Nothing really beats dogs, don’t you think so? Not only they are cute and love you more than they love themselves, but no day passes by without them making you laugh. No imagine adding the talent for playing and singing on the list.
An adorable beagle-basset hound mix does exactly that. His family must be having tons of fun listening to him master the piano keys.
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This very skillful four-legged canine is a rescue dog. His parents Laurie and Glen Wolfe, and baby sister, Eve, named him Buddy Mercury after the music icon Freddie Mercury and we believe the name suits his talent and personality just perfectly.
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Buddy has showed his love for the piano since the day he set foot in his forever home. His parents noticed his fascination for the instrument and soon after he spent a couple of days inspecting that unusual object, he stood on his hind legs and started playing. It was obvious that going through the piano keys with his paws made him very joyous.
Now if you think this is unusual and special wait until you hear him singing. Yes, Buddy plays and howls at the same time and it’s fascinating to both listen and watch.
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Buddy’s family enjoyed his ‘concerts’ so much that they though it would be pity if they don’t share his talent with the rest of the world. The videos of him rocking the instrument are going viral and people can’t get enough of the singing and piano-playing dog.
What’s most, he’s got a back up, and it makes the whole thing even cuter. His little sister Eve joins her furry brother every now and then dancing around and playing on a toy guitar.
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People agree these two are the best band out there and we believe they are awesome, too.
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Some say how the Wolfes are very lucky to be having such talented children.
“Super talented Buddy & baby! You have a dog prodigy & a baby dancer…what could be more exciting?” one person wrote.
“These two are way too CUTE! They both really know how to party!” another added.
Buddy’s family is lucky people are sharing his videos not because they try to make him famous but because they want to raise awareness about rescue dogs and how perfectly they fit in their new families.
“We want to help more animals get rescued,” Laurie said. “We only have so much space in our home.”
By sharing Buddy’s videos you are helping raise awareness of the importance of rescue animals adoption.
Speaking of Hollywood’s greatest love stories, one of the first that comes to mind is that of Kurt Russel and Goldie Hawn. In the past, the couple confessed that their decision not to tie the knot probably had a lot to do with the fact that their relationship lasts for more than 37 years.
Kurt is an incredible father to Goldie’s children, actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson, who never miss a chance to remind him just how important he is to them. Having in mind they have quite a destructive relationship with their biological father, Bill Hudson, they both consider Kurt their true dad and call him Pa.
Kurt and Goldie are also grandparents. They love spending their days around the little ones but they also find time for one another.
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The couple first met on the set of The One and Only, Genuine Original Family Band in 1966, when Goldie was 21 years of age and Kurt was 16.
“I thought he was adorable, but he was much too young,” Goldie said. “Then, years later we met up again, and I remembered that I liked him very much when I first met him. We both said we would never go out with another actor so it just shows you never can tell.”
Years later, during the filming of Swing Shift together, they both knew that was it. They were simply meant for each other.
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In May 2017, the couple shared an incredibly important and sweet moment together which made us love them even more. Namely, their names were immortalized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. When the starts were revealed, they kissed and made the public go aww.
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Being in their 70s doesn’t stop Kurt and Goldie from leading pretty active lifestyle. In 2017 a source told Closer Weekly that Goldie had been super focused on her diet.
“She always says you’re as young as you feel, and she still feels like a 30-year-old. She’s healthy and vibrant and comfortable in her own skin,” the source said.
Another insider added: “[Goldie is] doubling down on working out. She’s never really just committing to one solid routine. Her big word is ‘diversity.’ Every day is different so she never gets bored of her workouts.”
Speaking of her routine, Goldie herself revealed that she has her green juice every single day. “I drink my green juice every day! I do a lot of juice, I don’t put a lot of food in my stomach and I don’t mix my foods too much. So if I want to have like protein I’ll just eat a bowl of lentils, I won’t mix it with a bunch of stuff,” she told People.
Kurt is very active himself. He’s still filming and this year he’s about to appear in Fast & Furious 9 and the television series What If…?
Although he had never experienced any major health issues, Kurt will go under the knife this month. He was to be inducted into the Oklahoma City-based Hall of Great Western Performers in October of this year, but he won’t be able to attend due to “unforeseen medical issue.” In fact, he was planning on delaying the surgery, but doctors advised him otherwise.
As reported by the Oklahoman, the Christmas Chronicles’ star is going to have a hip surgery.
“I had hoped it could wait, but my doctors said it needs to be this September. As much as I hate missing this year, I’m grateful to the museum for being willing to move our recognition to 2022 so I can be there in-person to accept this great honor,” he said in the statement.
We hope everything will go smoothly with the surgery and we wish Kurt Russel a speedy recovery.
No matter how great the foster parents turn out to be, the thought of having to move from place to place can have negative consequences on the child’s mental state. Sometimes, it takes years for foster children to overcome the trauma of getting taken away from their families and being placed in the system.
Actress Sandra Bullock became a mother later in life. She adopted son Louis in 2010 and daughter Laila in 2015.
Laila ended up in the foster system early in life and at the age of 2 and a half, she had already changed three different homes. That experience made her scared and prevented her from trusting people. Dealing with Laila’s trauma took some time, and now the famous actress decided to open up about the ordeal her girl suffered and how she managed to help her overcome those fears of being abandoned again.
During an appearance on the Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk, hosted by Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Bullock revealed how Laila’s trauma was visible from the beginning.
“I had my kids in my [walk-in] closet with their little beds because I was so afraid to not have them super close to me,” Bullock explained. “And I would walk in and I wouldn’t be able to find her. She’d be in the closet, with all her clothes on, she’d be on a book shelf, she’d be hiding and she’d always be ready to leave. She was always telling me she was leaving.”
She would always assure the little girl that she would always be there for her.
“My partner [photographer Bryan Randall] said to me, ‘When she’s been with us longer than she hasn’t been, I have a feeling we’re going to see a change.’ And you love by leaning in and hugging and holding and letting them know that they are not going anywhere,” Bullock said.
“I saw triggers happening on a daily basis that I could not identify ’cause I took it personally.
“It was really hard to separate yourself and not be hurt because all you wanna do is love, but guess what? Your love is not going to cut it right then and there.
“Laila would hide food. You know, and it’s survival. Absolute survival. And her spirit and just who she is has pushed forward beyond the triggers and the fears.
“They’ll come up for the rest of her life, they’ll be fears that she has, but she knows that where she chooses to go to school, I’m moving there. That’s the joke in the house. You guys need to pick the same college if you go, the same city to live in, because I’m gonna be living there,” the Bird Box star revealed.
Being a parent to an emotionally-damaged child was far from easy and Bullock needed to take classes that prepared her for the future with Laila, but it was all worth it.
“[Foster care] is a system that exists and people don’t know about it because it’s a difficult thing to talk about,” Bullock explained. “It gets deep and it gets dark. When I first went into the process myself, you have to prove that you’re a capable parent — you’re in the judgment cage. And I got halfway through it and I said, ‘I can’t do this.'”
Eventually, Laila started feeling like home and was able to accept her new, beautiful life. It took some time, but she eventually found her comfort zone and she’s now a happy child.
Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman’s road to stardom was quite similar. Even before the two met and fell for one another, their lives were somewhat similar, and that could have been one of the reasons why they decided to get involved in a romance which lasted for around 40 years.
Both Danny and Rhea grew up in the east cost. He was born in 1944 in Neptune, New Jersey, while Rhea was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1948.
Ever since they were teenagers, they both dreamed of pursuing careers in acting. For Danny, that dream seemed elusive, not because of the lack of talent, but because of his height. He was often teased because of his appearance, but that would turn to be a feature that would add to his uniqueness.
After working at his sister’s hair salon for two years, Danny attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York where he took makeup classes. However, no matter the type of classes they were taking, each student was expected to perform a monologue, and Danny’s was so great that his teachers made him transfer to studying drama instead. That was the first step towards his bright and successful career.
Danny graduated from the academy in 1966 and moved on to Hollywood to try his luck as an actor. Becoming one didn’t come as smoothly as he expected or hoped for, though.
“I worked as a car parker, and I hung around the Sunset Strip with all the flower children,” he recalled. “I had long hair, and I wore a raincoat and sneakers, and I fit right in. But I wanted to act.”
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Eventually, Danny returned to New York where he worked in plays off-Broadway. During one play in 1970, he met Rhea for the first time. She was also doing plays at the time and was hoping to find her place in the film industry.
Speaking of the time she first laid eyes on Danny DeVito, Rhea shared with the Daily Times, “He sang a song that didn’t make any sense at all. It was like a mating call. I knew I had to meet him if he wasn’t married. So we arranged a date.”
Well, the rest is history.
Just two weeks after their initial encounter, she moved to his Manhattan studio.
“He slept on the floor, and roaches would line up at attention around him. It’s like he was training them,” Rhea told EW about their place. “He made a Super-8 short, following a roach around.”
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At the time they started their relationship, they were both working hard on their careers, and the hard work paid off.
Danny starred in the now iconic film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and the legendary TV series Taxi. These films brought him numerous awards and nominations, among which a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Rhea achieved success too. Staring in the series Cheers as waitress Carla Tortelli, she had her big breakthrough which helped her make a name for herself. She won four Primetime Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, received six additional nominations, and five Golden Globe nominations.
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Danny and Rhea got married on January 28, 1982, and welcomed their first child, daughter Lucy DeVito, less than two months later. Their second daughter, Grace DeVito, was born in 1985 and their youngest child, son Jake DeVito, was welcomed into the world in 1987.
In 1996, Danny and Rhea stared together in the iconic film Matilda and started a production company together, Jersey Films, which produced some incredible movies such as Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich.
Their marriage seemed picture-perfect, but then in 2012, they announced they were splitting. That wasn’t the end, however. Rumors were that actor Michael Douglas, who is Danny’s friend, made them reconsider their decision. That resulted in the couple getting together again, but in 2018, they split permanently.
The reason behind this decisions remains a mystery as neither Danny nor Rhea ever spoke about it.
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What is interesting is that even though they are no longer together, they never filed for divorce and are still legally married.
During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2019, Rhea said, “You know, we were together for 40 years. Forty years is a long time. You might have to do something else!
“I’m not getting divorced. No, no, no. What for? We do live separately. We see each other a lot too.”
According to the ex-couple, they are better off as friends than as spouses.
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“I don’t know why it’s difficult for other people, but Danny and I have always loved each other, and we have three amazing children together,” she said. “We really agree on almost everything important.”
“[Our relationship] is much better because all of the tense stuff is gone. It’s not in your face; I’m not in his, he’s not in mine.”
Danny shares the same opinion as his ex-wife. Speaking to People, the actor said, “We’re friends. We’re happy. Everybody’s happy.”
Julia Roberts is one of the few celebrities who lead a very normal life. She has been married to cinematographer Daniel Moder for 19 years and the two seem to be very much in love. The pair has three children together, twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, 16, and a son, Henry, 14.
When it comes to their children, both Roberts and Moder try to keep them out of the public eye, and that is why we rarely see the kids attending any public events or sharing photos on the social media.
Recently, however, we got to see beautiful Hazel in the company of her father at the Cannes Film Festival in France in July 2021. The two were there for the promotion of the film Flag Day. Moder was the choreographer while actor Sean Penn was the director. And while Penn’s children had roles in the film, Hazel didn’t, but she still went to the event to support her father’s work.
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What caught everyone’s attention was Hazel’s incredible beauty. While some say that she inherited her mother’s nose, many agree that she’s a spitting image of her handsome dad, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that she’s great-looking herself. Hazel has blue eyes and blonde hair.
She was seen wearing a pale yellow long lace dress and black Mary Jane shoes. Her make up was minimal and her hair was scooped back into a ponytail. A real lady!
It was very obvious that Moder felt proud of his girl and spent the entire evening by her side.
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Whether Hazel or her siblings are interested in pursuing careers in the film industry remains a mystery because their parents don’t speak about their children often and tend to keep them out of the limelight, which doesn’t come as a surprise knowing how grounded Roberts is. Despite her enormous fortune, which is estimated to be around $250 million, she has never acted as a diva, but remained humble.
Hazel and her brothers had tiny parts in Robert’s movie Mother’s Day back in 2016.
Speaking of her children, Roberts told Harper’s Bazaar in 2018:
“I don’t think they will ever have a true sense of (my fame). I think I told you once when they were starting to figure it out, it was like, ‘You’re famous?’ And I said, ‘I think a lot of people might have seen the movie that I’m in or might know who I am.'”
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She then spoke of the difficulties children face nowadays and added, “It’s different than when I might have said to my mom, ‘Mom, you don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager today,’ even though she probably did. Danny and I really don’t know what it’s like to be a teenager today. Sometimes my kids ask me things and I just say to them, ‘I’m going to say no, and I’m going to look into it because I don’t even know what we’re talking about.'”
It’s safe to say that Roberts and Moder make an awesome couple and are the perfect parents.
In a plane crash that took place in Ubate, Colombia, on October 13, Tuesday afternoon, three adults lost their lives. The fourth passenger, a baby boy, survived the fatal accident thanks to his mother who used her body as a shield. In those terrifying moments, when she was aware her life may end, all she thought about was how to protect her son.
The HK 2335-G plane was operated by the baby’s father, Fabio Grandas, who was a respected doctor involved in many humanitarian organizations which helped ease the life of hundreds and thousands of people from the remote part of the country. According to a translated report by ABC Aeronautico, the baby’s mother, Mayerly Diaz Rojas, was a lawyer who specialized in telecommunications law. The nanny, Nuris Maza, who accompanied them on the flight, was killed, too.
The tragic accident claimed the lives of his parents and nanny. Rescuers found the mother still cradling her baby. https://t.co/0ZHHhPbbxb
Fabio was reported to be part of the Civil Air Patrol for several years but wasn’t on a patrol mission at the time of the accident. The ongoing investigation found the engine documentation was up to date and the cause is still to be discovered.
The plane was supposed to land at the Guaymaral airport, before which an emergency was declared.
