Sandra Bullock

Sandra Annette Bullock born July 26, 1964 in Arlington Virginia. Her Mothers name was Helga D. Meyer who was a German opera singer and voice teacher passed away in the year 2000. Her father John W. Bullock a voice coach and executive from Alabama. Sandras maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremburg, Germany. Sandra lived in Nuremberg until age twelve, where she sang in the opera's children's choir at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. She frequently traveled with her mother on her opera tours, and lived in Germany and other parts of Europe for much of her childhood. She is fluent in German.
Sandra studied ballet and vocal arts as a child, taking small parts in her mother's opera productions. Bullock has a sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado.
Bullock attended Washington-Lee High School where she was a cheerleader, participated in high school theater productions, and even dated a football player.

She graduated in 1982 and enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She left East Carolina during her senior year in the spring of 1986, only three credits short of graduating, to pursue an acting career. She moved to Manhattan to pursue auditions and supported herself with a variety of odd jobs (bartender, cocktail waitress and coat checker. Sandra later completed her coursework at East Carolina University.
On December 20, 2000, Bullock survived the crash of a chartered business jet at Jackson Hole Airport. The aircraft hit a snowbank instead of the runway, resulting in both the nose gear and nose cone being ripped off, the right wing partially separating from the aircraft, and the left wing being bent back. On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the film The Proposal, she and her husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on (driver's side offset) at moderate speed by a drunken driver. Vehicle damage was not catastrophic and amazingly there were no injuries.
In October 2004, Bullock won a multimillion-dollar judgment against Benny Daneshjou, the builder of her Lake Austin, Texas home; the jury ruled the house was uninhabitable. It has since been torn down and rebuilt. Bullock also owns a house on Tybee Island, which is a few miles from Savannah, Georgia. In 2009, she purchased a home in the historic Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans. On April 22, 2007, Marcia Diana Valentine was found lying outside James's and Bullock's Southern California home in Orange County. When James confronted the woman, she ran to her 2004 silver Mercedes, got behind the wheel, and tried to run over James. The woman is said to be an obsessed fan of Sandra Bullock.
The woman was charged with one felony count each of aggravated assault and stalking, while Bullock obtained a restraining order to bar Valentine from "contacting or coming near her home, family or work for three years." Valentine pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault and stalking. Valentine was subsequently convicted of stalking and was sentenced to three years of probation. Recently she got another restraining order from Thomas James Weldon who was but this time the restraining order was for her son Louis, since her previous order expired.
My favorite movies she was in would have to be Speed,She was smoking hot in Demolition Man,While You Were Sleeping,The Net,Hope Floats,Murder By Numbers,Two Weeks Notice,Premonition and she was also smoking hot in The Proposal. I just saw The blind Side the other night and it was better than I thought it would be.

Mo Money Mo Problems

This is a topic I've been wanting to write about for a long time now, but again haven't had the time to. Studying different cultures around the world, Americans/Europeans tend to give native people a "barbaric" title - something that transcends the term "civilized."
A story that struck me was that of the !Kung people in SW Africa. They are a tribal culture who had unlimited resources to land which provided yearly water, food, and shelter. Having vast access to resources, the !Kung people shared everything they had with one another. There was no such thing as a family having nothing, because everyone was so giving in order to help each other rise as a culture. Something so amazing was that it was a goal to acquire as much goods as you can in order to give the most things away. There was no such thing as selfishness.
When the white man came to "civilize" the !Kung people, they took away half of their land, which needed to support about 2x the amount of people. Now the !Kung had to work for money, something they didn't know anything about before. Though education was available for the children to have a more opportunistic future, their nakedness became shameful, and the !Kung were clothed, and made to work for money. The idea of sharing with one another, came at the cost of families being selfish with what they had. All this arguing over possessions tore the !Kung people away from the connection they all shared.
Which brings me to the question, when did money become so important into surviving everyday. I know we have come a long way from trading or bartering, but we depend so much on money to live our lives. We don't take into account the hard work many people go through without enough compensation. We know the more education you get, the better money you'll be paid in the professional world. But in order to get an education, you need to pay for it. Nothing in the world is free, which is an unfortunate thing. Possessions seems to define us nowadays - we value someone's worth by what house they live in, or the car they drive. But what about the value of a person's heart, shouldn't that go a longer way? When did money become so central in our lives, that we need it to accomplish so many of our dreams?


You just do you, imma do me


CamiLLe

Rosie the Riveter

Let me say for one thing , my Economic Anthro class brings a new perspective on things. I've been wanting so badly to write about certain topics, just haven't had the time to, even though I've been promising.

So yesterday, the topic was basically on women and their basic duties in society. When you think about it, women have come a long way. Not to say that our college attendance is basically equal or maybe now even slightly higher than men.

Taking a history lesson back to the 1940s when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Theodore Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Many of the men had so much pride being American that the best solution was to go represent the United States in the military. As men were being shipped off for duty, they left behind many women, children, and loved ones.

Back then as we all know was the typical stereotype of men being the breadwinner and women working at home, taking care of the children. With the men gone for military service, the industrial sector needed someone to fill their positions - women. As dangerous as it was, women were enrolling to work in these industrial jobs, as wielders, ship builders, engineers, etc. No longer were women only restricted to "feminized" roles. Many women were so eager to join the workforce not only to support their country in a good cause, but also to make a life for themself.

Despite the harsh conditions and toiling hours, these women actually looked forward to going to work to make money for themselves and their family. They felt independence in excelling at a job that men did.

As the war effort continued for years, women stayed at these jobs and acquired skills so fast that it became a profession for them. These women had to learn the trade in a matter of days in order to continue the running economy, and they did just that.

