AKA Jennifer Mary Butala

Born: 30-Sep-1971
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Scientology
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Freaky chick on Dharma and Greg
Father: Richard Butala (Hughes Aircraft executive)
Mother: Sue (homemaker)
Husband: Bodhi Elfman (actor, dated 1991-95, m. 1995, one son)
Son: Story Elias Elfman (b. 23-Jul-2007)
Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, California, to Sue Grace, a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive. She attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a dance major and graduated in 1989. Her uncle is Tony Butala of The Lettermen. She studied with acting teacher Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse before beginning her television career.
Career
She began as a professional dancer, then made a switch to acting in the early 1990s. Elfman did extensive commercial work before landing her first series jobs, making guest appearances in the 1995–1996 season on the ABC series Roseanne, NYPD Blue, The Monroes, and Murder One, and the CBS sitcom Almost Perfect. A role as a drug counselor in the NBC made-for-TV movie Her Last Chance came in 1996 as well, before the charismatic actress auspiciously landed a regular role as the boy-crazy Shannon, one of three young working class waitresses in the Molly Ringwald sitcom vehicle Townies. Although short-lived, Townies proved a big break for Elfman, who impressed ABC executives with her scene-stealing turn and signed her own sitcom deal before the last Townies episode aired.
This deal led to Elfman's best known role on the popular sitcom Dharma & Greg, which ran on ABC from 1997 to 2002. She won a Golden Globe Award for this role, and was nominated twice for an Emmy ward. In 1999 , she co-hosted the Emmy Awards presentation with David Hyde Pierce.
In 2004 , Elfman produced and starred in a feature film called Touched. In November 2005 , CBS announced that Elfman vehicle, Courting Alex would be a midseason replacement, premiering in January 2006. It was announced in May that the show did not get picked up, and was thus cancelled. However, CBS immediately inked a new development deal with Elfman to create a comedy vehicle for her, as reported in The Hollywood Reporter on June 2, 2006.
Elfman also starred in the movies Krippendorf's Tribe, EDtv, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and Keeping the Faith.
Personal life
Elfman met her husband, actor Bodhi Elfman, at a Sprite commercial audition in February of 1991. They married in 1995, making director Richard Elfman her father-in-law and noted composer Danny Elfman her uncle-in-law.
In 2005, Elfman appeared at the Church of Scientology-affiliated Citizens Commission on Human Rights' controversial "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" museum grand opening and is described on the organization's website as a supporter.
In May 2006, Jenna visited her high school alma mater to urge students to set career goals and encourage them to persist in their chosen professions.
In January 2007, Elfman and her husband announced they are expecting their first child together.
On July 23, 2007, Jenna and her husband welcomed a son, Story Elias, weighing 7 pounds, 2 ounces.
Will Ferrell's site Funnyordie.com, aired a video "Mama Jams" of Elfman and her husband.

Born: 29-Sep-1969
Birthplace: Glendale, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Shauni on Baywatch
Boyfriend: William McNamara (ex-, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Billy Warlock (ex-, broken engagement, dated 1993)
Husband: Philip Goglia (m. 10-Mar-1998, div. 2000)
Boyfriend: James Colby
Eleniak was born in Glendale, California. She is the eldest daughter in her family of four girls and one boy whose parents divorced. Her father, who was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is of Ukrainian descent, and her mother is of Estonian and German ancestry. During the late 1970s, Eleniak's father introduced her to her future career in the movie industry when his then girlfriend got Eleniak a part to model children's clothing for TV commercials. Her first acting role was in the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - as the girl kissed by Elliott in the school classroom scene.
During her teenage years, Eleniak became a regular on the San Fernando Valley party circuit and she began to use alcohol and drugs regularly. Steve Ferguson, a quadriplegic who socialised in the same circles as Eleniak, helped curtail her problem by introducing her to Alcoholics Anonymous in 1988 and helping her through her detoxification. Eleniak dated Ferguson for awhile and there was talk of an engagement, but the relationship ended and her mother, Iris, ended up marrying Ferguson's father instead.
Career
Eleniak went on to have several small roles in television. She played Stephanie Curtis, Scott Baio's on-screen girlfriend in Charles in Charge (and was also his off-screen girlfriend), and Jamie Coburn in Broken Angel. In 1989 Eleniak decided that appearing in Playboy would help boost her career, and Ferguson put her in contact with a Playboy photographer. Playboy featured her on two covers and later as the centerfold in the July 1989 issue.
After an audition and three call backs, Eleniak won a role in Baywatch as Shauni McClain. She was the lead female character for three seasons until Pamela Anderson replaced her in 1992. While working on the series, Eleniak became romantically involved with Billy Warlock, who played Eddie Kramer, her character's boyfriend. He was the reason why Eleniak ended up leaving the show after only two seasons. The two announced their engagement in 1993, but the relationship didn't last due to Warlock's jealous nature - he later confessed in an interview, "I can't bear anyone else to see her body".
In 1992 Eleniak returned to film acting, playing Jordan Tate, a Playboy Playmate hired to do a striptease for the captain of a U.S. Navy ship, in Under Siege, a film that was one of the year's biggest hits. She attempted to capitalize on this success by starring as Elly May Clampett in the screen adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies in 1993, but the film flopped. The next year she starred in the Dennis Hopper-directed romantic comedy Chasers. William McNamara, one of her costars in this film, also became her partner in life. Eleniak went on to shoot another movie with McNamara, Girl in the Cadillac (1995). The two were engaged but never married. Eleniak also starred in an interactive game during 1995; she played identical twins in Panic in the Park (1995). She continued to make more independent films including A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995), Bordello of Blood (1996) and Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave (1997). Eleniak has starred in a host of films, including The Pandora Project (1998) with Daniel Baldwin, One Hot Summer Night (1998) with Barry Bostwick, Final Voyage (1999) with Ice-T, Stealth Fighter (1999) also with Ice-T, The Opponent (2000), Vegas, City of Dreams (2001) with Angelica Bridges, Second to Die (2002), Snowbound (2001), Betrayal (2003) and Shakedown (2002).
Eleniak continues to act. She appeared as one of the cast members of the reality television series The Real Gilligan's Island for its second season which started in June 2005.
Eleniak has exhibited various weight issues throughout her life. At one point, she was underweight due to eating disorder and was once hospitalized because of laxative abuse. In recent years she had become overweight, and in 2006 was a participant on the fourth season of VH1's reality television series Celebrity Fit Club, on which overweight celebrities lose weight as part of a competition. She lost 31 pounds over the course of the show.
Personal life
Eleniak has dated some of Hollywood's most famous bachelors, including Scott Baio, and was engaged for a time to William McNamara. In 1997 she met her future husband, Philip Goglia. They were married on May 22, 1998, and she was Erika Eleniak-Goglia during their brief relationship. They resided together in Marina del Rey, California, until their divorce.
After filming Snowbound in 2001 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Eleniak fell in love with the city and with Roch Daigle, a key grip who worked on the set. Having wanted to leave Los Angeles for years (and feeling that commuting to and from her other choice, Telluride, Colorado, was prohibitively difficult), Eleniak purchased a home in Calgary, in part because Daigle lived there. The two eventually married. Eleniak became pregnant in 2005, but six and a half weeks into her term, the pregnancy was discovered to be ectopic, which required emergency surgery days later. As is the case with classical ectopic pregnancies, it ended in miscarriage, but Eleniak soon became pregnant again, and bore a daughter.
Her favorite authors include James Patterson, and her favorite books include Memoirs of a Geisha and In the Meantime by Iyanla Vanzant. Her favorite movies include The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Blue Bird.

AKA Hilary Erhard Duff

Born: 28-Sep-1987
Birthplace: Houston, TX
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Manufactured pop star
Father: Bob Duff
Mother: Susan Cobb (producer)
Sister: Haylie Duff (actress, b. 19-Feb-1985)
Boyfriend: Frankie Muñiz (actor, dated 2003)
Boyfriend: Aaron Carter (singer, dated 2003)
Boyfriend: Jordan Masterson (actor, brother of Chris and Danny Masterson, dated 2004)
Boyfriend: Joel Madden (musician, Good Charlotte, dated 2004-06)
Hilary Duff is a young actress, singer, and Disney product. She starred in Lizzie McGuire and A Cinderella Story, and sang "So Yesterday" and "Come Clean". Duff was a professional ballet dancer by age 6, when her mother decided she should be an actress. Hilary appeared in many TV commercials, and in 1997, at age 10, she was an extra in a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV show. Two years later she had a real role in a Melissa Gilbert TV movie, The Soul Collector.
In 2001, she landed the lead in Lizzie McGuire, a Disney Channel tweener show about the life of a junior high school girl. At around that time, at age 14, Duff met the man who would be her manager, Andre Recke. Recke, working closely with Duff's mother, rounded up several producers to help tweak Duff's sound, and Duff started her musical career by singing "Santa Claus Lane" on the soundtrack of Disney's Santa Clause 2. Duff's matching solo album of Christmas music, also called Santa Claus Lane, was released on the Disney label. Duff's second solo album, Metamorphosis, was released on a Disney-owned label in summer 2003, and promptly went platinum, with the hit single "So Yesterday".
Duff starred in a Disney TV movie called Cadet Kelly, then co-starred with Frankie Muñiz in Agent Cody Banks and did Disney's fluffy Lizzie McGuire Movie. "I Can't Wait", the opening track from the movie, got extensive airplay on the nationwide network of Disney radio stations, and generating a hit for Hilary. She also sang "The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" on Disneymania, a compilation featuring *NSYNC, Ashanti, Smash Mouth, and Christina Aguilera, all singing Disney songs.
Duff briefly dated singer Aaron Carter, which reportedly spawned bad blood with another teen star who dated Carter at the same time, Lindsay Lohan. At a 2003 Vanity Fair photo shoot featuring the teen starlets of the day -- Amanda Bynes, the Olsen twins, Alexis Bledel, Raven-Symoné, Mandy Moore, and Lohan -- Duff made herself the center of attention by bringing Carter. Everyone had been asked not to bring their boyfriends, but when Carter was asked to leave, Duff went into hysterics and threatened to go with him.
Duff has since parted with the Walt Disney Company because, in her mother's words, they "weren't feeling the love". As an actress, she has recently appeared in several non-Disney movies, proving herself every bit as capable as a better-than-average 10th-grader in a high school production of Brigadoon. As a singer, whether she can sing is irrelevant; she is blonde and pretty, and her producer can auto-tune away anything that's off-key.
In 2004, at 16 years old, she launched a line of clothes called "Stuff", marketed by Target stores.

Born: 28-Sep-1952
Birthplace: Utrecht, Netherlands
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Netherlands
Executive summary: Emmanuelle
Sister: Marianne
Boyfriend: Hugo Claus (dated 1973-78, one son)
Son: Arthur Kristel (b. 1975)
Boyfriend: Ian McShane (actor, dated late 1970s)
Husband: (div.)
Husband: Phillippe Blot (producer)
Boyfriend: Fred De Vree (dated ten years, d. cancer)
She is the daughter of a Skeet shooting champion. Her parents ran a hotel in Utrecht. In her new autobiography Nue she claims to have been sexually abused by an elderly guest at the age of nine, an event which she still refuses to discuss in detail. Her parents divorced when she was 14 and her sister Marianne 12 after their father left home for another woman. 'It was the saddest thing that ever happened to me', she says of it.
When she was 17 she began modeling. She entered the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973 and won. She speaks Dutch, English, French, German and Italian. She gained international attention in 1974 for playing the title character in the soft core film Emmanuelle which remains one of the most successful French films ever produced.
Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalised upon that image, most notably starring in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) and a nudity filled biopic of World War I spy Mata Hari in which she played the title role. Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States where she played Nicole Mallow, a maid who seduces a teenage boy, in the controversial 1981 sex comedy Private Lessons. One of her only other mainstream American film appearances was a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb in 1980.
Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 (ranking #28 in US Domestic Gross), Kristel saw none of the profits. She continues to appear in movies and last played Emmanuelle in the early 1990s. In May 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film "Topor and Me", written by Ruud Den Dryver. The award was presented by Gayle King.
Private life
In September 2006 Sylvia Kristel's autobiography Nue (Naked) was published in France. In it she tells of a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs, alcohol, and her quest for a father figure which resulted in some harmful relationships with older men. Her first major relationship was with Hugo Claus, a Belgian author 27 years her senior with whom she had a son Arthur born in 1975. She left him for Ian McShane, 10 years her senior, whom she met on the set of the 1977 film Man Behind the Mask. They moved in together in Los Angeles where he had promised to help her launch her American career. However their five year affair would lead to no significant career break for Kristel but a relationship she describes in her autobiography as 'awful - he was witty and charming but we were too much alike.' About two years into the relationship she began taking cocaine. This proved to be her downfall, though at the time she thought of it as a 'supervitamin, a very fashionable substance, without danger, but expensive, far more exciting than drowning in alcohol - a fuel necessary to stay in the swing.'
Interviewed in 2006 for Firecracker Films' Documentary "Hunting Emmanuelle", she describes how, nurturing an expensive cocaine habit, she made a number of poor decisions, including agreeing to sell her interest in the film to her agent on a whim for $150,000. With a domestic gross of over $26 million, she laughs at how much of her agent's mansion her percentage probably paid for.
Her relationship with McShane continued to be turbulent. One night before a gala event in Malibu they were to attend together he walked in on her after she'd had her make-up and hair done and was surveying the results before departing. He gave her a hostile look and then threw a champagne bucket at her head. They fought furiously and neither attended the gala. The following morning Kristel fled back to Utrecht. But the relationship wasn't over and soon they were living together again in London where McShane was working on a film. Here she fell pregnant, much to McShane's chagrin. He continued drinking, encouraging her to do likewise. Their arguments continued and after a fall Kristel was admitted to hospital where she had a miscarriage. McShane sent word he was unable to attend as he was at a wrap party that night. This proved to be the final straw for her. After checking out of hospital a couple days later she flew to Paris, her partnership with McShane over for good.
Since McShane, she has been married twice, first to an American businessman which ended after five months and then to film producer Phillippe Blot. She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree but he died suddenly. With much of her Emmanuelle earnings flittered away on poor investments, she herself now lives a comparatively simple life back in Amsterdam, presently remaining single whilst mourning the death of De Vree from cancer.

