Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Bill Murray


William James Murray born on September 21st in 1950. One of my favorite actors of all time. He is in so many good movies. Bill got his acting/comedian television career started in 1975 when he was a cast member on the show Saturday Night Live. Before that he was recruited by John Belushi to be on the radio show The National Lampoon Radio Hour, which aired on some 600 stations from 1973 to 1974.

During the first few seasons of Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray was in a serious romantic relationship with fellow cast member Gilda Radner. A few of my personal favorite movies he acted in are Ghostbusters,Groundhog Day,Where The Buffalo Roam, The part he plays in Little Shop Of Horrors (see bottom of post) is hilarious! Scrooged,What About Bob,Kingpin. He plays a quick role in a movie I just saw not too long ago called Zombieland.
This is something I didn't know, Bill murray is the 5th of nine brothers and sisters. (I'am the 6th of nine brothers and sisters, kind of cool) Bill was born in Willmette, Illinois, a suburb in the northern part of Chicago.
His Mother was Lucille (née Collins) and his Fathers name was Edward Joseph Murray II. She was a Mail Room Clerk and he was a Lumber Salesman. The Murray residence was brought up Irish Catholic. Three of his siblings act as well including John and Joel Murray. There is also his brother Brian Doyle-Murray who acts as well.
There is supposed to be a third Ghostbuster coming out in 2012. Lets hope it is good.
Here is my favorite scene with Bill Murray in Little Shop Of Horrors.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Sandra Bullock


Sandra Annette Bullock born July 26, 1964 in Arlington Virginia. Her Mothers name was Helga D. Meyer who was a German opera singer and voice teacher passed away in the year 2000. Her father John W. Bullock a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Sandras maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremburg, Germany. Sandra lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. She is fluent in German.
Sandra studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado.
Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions, and even dated a football player.
She graduated in 1982 and enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She left East Carolina during her senior year in the spring of 1986, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue an acting career. She moved to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of odd jobs (bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker. Sandra later completed her coursework at East Carolina University.
On December 20, 2000, Bullock survived the crash of a chartered business jet at Jackson Hole Airport. The aircraft hit a snowbank instead of the runway, resulting in both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing partially separating from the aircraft, and the left wing being bent back. On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the film The Proposal, she and her husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on (driver's side offset) at moderate speed by a drunken driver. Vehicle damage was not catastrophic and amazingly there were no injuries.
In October 2004, Bullock won a multimillion-dollar judgment against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her Lake Austin, Texas home; the jury ruled the house was uninhabitable. It has since been torn down and rebuilt. Bullock also owns a house on Tybee Island, which is a few miles from Savannah, Georgia. In 2009, she purchased a home in the historic Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans. On April 22, 2007, Marcia Diana Valentine was found lying outside James's and Bullock's Southern California home in Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran to her 2004 silver Mercedes, got behind the wheel, and tried to run over James. The woman is said to be an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock.
The woman was charged with one felony count each of aggravated assault and stalking, while Bullock obtained a restraining order to bar Valentine from "contacting or coming near her home, family or work for three years." Valentine pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and stalking. Valentine was subsequently convicted of stalking and was sentenced to three years of probation. Recently she got another restraining order from Thomas James Weldon who was but this time the restraining order was for her son Louis, since her previous order expired.
My favorite movies she was in would have to be Speed,She was smoking hot in Demolition Man,While You Were Sleeping,The Net,Hope Floats,Murder By Numbers,Two Weeks Notice,Premonition and she was also smoking hot in The Proposal. I just saw The blind Side the other night and it was better than I thought it would be.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery born August 25th 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburg. He was a milkman for his first job, then he joined the Royal Navy but was discharged because of having an ulcer but later returned to the co-op. After that he was a lorry driver, a laborer, an artist's model for The Edinburg College of Art and a coffin polisher. Not mention one of the greatest actors to ever live. While he was in the Navy he got 2 tattoo's one simply saying "Mum and Dad", the other saying "Scotland Forever".


Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.
Sean Connery was best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
Connery has been polled as the, "Greatest Living Scot" and was knighted in July 2000. In 1989, he was proclaimed, the Sexiest Man Alive, by People Magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted, Sexiest Man of the Century!
He has won an Academy Award, Two BAFTA Awards and Three Golden Globes throughout his career. He has been married twice first to Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973 and then to Micheline Roquebrune from 1975 to present day.
While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marine (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Then The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion (1975). Then A Bridge Too Far (1977). In 1981, Sean Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, in which he describes the character as being "Sean Connery — or someone of equal but cheaper stature". When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role.
Diane Cilento in her 2006 autobiography My Nine Lives, as well as in subsequent interviews on radio and in print, Diane claimed that Connery had beaten her on several occasions. Connery vehemently denied the accusations. In a December 1987 interview with Barbara Walters, he stated that it would be acceptable for a man to hit a woman with an open hand, if she continues to provoke the man after he concedes an argument to her. Connery had made similar remarks in a November 1965 interview with Playboy magazine on the set of Thunderball: "I don't think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman ... If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I'd do it." In 1993, Vanity Fair quoted him saying there are confrontational women who "want a smack".
In 1993, news that Connery was undergoing radiation treatment for an undisclosed throat ailment sparked media reports that the actor was suffering from throat cancer following years of heavy smoking, and he was falsely declared dead by the Japanese and South African news agencies. Connery immediately appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to deny all of this. In a February 1995 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said that the radiation treatment was to remove nodules from his vocal cords. His father, a heavy smoker, died from throat cancer in 1972. In 2003, he had surgery to remove cataracts from both eyes. On 12 March 2006, he announced he was recovering from surgery to remove a kidney tumor in January. In 2008, he chipped a bone in his shoulder after falling while playing golf. In October 2009, he told Wine Spectator magazine that he has been diagnosed with a heart condition.
My favorite movies would have to be Highlander,The Untouchables,Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade,The Hunt For Red October,Medicine Man,Rising Sun,First Knight and The Rock.
Here's a video from when he was on Barbara Walters talking about a bitch slap.(so to speak)

