Wwe Superstar Mark Calaway The Undertaker

Date of Birth

24 March 1962, Houston, Texas, USA

Birth Name

Mark William Calaway

Nickname

The Lord of Darkness
The Man From the Dark Side
The Phenom
The American Bad Ass
Big Evil
The Deadman
The O.D. - Original Deadman
The Punisher/Punisher Dice Morgan
Mean Mark Callous
Texas Red
'Taker
The Undertaker
The Last Outlaw
The Demon of Death Valley

Height

6' 10½" (2.10 m)

Mini Biography

Mark William Calaway is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Undertaker. He is signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), currently wrestling on the SmackDown brand.
Calaway began his wrestling career with World Class Championship Wrestling in 1984. He joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1989. When WCW did not renew Calaway's contract in 1990, he joined the World Wrestling Federation (which later became World Wrestling Entertainment in 2002) as The Undertaker in November of that year. Having remained with that company ever since, Calaway is currently one of the senior performers in WWE. He is one of only two wrestlers (the other being Shawn Michaels) to have appeared on the very first episode of Raw who are still with the company today.

Calaway's Undertaker character has two contrasting gimmicks which are the Deadman and the American Bad Ass. The Undertaker is undefeated at WrestleMania with a 18-0 record and is a six time world champion (four time WWE Champion and two time World Heavyweight Champion). He was also the winner of the 2007 Royal Rumble in which he became the first man to win the Rumble starting at number 30.

Spouse

Michelle McCool	(26 June 2010 - present)
Sara Calaway	(21 July 2000 - 25 April 2007) (divorced) 2 children
Jodi Lynn	(24 November 1989 - 15 June 1999) (divorced) 1 child

 

Trade Mark

Rolls his eyes into the back of his head.
His arms, covered entirely with tattoos of "The Undertaker".
"The Tombstone Piledriver" is also another finishing move but not used as often as in the past due to the damage it does to his knees.
Walking on the top rope.
Ring entrance: Sombre walk to ring in purple light and smoke. Accompanied by funeral music
Treadmark move: The Guillotine (puts steel chair on opponent's throat and slams the chair to the ground, causing his opponent to land their throat on top of the chair)
New Finishing move: Taking Care of Business ( a standing Dragon Sleeper)
Trademark move: Old School (Walking on the top rope while holding his opponent's arm and then jumps off and clubs his opponent's back)
Trademark move: Sidewalk Slam
Trademark move: Running Leg Drop
Trademark move: Choke (early 1990s)
Trademark move: Fujiwara Armbar
Trademark move: Triangle Choke
Trademark move: Reverse STO
Trademark move: Diving Body Press to the outside
Trademark move: Charging DDT
Trademark move: Running Big Boot
Trademark move: Flying Clothesline
Trademark move: Guillotine Leg Drop
Trademark move: Takin' Care of Business (Dragon Sleeper)
Trademark move: Snake Eyes
Trademark move: Dead Man Walking/Old-School (Arm Twist Ropewalk Chop)
Finishing move: Heart Punch (WCW)
Finishing move: Super Chokeslam
Finishing move: Iron Claw (pre-1995)
Finishing move: Chokeslam
Finishing move: Last Ride (Elevated Powerbomb)
Finishing move: Tombstone Piledriver

Trivia

The Undertaker first did "The Last Ride" to Edge on June 30, 2000 on "WWE Smackdown!" (1999).
One of the 100 Greatest Wrestlers of the 20th Century (as determined by Inside Wresting).
Professional wrestler.
Former WWF/WWE (Undisputed) World Heavyweight Champion (4x), former WWF World Tag Team Champion (6x), former WWF Hardcore Champion (1x).
Former leader of the Ministry of Darkness.
He first won the WWF Championship at Survivor Series (1991) (V), defeating Hulk Hogan.
Before joining the WWF, the Undertaker wrestled in WCW under the name Mean Mark Callous.
Crushed his eye socket in 1995 when Mabel gave him a botched leg drop. He later had to wear a mask for several months until his eye socket had recovered.
In May 2002, he defeated Hulk Hogan at WWE Judgment Day (2002) (TV) and became the new WWE Undisputed Champion.

Won his fourth WWE Championship from Hollywood Hulk Hogan.
Took 7 - 9 months out of wrestling because of a pectoral muscle injury.
In an ironic twist, he wrestled for a while under the name Kane the Undertaker ("Kane" became the Undertaker's "brother").
Both he and his wife Sara Calaway are boxing fans.
In real life he is 6' 8" tall. In WWE he is billed up to 6' 10 1/2".
Mentioned in a 2001 interview that he considers his 1999 gimmick as the Satanic "Lord of Darkness" as the worst part of his entire career.
From December 1991 to September 1993, Undertaker did not lose a single match. It was the longest undefeated streak of the 1990s.
Undertaker is undefeated in 17 WrestleMania appearances. His fallen foes are: 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka (WM VII), Jake Roberts (WM VIII), Giant Gonzalez (Jorge Gonzáles) (WM IX), King Kong Bundy (WM XI), Diesel (Kevin Nash)(WM XII), Sycho Sid (Sid Eudy) (WM 13), Kane (Glenn Jacobs) (WM XIV and XX), The Big Boss Man (Raymond Traylor) (WM XV), Triple-H (Paul Levesque) (WM X7), "Nature Boy" Ric Flair (WM X8), the team of Big Show (Paul Wight) & A-Train (Matt Bloom) (WM XIX), Randy Orton (WM21), Mark Henry (WM22), Batista (Dave Bautista) (WM23), Edge (Adam Copeland) (WM24) and Shawn Michaels (WM25).
Before joining WWE in 1990, Undertaker competed under the following names: Texas Red, The Commando, Master of Pain, The Punisher, Mean Mark Callous and Punisher Dice Morgan.
While many Undertaker fans wanted him to return at the Royal Rumble (2003) (TV) as the "Lord of Darkness" Undertaker, he preferred his then biker gimmick.
Despite having partner Nathan Jones knocked out before the match, he increased his WrestleMania record to 11-0 by defeating Big Show & A-Train in a Handicap Match at WrestleMania XIX (2003) (TV).
Before defeating Hollywood Hulk Hogan at WWE Judgment Day (2002) (TV), Undertaker called himself "judge, jury and executioner of Hulkamania".