AKA Gwyneth Kate Paltrow

Born: 27-Sep-1972
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Party Affiliation: Democratic
Father: Bruce Paltrow (TV director, b. 26-Nov-1943, d. 3-Oct-2002 throat cancer)
Mother: Blythe Danner (actress)
Brother: Jake Paltrow (TV director, b. 26-Sep-1975)
Boyfriend: Brad Pitt (dated and engaged, 1994-97)
Boyfriend: Ben Affleck (dated and cohabited 1998-2000)
Boyfriend: Chris Heinz (son of John and Teresa Heinz, dated 2000-01)
Boyfriend: Robert Sean Leonard (actor, dated 2001)
Boyfriend: Luke Wilson (actor, dated 2001, 2002)
Boyfriend: Bryan Adams (musician, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Prince Albert II (Monaco royalty, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Aaron Eckhart (actor, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Prince Felipe (Spanish royalty, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Prince Nicholas (Greek royalty, dayed 2002)
Boyfriend: James Purefoy (actor, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Walter Salles (film director, dated 2002)
Boyfriend: Scott Speedman (actor, dated 2002-03)
Husband: Chris Martin (musician, dated 2002-03, m. 5-Dec-2003, one son, one daughter)
Daughter: Apple Blythe Alison Martin (b. 14-May-2004 with Martin)
Son: Moses Bruce Anthony Martin (b. 8-Apr-2006 with Martin)
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California to the late film and television director, writer, and producer Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner. Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother was raised a Quaker; Paltrow herself follows the Jewish religion. Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Crossroads School before moving and attending Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City. Later she briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before discontinuing her degree and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig. She is an "adopted daughter" of Talavera de la Reina (Spain), where she lived as an exchange student and learned Spanish Paltrow was childhood friends with Saturday Night Live's Maya Rudolph and attended Brown Ledge Summer Camp, an all-girl's camp in Vermont.
Early career: 1990-1994
Paltrow made her professional stage debut in 1990. Her most recent stage appearance was in Proof at London's Donmar Warehouse. Her debut film was Shout (1991), and later the same year she played a small role in family friend Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991). In Hook, she played a young Wendy which garnered her attention from filmmakers. She also appeared in two more smaller roles, such as Malice, and Flesh and Bone.
Breakthrough: 1995-2000
Paltrow starred in Se7en (1995), opposite Brad Pitt, and Morgan Freeman. The film was hugely successful commercially and critically. Then in 1996 she starred in Emma, where she received strong positive critical acclaim, particularly in Europe, and Asia.
Two years later, Paltrow starred in Shakespeare in Love, an imagining of how William Shakespeare might have written Romeo and Juliet. The film received critical acclaim, earned more than $100 million in domestic box office receipts, and received numerous awards. Shakespeare in Love won the Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy and Best Screenplay, as well as the Academy Award for Best Picture. Paltrow also won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role from the Screen Actors Guild. Later that year, Paltrow won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role. After her Oscar win Paltrow starred in other movie roles such as A Perfect Murder. In 2000 Paltrow starred in The Talented Mr. Ripley which earned over $80 million domestically, and received positive reviews. She then starred in Bounce with Shakespeare in Love costar Ben Affleck, which was moderately successful, both critically and commercially.
Since then, she has had a relatively low-profile, yet steady, film career with a few critically acclaimed film roles, including Proof (2005) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). Audiences got their first taste of Paltrow's singing ability with the 2000 release of Duets, in which she co-starred with singer Huey Lewis, who played her karaoke-hustling estranged father. Towards the end of the film, their characters resolve their differences and perform a cover version of Smokey Robinson's Cruisin'. The song, which surprised many of Paltrow's fans, was well-received and was eventually released as a single, getting heavy airplay from Top 40 and adult contemporary-formatted radio stations.
In an interview with The Guardian on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided her career into those movies she did for love and those films she did for money. The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, and Sylvia fell into the former category, whilst View From the Top and Shallow Hal were in the latter. In interviews for Shallow Hal, she reported did some research for the role by wearing the fat suit she used during filming, and going to a local bar to gauge the public perception of obese people. She said that people refused to make eye contact with her, and she was treated quite rudely on multiple occasions, and the experience saddened her greatly, with regards to how people treat those who are overweight.
Since winning the Academy Award for Best Actress for Shakespeare in Love, Paltrow's career has declined considerably, with her most recent box-office smash being 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley
Other work
In May of 2005, Paltrow became the new face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume. She appeared in Chicago on Aug. 17, 2007 to sign bottles of the perfume. Estée Lauder donates a minimum of $500,000 of sales of items from the 'Pleasures Gwyneth Paltrow' collection to breast cancer research.
Paltrow serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organization which attempts to allieviate problems caused by poverty in New York City.
Personal life
Paltrow is a descendent of a famous 17th century Polish rabbi, David HaLevi Segal of Cracow, through the Russian rabbinical family, Paltrowitch, which produced thirty-three rabbis over several generations. The actress has said she is very proud of being Jewish, and has attributed her father's warmth to his Jewish heritage:
"My father had that incredible Jewish warmth, really bolstering us [his children] all the time. And when you're nine years old and you're hearing that you are the best person, it gets in there, and you think, 'OK, I'm not going to be afraid to try things, because I'm always loved no matter what.' That kills me, when I think about it. It totally breaks my heart, how lucky I am."
Paltrow had a much-publicized romance and engagement to Brad Pitt. She once stated that she regretted breaking up with Pitt, saying in an interview with Diane Sawyer that she wished Pitt well and could not believe he was with her when she was "such a mess." They were together for over three years. She has been linked romantically with Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson. She also been romantically linked with other actors and famous people viz: Chris Heinz (2000-01), and Robert Sean Leonard (2001).
On turning thirty, she says "I had the most incredible birthday weekend until my dad died on me like four days later," said Paltrow, who turned 30 on September 27, 2002. "It's been, in many ways, the worst year of my life and will continue to be." On December 5, 2003, she married Chris Martin of the British rock group Coldplay in a secret wedding ceremony in Southern California. Paltrow gave birth to their first child, Apple Blythe Alison Martin, five months later, on May 14, 2004, in London. She explained the unusual first name on Oprah, saying,
“ It sounded so sweet and it conjured such a lovely picture for me – you know, apples are so sweet and they're wholesome and it's biblical – and I just thought it sounded so lovely and...clean! And I just thought, "Perfect!"”
Apple's godfather is Simon Pegg. She currently resides in England and New York.
In January 2006, Paltrow announced that, "Since my daughter came along, I've not worked much through choice. And with another baby on its way, I don't think I will be doing a lot for the next year or so either." Her second child, Moses Bruce Anthony Martin, was born on April 8, 2006 in New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital. Her son's first name can be explained by the song that her husband wrote for her shortly before their secret wedding, called "Moses".
In May of 2005, she publicly announced that she suffered from depression after the death of her father Bruce Paltrow. She practices yoga, and follows a macrobiotic diet, although she told People in 2005 that, "I'm not as stringent as I was in the past. Now I'll have cheese once in a while or white flour, but I still believe in whole grains and no sugar." She admits a fondness for wine, however.
Paltrow earned the enmity of Sharon Stone due to her performance as Stone in a Saturday Night Live skit that poked fun at Stone and her then-husband, Phil Bronstein . Paltrow is also good friends with Madonna and fashion designers Valentino and Stella McCartney. Steven Spielberg is a close family friend. She was best friends with Winona Ryder until her breakup with Ben Affleck.
On September 27, 2006 (her 34th birthday) Gwyneth sang a duet with rap legend Jay-Z during his history-making concert at Royal Albert Hall. She sang the chorus for Song Cry, from the rapper's classic Blueprint album. In an interview prior to her appearance she indicated she would be attending the concert, but did not mention she would perform. She was also quoted as saying "I'm a Jay-Z fan. He's my best friend." Her husband, Chris Martin, later performed the song Beach Chair with Jay-Z from the rapper's album Kingdom Come.
In December of 2006, Paltrow was reported on the Internet to have told Notícias Sábado, the weekend magazine supplement of Portuguese newspaper Diário de Notícias, that she thought British people were more civilized and intelligent than Americans. Paltrow denied making the statements attributed to her and told People magazine that she never gave an interview to a Portuguese publication, but did a press conference in Spain where she tried to say in Spanish that Europe was an "older culture" and Americans "live to work." Diário de Notícias later clarified in their December 6, 2006 edition that they had not obtained the quotes from an original interview or foreign press conference, but rather from previous English-language articles which are still referenced online.

AKA Avril Ramona Lavigne
Born: 27-Sep-1984
Birthplace: Napanee, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer
Nationality: Canada
Executive summary: Manufactured pop star
Father: John Lavigne
Mother: Judy Lavigne
Sister: Michelle Lavigne
Brother: Matthew Lavigne
Husband: Deryck Whibley (m. 15-Jul-2006)
Avril Lavigne Whibley, better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne, is a Canadian rock/punk-pop singer, musician and actress. In 2006, Canadian Business Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood, and in 2007 she won ninth place in the Jabra Music Contest for the Best Band in the World, based on fan votes from around the world.
Avril is French for "April", while la vigne means "the vine" or "the vineyard".
Lavigne's debut album, Let Go, was released in 2002, and went on to sell over 18 million copies worldwide and was certified six times platinum in the United States Her second and third albums, Under My Skin (2004) and The Best Damn Thing (2007), respectively, reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. Lavigne has scored five number one songs worldwide to date and a total of eleven top ten hits, including "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi", "I'm with You", "My Happy Ending", and "Girlfriend".
Avril Lavigne was born in Belleville, Ontario to a devout Christian family. Lavigne's musical talent was first spotted at the age of two when her mother says Lavigne began singing along with her on church songs. The family moved to Napanee, Ontario, when Lavigne was five years old.
In 1998, Lavigne won a competition to sing with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain on her first major concert tour. She appeared alongside Twain at her concert in Ottawa, appearing on stage to sing "What Made You Say That".
She was discovered by her first professional manager, Cliff Fabri, while singing country covers at a Chapters bookstore in Kingston, Ontario. During a performance with the Lennox Community Theatre, Lavigne was spotted by local folk singer Steve Medd (a relation of the influential Canadian journalist, Ben Medd), who invited her to sing on his song "Touch the Sky" for his 1999 album Quinte Spirit. She also sang on "Temple of Life" and "Two Rivers" for his follow up album, My Window to You, in 2000.
At the age of sixteen she was signed by Ken Krongard, the artists-and-repertoire (A&R) representative of Arista Records, who invited the head of Arista, Antonio "L.A." Reid, to hear her sing at the New York City studio of producer Peter Zizzo. She then completed work on her first album, Let Go. The Matrix, who worked extensively with Lavigne on the album, commented on her songwriting, saying, "We conceived the ideas on guitar and piano. Avril would come in and sing a few melodies, change a word here or there."
Music career
Let Go (2002–2004)
Main article: Let Go
Let Go was released on June 4, 2002 in the United States, reaching number two there and number one in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This made Lavigne, at eighteen, the youngest female soloist to have a number-one album in the UK up until that time.
Just over one month after its release, Let Go reached multi-platinum status in late-August, and was certified triple platinum two weeks after. Before the end of 2002, just six months after its debut, it was certified four times platinum by the RIAA. It sold a total of 18 million copies worldwide. It was the best selling album of the year for a female artist and for a debut album in 2002.
Four singles from the album were released. "Complicated" went to number one in Australia, while reaching number two on the U.S. Hot 100, and it was one of the best-selling Canadian singles of 2002. Lavigne tied a record set by Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn" when "Complicated" held the number one spot on the contemporary hit radio chart (which tracks air play on the radio) for eleven weeks in a row. "Sk8er Boi" reached the top ten in the U.S. and Australia, "I'm with You" reached the top ten in the U.S and the UK, and "Losing Grip" reached the top ten in Taiwan and the top twenty in Chile.
Lavigne was named "Best New Artist" at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, won four Juno Awards in 2003 (out of six nominations), received a World Music Award for "World's Best-Selling Canadian Singer", and was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, including "Song of the Year" for "Complicated" and "Best New Artist".
Under My Skin (2004–2005)
Main article: Under My Skin
Lavigne's second album, Under My Skin, was released on May 25, 2004, in the U.S. It debuted at number one in the U.S., the UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Ireland, Thailand, Korea and Hong Kong and sold more than 380,000 copies in the U.S. in its first week. Lavigne wrote most of the album with Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, though some tracks were co-written by Ben Moody (formerly of Evanescence), Butch Walker of Marvellous 3, and her former lead guitarist Evan Taubenfeld. Kreviazuk's husband, Our Lady Peace front man Raine Maida, co-produced the album with Butch Walker and Don Gilmore.
Lead single "Don't Tell Me" went to number one in Argentina and Mexico, the top five in the UK and Canada, and the top ten in Australia and Brazil. "My Happy Ending" reached the top ten in the U.S. and was her third-biggest hit there, but third single "Nobody's Home" did not make the top forty. The fourth single from the album, "He Wasn't", reached top forty positions in the UK and Australia, and was not released in the U.S. "Fall to Pieces" was released as the final single from the album, but did not do as well as previous singles.
Lavigne won two World Music Awards in 2004 for "World's Best Pop/Rock Artist" and "World's Best-Selling Canadian Artist". She received five Juno Award nominations in 2005, picking up three, including "Fan Choice Award", "Artist of the Year", and "Pop Album of the Year". She won the award for "Favourite Female Singer" at the eighteenth Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. Lavigne co-wrote "Breakaway" with Matthew Gerard, which was recorded by Kelly Clarkson for the soundtrack to the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). "Breakaway" was later included on Clarkson's second album, Breakaway, being released as the album's first single. The song peaked inside the U.S. top ten and provided Clarkson with a substantial hit.
Lavigne went on a Live and by Surprise" twenty-one city mall-tour in the U.S. and Canada, starting on March 4, 2004, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to promote Under My Skin. Each performance consisted of a short live acoustic set of songs from the new album. She was accompanied by her guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld. The venue in each city was not announced until forty-eight hours before the show. The tour was very popular and was successful in promoting the album. The set at Indianapolis on March 25, 2004, at Glendale mall included "He Wasn't", "My Happy Ending", "Don't Tell Me", "Take Me Away", "Nobody's Home", "Sk8er Boi", and "Complicated". Selections of this tour were released on the Avril Lavigne Live Acoustic EP, which was released in U.S. Target stores.
Lavigne was touring throughout most of 2005, and pursuing her acting and modelling careers. She represented Canada at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, performing her song "Who Knows" during the eight minutes of the Vancouver 2010 portion.
The Best Damn Thing (2007–present)
Lavigne's third album, The Best Damn Thing, was released on April 17, 2007 and debuted at number one in the U.S. The album was produced by Dr. Luke, Lavigne's husband Deryck Whibley, Rob Cavallo, Butch Walker and Lavigne. Travis Barker recorded drums for the record. The first single from the album was "Girlfriend", which became Lavigne's first single to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100. On Ryan Seacrest's radio show Lavigne said that "When You're Gone" would be the second single.
Lavigne has been doing a small tour to promote The Best Damn Thing, with tickets available only to members of her fan club. She began the tour in Calgary, Alberta, and played for a crowd of around two hundred. This show was aired on television on April 2, 2007, on the CBC Network.
On May 25, 2007, Lavigne, her co-songwriter Lukasz Gottwald, and her record label were sued by songwriters James Gangwer and Tommy Dunbar over claims that her song "Girlfriend" infringes on their 1979 song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend", originally performed by The Rubinoos. In June 2007, Canadian singer-songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk, with whom Lavigne wrote the majority of her second album, Under My Skin, spoke to Performing Songwriter magazine about Lavigne's songwriting, saying, "I mean, Avril, songwriter? Avril doesn't really sit and write songs by herself or anything. Avril will also cross the ethical line and no one says anything. That's why I'll never work with her again. I sent her a song two years ago called 'Contagious', and I just saw the tracklisting to this album and there's a song called 'Contagious' on it—and my name's not on it. What do you do with that? See, I won't [call the lawyers], I'll just tell you. Art should not be subject to that kind of controversy." On July 6, Lavigne denied both accusations in an open letter on her website, claiming that she had "never heard the [Rubinoos] song in [her] life" and also that she is considering taking legal action against Kreviazuk with regards to her allegations, which she considers "damaging to my reputation and a clear defamation of my character". On July 10, Kreviazuk made a full public apology and retracted the statements made in the aforementioned interview.
The song "I Don't Have to Try," also stirred up controversy. Similarities between this song and Peaches' 2003 song, "I'm the Kinda" has sparked further plagiarism speculations.
Lavigne recorded a cover of the John Lennon song "Imagine" as her contribution to the album Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur.
Miscellaneous
Lavigne has also covered the Goo Goo Dolls' mega-hit " Iris", actually performing a duet of the song with the band's lead singer and lyricist John Rzeznik at the Fashion Rocks concert in 2004. Lavigne has stated that "Iris" is her favorite song of all time.
Film career
Lavigne made her film debut in the animated film Over the Hedge, which is based on the comic strip of same name. She worked alongside William Shatner, Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Wanda Sykes, Nick Nolte and Steve Carell. She is also acting in the Richard Gere film The Flock, as the girlfriend of a crime suspect, and her third project is Fast Food Nation, based on her favorite book. Lavigne wrote and recorded a new song titled "Keep Holding On" with Dr. Luke, for the Eragon film soundtrack; it was included on her third album, The Best Damn Thing. The song was released for digital download on November 28, and made its worldwide debut on radio on November 17. It reached the top spot on the Canadian top twenty.
Lavigne made a cameo in the film Going the Distance and also appeared in an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, performing "Sk8er Boi" with her band. Lavigne has also featured in a comic series called Make 5 Wishes. She stars as herself, a pop star, who is idolized by the protagonist of the story.
Media image
The classification of Lavigne's style of music is Rock. In the myspace official of Avril Lavigne, affirms that his music genre is Pop/Punk/Rock; but All Music Guide and others reviewers consider her "Punk, Punk-pop, Pop/Rock, Alternative Rock, Alternative Pop-Rock, Modern Rock and Post-Grunge" The reason for the confusion appears to be for her punk-like appearance early in her career, along with statements made by the songstress herself that she is "as punk as they come". However, there have been several occasions where she has stated "I'm not punk." Lavigne told MTV Essential: Avril Lavigne in April 2007 that "I'm a rocker chic and not completly pop". Though she cites many early punk bands and figures as influences (most notably Sid Vicious), her music has little in common with 1970s punk.
Lavigne spoke about her new look in a September 2006 interview. She explains, "When I was in high school I was a little shit, hanging out with the guys, getting drunk, getting in fights, playing hockey. My band were all guys, so I was only around guys, but when I got older I started being more of a chick. I broke out on the scene looking like the 17-year-old that I was. And from then to now I look really different—but that's called growing up."
Lavigne appeared to pose topless in the June 2007 issue of U.S. magazine Blender. She later said to MTV that she was actually wearing a tubetop and the magazine just covered it with the banner to make her look topless.
Personal life
In the January 2003 issue of Seventeen magazine, she admitted to "snagging a bite of Matt's cheeseburgers every now and again." Also in a recent interview, she said she prefers not to eat meat, but will not say she's a vegetarian "in case anyone caught her eating meat".
As a teenager she would hang out at the La Pizzeria restaurant in Napanee, Ontario. In her Under My Skin Bonez Documentary, she has stated that pizza with olive toppings is her favorite food, although she doesn't eat it too much because pizza is detrimental to her voice. Since her rise to fame, the restaurant has named a pizza after Lavigne that contains her favorite toppings and there is a guest book for fans to sign that Lavigne picks up when she visits friends and family in her home town.
Lavigne has a star tattooed on the inside of her left wrist that matches the style of the one used for her first album artwork. It was created at the same time as friend and musical associate Ben Moody's identical tattoo. In late 2004, she had a small pink heart-shaped tattoo featuring the letter 'D' applied to her right wrist—thought to be a reference to husband Deryck Whibley, with whom she has bought a house in Bel-Air, previously owned by another famous couple: Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler for $9.5 Million. The house has 8 bedrooms, 10.5 bathrooms, an office, elevator, a high-tech kitchen and a 10-car garage.
Lavigne was romantically linked to her former guitarist Jesse Colburn, but despite rumors[citation needed], she did not have a relationship with another former guitarist, Evan Taubenfeld. However, Taubenfeld still considers Lavigne his "dearest friend in the whole world" as said on a recent Q&A on his band's official website. In a J-14 magazine from 2004, she talks about her first kiss being when she was fourteen years old.
In February 2004, she began dating fellow Canadian singer Deryck Whibley, the lead singer/guitarist of pop punk band Sum 41. On June 27, 2005, Lavigne and Whibley became engaged. Whibley proposed to Lavigne by surprising her with a trip to Venice, a gondola ride, and then a romantic picnic.
The couple married in a Catholic ceremony attended by about 110 guests on July 15, 2006 at a private estate in the California coastal city of Montecito. When asked if they were ready for kids the couple said "not right now but somewhere down the road."
Also, Avril has recently become a member of the website Stardoll. On the website, there are three 'Avril' dolls that you can dress up. All three relate to her image in each of her three CDs. The latest one comes equipped with hair and clothes of all three of her characters in her "Girlfriend" video.

