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Sharon Stone

Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, model (height: 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)), and producer with ancestral roots in Galway, Ireland. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 blockbuster film Basic Instinct, which caused controversy for its erotic content. She was one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in the 1990s, until she moved to San Francisco to live with her husband and raise their adopted son. When that marriage dissolved, Stone returned to Los Angeles and resumed her film career.

Early life and education

Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA, a town south of Erie. The second of four children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy Stone, who were blue collar workers. It has been said that her parents raised her with feminist values. "My dad never raised me to believe that being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like Dad in that blue-collar, middle-class world is a big stand," said Sharon.

She was said to be a smart and ambitious child. She has described herself as "a nerdy, ugly duckling who sat in the back of the closet with a flashlight and read. I was never a kid. I walked and talked at 10 months. I started school in the second grade when I was five, a real weird, academically driven kid, not at all interested in being social. Recess was a drag until I realized I didn't have to play, that I could lean up against a wall and read." Most of the kids disliked her because she was standoffish and didn't play children's games. One day on the playground she announced, "I am the new Marilyn Monroe." Her mother said "Sharon has been posing from the day she arrived. She came out posing."

As a young woman, her IQ was tested and rated at a high level of 154 points. After skipping a grade in school, she was involuntarily transferred from Saegertown High to Edinboro University in Pennsylvania, enrolling at the young age of 15.

Because she was very self-conscious of her looks, to the point that one biographer said she suffered from "a textbook case of Body dysmorphic disorder, her uncle bribed her with $100 to enter a local beauty contest in order to improve her self-esteem. She entered the contest because she needed the money to help pay her college tuition. She lost the contest, but one of the judges encouraged her to enter the Miss Pennsylvania contest, which she declined. Instead, she entered the county contest and won the title of Miss Crawford County in Meadville. One of the pageant judges said she should quit school and move to New York to become a model. When her mother heard this, she agreed, and in 1977 Stone left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New Jersey, she was signed by the elite Ford modeling agency in New York.

 

Entertainment career

1980 - 1990

After joining the Ford Modeling Agency, Stone spent a few years modeling, and appeared in TV commercials for Burger King, Clairol and Maybelline, but she didn't enjoy her work. While living in Europe she decided to quit modeling and become an actress. "So I packed my bags, moved back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra in a Woody Allen movie," she later recalled. She was cast for a brief but memorable role in Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and then had a speaking part a year later in the horror movie Deadly Blessing (1981), which was a big box-office success. When French director Claude Lelouch saw Stone in "Stardust Memories" he was so impressed that he cast her in "Les Uns et Les Autres" (1982), starring James Caan. She was only on screen for two minutes, and didn't appear in the credits.

Her next role was in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and young Drew Barrymore. Stone plays a starlet who breaks up the marriage of a successful director and his screenwriter wife. The story was based on the real-life experience of director Peter Bogdanovich, his set designer wife Polly Platt, and Cybill Shepherd, who as a young actress starred in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971). The highlight of her performance is when her cocaine addict character plays Scarlett O'Hara in a musical remake of Gone with the Wind. Later that year, she took a part on Magnum, P.I., the highest-rated television show at the time.

She married television producer Michael Greenburg in 1984 on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a TV movie he produced and she starred in, along with Rock Hudson and James Earl Jones. The marriage quickly fell apart; they split up three years later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.

Throughout the rest of the 1980s she appeared in seven movies of poor quality, such as King Solomon's Mines (1985), and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987).

 

1990 - 2005





Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct.




Sharon Stone and William Baldwin in SliverHer appearance in Total Recall (1990) with Arnold Schwarzenegger gave her career a much needed jolt. To coincide with the movie's release, she posed nude for Playboy magazine, showing off the buff body she developed in preparation for the movie (she pumped iron and learned Tae Kwon Do.) She said she posed for the magazine because she needed the money. "I had just remodeled my house. I was broke. I needed the bread."

Sharon Stone on the cover of July 1990 issue of PlayboyShortly after the release of Total Recall, Stone had a bad car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Immediately after the accident, she went home, not knowing she had just suffered a concussion. She woke up almost completely paralyzed and ended up lying on the floor, crying, for three days. When she finally got to the hospital, she was diagnosed with the concussion, a dislocated shoulder and jaw, several broken ribs, and three compressed disks in her back. The accident left scars that are visible in some of her later screen appearances.

While her memorable role in the Schwarzenegger movie should have led to other important job offers, her career took a considerable dip for the next two years. She worked often and worked hard (five movies in two years), but the movies were low budget productions that few people saw.

