Kirsten Dunst Photo Shoot Pics

Kirsten Dunst Profile

Birth Name - Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Born - April 30, 1982, Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA

Height - 5' 7

Education - Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school, in Los Angeles (graduated in May 2000)

Nationality - American

Profession - Actress

Claim to fame - as Claudia in Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Years active 1989 - present

Kirsten Dunst Biography

Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American actress, known for her roles in Interview with the Vampire (for which she received a Golden Globe nomination), The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, and Bring It On, as well as for her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man film series.

Dunst was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to Inez and Klaus Dunst, who are separated. Her father, a German medical services executive from Hamburg, remained in New Jersey but now lives in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, a Swedish former art gallery owner, also moved to California. Dunst has a younger brother, Christian.

Dunst attended the Ranney School in New Jersey, and graduated in 2000 from Notre Dame High School, a private Catholic high school in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Amrita Rao Cool Shoot Pics

Amrita Rao Profile

Name - Amrita Rao

Date Of Birth - 7th June 1981

Place Of Birth - Chitrapur

Age - 26

Turn-ons - Impeccable behaviour with women

Turn-offs - Jealous People

Car in school - Mitsubishi Lancer

Favourite Car Today - Mercedes

Favourite TV show - All Sajid Khan shows

Memorable moments - The day my first film Ishq Vishk released. It took a bumper opening and I went to the theatres with Shahid Kapoor and Ken Ghosh. The audience response was so positive and overwhelming, it was unforgettable.

Philosophy of life - Life is short and sweet, so make others happy and never let anyone down.

Allergies - Snobbish people

Favourite drink - Nariyal Paani

Favourite Book - Chitra Bannerfi's Arranged Marriage

Years active - 2002 - present

Amrita Rao Biography

Amrita Rao (born June 7, 1981) is an Indian model and Bollywood actress.

Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002), which went unnoticed. However, she grew into prominence when she starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story, Ishq Vishk (2003) and earned her first Filmfare nomination in the Best Female Debut category. Delivering acclaimed performances and commercial success with films like Main Hoon Na (2004) and Vivah (2006), her biggest commercial success so far, she has established herself as one of the most promising actresses of Bollywood.

Amrita Rao was born on June 7, 1981 to a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin Konkani speaking family in Mumbai. She speaks English, Hindi, Konkani, Marathi.

Amrita Rao attended C.G High School in Mumbai,and later enrolled in Sophia College to pursue a degree in psychology. While studying there, she auditioned for an advertisement for Fairever Face Cream. To her surprise she was selected amongst 60 other contestants. After that, she got many offers and became one of the most sought-after models in India within a year.

Her appearance in Cadbury’s Perk Karwa Chaut ad and the Bru Coffee advertisement helped her receive offers from film directors in Bollywood. Wanting to complete her education, she refused them. After earning a degree in psychology, she began her profession as an actress, working in films.

She made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras (2002), but gained recognition only after the success of her 2003 film, Ishq Vishk, in which her portrayal as Payal earned her the girl-next door image. Success followed for her in 2004 with films like Masti and Main Hoon Na.

Her career took a setback when her following releases, Deewaar (2004), Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi (2005), Shikhar (2005), and Pyare Mohan (2006) did poorly at the box office. Things turned around when she starred in Sooraj R. Barjatya's blockbuster Vivah (2006) opposite Shahid Kapoor. The film was a universal success and her performance was well appreciated by critics, earning her a Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Award.

Rao recently made her debut in Tollywood, with the Telugu hit Athidhi opposite Mahesh Babu. Amrita had no releases in Bollywood in 2007. Amrita's first release of 2008 was My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves , which failed at the box office. Her performance got poor reviews.

Maria Kirilenko - Sony Ericsson Iconic Photoshoot

Maria Kirilenko Profile

Name - Maria Kirilenko

Country - Russia

Residence - Moscow, Russia

Date of birth - January 25, 1987 (1987-01-25) (age 21)

Place of birth - Moscow, Soviet Union

Height - 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight - 57.6 kg (127 lb/9.07 st)

Turned Pro - 2001

Retired - Active

Plays - Right

Career Prize Money - $1,442,590

Singles

Career record - 167-115

Career titles - 2 (3 ITF Circuit titles)

Highest ranking - No. 20 (June 12, 2006)

Grand Slam results

Australian Open - 4r (2008)

French Open - 3r (2006)

Wimbledon - 2r (2005)

US Open - 3r (2003, 2006, 2007)

Doubles

Career record - 82-71

Career titles - 3

Highest ranking - No. 21 (February 6, 2006)

Maria Kirilenko Biography

Maria Yuryevna Kirilenko (Russian: Мари́я Ю́рьевна Кириле́нко; born January 25, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player. Born in Moscow, she won her first WTA Tour title in 2005, defeating Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6–3, 6–4 in the China Open. Kirilenko reached #20, her career-high singles ranking, on the WTA tour in June 2006. She is a good friend of Maria Sharapova. She is affectionately called Makiri.

