#biography of celebrity

[batsplat]

kills me that casey just never got to be on any of the podiums where valentino was dressing up and doing stupid shit. like i think we as a society deserved to see that. 'but valentino didn't do that so much anymore in those years' well FIRST OFF one reason for that is you can't go around pre-planning as many celebrations if some surly australian kid keeps beating your ass so maybe casey should have considered that. and secondly valentino did show up to the misano 2009 podium with donkey ears but casey was tragically away with his illness. a missed opportunity. makes me sick to my stomach

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

Myrna in Christmas colors!

(Cover image for the 1st edition of her biography Being and Becoming)

"Life is not a having and a getting; but a being and a becoming."

~ Myrna Loy (after Matthew Arnold)

[lightofraye]

All About Glen

I'm in the mood for something... easy.

Or, rather, I thought this would be easy. Then I went deep diving and have yet to surface. This post will likely edited a few more times in the next few days (maybe? I'll let you know either way), so keep an eye out!

So... who is Glen Powell? Besides a possible new rising star in Hollywood. (Certainly his upcoming projects say he's in high demand!)

Come with me, and I shall tell you!

Also, I had so much fun diving into his background! Learned more about this guy than I realized!

(And I also turned my daughter into a Glen Powell fan! I'll explain why/how in a bit!)

Raised in Austin, Texas, born on October 21, 1988, to Glen Powell Sr and Cyndy Powell, he's the middle child of three. And the only boy. He has an older sister named Lauren and a younger sister, Leslie. Named after his father, the Original Glen (no, seriously, that's his Instagram!), Glen was a child actor. He started performing with the Austin Musical Theater program when he was in the fifth grade, learning to tap dance--according to Leslie, there is video evidence--and appearing in The Music Man and 42nd Street.

Oh, he explored all sorts of extracurriculars' growing up. Football, lacrosse, all sorts. However, his passion and fascination were movies.

The actor recalled that he would be “picking dandelions” in the outfield while playing baseball as a kid, and his parents, Cyndy and Glen Sr., were ready to let him try something else.

“I played violin for a bit, and all of a sudden, I was like, ‘No, not into this anymore.’ They let me give it up,” he continued, noting they were supportive until Powell found something he “really loved.” That’s where his acting career comes in.

At the precious age of 5, his father took him to see Steven Spielberg's megahit, Jurassic Park, in the summer of 1993. Glen ended up watching the movie multiple times in theaters, and again on home video, trying to figure out the secrets of the film's special effects.

In an interview with Austin Monthly, Glen said he began making his own science fiction films growing up. He'd use a home video camera, computer, recruited his friends to be actors, and searched for props in his family's basement. Seeing this, his parents encouraged him to enroll in acting classes.

His second grade project was on Steven Spielberg's use of practical effects in Jurassic Park. In 2003, when he was 14, he got his first movie role as "long-fingered boy" in Spy Kids 3: Game Over. His location in Austin helped him land the role. Director Robert Rodriguez discovered Powell, then 14, while looking for "local hires" to accompany the primarily Los Angeles-based cast.

"You're just trying to find someone locally that won't get nervous, that'll give a performance that kind of measures up to the other actors. He walks in with a stature and confidence and just nails it," Rodriguez told IndieWire. "So now, it's no surprise to see [he made it as an actor], but he already had that quality at 14 and clarity of vision that that's what he was supposed to be."

Two years later, he played a paperboy in The Wendell Baker Story, a part that required him to get hit by a car, which he practiced with his mother in a church parking lot.

In 2006, everything changed. His mother, Cyndy, drove him five hours to Shreveport, La., to audition for Denzel Washington, who was directing and starring in The Great Debaters. Powell got the part--and a powerful agent: Ed Limato, who represented Washington.

Powell also starred in Fast Food Nation (2006), and The Hottest State (2006) over the next few years.

Still in high school at Westwood, Powell even considered deprioritizing his acting career until receiving a pep talk from Denzel Washington during the filming of The Great Debaters. In the movie, Powell played Harvard University student Preston Whittington and impressed the two-time Oscar winner. "Denzel Washington really pushed me out of the nest a bit and said, 'You should double-down on yourself. You should give [acting] a shot'," Powell said.

A year later, Limato called Powell in his dorm room at the University of Texas at Austin.

"Ed said, 'If you're going to spin the wheel on an acting career, now is the time to do it'," Powell said.

Taking a chance, Powell dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles in 2008. “Ed always told me, over and over, that the definition of a movie star is somebody who guys want to grab a beer with — fun, not threatening — and who women want to date and bring home to meet their parents,” Powell said.

Limato had a history of helping turn actors into big stars--among his clients? Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, and Kevin Costner. Limato also gave Powell a crucial career tip: Don’t take on a role in a big franchise too soon, however tempting the paycheck; stars are built in smaller movies of varied genres.

Unfortunately for Powell, Limato died two years later, leaving him without an advocate.

It was a rough and learning time for Glen. He supported himself through coaching community sports and small acting jobs (a Dockers commercial, an episode of The Lying Game, a cable series).

Not long after Powell moved to Los Angeles, Limato introduced him to Lynda Obst, a fellow Texan and a producer of hits like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Contact, and Sleepless in Seattle. She hired Powell as an intern, a job that involved reading scripts and giving feedback.