The role that made her a true star, the Faye Dunaway of her generation, was that of Catherine Tramell, a brilliant coke-snorting bisexual mind-game playing serial killer in the sexually-charged Basic Instinct (1992). Stone went to considerable trouble to obtain the part for which she was far from first choice. Stone had to wait and actually turned down offers for the mere prospect to play Catherine Tramell. Several better known actresses of the time such as Genna Davis turned down the part mostly because of the nudity required. In the movie’s most notorious scene Ms. Tramell is being questioned by the police and she crosses and uncrosses her legs revealing the fact she wasn't wearing any underwear. Nothing was left to the imagination. Stone claims to have been tricked into the stunt and considered a lawsuit. Latter she admitted that the bold act help make the movie the number one box office hit of the year. That year, she was rated by People magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. After years of litigation "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction" is currently in production due to be released in 2006.

In 1995, Empire magazine chose her as one of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.

Sharon Stone, Mayor Gavin Newsom and Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom at the NCLR Spirit Awards, San Francisco, April 24, 2004.In 1996, she received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her role as Ginger in Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995), a role for which she won a Golden Globe award. In October 1997, she was ranked among the top 100 movie stars of all time by Empire magazine.

On February 14, 1998, she married Phil Bronstein, editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999, she was rated among the 25 sexiest stars of the century by Playboy.

Stone and Bronstein got a divorce in January 2004, after he had suffered a severe heart attack. They have an adopted son named Roan, born in 2000. Stone herself was hospitalized following a brain aneurysm in October 2001, but has since recovered.

In 2005 during a television interview for her movie Basic Instinct 2, Sharon came out as bisexual stating "Middle age is an open-minded period." [1]

In April of 2004, she was awarded the National Center for Lesbian Rights Spirit Award in San Francisco for her support and involvement with organizations that serve the lesbian, gay and HIV/AIDS community. She was presented the award by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, then embroiled in a national controversy over his decision to allow same sex marriage in his city.

She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a ranch in New Zealand.

On Saturday, May 7, 2005, Stone, at the age of 47, adopted a baby boy who was born in Texas to a surrogate mother. She has named the baby Laird Vonne Stone.

 

Filmography

Bobby (2006) (filming)




Buddha (2006) (ann.)


Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)


Cougars (2006) (announced start of production)


When a Man Falls in a Forest (2006) (announced)


Broken Flowers (2005)


Alpha Dog (2005) (completed)




A Different Loyalty (2004)


Catwoman (2004)


Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (Cameo)


Cold Creek Manor (2003


Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)


Picking Up the Pieces (2000)




Beautiful Joe (2000)


Gloria (1999)


The Muse (1999)


Simpatico (1999)


Sphere (1998)


The Mighty (1998)




Antz (1998) (voice)


Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)


Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)


Catwalk (1996) (documentary)


Diabolique (1996)


Last Dance (1996)




The Quick and the Dead (1995) (also co-producer)


Casino (1995)


Intersection (1994)


The Specialist (1994)


Sliver (1993)


Last Action Hero (1993) (Cameo)




Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)


Basic Instinct (1992)


He Said, She Said (1991)


Scissors (1991)


Year of the Gun (1991)


Diary of a Hitman (1991)




Total Recall (1990)


Beyond the Stars (1989)


Blood and Sand (1989)


Action Jackson (1988)


Above the Law (1988)


Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)




Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)


Cold Steel (1987)


King Solomon's Mines (1985)


Irreconcilable Differences (1984)


Within Memory (1981)


Deadly Blessing (1981)




Stardust Memories (1980)

female celebrities - Tara Reid

Tara Reid

Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975, Wyckoff, New Jersey) is an American actress and model who has starred in films such as American Pie (1999) and Dr. T & the Women. In 2005, she played the lead in videogame adaptation Alone in the Dark. She is of Irish, English, Hungarian, French, and Italian descent.

Reid began her career at the age of six in 1982 on the short-lived game show Child's Play. As a child she had roles in a number of commercials for McDonald's, Crayola, and Jell-O. She grew up in New York City, and attended the Professional Children's School alongside such celebrities as Ben Taylor, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Macaulay Culkin. Reid spent the late 1990s appearing more often on the cover of tabloid magazines than on screen. Her extroverted social life soon gave her a reputation as a party girl — in fact, U.S. magazine In Touch recently voted Reid "top party animal".

Although her breakthrough role was in American Pie in 1999, followers of the 1998 cult film The Big Lebowski already knew her as Bunny Lebowski. She has appeared as J.D.'s (Zach Braff) unfaithful girlfriend in the NBC comedy Scrubs.

On the night of Thursday November 4, 2004, Reid was embarrassed by a wardrobe malfunction at a highly publicized photo shoot at P. Diddy's thirty-fifth birthday party at Cipriani's Restaurant in New York when her dress fell, exposing her left breast. Scar tissue was visible around Reid's nipple, confirming rumors of breast implants. The photographs were widely distributed. In August 2005 she finally admitted having had her breasts augmented. [1]

Her half-hour television show on the E! network, Taradise premiered in September 2005, but was cancelled the following month.

