What the hell happened, girls?

The evolution of the male pin-ups of the movies through the years until now… Enjoy (or not…)

THE 20’S: RUDOLPH VALENTINO, JOHN GILBERT AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS SR.

THE 30’S: GARY COOPER, CLARK GABLE AND ERROL FLYNN

THE 40’S: CARY GRANT, JAMES STEWART AND HUMPHREY BOGART

THE 50’S: MARLON BRANDO, GREGORY PECK AND JAMES DEAN

THE 60’S: PAUL NEWMAN, WARREN BEATTY AND SEAN CONNERY

THE 70’S: ROBERT REDFORD, JOHN TRAVOLTA AND CHRISTOPHER REEVE

THE 80’S: HARRISON FORD, RICHARD GERE AND TOM CRUISE

THE 90’S: BRAD PITT, LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ANTONIO BANDERAS

THE 2000’S: JOHNNY DEPP, HUGH JACKMAN AND GEORGE CLOONEY

TODAY: ROBERT PATTINSON, DANIEL RADCLIFFE AND JUSTIN BIEBER… WHAT THE F…?!?!?!?!?!?

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED, GIRLS???

Miracle happens

A blonde reading a book? Yes, it happens sometimes …

Hey, but it’s Paris Hilton! Well, miracle happens, too…

Happy B-Day, Johnny

Name: John Christopher Depp II. Born: May, 9 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA.

THE MAN OF THOUSAND FACES

In the early years of Hollywood, more precisely in the years of the silence movies, one actor became famous by the characters that played in the screen: Lon Chaney Sr. With breathless performances and misrecognize make up, he was not only one of the greatest actors of his time, but receive the nickname of “the man of thousand faces”.

Johnny Depp is the modern Lon Chaney. Actually, no one actor in activity has a career like Johnny Depp, with so many stupendous performances living the most strange and outsider characters. Enjoy the gallery.

1. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Glen Lantz), 1984, directed by Wes Craven.

2. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Edward), 1990, directed by Tim Burton.

3. CRY-BABY (Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker), 1990, directed by John Waters.

4. WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE (Gilbert), 1993, directed by Lasse Hallström.

5. BENNY & JOON (Sam), 1993, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. With Mary Stuart Masterson.

6. ED WOOD (Edward D. Wood Jr.), 1994, directed by Tim Burton. With Martin Landau.

7. DON JUAN DEMARCO (Don Juan), 1995, directed by Jeremy Leven. With Marlon Brando.

8. NICK OF TIME (Gene Watson), 1995, directed by John Badham. With Christopher Walken.

9. DEAD MAN (William Blake), 1995, directed by Jim Jarmush.

10. FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (Raoul Duke), 1998, directed by Terry Gilliam. With Benicio Del Toro.

11. THE NINTH GATE (Dean Corso), 1999, directed by Roman Polanski.

12. SLEEPY HOLLOW (Ichabod Crane), 1999, directed by Tim Burton.

13. CHOCOLATE (Roux), 2000, directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche.

14. FROM HELL (Inspector Frederick Abberline), 2001, directed by Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes.

15. PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN – THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (Jack Sparrow), 2003, directed by Gore Verbinski. With Orlando Bloom.

16. ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO (Agent Sands), 2003, directed by Robert Rodriguez.

17. THE LIBERTINE (John Wilmot), 2004, directed by Laurence Dunmore.

18.  FINDING NEVERLAND (Sr. James Matthew Barrie), 2004, directed by Marc Forster. With Kate Winslet.

19. CORPSE BRIDE (Victor Van Dort – voice), 2005, directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson.

20. CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Willy Wonka), 2005, directed by Tim Burton.

21. SWEENEY TODD – THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (Sweeney Todd), 2007, directed by Tim Burton.

22.  PUBLIC ENEMIES (John Dillinger), 2009, directed by Michael Mann.

23. ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Mad Hatter), 2010, directed by Tim Burton.

24.  THE TOURIST (Frank Taylor), 2010, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. With Angelina Jolie.

25. RANGO (Rango/Lars – voice), 2011, directed by Gore Verbinski.

26. PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN – ON STRANGER TIDES (Jack Sparrow), 2011, directed by Rob Marshall. With Penélope Cruz.

