Check out images of the 2009 top 100 sexiest women in the world. Girls Aloud singer, Cheryl Cole, has been named the World's Sexiest Woman in FHM's annual poll. The singer replaced 2008's winner, Megan Fox, who fell one place. Rounding out the top five are actress Jessica Alba, mother of two Britney Spears and glamour model Keeley Hazell.
1: Cheryl Cole
2: Megan Fox
3: Jessica Alba
4: Britney Spears
5: Keeley Hazell
6: Adriana Lima
7: Elisha Cuthbert
8: Kristin Kreuk
9: Anna Friel
10: Freida Pinto
11: Ana Ivanovic
12: Abbey Clancey
13: Scarlett Johansson
14: Angelina Jolie
15: Kate Beckinsale
16: Summer Glau
17: Frankie Sandford
18: Marisa Tomei
19: Thandie Newton
20: Zoe Salmon
21: Natalie Portman
22: Olga Kurylenko
23: Katy Perry
24: Jennifer Aniston
25: Ali Larter
26: Jessica Biel
27: Hayden Panettiere
28: Eliza Dushku
29: Eva Mendes
30: Louisa Lytton
31: Amber Heard
32: Gemma Arterton
33: Diora Baird
34: Konnie Huq
35: Doutzen Kroes
36: Keira Knightley
37: Kimberley Walsh
38: Jennifer Metcalfe
39: Sarah Michelle Gellar
40: Carla Bruni
41: Eva Longoria
42: Marissa Miller
43: Rihanna
44: Rachel Stevens
45: Maria Sharapova
46: Jessica Jane Clement
47: Emma Watson
48: Kelly Brook
49: Holly Valance
50: Alessandra Ambosio
51: Katie Melua
52: Georgie Thompson
53: Charlize Theron
54: Amii Grove
55: Isabel Lucas
56: Miranda Kerr
57: Nadine Coyle
58: Nicola Roberts
59: Beyonce Knowles
60: Nicole Scherzinger
61: Alexa Chung
62: Alesha Dixon
63: Jessica Simpson
64: Madeline Zima
65: Christina Aguilera
66: Jennifer Garner
67: Vanessa Hudgens
68: Odette Yustman
69: Malin Akerman
70: Heidi Klum
71: Hilary Duff
72: Kristen Bell
73: Emily Blunt
74: Holly Willoughby
75: Kate Moss
76: Taylor Swift
77: Christina Hendricks
78: Emma Willis
79: Katherione Jenkins
80: Emily Scott
81: Gemma Atkinson
82: Katherine Heigl
83: Michelle Ryan
84: Victoria Pendleton
85: Carmen Electra
86: Elizabeth Banks
87: Sarah Harding
88: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
89: Lily Allen
90: Lisa Snowdon
91: Christine Bleakley
92: Billie Piper
93: Ellen Page
94: Evangeline Lilly
95: Rachel Riley
96: Gemma Bissix
97: Dannii Minogue
98: Fiona Bruce
99: Lindsay Lohan
100: Mischa Barton
Minggu, 01 November 2009
Sabtu, 24 Oktober 2009
Howard Hawks and "His Girl Friday"
Howard Hawks is one of the greatest American movie directors of all time. Adept at all film genres, Hawks excelled at fast-paced screwball comedies like Twentieth Century, Bringing up Baby, and His Girl Friday.His Girl Friday was a reworking of the Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur classic The Front Page. By making Hildy Johnson a woman and the ex-wife of editor Walter Burns, Hawks thought the dialogue was funnier and added a dimension that The Front Page lacked. This was a pretty risky decision at the time, since The Front Page was considered a classic not to be messed with.