Maria Kirilenko won the junior event at the 2002 Canadian Open, as well as the 2002 US Open junior tournament. In December 2004 she played in a tennis exhibition in Tampa, Florida to raise money for the Florida Hurricane Relief Fund.

In 2006, she was selected to be the face of Adidas by Stella McCartney tennis range, designed by noted British fashion designer Stella McCartney. Since the 2006 Australian Open, Kirilenko has played in adidas clothing and footwear designed by Stella McCartney at all upcoming tournaments.

Maria Kirilenko started showing a passion towards tennis at age 5, but it was difficult to get the practice in while she was attending school. Her father enrolled her in a tennis school, and hours of fierce training started to pay off as she won several tournaments.

When Kirilenko was twelve years old, an Honored Master of sports, Elena Brioukhovets, saw her while training. All the next year Elena watched Maria making progress and then offered to work together with her. A three-year program was made and a special team was selected. In less than three years Maria became the number one in her age group and the number two in the group under eighteen. The well-known tennis-players Yevgeni Kafelnikov, Andrei Olhovskiy and Max Mirnyi, who had created an organization supporting young tennis-players, helped Kirilenko to arrange her training-process and to attend tournaments.

In 2002 Kirilenko became one of the youngest winners of the Canadian Open and the US Open Junior Tournaments.

Since September 2002 Kirilenko started participating in WTA events. She made a lot of progress in WTA events but was setback by injury in 2004 and dropped down the rankings, whilst missing out on valuable experience. At the end of 2005 she had climbed right up the rankings and won her first title in Beijing. She has been recognized as one of the up and coming players of 2006 and, despite being off her best form during the Summer, she has broken into the top 20 for the first time on June 12th, 2006.

Kirilenko made her debut for Russia at the nation-based Fed Cup tournament on 22/23 April 2006 on the World Group Quarter-Final tie against Belgium. Maria lost a singles rubber against '05 US Open champion Kim Clijsters and won her doubles rubber against multiple major champion Justine Henin-Hardenne and the same Kim Clijsters partnering Dinara Safina. Russia ended up losing 3–2.

At the 2006 US Open, Kirilenko received the 20th seed of the tournament and reached the 3rd Round, eventually being defeated by Aravane Rezai.

In Conversation: Oliver "O-Dub" Wang @ Duke

Monday April 7, 2008
@ The John Hope Franklin Center

2204 Erwin Road

Duke University, Durham, NC
4:30 pm

Cultural Criticism 2.0:

How Do You Filter the Infinite?

Critic, professor, DJ and audio blogger OLIVER WANG in conversation with critic, professor and blogger Mark Anthony Neal about the relationship of cultural criticism and emergent technologies, the importance of the blogosphere and Soul Music.

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OLIVER WANG is a music writer, scholar, and DJ based in California. Since 1994, he's written on popular music, culture, race, and America for outlets such as National Public Radio, Vibe, Wax Poetics, Scratch, The Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, and LA Weekly. Wang is assistant professor of sociology at California State-Long Beach. He also hosts the renowned audioblog SOUL-SIDES.COM. Wang's book SPINNING IDENTITIES: A Social History of Filipino American DJs in the San Francisco Bay Area (1975-1995) is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

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Sponsored by the Arts & Science Transcultural Humanities Steering Committee (TCHSC)

Jiah Khan - Wrangler Photo Shoot

Jiah Khan Profile

Name - Jiah Khan

Birth Name - Nafisa Khan

Birth Date - February 20, 1988

Birth Place - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Age - 20

Occupation - Actor

Debut Film - Nishabd (2007) Starring: Amitabh Bachchan

Years active - 2007–present

Spouse(s) - None


Jiah Khan Biography

Jiah Khan (born February 20, 1988) is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood movies.

Born in New York and raised in Chelsea, London, Khan is the daughter of Ali Rizvi Khan, a Muslim Indian American, and Rabiya Amin, a Hindi film actress in the 1980s from Agra who is most remembered in Tahir Hussain's Dulha Bikta Hai. Khan has been rumored to be the daughter of Tahir Hussain and therefore related to Aamir Khan, but she dismissed the story as untrue. Khan has two younger sisters. Though born Nafisa, she changed her name to Jiah after Angelina Jolie's movie GIA, citing that it was sexier.

