Thursday, December 30, 2010

Kelly Clarkson - actress, pop rock singer and songwriter

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Kelly Clarkson is an American actress, pop rock singer and songwriter. Clarkson rose to celebrity after winning the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later symbolize the United States in the World Idol competition in 2003. She has out four albums to date under RCA Records, her latest album All I Ever Wanted (2009) (which was chosen for a Grammy Award). Her album have sold above 10.5 million copies in the United States. Clarkson is the only American Idol competitor to have reach number one in the UK.

She claim number one on March 1, 2009, while "My Life Would Suck Without You" debuted number one on downloads by yourself. Clarkson is ranked on the top 200 album seller of the Nielsen SoundScan era at number 187. Eleven of Clarkson's singles become Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Her single, "My Life Would Suck Without You", higher from No. 97 to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its primary week of release, breaking the record for the major leap to the top position in chart history. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Clarkson is the maximum selling Idol winner worldwide, with approximately 36 million singles and 23 million albums sold around the world.

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Birth name

Kelly Brianne Clarkson

Date Of Birth

April 24, 1982

Place Of Birth

Fort Worth, Texas

Origin

Burleson, Texas, United States

Occupations

Singer-songwriter, actress

Genres

Pop rock, adult contemporary

Instruments

Vocal

Monday, December 27, 2010

Miley Cyrus - American actress and pop singer

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Miley Cyrus is an famous American actress and pop singer. She attain wide fame for her position as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. Cyrus proof music for the soundtracks, Hannah Montana (2006) and Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (2007), out by Walt Disney Records. With the success of the Hannah Montana franchise she recognized herself as a teen idol. In 2007, Cyrus sign to Hollywood Records to follow a solo career. She go on the Best of Both Worlds Tour the same year, in which she achieve as both herself and in character as Hannah Montana. In July 2008, Cyrus released her initial solo album, Breakout (2008), which was commercially successful.

Cyrus receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her presentation of Bolt's theme song, "I Thought I Lost You". She also reprised her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). She initiate to cultivate an adult image in 2009 with the release of The Time of Our Lives (2009), an comprehensive play which presented a more normal pop sound, and by filming The Last Song (2010), a coming of age drama film. The music video and words of the album's lead single, "Can't Be Tamed", portrays a additional sexualized image for the entertainer. Cyrus ranked figure thirteen on Forbes' 2010 famous person 100.

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Birth name

Destiny Hope Cyrus

Date Of Birth

November 23, 1992

Place Of Birth

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Genres

Pop, pop rock, teen pop, country pop

Occupations

Actress, author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, singer, songwriter, model, musician, dancer

Instruments

Vocals, guitar, piano

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Titanic film in 1997

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Titanic is the 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, co-produced, written, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the dipping of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, associate of different social classes who fall in love on board the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyag. Creation on the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real Titanic wreck. The recent scenes were shot on board the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had use as a foundation when filming the actual wreck. A rebuilding of the Titanic was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, and scale models and computer-generate imagery were also used to reconstruct the sinking.

Titanic was an enormous serious and commercial success. It was selected for fourteen Academy Awards, eventually winning eleven, with Best Picture and Best Director. It become the maximum grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $1.8 billion the first film to attain the billion dollar mark and remain so for twelve years awaiting Cameron's after that directorial effort, Avatar, surpassed it in 2010. Titanic is also rank as the sixth top epic film of all time in AFI's 10 Top 10 by the American Film Institute. The film is due for dramatic re-release in 2012 after Cameron complete its conversion into 3-D.

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Director

James Cameron

Producer

James Cameron, Jon Landau

Written by

James Cameron

Starring

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill

Music by

James Horner

Editing by

James Cameron, Conrad Buff IV, Richard A. Harris

Studio

20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment

Release date(s)

December 19, 1997

Running time

194 minutes

Country

United States

Language

English

Budget

$200 million

Gross revenue

$1,843,201,268

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Gillian Anderson - American Actress

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Gillian Anderson is famous American actress. After start her career in theatre, Anderson attain international identification for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine period, Anderson won an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Her film work contain The House of Mirth (2000), The Mighty Celt (2005), The Last King of Scotland (2006), and two X Files films, The X-Files (1998) and The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008). She was selected for BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe awards for her character as Lady Dedlock in the BBC television adaptation Bleak House (2005).

In 2000, Piper had a small role in her mother's movie The House of Mirth. Anderson have two sons, Oscar and Felix. In 1996, Anderson was selected the "Sexiest Woman in the World" for FHM's 100 Sexiest Women poll. In 2008, she also positioned 21st in FHM's All Time 100 Sexiest Hall of Fame. Anderson had a recommendation for Best Actress in the Lawrence Olivier Awards 2010, for production which open in the 2009 calendar year for her portrayal of Nora. Anderson will be show as MI7 Secret Agent Pamela Head in Johnny English Reborn, the film is now under production.

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Birth Name

Gillian Leigh Anderson

Date Of Birth

August 9, 1968

Place Of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Occupation

Actress

Spouse

Clyde Klotz, Julian Ozanne