Watch Online: Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise arrive to "MAD MONEY" movie premiere. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise arrive to "MAD MONEY" movie premiere. When katie was interviewd Tom had time to sign and taking pics with fans.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Watch Online, Popcrunch Show: Miley Cyrus Bra Pics, Tom Cruise's
Watch Online, Popcrunch Show: Miley Cyrus Bra Pics, Tom Cruise's. Sarah East reports on Miley Cyrus' bra pictures, a Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise Breakup, Daniel Radclife's personal ad, along with George Lopez, Alexis Phifer, and Sarah Bareilles.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Watch NBA Playoffs Game 6 Online Video of Orlando Magic VS Cleveland Cavaliers
Watch NBA Playoffs Game 6 Online Video of Orlando Magic VS Cleveland Cavaliers. Watch NBA Playoffs Live Free Online Streaming of Cleveland Cavaliers VS Orlando Magic Game 6 at exactly 8:30 PM. ET in Orlando on May 30, 2009. Eastern Conference Final (Orlando leads 3-2) NBA Playoffs 2008/2009.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting second baby again?
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are expecting second baby again? Speaking of rumors, there’s a pretty big one going around right now that Nicole Kidman and her hubby Keith Urban are possibly expecting their second baby together.
Nicole made an appearance earlier today in Japan at the premiere for her movie with Hugh Jackman, Australia. In the photos she appeared to have a tiny bump and reportedly fueled pregnancy rumors by holding her hands over her stomach and hurrying off the red carpet.
Robert Gates: Sanctions against North Korea needed
Robert Gates: Sanctions against North Korea needed. The U.S. defense chief urged Asian allies Saturday to consider tougher sanctions against North Korea, noting that past efforts to cajole the reclusive regime into scrapping its nuclear weapons program have only emboldened it.
North Korea's years long use of scare tactics as a bargaining chip to secure aid and other concessions — only to later renege on promises — has worn thin the patience of five nations negotiating with Pyongyang, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"They create a crisis and the rest of us pay the price to return to the status quo ante," Gates told the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of defense and security officials. "As the expression goes in the U.S., I'm tired of buying the same horse twice." "There are other ways perhaps to get the North Koreans to change their approach," Gates said. "I think this notion that we buy our way back to the status quo ante is an approach that I personally at least think we ought to think very hard about."
The sharp statements were echoed by the South Korean defense minister and even China — North Korea's strongest ally. Taken together, they reflect fears throughout the region that last week's nuclear and missile tests by Pyongyang could spiral out of control and lead to fighting.
The North said it would no longer honor a 1953 armistice truce with South Korea after Seoul joined a 90-plus nation security alliance that seeks to curb nuclear trafficking on the seas.
Additionally, the U.N. Security Council is drafting financial and military sanctions against North Korea as punishment for the weapons testing. Similar sanctions approved after Pyongyang's 2006 atomic test have been only sporadically enforced, and largely ignored by China and Russia.
Gates warned North Korea against secretly selling its weapons technology to other rogue nations, saying the U.S. "will not stand idly by."
Later, at what officials called the first-ever meeting among defense chiefs from the U.S., Japan and South Korea, Gates asked his counterparts to begin considering other steps against Pyongyang should the regime continue to escalate is nuclear program. The three military leaders did not discuss specific potential actions but U.S. officials who attended the half-hour meeting said any steps would be taken in self-defense.
South Korean Defense Minister Lee Sang-hee said the talks "could not have come at a better time."
"North Korea perhaps to this point may have mistakenly believed that it could be perhaps rewarded for its wrong behaviors," Lee told reporters. "But that is no longer the case."
Gates does not plan to build up American troops in the region, and said Saturday he currently does not consider North Korea to pose a direct military threat to the United States.
Earlier in the day, Lt. Gen. Ma Xiaotian, the second-in-command of the General Staff of China's military, told the security forum that Beijing "has expressed a firm opposition and grave concern about the nuclear test."
The Obama administration also announced it would dispatch a delegation Sunday to Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing and possibly Moscow over the next week to discuss how to respond to North Korea.
Mark Fitzpatrick, an expert on nonproliferation issues with the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a former top U.S. State Department official, said North Korea is likely to respond heatedly to whatever actions the U.S. and allies take to stem the weapons threat.
"North Korea's responses to date have been so far above and beyond the normal tit-for-tat," Fitzpatrick said Saturday. "If they again escalate, I think we could see some low-level conflict, some shooting incidents at sea. But then one can't say, well, we can't respond at all because North Korea might use it as a provocation. North Korea will use any response as a provocation."
Friday, May 29, 2009
The Top 20 Album Sellers Of The 2000s
The Top 20 Album Sellers Of The 2000s
Here are the 20 acts that have sold the most albums since the first week of January 2000. The number immediately after the artist's name is the total number of albums that the artist has sold in this decade. I also identify when the artist first cracked The Billboard 200, and the title of their best-selling album since January 2000.
