You’ll need to travel pretty far to find someone who doesn’t know who Sharon Stone is. Her roles in movies such as Casino, Basic Instinct and Total Recall made her a household name and she enjoyed critical success during the 1990’s. But before she was a star, she was just a middle-class girl from Middle America, who enjoyed reading and putting on shows for her neighbors and family.
Sharon was an academically gifted child who finished high school at 15 and went on to study at university. After winning numerous modeling contests she joined Fords Modelling Agency where she enjoyed a successful modeling career but Sharon was hungry for something more and knew she wanted to be an actress. And so she started her long journey which would eventually
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At this time Sharon was reaching the height of her stardom and judging by these pictures it’s easy to see how she became one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood.
But Sharon is so much more than just a pretty face – she’s used her celebrity to help others in all sorts of ways. At the World Economic Forum in 2005, she stood up after a debate on funding poverty and pledged $10 000 and asked people to follow her lead. She managed to raise more than $100 000 in under five minutes to help buy mosquito nets to curb the spread of malaria in developing countries. www.dsadventuregear.blogspot.co.za 3 Personal Life
Despite her drop dead gorgeous looks and smoking body Sharon has been unlucky in love; racking up numerous engagements and two failed marriages. Her first husband was Micheal Greenburg, a television producer who she married in 1984 but separated from just three years later. They were divorced in 1990. In 1993 she became involved with Bill MacDonald, the co-producer of Sliver. MacDonald was so infatuated with her that he left his wife to become engaged to her but they parted ways less than a year later. While working on The Quick and the Dead, she met and accepted a marriage proposal from assistant director Bob Wagner but they soon separated as
Aileen Wuornos was born February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan to Leo Dale Pittman and Diane Wuornos. Diane had abandoned her children and was never brought up in their household. Her father Leo went to prison before Aileen was born. Leo was a child molester and a psychopath who later hung himself while serving a life sentence in prison after his conviction of kidnaping and raping a seven year old girl. Growing up, Aileen lived with her brother and raised by their grandmother (Biography, 2015).
For their marketing strategies, St. Jude uses celebrity stars connection as well as good marketing decisions and programs to attract the consumers and businesses. This type of marketing brings in hundreds of millions of dollars each year for the hospital. Some of their fundraising efforts were Trike-a-thon, Math-a-thon, Up 'Til Dawn and the Dream Home Giveaway (Zmuda, 2011). Their celebrity connections started when the founder, Danny Thomas, would get celebrities like Bob Hope and Sammy Davis Jr. to come and support the cause. Today his children Marlo, Tony and Terre continue to be involved and get celebrities like Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams and Antonio Banderas to support (Zmuda, 2011).
Because her parents were well known, she became popular as well. Following in her mother’s footsteps, Carrie became a great actress in show business too. After she played in her most famous film, Star Wars, she moved on to other roles and become an author and screenwriter. In the 1980s, she struggled with a drug addiction which she fought hard to overcome. Continuing her role as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, she played in Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
Tasha Cruzat-Green serves as the president for the Illinois Voices for Children. As president, she works as a non-partisan advocate to advance policies and public investment for the betterment of Illinois children. Preceding her role as president, she served as the chief of staff to the Cook County President, Toni Preckwinkle. In her role as chief of staff, she oversaw an operating budget of 4.2 billion along with, overseeing all of the offices under the office of the president.
Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have it” series is a modern-day adaptation of his older work “She’s Gotta Have it” film in 1986. As Lee takes the audience around the beautiful and aesthetic scenery of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the audience is introduced into the life of Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise). Aside from her work, Darling also juggles between three lovers: Mars Blackmon, Greer Childs and Jamie Overstreet. In a way to maintain control of her body, Darling creates rules between her and her lovers, some of which include: not interacting outside the bedroom and calling her multiple times before visiting. When first presented in 1986, Nola Darling’s polymorphism was alien and rebellious.
