Sarah Azhari, (born on June 16, 1976) is a popular model and soap opera actress of Indonesia. Azhari is no stranger to controversy however as she gets through many men like mice get through cheese.
Sarah Azhari oozes sex appeal. Sarah Azhari’s nymphomaniac reputation is best illustrated by her role in a classic TV advertisement for Hemaviton Action, a sort of energy/potency drink, in which Azhari seductively tells viewers that she likes it tiga kali sehari (three times a day).
Sarah Azhari, the younger sister of Ayu Azhari, had been convicted of throwing an ashtray at, and stomping on the foot of, a reporter, at SCTV studios in Jakarta on 12th
July 2005. For this crime she was sentenced to four months prison on 10th July 2006, a verdict and sentence which was confirmed by a higher court on 17th October.
But, perhaps because she is so pretty and famous, and sexy, she has not been forced to serve her sentence, nor does she seem likely to. Although the sentence simply reads “four months jail” it appears that legal authorities have decided to “interpret” this to mean “four months jail, suspended”.
Should she do the unthinkable and commit another crime in the next four months she will then be forced to serve her original time, says official Hazniwarti Nasution, who appears to be making things up as he goes along.
Stephen Glenn “Steve” Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer.
In the mid-1970s, Martin made frequent appearances as a stand-up comedian on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. That exposure, together with appearances on HBO’s On Location and NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) (on which, despite a common misconception, he was never a cast member) led to his first of three comedy albums, Let’s Get Small. The album was a huge success; one of its tracks, “Excuse Me”, helped establish a national catch phrase.
His next album, A Wild and Crazy Guy, was an even bigger success, reaching the #2 spot on the sales chart in the U.S. and featured another catch phrase (the album’s title), this time based on a Saturday Night Live sketch in which Martin and Dan Aykroyd played a couple of bumbling Czechoslovakian would-be playboys, the Festrunk Brothers. The album ended with a song “King Tut”, sung and written by Martin and released as a 45 RPM single during the King Tut craze that accompanied the extremely popular traveling exhibit of the Egyptian king’s tomb artifacts; the single reached #17 in 1978.
The song was backed by the “Toot Uncommons” (they were actually members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). The album was a million seller. Both albums won Grammys for Best Comedy Recording in 1977 and 1978, respectively. In his comedy albums, Martin’s stand-up comedy was clearly self-referential and sometimes self-mocking. It mixes philosophical riffs with sudden spurts of “happy feet”, banjo playing with balloon depictions of concepts like venereal disease. His style is off-kilter and ironic, and sometimes pokes fun at stand-up comedy traditions.
By the end of the 1970s, Martin had acquired the kind of following normally reserved for rock stars, with his tour appearances typically occurring at sold-out arenas filled with tens of thousands of screaming fans. But unknown to his audience, stand-up comedy was “just an accident” for him. His real goal was to get into film. Martin’s first film was a short, The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977).
The seven-minute long film, also featuring Buck Henry and Teri Garr, was written by and starred Martin. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Short Film, Live Action. His first feature film appearance was in the musical Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, where he sang The Beatles’ “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”.
In 1979, Martin wrote and starred in his first full-length movie, The Jerk, directed by Carl Reiner. The movie was a huge success, grossing over $73 million on a budget of far less than
that amount.
The success of The Jerk opened more doors for Martin. Stanley Kubrick met with him to discuss the possibility of Martin starring in a screwball comedy version of Traumnovelle (Kubrick later changed his approach to the material, the result of which was 1999’s Eyes Wide Shut). Martin was executive producer for Domestic Life, a prime-time television series starring Martin Mull, and a late-night series called Twilight Theater.
It emboldened Martin to try his hand at his first serious film, Pennies From Heaven, a movie he was anxious to do because of the desire to avoid being typecast. To prepare for that film, Martin took acting lessons from director Herbert Ross, and spent months learning how to tap dance.
The film was a financial failure; Martin’s comment at the time was “I don’t know what to blame, other than it’s me and not a comedy.”
Martin was in three more Reiner-directed comedies after The Jerk: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid in 1982, The Man with Two Brains in 1983 and All of Me in 1984. In 1986, Martin joined fellow Saturday Night Live veterans Martin Short and Chevy Chase in ¡Three Amigos!, directed by John Landis, and written by Martin, Lorne Michaels, and Randy Newman. It was originally entitled The Three Caballeros and Martin was to be teamed with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. In 1986, Martin was in the musical film version of the hit off-Broadway play Little Shop of Horrors (based on a famous B-movie), as a sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello.