Now when the war was over, women dreamed of new opportunities in the workforce, but that's exactly the opposite of what they found. As if there was no war at all, men resumed their positions in the economy, and automatically women were laid off. Because some women loved their newfound independence, they tried desperately to find any job, much to no avail. These women were not satisfied with being the housewife, but wanted a job to help support their family and themselves. Because industrial jobs had masculine labels attached to it, women had no choice but to accept feminine jobs like housekeeper, waitress, cook, cleaning lady, teacher, secretary for meager pay, a far less compensation compared to jobs they had when the war was going on.

Women who had jobs while their husbands were back from war were greatly ridiculed, especially in the media. They were seen as not caring for their children or family life at all...

My fascination with this subject lies in the question of women in the workforce today. If it wasn't for "Rosie the Riveter" who took over the industrial sector during war, would there ever be an existence of women working full-time jobs today outside the home? Nowadays, it's seldom to see a one parent sponsored household, and more likely for the husband AND wife to work a job in order to support their lifestyle. Why is it so necessary now for women to pursue greater eduation in order to find a professional job? This is the evolution of women in the workplace, an evolution of an independent woman who sees the importance of acquiring her own lifestyle, a sense of internal accomplishment.

Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery born August 25th 1930 in Fountainbridge, Edinburg. He was a milkman for his first job, then he joined the Royal Navy but was discharged because of having an ulcer but later returned to the co-op. After that he was a lorry driver, a laborer, an artist's model for The Edinburg College of Art and a coffin polisher. Not mention one of the greatest actors to ever live. While he was in the Navy he got 2 tattoo's one simply saying "Mum and Dad", the other saying "Scotland Forever".

Connery claims he was called Sean, his middle name, long before becoming an actor, explaining that when he was young he had an Irish friend named Séamus and that those who knew them both had decided to call Connery by his middle name whenever both were present.

Sean Connery was best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.
Connery has been polled as the, "Greatest Living Scot" and was knighted in July 2000. In 1989, he was proclaimed, the Sexiest Man Alive, by People Magazine and in 1999, at age 69, he was voted, Sexiest Man of the Century!
He has won an Academy Award, Two BAFTA Awards and Three Golden Globes throughout his career. He has been married twice first to Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1973 and then to Micheline Roquebrune from 1975 to present day.
While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marine (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Then The Man Who Would Be King and The Wind and the Lion (1975). Then A Bridge Too Far (1977). In 1981, Sean Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, in which he describes the character as being "Sean Connery — or someone of equal but cheaper stature". When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role.
Diane Cilento in her 2006 autobiography My Nine Lives, as well as in subsequent interviews on radio and in print, Diane claimed that Connery had beaten her on several occasions. Connery vehemently denied the accusations. In a December 1987 interview with Barbara Walters, he stated that it would be acceptable for a man to hit a woman with an open hand, if she continues to provoke the man after he concedes an argument to her. Connery had made similar remarks in a November 1965 interview with Playboy magazine on the set of Thunderball: "I don't think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman ... If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I'd do it." In 1993, Vanity Fair quoted him saying there are confrontational women who "want a smack".
In 1993, news that Connery was undergoing radiation treatment for an undisclosed throat ailment sparked media reports that the actor was suffering from throat cancer following years of heavy smoking, and he was falsely declared dead by the Japanese and South African news agencies. Connery immediately appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to deny all of this. In a February 1995 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said that the radiation treatment was to remove nodules from his vocal cords. His father, a heavy smoker, died from throat cancer in 1972. In 2003, he had surgery to remove cataracts from both eyes. On 12 March 2006, he announced he was recovering from surgery to remove a kidney tumor in January. In 2008, he chipped a bone in his shoulder after falling while playing golf. In October 2009, he told Wine Spectator magazine that he has been diagnosed with a heart condition.
My favorite movies would have to be Highlander,The Untouchables,Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade,The Hunt For Red October,Medicine Man,Rising Sun,First Knight and The Rock.
Here's a video from when he was on Barbara Walters talking about a bitch slap.(so to speak)

1 minute 7 seconds

SNL Sean Connery

Jenna von Oÿ

Born on May 2nd 1977 in Stamford Connecticut. Parents are Gloria and Frank von Oÿ. I remember her from the show Blossom. But then I saw her on the show The Parkers and it seems as though she's all grown up.

She began her acting career as a child in regional stage productions and commercials.

Jenna made her television acting debut in 1986 appearing on an episode of ABC Weekend Special, then she appeared on shows like Tales from the Darkside and Kate & Allie acting out guest roles. She also co-starred in the sitcom Lenny although the show didn't last long. In 1989 she appeared in the feature film Born on the Fourth of July opposite Tom Cruise. Then there was Blossom from 1991 to 1995 portraying the role of Six LeMeure. I didn't think she was going to grow up and be extremely hot! She also is the voice of Stacey in A Goofy Movie in 1995. Then she attended the University of Southern Califonia for a couple years, but then she dropped out and returned to acting. From 1999 to 2004 she began to play the role of Stevie van Lowe in the Parkers. During that time Jenna played the voice of Trinket St. Blaire in the animated series Pepper Ann. In June 2000, Jenna recorded a demo compact disc (which honestly I have not heard yet) in an attempt to launch a recording career in country music. Her debut album, Breathing Room, was released on September 18, 2007.

In 2005 she appeared in Marsha Potter Gets a Life. Then she guest stared in a episode of Cold Case and parodied Lauren Graham's character of Lorelei Gilmore in the Family Guy episode Perfect Castaway. She was also the voice of Gracie in the feature Dr. Dolittle 3 which went straight to DVD.