Has a son from first wife Jody Lynn; Gunner Vincent Calaway (born 1993) and two daughters (Chasey, born in 2002, and Gracie, born in 2005).
Prior to becoming a wrestler, he had plans to play professional basketball in Europe when he suffered a career ending knee injury.
Mother: Catherine Calaway. Father: Frank Calaway (died July 22 2003). Older brothers: David, Michael, Paul, and Timothy.
Attended Angelina College in Lufkin, Texas on a basketball scholarship.
His brother Paul is a police officer.
Although they resemble each other slightly, there is no family relation between The Undertaker and Kane.
Last match in WCW was against Lex Luger.
Teamed with "Dangerous" Dan Spivey in NWA, replacing the injured Sid Vicious in the Skyscrapers tag team. Ironically, at WrestleMania 13 (1997) (TV), The Undertaker defeated Sid Vicious for the WWF Championship.
Was managed by Paul Heyman in WCW.
His best friend is Brian Harris, or Chainz to WWF fans. Brian was also the best man at Mark's first wedding to Jodi Lynn.
Notable title wins include: USWA Unified Heavyweight title; USWA Texas Heavyweight title; WWF Title (3); WWF Tag Team Titles with Steve Austin; WWF Tag Team Titles with Big Show (2); WWF Tag Team Titles with The Rock; WWF Tag Team Titles with Kane (2); WCW Tag Team Titles with Kane; WWF Hardcore Title; WWE Undisputed Title.
As a wedding gift, Calaway had his wife's name Sara, tattooed on his throat and has said that it was most painful tattoo he has ever had.
Said that the biggest thrill of his wrestling career was riding his own motorbike to the ring during WrestleMania X-Seven (2001) (TV) in his hometown of Houston, Texas.
Memorable moment was also entering London's Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000 fans on the back of a hearse at Summerslam (1992) (V).
His best friend Brian Harris once wrestled as the fake Undertaker while Mark was on sabbatical. When Mark returned to the WWF, it set up an Undertaker vs Undertaker storyline.
He was frequently in casket matches. Two of the most famous came against Yokozuna. The first was at Royal Rumble (1994) (TV), with the WWF Title on the line. Undertaker had the match won, when he was set upon by at least 7 wrestlers. Undertaker won the rematch at Survivor Series (1994) (TV), where karate expert Chuck Norris was at ringside to make sure there was no interference.
Has won two of his WWF World Titles from Hulk Hogan.
Vince McMahon originally created the gimmick of The Undertaker to look like an undertaker from the Old West. The final look in his debut was one of several looks that were designed in the early stages.
In 1983, Mark graduated from S.P. Waltrip High School in Houston, Texas. He was a member of the school's basketball team. Shelley Duvall and Patrick Swayze also graduated from this high school.
Defeated King Kong Bundy at WrestleMania XI (1995) (TV).
In early 1991, Paul Bearer replaced Brother Love as The Undertaker's manager.
Former WCW Tag Team Champion.
The Undertaker was the first selection by Ric Flair in the WWE brand extension draft for RAW.
Former World Tag Team Champion.
At WrestleMania 22 (2006) (TV), he defeated Mark Henry in a Casket Match.
Former WWF Hardcore Champion.
Previous Managers: General Skandor Akbar, Paul Bearer, Downtown Bruno, Paul E Dangerously, Ted DiBiase, Mr. Fuji, Sylvia Fuller, Ronald Gossett, Teddy Long, Brother Love, "Dirty" Dutch Mantel, Sara Calaway.
 
Is a close friend of MMA legend Pat Miletich and his students Jeremy Horn and Matt Hughes.
Is a huge MMA fan and frequently attends UFC and Pride FC events.
Use a lot of techniques brought from MMA training (triangle chokes, arm-bars, key-locks).
Undertaker holds the record of most WrestleMania appearances, having appeared at 18 as of 2010. He broke the record of 12 held by Bret Hart. However, Bret still holds the record for most consecutive WrestleMania appearances.
Outside of the wrestling business, he is a real estate investor.
At 6 foot 9 inches tall and over 325 pounds, he became the first near 7 foot tall man to do high flying moves.
On April 1st, 2007, he won his first World Heavyweight Championship by defeating Dave Bautista at WrestleMania 23 (2007) (TV).
Good friends with actor Tony Longo.
Leased one of his real estate properties -- a ranch in Cedar Creek, Texas -- to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, while they were in the area for the filming of Brad's movie The Tree of Life (2011).
Received first and second degree burns due to a pyrotechnic miscue during his ring entrance at WWE's Elimination Chamber PPV in February 2010.
Has two daughters with Second Wife Sara Calaway; Chasey Calaway (born on November 21, 2002) and Gracie Calaway (born on May 15, 2005).
Is Irish and Native American.

After his victory over Tripple H (The Game), The Undertaker is now up to an incredible 19-0 winning streak at the WWE's main event - Wrestlemania.
Caused the retirement of Shawn Michaels after his 2nd consecutive victory over him at Wrestlemanias 25 and 26.

Personal Quotes

Time to see if your body can cash the checks your mouth has been writing.
Rest in peace
I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I'm still down with the devil and I will go medevial on your ass!
That wrestling ring is MY yard. And I'm the big dog that runs that yard.
Mess with me or my family and I WILL make you famous.
There is no shame in going out fighting and getting your ass kicked, but there is no honor in not fighting at all.

Salary

WrestleMania 23 (2007) (TV)

$500,000

Where Are They Now

(August 2003) Involved in a second rate feud with WWE Up and Comer John Cena. Undertaker will fight A-Train at Summerslam 2003
(November 2003) Was "Buried Alive" at Survivor Series against Vince McMahon, when he was attacked by his "brother" Kane.
(February 2004) He is now starting a new feud with Kane after many a long month of waiting. He WILL return as the Dead Man, not the American Badass. He should make his physical presence known at Wrestlemania XX to interfere in a match with Kane. He will retire from wrestling within a year or so.
(March 2004) Made his return to the WWE at WrestleMania XX where he defeated his "brother", Kane.
(April 2004) Works in WWE part-time. Mainly used for special occasions and brief storylines/feuds.
(May 2004) Defeated Booker T at Judgment Day 2004.
(August 2004) Will face the WWE Champion JBL (John Bradshaw Layfield) at Summerslam 2004.
(August 2004) Lost to JBL when the Undertaker accidentally got himself disqualified when he used the Champsionship Belt to knock out JBL.
(October 2004) Lost to JBL in a Last Ride Match for the WWE Title due to interference from Heidenreich at WWE No Mercy 2004.