1. Eminem, 31,127,000. First charted: 1999. Eminem, 36, is the top male artist and the top rap artist so far in this decade. His 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP is his best-seller. It has sold 10,178,000 copies.
2. The Beatles, 27,591,000. First charted: 1964. The Beatles have sold more albums in the 2000s than any other group, rock act or foreign act. Their 2000 compilation 1 is their best-seller. It has sold 11,402,000 copies. The Beatles were the #5 album-selling act of the 1990s.
3. Tim McGraw, 24,295,000. First charted: 1994. McGraw, 42, is the #1 country artist so far in the 2000s, nosing out Toby Keith. McGraw was the #38 album-selling act of the ‘90s. His 2000 compilation Greatest Hits is his best-selling album of the decade. It has sold 5,995,000 copies.
4. Toby Keith, 24,189,000. First charted: 1993. Keith, 47, is the #2 country artist of this decade. His 2003 album Shock'n Y'All is his best-seller. It has sold 4,420,000 copies.
5. Britney Spears, 22,937,000. First charted: 1999. Spears, 27, is the youngest artist on this list, edging out Josh Groban by one year. She is also #1 female artist in this decade. Her 2000 album, Oops!...I Did It Again, is her best-seller of the decade. It has sold 9,183,000 copies. Spears was the #108 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
6. Kenny Chesney, 21,396,000. First charted: 1996. Chesney, 41, is the #3 country artist of this decade. His best-selling album is 2004's When The Sun Goes Down, which has sold 4,111,000 copies.
7. Nelly, 21,206,000. First charted: 2000. Nelly, 34, is the #1 new artist to emerge in this decade, edging out Linkin Park. He's also the #1 African American artist, edging out Jay-Z, and the #2 rap artist. Nelly's 2000 debut, Country Grammar, is his best-selling album. It has sold 8,454,000 copies.
8. Linkin Park, 21,125,000. First charted: 2000. Linkin Park is the #2 rock group of the decade, behind the Beatles. It's also the #2 new artist. The band's 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory, is its best-seller. It has sold 9,600,000 copies.
9. Creed, 20,398,000. First charted: 1997. Creed is the #3 rock group of the decade. 1999's Human Clay is the band's best-selling album. It has sold 9,480,000 copies since January 2000. Creed was the #167 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
10. Jay-Z, 19,379,000. First charted: 1996. Jay-Z, 39, is the #3 rap artist of the decade. 2003's The Black Album is his best-selling album of this decade. It has sold 3,338,000 copies. Jay-Z was the #152 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
11. Nickelback, 19,158,000. First charted: 2000. The Canadian group is the #2 foreign act of this decade (after the Beatles). Nickelback is also the #3 new artist and the #4 rock group. 2005's All The Right Reasons is its best-seller, with sales of 7,159,000 copies.
12. Josh Groban, 19,115,000. First charted: 2001. Groban, 28, is the #1 pop male artist of this decade. He's the #4 new artist. The pop/classical star's 2003 album Closer is his best-seller, with sales of 5,746,000 copies.
13. Rascal Flatts, 18,831,000. First charted: 2000. The trio is the #1 country group of this decade, nosing out Dixie Chicks. It's also the #5 new act. 2004's Feels Like Today is the act's best-selling album. It has sold 5,134,000 copies.
14. Metallica, 18,490,000. First charted: 1984. Metallica is the #1 hard rock act of the decade (unless you count the genre-bending Linkin Park). The band's 1991 blockbuster Metallica is the band's best-selling album of this decade. It has sold 3,691,000 copies since January 2000. Metallica was the #3 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
15. Alan Jackson, 18,479,000. First charted: 1990. Jackson, 50, is the oldest solo artist on this list, edging out Toby Keith. 2002's Drive is his best-selling album of this decade. It has sold 3,508,000 copies. Jackson was the #17 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
16. *NSYNC, 18,402,000. First charted: 1998. The boy band is the #1 pop group of this decade (assuming you classify the Beatles as rock). *NSYNC's 2000 album No Strings Attached is its best-seller, with sales of 11,111,000 copies. The quintet was the #80 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
17. Dixie Chicks, 18,293,000. First charted: 1998. The female trio is the #2 country group so far in this decade. 2002's Home is the act's best-selling album of this decade. It has sold 5,997,000 copies. Dixie Chicks was the #105 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
18. Johnny Cash, 17,860,000. First charted: 1958. The country legend, who died in 2003 at age 71, is the most surprising name on the list. He made it on the strength of an enormous catalog and a renewed focus on him after his death. His 1999 compliation 16 Greatest Hits is his best-seller of the decade. It has sold 2,846,000 copies since January 2000.
