10 mulheres se perguntaram: “O que essa garota fez no cabelo pra deixar ele TÃO liso assim?”. O segredo foi revelado pela cantora: Chapinha! A coisa foi virando febre, todas as mulheres queriam seu cabelo tão lisinho quanto o dela, e a moda foi sendo difundida mundo afora. O resultado disso? 9 entre 10 mulheres já fizeram chapinha pelo menos uma vez na vida.  4 – Não tem medo de ganhar muito dinheiro; Na lista Forbs Top 10 Mongul in the Making em 2008 ela teria ganhado 13 milhões de dólares. 5 – Dá aos seus fãs algo para se conectar a ele; @AvrilLAvigne no Twitter ouFacebook.com/AvrilLavigne – divirta-se! 6 – Ame seus monstrinhos; Ou suas estrelas pretas. Ela nos ama, pode apostar. 7 – Não tenha medo de experimentar: você não pode agradar a todos;“Você nunca vai agradar todo mundo. Eu realmente só estou fazendo isso por mim mesma e sendo verdadeira comigo mesma. Meu estilo é quem sou, e eu estou feliz com isso… Eu amo o que eu faço e quero continuar fazendo isso.” diz Avril para revista Z!nk. 8 – Ter as pessoas certas ao seu lado;Avril já comentou sobre a mudança de gravadora – ela está agora na Epic Records – diz estar muito animada por trabalhar com LA Reid novamente e acrescenta: “estou inspirada novamente para fazer música”. 9 – Produzem materiais avassaladores; já consagrada com singles como “complicated” e muitos outros, nós estamos muito animados com resultado do quinto álbum de estúdio que está para sair. 10 – Ter um propósito; “Eu sinto que minha mensagem ao longo dos anos tem sido consistente, sobre acreditar em você mesmo e ser forte. Seja forte, lute por você mesmo: seja quem você é” Diz Avril em entrevista ao Cambio. Além disso, ela trabalha com questões sociais na The Avril Lavigne Foundation.
Disso, podemos concluir que Avril Lavigne deixou de ser aquela adolescente que estourou nas rádios em 2002, para tornar-se uma mulher de negócios. Fez a lição de casa e hoje trabalha com o que e quem ama. Ela cresceu, tem pessoas boas ao seu lado, e como em 2002, e está pronta para voltar as paradas. Para terminar este artigo, uma citação do texto do colunista do Portal R7,André Forastieri, em seu post sobre Avril Lavigne: “A adolescência é excitante, surpreendente, angustiante e todas as outras emoções limite que você quiser listar. Mas uma hora ela acaba. E aí – quando você já sabe mais ou menos quem é e se sente confortável dentro da própria pele – é que a diversão começa de verdade” just be epic, Avril Lavigne!

DID MICHAEL JACKSON AND WHITNEY HOUSTON ONCE HAVE A SECRET AFFAIR???!!!: MICHAEL JACKSON'S former bodyguard, Matt Fiddes, is making more shocking claims.

One week after claiming HE'S the biological father of Michael's youngest child, BLANKET, Fiddes now claims MJ and WHITNEY HOUSTON were on the down low.

According to Matt, back in 1991, Michael hooked it up with WHITNEY HOUSTON!!! Fiddes tells London's "Sun" tabloid, quote, "Whitney practically moved into Michael's ranch and they had a fling like any other young couple. But Michael said later he had always hoped the relationship had gone further, and I know he dreamed of marrying her."


Michael and Whitney went their seperate ways, but reunited about a decade later at a concert for Michael in New York. Quote, "They were both a mess [by then], to be honest. They shared what would be their final hugs and Michael begged Whitney to get off the drugs that were destroying her life. The two of them whispered that they loved each other as they hugged."

BREAKING NEWS! KHLOE AND LAMAR TO CALL IT QUITS!!!: According to sources close to LAMAR ODOM and KHLOE KARDASHIAN, the couple has decided to call it quits … on the “Khloe & Lamar” show, that is.

TMZ is reporting that the second season of the show will be its last because Lamar wants to focus on an NBA comeback. Odom, if you recall, was traded by the L.A. Laker to the Dallas Mavericks at the start of the season, and then regulated to the Maverick’s inactive list after playing like he didn’t want to be there.

TMZ says that although they’ll be pulling the plug on the spinoff, Khloe and Lamar will still make occasional appearances on “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” That sound you hear is me breathing a sigh of relief.

KIM KARDASHIAN WAS THE BUTT OF JOKES AT WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE DINNER: KIM KARDASHIAN attended the White House Correspondence Dinner Saturday, but may have regretted that decision. Kim and the Kardashian clan were the butt of several jokes during the evening, coming from not only host JIMMY KIMMEL, but PRESIDENT OBAMA as well.


“If you're looking for the greatest threat to America right now, she's right there," Kimmel joked, pointing at Kim, who sat at the Fox News table with LINDSAY LOHAN.

He added, “When you took office, the Kardashians had one reality show. Now they have four. This is not a good trend."

As for Obama, in a pre-taped segment in which they faked him not knowing his mic was turned on backstage, he was heard saying ...

"Seriously, guys, what am I doing here? I'm the President of the United States...why am I telling knock-knock jokes to Kim Kardashian? What is she famous for, anyway?"