(December 2004) Lost a Fatal Four-Way Match for the WWE Championship along with Booker T and Eddie Guerrero at WWE Armageddon 2004. JBL won to retain the WWE Title.
(January 2005) Is set to face Heidenreich in a Casket Match at the Royal Rumble 2005 where this will be Heidenreich's final resting place.
(June 2004) Defeated the Dudley Boyz in a Concrete Crypt Match at the Great American Bash 2004, also burying his "weakness" Paul Bearer in a glass case of cement.
(April 2005) Will put his 12-0 WrestleMania record on the line against "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton.
(April 2005) At WrestleMania 21, Undertaker defeated Randy Orton to continue his undefeated WrestleMania streak at 13 wins and zero losses. The Undertaker has been with WWF/E for 15 years and is still one of their top superstars. The Undertaker used his patented "Tombstone" piledriver on Randy Orton to achieve his WrestleMania 21 victory.
(May 2005) Currently taking time off to not only nurse a hip injury but, also, to wait for the arrival of his and wife Sara's second child together.
(July 2005) Will take part in Number One Contendor Match against Muhamed Hassan at The Great American Bash on Sunday, 24th, Buffalo, New York. The winner takes an opportunity for a match for the World Heavywight Championship.
(October 2005) Slated to have a handicap match against "Cowboy" Bob Orton and son, Randy Orton at WWE No Mercy 2005.
(November 2005) Defeated Randy Orton in the main event of the Smackdown! tour to Torino, Italy in late November.
(December 2005) Defeated Randy Orton at Armageddon 2005 in a Hell in a Cell match.
(February 2006) Will face Kurt Angle at No Way Out for the World Heavyweight Championship.
(April 2006) Beat Mark Henry at Wrestlemania XXII.
(May 2006) Will face Daliph Singh at Judgement Day.
(May 2006) Lost to Daliph Singh (Great Khali) at Judgement Day by Pin Fall.
(July 2006) Scheduled to face Daliph Singh (Great Khali) at the WWE Pay-Per-View Event, The Great American Bash.
(July 2006) Returned after a few weeks of absence to WWE Smackdown to continue feuding with Daliph Singh (Great Khali).
(July 2006) Won Big Show at the Punjabi prison match at the Great American bash. Big Show was replacement for Great Khali.
(January 2007) Is expected to face World Champion Batista at Wrestlemania 23, after he won the Royal Rumble in San Antonio Texas on 28th January 2007.

(January 2007) Coming in at #30, The Undertaker finally won his first Royal Rumble Match, at last eliminating Shawn Michaels to secure a championship match in the main event of WrestleMania 23.
(January 2007) Winner of the Royal Rumble 2007 30-men elimination match. He will have a Championship match for the WWE title at Wrestlemania 23.
(February 2007) Is tag team partners with his 'brother' Kane (Glen Jacobs) on Smackdown as The Brothers of Destuction (B.O.D.)
(April 2007) At WrestleMania 23, Undertaker defeated Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship and keeping his WrestleMania record at 15-0.
(April 2008) At Wrestlemania 24, Undertaker defeated Edge, winning the World Heavyweight Championship and kept his undefeated streak at 16-0.
(December 2009) At TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs Pay-Per-View The Undertaker defeating Batista in a Chair match to retain his World Heavyweight Championship

Wwe Superstar Mark Calaway The Undertaker

Beautiful Brazilian model Adriana Lima

Date of Birth

12 June 1981, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Birth Name

Adriana Francesca Lima

Nickname

LimaBean

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography

Adriana Francesca Lima was born on June 12, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. At the tender age of 13, Adriana entered the Ford Supermodel of the World Contest, where her unique beauty, derived from her Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, and Caribbean heritage, won her second place. Moving to New York at age 16, Adriana joined the Elite Model Management and further pursued her modeling career, landing a campaign for the fashion designer Anna Molinari's clothing line. However, it was her appearance in several Guess? campaigns that gained her the recognition that catapulted her to her status as one of the world's top fashion models. Since then, she has appeared in campaigns for Anna Sui Jeans, Bebe, Gasoline, Mossimo, Victoria's Secret, BCBG, Keds, and XOXO, and has appeared on the covers of magazines such as Vogue and Marie Claire. She consistently appears in the hyped Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows, gaining recognition as one of the Victoria's Secret's Perfect 10. In her spare time, Adriana dedicates her services to help orphans in her native Brazil. She has appeared in the Italian TIM mobile Commercials.

Spouse

Marko Jaric

(14 February 2009 - present) 1 child

Trade Mark

Mole on her chin

Trivia

Spokesmodel of Guess?.
Spokesmodel of Victoria's Secret.
Ranked #57 in Maxim's Hot 100 2003, ahead of Naomi Watts and behind Salma Hayek.
Ethnicity is Native-Brazilian, African-Brazilian, Portuguese, French, Japanese and Caribbean.
Ranked #1 on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Women (2004).
Ranked #33 on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Women (2002).
Ranked #75 on Askmen.com's Most Desirable Women (2003).
One of the world's top fashion models.
A favorite model of photographer Ellen Von Unwerth, she appears prominently in Von Unwerth's 1998 book "Wicked."
Chosen as the most desirable woman by AskMen.com, leaving behind such starts as Angelina Jolie (#9), Halle Berry (#10), Monica Bellucci (#2) and Charlize Theron (#3). [2005]
Her favorite musician is Lenny Kravitz. She has also appeared in one of his music videos, "Yesterday Is Gone".
Measurements are 33-24-34.
Ranked #1 on Askmen.com's 99 Most Desirable Women (2005).
She has helped financially and worked with orphaned children in Brazil for several years.
Ranked and Voted #4 by AskMen.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006
Named #39 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
Named #27 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
She's the second best paid Brazilian model. The first is Gisele Bündchen.
She was raised by her mother, Maria da Graça Lima (social worker).
Her father, Nelson Torres, abandoned his wife and Adriana when she was 6 months old.
Ranked #53 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Stated that she's of African, Swiss, and Indian ethnicity.
She lists West Side Story (1961) and Central Station (1998) (aka "Central Station"), among her favorite movies.

According to People.com, Lima secretly married NBA player Marko Jaric in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on Valentine's Day, 2009.
She and her husband, Marko Jaric, became the parents of a girl, Valentina Lima Jaric, on November 15, 2009 in New York City.
[2010] Represented in New York City and Paris by Marilyn Agency.
Applied for Serbian citizenship in 2009.