At the scene, baby Martin was found wrapped in his dead mother’s arms. He was transferred to the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota University Hospital and is reported to be stable. The parents left behind two other children who weren’t on the plane.
The statement released by the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority said, “a baby, who was also travelling in the aeroplane, is being attended at this time in an assistance center.”
Over the last few years a number of plane crash accidents have been reported in Columbia, as per Zenger. In an accident in 2016, 71 people were killed.
We are very sorry for the loss and we hope baby Martin will have a great life ahead of him. His mother will be always watching over him from Heaven.
We have always been told that doing good is what makes this world go round, but no one warned us that offering kindness can sometimes put us into trouble.
Actor Richard Gere is just an example of that, but no matter what, he never stops being the change he wants to see in the world.
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The prestigious actor has turned to Buddhism years ago, and even met Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader of Tibet, and spoke of the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Today, the two are close friends, but Gere can never forget the first time he met His Holiness.
“We started out with a little small talk, and then he said, ‘Oh, so you’re an actor?’” the Pretty Woman star recalled.
“He thought about that a second, and then he said, ‘So when you do this acting, and you’re angry, are you really angry? When you’re acting sad, are you really sad? When you cry, are you crying?’
“I gave him some kind of actor answer like it was more effective if you really believed in the emotion that you were portraying. He looked very deeply into my eyes and just started laughing. Hysterically. He was laughing at the idea that I would believe emotions are real, that I would work very hard to believe in anger and hatred and sadness and pain and suffering.”
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His love for the “Roof of the World” affected Gere’s career a great deal and it all started when he decided not to follow his prepared speech during the Academy Awards ceremony in 1993 but used the occasion to protest against China’s occupation of Tibet and its “horrendous, horrendous human rights situation.”
Gil Cates, the Academy Award’s producer, swore to ban the actor from any future Oscar broadcasts.
Gere, however, didn’t care. He believed speaking his mind was more important of all.
Knowing how huge of a market the Chinese TV industry is, Gere missed a huge number of roles in successful movies only because the Chinese banned every project he was part of.
“There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him,’” Gere explained.
“I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese.”
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It was one particular movie, Red Corner, which made Gere fully aware of how important China’s opinion was when it came to making movies.
“Everyone was happy with the film,” the actor spoke of the project.
“I get calls from the heads of the studio. Went on Oprah. Then, out of nowhere, I get calls saying, ‘We don’t want you doing press.’ MGM wanted to make an overall deal with the Chinese. China told them, ‘If you release this film, we’re not buying it.’ And so, they dumped it.”
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In 2019, Gere found himself in the center of attention once again, this time because he tried helping migrants stuck at see. As it turned out, he was on vacation with his family when he learned that more than 100 migrants on board had been left stranded because Italy’s right-leaning Lega party leader, Matteo Salvinien, forbid the ship to disembark, leaving the migrants without food or water for days.
Gere and his son headed to the migrant’s vessel, but their boat wasn’t allowed anywhere near. That, however, didn’t prevent the actor from providing food for the scared and confused people.
Speaking of the event and how he angered the Italian government, Gere told The Guardian:
“We saw more than a hundred people on board. I felt ashamed that we have so much and are not able to embrace these fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters who were starving, traumatized.
“If they were told the boat was going back to Libya, they would jump in the water and drown themselves, and I felt it was our responsibility to bring as much light as we could.”
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Eventually, the migrants got the permission to step foot on the soil of the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Now Gere is about to appear at court to tell what had really happened in a case against Salvinien who’s now accused of “using his position as the interior minister to detain the migrants at sea.”
“It’s very simple, I’ll just tell the truth; I’ll just tell what I experienced. I’m only here to speak for people who don’t have a voice. It’s not about me. I’m completely irrelevant here. I’m honest with you. I can be invisible. All I am is a witness,” Gere said in an interview.
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Salvini was reported to have been extremely mad at the actor for taking a stand against him in the behalf of the Open Arms organization.
“First of all, I don’t know these people. I’ve never met them, but I highly doubt they’ve taken the time to go on a boat and have a human experience and understand the real people they have their influence over,” Gere told The Guardian.
“If they did that, then I think there’s probably another conversation to have. You see, I don’t see myself as a movie star. I’m one of 7 billion human beings on the planet, that’s it, no more. I’m no better or worse than anyone.”
“But in terms of the politics of it, I’m not advocating one way or another, of what the Italian people should do,” Gere added. “That’s completely up to the Italians.”
Whether you like his acting or not, we all have to agree that Richard Gere is one of the few people who are willing to put everything on the line for the sake of those who need his help.
With a long list of movies under his belt, Sam Elliott is definitely one of our favorite onscreen cowboys.
His distinctive deep voice and his mustache added to his appearance which made him one of the sexiest men of Hollywood.
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Elliott was born on August 9, 1944 in Sacramento, California, but his family moved to Portland, Oregon, where he attended high school and university, before dropping out after two years of studies. After that, he attended Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, where he completed a two-year program.
The actor knew that he would become one ever since he was 9 years old. His dad, however, who influenced Elliott to be the man he is today, wasn’t really happy with his son’s profession choice and would often say, “Man, this kid is going to go down the wrong path.”
At the start of his acting career, Elliott only landed minor roles, often as an extra, such as in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
It was during the filming of this movie that he and future wife Katharine Ross first met. At the time, however, he felt like he had no chance with her. “I didn’t dare try to talk to her then. She was the leading lady. I was a shadow on the wall, a glorified extra in a bar scene,” he told AARP in 2015.
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After appearing in a number of movies, including Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, Lifeguard, and Molly and Lawless John, Elliott made a name for himself and attracted fans from all over the world.
He and wife Ross met again on the set of The Legacy in 1987 and fell for one another. At the time, Ross was still married to her fourth husband, but divorced him and married Elliott in 1984. They welcomed a daughter that same year.
In 1985, while the couple was on their honeymoon in Hawaii, Elliott’s agent called him for he role in Mask. Ross called the agent back and told him she would make sure she has her husband back for the audition, according to The New York Times.
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From that moment on, his career took off. Although he’s a versatile actor, he’s somehow always closely related to the Westerns in which he plays roles of both good boys and bad boys. “I think it has something to do with integrity and a man’s word and honor and all that kind of stuff — values, morality, all that kind of stuff that everybody looks kind of down their nose at,” he said according to Biography.
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Speaking of his career and the movies The Big Lebowski, Road House, and Tombstone, he told Vulture in 2015, “That’s the big three. And it’s really because they repeat that shit all the time. None of them had great box office, and I wasn’t so good in any of them. You just can’t escape them. They keep showing up.”
However, after that, he was part of some equally big and successful movies that could be added on his list, like A Star is Born and the series The Ranch.
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The actor, whose career spans over five decades and who is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Board of Review Award, and has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards has a net worth of $10 million. Taking into consideration all his movies and work, many find this surprising.
Out of all the movie characters which left an everlasting impact in the history of film, that of James Bond is probably on the pedestal.
The secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007 has been portrayed by some of the most famous names in Hollywood, Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and last but not least, Daniel Craig.
When Craig landed the role, he was already a famous name in the industry and seemed like the perfect choice. Well, he indeed was.