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” is a song written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus for the singer/pianist Nina Simone, who first recorded it in 1964. “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” has been recorded or performed by many artists, and is widely known by the 1965 blues rock hit recording from The Animals. A 1977 disco/Latin rendition by Santa Esmeralda was also a hit.

Cat Stevens was pleased as a young musician to be compared to the song’s first performer, Nina Simone, by an interviewer from Melody Maker. After converting to Islam and changing his name to Yusuf Islam, several incidents where he has felt misunderstood — including a recitation from the Qur’an that he maintains was either a misquote or taken out of context which was alleged to be supportive of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and allegations that he provided funds to terrorist organizations resulted in his deportation from both Israel and the U.S. — sparked his recording of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” with some lyrical alterations, featured on his 2006 album “An Other Cup”.

An Other Cup is Islam’s first Western pop album since Back to Earth, which was released in 1978 under the name Cat Stevens. On the album cover, the singer is credited as “Yusuf” with a cover label identifying him as “the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens”. In an interview as to why he presented both names, he said, “You know, the cup is there to be filled … with whatever you want to fill it with. For those people looking for Cat Stevens, they’ll probably find him in this record. If you want to find Yusuf, go a bit deeper, you’ll find him.”

In April 2007, BBC1 broadcast a concert given at the Porchester Hall by Yusuf as part of BBC Sessions, his first live performance in London in 28 years (the previous one being the UNICEF “Year of the Child” concert in 1979). He played several new songs along with some old ones like “Father and Son”, “The Wind”, “Where Do the Children Play?”, “Don’t Be Shy”, “Wild World”, and “Peace Train”. Below, watch Yusuf Islam’ “Don’t let me be misunderstood”.

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Learn more about Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens
Visit Yusuf Islam official website: http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/

DON’T LET ME BE MISUNDERSTOOD

People, do you understand me now,
If sometimes I feel a little mad
Don’t you know no one alive can always be an angel
When things go wrong I seem a little sad
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

You know sometimes, I’m so carefree
With a joy that’s hard to hide
Sometimes seems that all I have is worry
And then you’re bound to see my other side
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

If I seem edgy, I want you to know
That I never mean to take it out on you
Life has its problems and I get more than my share
But that’s one thing I never mean to do
I don’t mean it

People, don’t you know I’m only human
Don’t you know I have faults like any one
But sometimes I find myself alone regretting
Some little thing; some foolish thing
that I have done,
But I’m just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

Don’t let me be misunderstood
I’m just someone whose intentions are good
Don’t let me be misunderstood,
Don’t let me be misunderstood

Happy B-Day, Norma Jean

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson or Norma Jean Baker later) was born June 1, 1926. The American actress, singer and model is still one of the world’s best-known sex symbols more than 40 years after her death. She would be turning 85 years old today.

“Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did…”

See rare photos of Marilyn: http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/4064.html

IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan

Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born
Norma Jean Mortenson on Tuesday, June 1st, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Her mother was a film-cutter at RKO Studios who, widowed and mentally ill, abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost smothered to death at two, nearly raped at six. At nine the LA Orphans’ Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking back a penny every Sunday for church. At sixteen she worked in an aircraft plant and married a man she called Daddy; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors’ lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948, Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie Ladies of the Chorus (1948) in which she sang two numbers. Joseph L. Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in All About Eve (1950), resulting in 20th Century re-signing her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen’s Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar. When she went to a supper honoring her The Seven Year Itch (1955) she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). The same year she married and divorced baseball great ‘Joe Dimaggio’ (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles, CA). After The Seven Year Itch, she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York’s Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) with Laurence Olivier, fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand. Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by departing husband Miller was interrupted by exhaustion. She was dropped from the unfinished Something’s Got to Give (1962) due to chronic lateness and drug dependency. Four months later she was found dead in her Brentwood home of a drug overdose, adjudged “probable suicide”.

CANDLE IN THE WIND
Available on the album “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

chorus

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

[repeat chorus]

Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

[repeat chorus]

© 1973 Dick James Music Limited