Married Serbian basketball player, Marko Jaric in a private ceremony in 2009.

Personal Quotes

Modeling is a tough job, your co-workers are your rivals, it really puts a damper on your perspective of other girls.
Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry...how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
Sex is for after marriage. They [men] have to respect that this is my choice. If there's no respect, that means they don't want me.

Beautiful Brazilian model Adriana Lima

Oprah Winfrey America's famous talk show host

Date of Birth

29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Birth Name

Oprah Gail Winfrey

Nickname

O
Deepak Oprah (a sendup of Deepak Chopra, a self-help guru)
Lady O

Height

5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Trivia

She permanently withdrew herself and her show from consideration for a Daytime Emmy Award after being awarded the Lifetime Achievement in 1998. She was quoted as saying, "After you've achieved it for a lifetime, what else is there?"
In addition to being a news anchor on WJZ-TV13 in Baltimore, Maryland, Winfrey was co-host with Richard Sher (a reporter) on a local talk show called "People are Talking" on that station.
Graduated from East Nashville High School in Nashville, Tennessee (1971), where she was voted most popular.

Was sued by Texas cattlemen who claimed that Oprah defamed beef on her talk show. The case went to trial, causing Oprah to have to relocate her show's production to Amarillo, Texas, for the duration of the trial. She was found not liable.
She was ranked first in Entertainment Weekly's 1998 list of the most powerful people in show business, but dropped to sixth in the 1999 list. Still, she was the highest ranking performer, as well as the highest ranking woman, and the only African-American to make the list.
Graduate of Tennessee State University, with a degree in Speech and Performing Arts.
Is the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
The given name on her birth certificate is Orpah, but the spelling was eventually changed to Oprah after others had difficulty pronouncing her name.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1985" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 37.
Announced that Oprah would receive $130,000,000 for continuing her talk show through the 1999-2000 TV season. [15 September 1997]
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1997.
Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca, New York. [1994]
She and Stedman Graham are teaching "Dynamics of Leadership" class at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. [Fall 1999]
Given an honorary National Book Award for her "influential contribution to reading and books". [October 1999]

Awarded (lst) 50th anniversary medal by National Book Foundation, NYC. [November 1999]
Her immensely popular TV talk show is a Harpo Production. Harpo is Oprah spelled backwards. Harpo is also the name of a character in The Color Purple (1985) (Oprah's film debut) played by Willard E. Pugh.
Gave birth to a baby boy when she was just 14. The baby died after 2 weeks, from complications of being born 2 months premature.
Was instrumental in the passage of the Oprah Bill, in the early 1990s. The bill was signed into law by President Bill Clinton, and is aimed at stopping child abuse.
Raised in abject poverty, she received her first pair of shoes in 1959 at age 6. She learned to read at age 2½. In fact, when it was time for her to start kindergarten, she wrote a note to her teacher insisting she should be in first grade. The teacher agreed and after finishing that grade she was then skipped to third grade.
Partner is Stedman Graham. [1986 - present]
Born at 7:51 PM EST

She and her former personal trainer, Bob Greene, announced they are buying seven shoreline lots from Getty Family Trust to build several homes, including one on 102-acre lot for Oprah. They plan to put conservation first and keep site development low key. [April 2002]
Added to Forbes Billionare list, making her the first African American woman to do so. [February 2003]
Ranked #1 on VH1's list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons" (2003)
Measurements: 36-25-37 (as 18 year-old pageant contestant), 44D-29-40 (in 1990 at 200#+), 36C-25-35 (after 1995 diet), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, NY
Ranked #1 Pop Culture Icon on VH1's "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons" (2003), beating out Superman and Elvis.

Net worth is estimated to be US$1.1 billion. [2004]
Purchased a house at 3330 Radcliffe Avenue, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This superb 11,000 sq ft waterfront property was on sale for Cdn $18 million, at the time British Columbia's most expensive house, but she paid Cdn $17 million (US$13 million). [June 2004]
Natural daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (born 2 May 1935).
According to Forbes magazine, her 2005 net worth is $1.3 billion. She was the first African-American women to make the list of billionaires, in 2003.
Was a guest at friends Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger's star-studded wedding
First African-American woman to become a billionaire in American history.
After years of publicly criticizing David Letterman's late-night television show, "Late Show with David Letterman" (1993), she and Letterman finally settled their differences when she agreed to appear on the December 1, 2005 episode, during which time she was to be in New York to promote her musical of The Color Purple (1985). During the Superbowl of 2007, they appeared in an advertisement together for Letterman's show. In the ad, they sat together on a couch watching the Superbowl, wearing opposing team jerseys. [2005]

Has a cameo playing herself in Throw Momma from the Train (1987). In a "clip" from her show, she interviews a writer (the ex-wife of Billy Crystal's character) whose plagiarized and embellished "life story" is at the top of the bestseller lists (foreshadowing the James Frey controversy twenty years later).
Was #3 on the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list in 2006
Collapsed from heat exhaustion during a recent visit to her hometown of Kosciusko, Mississippi. [October 2006]
Winfrey's name was originally "Orpah," after the biblical figure in the book of Ruth. Several different stories allude to the fact that either a misspelling on her birth certificate or a struggle with the pronunciation of her name eventually led to "Oprah" being adopted as her given name.
Has Native American ancestry.
Appearing on the annual "Time 100" list, Time's ranking of the 100 most influential people in the world, in 2007 again, she is the only person who has been on that list five times (May 2007).
Her two-year-old golden retriever, Gracie, died after accidentally choking to death on another dog's ball [July 2007].
In 2006, she gave $58,300,000 to charity to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Oprah's Angel Network, and other groups.
In 2006, she earned an estimated $260 million in salary from her various interests including syndication, cable television, and print magazines.
Thanked by Shawn Colvin in the liner notes of her album "A Few Small Repairs".
Had two half siblings from her mother. Her half brother passed away from AIDS in December 1988 and her half sister, Patricia, died under mysterious circumstances in 2003.
Ranked #1 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list.
Has size 10 feet.