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James Bond came to life through the books of novelist Ian Fleming, with the first one, titled Casino Royale, being published in 1953. Ever since, the fascination with the agent has only grew bigger and bigger. The story behind the name of what would become a prestigious role came after Fleming read the ornithological book entitled Birds Of The West Indies whose author’s name was, well, guess what? James Bond.
“I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could think of. James Bond seemed perfect,” Flemming explained.
As for Craig, he has always dreamed of becoming an actor.
“There’s an essay that my mother kept that I wrote at school when I was six, saying I wanted to be an actor,” he told Candis Magazine.
“I don’t remember writing it, but I do remember that I had a toy Winchester rifle and that my friends and I used to go out to the sand dunes, and we’d pretend to shoot each other and roll down the hills. I think that early pretending to be dead was the first acting I ever did!”
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He attended drama classes and his love for acting intensified during high school so at the age of 16 he was accepted into the National Youth Theatre and later moved on to study at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
Being a struggling actor with the NYT, he was working in restaurant kitchens and as a waiter. He performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of director Edward Wilson.
“I had a lot of fortune at the beginning with the National Youth Theater. It was learning the discipline,” Craig recalled when appearing on BAFTA: A Life In Pictures.
“If you were late, you got so much shit. It was truly priceless. I skipped drama school, and the first year was late all the time. I almost got fired three times, I made up a long excuse once, and a teacher said, ‘This is a bit wrong, Daniel.’”
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His career started as early as 1991 when he made debut in The Power of One. What followed were some great pieces who helped him make a name for himself.
When it comes to his private life, he tends to keep it out of the spotlight. What we know of him is that he has one daughter, Ella Craig, with his first wife Fiona Loudon, a Scottish actress, but the marriage didn’t last long. After filming Dream House together with fellow colleague Rachel Weisz they fell for one another. They tied the knot back in 2011 and have been together ever since. Rachel has a son from a previous relationship.
“We did it privately. And I’ve got a lot of people to thank for that. But that was the point. We did it for private reasons,” Craig told GQ about his wedding.
“Because we didn’t want it f***ed up because that would be sharing a secret. And the whole point is that it was a secret. A secret is a secret in my mind.”
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She on the other hand also spoke of her marriage and she always does it with a dose of pride in her voice.
“I never thought I would get married,” she shared with Evening Standard.
“It was not an ambition of mine. It was the opposite. I couldn’t relate to romantic comedies – marriage seems to be the whole point of them. Then it just happened, happily, at a more mature moment.”
Neither, however, share any details about their relationship and believe that’s the key to success.
“He’s just too famous. It would be a betrayal. You have to protect your marriage,” Rachel told Entertainment Online.
“When you’re young, you tell your girlfriends everything. One of the great pleasures of not being an adolescent is that you don’t have to share everything. When you’re married, that door closes. The audience goes, and you’re in your own life.”
“Daniel and I are really similar. We’re just really crap at talking about our private lives,” she added.
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Casino Royale turned to be one of the highest-grossing Bond films to date, making over $600 million worldwide.
What followed after Casino Royale were Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die.
Craig’s net worth is estimated at $160 million, but besides being that rich, he’s not planning on leaving any money to her daughter.
“Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed?” Craig said, as quoted by The Times.
“I think Andrew Carnegie gave away what in today’s money would be about $11 billion, which shows how rich he was because I’ll bet he kept some of it, too.
“I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation. I think inheritance is quite distasteful. My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go.”
From Chasity to Chaz, Cher and Sonny Bono’s son has been through a lot during his transition from female to male. The fact that his parents were internationally known celebrities had Chaz in the spotlight and everyone was familiar with the cute little girl with blonde curly hair and ponytails.
Chasity would usually appear at the end of her parents’ show The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour while the two sang “I Got You Babe.”
Sonny and Cher on their TV show.
As years passed by, Chasity could feel she was in the wrong body and came out as a lesbian in 1995 before she decided to transition to a man and undergo a surgery in 2008.
Cher had a hard time coping with Chasity’s decision because she felt she would lose her daughter. However, as time passed by, she accepted the reality. Speaking to PrideSource, Cher admitted it wasn’t easy for her as a mother and said, “I didn’t go through it that easily. Both times. When I found out Chaz was gay, I didn’t go through it that easily.”
Then the transitioning took place and it made things even more worrying for the singer. “When I found out Chaz was [transitioning]… we talked about it a lot, actually. But then Chaz didn’t mention it anymore, so I kind of forgot. And what I think is, there’s such a fear of losing the child you love, and what will replace that child.”
But Chaz knew he was different. “…as a child, I always felt there was something different about me. I’d look at other girls my age and feel perplexed by their obvious interest in the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who looked the most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for exactly how I was different. I realized I was gay,” he wrote in his book Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families.
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Fans from all over the world were closely following the relationship between Cher and Chaz who were not on good terms during the first year of Chaz’s transition, and Chaz’s life journey. Finally, at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, people could see the documentary Becoming Chaz which was very emotional and had a scene where Cher speaks of hearing her child’s new voice for the first time.
“My mother went through a kind of mourning period. It was difficult for her, and we didn’t see each other for about the first year of my transition,” Chaz told SBS Australia.
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Chaz pursued a career in the film industry and appeared in five episodes of American Horror Story: Roanoke and play Reverend Rydale on The Bold and the Beautiful.
After the transition, Chaz knew it was the time for him to turn to a healthier lifestyle. So, when he became part of the show Dancing with the Stars, he changed his diet which now contains mostly veggies, fruits, meat, and nuts and managed to lose around 85lbs.
”I would have never been able to do it before,’ he told Oprah Winfrey some years ago. ‘I was too disconnected from my body, and to, you know – the dysphoria around, that I had with my body was too much to be able to have cared enough about to do anything like that.”
Cher is now a proud mother and praises her son for choosing a healthy lifestyle. ”He did it all by himself. He made up his own mind and he did it. And it was like what — 85, 90 pounds. Wow! … I do not know if I’d have that courage.” Cher said.
We are very glad the relationship between Cher and Chaz is stronger than ever.
The life story of Stevie Wonder, the prodigy kid who took the world by storm and is up until this day known as one of the most prominent musicians who have ever walked this Earth, is profound and inspiring to say the least.
This incredible man has never considered his blindness a disadvantage and has accomplished the greatest things in life.
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Born Steveland Judkins or Steveland Morris on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, Wonder, who got the name because of the wonders he could do with the instruments from very early age, wasn’t born blind. He was, however, born prematurely and had to be placed in an incubator at 6-weeks-old. Sadly, because of a doctor’s fault, he was given too much oxygen which destroyed his sight.
He was diagnosed with Retinopathy of Prematurity, which means that the growth of the eyes is aborted, causing the retinas to detach and leading to blindness.
Speaking to Oprah back in 2004, Wonder explained that he wasn’t mad at the doctor who gave him too much oxygen. He even said how he had once visited the hospital where he was born and was given an award.
“I don’t regret what happened because it made me who I am. But I’d love to see,” Wonder said.
Life with a disability has been challenging, especially when he was young.