The film also marked the first of three films teaming Martin with actor Rick Moranis. In 1987, Martin joined comedian John Candy in the John Hughes movie Planes, Trains & Automobiles. That same year, the Cyrano de Bergerac adaptation Roxanne, a film Martin co-wrote, won him a Writers Guild of America award and more importantly, the recognition from Hollywood and the public that he was more than a comedian. In 1988, he performed in the Frank Oz comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels alongside Michael Caine.
Martin starred in the Ron Howard film Parenthood, with Moranis in 1989. He later met with Moranis to make the Mafia comedy My Blue Heaven in 1990. In 1991, Martin starred in and wrote L.A. Story and was a member of the ensemble existentialist tragedy Grand Canyon that were both about life in Los Angeles. In a serious role, Martin played a tightly wound Hollywood film producer trying to recover from a traumatic robbery that left him injured. In contrast to the serious tone of Grand Canyon, Martin also appeared in a remake of the comedy Father of the Bride in 1991 (followed by a sequel in 1995).
In David Mamet’s 1997 thriller, The Spanish Prisoner, Martin played a darker role as a wealthy stranger who takes a suspicious interest in the work of a young businessman (Campbell Scott). In 1999, Martin and Goldie Hawn starred in a remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy, The Out-of-Towners. By 2003, Martin ranked 4th on the box office stars list, after co-starring in Bringing Down The House and starring in Cheaper By The Dozen, each of which earned over $130 million at U.S. theaters. Both were family comedies.
In 2005, Martin wrote and starred in Shopgirl, based on his own novella. Martin played a wealthy businessman who strikes up a romance with a Saks Fifth Avenue counter girl (Claire Danes). He also starred in Cheaper by the Dozen 2 that year. Martin’s last work to date was the 2006 installment of The Pink Panther, attempting to stand in Peter Sellers’ shoes as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. In 2007, he announced on his website that he would likely be starting work on the sequel later in the year.
Throughout the 1990s, after Tina Brown took over The New Yorker, Martin wrote various pieces for the magazine. They later appeared in the collection Pure Drivel. He appeared in a version of Waiting for Godot as Vladimir (with Robin Williams as Estragon and Bill Irwin as Lucky). In 1993, Martin wrote the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, which had a successful run in several American cities. In 1998, Martin guest starred with U2 in the 200th episode of The Simpsons titled Trash of the Titans. Martin provided the voice for sanitation commissioner Ray Patterson.
In 2001, Martin hosted the 73rd Annual Academy Awards. Also in 2001, he played banjo on Earl Scruggs’ remake of “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”. Martin called fellow comedian and banjo player Billy Connolly to tell him, prompting the cry of “you lucky bugger!” Connolly’s wife thought he was referring to Martin being chosen as the Oscar’s host. The recording was the winner of the Best Country Instrumental Performance category at the following year’s Grammys. In 2002, Martin adapted the Carl Sternheim play The Underpants, which ran Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company. In 2003, Martin hosted the Academy Awards for the second time.
In 2005, Martin hosted a film along with Donald Duck, Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, which was intended to show at Disneyland until the end of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary celebration in September 2006, but it is continuing to run indefinitely. Martin was also honored in 2005 with a Disney Legend award, acknowledging Martin’s early career at Disneyland and connections with The Walt Disney Company throughout his career.
Martin has guest-hosted Saturday Night Live 14 times, as of his February 2006 hosting (musical guest: Prince featuring Tamar), breaking his previous record of 13 (now held by fellow frequent host Alec Baldwin) and retaining his title as SNL’s most frequent host. Coincidentally, Steve Martin was supposed to host with Prince as the musical guest on the first episode of SNL’s 30th season, but both he and Prince backed out at the last minute and were replaced by Ben Affleck and Nelly.
Martin has also written two novellas, Shopgirl and The Pleasure of My Company. Shopgirl was later turned into a film. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian’s Comedian, Martin was voted one of the top 15 greatest comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. On October 23, 2005, Martin was presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Martin is an avid art collector, particularly modern American art, and a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Martin’s personal collection has at one time included the art of Georgia O’Keeffe, John Henry Twachtman, Richard Diebenkorn, Po Shun Leong, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Cy Twombly, Helen Frankenthaler, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein and Pablo Picasso. In 2005, The Huntington Library in San Marino, California, announced that Martin had pledged US$1 million over five years for the museum’s American art collection.