Oprah In Australia:
 

She was awarded an honorary doctorate from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 2009 and was the 2009 Commencement Speaker.
Jeff Bridges, Michael Douglas, Ellen DeGeneres, Kevin Costner, Steve Martin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Carol Burnett, John Cleese, Rob Lowe and Ivan Reitman are among her various Southern California neighbors.
World's first black billionairess with an estimated worth of $2.3 billion as of 2009.
Her personal chef until 2007 was Art Smith.
Recipient of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients that year were Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney, Merle Haggard, and Bill T. Jones.
With ratings at an estimated 6.5 million viewers per day, her show is the most popular talk show in the world.
Aunt of Chrishaunda Lee, the daughter of her deceased half-sister Patricia. Oprah walked Chrishaundra down the aisle at her wedding in 2005.
Her idol is Diana Ross.

Personal Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the Limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the Limo breaks down.
All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?'
"What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good." quoted in Woman's World 9-20-05
The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
My philosophy is that doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Just want to say how deeply saddened I am, we all are, by the sudden passing of actress Natasha Richardson yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with her husband Liam Neeson, their two sons, the rest of their family and friends. Yet another reminder of how fleeting life can be and how precious. We need to value every moment (On Natasha Richardson's tragic death).

Part of her 2009 commencement speech at Duke: Of all the wonderful things that have happened including getting a doctorate, an honorary doctorate from Duke, what really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else. And I will have to say, it is a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home or homes, a wonderful thing to have a beautiful home which just escaped the fire in Santa Barbara. And it is really fantastic to have your own jet and anybody who says it isn't is lying to you. The jet thing is really good. But you haven't completed the circle of success unless you can help somebody else move forward.
On personal power: I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
On strategy: Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life.
Reaching your true potential is more than an ideal. It's the ultimate goal.

Salary

The Color Purple (1985)

approx. $35,000

Oprah Winfrey America's famous talk show host

Curtis James Jackson 50 Cent Most Famous Rap singer In The World

Date of Birth

6 July 1975, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Curtis James Jackson III

Nickname

Interscope
Fiddy
Boo Boo

Height

6' (1.83 m)

Mini Biography

Born in the South Jamaica section of Queens, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has lived in New York City all his life. Raised by his grandparents after his father ran out and his mother was shot when he was only eight. Growing up, the Queens rapper originally wanted to be a heavyweight boxer, but eventually fell back on rapping. DJs had taken it upon themselves to release two Best of 50 Cent mix CDs, before he had even signed to a major label. 50 Cent hit the scene with "How To Rob An Industry Nigga" and he's been on a rampage ever since dealing with bootleggers, label back stabbing and other platinum selling artists trying to get at him physically. In 1999 his album Power of the Dollar, was heavily bootlegged and Trackmasters/Columbia never released it. Supposedly, Trackmasters weren't comfortable with him being caught up in the streets and getting shot three days before filming the video for "Thug Love," (with Destiny's Child) -- his first single.

50 was shot three times that night, two shots hitting him in the head, the bullet that struck his face he carries as a reminder of what happened. That event led to the fall out with Columbia and negotiating his release from their grasps. He still showed love and rhymed over a Trackmasters produced remix of "I'm Gonna Be Alright" on J-Lo's latest album, but rivals at Murder Inc. had 50 cut from the track which could have launched the rapper. This all changed in one night when Eminem said on a radio show that "50 Cent is definitely my favorite rapper right now, he's the only one keeping it real." The very next day a bidding war started on 50, ending when 50 signed to Eminem's very own label Shady/Aftermath. 50 Cent's fame has exploded, being produced by Dr. Dre and Eminem and finally making his debut album "Get rich or Die Tryin'." 50 has full access and advantage of the streets through mix-tapes; that's his forum because he controls it. 50 Cent is the most anticipated artist of 2003. It's well deserved because he's "been patiently waiting."

Trivia

Is involved in a feud with fellow rapper Ja Rule.
Is signed to Eminem's Shady Records imprint, distributed by Interscope Records.
Has a son, Marquise, nicknamed 25 Cent.
His debut album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" was the highest debut ever with 900,000 copies sold in the first week.

His mother was killed at age 23, when he was just eight years old.
Was discovered by Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay.
Voted #8 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties
Used to be a boxer
Neither drinks alcohol nor smokes.
He bought former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson's Farmington, CT, mansion for $4.1 million. The house is approximately 50,000 sq. ft., has 52 rooms and was bought by Tyson for $2.7 million in 1996. Its features include five Jacuzzis, 25 full baths, 18 bedrooms, an elevator, two billiard rooms, a movie theater and a locker room.

Recorded an album in 1999 titled "Power of the Dollar" but it was shelved by Columbia Records due to his legal problems at the time.
Released a series of street mixtapes in 2002. They became so popular that Eminem heard them and signed him to his record label. Even after his success, 50 still releases street mixtapes on a regular basis.
Album "The Massacre" was originally titled "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" and set for a February 15 release date, but production problems forced it to be set back to March 8.
Was accompanied by actress Vivica A. Fox to the MTV Video Music Awards 2003
Created a dance known as the "two step".
His favorite actor is Charlie Sheen.

His cartoon-like photo on the cover of his album "The Massacre" was meant to make him look like a Ninja Turtle, his son's favorite cartoon characters. He is also a fan of the cartoon, his favorite turtle being Donatello.
His group, G-Unit, includes Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck. The Game was once a member but a well-publicized feud developed between them.
Raised in Queens, NY, by his grandparents.

Named among Fade In Magazine's "100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know" in 2005.
Was #8 on the annual Forbes magazine Celebrity 100 list in 2006
Founder of G-Unit Records, G-Unit Films, G-Unit Books, G-Unit Clothing and G-Unity Foundation.
In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated his earnings for the year at $33 million.

Personal Quotes

The only thing that I'm scared of is not livin' up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.
[On his feud with rapper [Ja Rule] Right now he's desperate. He should be talking about me, not Eminem and [Dr. Dre] and everybody else. He'll lose, he knows that. The route that he has to take is the "I'm a mad gangsta" hardcore route, and ain't nobody gonna believe him.
In Hollywood they say there's no business like show business. In the hood they say there's no business like ho' business.
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power's an aphrodisiac.

I think it's easier for the general public to embrace me in a negative way. You have people who already have a perception of me that says I'm a bad person.
I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.
In my neighborhood if you're too aggressive, you intimidate someone, they kill you. Or if you decide to be emotional and you start crying, you're a victim. You know, the kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye. You have to find a way to stay in the middle, somewhere where people just don't mess with you because they know that you don't have a problem with it if it goes there.