Born September 26, 1962
Birthplace: Berkeley, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Little House on the Prairie
Husband: Michael Sloan (producer/writer, m. 17-Mar-1990, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Piper
Son: Griffin
Anderson was born in Berkeley, California and her show business career got under way when a dance teacher urged her parents to find an agent for her. She began doing TV commercials, and soon the blond, blue-eyed girl was in great demand for many roles. One of those included that of Millicent, the girl who kissed Bobby and induced him to see fireworks on The Brady Bunch. At eleven years of age, she won her role in Little House on the Prairie ahead of hundreds of competitors. She left the series in 1982, and she continued her acting in several TV shows, such as The Equalizer, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Murder, She Wrote.
She has been described as mild mannered and unpretentious, not unlike her Mary Ingalls character. Her first known romance was with actor Lorenzo Lamas, with whom she made an appearance in the film series The Love Boat in which two friends (Lorenzo and Melissa) resist the matchmaking efforts of their parents. After this short romance, she dated Frank Sinatra, Jr., who at the time was more than twice her age. She says, "It was fun, but never really wild. That's just not me."
She won an Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine?, an ABC Afternoon Special (1979). She secured a Spanish 'TP de Oro' Award for 'Best Foreign Actress' for her role on Little House on the Prairie (1980). She was the associate producer for the next to last TV project Michael Landon made before dying: Where Pigeons Go to Die (1990).
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 1998, she was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
She has two children, daughter Piper and son Griffin, with husband Michael Sloan.
On June 29, 2007 the Canadian Press reported that Melissa Sue Anderson will become a Canadian citizen on July 1 (Canada Day) in Montreal.

AKA Catherine Zeta Jones

Born September 25, 1969
Born: 25-Sep-1969
Birthplace: Mumbles, Wales
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: Wales
Executive summary: Traffic
Father: Patrick Jones (candy factory worker)
Mother: Dia Jones
Brother: David A. Jones (executive, Initial Entertainment Group)
Brother: Lyndon Jones (Catherine Zeta-Jones's business manager)
Boyfriend: Mick Hucknall (rock star, Simply Red, b. 8-Jun-1960)
Boyfriend: Angus Macfadyen (actor, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Jon Peters (producer, dated circa 1996)
Boyfriend: John Leslie (British TV host)
Husband: Michael Douglas (actor, m. Nov-2000, one son, one daughter)
Son: Dylan Michael Douglas (b. 8-Aug-2000)
Daughter: Carys Zeta Douglas (b. 22-Apr-2003)
Zeta-Jones, the middle of three children, was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Treboeth, a working-class area of Swansea, West Glamorgan in South Wales. Her father, David "Dai" Jones, is Welsh and a former sweets factory owner, and her mother, Patricia (Fair), is Irish and a seamstress. Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also from Swansea. Her uncle owns Swansea's Škoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers — her maternal grandmother, Katherine Fair, and her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones.
Zeta-Jones was raised Catholic. After her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s, they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea. Zeta-Jones attended the moderately-priced private school, Dumbarton House in Swansea where she was apparently an average student. Comedian and actor Rob Brydon also went there. She left school early to further her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels and went on to attend The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick for a full-time three year course in musical theatre.
Career
Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends and family functions when she was younger. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10. She also starred in a London production of Annie, as well as a version of Bugsy Malone. By 1987 she was starring in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca's 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.
Her exotic looks, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May), that made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, beginning with a part in the 1992 album: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of Spartacus, from which the single "For All Time" was released in 1989. It failed to chart. She went on to release the singles "In the Arms of Love", "I Can't Help Myself", and a duet with David Essex, "True Love Ways". The Duet was her only chart single, reaching #38 in the UK singles chart in 1994. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.
She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) and the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in the action film, The Phantom , based on the comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane's Phantom, while assisting villain Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside Antonio Banderas. The following year she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting. In 2000, she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas.
In 2003, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in the film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away". For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn't doubt she did all her dancing herself.
In 2003 she voiced Marina in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to Ocean's Eleven. In 2005 she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. She stars in and produces the rugby-related comedy, Coming Out. The film is produced by her company Milkwood Films.
Personal life
Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. She has the same birthday as her husband, although he is 25 years her senior. She claims that when they met, he used the line "I'd like to father your children". They were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on 18 November 2000. A traditional Welsh choir (Côr Cymraeg Rehoboth) sang at her wedding; her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was bought in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born 8 August 2000. Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born April 20, 2003. While pregnant with Carys, photos were published of Zeta-Jones smoking cigarettes on a private balcony; afterwards, she became the target of anti-smoking and child health and welfare groups due to her behaviour.
Zeta-Jones has decided that her children will grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside home for her parents in her hometown of Swansea. She wants her children to know the Welsh language.
Her elder brother, David A. Jones (also known as Cameron Jones), is Vice President of the film company, Initial Entertainment. He was an executive producer of Gangs of New York. Her younger brother, Lyndon Jones, is her personal manager and producer for Milkwood Films. Catherine's parents recently moved from their Mayals property to a £2 million home two miles away, paid for by their daughter.
Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman. In 2003, she became spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. However, in September 2006, T-Mobile dropped Zeta-Jones for a more “man on the street” advertising campaign. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden. Zeta-Jones lives predominantly with her family in Bermuda.

AKA Heather Dean Locklear

Born: 25-Sep-1961
Birthplace: Westwood, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Amanda Woodward on Melrose Place
Father: Walter Locklear (Dean of UCLA School of Engineering)
Boyfriend: Scott Baio (actor, ex-)
Boyfriend: Mark Harmon (actor, ex-)
Boyfriend: Tom Cruise (actor, ex-)
Husband: Tommy Lee (m. 10-May-1986, div. 16-Aug-1993)
Husband: Richie Sambora (guitarist, m. 17-Dec-1994, sep. 2005, div. 11-Apr-2007, one daughter)
Daughter: Ava Elizabeth (b. 4-Oct-1997)
Heather Deen Locklear, is an American actress, primarily on soap operas, movies and television.
The naturally blonde-headed Locklear is probably best known for her roles as William Shatner's sexy, young partner and Richard Herd's daughter, Off. Stacy Sheridan, in the successful 1980s crime drama T.J. Hooker, as John Forsythe's and Linda Evans's no angelic, selfish niece, Sammy Jo Carrington, on the popular 1980s soap, Dynasty (a role she played from 1981 to its ending in 1989), as another bad girl, Amanda Woodward, on the popular 1990s soap opera Melrose Place (a role she played from 1993 until the show ended in 1999), and as Caitlin Moore on Spin City (a role she played from 1999 until the show ended in 2002).
Personal life
Heather is the daughter of Bill Locklear, the dean of the UCLA School of Engineering. She is the youngest of four children and a cousin of Donald Trump's second wife, Marla Maples. She is of Scottish, and Lumbee descent. She dated Tom Cruise and Scott Baio. Later, Heather was married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee from May 1986 to August 1993. After their divorce, she married Richie Sambora on December 17, 1994 in Paris. On October 4, 1997 she gave birth to their daughter, Ava Elizabeth. Locklear's representative announced on February 2, 2006 that divorce papers had been filed to dissolve the couple's marriage. In further papers filed by Sambora, it has been revealed that the couple has been separated since December 26, 2005, and that Sambora will be seeking joint custody of Ava. Heather and fellow Melrose Place alum, Jack Wagner confirmed their new romance at a charity golf event showing up together and cuddling during the game.
Career
While attending the University of California, Los Angeles, Heather Locklear began modeling and working in commercials for the school store. In 1979, Locklear landed her first TV role in a TV movie and then on an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed a few more bit parts in shows, including Eight Is Enough, before Aaron Spelling cast her in the role of Sammy Jo Dean in his new TV series Dynasty. Locklear proved a popular addition to the cast in the show's second season, in the fall of 1981. Spelling immediately cast her opposite William Shatner in the cop show T.J. Hooker. The show's 1982 premiere significantly enhanced Locklear's Hollywood career. Throughout the 1980s, she continued to work on these two shows, plus numerous television specials and films.
In the 1990s (after a failed sitcom Going Places), Locklear played perhaps her best known part, the vixen Amanda Woodward on the series Melrose Place from 1993 to 1999. She was originally brought on as a guest star in an attempt to boost the ratings, and her billing in the credits reflected this. Despite eventually becoming a regular cast member, she continued to be listed as a "Special Guest Star" through the entire series. Locklear also won First Americans in the Arts: Best Actress in a TV series for her role on Melrose Place. After her run on the show, she was immediately on another TV sitcom, Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox. She was similarly brought in as a successful ratings boost for this show.[citation needed] She was also one of the candidates for the lead role as single mother Susan Mayer on the popular dramedy series, Desperate Housewives, but had lost the role to Teri Hatcher, hence, Locklear starred in the airport drama LAX, which ran from 2004 to 2005. Locklear also served for 6 years as the spokesperson for the Health and Tennis Corporation of America.

AKA Linda Louise Eastman

Born September 24, 1941
Birthplace: Scarsdale, NY
Died: 17-Apr-1998
Location of death: Tucson, AZ
Cause of death: Cancer - Breast
Remains: Cremated, Southern England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician, Photographer
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Beatle wife and photographer
Father: Lee Eastman (lawyer)
Brother: John Eastman (lawyer, business manager)
Sister: Laura Eastman
Sister: Louise Eastman
Boyfriend: Chris Stamp (manager of The Who)
Boyfriend: Warren Beatty (actor)
Husband: John Melvyn See (geophysicist, div.)
Daughter: Heather McCartney (potter, b. 1963)
Husband: Paul McCartney (musician, m. 12-Mar-1969, until her death)
Daughter: Mary McCartney (photographer, b. 1969)
Daughter: Stella McCartney (fashion designer at Chloe, b. 1971)
Son: James Louis McCartney (b. 1977, musician)
Linda McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman in New York, New York to a Jewish-American family. She grew up in the wealthy Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York and graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1960. Her father, Lee Eastman, was songwriter Jack Lawrence's attorney, and at the senior Eastman's request, Lawrence titled a song "Linda" in honor of then five-year-old Linda. Her mother was Louise Linder Eastman, heiress to the Linder Department Store fortune, who died in the 1962 crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Queens, New York.
Before her marriage to Paul McCartney, she served as the house photographer for the Fillmore East in New York City. She was a popular photographer and took professional portraits of artists such as Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors and The Rolling Stones. Her first marriage was to John Melvin See, Jr. whom she met at the University of Arizona. They married on June 18, 1962 and their daughter Heather Louise was born 31 December 1962. They were divorced in June 1965.
On 15 May 1967, she met McCartney at a Georgie Fame concert at The Bag O'Nails club in London; She was in the UK on an assignment to take photographs of musicians. McCartney, Linda and members of the The Animals went on to The Speakeasy, a club on Margaret Street, and Eastman later accompanied McCartney back to his house in Cavendish Avenue. The two met again four days later at a launch party for the Sgt. Pepper album at Brian Epstein's house in Belgravia. Linda had a four-year-old daughter back in New York City, and flew back to New York when her assignment was completed.
Paul asked Linda to move in with him in October 1968, and the two were married on 12 March 1969. She was four months pregnant with his daughter Mary McCartney. She and her husband raised four children: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul adopted), Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. She has three grandsons and a grandaughter, all born after her death: Mary's two sons Arthur Alistair Donald, (born 3 April 1999) and Elliot Donald (born 1 August 2002) and Stella's son Miller Alasdhair James Willis (born 25 February 2005). Her daughter Stella gave birth to a baby girl named Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis on 8 December 2006 with the child's middle name in honour of her late grandmother.
After the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, Paul began teaching her to play keyboards, and included her in the lineup for his new band, Wings. Wings garnered several Grammy Awards for their music, and became one of the most successful bands of the 1970s, although Linda's musical talent was a continuing source of controversy.
In 1977, a single entitled "Seaside Woman" was released by an obscure band called Suzy and the Red Stripes on Epic Records in the U.S. In reality, Suzy and the Red Stripes were Wings with Linda McCartney on lead vocals. The song was written solely by Linda and recorded by Wings in 1972, in response to a lawsuit by ATV (which owned Northern Songs) over Paul's practice of granting Linda co-writing credit on his songs, which had the effect of transferring a share of the publishing royalties to MPL Communications from ATV. The lawsuit was settled out of court. Her album Wide Prairie, which included "Seaside Woman", was released posthumously in 1998.
Linda was diagnosed in 1995 with breast cancer, and her condition soon grew worse as the cancer spread to her liver. Talking about the medication used to treat Linda's breast cancer, Paul McCartney said: "If a drug has got to be used on humans then legally it has to be finally tested on an animal ... This was difficult for Linda when she was undergoing her treatment."[ He also claimed that Linda had been kept in the dark about how the drugs she took may have been tested on animals: "During the treatment, a nice answer is a nice answer and if they (the doctors) say, `It's OK to have this because we didn't test it on animals', you are going to believe them."
Linda McCartney died at age 56 on 17 April 1998 on the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her husband and four children were at her bedside, and they each took a turn in saying goodbye. Paul suggested that fans remember her by donating to breast-cancer research charities that do not support animal-testing, "or the best tribute — go veggie".
Memorial services were held for Linda McCartney at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London and at Riverside Church in her hometown of Manhattan.
Memory
Linda left her entire fortune to McCartney in a certain type of trust, known as a Qualified Domestic Trust, which allows deferral of the payment of the estate tax due on Linda's fortune until after Paul's death. McCartney will have access to any royalties from books, records and any financial remuneration for the use of his wife's photographs. Paul pledged to continue her line of vegetarian food, and to keep it free from genetically modified organisms.
In January 2000, Paul McCartney announced donations in excess of $2,000,000 for cancer research at facilities in Tucson and New York where Linda McCartney had received treatment. The donations, through the Garland Appeal, were made on the condition no animals would be used for testing purposes.
In 2000, The Linda McCartney Centre, a cancer clinic, opened at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Also that year, Paul McCartney collaborated with John Tavener on A Garland for Linda, a classical music album dedicated to her memory. It featured contributions by the two along with seven other contemporary composers.
In November of 2002, a memorial garden was opened near Scotland's Mull of Kintyre, with the dedication of a bronze statue of Linda by sculptor Jane Robbins, commissioned and donated by Paul McCartney.
The name of Paul McCartney's 2007 album, Memory Almost Full, is an anagram of "for my soulmate LLM". LLM may be the intials of Linda Louise McCartney. It was not intentional, as Paul McCartney had gotten the name from his phone.
The song "Gratitude" on Memory Almost Full could also be a memory to Linda from Paul.