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SNL Sean Connery

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Jenna von Oÿ

Born on May 2nd 1977 in Stamford Connecticut. Parents are Gloria and Frank von Oÿ. I remember her from the show Blossom. But then I saw her on the show The Parkers and it seems as though she's all grown up.

She began her acting career as a child in regional stage productions and commercials.




Jenna made her television acting debut in 1986 appearing on an episode of ABC Weekend Special, then she appeared on shows like Tales from the Darkside and Kate & Allie acting out guest roles. She also co-starred in the sitcom Lenny although the show didn't last long. In 1989 she appeared in the feature film Born on the Fourth of July opposite Tom Cruise. Then there was Blossom from 1991 to 1995 portraying the role of Six LeMeure. I didn't think she was going to grow up and be extremely hot! She also is the voice of Stacey in A Goofy Movie in 1995. Then she attended the University of Southern Califonia for a couple years, but then she dropped out and returned to acting. From 1999 to 2004 she began to play the role of Stevie van Lowe in the Parkers. During that time Jenna played the voice of Trinket St. Blaire in the animated series Pepper Ann. In June 2000, Jenna recorded a demo compact disc (which honestly I have not heard yet) in an attempt to launch a recording career in country music. Her debut album, Breathing Room, was released on September 18, 2007.
In 2005 she appeared in Marsha Potter Gets a Life. Then she guest stared in a episode of Cold Case and parodied Lauren Graham's character of Lorelei Gilmore in the Family Guy episode Perfect Castaway. She was also the voice of Gracie in the feature Dr. Dolittle 3 which went straight to DVD.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Jeff Goldblum

Jeffery Lynn Goldblum is well know for his acting career. He was born on October 22nd 1952 in a Pittsburgh suburb, West Homestead, Pennsylvania. His father Harold L. Goldblum was a medical doctor and his mother Shirley S. née Temeles who was a radio broadcaster who later ran a kitchen equipment and appliances sales firm.
He has a sister Pamela and an older brother, Lee. He had another older brother Rick but he passed away at age 23. Jeff moved to New York City at the age of 17 in hopes of becoming an actor. His parents were always interested in show business. Goldblum worked on the stage and studied acting at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of acting coach Sanford Meisner. He made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning musical Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is also an accomplished jazz pianist and declared that if he did not act, he would have become a professional musician. He made his film debut as a thug in the 1974 Charles Bronson film Death Wish as Freak #1 and he briefly appeared as a protester in the TV movie Columbo A Case of Immunity (1975).
Later in his career, as "Lacey Party Guest" in Annie Hall(1977), Goldblum is seen saying into the telephone at a Hollywood party, "I forgot my mantra." Goldblum has had leading roles in films such as The Fly(1986), Independence Day, The Lost World(1997), Earth Girls Are Easy, The Tall Guy and Vibes(1988). Goldblum's strong supporting roles include those in Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978), The Big Chill(1983), Into the Night(1985), Jurassic Park (1993) and he also had strong supporting roles in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and the cult films The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension (1984) and Igby Goes Down(2002).
Jeff was the voice for most U.S. Apple commercials for several years, including advertisements for the iMac and iBook.
He also voices some U.S. Toyota commercials as well as Procter & Gamble's facial cream line. He has recently appeared on Irish TV in commercials for the National Lottery. It was announced In September 2006, that Goldblum was one of the founding members of a new theater company in New York called The Fire Dept. According to press materials, "The Fire Dept is made up of established and emerging writers, directors, actors and designers who have come together to create and produce work that cannot be replicated inside a television box or on a movie screen...The work of The Fire Dept combines the rigor and structure of great narrative storytelling with the vitality of formal experimentation to immerse audiences in a total experience that leaves them awake, alive and transformed." The company will devote energy into developing new live theater works as well as interpreting old favorites. Jeff replaced Chris Noth as a Senior Detective on Law & Orders Criminal Intent. In the series, Goldblum plays the role of Detective Zach Nichols. His guest appearance was on Sesame Street in 1990 as Bob's long-lost brother Minneapolis (parody of Indiana Jones) where Big Bird's friend Snuffleupagus had "the golden cabbage of Snuffertiti" hidden in his cave. He has also appeared on Tom Goes to the Mayor, The Colbert Report, and Tim and Eric Awesome Show.
Jeff Goldblum is one of my favorite actors because of his witty comments and intellectual roles. I really liked his roles in Jurassic Park, The Fly, Independence Day and Powder the best.
Here is an video ad for apple slowed down with Jeff Goldblum in it. It's hilarious! He sounds like he is drunk.

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