 

Filmography

A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)




The Big Lebowski (1998)


Girl (1998)


I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)


Urban Legend (1998)


Cruel Intentions (1999)


Around the Fire (1999)




American Pie (1999)


Body Shots (1999)


Dr. T & the Women (2000)


Just Visiting (2001)


Josie and the Pussycats (2001)




American Pie 2 (2001)


National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)


Devil's Pond (2003)


My Boss's Daughter (2003)


Knots (2004)


Alone in the Dark (2005)




Silent Partner (2005)


The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005)


Incubus (2006) (currently filming)


Land of Canaan (2006) (currently in post-production)

female celebrities - Teri Hatcher

Teri Hatcher

Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964 in Sunnyvale, California) is an American actress. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and has achieved her greatest fame and acclaim starring in the show Desperate Housewives.

Hatcher's father was a nuclear physicist and her mother was a computer scientist (both of English descent). She attended Fremont High School in Sunnyvale. In 1994, she married actor Jon Tenney; they had a daughter, Emerson Rose, and later divorced.

 

Career

Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan girls' ballet studio in downtown Los Altos before studying acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs was as a San Francisco 49ers cheerleader/dancer in 1984. During this time she appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

While probably most noted for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, she was also in Spy Kids, the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, and many other films. She has also made guest appearances in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Seinfeld, and had a recurring role in MacGyver as his young friend, Penny Parker. Hatcher also appeared in a series of popular Radio Shack television commercials alongside NFL Hall of Famer Howie Long.

In 1997, Hatcher was voted "Sexiest Woman in the World" by the readers of FHM.

She now stars as the single mother Susan Mayer on ABC's Desperate Housewives, a role for which she won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Golden Globe Award in January 2005. In July 2005, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Best Actress in a Comedy Series category for the same role, along with co-stars Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross, with Huffman the eventual winner.

 

Film and television roles

1985 The Love Boat Amy, Loveboat Mermaid television series; cast member from 1985 to 1986




1986 MacGyver Penny Parker TV series; guest starring in six episodes between 1986 and 1990


1986 Capitol Angelica Stimac Clegg television series; cast member from 1986 to 1987


1987 Karen's Song Laura Matthews television series


1987 Night Court Kitty TV series; guest starring in the episode "Who Was That Mashed Man?"


1988 CBS Summer Playhouse Lauri Stevens TV series; guest starring in the episode "Baby on Board"




1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation Lt. Bronwyn Gail Robinson TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Outrageous Okona"


1989 The Big Picture Gretchen


1989 L.A. Law Tracy Shoe TV series; guest starring in the episode "I'm in the Nude for Love"


1989 Quantum Leap Donna Eleese TV series; guest starring in the episode "Star-Crossed"




1990 Murphy Brown Madeline Stillwell TV series; guest starring in the episode "Fax or Fiction"


1990 Tales from the Crypt Stacy TV series; guest starring in the episode "The Thing from the Grave"


1991 Tango & Cash Katherine 'Kiki' Tango


1991 The Brotherhood Teresa Gennaro made-for-TV movie




1991 Soapdish Ariel Maloney


1991 Sunday Dinner TT Fagori television series


1991 Dead in the Water Laura Stewart made-for-TV movie


1991 The Exile Marissa TV series; guest starring in the episode "Eclipse"


1992 Straight Talk Janice




1993 All Tied Up Linda Alissio straight-to-video


1993 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Lois Lane television series (1993 – 1997)


1993 Brain Smasher... A Love Story Samantha Crain straight-to-video


1993 Seinfeld Sidra TV series; guest starring in three episodes between 1993 and 1998


1994 The Cool Surface Dani Payson




1996 Dead Girl Passer-by


1996 Heaven's Prisoners Claudette Rocque


1996 2 Days in the Valley Becky Foxx


1997 Tomorrow Never Dies Paris Carver


1998 Since You've Been Gone Maria Goldstein made-for-TV movie


1998 Frasier Marie TV series; guest starring in the episode "First Do No Harm"




1999 Fever Charlotte Parker


2000 Running Mates Shawna Morgan made-for-TV movie


2001 Say Uncle made-for-TV movie


2001 Spy Kids Ms. Gradenko


2001 Jane Doe Jane Doe made-for-TV movie


2003 A Touch of Fate Megan Marguilas




2003 Momentum Jordan Ripps Sci-Fi Channel made-for-TV movie


2004 Desperate Housewives Susan Mayer television series (2004 – present)


2004 Two and a Half Men Liz TV series; guest starring in the episode "I Remember the Coatroom,


I Just Don't Remember You"

Home Run Derby, celebrity game set for Rickwood Field (Birmingham News)

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:33:25 GMT
The Birmingham Barons have scheduled a Home Run Derby and a celebrity softball game, both at historic Rickwood Field, as events leading up to the club's role as host of the 2009 Southern League All-Star Game at Regions Park.

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