[on his feuds with many of his fellow rappers, such as Nas, Jadakiss, Fat Joe, Shyne, The Game, Ja Rule, Sheek Louch and Styles P., among others] If they keep comin' at me, I'll just keep responding back until they don't exist anymore. I got the time and energy to ruin what is left of their careers, if they want to do that.
A lot of kids join the army to get a college education. That's why they do it, and they get sent into these horrible situations.

Curtis James Jackson 50 Cent Most Famous Rap singer In The World

Hollywood's best known Producer/director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world Steven Spielberg

 

Date of Birth

18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Birth Name

Steven Allan Spielberg

Height

5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Mini Biography

Undoubtedly one of the most influential film personalities in the history of film, Steven Spielberg is perhaps Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. Spielberg has countless big-grossing, critically acclaimed credits to his name, as producer, director and writer. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1946. He went to California State University Long Beach, but dropped out to pursue his entertainment career. He gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classic western "Wagon Train" (1957). Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961), which combined World War II footage with footage of an airplane on the ground that he makes you believe is moving. He also directed Escape to Nowhere (1961), which featured children as World War Two soldiers, including his sister Anne Spielberg, and The Last Gun (1959), a western. All of these were short films. The next couple of years, Spielberg directed a couple of movies that would portend his future career in movies. In 1964, he directed Firelight (1964), a movie about aliens invading a small town. In 1967, he directed Slipstream (1967), which was unfinished. However, in 1968, he directed Amblin' (1968), which featured the desert prominently, and not the first of his movies in which the desert would feature so prominently. Amblin' also became the name of his production company, which turned out such classics as E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg had a unique and classic early directing project, Duel (1971) (TV), with Dennis Weaver. In the early 1970s, Spielberg was working on TV, directing among others such series as Rod Serling's "Rod Serling's Night Gallery" (1969), "Marcus Welby, M.D." (1969) and "Columbo: Murder by the Book (#1.1)" (1971). All of his work in television and short films, as well as his directing projects, were just a hint of the wellspring of talent that would dazzle audiences all over the world.

Spielberg's first major directorial effort was The Sugarland Express (1974), with Goldie Hawn, a film that marked him as a rising star. It was his next effort, however, that made him an international superstar among directors: Jaws (1975). This classic shark attack tale started the tradition of the summer blockbuster or, at least, he was credited with starting the tradition. His next film was the classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), a unique and original UFO story that remains a classic. In 1978, Spielberg produced his first film, the forgettable I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), and followed that effort with Used Cars (1980), a critically acclaimed, but mostly forgotten, Kurt Russell\Jack Warden comedy about devious used-car dealers. Spielberg hit gold yet one more time with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with Harrison Ford taking the part of Indiana Jones. Spielberg produced and directed two films in 1982. The first was Poltergeist (1982), but the highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point was the alien story E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Spielberg also helped pioneer the practice of product placement. The concept, while not uncommon, was still relatively low-key when Spielberg raised the practice to almost an art form with his famous (or infamous) placement of Reece's Pieces in "E.T." Spielberg was also one of the pioneers of the big-grossing special-effects movies, like "E.T." and "Close Encounters", where a very strong emphasis on special effects was placed for the first time on such a huge scale. In 1984, Spielberg followed up "Raiders" with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), which was a commercial success but did not receive the critical acclaim of its predecessor. As a producer, Spielberg took on many projects in the 1980s, such as The Goonies (1985), and was the brains behind the little monsters in Gremlins (1984). He also produced the cartoon An American Tail (1986), a quaint little animated classic. His biggest effort as producer in 1985, however, was the blockbuster Back to the Future (1985), which made Michael J. Fox an instant superstar. As director, Spielberg took on the book The Color Purple (1985), with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, with great success. In the latter half of the 1980s, he also directed Empire of the Sun (1987), a mixed success for the occasionally erratic Spielberg. Success would not escape him for long, though.

Spielberg has been extremely active in films there are many other things he has done as well. He produced the short-lived TV series "SeaQuest 2032" (1993), an anthology series entitled "Amazing Stories" (1985), created the video-game series "Medal of Honor" set during World War Two, and was a starting producer of "ER" (1994). Spielberg, if you haven't noticed, has a great interest in World War Two. He and Tom Hanks collaborated on Shooting War (2000) (TV), a documentary about World War II combat photographers, and he produced a documentary about the Holocaust called Eyes of the Holocaust (2000). With all of this to Spielberg's credit, it's no wonder that he's looked at as one of the greatest ever figures in entertainment.

Spouse

Kate Capshaw	(12 October 1991 - present) 5 children
Amy Irving	(27 November 1985 - 2 February 1989) (divorced) 1 child

Trade Mark

Uses powerful flashlights in dark scenes (Jurassic Park (1993); The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)). The outline of the beam is often made visible through dust, mist, or fog.
Frequently uses music by John Williams.
Often shows shooting stars (Jaws (1975)).
Onscreen performers staring, usually at something off camera.
He often uses images of the sun (Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Color Purple (1985), Empire of the Sun (1987), Saving Private Ryan (1998)).
His films often show children in some sort of danger.
Consistent references to World War II.
Frequent references to Disney films, music, or theme parks.
Frequently uses a piano as an element in key scenes (Schindler's List (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Minority Report (2002)).

Important images, or characters, are often seen through the rear-view mirror of a car (Duel (1971) (TV), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)).
Frequently casts Tom Hanks, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Frank Welker and Tom Cruise.
Protagonists in his films often come from families with divorced parents, with fathers portrayed as reluctant, absent or irresponsible, most notably in _E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_ (Elliot's mother is divorced and father is absent) and Catch Me If You Can (2002) (Frank Abagnale's mother and father split early in the film). This reflects Spielberg's own experience as a youth with his parents breaking up.
A common theme in many of his films is ordinary people who discover something extraordinary - people, places, artifacts, creatures, etc. (Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)).
Since Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), all of his movies have featured visual effects (even those that were undetected) by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the F/X house created by his friend George Lucas. The only exception has been The Terminal (2004), which had F/X work by Digital Imageworks.
Is credited for starting the summer blockbuster tradition with 1975's first $100 million megahit, Jaws (1975).
His films are almost always edited by 'Michael Kahn'
Known on-set for being able to work and come up with ideas very quickly (the best example of this would be the filming of "Saving Private Ryan", where Spielberg came up with angles and shot ideas on the spot, due to the fact that the film was largely un-storyboarded). Perhaps this is a habit he picked up after the filming of "Jaws", which was, very famously, a torturously slow shoot due to technical problems.