19. Kid Rock, 17,606,000. First charted: 1999. Kid Rock, 38, is the #1 male rock artist of this decade. Kid's 2001 album Cocky is his best-seller of the decade. It has sold 5,045,000 copies.
20. Celine Dion, 17,579,000. First charted: 1991. The Canadian diva, 41, is the #2 pop female artist of this decade, behind Britney Spears. Dion's 1999 greatest hits album, All The Way...A Decade Of Song, is her best-seller in the decade. It has sold 4,971,000 copies since January 2000. Dion was the #4 album-selling act of the ‘90s.
Susan Boyle, quitting the British TV talent show (Britain's Got Talent)
Susan Boyle, quitting the British TV talent show (Britain's Got Talent). Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle has considered quitting the British TV talent show that has rapidly brought her worldwide fame, show judge Piers Morgan said Thursday.
Morgan said the 48-year-old spinster, dubbed the Hairy Angel, was struggling to cope with the pressures of fame after she reportedly unleashed a foul-mouthed tirade at the hotel where the contestants are staying.
He said Boyle had even packed her bags Wednesday in preparation to quit ahead of the final of ITV's "Britain's Got Talent" show Saturday, before relenting.
"Yesterday she was actually going to leave the show, packed her bags to go because she couldn't see the point in going on if all she was going to get was all this sniping," he told ITV News. Writing on his blog earlier, Morgan -- a former tabloid newspaper editor -- described Boyle as a "frightened rabbit" and called for her critics to "back off."
He said that reading personal comments about the spinster who claims she has never been kissed had made him feel "very, very angry."
He wrote: "Susan is finding it very, very difficult to cope, and to stay calm.
"She has been in tears many times during the last few days... she's had to read stories and columns, and listen to radio and TV phone-ins, calling her arrogant, insincere, spoiled, fake, mad and so on.
"Now, I have been called all that and worse in my career, but I spent 20 years in Fleet Street and know how to deal with it.
"Susan Boyle has never experienced anything like this and is like a frightened rabbit in headlights."
Morgan said Boyle had shown the weight of expectation on her shoulders during a wobbly performance last weekend.
Describing her as "an incredibly sweet, nice, gentle person" who had turned into "the biggest star on the planet," he said: "Anybody who has gone through that... transformation is going to be feeling the most unbelievable pressure.
"You could see the nerves almost crippling her on the semi-final show and I just think it's time that everyone slightly backed off," he told LBC radio.
Boyle went from obscurity to international stardom with a soaring version of "I Dreamed A Dream" from musical "Les Miserables" in the show's auditions.
That clip has attracted some 100 million hits on YouTube, brought her celebrity fans including actress Demi Moore and rock star Jon Bon Jovi, and seen her feted in the media from the US to China, Japan and Australia.
But some fans on YouTube have questioned whether she has what it takes after she produced a shaky rendition of "Memory" in the show's semi-finals last weekend, singing occasionally out of tune and out of time.
Media reports say she spat out a string of abuse and made an obscene gesture at the television after Morgan, with whom she has flirted on screen, praised a rival during another a different semi-final show Tuesday.
Police were called to her London hotel the next day after she repeatedly swore at two strangers who were taunting her, the Sun newspaper said.
But despite the reports, Boyle, whose world has turned upside down in just over a month, insists she can keep her feet on the ground.
Asked by US talk show host Larry King if fame would alter her, she demanded: "Why should I change?" adding her celebrity meant "I certainly won't be lonely any more."
Despite her newfound fame, unemployed Boyle still lives in social housing outside Edinburgh with only her cat, Pebbles, for company.
Boyle was reportedly starved of oxygen at birth and bullied at school. When she first stepped up to the microphone on the show it looked like the jibes would continue as the audience and judges laughed at her frizzy, greying hair and thick eyebrows.
But she silenced them all when she started singing -- and has not looked back since.
Boyle is bookmakers' favourite to come out top in the final. The winner gets to perform for Queen Elizabeth II, plus a cheque for 100,000 pounds (115,000 euros, 160,000 dollars).
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Filmmakers of "Slumdog Millionaire", Danny Boyle meet poor kid stars in Mumbai
Filmmakers of "Slumdog Millionaire", Danny Boyle meet poor kid stars in Mumbai. The makers of "Slumdog Millionaire" met the film's two impoverished child stars on Wednesday and reassured them they will soon have new homes. But the father of one of the children stormed out, saying the filmmakers have not done enough to help.
Rubina Ali, 9, and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, 10, both lost their homes this month after city authorities bulldozed parts of their slum in Mumbai. Rubina has been staying with relatives and Azhar has been living in a makeshift shanty of tarps and blankets with his parents.
"We've been trying for a long time to move them into legal accommodation," director Danny Boyle told reporters at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences on the outskirts of Mumbai, where he and producer Christian Colson met the children and their families.
