Kory Doszpoly asked:


Avril Lavigne (full name Avril Ramona Lavigne-Whibley) was born on 27th September, 1984 in Canada. Her credentials include a Grammy nomination. She has sols over 26 million albums worldwide. Avril Lavigne has ranked as the number 7 most powerful Canadian in Hollywood has to her fame of selling over 26 million albums worldwide. Avril Lavigne was ranked 7th most powerful Canadian in Hollywood by Canadian Business Magazine.

Avril Lavigne was born in Canada in the town of Belleville in Ontario. Her father John is French born and her mother Judy is French-Canadian. Both her parents being Catholic, Avril Lavigne enjoyed a Catholic upbringing. Her music carrier got an early start when at the tender age of two she accompanied her mother in the church choir. At the age of five, her family moved to Nappanee, Ontario.

In 1998, Avril Lavigne took part in her first singing competition/concert tour along with fellow Canadian singer Shania Twain. While performing at a bookstore in Kingston, Ontario, she was spotted by her first manager. Folk singer Steve Medd spotted her while performing at the Lennox Community Theatre. He invited her to sing his song titled “Touch the Sky” along with him on stage. Avril Lavigne continued to collaborate with him on his next two albums. She signed her first record deal at the age of sixteen with Arista Records.

In June, 2002, Avril Lavige released her album titled “Let Go” in te United States. The CD became number 2 on the U.S. charts and number one in Canada, Australia and the U.K. She became the youngest solo singer to have a number one album in the U.K. In 2004, she released under my skin. The CD became number one in a number of coutries such as United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Thailand, Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan. Almost five hundred thousand copies were sold in the United States the first week alone.

In 2007, Avril Lavige released her third album titled “The Damn Thing.” This CD enjoyed a similar degree of success becoming number on the U.S. charts. The first single “Girlfriend” hit the Billboard 100 in the number one position. This track was also recorded in a number of languages besides English.

Avril Lavigne’s motion picture carrier got its start with the animated feature “Over the Hedge.” She also had a role in Richard Gere’s film titled “The Flock” where she plays the girlfriend of the prime suspect.

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Nick Krimp asked:


Celebrity Books: Who’s Next and Why We Buy
 
By Nick Krimp
 
The public seems obsessed with celebrities, and those entering the celebrity books arena endear themselves to fans even more. Film, music, television and sports stars who publish books show us everything from how to copy their hairstyles and fashion choices to how to become better parents and teach our children. There are even books by celebrities who tell us how to manage a boyfriend, or how to cook for one once trapped. As if the beloved superstars are known to date singularly and stay married forever.
Still, we follow the every move of our stars, often discussing what celebrity authors disclose in their books as if they’re our dearest friends. We embrace stars as though they’re a real part of our daily lives. It all begs this question: Why?
It’s only natural that we’d get pulled into their well-publicized dramas. Pop culture stars summon our most human yearnings: to love, admire gossip and immolate.
It’s difficult to accurately define, but it’s their charisma that attracts the audience to their lives, both public and private. Charisma refers to a seemingly “supernatural” or uncanny ability to charm, lead, influence, inspire, and/or persuade others. This particularly refers to a quality in some who easily can attract the attention and admiration – or even hatred – of others through a “magnetic” personality or appearance.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however. It’s possible to derive value from a celebrity’s life and knowledge beyond the acting or singing for which they’re best known. Many actually deserve praise as book authors, too.
A number of superstars have valiantly written biographies, novels, or children’s books. In fact, many books by celebrity authors are quite good.
What follows isn’t a list of self-serving autobiographies written by ghostwriters. All of the books on this list actually were written by the celebrity credited. You’ll be surprised by who’s now an accomplished children’s author, cook book author or novelist. A few of them have even published self-help tomes.

