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Reese Witherspoon Tops list of most liked Stars

Posted in News on Jan 6th, 2008 | Comments Off

Her latest movie “Rendition” flopped at box offices, but fans still love Reese Witherspoon. The actress proved to be the most-liked celebrity among ten women who regularly found their way onto magazine covers and into gossip columns in 2007, according to a poll on Friday.

For its E-Score Celebrity survey, E-Poll Market Research asked more than 1,100 people ages 13 and older whom they found the most appealing, confident, glamorous, interesting and over-exposed, among other qualities.

Witherspoon, 30, who has been in the spotlight since winning an Oscar for playing country singer June Carter in “Walk the Line,” topped the list with a personal appeal rating of 74 percent, followed by former “Friends” TV star Jennifer Aniston at 70 percent.

The Oscar winner has not had any major movie hits since “Walk the Line,” but has been the focus of numerous headlines and stories this year due to her divorce from actor Ryan Phillippe and subsequent involvement with Jake Gyllenhaal, her co-star in “Rendition.”

That movie, an espionage thriller, has proved to be a major disappointment at box offices taking in only $17 million so far in global ticket sales.

Meanwhile Angelina Jolie, who is now the companion of Aniston’s ex-husband Brad Pitt, was the No. 3 most appealing celebrity at 53 percent.

Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez was behind her with a 52 percent rating, while Katie Holmes followed at 32 percent and behind her was former Spice Girl Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham in the No. 6 position with a rating of 28 percent.

Troubled celebrities of 2007 — Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears — who all have battled drug and alcohol abuse and run into legal problems, rounded out the list with Hilton the least-liked.

She had a low 9 percent appeal rating, and was deemed to be the most over-exposed. Only one notch above Hilton was pop singer Spears with 11 percent likeability and a 68 percent over-exposed rating to Hilton’s 75 percent.

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Shia LaBeouf Drugstore Drops Charges

Posted in News on Dec 14th, 2007 | Comments Off

Charges against Transformers actor Shia LaBeouf were dropped in a Chicago courtroom Wednesday, after the drugstore where he had allegedly appeared intoxicated decided not to press charges, TMZ reports.

Last month, a security guard in a downtown Windy City Walgreens repeatedly told the actor, 21, to leave the store because he appeared intoxicated, police said. When LaBeouf refused, the guard alerted authorities.

Following LaBeouf’s arrest, police described him as “very courteous and polite.” Next year, LaBeouf is due to be seen in the long-awaited Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 6, 1986) is a Daytime Emmy Award-winning American actor and comedian. After growing up in California, he became known with a starring role in the Disney Channel series Even Stevens.

He made the transition to film roles with Holes, a box office success, and has since appeared in several Hollywood films, including Constantine, I, Robot, and The Greatest Game Ever Played. In 2007, LaBeouf starred in Disturbia, Transformers, and Surf’s Up, and is due to appear in 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Several media publications have speculated that LaBeouf, whose screen persona was described by Time magazine as that of the “scrappy kid next door”, might become a major film star throughout 2007.

He bought his own house at the age of eighteen, lives in Burbank, California and remains close to both his parents; his mother now lives nearby in Tujunga, Los Angeles, California and his father in Montana. LaBeouf is a smoker, drives a Nissan Maxima, and has two bulldogs named Brando and Rex He has said that “sports is so big in my life” and that he is a “film junkie”.

He enjoys the music of The Shins, CKY, and the hip-hop label Definitive Jux. LaBeouf has cited actors Dustin Hoffman, Jodie Foster, Jon Voight and John Turturro as inspirations, and has said that he is “very serious” about his career and has made “a calculated effort to stay away from the party scene”, believing that “if the industry takes you lightly because you’re always partying, then they will take your work lightly as well”.

Interviewer Jamie Portman of The Vancouver Sun described LaBeouf as seeming to have a “love-hate relationship with the teenage culture that has spawned him”. It has been rumored that Shia LaBeouf has had plastic surgery on his nose.

On November 4, 2007, LaBeouf was arrested for misdemeanor criminal trespassing in a Chicago Walgreens after refusing to leave when asked by a security guard. LaBeouf was due in court on November 28, 2007. The criminal charges were dropped on December 12.

Gillian Anderson new X Files Sequel 2008

Posted in Celebrities, Films and Movies, News on Dec 14th, 2007 | Comments Off

Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series Bleak House.

Anderson was born in Chicago, the daughter of Rosemary, a computer analyst, and Edward Anderson, who owned a film post-production company. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Puerto Rico for fifteen months and then to Crouch End in London so her father could attend the London Film School. When Anderson was eleven, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, a program for gifted students with a strong emphasis on the humanities; she graduated in 1986.

With her English accent and background, she felt out of place in the American Midwest, and developed a reputation as a strong-willed and rebellious teenager. Anderson, mocked because of her London accent, soon adopted a Midwest one. In addition, she had her nose pierced in the early 1980s, and dyed her hair various colors.