Hawks's risk paid off and the casting of Cary Grant as Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson was inspired. In Grant's capable hands, Walter Burns is a more complex character than he was in the original. In The Front Page, Burns is a total cad. He wants to lure Hildy back to the newspaper business for completely selfish motives. In His Girl Friday, Walter wants Hildy back at the paper because she's a great reporter, but also because he's still in love with her. Russell's Hildy is the perfect Hawksian heroine: self-assured, smart, and independent. It's hard to believe that Russell was the eighth choice to play Hildy Johnson. Jean Arthur, Katherine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullivan, and Ginger Rogers all turned the role down. Hawks wanted Carole Lombard, who he directed to stardom in Twentieth Century, but she was too expensive, working as an independent actress. Joan Crawford was even considered for the role.
Russell was so put off by being eighth on the list (ninth if you count Crawford) that the first time she met Hawks, she showed up with wet hair. She soon discovered that Hawks wanted her to succeed in the role and after a few rough patches early in the shooting, she quickly gained confidence, going toe-to-toe with the more experienced Grant (His Girl Friday was his third film with Hawks).As the story goes, Hildy quits the paper to marry dependable, but dull, insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Tired of being a "newspaperman," Hildy says she wants a normal life of domesticity, but Walter suspects she's fooling herself, so he plots to lure her back to the paper and into his arms.
Hawks was never one for depicting domestic married life on the screen, preferring to portray the chase and the buildup to marriage, and no one showcased the chase better than Hawks. Since Hawks admired smart, funny women, his heroines are never given short shrift on film. From camera angles to screen time, Grant and Russell are treated equally. One of the reasons Hawks's films still seem so fresh and contemporary is due to his strong female characterizations.Howard Hawks directed some of the greatest films of all time and His Girl Friday is one of his best.
His Girl Friday opened at Radio City Music Hall on January 11, 1940.
Every Cinderella has Her "Midnight"
Midnight, directed by Mitchell Leisen, with a script by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, and released by Paramount Pictures, is one of the great movies of 1939. It stars Claudette Colbert as a down-on-her-luck American showgirl in Paris and Don Ameche as a Hungarian cabdriver. Colbert offers to pay Ameche double his fare if he agrees to drive her around looking for work as a blues singer. After making the rounds of dozens of Paris nightspots, Colbert gives up and decides to go back to the train station to spend the night.
A smitten Ameche buys her dinner and offers her his apartment to rest in while he drives his cab all night. Although tempted, Colbert doesn't take Ameche up on his offer. Dressed in a glamorous evening gown (the only clothes she has, of course), Colbert escapes into the night. While walking by a Parisian mansion, Colbert is mistaken for a party guest and gains entrance to a society event using a pawn ticket as her invitation. The scam works and Colbert successfully mixes with the upper classes. To keep her scam going, Colbert impersonates a Hungarian countess, aided and abetted by the aristocratic John Barrymore.Barrymore's wife, Mary Astor, thinks she's in love with playboy and champagne heir Francis Lederer. To help win his wife back, Barrymore enlist the help of the "countess." The plan is for Colbert to get Lederer to fall in love with her, keeping him out of Astor's arms.
The action really heats up at Barrymore and Astor's country mansion. Will Colbert's cover as a countess be exposed by a jealous Ameche? Will Barrymore be able to reconcile with Astor? The answers to all these questions explodes during one of the strangest breakfast meals in film history. The pace picks up and the stories and aliases that Colbert and Barrymore cook up become wilder and more complicated...and more and more hilarious.
At this stage in his career, Barrymore refused to memorize scripts, so he read his lines from cue cards. It's impossible to tell that he's reading his lines and he steals every scene he's in. Colbert is in top form, her comic timing impeccable. Ameche, no slouch in the comedy department, holds his own as the lovesick cabbie. Astor and Lederer are also perfect in their respective roles.Midnight is one of Leisen's best directorial efforts. The complicated mistaken identities, double entendres are classic Wilder. A screwball comedy with elegance and charm, Midnight deserves its place as one of the great films of 1939.
Senin, 19 Oktober 2009
Kamis, 15 Oktober 2009
Natalie Portman Collection
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman was born on June 9th, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel for Washington, DC, when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to this day. She graduated with honors, and her academic achievements allowed her to attend Harvard.
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