For instance the newest comer to the club (some would argue) would be Bristol Palin, the daughter of Sara Palin. Bristol has been a part of the cast of this 2010 season of Dancing with the stars. Sara Palin the ex-governor of Alaska, ex-vice presidential candidate of 08 for the republican-party and now a new “Reality T.V. Star” mom, with her own show Sara Palin’s Alaska. Has proven that no matter how you feel about her, you can’t help but admit she has star power.
She graduated this school in 1997. While a student there she released her second album, one in a Million. Which was one of my favorites. At the age of 17 Aaliyah was known worldwide. She had sold over two million copies.
Like her talk show, it would be credited as being the most successful magazine launch in recent history (Oprah Winfrey's Biography). She has over 2.6 million readers each month and in April 2002, she launched the first international edition of O in Southern Africa (Oprah Winfrey's Biography). She is also successful in the movie business; as a producer and an actor. She debuted her acting as Sophia in the Steven Spielberg film, The Color Purple in 1985 and received an Academy Award for supporting role and a Golden Globe Nomination (Oprah Winfrey). Her own production company, Harpo productions, Oprah spelled backwards, has a film division for her movies (Oprah Winfrey's Biography).
A brief biographical statement about Oprah; At 18, she won the Miss Black Tennessee pageant and a year later became the first black woman to anchor the evening news in Nashville. Winfrey further honed her broadcast skills in Baltimore before moving to Chicago to host a daily talk show in 1984. She was so popular that the series (A.M. Chicago) was renamed in her honor and became a national hit in syndication in 1986. Oprah quickly became a household name, a wildly successful yet still accessible woman who struggled with her weight and talked about surviving sexual molestation. But hosting a talk show wasn't all Winfrey had in mind.
Anna Avalon is the rather graceful and adventurous main character of the short story “The Leap” by Louise Edrich. Anna’s acquired characteristics have made her out to be a very desirable woman. Many of her characteristics showed throughout the short story have proved her to be graceful; brave and cautious. Anna is the surviving half and a courageous blindfolded trapeze act. She made herself into a stunning performer, alongside her husband; they created “The Flying Avalon’s.” She performed many wild stunts, “double summersaults and heart-stopping catches.” (pg190) A horrific tragedy ended the career of “The Flying Avalon’s.” While Anna was 7 months pregnant, lighting struck the main metal pole running directly through the center of the circus tent.
Angleina Jolie VS Britney Spears Both of these women are highly sucessful in their own rights. both are american, well paid and married, that is were the similarities end. Britney spears started off with a recording career as a child and has done stage, television and has recorded many many songs. She is thirty years old and has two children of her own. She got married in 2004 but the marriage was annulled fifty-five hours later and she remarried in 2004.
This made Baker the first American woman in history to be buried in France with Military honors. In conclusion, I would like to say that Josephine Baker is an example of a courageous woman. Josephine Baker has continued to intrigue and inspire people throughout the world. In 1991, HBO released “The Josephine Baker Story.” The movie won two Emmy and also picked up three Golden Globe nominations. All her life she’d entertained people and cared for them.
The actresses were fit for the part and even though there was tragedy they still found a way to make you laugh away the pain and for that is why I think the film was awarded numerous times . The lead actresses are Dolly Parton and Sally Field. They are both superb at what their achievements and I loved them in many other fields as well. Peter Travers agrees stating “The ladies are live wires. Just stand back and watch them set off sparks.” The supporting actresses Shirley MacLaine (Ouiser), Olympia Dukakis (Clairee), and Daryl Hannah put the icing on the cake.
Bette Davis Bette Davis was one of the greatest actresses to come out of Hollywood. She was one of the biggest stars in the film industry in the 19th century. Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Harlow Morrell Davis (father) and Ruth Favor Davis (mother). She died on October 6, 1989 in Neuilly, France to metastasized breast cancer. Bette was married four times her first husband was Harmon Nelson 1932-1938, her second was Arthur Farnsworth 1941-1943 he died, her third was William Grant Sherry 1945 they had one child, her fourth husband was actor Gary Merrill 1950-1960 they had 2 children.
Andrea was diagnosed as suffering from postpartum depression with psychosis, and she had been taken off her anti-psychotic medication about a month before the children’s deaths. Andrea’s husband, Russell, claimed he had been pleading with doctors to again prescribe Haldol, used in treating people who hear voices or have delusional thoughts but her treatment was discontinued. It is possible it was genetic because her siblings also had a mood disorder and were on anti-depressants. Sociocultural Perspective: Rusty and Andrea were influenced by the religious views of Michael Woroniecki, a traveling minister whom they had bought the bus from. Rusty only agreed with certain things Woroniecki believed.