In a novel written by Terri Blackstock a frightened girl is running away from something but only she knows what really happened. Casey Cox had been trying to figure out the mystery of her dead father when she gets caught in the middle of another murder mystery except this time she is wanted for the murder. Casey's neighborhood friend Brent was trying to help her solve her fathers death mystery when he went a little too far into the research and it didn't end up well for him. The impression of truth can be more important than the actual truth. Brent had figured out what had happened to Mr. Cox but before he had time to tell Casey somebody already knew that Brent was on to something and stopped him by murdering him before he
Reba McEntire Although, Reba has had the awards, fame, and glory she as well had divorce and all the hardships of being famous. Reba’s fans have supported her all the way. They have had a positive influence on her career through the years.
She started smoking with her sisters when she was eight years old, and when she was the age of 10, her parents divorced. By the of age 12, she had turned to drugs and sex, likewise, at 14, she dropped out of school and followed her mother, a rock groupie, into prostitution and began traveling with the Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, and the Eagles band. When was 16, she was married briefly to Stephen Griffith. By the age 20, she began hanging out with bikers, where she met a woman named Shawn Dean and her husband Jerry Lynn Dean, who introduced her to a man named Danny Garrett in 1981. According to the Texas Monthly, that on June 13, 1983, “Tucker and a male accomplice, [Danny Garrett] sneaked into a Houston apartment and, for no real reason, murdered a man and a woman with a pickax.
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal. But Louisiana and several other states ignored the ruling. A desegregation order requires the school board to undertake specific action to accomplish desegregation goals in the areas of student assignment, faculty assignment, staff assignment, facilities, extracurricular activities, and transportation. The courts are supposed to enforce these orders until all effects of past discrimination have been remedied. In 1960, a federal judge ordered Louisiana schools to integrate.
Many people refer to her as the “Queen of Rock”, “Queen of Pop”, and often times a music legend. Linda Ronstadt is an American singer songwriter who entertained the world for about forty years with her voice. Since an early age, she would sing wherever she would go with her family. She had a long music career, filled with tons of debuted albums and many awards recognizing her work as a musician. However, her career had to end as a singer in Ronstadt’s later years.
Written in the 1970s, Jennifer Traig reveals in her humorous memoir how she changed and overcame the mental and social challenges that life threw at her from childhood into adulthood. Life certainly threw her tough challenges in the forms of OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder), scrupulosity, and anorexia. . To say the least, she looked for the devil in every detail believing if she didn’t do something perfect someone would get hurt. Traig begins her book by recounting a memory where scrupulosity took over. Being a form of OCD, scrupulosity makes its “victims” have an obsession with religion, in Jenny’s case her obsession was Judaism.
She supported the PSA to raise awareness for this disease. She also sang for Stand Up for Cancer by the American Association for Cancer Research, raising over $73.6 million. She has also supported many other charities including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Disabled American Veterans, Save the Children, The Salvation Army, and Grammy Foundation. Although LeAnn Rimes had some rough times during her life, she still turned bad into good by raising money for all of these charities benefitting millions around the world. ( LeAnn Rimes is known all around the country for her unique voice, talented writing skills, and her amazing acting.
Queen Latifah, an amazing African American woman who has accomplished many things over the years. She has recorded and acted. She has many talents to show us. She has many things to teach us too. She has been through things but she didn’t let them come between her and her dreams.
By the age of sixteen she had already dropped out and was married her first husband James Dougherty . Her career was made when a photographer found her and was amazed by her beauty, and wanted her to model. As she started her career, more and more people began to notice her. She moved to Hollywood where she signed a one year contract for $125 a week with Ben Lyon in the studio and got the name “Marilyn Monroe” and “ Blonde Bombshell” nicknames. It was then that her career took off.
The Eileen Fisher clothing brand is more than twenty-five years old and over that time the brand has had a tremendous amount of success. In the time period the brand had established many loyal customers and opened up fifty retail stores that were dedicated solely to the brand. The company was often recognized and one of the best companies to work for and developed a very loyal core of customers that stayed with the brand over this whole throughout this time. The only down side to all of the success that Eileen Fisher was having was that as the brand was getting older so were its loyal customers. Each year after the brand started the average of the customer rose as well.