AKA Ray Charles Robinson

Born September 23, 1930
Birthplace: Albany, GA
Died: 10-Jun-2004
Location of death: Beverly Hills, CA
Cause of death: Liver Failure
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Father: Bailey Robinson
Mother: Aretha (d. 1946)
Brother: George (d. 1934)
Wife: Elieen Williams (m. 31-Jul-1951, div. 1952)
Wife: Della Beatrice Howard (m. 5-Apr-1955)
Mistress: Mary Anne den Bok
Ray Charles Robinson known by his stage name Ray Charles, was a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem — a classic, just as the man who sang it."
Frank Sinatra called him "the only true genius in the business." And in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Ray Charles #10 on their list of The Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
Early years
Ray Charles Robinson was born in Albany, Georgia to Bailey Robinson, a railroad repair man, mechanic and handyman, and Aretha Williams, who stacked boards in a sawmill; the two were never married. The family moved to Greenville, Florida, when Ray was an infant. Bailey had two more families, leaving Aretha to raise the family. When Charles was five, he witnessed his younger brother drown in his mother's large portable laundry tub.
When he was six, Charles began to go blind, becoming totally blind by the age of seven. Charles never knew exactly why he lost his sight, though there are sources which suggest Ray's blindness was due to glaucoma. He attended school at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida. He also learned how to write music and play various musical instruments. While he was there, his mother died. His father died two years later.
After he left school, Charles began working as a musician in several bands that played in various styles, including jazz and, in Tampa “with a hillbilly band called The Florida Playboys."
Charles moved to Seattle in 1947 or 1948. He soon started recording, first for the label Swingtime Records, achieving his first hit with "Baby, Let Me Hold Your Hand" in 1951, then signed with Ahmet Ertegün at Atlantic Records a year later. When he entered show business, his name was shortened to Ray Charles to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson .
Middle years
Almost immediately after signing with Atlantic, Charles scored his first hit singles with the label with the rap-like "It Should Have Been Me" and the Ertegun-composed "Mess Around", both making the charts in 1953. But it was Charles' "I Got a Woman" (composed with band mate Renald Richard) that brought the musician to national prominence. The song reached the top of Billboard's R&B singles chart in 1955 and from there until 1959, Charles would have a series of R&B chart-toppers including "This Little Girl of Mine", "Lonely Avenue", "Mary Ann", "Drown in My Own Tears" and "The Night Time (Is the Right Time)". During this time of transition, he recruited a young girl group from New York named the Cookies as his background singing group, changing their name to the Raelettes in the process. In 1959, Charles crossed over to top 40 radio with the release of his impromptu blues number, "What'd I Say", which was initially conceived while Charles was in concert. The song would reach number 1 on the R&B list and would become Charles' first top ten single on the pop charts, peaking at number 6. Charles would also record one of his finest albums, The Genius of Ray Charles, before leaving Atlantic for a more lucrative deal with ABC in 1959. Hit songs such as "Georgia On My Mind", "Hit the Road Jack" and "Unchain My Heart" helped him transition to pop success and his landmark 1962 album, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, helped to bring country into the mainstream.
Later years
In 1965, Charles was arrested for possession of heroin, a drug to which he had been addicted for nearly 20 years . It was his third arrest for the offense, but he avoided prison time after kicking the habit in a clinic in Los Angeles. He spent a year on parole in 1966.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Charles' releases were hit-or-miss, with some big hits and critically acclaimed work, and some music that was dismissed as unoriginal and staid.[citation needed] His version of "Georgia On My Mind", was proclaimed the state song of Georgia on April 24, 1979, with Charles performing it on the floor of the state legislature. He also had success with his unique version of "America the Beautiful." In November 1977 Charles appeared as the host of NBC's Saturday Night Live.
In the late 1980s a number of events increased Charles' recognition among young audiences. He made a cameo appearance in the popular 1980 film The Blues Brothers. In 1985, "The Right Time" was featured in the episode "Happy Anniversary" of The Cosby Show on NBC. The cast members used the song to perform a wildly popular lip-synch that helped the show secure its wide audience.[citation needed]. Charles' new connection with audiences helped secure an advertising spot for Diet Pepsi.[citation needed] In a Pepsi Cola commercial of the early 1990s, Charles popularized the catchphrase "You Got the Right One, Baby!"
In 1989, Charles recorded a cover version of the Japanese band Southern All Stars' song "Itoshi no Ellie" as "Ellie My Love" for a Suntory TV advertisement, reaching #3 on Japan's Oricon chart. Eventually, it sold more than 400,000 copies, and became that year's best-selling single performed by a Western artist for the Japanese music market.
In the late '80s and early '90s, Charles made appearances on The Super Dave Osbourne Show, where he performed and appeared in a few vignettes where he was somehow driving a car, often as Super Dave's chauffeur. At the height of his newfound fame in the early nineties, Charles did guest vocals for quite a few projects. He also appeared (with Chaka Khan) on long time friend Quincy Jones' hit "I'll Be Good To You" in 1990, from Jones' album Back on the Block.
Following Jim Henson's death in 1990, Ray Charles appeared in the one-hour CBS tribute, The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson. He gave a short speech about the deceased, stating that Henson "took a simple song and a piece of felt and turned it into a moment of great power". Charles was referring to the song It's Not Easy Being Green, which Charles later performed with the rest of the Muppet cast in a tribute to Henson's legacy.
During the sixth season of Designing Women, Ray Charles vocally performed "Georgia On My Mind", rather than the song being rendered by other musicians without lyrics as in the previous five seasons.
Final appearances
Gladys Knight performed Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 2000, Charles made a special guest appearance on Blues Clues Big Musical Movie as a fictional character named G-Clef. The Temptations also made a guest appearance as his companions. Charles recorded "There It Is" during and after filming with Steve Burns and Traci Paige Johnson. After recording, Charles commented "This has been the most fun I ever had since I met President Reagan in '84."
In 2002 Charles headlined during the Blues Passions Cognac festival in southern France. At one point in the performance a young fan rose to his feet and began to sing an a cappella version of Charles' early song, "Mess Around"; Charles responded by performing the song.
In 2002 he took part - with other musician - in a peace concert in Rome, which was the first event to take place inside the city’s ancient Colosseum since 404 A.D. The event was organized in partnership with the Glocal Forum and the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation.
In June, 2003, Ray Charles presented one of his greatest admirers, Van Morrison, with his award upon being inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the two sang Morrison's song from the Moondance album, "Crazy Love". This performance is captured on Morrison's 2007 album, The Best of Van Morrison Volume 3.
In 2003 Charles performed "Georgia On My Mind" and "America the Beautiful" at a televised annual electronic media journalist banquet held in Washington, D.C., at what may have been his final performance in public. Ray Charles' final public appearance came on April 30, 2004, at the dedication of his music studio as a historic landmark in the city of Los Angeles.
He died on June 10, 2004 of Hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer) at his home in Beverly Hills, California, surrounded by family and friends. He was interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
His final album, Genius Loves Company, released two months after his death, consists of duets with various admirers and contemporaries: B.B. King, Van Morrison, Willie Nelson, James Taylor, Gladys Knight, Michael McDonald, Natalie Cole, Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, and Johnny Mathis. The album won eight Grammy Awards, including five for Ray Charles for Best Pop Vocal Album, Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Here We Go Again" with Norah Jones, and Best Gospel Performance for "Heaven Help Us All" with Gladys Knight; he also received nods for his duets with Elton John and B.B. King.
The album included a version of Harold Arlen's "Over the Rainbow", sung as a duet by Charles and Johnny Mathis; that recording was later played at his memorial service.
Two more posthumous albums, Genius & Friends (2005) and Ray Sings, Basie Swings (2006), were released. Genius & Friends consisted of duets recorded from 1997-2005 with artists were personally chosen by Ray Charles. Ray Sings, Basie Swings consists of archived vocals of Ray Charles from a live 1973 performance added to Count Basie's music. Charles' vocals recorded from the concert mixing board were added to a new accompaniment by the Count Basie Orchestra (among others). Gregg Field, who had performed as a drummer with both Charles and Basie, produced this album.
Controversies and criticisms
Despite his support of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s and his support for the American Civil Rights Movement, Charles courted controversy when he toured South Africa in 1981[8], during an international boycott of the country because of its apartheid policy.
Personal life
Charles was married twice and fathered twelve children by seven different women. He was married for the first time to Eileen Williams on July 31, 1951. This marriage produced no children and ended in divorce in 1952. Three children are from his second marriage to Della Beatrice Howard Robinson, one of his original Raelettes, whom he married on April 5, 1955. They divorced in 1977. His long term girlfriend and partner at the time of his death was Norma Pinella.
Ray: The Film
Charles was significantly involved in the biopic Ray, an October 2004 film which portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1966 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles. Foxx won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor for the role.
Before shooting could begin, however, director Taylor Hackford brought Foxx to meet Charles, who insisted that they sit down at two pianos and play together. For two hours, Charles challenged Foxx, who revealed the depth of his talent, and finally, Charles stood up, hugged Foxx, and gave his blessing, proclaiming, "He's the one... he can do it."
Charles was expected to attend a showing of the completed film, but he died before it opened in theaters.
As noted in the film's final credits, Ray is based on true events, but includes some characters, names, locations, events which have been changed and others which have been "fictionalized for dramatization purposes." One example of the film's use of dramatic license are the scenes which refer to Charles as being banned from Georgia.
The film's credits note that he is survived by 12 children, 21 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren.
Halls of Fame and other honors
Besides winning dozens of Grammy Awards in his career, Charles was also honored in many other ways. In 1979, he was one of the first honorees of the Georgia State Music Hall of Fame being recognized for being a musician born in the state. Ray's version of "Georgia On My Mind" was made into the official state song for Georgia. In 1981, he was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was one of the first inductees to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony in 1986. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986. In 1987, he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1991, he was inducted to the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, in 2004 he was inducted to the Jazz Hall of Fame, and inducted to the National Black Sports & Entertainment Hall of Fame. Also in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him #10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
In August 2005, the United States Congress honored Charles by renaming the former West Adams Station post office in Los Angeles the "Ray Charles Station".
The Grammy Awards of 2005 were dedicated to Charles.

AKA Joan Marie Larkin

Born: 22-Sep-1958
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: I Love Rock 'N Roll
Joan Jett was born in Philadelphia at Lankenau Hospital and grew up there and in Rockville, Maryland, before moving to Los Angeles at the age of 15.
The Runaways
At age 15 Jett ran away from home after receiving a call from her boyfriend, who was sleeping with her mother. She took only a picture of a jukebox with her boyfriend standing beside it. She then helped form The Runaways.
Kim Fowley and Sandy West called her hotel while on the road. Kari Krome (replaced by Micki Steele and later Jackie Fox), Lita Ford, and Cherie Currie completed the line-up. While Currie initially fronted the band, Jett also sang lead vocal, played rhythm guitar and wrote or co-wrote much of the band's material. The band recorded five LPs, with one becoming one of the biggest-selling imports in U.S. and U.K. history. The band toured around the world and some of their opening acts included Cheap Trick, Van Halen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and The Vanden Dungen band (1977). They found massive success abroad, especially in Japan.
While the Runaways were popular in Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada and even South America, they could not garner the same success in the U.S. It seemed that the United States, and the music press especially, was not ready to take seriously the music of female teenagers who had run away. After Currie and Fox left the band (to be replaced by bassist Vicki Blue, who was then replaced by Laurie McAllister), the band released two more albums: Waitin' for the Night and And Now... The Runaways. Altogether they produced five albums from 1975 until 1979 and disbanded in 1979.
It was around this time that Jett produced The Germs' first and only album (GI).
Solo
In the spring of 1979, Jett was in England pursuing a solo career. While there, she cut three songs with ex-Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones (one of which was an early version of a cover song called "I Love Rock N' Roll," originally written and performed by The Arrows). Later that year, she moved to Long Beach, New York, and ultimately, Los Angeles, where she reluctantly began fulfilling an obligation by the Runaways to complete a film loosely based on the band's career called We're All Crazee Now!, with three actresses standing in for her departed band members. The plug was pulled on the project halfway through shooting, but in 1984, after Jett had become a major star, producers were looking for a way to make use of the footage from the uncompleted film. Bits of the original movie ended up on the cutting room floor, only to be re-edited in a never commercially-released underground movie called DuBeat-Eo, produced by Alan Sacks. While working on the project, Jett met songwriter and producer Kenny Laguna. They became instant friends and decided to work together.
Jett and Laguna entered The Who’s Ramport Studios with the latter at the helm. Jett's self-titled solo debut was released in Europe. In the United States, the album was rejected by 28 major labels. Jett and Laguna released it independently on their own Blackheart Records label. Laguna remembers, "We couldn't think of anything else to do, but print up records ourselves, and that's how Blackheart Records started. It was more or less Joan's idea to do it ourselves."[citation needed] Jett inadvertently became the first female performer to start her own record label.
The Blackhearts
With Laguna's assistance, she formed the Blackhearts. Joan placed an ad in the L.A. Weekly "looking for three good men." John Doe of X sat in on bass for the auditions held at S.I.R. studios in Los Angeles. He mentioned a local bass player, Gary Ryan, that had recently been crashing on his couch. Ryan was part of the L.A. punk scene and had played bass with local artists Top Jimmy and Rik L. Rik. He had been a huge fan of the Runaways and Jett for years. Joan recognized him at the audition and he was in. Gary recommended guitarist Eric Ambel, who also at the time part of the Rik L. Rik band. The final addition to the original Blackhearts was drummer Danny "Furious" O'Brien, formerly of the infamous San Francisco band, The Avengers. This line-up played several gigs at the Golden Bear and Whiskey a Go-Go in Hollywood before embarking on their first European tour; which consisted of an extensive tour of Holland and a few key shows in England including the Marquee in London.
Upon returning to the states, Jett, Ryan, and Ambel moved to Long Beach, N.Y. O'Brien stayed behind in England to pursue other interests. Auditions were set up and Lee Crystal, formerly of The Boyfriends, became the new drummer. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts then toured throughout the states and built quite a following in their new "hometown" of New York. Jett and Laguna soon used their personal savings to press up copies of the Bad Reputation album and set up their own system of independent distribution, sometimes selling the albums out of the trunk of their car at the end of each concert. Laguna was unable to keep up with demand for her album. Eventually, old friend and founder of Casablanca Records, Neil Bogart, made a joint venture with Laguna and signed Jett to his new label, Boardwalk Records. After a year of touring and recording, The Blackhearts recorded a new album for the label. During the recording process, Ambel was replaced by local guitarist Ricky Byrd. Eric went on to a successful career as a founding member of the Del-Lords, and later worked as a producer of a wide variety of bands. He currently plays with his band, The Yayhoos, and is Steve Earle's guitar slinger.
With Byrd on guitar, Joan and the Blackhearts recorded their hit album. The new single was a re-recording of the title track, "I Love Rock N' Roll", which in the first half of 1982 was number one on the Billboard charts for seven weeks in a row. It is now Billboard’s #28 song of all time.
A string of Top 40 hits followed, as well as sellout tours with The Police, Queen, and Aerosmith, among others. Jett was the second American act of any kind to perform behind the Iron Curtain, the first one being Blood, Sweat & Tears in Romania in 1969. She was also the first English-speaking rock act to appear in Panama and the Dominican Republic.
After receiving her own MTV New Year's Eve special, Jett beat out a number of contenders to appear in the movie Light of Day with Michael J. Fox. Bruce Springsteen wrote the title song especially for her and her performance was critically acclaimed. It was about this time that Ryan and Crystal left the Blackhearts. They were soon replaced by the powerful rhythm section of Thommy Price and Kasim Sultan. Later that year, Jett released Good Music, which featured appearances by The Beach Boys, The Sugarhill Gang and singer Darlene Love.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts became the first rock band to perform a series of shows at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway, breaking the record at the time for the fastest ticket sell-out ever. Her next release, Up Your Alley, went multi-platinum and was followed by The Hit List, which was an international hit.
In 1989 Joan co-wrote the song "House of Fire" which appeared on Alice Cooper's Trash album.
In the 1990s, Jett and Laguna released Flashback, a compilation of her career so far on their own Blackheart Records. Her next release, Notorious (which featured The Replacements' Paul Westerberg) was the last with Sony/CBS as Jett switched to Warner Brothers. A CD single of "Let's Do It" featuring Jett and Westerberg was also released during this time and appeared in the song credits for the movie Tank Girl.
Jett produced several bands prior to releasing her debut and her label Blackheart Records released recordings from varied artists such as thrash band Metal Church and rapper Big Daddy Kane.
The press touted Jett as the "Godmother of Punk" and the "Original Riot Grrrl". In 1994, the Blackhearts released the well received Pure and Simple, which featured tracks written with Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland), Donita Sparks (L7) and Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill).
Other work
Jett, a huge sports fan, still remained actively involved in the sports world. Her cover of “Love is All Around” (the theme song of The Mary Tyler Moore Show) became an anthem in women’s sports and was used by the NCAA to promote the Women’s Final Four, as well as the song "Unfinished Business" which was never commercially released. "Love Is All Around" went into heavy radio play and became a number one requested song without an existing support CD. Jett supplied theme songs for the premiere ESPN X-Games and has contributed music to all the games since. She also sang the national anthem, at Cal Ripken Jr.'s request at the game in which he broke Lou Gehrig’s record.
Orientation
Jett's sexual orientation has been the subject of much speculation. "Sinner" features a cover of the Replacements' "Androgynous" and a version of Sweet's ode to bisexuality, "A.C.D.C." Jett won't publicly discuss her sexuality. "But I do it in my music, and I always have," she said. "If you don't know who I am from listening to my music, then you're not going to figure it out from me talking to you, either."
Film, Broadway and television appearances
Jett's first appearance on film is in the 1981 live concert film Urgh! A Music War, performing "Bad Reputation" with the Blackhearts at The Ritz in New York City. She made her acting debut in 1987, co-starring with Gena Rowlands and Michael J. Fox in the Paul Schrader film Light of Day. She has also appeared in some independent films, including Sweet Life and Boogie Boy.
During the 1990s, she appeared on the sitcom Ellen, performing the title song. She also appeared on the television show Highlander. Her song "Bad Reputation" was used as the theme song for the cult TV show Freaks and Geeks, and later for the Sirius Satellite Radio show "Whatever with Alexis and Jennifer". A version of "Bad Reputation" also appeared on the soundtrack of the film Shrek.
In 2000, Jett appeared in the Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show in the role of Columbia.
Later music career
Jett returned to producing for the band Circus Lupus in 1992 and again, in 1994, for Bikini Kill. This recording was the New Radio EP for which she also played and sang back-up vocals. It was during the 1990s that the Riot Grrrl movement arose, of which Bikini Kill was a representative band, and many of these women credited Jett as a role model and inspiration. Another Riot Grrrl band, Bratmobile, covered the song "Cherry Bomb" as a tribute to her.
Near the end of the 1990s she worked with members of the punk band The Gits, whose lead singer and lyricist, Mia Zapata, had been raped and murdered. The results of their collaboration together was a live LP, Evil Stig and a single, "Bob", whose earnings were contributed to the investigation of Zapata's murder. To this end, the band and Jett appeared on the television show America's Most Wanted, appealing to the public for information. The case was finally solved in 2004, when Zapata's murderer was finally brought to trial and convicted.
Jett performed "I Love Rock N' Roll" with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 19, 2005.
Jett is a guest artist on Marky Ramone's solo album Start of the Century on the track "Don't Blame Me."
She is a guest vocalist on Peaches album Impeach My Bush on the track "Boys Wanna Be Her", and a guest on "You Love It".
In 2004, Jett and Laguna produced, "No Apologies" by Warped Tour favorites The Eyeliners. Jett also guested on the track "Destroy" and made a cameo appearance in the music video.
In 2005, Jett discovered Cleveland punk rockers The Vacancies. She and Laguna produced their second album, A Beat Missing or a Silence Added. It went top 20 in the CMJ Music Charts.
In 2005, she was recruited by Steven Van Zandt to host her own radio show on Van Zandt's Underground Garage radio channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. She hosts a four-hour show entitled Joan Jett's Radio Revolution heard every Saturday and Sunday. The program recently moved from Sirius 25 to Sirius 28.
In 2005, Jett and Laguna celebrated the 25th anniversary of Blackheart Records with a sellout show at Manhattan's Webster Hall that featured their groups The Eyeliners and The Vacancies as openers to the headlining Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.
Current projects
Joan Jett has recently released (need year) a new album, Sinner, on Blackheart Records, her own label. To support the album, the band appeared on the 2006 Warped Tour, and embarked on a Fall 2006 tour with Eagles of Death Metal. Various other bands like Valient Thorr, The Vacancies, Throw Rag and Riverboat Gamblers were to have joined the tour for a handful of dates each.
A Joan Jett video with Paul, Paul Jr. and Mikey Teutul of the Learning Channel show American Chopper aired on January 14, 2007. The making of that video was presented in a segment of American Chopper that aired on Learning Channel February 22, 2007.
Jett sang a duet with Chase Noles on "Tearstained Letters," a song on the recently released (need year) Heart Attacks album, Hellbound and Heartless.
On November 12, 2007, Jett and the Blackhearts are to appear with Motörhead and Alice Cooper in the Bournemouth Internation Center.
In late June, 2007, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts were to perform at Dolphin Stadium after an Atlanta Braves versus Florida Marlins baseball game.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts headlined the Albuquerque, New Mexico Freedom Fourth celebration on July 4, 2007, with an estimated crowd of 65,000 in attendance at the annual outdoor event.
Jett is to executive produce the (need year) upcoming film Neon Angels, which chronicles the Runaways' career. Floria Sigismondi, who has also directed videos for Marilyn Manson, the White Stripes and David Bowie, is to write and direct.
Jett is to open eight American shows on Aerosmith's 2007 World Tour.

