Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Michelle Diaz is an American actress and former model. In August, 2008, Forbes Magazine listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She reportedly earned $50 million in the period of a year ending June, 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas and in the third installment of Shrek.

Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie,an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz , who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for twenty plus years, as a Field Gauger, and in the pipeline department, until he retired in 1998.Her father was a second-generation Cuban American and her mother is of English, German and Cherokee ancestry.She has one older sister, Chimene Diaz.She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School at the same time as rapper Snoop Dog.

At 16 she began her career as a fashion model. Diaz signed with top modeling agency Elite Model Management. After graduating from high school, she went to work in Japan and met video director Carlo de la Torre. On her return to the U.S., she moved in with him. For the next few years, her modeling took her around the world, working for contracts with major companies. She modelled for designers such as Calvin Klein and Levi's. She was featured on the cover of the July 1990 issue of Seventeen magazine.

At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, even though she had no previous acting experience.After obtaining the lead female role, she immediately started acting lessons. Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's the One. She then regained mainstream success with her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, a film for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for in the category of Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards and the SAG Awards.

Diaz dated actor Matt Dillon from 1995 to 1998. She is also the ex-fiancée of actor/musician Jared Leto. They had a low-profile relationship from 1998 to 2002. Reports have said that they broke up because Diaz was concentrating more on her acting as Leto was more concerned about his band. She then for a short while dated English singer / songwriter Julian Barry before they split due to career commitments.

Most recently, Diaz dated former *NSYNC member Justin Timberlake, whom she met at the Kids' Choice Awards in 2003. The pair issued a joint statement on January 11, 2007, announcing they had broken up, following weeks of breakup rumors.

In October 2004, Diaz and Timberlake were in an altercation with a tabloid photographer outside a hotel. When the photographer and another man tried to photograph them, the couple snatched the camera. Pictures of the incident appeared in US Weekly. Representatives for the pair claimed that they were "ambushed" and acting out of self-defense.

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Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the 1999 television series Get Real, but her first prominent role was in Disney's family comedy The Princess Diaries starring opposite Julie Andrews, which established her career.

She continued to appear in family films over the next three years, with lead roles in Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement in 2004. Hathaway would later venture away from the "G-rated" image her early acting career bestowed upon her, starring in the adult-themed films Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. She later starred in The Devil Wears Prada opposite Meryl Streep, Becoming Jane, in which she portrays Jane Austen, and Get Smart opposite Steve Carell.

Her acting style has been compared to that of Judy Garland and Audrey Hepburn and she cites Hepburn as her favorite actress and Streep as her idol.People magazine named her one of 2001's breakthrough stars and in 2006 she was listed as one of the world’s 50 Most Beautiful People.

Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Millburn, New Jersey, when she was six years old. She is the daughter of Gerald Hathaway, a lawyer, and Kate McCauley, an actress who inspired Hathaway to follow in her footsteps.[8] She was named after the wife of playwright William Shakespeare. She has an older brother, Michael, and a younger brother, Thomas. Hathaway has mainly Irish and French ancestry, with more distant German and Native American roots.

Hathaway was raised a Catholic with what she considered "really strong values," and has stated she wanted to be a nun during her childhood.However, at the age of fifteen she decided not to become a nun after learning that her brother Michael was gay.Despite her Catholic upbringing, she felt that she could not be part of a religion that disapproved of her brother's sexual orientation. She has stated that she is a non-denominational Christian.

A very intelligent child, she was involved in a Montessori program as a preschooler and was then able to enter first grade when she was technically still a kindergartner.Hathaway graduated from Millburn High School where she participated in many school plays. She performed in plays such as Jane Eyre and Gigi at New Jersey's Papermill Playhouse. Hathaway's high school performance as Winifred in "Once Upon a Mattress" garnered her a New Jersey Rising Star Award nomination from the community theatre for best performance by a high school actress She spent several semesters studying as an English major and women's studies minor at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York before transferring to New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.She referred to her college enrollment as one of her best decisions because she enjoyed being with others who were trying to "grow up."Hathaway was a member of the Barrow Group Theater Company's acting program and was the first teenager ever admitted into the program.She is a trained stage actress and has stated that she prefers appearing on stage to film roles.

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Liv Rundgren Tyler

Liv Rundgren Tyler

Liv Rundgren Tyler is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven Tyler and model, singer Bebe Buell. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of fourteen, but quickly decided to focus on acting. Her first notable role was appearing alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith's song "Crazy" in 1993.

At age seventeen she made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. Following her performance in Silent Fall, Tyler starred in her breakthrough performance in 1996's Stealing Beauty. In 1998, she starred opposite Ben Affleck in Armageddon, which became a summer blockbuster. Tyler then went on to portray elf princess Arwen Undómiel in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. After a brief hiatus she returned to acting, starring in the horror-thriller The Strangers and portraying Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk.