Wonder recalled his mother cried a lot because of his condition, so when he was just five, he told her: “Don’t worry about me being blind, because I’m happy.”
“I said something like that. It bothered me that my mother was crying all the time. She thought God might be punishing her for something. She lived during a time when things were particularly difficult for a woman in her circumstances,” Wonder told Oprah.
“I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That’s because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.”
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He recalled he was a curious child who was never afraid to try new things, including climbing trees.
“We had these woodsheds in the backyard, and we played a game where we’d jump from the top of the woodshed into the alley. Who could jump the farthest? The kids were like, ‘Go, Steve, go!’ but I guess I missed the moment when my brother Larry whispered, ‘Momma’s home.’ So I’m on top of the shed saying, ‘Are you ready? Here we go!’ And I jumped right into my mother’s arms,” he shared.
He started playing the harmonica and the drums from very early age, and he later discovered the piano.
At only 11 years old, Wonder released his debut album The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, an instrumental, under producer and label founder Berry Gordy Jr.
Speaking of the time Berry Gordy Jr. discovered him and got fascinated with his musical abilities, Wonder explained how the deal could have failed, but luckily, that didn’t happen.
“It was a difficult point. The people there were excited about me being with them, but the lawyer my mother used was not that impressed with Motown,” Wonder recalled.
“There was some negotiating, and some guy there said to my mom, ‘Let me tell you like this: Stevie can either sign this contract, or he can spend the rest of his life selling pencils.’”
“My mother said, ‘I don’t give a damn what you say. My son will never sell pencils ever in his life.’ And the deal was off. I think Berry Gordy finally talked with my mom about the “misunderstanding,” and they worked it out.”
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Many of Stevie Wonder’s songs are No.1 hits which have topped the charts all over the world. Among the songs he made, and which are touching the heart and soul, are Superstition, I Was Made to Love Her, Yesterme Yesteryou Yesterday, My Cherie Amour, For Once In My Life and Sir Duke.
When it comes to the future, Wonder is planning on moving to Ghana indefinitely in an attempt to protect his grand children and great-grandchildren from the racial injustice in America.
“I wanna see this nation smile again. And I want to see it before I leave to travel to move to Ghana, because I’m going to do that,” he told Oprah, as quoted by People.
“I am [relocating permanently], because I don’t want to see my children’s children’s children have to say, ‘Oh, please like me. Please respect me, please know that I am important, please value me.’ What kinda [life is that]?”
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Wonder’s extraordinary life and career is the perfect example that no disability can stand on our way if we put our mind into accomplishing what truly makes us happy. Thank you Stevie Wonder for the joy you are giving to us with your incredible talent and music.
They say that “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder,” but when it comes to Katie Harries, a young model with Down Syndrome from Australia, we all agree she’s beyond beautiful.
This 24-year-old lady is very confident in herself and wants to believe that everyone could see her for who she is. Living with the syndrome was never an obstacle for Katie to achieve great things in life.
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Katie has always dreamed of becoming a model and conquering the runways, and finally, her dream came true. After signing with an agency, she got to walk her first ever show which was a huge success. She gathered the attention of many and was praised for the work well done.
“As soon as she did her first solo walk the whole crowd got up and started cheering for her and calling out her name,” model Krysta Heath said. “In Katie’s words, she just owned it.”
Katie is looking up to Madeline Stuart, another model with Down’s syndrome who has gained fame worldwide and is hoping to follow into her footsteps.
“I am beautiful from the inside and outside and I want to become a model so people can really see who I am,” this incredibly beautiful young lady said.
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We wish her all the success and we are sure she is going to build a brilliant career in the world of fashion and modeling.
For more on Katie’s life check out the video below.
Devastating news about a baby boy left out in the freezing temperatures by his mother who forgot about him has shaken the world. Her negligence led for the little one to freeze to death.
According to the local media, the heartbreaking incident took place in the city of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, Russia, and the baby in question was only seven months old.
Currently, authorities are further investigating the case.
It was reported how the mom put the baby outside on the balcony of the family apartment so he could nap in the fresh air, but she only remembered to check on him after more than five hours passed.
Russian winters are severe and on the day of the incident, the temperatures were -4 degrees Fahrenheit (-20 degrees Celsius).
The cause of death was hypothermia, a condition which occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it, which leads for the temperature to drop very low.
Many parents believe that leaving their children nap outdoors during cold weather helps them avoid colds and coughs. However, after many media outlets have shared this story and the wide public showed their rage and condemned the irresponsible mother, Russian health authorities warned parents to never leave their children outside unattended, according to Fox News.
“Always know where and with whom [your child] is,” the ministry issued a warning in an Instagram post, adding, “Do not pass by if another child is in danger — in winter a child who is lost or injured on the street can very quickly become a victim of low temperatures.”
For a young life to be lost in such manner is beyond sad and tragic. Rest in peace little angel.
A mother named Nicole Langmead and her four year old daughter Kaya were having fun time at the local McDonald’s restaurant when the girl felt the need to go to the bathroom. She asked her mom whether she could go all by herself, to which the mom said yes.
After all, the mother was right there, staying next to the bathroom making sure Kaya was all fine. However, she soon regretted the decision of leaving her daughter inside alone.
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Nicole recalls that just before Kaya entered the bathroom, two girls were stepping out of it laughing hysterically. But that, of course, didn’t raise the alarm as it’s something we see every day.
At that point, nothing could really warn this mother of the danger that was awaiting her little girl.
Sadly, Kaya suffered serious injuries because those two mean girls they saw minutes before put superglue on the toilet seat. According to Metro, the little girl’s skin ripped from her legs and it caused her unbearable pain.
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The McDonald’s staff acted quickly and provided help. Police was also alerted of the incident. They are now trying to identify and locate the girls. What they did was cruel and mean and they have to suffer the consequences of their careless behavior.
Nicole is now trying to spread Kaya’s story in order to warn other parents to be extra cautious when letting their kids alone to the bathroom of restaurants and other public places.
Very often, we speak of the deep impact adoption has on the life of animals neglectful owners leave at shelters. However, our words are pale in comparison to witnessing first hand the joy these creatures feel the moment they get adopted.
Going from a tiny kennel to a comfy home surrounded by people who care is priceless. Luckily, those animals who are adopted are given the chance to experience this sort of unbridled happiness.
Benny is a shy dog that resided at the high-kill shelter Carson Animal Care Center in California. He would spend all his days waiting for someone to cross his path and take him out of that place.
He never knew what future held for him until finally the day of his adoption came.
And his reaction? One of the cutest we’ve ever seen. He just could’t hide the delight and exhilaration that filled his heart when his new forever human came to take him home.
By sharing this lovely story, you help raise awareness of the importance of adopting shelter animals. Who knows, maybe you will be the reason for some dog’s happy ending!
Having a baby is exciting and stressful, but having twins is even more so, in fact, its one of the most exciting experiences to go through! It comes with its own challenges and sometimes serious complications with mom or baby.
Giving birth takes its toll in the body, one mom got the surprise of her life when it was time to give birth, even the doctors were in awe!