Relations between the filmmakers and the children's families have grown tense since the phenomenal success of the film, which grossed more than $326 million.
The filmmakers set up a trust aimed at ensuring the children get proper homes, a decent education, a monthly stipend and a nest egg when they finish high school. They have pledged to spend up to $100,000 to buy the two families new apartments and have donated $747,500 to a charity to help slum children across Mumbai.
Colson has described the trust as substantial, but will not tell anyone how much it contains not even the children's parents for fear of making the youngsters vulnerable to exploitation.
Nirja Mattoo, who helps oversee the children's trust, said a new home has been found for Azhar's family near to his school and neighborhood. "We are finalizing the deal. Next week it should be done," she said.
The hunt for Rubina's house continues, she added.
But Rafiq Qureshi, Rubina's father, said Boyle has not done enough.
"It's no big deal for them, this kind of money. It's been five or six months we've been living in such difficulty. They should help us," he said in an interview after he cut the meeting short in anger.
"After the Oscars they forgot about us," he added. "For two months we didn't get any money."
Mattoo declined to comment on Qureshi's behavior.
"We're trying our best to get it (a house) as soon as possible," she said by phone.
Boyle said he planned to make two more films set in Mumbai.
Mike Tyson's 4 year old daughter, died in tragic accident
Mike Tyson's 4 year old daughter, died in tragic accident.The death of Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter in a bizarre accident adds an awful chapter to the boxer's troubled life.
Exodus Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday, a day after her neck apparently got caught in a cord dangling from a treadmill at her Phoenix home, police said.
Police said Exodus either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under the console and suffocated. She was pronounced dead just before noon after being on life support, said police Sgt. Andy Hill, who called the injury a "tragic accident."
"There are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus," the family said in a statement. "We ask you now to please respect our need at this very difficult time for privacy to grieve and try to help each other heal." Tyson, who has been living in Las Vegas, flew Monday to Phoenix, where he was seen entering the hospital.
The modest house where his daughter was injured contrasts starkly with the lavish lifestyle Tyson had through his tumultuous years of boxing, when he spent tens of millions of dollars and says he had millions more stolen from him by unscrupulous associates.
During two years at the height of his career, he earned $140 million — but he filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in 2003.
He has been promoting a new documentary about his life and told The New York Times earlier this month he had been sober for 15 months after years of drug and alcohol abuse.
"I don't know who I am," he told the newspaper. "That might sound stupid. I really have no idea. All my life I've been drinking and drugging and partying, and all of a sudden this comes to a stop."
Tyson first began boxing in a facility for juvenile delinquents in upstate New York at the age of 12. Eight years later, he became the youngest heavyweight champion ever when he knocked out Trevor Berbick in 1986. But in 1990, he was defeated by James "Buster" Douglas in one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, and soon after was convicted of raping a beauty pageant contestant in Indianapolis.
Tyson, who still denies he raped the woman, served three years in prison.
A few years later, he served three months in jail for beating up two men after a minor car crash in suburban Washington.
As his career continued, so did his bizarre behavior. He bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during a boxing match and once threatened to eat the children of heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.
Although Tyson's children had lived in their unassuming neighborhood for several years, he purchased a separate home in the tony Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley in 2005 for $2.1 million, selling it two years later for $2.3 million.
In November 2007, Tyson spent 24 hours in Maricopa County's "Tent City" jail after pleading guilty to one count of cocaine possession and one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence. Police found the drug when they pulled over Tyson's car after he left a Scottsdale night club.
According to police, Tyson said after his arrest that he bought cocaine "whenever I can get my hands on it."
At Tyson's sentencing hearing, nearly a year after the arrest, his attorney David Chesnoff said his client had taken 29 drug tests without a relapse and was attending Alcoholic Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
Tyson had become an example of how a person overcomes problems with drugs, a violent past and poor upbringing, Chesnoff said.
"He's tried his hardest," his attorney said, "despite coming from almost impossible beginnings."
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Watch the NBA Game 4 Finals: Nuggets VS. Lakers (with video)
Game 5 will be played in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Watch this:Obama's Speech Writer, Jon Favreau
Obama's Speech Writer, Jon Favreau. Jon Favreau has the worst and the best job in political speech writing. His boss is a best-selling author who doesn't really need his help, having written the 2004 speech that catapulted him onto the national stage. At the same time, the same boss also happens to be capable of delivering a speech in ways that can give his audience the goosebumps.
But Barack Obama is more than a little busy campaigning across Iowa and New Hampshire right now. So it was Favreau who led the team that wrote Obama's victory speech in Des Moines last week—a moment that prompted the TV pundits to drop months of skepticism about Obama's candidacy to make breathless comparisons with the Kennedy era.