Personal Quotes

I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
[on winning the Best Director Oscar for Saving Private Ryan (1998)]: Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?
Before I go off and direct a movie I always look at 4 films. They tend to be: "Seven Samurai" (Seven Samurai (1954)); Lawrence of Arabia (1962); It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and The Searchers (1956).
[On friend Joan Crawford]: She is five feet four, but she looks six feet on the screen. In a two-shot with anyone, even Gable, (Clark Gable), your eyes fix on her. She is imperious, yet with a childlike sparkle. She is haughty, yet tender. She has no great range as an actress, yet within the range she can perform better than any of her contemporaries.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
I would love to see the British film industry get back on its feet again.
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
I dream for a living.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
[on the film Poltergeist (1982)]: Poltergeist is the darker side of my nature, it's me when I was scaring my younger sisters half to death. In Poltergeist, I wanted to terrify and I also wanted to amuse - I tried to mix the laughs and screams together.
With Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), George (George Lucas) put the butter back into the popcorn.
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. The audience is also the toughest critic - a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.
[When asked about being conflicted whether to make more artistic films, or more commercial films]: All the time, but when you have a story that is very commercial and simple, you have to find the art. You have to take the other elements of the film and make them as good as possible, and doing that will uplift the film.
Godzilla (Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)) was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
I don't work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when I'm not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and I'm strict about that.
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park (1993). But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws (1975) 31 years ago and War of the Worlds (2005) is that today, anything I can imagine, I can realize on film. Then, when my mechanical shark was being repaired and I had to shoot something, I had to make the water scary. I relied on the audience's imagination, aided by where I put the camera. Today, it would be a digital shark. It would cost a hell of a lot more, but never break down. As a result, I probably would have used it four times as much, which would have made the film four times less scary. Jaws is scary because of what you don't see, not because of what you do. We need to bring the audience back into partnership with storytelling.

I've never used John Williams to tell people how to feel. I use John Williams to enhance my vision and my thoughts emotionally from scene to scene. He'll signal when the shark is coming, which are the most famous single notes next to Beethoven's Fifth. In telling a story, I will use every tool in my arsenal. I will do anything in my power to communicate the best story as I know how.
[On Janusz Kaminski] I was watching television and saw his name on a TV movie, Wildflower (1991) (TV), that was beautifully photographed, so I called up the head of my TV department and asked him to consider hiring him to do a pilot we produced about the Civil War, Class of '61 (1993) (TV). The director agreed to use Janusz and he was great. I think Janusz has brought a lighting style to my movies that I'd never had before. Even Allen Daviau who had done three pictures with me, who I think is the greatest lighting cameraman in town. But Janusz brought more daring, dangerous light into my films. I set the camera. I do all the blocking. I choose the lenses. I compose everything. But Janusz, basically, is my lighting guy. And he's a master painter with light; he's made tremendous contributions to my work through his art.
[on if the soldier's journey is the ultimate hero's journey] - For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. That's not going to happen. In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. You look at war as something that is putting your best friend in jeopardy. You are responsible for the person in front of you and the person behind you, and the person to the left of you and the person to the right of you. Those are the small pods that will inadvertently create a hero, but that is someone else's observation, not the observation of those kids in the foxholes.

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as "The Pacific."
[on working on "The Pacific" (2010), "Band of Brothers" (2001) and Saving Private Ryan (1998)] - What moved us to tell these stories, based on these survivors and veterans, was to see what happens to the human soul throughout this particular engagement. These islands were stepping stones to the mainland of Japan. We weren't trained by the drill instructors stateside. We were trained by the enemy, in how to fight the enemy. They trained us how to fight like them. I don't want to compare one war to the other, in terms of savagery, but there's a level when nature and humanity conspire against the individual. To see what happens to those individuals, throughout the entire course of events, leading up to the dropping of the two atomic bombs, is something that was very, very hard for the actors, the writers and all of us to put on the screen, but we felt we had to try.
In Saving Private Ryan (1998) I had a sense that I was establishing a template, based on the experiences communicated to me by the veterans who fought that morning on Dog Green, Omaha Beach, and their experiences, and the very few surviving photographs of the great war correspondent, Robert Capa. I combined those photographs to try to find a 24-frame-per-second equivalent for how I can show that kind of terror and chaos without making a movie that looked elegant and beautiful and in full living color, very much like war movies had been made in the past. It wasn't that I was trying to break the mold of the old war movie approach, visually, but I was simply trying to validate all of this testimony that had been communicated to us, based on the young men that lived and survived that battle. I didn't know it was going to establish a look for war movies, but it was certainly what I thought was right for that particular story.

I committed to directing Catch Me If You Can (2002) principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. And I'm a big fan of scams. I love The Flim-Flam Man (1967). I love Scarecrow (1973) with Gene Hackman. I loved Elmer Gantry (1960) - which I think is a bit of a scam movie. The Sting (1973) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) were kind of scams. You know, some of those villains, you have to sympathize with them.
I've had darkness in all the films, in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jaws (1975). There are moments in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) that are brutally dark. I just don't think people have stopped to study. They may not have stopped to think when they assume that I suddenly developed a dark side because of Schindler's List (1993). When critics carp about my dark side, I always wonder, "Well, did they really look in the shadows?"
I'm very relaxed about Oscars. I'll admit to you that I wasn't relaxed before I won for Schindler's List (1993). I was pretty much worried about it and almost wanted to get one behind me to get the anxiety out of my gut every time December reared its ugly head. So after I won for Schindler's and Saving Private Ryan (1998), I have no expectations of ever winning again. Whatever happens, happens.
[On Akira Kurosawa] Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time
I had a lot to prove when I made Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) because I had done three movies in a row that had gone wildly over budget and schedule, 1941 (1979), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Jaws (1975). I was ready to turn over a new leaf and Raiders was my chance to make a movie responsibly - under schedule and under budget. Fortunately George Lucas gave me a lot of support and help with preparation. I wasn't dreaming of big box office or making a classic; all I was focused on was making a film the audience would like and doing it in a way that was fiscally responsible. I think we were all surprised by the worldwide success of Raiders. I remember hearing people quote lines from the film or seeing kids pretend to be the characters, and realizing that the film had gone beyond box office success and had entered popular culture. That was one of the happy aftershocks of making that movie. More than anything, we want our films to be watchable and Raiders is a movie I can watch with my kids and completely detach myself from the fact that I directed it. I sit back and enjoy it. For a kid who grew up dreaming of making memorable images, it's a thrill to know Raiders is one of those films where people just have to see the silhouette of the main character, and they immediately think, "Indiana Jones!"