Khan's childhood is characterized by an absent father figure and frequent encounters with poverty. By the time she was 3 months old, Khan's father left his family for another woman. Eventually, her mother moved the four of them to London, where Amin worked as a party hostess and remarried. The second marriage ended in 1995 and left Khan, her mother, and her sisters penniless, homeless, and with little to no support. Despite her rise to stardom, Khan continues to have an estranged relationship with her father. Her mother is now a writer for television in the UK and BBC.

Khan is trained in opera and plays the piano. She can dance salsa, lambada, samba and Kathak.

Khan completed her A levels in film studies and literature in London. She also studied at the Lee Strasberg Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, though quitted upon receiving a movie offer from Mumbai.

A sixteen years old Khan was to debut in Mukesh Bhatt's Tumsa Nahin Dekha (2004), but backed out when she felt the role was too mature for her and was replaced by Dia Mirza. Two years later in 2006, she debuted in the controversial Nishabd, where she acted opposite Amitabh Bachchan. The film was released on March 2, 2007 to mixed reviews, though Khan was noted for her confidence, attitude, and sex appeal.

She will appear in A.R. Murugadoss's Ghajini Hindi remake along with Aamir Khan and Asin Thottumkal and Sajid Khan's Housefull, which also stars Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and Ritesh Deshmukh.

Soha Ali Khan [Looks Beautiful In White]

Soha Ali Khan Profile

Birth Name - Soha Ali Khan Pataudi

Birth Date - October 4, 1978

Birth Place - New Delhi, India

Age - 29

Other name(s) - Soha, Soha Ali

Father - Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

Mother - Sharmila Tagore

Brother - Saif Ali Khan

Marital Status - Single

Famous Movies - Rang De Basanti, Shaadi No. 1, Antar Mahal, Pyaar Mein Twist, Dil Maange More, Iti Srikanta

Years active - 2004-Present


Soha Ali Khan Biography

Soha Ali Khan (Hindi: सोहा अली खान) (born on October 4, 1978 in New Delhi, India) is an Indian actress and the daughter of the Nawab of Pataudi and the actress Sharmila Tagore and sister of actor Saif Ali Khan.

She attended The British School in New Delhi, then followed on to study History at Balliol College, Oxford University and has a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

Before embarking upon her film career, Soha worked for the Ford Foundation and Citibank. She is involved in a range of activities outside the acting world, including serving on the Advisory Board for a new project of the public entrepreneur group, Res Publica. She has also recently modeled for the spring-summer collection of Globus, an Indian chain of boutiques.

Soha made her acting debut with the Bollywood production Dil Maange More (2004), where she shared credits with Shahid Kapoor and two other leading ladies.She has since received critical acclaim for her performances in the Bengali film Antar Mahal (2005) and Rang De Basanti (2006). Her next release is the Khoya Khoya Chand (Sudhir Mishra)(2007).

Soha Ali Khan was born into the family of nawabs of Pataudi. Her father, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the current nawab, is a former captain of the Indian cricket team. Her mother, Sharmila Tagore, is a noted film actress, and great grand daughter of the nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Her brother is also a bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan.There are speculations that she may marry Siddharth Narayan of Rang De Basanti Fame.

Anthroman Weighs in on Lebron-Gate

Lebron as King Kong?
by John L. Jackson

Is this an ironic critique of racialized American pop culture, or just another example of semi-cloaked forms of contemporary racism?

Are black folks being too sensitive, or are whites not being sensitive enough? This is a version of how every single five-minute segment on CNN or FOX frames the debate. Of course, that is exactly the WRONG question, which is what I try to explain in my new book, Racial Paranoia, an essay asking for a new set of assumptions about how race/racism actually functions in contemporary America.

Historically, magazines like Vogue could have quoted scientific "experts" who made careers out of proving that Blacks were closer to apes on the evolutionary ladder than whites. Indeed, the 20th century's most popular forms of print culture (magazines, journals, newspapers) are littered with such testimony. But now we live in a world where explicit racial ideas, assumptions or unexamined presuppositions are shunned--and can get the expert into some serious hotwater. So, we have a much different kind of racial dance we do with one another these days, a new configuration to America's racial dance floor-cum-minefield.

The point isn't about whether or not Vogue's superstar photographer is a racist. It is about recognizing that in a world where explicit forms of racism have been banned from the public sphere (especially for mainstream publications) such imagery operates like a kind of spectacular return of America's repressed racisms--regardless of the photographer's intent or the lack of any conspicuously hanging noose, the racial equivalent of a smoking gun.

If America is, in fact, "post-racial," all this means is that we've gone from a moment of explicit/public forms of racial distrust to potentially trickier and more perniciously privatized/cloaked demonstrations of racial misgivings. Of course, none of this is to assume that the Vogue cover was "meant" as a racial dig, but the meaning of any bit of communication is never completely controlled by its sender. That's Communications 101.

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