Jane Fonda, the screen legend and member of one of Hollywood’s most famous families seeks wisdom and meaning after 60 in My Life So Far.
Kim Cattrall, author of self-help books such as Sexual Intelligence and Being a Girl.
Dolly Parton, author of various cookbooks, an autobiography, and the children’s story Coat of Many Colors.
Pamela Anderson, author of the popular chick lit novel Star.
Jay Leno, author of the children’s story If Roast Beef Could Fly, plus co-author of books about motorcycles and cars.
Madonna, author of various books including Yakov and the Seven Thieves and The English Rose.
Billy Crystal, children’s book author of Grandpa’s Little One and I Already Know I Love You.
Katie Couric, author of various stories for children such as The Blue Ribbon Day and Brand New Kid.
Whoopi Goldberg, author of Whoopi’s Big Book of Manners, Alice and other books.
Woody Allen, author of several tomes including two humorous short story collections: Mere Anarchy and The Insanity Defense.
Bette Midler, author of The Saga of Baby Devine.
Bill Cosby, author of the young readers book series Little Bill and many other humor books.
Jane Seymour, author of the self-help Jane Seymour’s Guide to Romantic Living and also the interior design book Making Yourself at Home: Finding Your Creativity and Putting it All Together.
Alan Alda, author of the second chance look at life, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself.
Jerry Garcia, author of the children’s books There Ain’t No Bugs on Me and The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, and others.
Felicity Huffman, self-help author of A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend.

Some critics question about the quality of books by celebrity authors, contending their being published is only due to their celebrity, not their writing talent. Another common criticism is that such books prevents other, more deserving writers from being published, since there’s only so much money from book publishers, online bookstores, and retail outlets to go around.
Yet, the trend of big celebrity book publishing continues. Throughout 2008, look for memoirs, biographies, cookbooks, and more from these highly-anticipated celebrity authors:

Christopher Andersen, Somewhere in Heaven: The Remarkable Love Story of Dana and Christopher Reeve (due in July).
Rev. Run and Justine Simmons, Take Back Your Family (due in August)
Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up: Meditations on Optimism (due in September)
David Letterman, The Late Show Fun Facts (due in September)
Diahann Carroll, The Legs are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I’ve Learned Along the Way (due in September)
Jenny McCarthy, Mother Warriors (due in September)
Judge Greg Mathis, Inner City Miracle (due in September)
Perez Hilton, Red Carpet Suicide: A Survival Guide to Keeping Up with the Hiltons (due in October)
Ty Pennington, Good Design Can Change Your Life (due in September)
Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Estefan Kitchen (due in October)
Ted Turner, Call Me Ted (due in November)
Stefan Kanfer, Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando (due in November)
Sir Roger Moore, My Word is My Bond (due in November)
Kanye West, Through the Wire: Lyrics and Illuminations (due in November)
Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio (due in November)
Paul Simon, Paul Simon Lyrics 1964-2006 (due in November)
 Magic Johnson, Magic Moves (due in December)


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Saatchi-gallery asked:


Through their ethnological pastiche, Nathan Mabry’s work combines references to art history, South American artefacts, and popular culture, to create provocative monuments entwining high culture, primitive ritual, and contemporary experience. In A Very Touching Moment (Pitching A Tent), Mabry’s figure – inspired by Pre-Columbian Moche sculpture, and suggestive of Rodin’s The Kiss – sits as a grotesque fertility totem atop a plinth reminiscent of the work of John McCracken or Donald Judd. Through juxtaposing these disparate forms, Mabry points to a totemic ascendancy, tracing a narrative lineage between ancient liturgy and modern day systems of museological value.

BIOGRAPHY

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006

Nathan Mabry: Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration and Parade, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen

Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

2000

Filter Gallery, Kansas City, MO

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006

Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Bold Moves, curated by Simon Watson, House of Campari, Los Angeles

The Beginning of The End of The Beginning, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago

2005

Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Rogue Wave ‘05, LA Louver, Venice

WivesHusbands, domestic setting, Los Angeles

2004

Cornceptual Popstraction, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles

summer group show, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles

Supersonic, Windtunnel/Artcenter, Pasadena

2003

I Am Human And I Deserve To Be Loved, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles

Nathan Mabry’s In Your Face series takes as its subject Aristide Mailol’s 1937 sculpture La Montagne. Photographed at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio, this famous work is emblematic of the ideological coalescence between art, artifice, and nature. Shrouding the figure with a variety of novelty masks, Mabry appropriates the monument as a plinth for his own intervention. Literally using art history as a base for slap-stick humour, Mabry levels cultural hierarchy, disguising modern masterpiece as clownish impostor.