Her high school classmates would vote her as “Most Bizarre,” “Class Clown,” and “Most Likely to be Arrested”, and Anderson was caught trying to jam the high school doors by filling their locks with glue on the eve of her graduation.

She found an outlet for her talents when she began acting in high school and community theater productions. She had wanted to be a marine biologist, but at seventeen after a couple of auditions for the Grand Rapids Community Theater, she gained a few roles and never looked back. She attended Goodman Theater School of Drama at DePaul University in Chicago, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1990, and a few summer schools with the British National Theatre company at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Anderson moved to New York when she was twenty-two, and started her career in Alan Ayckbourn’s play Absent Friends at the Manhattan Theatre Club where she played alongside Brenda Blethyn.

For this role she won a 1990-91 Theatre World “Newcomer” Award. Her next theatrical role was in Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. To support herself when she started out, she worked as a waitress.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1992, spending a year auditioning. Although she had once vowed she would never do TV, being out of work for a year changed her mind. Anderson did Home Fires Burning for a cable station as well as the audio book version of Exit to Eden. She broke into mainstream television in 1993, with a guest appearance on the collegiate drama Class of ‘96 on the fledgling Fox Network.

As a result of her guest appearance in Class of 96, Anderson was sent the script for The X Files at the age of 24. She decided to audition because “for the first time in a long time the script involved a strong, independent intelligent woman as a lead character.” Producer Chris Carter wanted to employ her, but FOX wanted someone with previous TV exposure and greater sex appeal.

Fox sent in more actresses, but Carter stood by Anderson, and she was cast as Special Agent Dana Scully. She got the part assuming it would run for thirteen episodes, the standard minimum order for American TV networks. Filmed in Vancouver and then in Los Angeles, the series eventually ran for nine seasons, and included one film.

During her time on The X Files, Anderson won several awards for her portrayal of Agent Scully, including an Emmy Award, Golden Globe, and two SAG awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series. While filming she met assistant art director Clyde Klotz, whom she married. She had roles in a handful of films during the run of The X-Files and starred in The House of Mirth, an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel of the same name.

Since The X-Files ended, she has performed in several stage productions and worked on various film projects. She has also done narrative work for documentaries on scientific topics. In 2005, she appeared as Lady Dedlock in the BBC television adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House, had a starring role in the Irish film The Mighty Celt (for which she won an IFTA award for Best International Actress) and performed in A Cock and Bull Story, a film version of the novel Tristram Shandy.

In 1999, Anderson had a supporting role in the English-language release of Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, where she voiced the character of Moro. Anderson is a proclaimed lover of Miyazaki’s work. She also took part in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues.

In 2006, she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Actress and won the Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Award for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House. Anderson received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her performance as Lady Dedlock.

She was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for her performance in Bleak House and came in second place in the best actress category of the 2005 BBC Drama website poll for her performance as Lady Dedlock. (Billie Piper won, and Anna Maxwell Martin came in third.) She was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House.

Anderson recently appeared in two British films; in 2006, The Last King of Scotland and in 2007, Straightheads. She has stated on numerous occasions that she intends to participate in a yet-unscripted second X-Files movie, if and when it is made. In December 2007, it was announced that Anderson will host PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre.

On New Year’s Day 1994, Anderson married Clyde Klotz, the The X-Files series assistant art director, on the 17th hole of a golf course in Hawaii in a Buddhist ceremony. A few months later came the news that she was pregnant, and Chris Carter created an alien abduction storyline that kept Anderson off-camera long enough for labor, delivery, and a 10-day maternity leave. Daughter Piper Maru (for whom the X-Files episode “Piper Maru” was named) was born by caesarean section on September 25, 1994, Vancouver, Canada – Chris Carter was named her godfather.

She is good friends with her The X-Files fellow co-star David Duchovny. In 1996, Anderson was voted “Sexiest Woman in the World” for FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women poll.

The X-Files finished its ninth and final season in May 2002, marking the end of a major period in her life – she started the show when she was 24, and finished it when she was 34. Her marriage ended and she moved to London. From November 2002 through February 9, 2003, she starred in the Michael Weller play What the Night is For in London’s West End.
In December 2004, Anderson married Julian Ozanne, a documentary filmmaker, in the village of Shella on Lamu, an island off the coast of Kenya. Anderson and Ozanne announced their separation on 21 April 2006, after 16 months of marriage. On November 1, 2006, Anderson and boyfriend Mark Griffiths welcomed a son named Oscar.

Anderson provides philanthropic and charitable assistance in the support of finding a cure for neurofibromatosis. She serves as NF, Inc.’s Honorary Spokesperson and is a Patron of the Neurofibromatosis Association (based in the UK). Her support stems from her brother being diagnosed with NF-1. She is also a member of the board of directors for Artists for a New South Africa and a campaigner for Action for Southern Africa. Anderson is a supporter of animal rights and an active member of PETA.