Around 10-15% of pregnancies are estimated to start with twins but, sadly, end up with only one baby. It’s called the “vanishing twin” syndrome, many mothers never find out even. It is more common to need extra care as a mother of twins though, more observations, and many things can go wrong too.
Sara Thistlewaite, a math teacher from Ohio decided it was time to start a family of her own with her husband. They were excited for the arrival of their tiny babies, identical twins, they had many many questions!
As it happens the twins were having a really rather rare set of twins, they were identical but monoamniotic twins, which means that they shared the same anionic sac inside the mom’s womb. That was a 1 in 10,000 chance that they had babies like this, straight away, they knew they were special!
….they didn’t expect a delivery as special as the pregnancy though!
Sarah spent over two months in the hospital due to her rare pregnancy, every single person concerned was interested in the rare pregnancy, she began to feel like she was under a microscope. But what she did not know was that it was about to get worse…
The couple, early on, knew that Sarah was set to have a C-section because the babies were completely together, right next to each other. The doctors thought said that it was a routine procedure and said that everything would be just fine.
The Doctors gaped in shock though, it was really apparent that what they were seeing was unusual…
Sara had a screen that covered what was happening and what the doctors were doing. She just wanted to hear her baby cry, it would indicate normal breathing and a successful birth had happened. But instead, she just heard noises of shock as the babies were taken from her womb.
The Doctors could not separate the babies to pull them out one by one so they took them out together, entwined into one. At first, they were not sure that the babies were OK at first, but when they looked closer they then realized what was really happening, the room then fell silent…
Her heart felt like it was going to beat out of her chest, she was impatient and demanded to see her babies now! With what they saw it was really obvious that the two already share a special bond.
The two babies came into this world holding hands!! When the doctor’s realized it along with the nurses they all felt a special touching moment. Everyone began to cry in joy and happiness, this really was one in a million baby birth!!
Thankfully there was somebody on hand to take photos of the babies and capture the moment forever in a picture, everyone wanted to know more, everyone was so touched, how special it really was.
The story about the coupe and their babies was featured in newspapers and magazines alike, nobody could get enough of the story and how it happened and the moments before and after the birth, plus of course the lovely photo of the babies holding hands!
The birth and indeed the whole pregnancy was a little scary, to say the least, but both babies came out healthy and with all their fingers and toes. The special bond they share is very obvious right from the start. The called the babies Julian and Jenna.
The girls really love doing everything together, even wearing matching clothes, the couple really has a hard time separating them.
Sara said:
“Sometimes if my husband goes to the store, he’ll take one twin and I’ll keep the other. When that happens, they both get really upset and ask for each other. They’re definitely really close. They’re like two peas in a pod.”
Although difficult at times, their parents really love them both equally, every step of the way, bringing up twins is a challenge every day!
What a wonderful in a million story, please SHARE this story if you loved it as much as us!
Who wouldn’t want to spend the holidays surrounded by family and friends? I guess that is what every person is longing for, because not being able to experience that feeling of warmth and coziness of your place during the most wonderful time of the year might be the worst thing ever. After all, the holidays should be all about family and friends, and those we love the most.
Unfortunately, many people don’t get to experience the holiday festivities at home, usually because of their demanding job positions. Think of all the doctors, nurses, firefighters, and military men and women who spend endless hours and shifts helping those in need, and serving a whole nation. These people certainly don’t have it easy.
As a result of deployment many soldiers miss not only the holidays, but many times the birth of their children and watching them grow up, many birthdays, gatherings, and other special events. For these people, as well for their families, having a chance to make it home is the ultimate Christmas present.
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Christmas can be challenging for military people and their families. Parents, spouses, and children of soldiers spend the holidays yearning for their presence while hoping they stay safe throughout their deployment. ADVERTISEMENT
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SOURCE: YOUTUBE SCREENSHOT – KPC NEWS It seemed like a farfetched wish, but anything is possible especially if Santa is listening. Coincidentally, their school had a lottery during their Christmas breakfast. The lottery would give the winner a chance to ask Santa for whatever they wanted for Christmas. In a video posted by KPC News, Superintendent Alan Middleton is in the middle of choosing the winner. Source: YouTube/ KPC NEWS
Specialist Ethan Harris did a tour in Afghanistan as part of the storied 101st Airborne Division, also known as the “Screaming Eagles” because of their patch.
A year after being away it was finally the time for this Specialist to reunite with his family. He got to be home for Christmas, and since it is the time of the year when we give presents, he got the idea of surprising his mom by doing something both emotional and fun.
Spc. Harris’ mother works at the Prairie Heights Middle School. It was the perfect place for him to show up and make her jaw drop. So he did just that, went to the lottery the school organizes each year, dressed up in a uniform, but not the one everyone is used to seeing him in.
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Kim Harris, Spc. Harris’ mother, isn’t just a math teacher, but one of the best teachers ever. She is loving and caring and students simply adore her. She was told her son was already in the United States and she was anticipating to embrace him and tell him how much she missed him.
On the day of the lottery there is always a person dressed as Santa. This year wasn’t any different, everyone was gathered at the school cafeteria, the Big Old man was also there waiting for the people to tell him their Christmas wishes. That’s when the Superintendent Alan Middleton called Kim’s name.
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He then told her to come in the front and sit in Santa’s lap. She was quite excited and laughing all the time. When Santa asked her what it was that she wanted for Christmas she replied:
“Peace on Earth and goodwill towards men.”
Although her wish list was long, the best present she could have think of was there already.
“My son is safely on U.S. soil.”
Santa then asked Kim where her son was, but when she responded “Fort Campbell,” he only had one more question to ask.
“Are you sure?”
That’s when Santa pulled his beard down and revealed his true identity!
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This mother’s reaction is priceless. She really couldn’t be happier knowing she will get to spend Christmas with her son.
Watch the full reunion in the KPC News video below:
What makes a mother? Is it just the process of carrying a child and giving birth or being there for that little bundle of joy and doing all you can to raise them into respected individuals?
Actress Sandra Bullock is a proud mother of two wonderful kids, 10-year-old Louis and 8-year-old Laila. Bullock was highest paid actress in 2010 and 2014 and was named The Most Beautiful Woman in 2015 by People magazine. In addition to that, she was on the list of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.
However, besides her successful career, she seems she’s most proud of being a mom.
Bullock’s kids are adopted, and people calling them “adopted children” is what makes her really angry. She believes that no child should ever be labeled in such manner, because she is a mother to these incredible children as much as any mother is to the kid she had given birth to.
During an interview with InStyle, the Oscar winning actress brought up the question about children who are adopted and said, “Let’s all just refer to these kids as “our kids.” Don’t say “my adopted child.” No one calls their kid their “IVF child” or their “oh, shit, I went to a bar and got knocked-up child.” Let just say, “our children.”
She tends to provide for Louis and Laila a regular upbringing and tends to keep them out of the spotlight as much as possible. Bullock knows best that being a mother is so much more than just giving birth and we all have to agree with her. Her kids are lucky to have her as a mom.
Those who get to grow up with their grandparents by their side are one of the luckiest people there are because the elderly are the most caring individuals who unselfishly share with us the wisdom they have gathered throughout the years.