AKA Bonnie Lynn Hunt

Born: 22-Sep-1961
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Life with Bonnie
Husband: John Murphy (m. 8-Jul-1986)
Hunt was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Irish American Catholic parents Bob and Alice Hunt (for whom Bonnie named her production company "Bob & Alice"); she has three older brothers, Patrick, Kevin, and Tom, two older sisters, Cathy and Carol, and one younger sister, Mary. Hunt was educated in Catholic schools and attended St. Ferdinand grammar school and Notre Dame High School for Girls. in Chicago.
In 1982, Hunt worked as a cancer nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1984, she co-founded An Impulsive Thing, an improvisational comedy troupe, with Holly Wortell, Andy Miller, and John Gripentrog. Hunt also performed as a member of Chicago's world-famous The Second City, joining in 1986.
Career
Hunt repeatedly refused to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live because the show's producers generally frowned on her preferred improvisational style. In 1992, she also turned down a higher-paying role on Designing Women to co-star in Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters, Randy Quaid, and Audrey Meadows. In 1993, Hunt teamed with good friend David Letterman to produce The Building, a short-lived sitcom that was modeled after early-1950s television shows. The show was also filmed live; mistakes, accidents, and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode. Hunt also turned down the female lead in the highly acclaimed television series Mad About You, which went to Helen Hunt, who in turn won several emmys and golden globes for her work on the show.
Hunt and Letterman re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which featured many of the same cast members as The Building and the same loose style. The show was praised by critics but was soon canceled. In 2002, Hunt returned to television with Life with Bonnie, a show known for clean and offbeat humor. Her role on that show earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination, her first. Despite fair ratings in season one, the show struggled and was canceled in its second season. Hunt announced on Live with Regis and Kelly that ABC had offered her another sitcom, in which she played a divorced detective. This pilot, Let Go (also known as Crimes and Dating), was not picked up for their fall 2006 schedule.
Hunt served as screenwriter, director, and supporting actress for the 2000 film Return to Me, a romantic comedy starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in her Chicago neighborhood and included bit parts for a number of her relatives.
Hunt is also a recognizable film actress, having starred opposite Charles Grodin in the popular children's films Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd, along with Robin Williams in the hit Jumanji as well as opposite Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel.
Hunt not only starred as the voice of Sally in Pixar's Cars but also received a writing credit on the film as well.
In June 2007, it was revealed that Hunt taped a talk show pilot for Telepictures, suggesting that she may foray into the competitive daytime category in time for the Fall 2008 season. The pilot took place in the same studio of The Ellen Degeneres Show and coincidentally guest starred Degeneres. Hunt's brother was asked medical questions in a segment called "Ask Dr. Hunt." The pilot also featured Teri Horton, the author of Who the Fuck is Jackson Pollock.
Personal life
Hunt married investment banker John Murphy in 1988. However, during her June 6, 2006, appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, she mentioned that she is single again.
She is good friends with David Duchovny, whom she met on the set of the movie, Beethoven in 1991-1992.

Born: 21-Sep-1961
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Three Men and a Baby
Husband: Robert N. Fried (m. 1994, two children)
Travis's first job after graduating high school was a play, "It's Hard to be a Jew" at The American Jewish Theatre in NYC. After that, Travis appeared in a stage version of Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and was a founding member of the Off-Broadway theater company "Naked Angels." She appeared in their Frank Pugliese play "Aven U-Boys", as well as in "King of Connecticut". Another Broadway play Travis appeared in was "I'm Not Rappaport". She has also starred in Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa".
During the 1990s, Travis appeared in several film roles, including 1990s Internal Affairs. She appeared in the television sitcom Becker from 2002 to 2004, replacing Terry Farrell. she is Susan Pearson in the Bill Engvall Show.

AKA Nicole Camille Escovedo

Born: 21-Sep-1981
Birthplace: Berkeley, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality, Socialite
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Paris Hilton's ex-pal
Father: Peter Michael Escovedo (musician, musical director on The Wayne Brady Show)
Father: Lionel Richie (adoptive father)
Mother: Brenda Harvey-Richie (adoptive mother)
Boyfriend: Tobey Maguire (briefly dated)
Boyfriend: Justin Guarini (singer, dated 2005)
Boyfriend: Adam Goldstein (aka Los Angeles DJ A.M., together 2005-06)
Boyfriend: Jeff Goldblum (actor, briefly dated 2006)
Boyfriend: Brody Jenner (son of Bruce Jenner, together 2006)
Boyfriend: Joel Madden (musician, Good Charlotte, dated 2006-)
Nicole Richie was adopted by Lionel Richie when she was nine years old. Her genetic father is 1980s pop musician Pete Escovedo Jr., whose sister is singer Sheila E. Their father, Pete Escovedo Sr., is a famous Latin jazz musician. Richie and Paris Hilton became best friends when both girls were two years old, attending The Buckley School, a private day care center. She sprang to celebrity in 2003, co-starring with socialite in Fox's reality show The Simple Life. Richie now wants to be a rock star, and her debut album is in the works. She has performed with some rock band called Darling.
In February 2003, Richie was arrested for possession of heroin, a felony, and driving with a suspended license, a misdemeanor. She posted a $10,000 bail, allowing her to continue appearing in The Simple Life.
Michael Jackson is Richie's godfather, and she has publicly come to Jackson's defense against charges of improper sexual behavior with children. As a youngster, Richie says, she often visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch, and slept in Jackson's bedroom. Richie also came to Kobe Bryant's defense during his rape trial, publicly stating, "I want to have sex with him."
In a June 2004 interview, she proclaimed her virginity.
More recently, Richie has lost so much weight she appears emaciated and frightfully thin, but has repeatedly denied having an eating disorder. In October 2006 her publicist announced that Richie "has decided to undergo diagnostic treatment to determine why she's not been putting on weight." Days later Richie reportedly passed out in a Los Angeles nightclub.

Born September 20, 1967
Birthplace: Washington, DC
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Father: (ex-Senator)
Boyfriend: David Newsom (actor, dated 1996)
Fame
She may be most famous for her Emmy Award winning role in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in the sequel to the live-action movie adaptation of The Flintstones animated series. Johnston is also known for her tall 6 ft (1.83 m) frame and relatively deep voice for an actress. In 2005, Johnston featured in six episodes of NBC's ER.
Adolescence
Johnston was raised mostly in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, although she spent some of her teen years as an exchange student in Sweden and in South America. She earned a B.F.A. degree in drama at New York University.
Career
Johnston made her professional stage debut with New York's Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by playwright David Mamet. During her association with that company she appeared in such productions as As You Like It, Girl's Talk, Stage Door, Author's Voice, Portrait of a Woman, and Rosemary for Remembrance.
In addition, she performed with the Naked Angels Theatre Company in The Stand-In and Hot Keys, and with New York Stage and Film in Kim's Sister, with David Strathairn and Jane Adams.
For her performance in The Lights at Lincoln Center Theatre, Johnston was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Best Supporting Actress. The show brought her to the attention of a Carsey-Werner television executive. After numerous auditions in 1996 for the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun, she won the role of "Sally Solomon", the alien lieutenant and security officer posing as a sexy, female human in Ohio. She appeared in the series from 1996-2001 along with John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Johnston made her feature film debut in The Debt, winner of Best Short at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In 1995, she played Kate in Backfire. Other television credits include guest-starring roles on the series Chicago Hope, Hearts Afire, and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. She was also the narrator in Microscopic Milton on the Disney Channel. Her significant roles in commercially successful movies included Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me in 1999 and Austin Powers in Goldmember in 2002.
In 1998, she was a spokesmodel for the Clairol company as well as appearing on the Bad Religion's No Substance album cover.
Johnston appeared in the sixth and final season of Sex and the City. In the episode entitled "Splat!", she plays Lexi Featherston, an aging party girl. After the character accidentally falls out of a window and dies, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) reexamines her life and decides to move to Paris with Aleksandr Petrovsky (played by Mikhail Baryshnikov).

AKA Patricia Lynn Yearwood

Born September 19, 1964
Birthplace: Monticello, GA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Country-folk singer
Father: Jack H. Yearwood (b. 1933, d. 20-Sep-2005)
Husband: Christopher Latham (m. 1987, div. 1991)
Husband: Robert Reynolds (bassist for The Mavericks, m. 21-May-1994, div. 1999)
Husband: Garth Brooks (country musician, m. 10-Dec-2005)
Trisha Yearwood married her first husband, Christopher Latham, in 1987 but the two divorced in 1991. Yearwood married Robert Reynolds, the bass player for The Mavericks, on May 21, 1994, and they divorced in 1999. Yearwood began a relationship with Garth Brooks shortly afterward, leading to a four-year hiatus from music.
In 1996, while flying from Nevada to New York, Yearwood saved a man's life. Francesco Maccarrone, a baggage handler, was trapped in the belly of the plane. When the plane left the gate, Yearwood heard pounding and screaming from under her seat and insisted the pilot stop the plane. After he emerged from the plane a shaken but relieved Francesco said, "I was a big Reba fan, but now I'm an even bigger Trisha fan."
Trisha Yearwood first met her current husband, Garth Brooks, in October 1987 recording demos for songwriter Kent Blazy. The two immediately hit it off as friends and pledged whoever made it big first would help the other out. Even when they became two of the biggest country stars of the 1990s, they remained close friends.
On May 25, 2005, Yearwood became engaged to fellow country superstar and longtime friend Garth Brooks in front of 7,000 fans in Bakersfield, CA. On December 10, 2005, they were married in a private ceremony at the couple's home in Owasso, Oklahoma. It was Brooks' second marriage and Yearwood's third. Brooks has three daughters from his first marriage--Taylor, August, and Allie.
Yearwood lives on a ranch in Owasso, Oklahoma with husband Brooks and his three daughters. When she's not touring, she enjoys cooking, hiking, and reading.
Music career
Early Years
Trisha Yearwood developed her musical talent in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was a student at Belmont University. Yearwood juggled working as a “demo” singer for aspiring songwriters with a receptionist job at MTM Records before being signed by MCA Records. She got a boost when longtime friend Garth Brooks landed a major tour in 1991 and he contracted with Trisha along to open all of his shows, helping to springboard her single was She's in Love with the Boy to number one. This began her a string of nine number one singles.
Musically, Yearwood cites Linda Ronstadt as her biggest influence, and Ronstadt's sound and vocal stylings are clearly apparent in Yearwood's music. Other influences include Emmylou Harris, Patsy Cline, and Elvis Presley. She has released 11 albums and also recorded on other artists' albums.
Yearwood has won three Grammy Awards among several nominations. She has also won the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards for Best Female Performer (CMA: 1997, 1998; ACM: 1997).
Yearwood was inducted into the famed and historic Grand Ole Opry in 1999, cementing her status as a true icon in country music. She cites this, along with appearing on Sesame Street and being a puzzle on Wheel of Fortune, as the signs that she's "made it." On the night of her induction to the Opry, hosted by Porter Waggoner, Yearwood sang "Wrong Side of Memphis", which includes the line "I've had this dream from a tender age, calling my name from the Opry stage..." She was also presented with a necklace worn by one of her idols, Patsy Cline, by her record label president and Cline's husband and daughter. Afterwards she sang the Cline classic "Sweet Dreams".
Current
On September 13, 2005, Yearwood released a new album, Jasper County. The album was a return to a more country sound than her last several CDs. The first single, Georgia Rain, set the tone for the album, with Yearwood altering the lyrics to pay homage to her home, singing about "the Georgia rain on the Jasper County clay."
Yearwood parted ways with MCA Records in 2007 and announced plans to head back into the studio to begin recording her 12th album for Big Machine Records in Nashville. The CD, Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love, is presently scheduled to be released on November 13, 2007. The lead single and title track was released to country radio on July 30.
MCA released Trisha Yearwood's new Greatest Hits CD on September 11, 2007. The album features two new songs, plus fifteen other tracks covering her career from 1991-2001.
On August 31, Yearwood appeared with R&B singer Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds to film an upcoming episode of CMT Crossroads. This episode is set to air on September 21.