For Favreau, a 26-year-old jean-clad staffer (who is no relation to the comedian of "Swingers" fame) who worked in Obama's senate office, the contrast with the 2004 election could not be starker.Back then Jon Favreau had one of the worst jobs on the Kerry campaign. He was the kid who put together "the audio clips"—the bundle of overnight stories that helped the campaign's senior staff get up to speed on the latest radio news. A graduate of Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., he had interned in Kerry's senate office and joined the campaign right out of college.
When Kerry's campaign showed signs of imploding—before recovering again in Iowa—Favreau was one of the few people left in the office when they needed a new speechwriter. "They couldn't afford to hire one," he recalled. "And they couldn't find anyone who wanted to come in when we were about to lose to Dean. So I became deputy speechwriter, even though I had no previous experience."
When Kerry lost in 2004, Favreau thought he was finished with politics. "After the Kerry campaign, after all the backbiting and nastiness, my idealism and enthusiasm for politics was crushed," he said. "I was grateful for the experience I got, but it was such a difficult
experience, along with losing, that I was done. It took Barack to rekindle that."
Top 10 Imposters in Time Magazine with Photos
Top 10 Imposters in Time Magazine with Photos. Here's are the 10 list of Imposters in Time Magazine with Photos.
10. James Hogue
A Princeton sophomore in 1991, Alexi Indris-Santana had all the makings of a big man on campus. His tales of growing up as a self-taught ranch hand in Utah and sleeping under the stars with his horse, Good Enough, won over admissions officials. He was taking six or seven courses a semester and earning straight A's. A talented runner, he had earned glowing local coverage before even arriving on campus, and the Daily Princetonian had asked three times for an interview so they could profile him as an up-and-coming track star. But running would also be Indris-Santana's undoing: at the Harvard-Yale-Princeton meet in 1991, a Yale senior recognized him from Palo Alto — where he had been caught masquerading as a high school student at age 26. The promising academic and athletic star, as it turned out, was actually James Hogue, 31, an ex-con from Kansas City, Kansas. He was arrested and charged with forgery, wrongful impersonation and falsifying records. He spent nine months behind bars and had to pay back nearly $22,000 in financial aid. But the Princeton hoax was not Hogue's last: in 1992, he turned up as a guard in one of Harvard's museums, and was arrested after just a few months on the job, charged with grand larceny for stealing gemstones worth $50,000. Violating his probation, Hogue returned to Princeton, posing as a graduate student though he was never enrolled in classes. He made headlines as recently as 2007, when he pleaded guilty to felony theft, having stolen about 7,000 items worth some $100,000 from Colorado homes over several years. He is currently serving a 10-year sentence in prison.
9. Anna Anderson
In July 1918, Bolshevik revolutionaries marched the Russian royal family — Czar Nicholas II, his empress and their five children — and their staff down to the cellar of the house in Yekaterinburg where they were living in exile and shot them dead. Two years later, a woman appeared claiming to be the csar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, and heiress to the Romanov line. Two brothers named Tchiakovsky, she insisted, had carried her out of the bloodied basement and into Romania and safety. Romanov relatives rebuffed the woman, Anna Anderson, as an impostor; a German journalist speculated that she was really Franziska Schanzkowsky, a Polish girl who had disappeared from a Berlin boarding house shortly before "Anastasia" had first turned up in a nearby canal. But Anderson found some supporters, including Maria Rasputin, daughter of the "mad monk" Grigori Rasputin, a close adviser of Nicholas II and his wife. Anderson's tale—which has inspired many books and, most famously, the 1956 film Anastasia starring Ingrid Bergman—was finally debunked in the 1990s, when posthumous DNA evidence proved she was not related to the royal family.8. Cassie Chadwick
She was already involved in crime in her teens in late-19th-Century Canada, but Cassie Chadwick — nee Elizabeth Bigley — really kicked things up a notch after moving to Cleveland, where she bilked two unsuspecting husbands and ran a sham fortune-telling business. After serving jail time for forgery, Chadwick hatched her most famous con — convincing an associate of her wealthy physician husband that she was the illegitimate daughter of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, one of the world's richest men. Carnegie, Chadwick alleged, was paying her millions of dollars to keep silent about her ties to the eminent tycoon. Chadwick was able to borrow vast sums from banks and wealthy individuals on the basis of this claim, but the scheme collapsed when, in 1904, a businessman from whom she had borrowed some $200,000 called in the loan. Her promissory notes were revealed as forgeries, and Chadwick was hustled off to prison, where she died in 1907.7. Princess Caraboo
In 1817, a mysterious, attractive woman surfaced in a small village near Bristol, England. She wore a dark turban and spoke a language that was unintelligible to baffled locals. Though she was at first assumed to be a foreign peasant, the woman — with help of a Portuguese sailor who claimed to understand her dialect — managed to convince her hosts that she was, in fact, a princess from an island called Javasu. Princess Caraboo, as she became known, spun an engrossing saga about having been abducted by pirates, whom she escaped by jumping overboard and swimming to shore through the stormy English Channel. It was a fantastical tale, and Princess Caraboo quickly vaulted to fame. But it was, of course, too good to be true. After reading her story in a local newspaper, a woman outed Caraboo, noting that the phony Princess — whom the woman had employed as a servant — had entertained children by speaking in invented tongues. Princess Caraboo, it turned out, came from no more exotic a locale than Devonshire, England, where she was born Mary Baker, the daughter of a cobbler. Thanks to its sheer audacity, the stunt has earned a place in the scammer's canon; in 1994, it was turned into a feature film starring Phoebe Cates.