One bride from Poland and her loving granddad melted the hearts of the entire nation after a video of them walking down the aisle holding hands was shared online. The granddad, Bronislaw Karovsky, was a war veteran who received a number of awards for his bravery. Despite his fragile health, he accompanied his granddaughter Joanna to the altar while wearing his military uniform.
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Mr. Karovsky was part of the Polish movement against the Nazis and participated in the Warsaw Uprising. At one point, he was caught by the enemies, but managed to escape. Shortly after, he was captured again and was forced to spend 10 years in prison due to his actions against the communist government in Poland.
After the liberation of Poland, he received numerous awards.
Sadly, just two days after his granddaughter’s wedding, Mr. Karovsky passed away at the age of 94. He will be remembered as a very special man who fought for his country. And for Joanna, she now has a video of a beautiful moment she shared with him to hold on and to cherish forever.
Winning an Academy Award and a Golden Globe and having starred in movies dubbed iconic, among which Thelma and Louis, it looks like Geena Davis has a lot to be proud of. Her acting career is one of the most successful in Hollywood, although there were times when Davis kept herself out of the spotlight.
Recently, all eyes were on her after it was revealed that she and her fourth husband, plastic surgeon Reza Jarrahy, have reached a settlement agreement in their divorce nearly three and a half years after he initially filed for it.
Jarrahy is the father of Davis’ three children, daughter Alizeh Keshvar Davis Jarrahy, and twin sons Kaiis Steven Jarrahy and Kian William Jarrahy.
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Jarray was reported to have wanted to split assets with Davis but she claimed that they were never legally married. A source claimed that the pair spent around $1.5 million on their divorce proceedings. She continued living in their California mansion, while he faced bankruptcy and was forced to sleep at friends’ places and even his car, according to media outlets.
Davis’ net worth, on the other hand, is said to be $30 million.
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In the past, she could be heard saying how she doesn’t want her kids to pursue careers in the film industry. Davis herself has always dreamed of becoming an actress.
During her young years, she was into athletics and even played basketball for her school’s team. Later on, Davis pursued a modeling career and had to lie about her height, she’s 6-feet-tall, because as she once said, “believe it or not, you can be considered too tall.”
In 1997, after graduating from Boston University where she majored in drama, Davis moved to New York and worked as a sales clerk and waitress as well as a mannequin in store windows. During that period, she was featured as a model in the famous Victoria Secret Catalog, after signing with the Zoli Agency. This opened many doors for young Davis, and one of them, probably the most important of all, was the one leading to Hollywood.
“I knew I wanted to be in movies, as opposed to theater,” she told NPR.
“I decided that I would try becoming a model first because, at that time, Christie Brinkley and Lauren Hutton were being offered parts in movies. And I thought, OK, well, I’ll just become a model, and then they’ll just offer me parts because obviously, it’s so much easier to become a supermodel.
“It ultimately all worked out for me, but the likelihood of becoming a famous model was actually pretty slim, and I didn’t,” she added.
“I did get work, and it was through my model agency that I got my first acting job.”
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Besides being part of a number of successful movies, including Beetlejuice, The Accidental Tourist, which brought her an Academy Award, the series Buffalo Bill, and many more, she’s also a women’s rights activist.
“There are going to be so many movies starring women, about women, female road pictures, whatever,” she said in a Q&A of the noise surrounding Thelma and Louis.
“I’m thinking, hot dog, let’s sit back and wait for all this magic change to happen. We’re still waiting. It really did not happen. It seems like every five years or so, there’s another movie starring women that’s a huge hit, and people say, ‘Well now certainly everything is going to change,’ and it really hasn’t.”
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For a while, Davis changed focus in careers and turned to archery after she got fascinated with it after watching American Justin Huish win two gold medals at the Atlanta Summer Olympic Games. She trained very hard and even received a number of local as well as national awards. Her focus were the the 2020 Olympic Games, but despite her hard work, she fell short of qualifying.
The 65-year-old actress founded Geena Davis Institute on Gender In Media in 2004, a “non-profit research organization that researches gender representation in media and advocates for equal representation of women.”
Last year, she won the Academy Award’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work.
“We’ve been doing it about 15 years now, and we can measure progress,” Davis said.
“There’s a lot of progress that needs to still be made for characters of color or with different abilities. And age is another factor. But I’m very excited that we are seeing progress.”
David Robert Jones, or David Bowie as we all know him, was considered a leading figure in the music industry and one of the most famous and most influential musicians of the 20th century. Unfortunately, this great man left this world in 2016 after a battle with cancer. He left behind a legacy and a number of iconic music pieces that would be around in the years to come.
Bowie had been married to entrepreneur and former supermodel Iman for 26 years. They had daughter Alexandria “Lexi” Jones together, who was still a teenager when her father died.
Today, almost 6 years after his passing, Iman spoke of the sorrow she felt and the presence of her husband that she feels every single day.
Speaking to Today, Iman revealed how her daughter asked her if she would ever remarry, to what she answered “no.”
“People say to me when they talk, ‘Oh I loved your late husband,’ and I said, ‘He’s not my late husband, he’s my husband,’ so that’s how I feel about it. This was truly the love of my life, and I just wait until I meet him again.”
In the process of helping Lexi deal with the grief, Iman realized she didn’t dealt with the grief herself.
“I had a daughter who was a teenager when her father passed away, so I was really more concentrated in helping her go through her grief,” Iman shared. “But I thought, oh yes, I did go through my grief, but I actually did not.”
“Last year I went to my house estate, this beautiful property that I haven’t spent time there since my husband passed away, and there I was stuck for the year and I was forced to deal with it,” she continued. “All of a sudden grief knocked on the door and became a companion. And I went through all of it, and now it is the joy that I remember.”
Iman also recalled the time she and Bowie first met. Apparently, he felt it was love at first sight. She, on the other hand, needed few months to get there.
After their first date, Iman had to travel to Paris for a runway show. Once she entered her hotel room, she was stunned by the incredible sight. The entire place was filled with beautiful Gardenias that Bowie arranged for her. When she returned, he waited for her at the airport.
“Early on, we were walking down the street and my shoelace came undone and he got on his knees to tie it for me and I thought he’s the one,” she told People.
The muse of a number of designers, among which Gianni Versace, Thierry Mugler, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Yves Saint Laurent, paid tribute to her late husband by creating a fragrance named Love Memoir. It can be purchased exclusively at HSN and hsn.com.
“There are days that are harder than others but the memories are not all sad of why the person isn’t here. The memories are now of how great it was. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I had 26 years. So I have that to sustain me,” she said.
“I definitely feel his presence,” Iman added, “especially when I look out over the glorious sunsets at our home because David loves sunsets. So in that way he is ever present.”
The ongoing pandemic imposed “a new normal” where we are expected to limit the social contacts to the minimum. A number of businesses were forced to close down and that left millions of people jobless and struggling to make ends meet. One of those affected by the pandemic was a man named Robert Simpson who not only experienced a hard time landing a job, but lost his home too. He and his girlfriend, along with her 6-year-old son, were forced to move into a hotel where they pay rent. But with his only income being his disability check of $1,000 a month, living was hard.