[On his friend and frequent collaborator Michael Crichton] Michael's talent out scaled even his own dinosaurs of 'Jurassic Park.' He was the greatest at blending science with big theatrical concepts, which is what gave credibility to dinosaurs again walking the earth. In the early days, Michael had just sold 'The Andromeda Strain' to Robert Wise at Universal and I had recently signed on as a contract TV director there. My first assignment was to show Michael Crichton around the Universal lot. We became friends and professionally 'Jurassic Park,' 'ER,' and 'Twister' followed. Michael was a gentle soul who reserved his flamboyant side for his novels. There is no one in the wings that will ever take his place.
[About Munich (2005)] I am not attacking Israel with this film. In no way, shape or form am I doing that. I'm simply asking why the world feels that the only acceptable response to violence is counter-violence. I'm not answering that question. Just asking it.
Daniel Day-Lewis would have always been counted as one of the greatest of actors, were he from the silent era, the golden age of film or even some time in cinema's distant future.

Salary

War Horse (2011)	$20,000,000
Jurassic Park III (2001)	$72,000,000
Schindler's List (1993)	$0 (Asked not to be paid.)
Jurassic Park (1993)	$250,000,000 (gross and profit participations)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)	$1,500,000 + % of gross

Hollywood's best known Producer/director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world Steven Spielberg

Olivia Wilde Beautiful American Actress

Date of Birth

10 March 1984, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name

Olivia Jane Cockburn

Height

5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Spouse

Tao Ruspoli

(16 January 2003 - present) (filed for divorce

Trivia

Granddaughter of James Helvick and Jean Ross.
Daughter of Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn.
Attended Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC, through 8th grade.
Sister-in-law of Bartolomeo Ruspoli and Aileen Getty.
Daughter-in-law of Dado Ruspoli and Debra Berger.
Attended Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.
2005: Named #61 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100.
Spent one month on the set of The Girl Next Door (2004) before being asked to join the cast.
Raised in Washington, DC.

Graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
Has a dog named Paco who, as of July 26, 2006, is the new mascot for Old Navy.
Best friends with Patrick Fugit and Megalyn Echikunwoke.
Won Best Actress at HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, 2006 for her role in Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006).

2006: Named #95 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.
Has dual citizenship between Ireland and the United States.
Eloped with her husband, who is an Italian prince, when she was 18. They married in his family's castle in Vignanello, Italy.

Ranked #97 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Husband Tao Ruspoli is the son of a prince (Papal title).
Once won a pancake eating contest while in Australia.
Ranked #1 on the Maxim magazine "Hot 100" of 2009 list.
Is a natural blond.
Is a vegan.
Is Irish-American.

Was rumored to play the lead Bond girl in Bond 23.
Replaced Kate Hudson in Butter (2011).
Close friends with Kal Penn.
Niece of Alexander Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn and Sarah Caudwell.
A lifelong lover of classic cars, the actress owns a 1958 Chevy Biscayne and a 1959 Thunderbird Convertible. Once owned a 1966 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors.

Adopted her professional name "Wilde" after she developed a profound respect and admiration for Irish poet and writer Oscar Wilde and his body of literature.
Has an older sister named Chloe Cockburn.

Personal Quotes

(In the interview Wilde at Heart to Sara Vilkomerson to The New York Observer on April 15 2007) When people saw "The Black Donnellys" (2007), they didn't know it was the same girl from "The O.C." (2003). I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid. I used to get these comments that I swear people thought were compliments. Like, 'Oh! You're smart!' - like they couldn't believe it.

Olivia Wilde Beautiful American Actress

Beautiful Indian Actress Tanushree Dutta

Date of Birth

19 March 1984, Jamshedpur, Bihar, India

Nickname

Tanu

Height

5' 6" (1.68 m)

Biography:

Born in Jamshedpur, Bihar, cusp-born (Pisces/Aries) Tanushree comes from a conservative Hindu Bengali family, and had her personality groomed according to strict social norms, resulting in her being shy and very introvert. Her dad's name is Tappan, who works for the Life Insurance Corporation of India.
She was employed with Oracle Institute for 3 months in event management and market survey and report making, her assignments included ramp, print campaign, videos, & commercials. She also was stage artist, doing concerts in various parts of India as well as abroad (Dubai).

This lack of confidence and shyness changed when she was enrolled in a boarding school in Pune where she would get a degree in Communications. This is where Tanushree literally found herself, ended up being more confident and open enough to to participate in the Miss India pageant in 2002 and 2003. Success eluded her as she could not make it to the final group of contestants.
She was not discouraged with her failures, but persisted and finally dusky Tanushree not only made herself eligible for the competition but was crowned Miss India, replacing Nikita Anand, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex on March 27, 2004. She was also crowned Miss Confidence and Miss Beautiful Smile. The participating judges included Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu, Ritu Beri, Sonu Nigam, Farah Khan, Madhavan, Saif Ali Khan & Hemant Trivedi.

She went to participate in Miss World and ended up amongst the 10 ten finalists.
Tanushree easily got used to the limelight and of having her photos taken, so much so that at the end of her tenure as Miss India, handing over the title to Amrita Thapar, she still felt the need to continue to be popular, and this is what motivated her to join Bollywood.
Her career as an actress started with 'Chocolate' in 2006, and then went on to star in 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne', '36 China Town', & 'Risk'. She has done a dancer number in 'Bhagam Bhaag', and also acted in a Telugu movie 'Veerabhadra'. She is currently involved in the shooting of 'Raqeeb', and has been signed up to act in 'Speed', 'Rokda', 'Dhol', 'Good Boy Bad Boy', 'Dus Kahaniyan' and 'Mr. Fraud'.

She even anchored a Bengali show on Televions titled 'Hoi Hullod'.
When not working, she is a a very lazy person, loves taking a long bath, treats herself to a 7 course meal, take an afternoon nap, wake up have dinner or go to a movie. She is not afraid to be wear swimsuits.
She has a degree in Commerce and had studied in Bombay based Brihan Maharashtrian College.

This charming and tall (5'7") actress, who weighs around 55 kilos, measures 31-26-35, wants her work to be appreciated, hopes to be eventually settled in Bollywood, and act in better films.

Personal Quotes

Yes, I have kissed on-screen, but I don't feel comfortable doing it.

Beautiful Indian Actress Tanushree Dutta