6. Frank Abagnale
Of all the impostors on this list, Frank Abagnale may be the most well known — his years spent as a check forger, con man and faux airline pilot (don't worry, he never actually flew) were the subject of the 2002 film, Catch Me If You Can, based on Abagnale's autobiography by the same name. Born in 1948, Abagnale proved to be a wunderkind of a con man, posing as a pilot for Pan Am Airlines in order to bum free flights at just 16 years old. When authorities wised up to his frequent flying, Abagnale posed as a Georgia doctor for a year before masquerading as an attorney in New Orleans, although this last role wasn't entirely fake — Abagnale did manage to pass the bar exam.
He was finally captured in France in 1969, and served six months in a French prison and six more in Sweden before being deported to the United States, where he was sentenced an additional 12 years in the federal pen. Despite two attempts to escape, Abagnale was paroled after five years, on the condition he'd help federal authorities uncover check forgers. After failing to find legitimate work, he parlayed his unique skill into a consulting career, advising banks and and businesses on how to avoid fraud. His firm, Abagnale & Associates, has made the 61-year-old a millionaire by legitimate means.
5. Frederic Bourdin
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Youth is fleeting for everyone but Frederic Bourdin. Nicknamed "The Chameleon" by the French press, this 35-year-old claims to have taken on as many as 40 false identities over his career. A fatherless child with a distracted mother, Bourdin was an outcast as a youth and begin to impersonate orphans as a way of getting attention. His story was always the same — he only wanted a family and a place to be schooled. In the beginning, his identities were always fictional; Bourdin would spend time creating a name and a back story for each character he assumed. But faced with imprisonment after another one of his stories unraveled in 1997, Bourdin assumed the identity of a missing American boy named Nicholas Barclay.
Despite the fact that he had a heavy French accent and didn't match the boy's appearance — Bourdin's eyes are brown and Barclay's were blue — Barclay's family bought the deception, bringing Bourdin back to the United States, enrolling him in classes and never questioning that he was their long-lost teenager. They discovered the ruse only after an investigator working for the TV show Hard Copy interviewed the boy in preparation for a story on his miraculous reappearance and noticed all the discrepancies.
Bourdin served six years in prison for the deception, only to return to Europe and continue to impersonate orphans. As recently as 2005, the balding 31-year-old was still trying to pass as a teenager. However, after another brief prison sentence, this chameleon now seems content in his own skin. He's married with a daughter and has become a minor Internet celebrity; his video blogs can be found on YouTube.
4. Ferdinand Demara
Ferdinand Demara, or "the Great Imposter" as he came to be known, has a very impressive resume — the only thing it lacks is his real name. Under a series of stolen identities Demara worked as a civil engineer, a zoology graduate, a doctor of applied psychology, a monk on two separate occasions (Trappist and Benedictine), an assistant warden at a Texas prison, philosophy dean at a Pennsylvania college, a hospital orderly, a lawyer and a teacher — among other professions. In 1957, TIME Magazine described him as an "audacious, unschooled but amazingly intelligent pretender who always wanted to be a Somebody, and succeeded in being a whole raft of Somebody Elses." Perhaps his most impressive impersonation came during the Korean War while impersonating a doctor on a Royal Canadian Navy Destroyer. When several Korean combat casualties were brought on board, the responsibility of saving their lives fell to Demara, the ship's sole "surgeon." Demara, who allegedly possessed a photographic memory and unusually high IQ, ducked into his quarters with a medical textbook and emerged to save the lives of every single man, including one who required major chest surgery. News of his heroics eventually unmasked him, and the resulting media attention ultimately prevented him from continuing his fraudulent lifestyle. Impersonation is considerably more difficult when the entire country knows your face.
3. Darius McCollum
Darius McCollum isn't the most efficient imposter on this list, but he's definitely the most persistent. McCollum has been arrested 26 times for impersonating various transit employees, including famously driving a New York City subway train while only 15 years old. Suffering from Asperger syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, McCollum has been obsessed with trains since he was a child, having memorized the city's subway system by age five. Born and raised in New York and confined there by parole restrictions for the majority of his adult life, McCollum is unable to escape the object of his obsession. He has become a minor cult figure, inspiring plays, documentaries and songs. Despite perhaps knowing more about trains than any employee, the New York City Transit Authority has refused to hire him because of his past convictions, and with no treatment for the disorder that drives him back to the tracks, McCollum's 26th arrest might not be his last.