Like a DJ sampling music to define his own sound, Nathan Mabry openly borrows references from both modern and antiquated cultures to contrive sculptures that transcend time and place; falsifying a ‘super history’ tracing art evolution from its primal beginning to its portentous future. Mabry’s A Very Touching Moment (?) operates as a ‘cover version’ of Rodin, the tribal figure seated in the famous pose of contemplation. Both atavistic and cartoon-like, the totem is strangely retro-futuristic; an idea reflected in its plinth, which is a replica of Tony Smith’s Playground (1962).

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Saatchi-gallery asked:


Daniel Richter was born on 1962 in Germany, Currently lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. in 1991-1995 Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Hamburg.Daniel Richter’s paintings are elaborate in their deconstruction and recodification of art history. Drawing a wide range of reference from Goya, Munch, Ensor, to Immendorff and Doig, Richter offers a revisionist position for the crisis of painting in the 21st century.

Daniel Richter’s Jawohl und Gomorrah possesses an operatic quality. Borrowing themes from both Christianity and German history, Richter constructs his contemporary scene with theatrical flair: his figures are staged in Baroque composition, their outlandish costumes and mask-like faces lend an element of surreal spectacle. The fervent emotion of grand drama is carried through Richter’s frenetic style of painting: thick brushwork battles with translucent drizzles and impassioned smears; acid tones are electrified against the sombre ground. Reminiscent of Ensor’s nightmarish crowds, Richter infuses this street scene with apocalyptic celebration.

Richter’s work is often read with political motive. Working in the genre of epic historical painting, his images are fraught with a painterly anxiety. His work is infused with an apocalyptic energy, reflective of media induced paranoia. Beneath his highly seductive surfaces lies the portent of instability, violence, alienation and ideological subversion of a contemporary world in constant flux.Taking his subjects from pictures found in newspapers, comics, album and book covers, Richter repositions contemporary media imagery in the form of theatrical tableaux that are fantastical and timeless.

His nightmarish scenes are both terrifying and beautiful: rebellious mobs attacking the Berlin wall are staged with medieval religious zeal; gatherings of vagabonds glow with paranormal threat. Laden with the weight of implied history, Richter’s scenes extend beyond emblematic reading; their narratives take on the qualities of magical realism, extending a shiver of supernatural barbarism to depictions of current affairs.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005

• Daniel Richter Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

• Daniel Richter Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2004

• The Morning After David Zwirner, New York

• Daniel Richter: Pink Flag, White Horse The Power Plant, Toronto

2003

• Hirn Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

• Hearn Galerie Benier/Eliades, Athens

2002

• Grünspan, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2001

• La Cause du Peuple Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles

• Billard um halb Zehn, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Conclusions:

Richter’s canvases are imbued with an alchemic affinity for paint. Copious techniques and applications deceptively flaunt the process of making, yet remain elusive in their overwhelming complexity.

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Bart Gibby asked:


Alex Boye is a spiritual soul crooner but it hasn’t always been that way. Until seven years ago he was climbing the pop charts of Europe on the fast track to stardom. Then something changed.
“I seemed to have everything, but I wasn’t satisfied,” Alex said. “Deep down I felt a loss.”
Alex grew up mimicking the sounds of mo-town, but never considered a career in music. It wasn’t until he returned home to London, England, from a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that he realized singing was what he wanted to do.
In 1995 Alex formed the pop group, Awesome. They performed locally at dances and other small venues, but in 1996 their dreams of making it big turned into a reality when they won a vocal competition on London’s largest radio station, Capitol Radio. Universal Records of Europe signed Awesome for a five-album deal.
Awesome released three singles off their first album, Rumors, which made Top-10 charts all across Europe. The group was working with high-profile celebrities and touring with artists like N’Sync, Backstreet Boys, Missy Elliott, and MC Lyte.
“It really was a great experience,” Alex said. “It got to the point where I had all the things I ever thought would make me happy. I had fun and money but then it really went pear-shaped.”
People’s priorities began to change and the lifestyle didn’t fit him. When Alex left the band in 1999 to pursue a solo career he lost everything. The record company took the apartment, the clothes, the phone and the money.
Despite the loss, Alex persevered with the driving energy inherent in his soul, and in 2000 he released his first solo album, No Limits, which included pop and R&B for the new age. The album, full of uplifting lyrics straight from the heart, reached No. 12 in the European charts but again he found himself in the same dilemma.
“On my mission, the spirit was there when I sang,” Alex said. “In the band it wasn’t ever like that, and even though I was now on my own, it still didn’t feel like I was where the Lord wanted me to be. One day I was reading the scriptures and it said to forsake this world and seek for something better and how the song of the righteous is a prayer to Him. I realized I wanted to do music that was more uplifting that could do something for someone.”
Alex moved to Utah to begin a new career in faith-centered music. In 2001 he released his first gospel album, The Love Goes On, and gained a rapidly increasing fan base. In 2003 he released his second contemporary Christian album, Testimony, which features a moving compilation of soulful ballads aimed at touching the soul and lifting the heart. With his latest project, Build the World, Alex has found his niche. The album, to be released in 2005, is an R&B collection of life changing lyrics with a gospel neo-soul flare.
“I see the youth and I see their music. They desperately need an alternative,” Alex said. “This album is just that. It’s faith-centered music for the dance world. I hope the youth will see that there is good music out there and that you can have fun and dance while still living a clean life.”
Alex’s heart and soul voice and engaging personality can move any listener, but it’s his deeply rooted belief in who he really sings for that makes him more than just another entertainer. His inspiration comes from the Lord and his only purpose is to have the Spirit there when he sings.
Official Website: www.alexboye.com
“When the spirit is there it inspires you to change and to think about the things the Lord wants you to think about,” Alex said. “To be involved in that process is amazing. I’m not making the kind of money I used to make and I don’t have the fame and notoriety I used to, but I’m doing what the Lord wants me to do.”

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Saatchi-gallery asked:


Jonathan Meese was born in Tokyo in 1971.Jonathan Meese is a self-proclaimed cultural exorcist. In his performances, sculptures and paintings he adopts a shamanistic role, channelling all manner of chaotic zeitgeist. His personal interests reverberate throughout his paintings: comic books, horror films, medieval crusades and outsider art merge into a compendium of morality and epic failure. In his paintings, clear-cut roles of good vs. evil are confused, ironic propaganda is served up with homebrew conviction and malevolent knaves become heroes of the disenfranchised.

Jonathan Meese draws from German Expressionism, a movement dominated by the horrors of war and social discontent, especially in painting and film. It was strongly concerned with the unique vision of the artist: a conception of artist-as-diviner that Meese readily embraces. In Catdim, Meese presents himself as an exotic oracle. His flat black mask sits with elegant form over his energetic gold colour-field, reminiscent of Emil Nolde’s Prophet. Meese infuses his images with immediacy and pathos, and his use of these values in a contemporary context lends authenticity to his B-movie alter-ego.

Jonathan Meese is a champion of the lost cause. His personal interests reverberate throughout his paintings: comic books, horror films, medieval crusades and outsider art merge into a compendium of morality and epic failure. In his paintings, clear-cut roles of good vs. evil are confused, ironic propaganda is served up with homebrew conviction, and malevolent knaves become heroes of the disenfranchised. In Der Suppenpharao, Meese invents a protagonist of questionable intent. Based on Zardoz’s savage executioner, his masked gladiator-cum-superman stars in a poster-like composition, brimming with promise of pulp fiction drama. Meese incorporates himself into his fantasy, as a tribe of snout-nosed nymphs approving the impending carnage.

In his self-portraits, Meese exaggerates his real-life ‘wild-man’ features, his image continuously mutating through a cast of characters – from demons to divas – to develop potential narratives exploring the nature of power and conspiracy underlying contemporary mythology. Through his many reinventions, Meese replicates celebrity image manufacturing to style himself as a cult figure: both symptom and cure of a corrupted belief system. His narrative works play out B-movie fantasies in feudal tableaux, hailing religion and politics as punk-style forgeries. Collectively Meese’s works operate as meta-narratives; feeding the fictional legacy of the artist as an almighty and immortal entity.