Three-quarters of the gift will be used for exhibitions, with the remainder being used for acquisitions. Before he made his pledge, Martin loaned paintings to the museum, helped it acquire a sculpture by John Gregory, and sponsored an exhibition of “sugar paintings” by 19th century American artist Eastman Johnson. Jessica Todd Smith, the museum’s American art curator, said Martin became an “enthusiastic” supporter of The Huntington after he visited the museum in 2002 while filming a movie nearby.
On July 28, 2007, Martin married Anne Stringfield (born 1973) at his Los Angeles home. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey presided over the ceremony. Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live, was his best man. Several of the guests, including close friends Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy, comedian Carl Reiner, and magician/actor Ricky Jay were not informed that a wedding ceremony would take place.
Instead, they were told they were invited to a party. Robin Williams was invited, but he felt he was too busy at the time to go to just a regular party. Martin has previously been involved with artists Allyson Hollingsworth and Cindy Sherman, and the actresses Anne Heche and Bernadette Peters. He was married to actress Victoria Tennant from 1986 to 1994.
Along with the other writers for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Steve won an Emmy Award in 1969.In 1978 Steve won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for Let’s Get Small, and in 1979 for A Wild and Crazy Guy. He shared a 2001 Grammy award for Best Country Instrumental Performance with Earl Scruggs (and others) for his banjo performance of Foggy Mountain Breakdown. On October 23, 2005, Martin was presented with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Martin was honored at the 30th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on December 1, 2007.
Christa Miller Lawrence (born May 28, 1964 in New York City) is an American actress. She was born in New York City, the daughter of model Bonnie Trompeter. Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and photographed for the cover of Redbook.
The tomboyish Kate who can hang with the guys with ease on “The Drew Carey Show” (a role she played from 1995-2002), Christa Miller herself was more comfortable with athletics than with powder puffs while in high school. Still, she grew into a lithe and pretty model, and moved into acting with an episode of the CBS series “Kate & Allie” in 1989. Although her aunt, Susan Saint James, played Kate, Saint James was unaware that Miller had auditioned until after she won the role. Miller’s mother was the model Bonnie Trompeter and as a child Miller appeared in print ads with her.
By the time she was four, she had appeared on the cover of Redbook and in a mother-daughter Ivory Soap ad. Her childhood modeling was curtailed, however, after an operation for a benign bone tumor. Miller recovered completely and became a high school athlete. After high school, Miller followed briefly in her mother’s footsteps as a model before enrolling in acting lessons. When she moved to Los Angeles in 1990, she abandoned modeling.
Miller began to land acting jobs, like the 1992 HBO movie “Stepfather III”, episodes of NBC’s hit “Seinfeld”, and a minor role in the TV-movie “A Friend to Die For” (NBC, 1994). In 1999, she had major supporting roles in the independent films “The Operator” (as the long-suffering wife of sleazy lawyer) and “Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire” (as a post office employee involved with an aspiring actor).
Miller married sit-com writer-producer Bill Lawrence, the co-creator of “Spin City,” in 1999 and eventually left the security of her cozy “Drew Carey” gig in 2002 after Lawrence created a recurring role for her in his latest hit series, the hospital sit-com “Scrubs”
(NBC, 2001- ). After primarily providing straight lines and supportive girlfriend shtick on her previous series, Miller was allowed to adroitly break type as the acid-tounged harridan Jordan Sullivan, the former wife of Dr. Cox (series regular John C. McGinley) and a hospital board member who takes pleasure in disrupting the lives of the staff.
Her days as a child model were curtailed after an operation for a benign bone tumor.
After attending Convent of the Sacred Heart, Miller returned briefly to modeling, but soon took acting lessons,and gave up modelling, when she moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1990. She was on the first edition of Maxim.
Her first role on television was in Kate & Allie, which starred her real-life aunt, Susan Saint James. She was also in episodes of Northern Exposure, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Party of Five. She had a major role on The Drew Carey Show from 1995 to 2002 playing Kate O’Brien, and was the voice of Cleopatra in the short-lived animated show Clone High.
In 2001, her husband, writer-producer Bill Lawrence, conceived a new show called Scrubs and Miller was given a recurring guest role as Dr. Cox’s (John C. McGinley) bitter ex-wife Jordan Sullivan, a role that increased after season 2. She maintained this minor, but crucial role, in later seasons.
Miller also appeared twice in Seinfeld, as two different characters. In “The Sniffing Accountant”, she was the boss of George Costanza’s potential employer; in “The Doodle”, she was a woman whom George unsuccessfully dates.