2. David Hampton
Before Will Smith, there was David Hampton. In 1983, in a long-running con that would later inspire Smith's role in the 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation, Hampton inveigled his way into the lives of New York City's upper crust by pretending to be the neglected son of actor Sidney Poitier. Hampton would hang around the Columbia University campus, getting unsuspecting people to house him, give him money or otherwise help him. Hampton even once reportedly showed up at the home of actress Melanie Griffith, where he stayed up talking until 4 a.m. with actor Gary Sinise. Hampton would often go to restaurants and pretend that Poitier was meeting him just to get free meals and lavish attention, only to later act as if he had been stood up. But Hampton's undoing came when he was caught by Osborn Elliott, former Newsweek editor and dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, in Elliott's home in bed with another man. Elliott alerted authorities and the jig was up. No charges were pressed, but Hampton was forced to pay $4500 back to people whom he had swindled and stayed with.1. Clark Rockefeller
Even though 48-year-old German national Christian Gerhartsreiter has lived in the U.S. since the 1970s — without having filed a single tax return and going by a number of aliases — his lawyers are still trying to get the false identity charge against him dropped. It's an uphill battle: the man otherwise known as Clark Rockefeller has been passing himself off as a member of the industrialist dynasty for years. And really, that's the least of his worries. After abducting his then 7-year-old daughter Reigh Boss from a Boston street in the summer of 2008, Rockefeller now faces charges of assault and kidnapping as well. Rockefeller's lawyers are claiming mental distress caused him to snatch his daughter that day, injuring a social worker in the process; a rough divorce in 2007 had left him limited to just three supervised visits with his child a year. But investigators say that Rockefeller, who was caught in Baltimore after a week on the run, is a person of interest in the 1980s disappearance of a California couple. His trial is set to begin May 26.
Time Magazine's: 100 Most Influential People List for 2009
Time Magazine's: 100 Most Influential People List for 2009. The 100 personalities who made it to TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People list for 2009. Our very own Pambansang Kamao Manny Pacquiao made it to the Heroes and Icons category.
The list is divide into 5 categories
ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS
Rush Limbaugh
M.I.A.
Kate Winslet
Penélope Cruz
John Legend
The View Hosts
Zac Efron
Tina Fey
Tom Hanks
(for complete list, click here)
BUILDERS & TITANS
The Twitter Guys
Brad Pitt
Suze Orman
Stella McCartney
(for complete list, click here)
LEADERS & REVOLUTIONARIES
Nicolas Sarkozy
Joaquín Guzmán
Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
(for complete list, click here)
HEROES & ICONS
Manny Pacquiao
Michelle Obama
Tiger Woods
Chesley B. Sullenberger
George Clooney
Richard Philips
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Palin
Seth Berkley
Michael Evis
Leonard Abess
Hadizatou Mani
Rick Warren
Van Jones
Somaly Mam
Rafael Nadal
Suraya Pakzad
Jeff Bezos
Brady Gustafson
Sister Mary Scullion
SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS
Nouriel Roubini
Amory Lovins
Jon Favreau
Dambisa Moyo
Dan Barber
Yoichiro Nambu
Roland Fryer
Martin Lindstrom
Barbara Hogan
David Sheff
(for complete list, click here)
Monday, May 25, 2009
Watch Game 2 Live Stream: LA Lakers vs Denver Nuggets
Watch Game 2 Live Stream: LA Lakers vs Denver Nuggets. The game 1 looks great as Lakers 105, Nuggets 103, wherein Kobe Bryant outdueled Carmelo Anthony in a battle of scoring stars.
Los Angeles Lakers won the game 1 of Western Conference finals Tuesday night against Denver Nuggets. Kobe Bryant scored 40 amazing points. The Nuggets can blame their 105-103 loss on 12 missed free throws or Carter’s botched inbound pass or their inability to get the ball to Carmelo Anthony in those precious final two minutes. The Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers will face off again on their 2nd game in this final series of the 2009 NBA Playoffs. Let's watch and see who's gonna win tomorrow.
Watch Free Live Stream L.A Lakers Vs. Denver Nuggets Game 2 of NBA Western Conference Finals at exactly 9:00 P.M. ET on ESPN, this will take place at Staples Center.
Britain's Got Talent: Julia Naidenko & Sue Son in semi-finals show performance
Julia Naidenko in dances "Lady Marmalade". Born in Latvia, and she dreams of dancing before the Queen. Simon reminds us of the reality- will bellydancing guarantee votes. She is dancing to Moulin Rouge’s OST- Lady Marmalade. Amanda buzzes. Yes, the act is a bit boring right now. Well, the audience loves it, and both the men judges give a standing ovation.