MARIAH CAREY + NICK CANNON RENEW THEIR VOWS


JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT EMBARRASSED BY HER CRUSH DECLARATION: Earlier this month, JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT was on the "Ellen" show and revealed she was crushing on Maroon 5 singer and "The Voice" judge ADAM LEVINE.


Well, last week Adam on the "Ellen" show Adam told her that when he heard about Jennifer's comments, he thought, quote, "That was aggressive . . . it was really sweet and flattering."

So an embarrassed JLove headed to Twitter to talk about how it felt to get shot down so publicly. She wrote in reply to the hashtag #KeepCrushesQuiet, quote, "The moment when you make a comment about something or someone and the world makes you feel like a total fool."


"Thank you to Adam Levine for being so gracious on 'Ellen' about my crush heard 'round the world. I've learned a lesson.

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS FOR APRIL 30 – CLORIS LEACHMAN, JOHNNY GALECKI AND MORE


PATRICK DEMPSEY PLAYS REAL LIFE HERO: "McDreamy" himself, PATRICK DEMPSEY, came to the rescue of a teen driver who crashed and flipped his car in Malibu last week.

On Tuesday, a 17-year-old crashed his Ford Mustang right in front of Dempsey's house. Patrick saw the crash, grabbed a crowbar, and ran outside to get the kid out of the car.


According to the teen, when he opened his eyes, Patrick was looking down at him. He asked Patrick, quote, "Are you famous?" And Patrick responded, quote, "I'm a doctor."

Patrick then waited with Weston until paramedics arrived, called the kid's mother to tell her about the accident and keep her calm, and followed the ambulance to the hospital to make sure the teen was OK.

THE WANTED CALL CHRISTINA AGUILERA A 'BITCH': The boy band THE WANTED don't think too highly of CHRISTINA AGUILERA. They recently performed on "The Voice", and apparently gave them the cold shoulder.

Band member MAX GEORGE told a New York radio station that Christina, quote, "a bit scary to be honest." SIVA KANESWARAN added, quote, "She was quite rude." TOM PARKER went a little further. He said, quote, "She was a total bitch!"

"She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us," he added. Tom has since apologized about calling her the b-word, but he still thinks Christina was rude to them. He told TMZ, quote, "We just think manners cost nothing, you know what I mean?"

RELATED: CHRISTINA AGUILERA HAS GUY MASSAGE HER FEET ON ‘THE VOICE’ SET

FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF 'DUH', MEL GIBSON ADMITS TO HAVING TEMPER: MEL GIBSON was on "The Tonight Show" on Friday night and addressed his latest in a long, long line of taped meltdowns.

 "You know, I love coming to [your show] because when I get here and you tape me, you let me know you're going to do that up front!" Mel said,  trying to make light of the situation.

Mel made headlines recently when screenwriter Joe Eszterhas accused him of being anti-Semitic and released tapes of the star flipping out. He admitted to Jay that he had been "peeved" at Joe over the delay of the script, then added, "You know, maybe you don't know this about me, but I've got a little bit of a temper."

WATCH: BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS – CELEBS EMBARRASSING COMMERCIALS

Avril Lavigne está de férias na França


Como todos já sabem Avril Lavigne terminou recentemente seu quinto álbum e ficamos sabendo pelo twitter de seu melhor amigo Evan Taubenfeld que a loira estária na França de férias.


Confira abaixo os tweets:
@AvrilLavigne i vous manquez de mon meilleur ami, comment la France?!
TRADUÇÃO: Eu sinto sua falta minha melhor amiga, como está a França?

Avril Lavigne também tuitou em francês para seu amigo Gabriel Panduro. Confira:

@GABRIELPANDURO@AvrilLavigne miss you already !!!!:))” Je t'aime Gabe Babe xxoo bisous 💋

TRADUÇÃO: @GABRIELPANDURO: @AvrilLavigne Já sinto sua falta!!!!:))” Te amo Gabe Babe xxoo beijos

FONTE: http://avrilbrasil.com

Hey Ho! Magazine #17


Você sabe a diferença do tempo Kronos e Kairós? Sabe desenvolver um blog com domíno .com.br ? Já ouviu falar da Ellie Goulding? Talvez uma das coisas citadas anteriormente, vocês já devem ter feito ou conhecido, mas não de uma forma divertida e dinâmica que só a Hey Ho! Magazine pode oferecer.
A décima sétima edição da revista, além de trazer o que foi mencionado no início, ela traz um especial para os fãs do Evanescence contando um pouco da trajetória da banda até os dias de hoje, sem falar que traz também uma entrevista sensacional com o criador e administrador do News Avril,Thalles Rafael.
Mas, a revista não para por aí. Será que você já pensou em ter o casamento no estilo Jogos Vorazes? Trazemos algumas ideias pra vocês que são fãs da trilogia e comentamos um pouco sobre o filme que está sendo exibido nas telonas brasileiras.
Pra finalizar não poderíamos deixar o Lollapalooza passar em branco, o festival que aconteceu este mês em terras tupiniquins contou com a presença de grandes bandas como Foo Fighters, Foster the People e MGMT, e foi embora com a promessa de voltar no ano seguinte.