Miller has three children with Bill Lawrence: Charlotte Sarah, born on June 8, 2000; William Stoddard, born on January 3, 2003; and Henry Vanduzer, born on October 8, 2006.
John William “Will” Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American comedian, actor and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career.
His original characters included “Morning Latte” co-host Tom Wilkins, Ed the Horse’s twin brother Ned, fictional Blue Öyster Cult member Gene Frenkle, music teacher Marty Culp, Spartan cheerleader Craig Buchanan, Dale Sturtevant from “Dissing Your Dog”, Ted of the Bill Brasky Buddies, David Leary from “Dog Show”, and night clubber Steve Butabi in a sketch that went to the big screen in 1998’s A Night at the Roxbury.
Ferrell returned to Saturday Night Live as a guest host on May 14, 2005. During this guest stint, he reprised his role as Alex Trebek in the popular “Celebrity Jeopardy” sketches and Robert Goulet, advertising a series of crooned ringtones. In the same episode, during the performance of the song “Little Sister” by musical guests Queens of the Stone Age, Ferrell came onstage playing the cowbell. Ferrell became the highest paid cast member of Saturday Night Live in 2001 with a season salary of $350,000.
During his time on Saturday Night Live, Ferrell appeared in several movies: Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar, The Ladies Man, Dick, Drowning Mona, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Zoolander.
His first starring role came after his departure from SNL with Frank “The Tank” Ricard in Old School (2003).
The movie “belongs to Mr. Ferrell,” declared the New York Times, which described how he “uses his hilarious, anxious zealotry to sell the part.” Old School was a major success and Ferrell received an MTV Movie Awards nomination for Best Comedic Performance.
The title role in Elf (2003) followed, as did another MTV Movie Awards nomination. Ferrell continued to land comedy roles in 2004 and 2005 in films such as Melinda and Melinda, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Starsky & Hutch, and Wedding Crashers, earning himself a place among Hollywood’s Frat Pack.
In 2005, Ferrell earned $40 million. In 2006, Ferrell starred in Stranger Than Fiction and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby; both received critical and box office success. Ferrell’s performance in Stranger Than Fiction introduced audiences to the dramatic potential of Ferrell’s acting talents. On December 27, 2006, ‘The Magazine’ named Ferrell as one of its three actors of the year in their 2006 year in review issue.
In March of 2007, Ferrell, along with Jon Heder, co-starred in Blades of Glory. During an interview in support of the ice skating comedy, Ferrell denied relying on performance enhancing drugs to assist with his work in the film, but did admit to using “a lot of human growth hormone and a little bit of Robitussin” for his work in Stranger Than Fiction. In 2005, Ferrell was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ferrell appeared as part of a pre-game video package for the Rose Bowl along with Texas alum Matthew McConaughey. Ferrell also sang a song at the ESPY Awards in 2006 about Lance Armstrong and Neil Armstrong, and is often noted as looking very similar to Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith.
Ferrell participated in a 79th Academy Awards musical-comedy performance with John C. Reilly and Jack Black, where they sang a song about comedies being snubbed by the voters in favor of dramas.
Ferrell has worked as a voice actor in several animated television programs, including his portrayal of a 1950s-style father in the animated television series The Oblongs. He has had several guest appearances on Family Guy, where he played the Black Knight in Mr. Saturday Knight, as well as Fat Greek Guy and Miles “Chatterbox” Musket in Fifteen Minutes of Shame. Ferrell also starred as Ted (a.k.a. The Man in the Yellow Hat) in the movie Curious George.
In August 2000, Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin, whom he met in 1995 at an acting class. On March 7, 2004, their son Magnus Paulin Ferrell was born. On December 30, 2006, Viveca gave birth to another son, Mattias Ferrell.
In 2006, I-Newswire.com, a site which accepts press releases from users for publication, reported that Ferrell had died in a paragliding accident. The hoax was published before its factual inaccuracy was noticed. The story was further propagated when it appeared on Google News. It has been suggested that the hoax was inspired by the way that Ferrell’s character in Wedding Crashers ridicules paragliding deaths. Ferrell is a fan of USC Trojan football, and has worked with head coach Pete Carroll to do motivational stunts for the players during the season.
Jennifer Ellison (born May 30, 1983) is an English Actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer.
Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, though since then her regular photoshoots in men’s magazines have kept her in the public eye. She is renowned for having a large 38DD bust and has recently made appearances in many different television shows.