Sue Son's violin performance in Britain's Got Talent semi-finals show. Sue Son, violinist, failed to make it in the finals of Britain's Got Talent during the semi-finals round last May 24, 2009. Very grand sound, and the piece is beautiful. She even says that she could have done better, but she is happy with the audience vibe.
Watch the video of Julia Naidenko dances "Lady Marmalade" on Britain's Got Talent:
Watch the video of Sue Son's violin performance in Britain's Got Talent:
UFC 98 VIDEO: Evans VS Machida
UFC 98 VIDEO: Evans VS Machida. Watch UFC 98: Lyoto Evans VS Rashad Machida. In Las Vegas, Lyoto Machida waltzed through a brief workout inside a locker room Wednesday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, three days before he is to challenge Rashad Evans for the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight title.
Machida circled his sparring partner, warily moving in and out, flicking a few jabs and throwing kicks in which it was never quite clear until the very last moment whether he’d fire the right or the left.
Watch this video of Evans VS Machida:
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Maricar Reyes and Hayden Kho Video Scandal
Maricar Reyes and Hayden Kho Video Scandal. Maricar Reyes, who plays Candy, Armando’s first love in the series "I love Betty La Fea". This young girl who models a lot (including Modess and Ponds) has been found to be another victim of the much talked about 40 other girls (excluding her and Katrina) who have been video taped by Kho in intimate sexual encounters.
The said video has been seen by thousands. Many have been shocked by Maricar’s hot, aggressive and women on top sexual attitude that she has shown in the video. It really looks like these leaked tape of Maricar and Hayden has already become a very hot download favorite all over the Internet more than the Katrina-Hayden video. Although many sites have already been blocked, there are still many persistent addresses out there.
Watch this video of Maricar Reyes as "Candy" in I Love Betty La Fea:
Watch this video of Maricar Reyes (Modess Commercial TV Ad):
For more information, read Hayden Kho, Katrina Halili, Maricar Reyes Scandal Video HERE!!!
Friday, May 22, 2009
JESSICA BIEL: Her Allure Photo Shoot in Allure Magazine
JESSICA BIEL: Her Allure Photo Shoot in Allure Magazine. For her cover shoot with Michael Thompson in Long Beach, California, actress Jessica Biel wasn't even slightly fazed by posing on a four-story platform in an electrical plant. What actually fazes her? Being typecast by directors and followed by paparazzi. See the exclusive outtakes from the shoot here, and for more photos and the profile "Body of Work," pick up the June issue of Allure, on newsstands May 26.
In an effort to keep Hollywood focused on her acting ability, Biel made sure that some of her early film contracts had a no-nudity clause—which meant that she got to choose a body double for love scenes. "I tried to get breasts that I thought were similar to mine," she says. "But a little smaller and perkier in the butt? OK, I did want that."
Since meeting Timberlake two years ago, Biel's private life has become very public. "It's wonderful to do what I do, but everything that goes with it? It's bizarre," says the actress. "The invasion of privacy is very tough. I am followed all day, every day. Going to the dentist, the cleaners. I guess I could look like shit going to the dentist, but only if I didn't care what I saw in the papers." Here (with photographer Michael Thompson), the actress wears an embroidered silk shantung dress by Louis Vuitton.
"I wanted to create a rich, sun-kissed face for Jessica," said makeup artist Stéphane Marais. To that end, he rubbed bronzer on her temples, nose, and chin and peach blush on her cheeks; rimmed her eyes with brown liner; and added shimmery taupe and gold shadows. The final touch: sheer coral lipstick.
When Biel studied the racks of clothes at the shoot, she zeroed in on a jacket by Louis Vuitton. "I'm wearing a new Eres bra that would look great under this," she told Allure creative director Paul Cavaco (right), who had brought lingerie from the same line. (Yes, Biel is wearing her own bra in this photo.)
Biel showed up dressed head-to-toe in William Rast—boyfriend Justin Timberlake's clothing line—including a pair of fringed angle boots. "These are the exact ones they had at the show in New York," she said. "They sent me a pair the models wore, because they hadn't been produced yet, but I loved them so much." Here, the actress wears a jumpsuit by Derek Lam with earrings, belt, and a bracelet by Louis Vuitton; brass and Lucite bangles by Alexis Bittar; and a glass bangle by Hilary London.Sources: allure
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Watch Kris Allen Wins in American Idol Season 8 (with video)
Watch Kris Allen Wins in American Idol Season 8 (with video). The underdog contestant Kris Allen was named the winner of "American Idol" on Wednesday night, receiving more votes than Adam Lambert, who was perceived to be the likely champion. Even Mr. Allen was slightly stunned by the news: after the host Ryan Seacrest had told him he had won, he said, “Adam deserves this.”
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