Tyler was born Liv Rundgren at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, New York.She is the first born daughter of Bebe Buell, a model, singer, and former Playboy Playmate (Miss November 1974), and Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith.Her maternal grandmother, Dorothea Johnson, founded the Protocol School of Washington.Her mother named her after Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann after seeing Ullmann on the cover of the March 5, 1977 issue of TV Guide.At birth, Buell claimed that rock star Todd Rundgren was Tyler's biological father.Tyler discovered her true parentage at age nine.She discovered that she was Steven Tyler's daughter after meeting him and noticing a resemblance she shared with his other daughter, Mia.When she asked her mother about the similarity, the secret was revealed.The truth about Tyler's paternity did not become public until 1991, when she changed her name from Rundgren to Tyler, but kept the former as a middle name.Buell's alleged reason for the initial decision was that Steven was too heavily addicted to drugs at the time of her birth. Since learning the truth about her paternity, Tyler and Steven have developed a close relationship.They have also worked together professionally, once when she performed in Aerosmith's video for "Crazy" and again when Aerosmith wrote and performed many of the songs in the film Armageddon, in which Tyler starred.

Tyler attended the Congressional School of Virginia, Breakwater Elementary and Waynflete schools in Portland, Maine, before returning to New York City with her mother at the age of twelve.She went to York Prep in New York City for Junior High and High School, graduating in 1995. One month later Tyler set off for Italy to star in Stealing Beauty.

Starting a career as a model at the age of fifteen, Tyler appeared on the covers of magazines and starred in commercials.[1][5] However, she became bored with her modeling career less than a year after it started, and moved into acting.[5] She never took acting lessons.[6] Tyler first became known to television audiences when she starred alongside Alicia Silverstone in the music video for Aerosmith's song "Crazy" in 1993.[1] Between the period of 1993 and 1996, she starred in seven films.

Tyler made her film debut in Silent Fall in 1994. Following the release of the film, she starred in Heavy in 1995; the filming of which was delayed until she became available.By the age of nineteen, she had already starred in several successful films, including her breakthrough role in 1996's Stealing Beauty directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, the cult classic Empire Records, That Thing You Do! which was written and directed by Tom Hanks, and Inventing the Abbotts in 1997.

Tyler at the San Diego Comic-Con International Convention in 2007In 1998, she co-starred with Ben Affleck in Michael Bay's Armageddon, which raised her profile amongst cinemagoers and was coincidentally released on her twenty first birthday.The movie included the songs "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" and "What Kind of Love Are You On" by her father's band, Aerosmith.Tyler has also starred in Onegin in 1999, a film based on the 19th century Russian novel by Alexander Pushkin, in which she portrayed Tatyana Larina and co-starred with Ralph Fiennes.She later appeared in two films by legendary director Robert Altman, Cookie's Fortune (1999) and Dr. T & the Women (2000).

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William Levy (born William Levy Gutierrez on August 29, 1979 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban actor and former model.

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Defend Your Professional Beauty Salon from Potential Beast

In the 1930's, at the start of the Great Depression, thousands of people headed off on Route 66 for the "promised land" of California. And today, the state still is famous for its beautiful coastline, weather and people. Little wonder then, that beauty salons are successful and well-patronized in California.

Operating one of these beautifying businesses is still an exciting way to make a living, but it getting a little more dangerous too. Our society has gone a little sue-crazy, and with this tendency has come the need for buying better insurance coverage. Before you start buying your California beauty salon insurance though, there are several different kinds of coverage policies that you, as a business owner, need to understand.

General Liability Insurance
First off, we will review general liability insurance. This insurance covers incidents when your clients injure themselves on your premises. For example, they might slip on some water on the floor or trip over a bump in the parking lot and break a bone. As silly as it may seem that they can sue you for injuring themselves, you need to be prepared.

Property Coverage
Property coverage insurance is pretty self explanatory. It covers damage to your building or personal property like hair equipment, salon chairs and mirrors. Since California is known for its fires and earth quakes in addition to its beauty, property coverage would be a wise policy to buy.

Loss of Income
Loss of income coverage reimburses the policy holder for the loss of income caused by property damage. For example, if the salon burns down, you would want insurance not only to cover the cost of rebuilding but also to cover the salary you cannot earn while it is being rebuilt.

Professional Liability
Professional liability may be one of the most important kinds of coverage on your list. It helps cover your clients when you actually are at fault for causing cosmetology damage while performing your service. This probably won't be needed for giving someone a haircut they don't like because bad hair cuts grow out and solves themselves in a couple of weeks, but it would come in handy if someone was accidentally cut by a malfunctioning razor or something like that.

Depending on the services you offer at your salon, you may need different amounts of each kind of insurance. Now that you understand several different insurance types, find a company that offers both bargain packages and individualized plans. Many times, you can even get a quote from an insurance provider based specifically on your business needs.

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Chad White, born in 1985, in Portland, Oregon, is an American model. He is one of the newest faces in the industry.

White has been seen in the June 2006 issue of L'Uomo Vogue where he owned the entire editorial well.

White is on the runways in fashion capital cities in the world. His work for L'Uomo Voque and Dsquared2 is one of his most important stints as a model, photographed by world-renown photographer Steven Klein.

On the runways, he is one of the favorites of Versace, D&G and Dsquared2, and among others.

In person, it is not only the face, with its perfect masculine jawline, or the body (made by years of playing many kind of sports) that makes an impression. It is White's personality.

White is known to his colleagues and friends to have unswervingly patient, tireless in his work, kind, fun to be with and capable of enduring any amount of hardship without complaint. He speaks little but is extremely intelligent.

6' foot 2 White, played baseball in college and was drafted for Major League Baseball, an eventuality that failed when he injured his hand. But as these hot pictures testify, baseball's loss is truly modeling's gain.

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