Born: 18-Sep-1967
Birthplace: Cuckfield, Sussex, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Sirens
Father: Michael Callaby
Mother: Sarah Fitzgerald
Father: Norman Rodway (stepfather)
Sister: Arabella
Sister: Bianca (half-sister)
Husband: John Sharian (actor, m. 2001, div. 2003)
Tara FitzGerald is an English actress most widely known for her film roles in Hear My Song, Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off.
She has had numerous roles on British television, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Camomile Lawn, The Vacillations Of Poppy Carew, and beginning in 2007, Waking the Dead. In her early television appearances in particular, she gained a reputation for appearing nude or semi-nude.
Her stage roles have included Blanche Dubois in an Bristol Old Vic 2000 production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Ophelia (opposite Ralph Fiennes) in a 1995 production of Hamlet; for the latter she won a New York Drama Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award.
She acted in academy award nominated Czech movie Dark Blue World.
She was paired with Grant again in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and also had major roles in New World Disorder and the film adaption of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.
Her nude appearances in Sirens prompted a listing on the first FHM list of the 100 Sexiest Women in the World.

AKA Francis Thomas Avallone

Born September 18, 1940
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bikini Beach
Father: Nicholas Avallone (b. 27-Apr-1913)
Mother: Mary (b. 3-Jul-1916)
Sister: Theresa Avallone (b. circa 1938)
Wife: Kay Diebel (m. 1962, four sons, four daughters)
Son: Frankie Avalon, Jr.
Daughter: Dina
Daughter: Laura
Son: Joseph
Son: Nicolas
Daughter: Kathryn
Daughter: Carla
Son: (name not known to us)
By the time he was 12, Avalon began making appearances on U.S. television for his trumpet prowess, and as a teenager, played with Bobby Rydell in a band known as Rocco and the Saints. In 1959, his songs "Venus" and "Why" both went to number one on Billboard magazine's Hot 100. Indeed, "Why" was the last #1 hit of the 1950s. Avalon had 31 charted Billboard U.S. singles during his career from 1958 to late 1962, with most of the hits written and/or produced by Bob Marcucci, head of Chancellor Records.
In his acting, he was best known for his starring roles in the teenage Beach Party film genre, though he also had straight dramatic parts in films such as The Alamo as well as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Avalon also appeared in nearly two-dozen TV episodes, including a role in "The Patty Duke Show" titled "A Foggy Day in Brooklyn Heights," appearing as himself (Frankie Avalon). Later, he became the U.S. national television spokesperson for Sonic Drive-In.
The 1980 film The Idolmaker, written by Gene Kirkwood and directed by Taylor Hackford, was a thinly-disguised biography of Frankie Avalon (called "Tommy Dee" in the film) as well as 1950s teenage star Fabian (called "Caesare" in the film), as well as songwriter/producer Marcucci (called "Vinnie Vacarri" in the film). In the movie version, Tommy Dee clashes frequently with the producer and younger singer Caesare, whom he feels threatens his career as an upstart. Eventually, both "Dee" and "Caesare" quit the label, but both their record careers collapse, just as the British Invasion begins. The real-life Fabian threatened a lawsuit at the time of the film's release, though the filmmakers insisted that the film presented only fictional characters (though Marcucci was a paid consultant on the film). Avalon later denied most of the movie's events in interviews.
Frankie Avalon married Kathryn Diebel on January 19, 1963. She was a former beauty pageant winner, and Avalon met her while playing cards at a friend's house. He told his friend that Kay was the girl he was going to marry. His agent warned Avalon not to marry, as it would spoil his teen idol mystique, but Avalon ignored his advice. Still together, the couple has eight children--in order of age, they are Frankie Jr., Tony, Dina, Laura, Joseph, Nicolas, Kathryn and Carla. They also have 10 grandchildren. Frankie Jr. is a drummer and Tony, the second oldest son, currently plays guitar and teaches at the Paul Green School of Rock; both still tour and perform with their father.
In 1987 Avalon and Annette Funicello returned to the movies, with the aptly titled Back to the Beach. Not long afterwards, Funicello was diagnosed with MS, and retired from acting.
With the fading of his music and acting career, Avalon has turned to marketing, and has created Frankie Avalon Products, a successful line of health supplements and cosmetic products. Avalon personally promotes his products live on the Home Shopping Network, along with veteran host Bob Circosta.
He regularly guest stars in stage productions of Grease in the role of Teen Angel (a role he played in the popular 1978 film adaptation) and Tony n' Tina's Wedding as a characterized version of himself. Additionally, in 2007, he performed the song "Beauty School Dropout" with the four remaining female contenders (Kathleen Monteleone, Allie Schulz, Ashley Spencer, and winner Laura Osnes) for the role of Sandy on the NBC television reality show Grease: You're the One that I Want!. Also, his first son, Frank B Avalon Jr., frequently plays the drums on tour with his father.

AKA Cassandra Peterson

Born September 17, 1949
Birthplace: Manhattan, KS
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Father: (insurance salesman)
Mother: (costume shop)
Husband: Mark Pierson (m. 1981)
Daughter: Sadie (b. 1991)
Slept with: Tom Jones
Cassandra Peterson, is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror host persona "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark". She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance was offset by her comical character, quick-witted personality and Valley girl-type speech.
Early life
Born in Manhattan, Kansas, Peterson grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated from General William J. Palmer High School in 1967. Days after graduating, she drove to Las Vegas, Nevada where she became a showgirl at The Dunes. The Guinness Book of World Records cited her as the youngest showgirl in Las Vegas history. She had a small role as a showgirl in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, briefly dated Elvis Presley, played a topless dancer in Working Girls (1973), and posed (again as a stripper) for the cover of Tom Waits' 1976 album, "Small Change." In the early 70s, she moved to Italy and became the lead singer of the Italian rock band, I Latins Ochanats. During this time, she had a chance encounter with director Federico Fellini which led to a small part in Roma (1972). Back in the U.S., she toured nightclubs and gay discos around the country with a musical/comedy act Mammas Boys. In 1979, she joined the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings, where she created a valley girl-type character upon whom the Elvira persona is largely based.
Movie Macabre
In the late spring of 1981, when Larry Vincent (who starred as host Sinister Seymour of a local Los Angeles weekend horror show called Fright Night) died, show producers began searching for his replacement. Deciding to use a female host, producers set out in search of a sexy comedian. Cassandra auditioned against 200 other horror hostess hopefuls, and won the role. Producers left it up to Cassandra to create Elvira's image. She and best friend Robert Redding, came up with the sexy punk/vampire look after producers jeered her original idea to look like Sharon Tate in The Fearless Vampire Killers. What followed was Elvira's Movie Macabre featuring a ditzy valley-girl type character named Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
While Elvira acted like a ditzy valley-girl she was also the embodiment of 1980s punk and Goth. Elvira gained fast notoriety with her tight fitting, low cut black gown which showed more cleavage than had ever appeared on local Los Angeles television before. With heavily applied drag queen style horror make-up and a black wig, the transformation from Cassandra Peterson to the sexy Elvira was so drastic that no one ever recognized her out of costume.
The movies featured on Elvira's Movie Macabre were always B grade (or lower). Elvira reclined on a red Victorian couch, introducing and often interrupting the movie to lampoon the actors, the script, and bad editing with sarcastic and humorous remarks.
In 1982, with the surprising success of Movie Macabre, Knott's Theme Parks hired Elvira to replace Seymour as the host of its annual Halloween Haunt during the month of October. Elvira would appear nightly at the park, live on stage with a Halloween themed musical comedy revue not dissimilar to her Mamma's Boys act from the 1970s.
Further success of the show spawned countless Elvira products through out the 1980s and 1990s, including Halloween costumes, model kits, calendars, perfume, and dolls.
Elvira on Home Video
In 1985, Elvira began hosting a home video series for Thriller Video. These were films hand-selected by Elvira herself. Choosing to stay away from the more explicit zombie, cannibal and slasher films of the time, these were generally tamer films such as The Monster Club and Dan Curtis TV films. She refused to host Make Them Die Slowly and Seven Doors of Death, so the videos were released on the LIVE Home Video label without Elvira's appearance as hostess.
The success of the Thriller Video series lead to a second video set, Elvira's Midnight Madness. In 2004, she revisted this concept with a similar horror film collection on DVD, titled " Elvira's Box of Horrors". After more than ten years, Box of Horrors was the return of Elvira hosting horror movies ala Movie Macabre.
Mistress of the Dark
In the late 1980s and early 1990s a number of Elvira-themed computer games were produced
Two Elvira themed pinball machines were produced by Bally/Midway. Elvira and the Party Monsters was released in 1989 and Scared Stiff was put out in 1996.
In 1989, Cassandra was sued by actress Maila "Vampira" Nurmi for alleged unauthorized use of her likeness and character. The court ruled in favor of Cassandra, holding that "'likeness' means actual representation of another person's appearance, and not simply close resemblance." Cassandra claimed that Elvira was nothing like Vampira aside from the basic design of the black dress and black hair. Nurmi herself claimed that Vampira's image was based on Charles Addams character "Morticia Addams."
On Halloween night of 1992, Elvira appeared with rock band U2 when they played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on their ZOO TV tour. Just as she apparently did some 14 years later, she declared her candidacy for President, noting that "we already have two boobs in the White House, might as well be mine." Following a couple of corny jokes, she led the crowd to sing "Happy Birthday" to drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., whose birthday is on Halloween.
In the early nineties she released a very successful calendar, featuring Elvia in various locations (on a studio set) and in poses. One of the months can be seen in the video game Blood, hanging on various walls.
In 1997 Ray Productions of Orlando Florida produced the first haunted house chain endorsed by Elvira titled 'Elviras Nightmare Haunted House.' The attraction was fully themed and endorsed by Elvira and remained open for two Halloween seasons in Atlanta Georgia.
The "Elvira" character has her own version of a motion simulator ride called "Superstition". The theme is that Elvira has created her own virtual theme park and she is transporting you there. You then ride her favorite ride, "Superstition" a roller coaster based on luck. The ride was recently at Carowinds in Charlotte, NC during October when the park turns into Scarowinds.
In February 2003, Cassandra filed for divorce from her husband/manager of 25 years, Mark Pierson. Cassandra retained all rights to the Elvira character despite Pierson's long time involvement.
During the weekend of January 13, 2006, Peterson held an estate sale at her Hollywood Hills home which constituted many household, personal and movie memorabilia items. The estate sale was due to her recent divorce in which her assets had to be evenly divided. Peterson still lives in Hollywood.
Cassandra Peterson remains a supporter of animal rights, and an active member of PETA. She continues to make appearences as Elvira.

AKA Jennifer E. Chan

Born: 16-Sep-1958
Birthplace: Harbor City, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Multiracial
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Bound, Monsters, Inc.
Father: Harry Chan (used car salesman)
Mother: Patrica Tilly (school teacher)
Father: John Ward (stepfather, hippie)
Sister: Meg Tilly (actress)
Boyfriend: Lou Diamond Phillips (actor, dated 1992)
Husband: Sam Simon (producer, The Simpsons, m. 1984, div. 1991)
Born Jennifer Chan, her father was Chinese-American, but considered himself just another American. She was raised in western Canada after the age of 5, when her parents divorced and her mother re-married a hippie. She studied drama at a tiny college in Missouri, then sold sandwiches in Los Angeles area office buildings while waiting to break into acting. Tilly was Oscar-nominated for playing a ditzy moll in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. She has said Allen's only direction was that her character was never supposed to stop talking, even when she was in the background. Her incessant chatter wasn't scripted, so Tilly was supposed to improvise, and when her improvising ran dry she was scolded by Allen: "Don't let that happen again."
Her sister is actress Meg Tilly. In high school, everyone called Jennifer, Meg and their younger sister Becky the Three Musketeers. Tilly began her acting career in her teenage years through a theatre program at Stephens College in Missouri.
Career
Tilly had small roles in TV shows and movies beginning in 1983. She had a recurring guest role on Hill Street Blues as Gina Srignoli, a mobster's widow who becomes romantically involved with detective Henry Goldblume.
Tilly's breakthrough film role was as a singing waitress in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) in a part that was specially written for her by Steve Kloves. That same year, she played a small part in the cult classic horse racing movie, Let it Ride with Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr, that Tilly later said "should have done better."
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as a hopelessly bad actress in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway (1994). In 1994, she also had a small role in the The Getaway with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. Tilly was ranked #23 in Celebrity Sleuth "25 Sexiest Women of 1995."
Tilly appeared in Bound, which revolves around a lesbian relationship her character has with Gina Gershon. She played Samantha Cole in the 1997 Jim Carrey hit, Liar Liar. In 2000, Tilly appeared in the film Dancing at the Blue Iguana in which she played a stripper and part-time dominatrix.
Tilly gained some additional popularity in recent years for providing voice-over work as killer doll Tiffany for the Child's Play series of movies. In the most recent installment, Seed of Chucky, she plays a dual role, not only providing the voice for Tiffany but also playing an exaggerated version of herself.
Tilly is a semi-regular cast member on Family Guy, voicing the Griffin family's neighbor, Bonnie. She has also done vocal work for the film Monsters, Inc., the children's series Hey Arnold, Stuart Little and Home on the Range. In Disney's The Haunted Mansion, she does the voiceover for Madame Leota and works from the neck up. She has been active in the theatre, winning a Theater World Award for her performance in the off-Broadway play One Shoe Off.
Tilly has also had a recurring role in the US television comedy Out of Practice starring Henry Winkler and Stockard Channing.
Poker
On June 27, 2005, Tilly won a World Series of Poker bracelet (and $158,625) in the Ladies' No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em event, outlasting 600 other players. She followed up this accomplishment on September 1, 2005 by also winning the third World Poker Tour Ladies Invitational Tournament held at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. Tilly has appeared in the GSN Poker Royale series. She appeared in the third season of Poker Superstars but was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Tilly played in the Celebrity Poker Showdown which aired June 14, 2006 on Bravo. Tilly was knocked out in third place by Bravo¡¯s internet poker champion Ida Siconolfi (the first non-celebrity to appear on the show) when her A¢À K¢¾ failed to improve against Ida's starting hand of K¢À K¢¼. Tilly appears as a celebrity, rather than a poker pro, in ESPN's Pro-Am Poker Equalizer.
In a television interview, Tilly stated that at this point in her career she is more interested in pursuing poker than acting. Her total tournament winnings exceed $340,000.
Personal life
Tilly married The Simpsons producer Sam Simon in 1984, but they divorced in 1991. She is currently dating poker professional Phil "Unabomber" Laak and is nicknamed "The Unabombshell" within the poker circuit.
Tilly has two cats, Corky and Violet, and is an avid lover of fashion. She is a supporter of gay and lesbian rights.

Born September 15, 1946
Birthplace: San Saba, TX
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: Clyde L. Jones (oil rigger)
Mother: Lucille Marie Scott Jones (police officer)
Wife: Katherine Lardner (actress, m. 1971; div. 1978)
Wife: Kimberlea Gayle Cloughley (photographer, m. 30-May-1981, div. 1996)
Son: Austin Leonard "Bubba" Jones (b. 1983)
Daughter: Victoria Kafka "Tory" Jones (b. 1991)
Girlfriend: Lisa Taylor (model)
Wife: Dawn Laurel (camera assistant, m. 19-Mar-2001)
Jones was born in San Saba, Texas to Clyde C. Jones, an oil field worker, and Lucille Marie (Scott), a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner; the two were married and divorced twice. Jones, an eighth-generation Texan, has a Cherokee Native American grandparent. He was a resident of Midland, Texas and attended the same high school, Robert E. Lee High School, as the First Lady Laura Bush.
Jones graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas (where he is now on the board of directors) and attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he lived in Mower B-12 as a freshman, across the hall from future Vice President Al Gore. As an upperclassman, he was roommates with Gore and John Lithgow in Dunster House. Jones played offensive tackle on Harvard's undefeated 1968 varsity football team, was nominated as a first-team All-Ivy League selection, and played in the memorable and literal last-minute Harvard sixteen-point comeback blitz to tie Yale in the 1968 Game. Jones graduated cum laude with a degree in English in 1969.
Career
Jones then moved to New York City to become an actor. He started acting on Broadway and in television. He made his debut in movies in Love Story, in 1970 (Erich Segal, the author of "Love Story" has said that he based the lead character of Oliver on the two undergrad roommates he knew while teaching at Harvard, Jones and Al Gore.). Between 1971 and 1975, he portrayed Dr. Mark Toland on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, and then he played the role of an escaped convict who was hunted down by the police in Jackson County Jail (1976). In 1978, he starred opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in The Betsy.
In 1981, he played a drifter opposite Sally Field in Back Roads, a comedy that received middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. In 1983, he received an Emmy for Best Actor for his performance as murderer Gary Gilmore in a TV adaptation of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. In the same year he also starred in pirate adventure Nate and Hayes, playing the heavily bearded Captain Bully Hayes. Despite being a film that was largely forgotten due to the unspectacular title, interest has recently been rekindled thanks to the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
In the 1990s, movies such as The Fugitive co-starring Harrison Ford, Batman Forever co-starring Val Kilmer, and Men in Black with Will Smith brought him tens of millions of dollars and made him one of the top actors of Hollywood. His role in The Fugitive won him wide acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. When he accepted his Oscar, his head was shaved for his role in the film Cobb, a situation he made light of in his speech by saying "All a man can say at a time like this is 'I am not really bald.'"
In 2005, he released his first feature-film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, that was presented at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It won him the Best Actor Award. His first film as director was in 1995, a made-for-television movie.
Personal life
At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, he presented the nominating speech for his college roommate, Al Gore, as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States.
Jones has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughey: Victoria Kafka (born 1991) and Austin Leonard (born 1982). He was married to Kate Lardner, the daughter of Ring Lardner Jr. from 1971 to 1978. On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel.
Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a community in San Antonio.

