Showing posts with label hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hollywood. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Cameron Diaz Charlie's Angels

A tall, strikingly attractive blue-eyed bottle blonde, Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego. She is the daughter of Billie (Anglo-German) and Emilio Diaz (Cuban-American). Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when she auditioned for a part in The Mask (1994).
To her amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead in the film opposite Jim Carrey. Over the next three years, she honed her acting skills in low-budget independent films such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), Head Above Water (1996), and She's the One (1996); preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry. She returned to the mainstream in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), another blockbuster in which she held her own against Julia Roberts. She earned full fledged star status for playing the title role in the box office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). With three of the biggest hits of the '90s to her credit, her name near the top on virtually every list of Hollyood's sexiest actresses, and firmly established as one of filmdom's hottest properties and most sought after actresses, Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.

Cameron Diaz Charlie's Angels

A tall, strikingly attractive blue-eyed bottle blonde, Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego. She is the daughter of Billie (Anglo-German) and Emilio Diaz (Cuban-American). Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. Returning to California at the age of 21, she was working as a model when she auditioned for a part in The Mask (1994).
To her amazement and despite having no previous acting experience, she was cast as the female lead in the film opposite Jim Carrey. Over the next three years, she honed her acting skills in low-budget independent films such as The Last Supper (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), Head Above Water (1996), and She's the One (1996); preferring to feel her way effectively into the industry. She returned to the mainstream in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), another blockbuster in which she held her own against Julia Roberts. She earned full fledged star status for playing the title role in the box office smash There's Something About Mary (1998). With three of the biggest hits of the '90s to her credit, her name near the top on virtually every list of Hollyood's sexiest actresses, and firmly established as one of filmdom's hottest properties and most sought after actresses, Cameron Diaz appears to possess everything necessary to become one of the super stars of the new century.

Friday, April 8, 2011

The cars of movie stars and celebrities before 1980




Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger

Monday, March 28, 2011

Nicolas Cage mansion and estate on the Rhode Island coast is for sale

Here's the odd part, 11 bedrooms but only a 5 car garage. Who is going to park in the drive way? About 100 cars.

Anyway, 27 acres, 10 million dollars.
Read more at http://carproperty.com/nicolas-gage-s-trophy-car-property-ad3715791.htm

two of Steve McQueen's homes (one with a 4200 sq ft airplane hanger) is for sale

The 4,200-square-foot airplane hangar where McQueen kept his car and motorcycle collection and his yellow Stearman biplane is on a Sant Paula ranch of 15 acres with a 3000 sq ft 3 bedroom home.
The asking price is less than half what it recently listed at (1.9mil) and now will sell at .8 million
read all about it at: http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-house-and-car-collection-ad8929699.htm
The other is a Palm Springs 4 bedroom, 4500sq ft, 4 car garage for 3.5 million
http://carproperty.com/steve-mcqueen-s-palm-springs-house-and-car-collection-ad1963895.htm

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Rudy Valentino's 1923 Voisin, hood ornament by Douglas Fairbanks, body by Rothchild, C-5 Sporting Victoria







Friday, March 25, 2011

My Cousin Vinny hysterical comedy bit, and the awesome positraction Tempest defense

Vinny Gambini: Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.


Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley
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Keira Knightley Picshas soared past her colleagues at warp speed to become one
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Keira Knightley at the Screening of The Duchess Picture 6 of the most sought after actresses of her generation.Keira Knightley Pictures Her role as Elizabeth Swann in The Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy landed her among the highest paid actresses in the world, Keira Knightley Picture 7and her uncommon grace and fragility as a performer haveKeira Knightley Images made her a staple in some of the most well-regarded period pieces of the decade. Her versatile performances areKeira Knightley Picture 8 regularly targeted come awards season and the state of her fickle love life is speculated upon with the fervor of an international incident.
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Keira Knightley GalleryKnightley's combination of classic elegance and boyish charm is a call back to the Hepburn-era of Hollywood. Simply, put she is a movie star of the highest order.

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley
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Keira Knightley Picshas soared past her colleagues at warp speed to become one
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Keira Knightley at the Screening of The Duchess Picture 6 of the most sought after actresses of her generation.Keira Knightley Pictures Her role as Elizabeth Swann in The Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy landed her among the highest paid actresses in the world, Keira Knightley Picture 7and her uncommon grace and fragility as a performer haveKeira Knightley Images made her a staple in some of the most well-regarded period pieces of the decade. Her versatile performances areKeira Knightley Picture 8 regularly targeted come awards season and the state of her fickle love life is speculated upon with the fervor of an international incident.
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Keira Knightley GalleryKnightley's combination of classic elegance and boyish charm is a call back to the Hepburn-era of Hollywood. Simply, put she is a movie star of the highest order.
Mini Biography

« Prev Next » Mary Elizabeth Winstead Mary Elizabeth Winstead was born on 28th November 1984 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She grew up in Salt Lake City and North Carolina many years of her life and actually had an ambition to become a ballerina, for which she attended Joffrey Ballet School in Chicago at the age of 11 and started taking acting lessons too.

Her theatre credits include "The Nutcracker" and the Broadway production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with Donny Osmond.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead at event of Youth in Revolt
Her most notable roles are in movies such as
Sky High (2005), Final Destination 3 (2006), The Ring Two (2005) and the horror remake, Black Christmas (2006).

Date of Birth
28 November 1984, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA

Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Nickname
MEW
Mary

Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Biography for Keira Knightley

Biography for Keira Knightley


Date of Birth
26 March 1985, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
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Birth Name
Keira Christina Knightley

Height
5' 7" (1.70 m)

Mini Biography

The daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald. After she requested an agent at the age of three, her parents allowed her to work on productions in her summer holidays. Her first role was at the age of 9, in Moira Armstrong's A Village Affair (1995) (TV). However, Knightley's first high profile role came in 1999, as Sabe, Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Since then she has completed an impressive array of films including The Hole (2001), but is probably best known for her role of tomboy footballer Jules Paxton in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002).

 
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