Unable to provide for his family, Robert decided to try his luck by standing at a corner at the Hurstbourne exit off Interstate 64 in Louisville with a sign in his hands saying, “Handyman. 25 years exp. Need work.”
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He stood there for days before someone snapped a photo of him and shared it on Instagram along with the caption, “This man was out on Hurstborne (Louisville, Ky) today. He isn’t asking for money, he just wants to work. If you know any businesses that may be in need of a handyman please pass his number on.”
Luckily, the photo caught the attention of the right person, Kyle Kark, the owner of Greenstar Home Remodeling, company offering remodeling services, mainly of offices.
Even though he had never met Robert before, Kyle decided to give him a call and offer him a steady job. Just what Robert needed and hoped for.
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Speaking to WLKY News Louisville, Robert said, “It feels excellent. It’s a blessing. I didn’t even ask him what he was paying. I just came. And he’s been taking care of me ever since.”
Kyle even drives Robert to work every day as he doesn’t have a car. On top of that, Kyle organized a fundraiser to help Robert with his rent and to ease his life even further.
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“Green Star Home has had the honor and privilege to work with Rob the Handyman today,” the GoFundMe page read.
“Though we will continue to help Rob and his family out when and where we can, we ask our community to also provide the much needed support.
Rob is a humble man and has not once asked for a dime he has not earned, but he and his family are without essential needs, such as a vehicle and a permanent place to stay, so it is Green Star’s hope that you will join us in supporting our neighbor Rob and his family by providing the funds needed to get him back on his feet.
We thank you in advance for your kindness and generosity.”
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The page helped raise over $24,000. One person who donated $1,000 wrote, “God bless you and your family. I am honored to help you to gain a fresh start. You are the best this Country has to offer! A real role model.”
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For more on the story and Robert and Kyle’s interviews go to the video below. What an inspiring story during these tough times for the humanity.
Rescue teams consisting of the Bartholomew County Water Rescue and Recovery Team, other water rescue agencies, as well as a number of volunteers, were searching for 2-year-old Emma Sweet after her father Jeremy was spotted by duck hunters in his partially submerged pick up truck last Friday. Both Jeremy and Emma were reported missing by the girl’s mother, but at the time Jeremy was found, little Emma was nowhere to be seen.
The extensive and thorough search ended up with Emma’s body being recovered from White River, some 2.5 miles downstream from where Jeremy was discovered. The body was found next to a pile of debris in the water, as reported by Yahoo.
Emma’s mother and uncle were also part of the search teams.
Breaking: The Bartholomew County Sheriff says the body of 2-year-old Emma Sweet was found in the White River. @wrtvpic.twitter.com/7ry2RsDh0z
In a Facebook post on the Bartholomew County Sheriff page, Sheriff Matt Myers wrote while the search was still ongoing, “I have never in my 30 years in law enforcement seen such cooperation and teamwork in an investigation. I had no doubt that the men and women searching for Emma would find her.”
Speaking of the girl’s mother and family, the sheriff added, “I pray the Lord to comfort them during this difficult time.
“I again want to praise the first responders and all of those who came out to help search for Emma.”
It remains unclear how the pick up truck ended in the water. In the meantime, Jeremy was placed on the 72-hour hold.
Detectives spoke to him several times and he has given conflicting stories about how he and his daughter ended up in the water.
Once he’s out of the hospital, where he is being treated for hypothermia, he would be taken to the Bartholomew County Jail, as per sheriff Myers.
Hollywood is the place where the magic happens. Besides all those glorious million-dollar worth productions, it is also known for the love stories of many celebrities who hope to find the right one in a colleague or a co-star. However, what is typical for most Hollywood marriages is that they don’t usually last, and the one between the Bridget Jones’ Diary star Renée Zellweger and country singer Kenny Chesney is an example of that.
From the very start, the public believed that this couple was a bit unlike. Renée was reaching for the stars at the time, while Kenny already had a number of famous songs under his belt, so they were both famous in their own right.
What they had in common was that they were both from Texas, but that wasn’t reason enough for their union to succeed.
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The two were reported to have first met during NBC’s broadcast “Concert of Hope,” a tsunami aid telethon in January 2005. Apparently, Kenny learned that Renée was trying to “pass him a note.”
“When the broadcast wrapped, [Chesney] went over [to Zellweger] and said, ‘I hear you are trying to pass me a note — don’t let the principal find out,’” a friend of Rene’s told People.
Before this meeting, Renée was dating other people. She was shortly engaged to actor Jim Carrey and dated musician Jack White, lead singer of The White Stripes.
At the time, Kenny already had 20 albums and more than 40 top 10 singles on the US Billboard Hot Country, while Renée charmed the world with her roles in Jerry Maguire and the iconic Bridget JonesDiary.
Jim Carrey & Renee Zellweger at the Mann Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)
Once Renée and Kenny announced they were dating, the news took the magazines by storm. Few weeks later, they revealed they tied the knot during a private ceremony at St. John at Kenny’s place in the gated community of Peter Bay.
“It’s a quick, surprise wedding, kind of a shocker for all of us here in Hollywood who did not see it coming,” Mark Steins of Entertainment Tonight wrote at the time.
What came as a bigger shock was that just four months after saying I do, Renée asked her marriage to be annulled. Neither of them wanted to speak of the reasons which led to the decision at the time, but over the years, they both opened up and tried to make things more clear.
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Apparently, Rene listed “fraud” as the reason for her marriage to be annulled, and that caused quite a stir because people started speculating that Kenny could be gay. The actress the felt the urge to comment on those speculations, saying, “the miscommunication of the objective of their marriage at the start is the only reason for this annulment.”
Further, she was reported to have told Celebrity Nine, “That made me sad. It made me sad that somehow people were using that as a way to be cruel and calling someone gay as a pejorative, which has fateful consequences. Of course, there’s the bigger-picture problem of why anyone had to make up a story at all.”
Some believed the problem started at their honeymoon. “Well, we did our honeymoon in Little Rock at a show. I had to go back on the road, so we went to Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Dallas and San Antonio. And then I flew here. So it was not that great of a honeymoon,” the musician reported back in the day.
During an appearance at Oprah, Kenny tried to explain what really happened between him and his now ex-wife. He said his life was sort of packed in a box, and Renée somehow didn’t fit in that box.
”I panicked. It was out of the box. Oh my God, but it’s tough. It really is tough, and she’s a sweet soul, no doubt about it, but I just wasn’t ready…. This is the first time I’ve actually talked about it, but that’s what happened.”
This, however, didn’t put a stop to the rumors, so in 2009, Kenny had an interview with Playboy, as reported by CMT News, and went further on to explain, “That is the most unbelievable thing in the world … What guy who loves girls wouldn’t be angry about that sh—? I didn’t sign up for that. I think people need to live their lives the way they want to, but I’m pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. (laughs) I’ve got a long line of girls who could testify that I am not gay.”
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Although this celeb marriage was short-lived, it managed to cause controversy. We believe both Renée and Kenny are glad this period of their lives is behind them as they both continued be great at what they do when it comes to their professional lives.
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