AKA Mary Frances Crosby

Born September 14, 1959
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dallas
Father: Bing Crosby (crooner, b. 1903, d. 1977)
Mother: Kathryn Grant
Brother: Harry Crosby
Brother: Nathaniel Crosby
Husband: Eb Lottimer (m. 24-Nov-1978, div.)
Husband: Mark Brodka (m. 1998, two children)
She is the daughter of the singer and actor Bing Crosby, from his second marriage to the actress Kathryn Grant. She graduated from high school at 15. She then entered the University of Texas at Austin where she became a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority, but dropped out of the University before graduating. She is fluent in Spanish.
Crosby may be best remembered for her role as Kristin Shepard (Sue Ellen Ewing's scheming sister) on the TV series Dallas from 1979 to 1981. Her character is best remembered for her role in the cliffhanger ending of the 1979-1980 season of Dallas. In that highly watched episode, J.R. Ewing, (played by Larry Hagman) was shot by an unknown assailant. Viewers had to wait all summer (and most of the fall due to a Hollywood actors' strike) to learn whether J.R. would survive, and which of his many enemies was responsible. During the summer of 1980, the question, "Who shot J.R.?", was being asked in everyday conversations across America.Ultimately, Kristin Shepard (Crosby) was revealed to have been the person who pulled the trigger in the classic "Who Done It?" episode that aired on November 21, 1980. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.
Crosby's character, Kristin Shepard, later crossed over to the TV aeries Knots Landing in the 1980-81 season, and returned to Dallas in 1981, where she was found drowned in the Southfork Ranch swimming pool.

Born September 13, 1944
Birthplace: Weybridge, Surrey, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor, Model
Father: Max Fraser Bisset (doctor, d. 1982)
Mother: Arlette Alexander (attorney)
Brother: Max Bisset (auto dealer)
Boyfriend: Michael Sarrazin (actor, longterm)
Boyfriend: Alexander Godunov (ballet dancer, b. 1950, dated 1981-88, d. 1995 alcoholism)
Boyfriend: Victor Drai (real estate millionaire)
Boyfriend: Vincent Perez (actor, b. 1962, dated late 1980s, early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Emin Boztepe (Turkish martial artist, b. 1963, dated since 1994)
Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette Alexander, a lawyer of French and English descent; Bisset's mother cycled from Paris and boarded a British trooper in order to escape the Germans during WWII. Bisset has a brother, Max. Bisset's mother taught her to speak French fluently and she was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis. Bisset's parents divorced in 1968, after 28 years of marriage. Bisset subsequently moved in to help her mother. She had taken ballet lessons as a young child, and now began taking acting lessons and fashion modelling to pay for them.
She lives in England.
Career
In 1967, Bisset was cast in the critically acclaimed movie Two for the Road. Next, she participated in the James Bond satire, Casino Royale (1967), as Miss Goodthighs.
In 1968, Mia Farrow dropped out of the movie The Detective (1968), and the role went to Bisset. That same year, she was cast opposite Steve McQueen in Bullitt, and appeared in the 1970 disaster film Airport.
In 1973, she appeared in François Truffaut's Day for Night, where she earned the respect of European critics and moviegoers as a serious actress. In 1977, Bisset made great strides towards becoming a better known entertainer in America with her movie The Deep (1977), co-starring Robert Shaw, where her appearance swimming underwater wearing only a T-shirt helped make the film a box office smash, leading the producer Jon Peters to say, "That T-shirt made me a rich man", and led many to credit her with popularizing the wet T-shirt contest. At the time, Newsweek magazine declared her to be "the most beautiful film actress of all time".
By 1978, she was a household name. She earned her first Golden Globe nomination for the comedy Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?. Soon thereafter, she played in the movies Rich and Famous (1981) with Candice Bergen, and Under the Volcano with Albert Finney (1984), for which she earned her a second Golden Globe award nomination. In 1996, she was nominated for a César Award, France's version of the Oscars, for her role in La Cérémonie. During her career, Bisset has worked with such well-respected directors as Truffaut, John Huston, George Cukor and Roman Polanski. Several of her movies are French or Italian productions.
Bisset has also appeared in many made-for-TV movies, especially during the past ten years, some of which have been quite successful. One of her later TV movies, released in 2003, was America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story, in which she portrayed Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Bisset's most recent television work was a recurring role as the mysterious James, during the fourth season of the FX show Nip/Tuck.
Personal life
Though she has been romantically linked with many actors, Bisset has never married. Bisset is the godmother to actress Angelina Jolie. She appeared with Jolie in the film Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005); however, the scenes never made the final cut.
Unlike many actresses of her generation who have had difficulty finding work after the age of 40, Bisset made a seamless transition from leading lady to character actor. She remains very much in demand both in Hollywood and Europe. She told a Bermuda newspaper in 2004:
"This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young and they go to the cinema to see the sort of romance or adventure that appeals to them. It's not an intellectual cinema in America. But one mustn't be too greedy. One wants to be stimulated by the work as long as there is something to give. I think you have to be as flexible as possible. Perhaps you don't get handed the big American productions, but, quite honestly, who would want to be in a lot of them? Many of them are just puerile teenage filler, and they're not fascinating to be in. To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give, and the camera just sort of brushes past you, and doesn't get what you have to give. Most actresses I know are frustrated, but you have to adapt to the reality. I go and find a small part in something I find interesting, or find an independent film".
Bisset in popular culture
In the NBC TV show Cheers, the episode "Bar Bet" has Sam Malone faced with a bet made with an old drinking buddy a long time ago. The bet: he would marry Jacqueline Bisset by a certain date or lose his bar. Rather than losing the bet because he'll never marry the Jacqueline Bisset, or welching on the bet and having to admit under oath that he was drunk when he made the bet, he instead locates an American woman with the exact same name and brings her back to Boston.
Bisset is mentioned by name in the Al Stewart song "Clifton in the Rain."
In the HBO TV show The Larry Sanders Show, Artie says he once dated Bisset.

AKA George Glenn Jones

Born September 12, 1931
Birthplace: Saratoga, TX
Gender: Male
Religion: Baptist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Country singer, White Lightning
Military service: USMC (1951-54)
Wife: Dorothy (m. 1950, div. 1951)
Wife: Shirley (m. 1954, div. 1968)
Wife: Tammy Wynette (m. 16-Feb-1969, div. 1975)
Wife: Nancy Sepulveda (m. Mar-1983)
Father: George Washington Jones
Mother: Clara
Daughter: Susan
George Glenn Jones, is an American country music artist known for his distinctive voice and phrasing that frequently evoke the raw emotions caused by grief, unhappy love, and emotional hardship. He has had more songs than any other singer on the country charts – 167 as of November, 2005. He has also had the most Top 40 Hits – 143 – and is second to Eddy Arnold with the most Top 10 Hits – 78. Over the past twenty years, Jones has frequently been referred to as "the greatest living country singer" and "the Rolls-Royce of country singers." Frank Sinatra once called him "the second best white male singer." The country music scholar Bill C. Malone writes, "For the two or three minutes consumed by a song, Jones immerses himself so completely in its lyrics, and in the mood it conveys, that the listener can scarcely avoid becoming similarly involved." He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife, Nancy Jones. Also in a separate house on his property live Sherry Hohimer, his step-daughter. Sherry's husband, Kirk, helps George Jones with concert setup. Sherry and Kirks kids,(George's grandkids) live on his property. Their names are Carlos and Breann Hohimer.
2005
George Jones is still touring. On February 15 Jones attended the service for late country music singer-songwriter Merle Kilgore along with Hank Williams, Jr., Kenny Chesney, and Brooks & Dunn's Kix Brooks.
On April 8 Jones along with Country Music Hall of Fame members Eddy Arnold and Carl Smith were pallbearers at country music pioneer Don Pierce's funeral services.
Garth Brooks popped the question to country singer Trisha Yearwood on May 25 at Buck Owens' Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California. Jones, Merle Haggard, and Buck Owens were also there.
Jones's My Very Special Guests, a 1979 album of duets, was reissued on May 31 by Columbia/Legacy with 27 additional tracks.
Jones, Bill Anderson, and Little Jimmy Dickens were featured on Brad Paisley's album Time Well Wasted, released on August 16.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has added Jones's "He Stopped Loving Her Today" to one of its "song spiral" displays. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of its release, visitors can step inside the listening booth and hear the whole track, which was produced by Billy Sherrill and written by Bobby Braddock and Curly Putman.
Jones hosted a September 1 breakfast buffet at his home near Franklin, Tennessee, for members of the Nashville news media. Reporters were invited to look through his country music memorabilia, photo collection and collection of stage costumes. In addition to an omelet station, Jones served sausage and bacon from his own line of breakfast foods. This was for his upcoming 2005 album Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't.
On September 13 Jones' released Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't was released on his label Bandit Records.
In October Jones's 50 Years of Hits was certified gold by the [RIAA]
An exhibit, titled The Grand Tour: George Jones Country was open at the Country Music Hall of Fame on December 2 and ran through May 2006.
On December 8 Jones was nomineed for a Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance (for a solo vocal performance) for the song "Funny How Time Slips Aways" (written by Willie Nelson) the awards show aired on February 8, 2006 but Jones lost to pop singer Keith Urban.
In late December CMT named Jones' 2005 album Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't one of their Top 10 Country Albums of 2005.
2006
On January 13 and January 14 Country Stars and NASCAR Drivers unite for fan event called "Sound and Speed" in downtown Nashville, Tennessee for the very first time. NASCAR legend Richard Petty and Country music legend George Jones teamed on January 14 for an insightful Q&A at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
Country music new commer Jamey Johnson features Jones on the song, "Keeping Up with the Jonesin" on his debut album The Dollar, which was released on January 31, 2006.
Jones and Lucinda Williams performed together two shows in California. They played the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on February 25 and Santa Barbara on February 27.
Jones was honored by his hometown of Beaumont, Texas, on March 24, by pressing his boots into a wet cement slab that will be placed on display in front of the city's Ford Arena. Jones was in town for a concert with Merle Haggard, who also attended the ceremony. Jones is the seventh southeast Texas native to be honored in Ford Park's Walk of Fame. Other inductees include Tracy Byrd, Janis Joplin, Clay Walker, and Edgar Winter.
Jones was hospitalized March 30 afternoon at Baptist Hospital in Nashville for pneumonia. Jones made a full recovery despite rescheduling a few tour dates.
The Grascals 2006 album Long List of Heartaches featured Jones. Their album was released on August 29.
In Fall 2006, Jones and wife Nancy are planning to open a Southern-style restaurant named Possum Holler in downtown Enterprise, Alabama. The eatery will seat 250 people and will be decorated with Jones's career memorabilia.
Jerry Lee Lewis's 2006 album of all-star duets, Last Man Standing, featured Jones and many other artists. This album was released September 26, 2006.
Jones took part in an all-star album called Songs of the Year, released on October 3 at Cracker Barrel restaurants and the company's website.
Jones broke his right wrist October 20 in a fall at his producer's studio in Nashville. He underwent surgery on October 23 after breaking his right wrist October 20 in a fall at his producer's studio in Nashville. A spokesperson for Jones said the 75-year-old entertainer was treated at Nashville's Baptist Hospital where he also underwent a CAT scan to check for a possible concussion, but the scan showed no head injury. Due to this injury Jones had to postpone a few tour dates.
On October 24 Jones and friend as well as country music legend Merle Haggard released their first album together in 26 years called Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again on Jones's Bandit Records.
Jones and special guest Kris Kristofferson performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City on October 31. Jones last played the famous venue in 1962 when he appeared with Johnny Cash, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Family, and Tompall and the Glaser Brothers. "I think we were one of the first, if not first, country shows to go in there. ... We had a great time. The place was packed and sold out," Jones said.
All Gone Fishin' is an all-star album about fishing and fisherman that featured Jones and many other artists. This album was released on November 14 on Jones's Bandit Records. This album is at all Bass Pro Shops and Wal-Mart. All selections on the album were newly produced.
Jones was one of several country artists that testified on December 11 at an FCC hearing in Nashville. The hearing, one of six such regional affairs scheduled around the U.S., is exploring the subject of media ownership.
2007
In January the Grammy Hall of Fame honored Jones by inducting his 1980 hit, "He Stopped Loving Her Today" into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
In January, Jones, along with music industry executives Tandy Rice and Matthew Wilkes, opened George Jones University.
Charlie Louvin, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, released a self-titled album of duets on the Tompkins Square label on February 20. His singing partners include Jones, Bobby Bare, Elvis Costello, Tom T. Hall, and many others.
Brenda Lee released her latest album titled Gospel Duets With Treasured Friends on April 10 via the Provident Label Group. Guests include Jones, Dolly Parton, Charlie Daniels, and others.
On June 15 the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas Henry Garrett a longtime George Jones fan gave Jones the key to the city and declared June 16 as George Jones Day in Corpus Christi.
Jones is back in the studio working on a new studio album. The album is to include a duet with country legend and good friend of Jones' Tanya Tucker.
2007 marks Jones's 52nd year in country music as well as his 38th year at the Grand Ole Opry.
Drinking and Drug Abuse
Jones' alcohol consumption was legendary. For a great part of his life he woke up to a Screwdriver and spent the rest of the day drinking bourbon.
Perhaps the best known story of his drinking days is tragicomic. While married to the former Shirley Corley, his second wife, Jones resorted to some desperate measures in getting alcohol.
Once, when I had been drunk for several days, Shirley decided she would make it physically impossible for me to buy liquor. I lived about eight miles from Beaumont and the nearest liquor store. She knew I wouldn't walk that far to get booze, so she hid the keys to every car we owned and left.
But she forgot about the lawn mower.
I can vaguely remember my anger at not being able to find keys to anything that moved and looking longingly out a window at a light that shone over our property. There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition.
I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.
The riding mower doesn't seem to be a one-time event. Wife Tammy Wynette told her own riding mower story in her 1979 autobiography.
About 1 am I would wake up and look over to find he was gone. I got into the car and drove to the nearest bar 10 miles away. When I pulled into the parking lot there sat our rider-mower right by the entrance. He'd driven that mower right down a main highway. He looked up and saw me and said, `Well, fellas, here she is now. My little wife, I told you she'd come after me.'
In the 1970s, Jones was introduced to cocaine by a manager before a show in which he was too tired to perform. This accelerated his already unpredictable actions. His self-destructive bent brought him close to death and to the inside of a psychiatric hospital in Alabama at the end of the decade. Although somewhat celebrated by some of his fans as the hard-drinkin', fast-livin' spiritual-son of his idol, Hank Williams, he missed so many booked engagements that he became known as "No-Show Jones." He was often broke and later admitted that friends Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash came to his aid financially during this period.
Poking fun at his past, two country music videos would feature Jones arriving on a riding lawn mower. The first was Hank Williams, Jr's "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" in 1984 while the second was Vince Gill's "One More Last Chance" in 1993. In fact, Gill's song mentioned the riding lawn mower with the lines "She might have took my car keys, but she forgot about my old John Deere." At the end of Gill's video, he is leaving the golf course on a John Deere tractor and greets Jones with "Hey possum." Jones, arriving at the golf course driving a John Deere riding lawn mower with a set of golf clubs mounted in front of him, would reply back to Gill "Hey sweetpea."
Marriages
Jones was married twice before he turned 24. His first marriage was to Dorothy Bonvillion in 1950, a marriage that lasted but a year. They had one daughter, Susan. In 1954, Jones married Shirley Ann Corley. This marriage lasted until 1968 and they had two sons, Jeffrey and Brian. He next married fellow country musician Tammy Wynette in 1969. They were married until 1975 and had one daughter, Georgette. He married his current wife, Nancy Sepulvedo, on March 4, 1983 in Woodville, TX. Sepulvedo also became his manager. Jones credits Nancy for rescuing him from drinking, as well as cocaine consumption. The couple currently live in Franklin, TN.