Conclusion:

Jonathan Meese Is Mother Parsifal set the young artist alone against the well-over-five hours of Wagner’s slow-moving epic in the vast scenery store-house of Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

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R.t. Markovsky asked:


There are all sorts of ways that writers of one sort or another eventually get published. Some are would-be writers who have something to say but don’t feel they have the ability to put together the finished product so they hire a ghost writer. Ghost writers undertake all kinds of projects from one-time articles and web content to a full blown novel. The writer is called a ghost writer because they get no credit for what they have written other than a previously agreed upon fee for writing. The book or article is listed under the name of the person who commissioned the writing.
Where are Contract Writers Needed and What Do They Write
Contract writers are needed in the entertainment industry to write celebrity biographies, they are commissioned to write blogs, they work in academic circles, in businesses and on the internet.
Many celebrities are encouraged by their agents to tell their life stories by writing an autobiography. While a good number of well known artists have written their own autobiographies there are an even bigger number that hire ghost writers to do it for them.
Sometimes they will give the writer some notes and then leave them to get on with it. Still others prefer to take more of a hands-on approach and will meet with the ghost writer on a regular basis going through the book chapter by chapter and, other than the actual writing, they are fully involved in the process.
Ghost writers write books. They may also write ebooks for people. Some of these are fiction but most are factual. They can cover subjects from work-at-home moms to car insurance. For-hire writers also write ad copy and other types of web content. The rise of the internet has generated a demand for ghost writers who are both literate and able to meet deadlines.
Skills
Contract writers need to be able to promote themselves in order to bid for jobs. They need an excellent command of the English language as well as good research skills since they may be writing on something about which they know very little. It also helps if they know how to touch type. Speed is often of the essence in ghost writing so being able to type quickly is a great skill to have. Ghost writers, unlike many other writers, need to be able to adhere to strict deadlines.
Getting Started
Getting started as a ghost writer is not too difficult but staying in the game is. There are plenty of internet sites where writers can bid for work. There are also sites that hire contract writers to write content that has been requested by other people. Many ghost writers get started by word of mouth. To find out where the jobs are, active writers will generally have their own blog or belong to writers’ forums. Being a writer for hire is ideal for people who want to work from home for reasons of one kind or another and who have a good level of writing skills.

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James Lamb asked:


Abi Titmus, 32, is a presenter for Television X. She is the ex girlfriend of former TV presenter, John Lesley, and is former nurse. The ‘Titmusfication’ of the British media is astounding. Like haemorrhoids the constant appearance of the scantily clad Miss Titmus is a constant irritant to people of a certain age. Short of releasing pictures of her kidneys (exclusive only in nuts) I’m not sure what part of her body she will be showing us for her next! Familiarity breeds contempt. Like Linda Barker who assured us ” I like it.. I’m sure you’ll like it too” over exposure and over estimation of your own worth are a terrible combination. Like so many ‘D listers’ you are left wondering who exactly are there people? Where as the famous derive status through achievement and skill, mere celebrities acquire status merely from being celebrities. It is a sad day when a Ellen Macarthur can sail round the world non stop yet be less well known then a girl whose best known achievement is a lesbian sex video. The monster of celebrity must be slain! Do we really want to laud the Jade Goodys of this world who mutter classic lines such as ” what’s a ’sparagus’?”.

In many ways I think that Reality TV serves an important civic function in that it allows normal well adjusted human beings to compare themselves to potential D list celebrity fodder and thank god that they are someone else. Its Car Crash TV at its best, the kind that is horrific but strangely compelling at the same time. Sadly it also serves as a springboard for failing celebrities to re-launch their career and raise their profiles. Which would be great were it not for the question of who exactly did watch celebrity love island? At times you have to wonder if some of the contestants on these shows have just had major brain surgery or whether you are watching a new form of vacuum cleaner. Why is it that going on ‘I’m a celebrity get my out of here’ entitles you to release Mysterious Girl AGAIN? The mind boggles. At least the Crazy frog knows its irritating does Peter André? I think not. It is times like these that I feel that ASBO’s are not being used properly! If ever there were a case for electronic tagging and removal from society here it is. In the words of Homer Simpson “I know I’m not usually a praying man, but if you’re up there, please, Superman, help me!”

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