Ellison’s acting career started in 1998 with her role as Emily Shadwick on the British soap opera, Brookside Her surname changed to O’Leary when her character married Timothy ‘Tinhead’ O’Leary. Her stay in Brookside ended in 2003. The same year Ellison ventured into film, where she played Meg Giry, Christine Daae’s friend and Madame Giry’s daughter, in Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Ellison has also recently appeared in an episode of the ITV legal drama The Brief.
In 2007, Ellison has appeared in episodes of the British television shows New Street Law and Hotel Babylon for the BBC and has begun work on the British film The Be All And End All opposite John Thompson and Liza Tarbuck. It was announced in 2005, that Ellison was to act in the lead role in the horror film The Cottage, Ellison was also cast as Cleopatra in a contemporary film version of the Caesar and Cleopatra story.
Ellison is currently featured in Maxim magazine’s Girls of Maxim gallery. She has appeared regularly in almost all of the mainstream British “lads’ magazines” over the last five years, though her first appearance was in 1999 in a sexually suggestive shoot for FHM at the age of just 16, under the heading “Jailbait”.
Recently, Ellison took over a contract with lingerie giant Ultimo for its “Young Attitude” line from fellow model Jordan barely two months after she had been signed on. Though Ultimo boss Michelle More had chosen Jordan for being
“sexy, fun and outgoing,” she later changed her mind, stating, “Jordan was just the wrong choice for [us]. Jennifer is a far better option and far classier.”
In 2005 Ellison was voted “world’s sexiest blonde” by readers of the UK magazine, Nuts, beating model Victoria Silvstedt, who came second, and pop superstar Britney Spears, who was voted third. Ellison is also a regular in the yearly FHM “100 Sexiest Women in the World” feature. She first appeared in 2003 at number 50, then at number 40 in 2004, and by 2005 she was at number 23. In FHM’s current 2006 poll, Ellison is 21.
Since the age of three years old, Ellison has trained as a dancer. She started off at a dance school in Liverpool, but then moved to a dance school in St.Helens, Elizabeth Hill School Of Dance And Drama. Her achievements in the field included world titles as well as winning the National Ballet and Modern Dance Championships two years running in 1996 and 1997. She also trained with the Royal Ballet School until she was sixteen.
In 2006, Ellison released Jennifer Ellison’s West End Workout, a Fitness DVD which combined her love of Dance with Exercise routines. Ellison had a run in the London West End theatre version of the musical Chicago in 2004 at the Adelphi Theatre, and returned from 10 July to 9 August 2006 again playing the leading role of “Roxie Hart”, this time at the Cambridge Theatre. Ellison was actually supposed to finish on 12 August, but was forced to pull out three days early due to a knee injury.
Ellison subsequently toured the UK in Chicago from 25 September 2006 until 5 May 2007, appearing in Birmingham, Manchester, Sunderland (she switched on the Christmas lights there), Nottingham, Southampton, Stoke-on-Trent and Liverpool.
On 1 October 2007, Ellison joined the cast of a revival of Boeing Boeing at the Comedy Theatre, London, playing the part of Gloria, an American TWA air stewardess. On December 5th, she featured in a 10th Anniversary Gala] performance of Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre alongside a galaxy of stars and on December 16th, she will play “Angel” in Liverpool Nativity, a Contemporary retelling of the Christmas story for BBC3 which will be performed live from the streets of the City.
Ellison has also flirted with a pop rock career. Her first single was Baby I Don’t Care, released in June 2003, which reached number six in the charts. The song was originally released by Transvision Vamp in 1989. The following year in July, after being brought back into the public eye after winning Hell’s Kitchen, Ellison released her second single, Bye Bye Boy, which reached number 13 in the UK charts. Her debut album rumoured to be called ‘Silent Footsteps’ was shelved but a sampler featuring 6 full tracks, 2 snippets and 2 remixes can be found on eBay from time to time.
In 2003, Ellison appeared in the Travel documentary Jennifer Ellison does Thailand and in 2004 she appeared on the reality television show Hell’s Kitchen, which she went on to win. In 2005, she appeared on the celebrity challenge show With a little help from my friends for ITV1.
In spring 2007 Ellison appeared in the BBC reality TV show The Verdict, based on a fictional courtroom, alongside the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Sara Payne. She currently co-hosts Dirty Dancing – Time of your Life a US based Reality TV show for the Living TV network. In December 2007 Ellison began appearing as a panellist on the ITV1 daytime show Loose Women.