AKA Ariana Clarice Richards

Born September 11, 1979
Birthplace: Healdsburg, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Jurassic Park
Sister: Bethany Richards (actress, b. 2-Aug-1983)
Richards made her movie debut in 1987's Into the Homeland, a made-for-cable release that starred Powers Boothe. Her most notable appearance was as Lex Murphy in the first Jurassic Park film; she reprised the role very briefly in the sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Similarly, she appeared as Mindy Sterngood in the first Tremors film and reprised her role in the second sequel Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, which went straight to video.
She has been featured in other films such as Angus, where she played a bulimic girl; she has also appeared on television episodes of The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, and Boy Meets World.
When casting for the roles of Tim and Lex in Jurassic Park, director Steven Spielberg casted Joseph Mazzello for the part of Tim Murphy, but because Joseph was younger for the role (Joseph was nine years old at the time and in the book, Tim was eleven years old), Steven recognised problems with the idea of casting a much younger actress to play Alexis "Lex" Murphy as she would have to be about four years old and it would have presented too many problems for the movie. The ages of Tim and Lex were reversed, so that Lex was now older than Tim. Ariana Richards was invited to read for the role of Lex after Steven spotted her Young Artist Award winning performance in Switched at Birth. Steven expressed an interest in hearing how well Ariana could scream. Putting her in a room, the casting director recorded Ariana's screams for three minutes, after which it satisfied Spielberg that she was right for the part. Steven Spielberg claimed that he had never heard realistic screams like that since "Fay Wray from King Kong".
Ariana was the first person to have her face placed onto a stunt double's head using Computer-Generated Imagery. This was due to when her stunt double had accidently looked at the camera during filming of Jurassic Park.
Richards is rumored to be reappearing as Lex Murphy in Jurassic Park IV, due out sometime in 2008.
Several websites rumored that she would be up for a small role in the slasher remake Black Christmas, in which she would have had her eyes gouged out. But according to questions posted by her fans on her official acting website, Ariana denied any involvement with it.
As well as movies, in 1998, Ariana had appeared in the music video "Brick" by Ben Folds Five, portraying a High School student having an abortion.
Richards recently appeared in the latest issue (September 2006) of UK Movie Magazine Empire discussing a possible return to acting.
Art career
Richards attended Skidmore College, earning a B.S. Degree in Fine Art and Drama, with distinction. She continued with instruction at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Richards has become a successful artist; many of her paintings are on display at the Lee Youngman Galleries in Calistoga, California, as well as at Willow Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her paintings, usually of landscapes and figures, tend to be in the style of the impressionists. In October 2005, she was awarded with the first place prize in the National Professional Oil Painting Competition sponsored by American Artist Magazine. The painting that had won Ariana the prize was titled 'Lady of the Dahlias', which her younger sister, Bethany Richards had modelled for (Bethany had also appeared in films and had played the younger versions of Ariana's characters in Angus and Switched at Birth).
Music career
Ariana released her only album in 1993 on the Pony Canyon label in Japan. The album was a mix between teen-pop and dance friendly ballads of the early-1990s. There was also a single released in very small volume of one of the main tracks on the Album. Only released in Japan, Ariana tried to get the album out in Europe, with new songs attached to the release, but the deal fell through and the project was abandoned. Ariana, along with her mother Darielle Richards, wrote the words to the forth track "You're the Reason".

First Love contained the following tracks:

1. Anyone Can See
2. You Made a Promise
3. First Love
4. You're the Reason
5. I Think I Love You
6. The Very Thought of You
7. Message to my Fans - This was not a song track but a spoken "thank you" by Ariana.

AKA Siobhan Marie Deirdre Fahey

Born September 10, 1958
Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: Ireland
Executive summary: Bananarama
Father: (British Army)
Husband: Dave Stewart (musician, m. Aug-1987, div. 1996, two sons)
Son: Sam (b. 1987)
Son: Django (b. 1991)

Born: 9-Sep-1969
Birthplace: Auckland, New Zealand
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Model
Nationality: New Zealand
Executive summary: Mrs. Rod Stewart
Father: Wayne
Mother: Janeen
Sister: Jacqui
Husband: Rod Stewart (musician, m. 1991, sep. 1999)
Daughter: Renee Stewart (b. 1-Jun-1992)
Son: Liam Stewart (b. 4-Sep-1994)
Boyfriend: Robbie Williams (musician, Take That!)
Boyfriend: Bruce Willis (actor)
Boyfriend: Mark McGrath
Boyfriend: Michael Weatherly
Boyfriend: Ryan Giggs
Boyfriend: Mark Wahlberg
Boyfriend: Kip Winger (musician)

"By the time I was 14, I'd been a born-again Christian, a Presbyterian, a Mormon, you name it, I know the religion. I think that's great now, but at the time, when you're 14 and getting baptised in front of 400 people, in your bikini, it's not fun."

AKA Angela Margaret Cartwright

Born: 9-Sep-1952
Birthplace: Altrincham, Cheshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Lost in Space
Sister: Veronica Cartwright (actress, b. 1950)
Husband: Steve Gullion (short story writer, m. 1976, two children)
Daughter: Rebecca Gullion (production assistant, b. 1981)
Son: Jesse Gullion (actor, b. 1985)
Angela Cartwright was a child actress, primarily remembered for her work in the 1960s. In the schmaltzy classic The Sound of Music, she played Brigitta, the second-eldest von Trapp daughter, and in the campy sci-fi series Lost in Space she played Penny Robinson, again the second-eldest daughter.
Her father was an artist, her mother was a nurse, and the family moved from England to Los Angeles when Cartwright was an infant. Almost immediately, a neighbor in their apartment building suggested that Cartwright and her sister go into modeling and acting. When she was two years old, she appeared in an ad for Sparkletts. At three, she played Paul Newman's daughter in Somebody Up There Likes Me. At four, she joined Make Room for Daddy as Danny Thomas's youngest daughter, a role she played until she was 13. During the show's run, dolls modeled on Cartwright's character were sold.
Then came The Sound of Music, where she sang "My Favorite Things" with Julie Andrews. With almost no break, Cartrwright went from The Sound of Music to Lost in Space. When Lost in Space was cancelled, Cartwright was 16, and her career was nearly finished. She briefly reprised her Make Room for Daddy role in a short-lived sequel series, Make Room for Granddaddy. She has only occasionally acted since, and now works as a photographer.

AKA Virginia Patterson Hensley

Born September 08, 1932
Birthplace: Winchester, VA
Died: 5-Mar-1963
Location of death: Camden, TN
Cause of death: Accident - Airplane
Remains: Buried, Shenandoah Memorial Park, Winchester, VA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Country Musician

Born September 07, 1951
Birthplace: Akron, OH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lead singer, The Pretenders
Father: Mel Hynde
Mother: Dolores Hynde
Boyfriend: Ray Davies (musician, dated 1980-84)
Daughter: Natalie Ray (b. 1983, with Ray)
Husband: Jim Kerr (musician, m. 1984, div. 1990)
Daughter: Yasmin (with Jim)
Husband: Lucho Brieva (m. 1997, separated 2002)
Daughter of a part-time secretary and a Yellow Pages Manager, Hynde graduated from Firestone High School, admitting "I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind."
Hynde experimented with hippie counterculture, psychotropic drugs, eastern mysticism, and vegetarianism. Hynde joined a band called Sat. Sun. Mat. (which included Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo) while attending Kent State University's Art School for three years. Hynde was on the campus during the infamous "Kent State shootings".
Hynde also developed an interest in NME when she wasn't waitressing or working various other jobs to support herself, eventually saving enough money for the move from Ohio to London in 1973. With her art background, Hynde landed a job in an architectural firm but left after eight months. It was then that Hynde met rock journalist Nick Kent and landed a writing position at NME. However, this proved not to last and Hynde later found herself working at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's then-unknown clothing store, SEX, where Hynde was summarily fired for a fight with a customer in which Hynde was hit with a bell from the store. Hynde then made a fruitless attempt to start a band in France before her return to Cleveland in 1975.
Hynde resurfaced in France in 1976 for another stab at forming a band. Finding her way to London in the midst of the punk movement, Hynde tried to start a group with Mick Jones from The Clash. After the band failed to take off, Malcolm McLaren placed her as a guitarist in Masters of the Backside. But Chrissie was asked to leave the group just as the band became The Damned. By that time, Mick Jones had invited Hynde to join his band on their initial tour of Britain. Chrissie's recollection of that period: "It was great, but my heart was breaking. I wanted to be in a band so bad. And to go to all the gigs, to see it so close up, to be living in it and not to have a band was devastating to me. When I left, I said, 'Thanks a lot for lettin' me come along,' and I went back and went weeping on the underground throughout London. All the people I knew in town, they were all in bands. And there I was, like the real loser, you know? Really the loser."
Soon after an event occurred which was to change her life. A demo tape made by Hynde found its way to Dave Hill, owner of the label Real Records. Hill stepped in to manage her career, and began by paying off the back rent owed on her rehearsal room in Covent Garden. Hill also advised Chrissie to take her time and get a band together. In the spring of 1978, Hynde met Pete Farndon (bass guitar / vocals) through a mutual friend at a bar in Portobello Road. The meeting led to her rehearsal room (described by Farndon as "the scummiest basement I'd ever been in in my life") where they started playing "Groove Me", by King Floyd, followed by two of Hynde's tunes: "Tequila" and "The Phone Call". Hynde and Farndon then hooked up with James Honeyman-Scott (guitar / vocals / keyboards), and Martin Chambers (drums / vocals / percussion), put the name The Pretenders on the group, -- inspired by the song "The Great Pretender" by The Platters-- recorded a demo tape (including "Precious", "The Wait" and a Kinks' cover, "Stop Your Sobbing"), handed it to Hynde's friend Nick Lowe, produced a single ("Stop Your Sobbing/The Wait") and performed their first gigs ever in a club in Paris. The single was released in January 1979 and quickly hit the Top Thirty in UK. The band's precocious success was followed by their first gigs in Britain where the band earned wide critical acclaim. In the same spring (1978), The Pretenders recorded their eponymous first album and hit the charts in UK and US with the song "Brass in Pocket".
The Pretenders lineup would change over the years as a result of numerous deaths and internal conflicts. However, Hynde endured, a solid anchor who became the band's eventual leader although Chambers later returned. Her guitar of choice is a Fender Telecaster.
As the rare, successful female bandleader and style-setter in the early days of punk and new wave, Hynde's impact was pervasive and substantial. Her edginess, punk sensibilities (she gave Sid Vicious his trademark lock necklace), musical vision, lyrical candor, and truthfulness in interviews earned the respect of fans, musicians and critics alike, inspiring multitudes of young women to follow. Among many collaborations, Hynde's recordings with UB40 (a cover version of "I Got You Babe") and Cheap Trick ("Walk Away") have also registered popular success.
Chrissie Hynde had a daughter, Natalie Ray, in 1983 with Ray Davies of The Kinks. A cover version of the Davies song "Stop Your Sobbing" had been an early hit for the Pretenders, although Hynde met Davies several years later--a meeting which bloomed into a long-term relationship. She then married musician Jim Kerr of the band Simple Minds in 1984, and had a daughter, Yasmin, with him in 1985. They divorced in 1990. She married artist Lucho Brieva in 1997, and lived with him in London until they separated in 2002.
Hynde sang a duet with INXS on their album Full Moon, Dirty Hearts in 1993. Hynde appears on the title track of the album.
Hynde sang the vocals on the track "State of Independence Part II" on a Moodswings album named Moodfood, which was played during the closing credits on the soundtrack of Single White Female.

AKA George Roger Waters

Born September 06, 1944
Birthplace: Great Bookham, Surrey, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Bassist
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Bassist for Pink Floyd
Father: Eric Fletcher Waters (d. 1944 Anzio WWII)
Wife: Judy Trim (m. 1969, div. 1975)
Wife: Carolyn Christie (m. 1976, div. 1992, one son, one daughter)
Son: Harry
Daughter: India
Wife: Priscilla Phillips (m. 28-Jul-1993, div. 2001)

AKA Jo Raquel Tejada

Born September 05, 1940
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: (aerospace engineer, Bolivian)
Mother: (Mayflower descendant)
Husband: James Welch (m. 1959, div. 1964, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Tahnee Welch (b. 26-Dec-1961)
Son: Damon Welch
Husband: Patrick Curtis (m. 1967, div. 1972)
Boyfriend: Robert Evans (producer, dated 1976)
Husband: Andre Weinfeld (m. 5-Jul-1980, separated 1989, div. 1990)
Husband: Richard Palmer (restaurateur, m. 17-Jul-1999, separated)

AKA Ione Skye Leitch

Born: 4-Sep-1971
Birthplace: Hertfordshire, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Bisexual
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: Say Anything
Father: Donovan (singer)
Brother: Donovan Leitch, Jr. (actor)
Boyfriend: Anthony Kiedis (musician, ex-)
Girlfriend: Jenny Shimizu (model and actress, lesbian affair)
Husband: King Ad-Rock (m. 1991, div. 1999)
Husband: David Netto (m. Mar-2001)
Daughter: Kate
Ione Skye Leitch born in Hertfordshire, England) is an actress. She is the daughter of Scottish singer Donovan and Jewish American model Enid Karl.
Her most well-known performance was in the 1989 film Say Anything. She made her film debut in River's Edge in 1986, and played the title character in The Rachel Papers (1989). In 1992, she played the role of Elanore Grey on the short-lived TV show Covington Cross. More recently, she appeared as Mrs. Veal in an episode of the TV show Arrested Development.
She was in a relationship with Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis.
Her first husband, Adam Horovitz, is a member of the the Beastie Boys. She married her second husband, David Netto, in March 2001. They have a daughter, Kate Netto, but were divorced in 2004.

AKA Carlos Irwin Estevez

Born September 03, 1965
Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: Martin Sheen (actor, b. 3-Aug-1940)
Mother: Janet Sheen (artist)
Brother: Emilio Estevez (actor, b. 12-May-1962)
Brother: Ramon Estevez (actor, b. 3-Aug-1963)
Sister: Renee Estevez (actress, b. 2-Apr-1967)
Girlfriend: Robin Wright Penn (actress, dated 1981)
Girlfriend: Paula Profitt (high school sweetheart, dated 1983-84, one daughter)
Daughter: Cassandra Sheen (b. 1984 with Profitt)
Girlfriend: Valerie Barnes (model, dated 1986)
Girlfriend: Dolly Fox (dated and cohabited, 1985-87)
Girlfriend: Kelly Preston (actress, dated and engaged 1988-90)
Girlfriend: Ginger Lynn (actress, dated intermittently 1990-96)
Wife: Donna Peele (model, m. 3-Sep-1995, div. 19-Nov-1996)
Girlfriend: Brittany Ashland (porn actress, b. 1972, dated 1996)
Wife: Denise Richards (actress, m. 15-Jun-2002, sep. 2005, div. 17-Nov-2006, two children)
Daughter: Sam Sheen (b. 9-Mar-2004 with Richards)
Daughter: Lola Rose Sheen (b. 1-Jun-2005 with Richards)
Girlfriend: Brooke Wolofsky (actress-real estate agent, a/k/a Brooke Allen, Brooke Mueller, dated since 2006, engaged)

Born: 30-Sep-1961
Birthplace: Garland, TX
Gender: Female
Religion: Christian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Helen Hackett on Wings
Father: Jerry Wayne Bernard
Sister: Robyn Bernard (General Hospital actress, b. 26-May-1959)

AKA Salma Hayek Jimenez
Born September 02, 1966
Birthplace: Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez (oil company executive)
Mother: Diana Jimenez Hayek Dominguez (opera singer)
Brother: Sami Hayek
Boyfriend: Richard Crenna Jr. (actor, b. 1962, dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Edward Atterton (actor, dated 1997-99)
Boyfriend: Edward Norton (actor, dated 1999-2003)
Boyfriend: Josh Lucas (actor, dated 2004, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Francois-Henri Pinault (businessman, pregnant with his child)

AKA Margaret Yvonne Middleton
Born September 01, 1922
Birthplace: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Died: 8-Jan-2007
Location of death: Los Angeles, CA
Cause of death: Natural Causes
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor
Father: (abandoned family when Yvonne was three)
Mother: Marie De Carlo Middleton (waitress)
Husband: Bob Morgan (actor/stuntman, m. 1955, div. 1968, two sons)
Son: Bob Morgan
Son: Michael Morgan (d. 1997)
Boyfriend: Howard Hughes
Boyfriend: Burt Lancaster
Boyfriend: Robert Stack
Boyfriend: Robert Taylor
Boyfriend: Billy Wilder
Boyfriend: Aly Khan