It helped him learn how Hollywood ran.

Obst recalled, "He was adorable--charm off the charts. But that is not what impressed me, and it's not why he's succeeding." She went on: "Actors can turn on charm, but they can't turn on intelligence. Glen is smart and learned about developing scripts and the structure in movies. It made him independent and wily."

He eventually got dropped by the William Morris Endeavor talent agency. He began to question whether superstardom was even achievable anymore. He took to writing scripts and sold several to help keep himself afloat during his shaky start.

Glen took Washington's advice and gradually began appearing in more prominent titles, including the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, in 2012 as an unnamed Gotham Stock Exchange Trader. He also appeared in the ensemble movie, The Expendables 3, in 2014, appearing alongside action stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2016, he played astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures. Glen was cited as saying that upon viewing a rough cut of the film with unfinished special effects, he was critical of his performance. "I just remember being like 'I ruined this beautiful movie, the legacy of these amazing women'," he explained in an interview with Variety.

Fortunately, critics and the audience disagreed--the movie made more than $230 million at the box office and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

He took a detour into comedy for his next roles, including the teen movie Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), and the Netflix rom-com Set It Up (2018).

In between all that, he went onto a recurring role on Scream Queens (Ryan Murphy's show on Fox), and appear in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Society. He's even done voice roles, such as the Netflix cartoon, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, and an episode of Rick and Morty.

How he got the huge leap to everyone's attention was something he nearly turned down. He lost out on blockbuster roles including Captain America, Han Solo in Solo, in addition to pieces in films ranging from Friday Night LIghts to Cowboys & Aliens and The Longest Ride.

His break was something he nearly missed out on.

When Miles Teller beat him out of the part of Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick, and Tom Cruise and director Joe Kosinski offered him the role of Hangman instead.

The problem?

"If I were editing this movie, I would cut him out immediately," Powell said to British GQ. The original version of the character was a lousy pilot who made it to Top Gun through nepotism, a storyline Powell thought did the film a disservice.

Luck was with him. Cruise and Kosinski decided to hear him out and ended up convinced, rewriting the character based on Powell's notes.

“What we were talking about is, how can Hangman service the story and give the flavour of the original Top Gun that you need?” Powell said.

“I said my piece to Tom about what I do and what I do well, and he listened. Tom’s a listener. He listens to the crew members, he listens to his collaborators, and he hears people.”

And good thing he did — Top Gun: Maverick went on to become a box office phenomenon, and Powell’s career got the kickstart he had waited so long for.

2022 was his year. He appeared in the war drama Devotion, the Netflix animated comedy Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood, and Top Gun: Maverick. The latter, the sequel to the 1986 vehicle--became the biggest movie of the year, grossing nearly $1.5 billion at the global box office.

Powell underwent extensive training for the film, including underwater escape simulations and flights in F-18 aircraft to prepare for the G-forces he would experience on camera. Cruise even paid for the actor to complete flight school as a Christmas present, allowing Powell to earn his pilot's license.

We all know what happened after this. His role with Sydney Sweeney on Anyone But You brought him even more attention. His future projects will keep him busy for at least a couple of years. (He did tease he has a start date for Top Gun 3, but has refused to say more than that.)

He's been romantically linked to Nina Dobrev in 2017, Australian TV host Renee Bargh from 2018 to 2019. He began dating model Gigi Paris, starting in 2020. We know in April of 2023, they broke up for good.

Glen Powell Sr, his father, was an executive coach. His mother? A stay at home mom. Leslie is working on her career as a singer, and was fortunate enough to have had a song be used for the Olympics!

Both parents have trolled the hell out of Glen during the premiere of Hit Man. In a way, his family is what keeps Glen grounded.

Amusingly, Us Weekly described his parents as the first ever nepo parents.

“The greatest gift that my parents gave me is never making me sit in things I didn’t want to sit in and letting me chase the passions I wanted to chase, no matter what,” Powell, 35, told Us Weekly exclusively while promoting his new movie Twisters. “I am really grateful for my parents for not trying to deter me from a job that has such a low success rate.”

As his fame continued to rise, his parents have made various cameos in his movies over the years.

His Instagram is full of photos of behind the scenes, with family, and of course, Brisket.

There was a rumor that Glen was opening a restaurant in Austin. This has been researched and debunked. I did go into detail about his future projects here.

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So how did I convert my daughter into a fan?

Because I was talking to her about the gossip regarding him and Sydney Sweeney. I showed her the photos, then I showed her how he was with his other female costars.

With Adria Arjona from Hit Man.

With Daisy Edgar-Jones from Twisters.

And her first thought: "He makes them comfortable. He's safe. That's why they're so relaxed."

In that instant, she became a fan. That's all it took.

So yeah. Got fans here.

We're looking forward to more about this green-eyed Texan!

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BONUS: Glen also is rather hilarious on Twitter! Check this out!

Hilariously, he decided to run with it!

We love a star who can make a joke like this!

Sources (with blatant lifts when possible): New York Times (using web archive due to paywall) Entertainment Weekly Us Weekly Biography Los Angeles Time Variety *I freely admit/acknowledge I relied on existing writing to put all this together. I added, rearranged, edited, as necessary. I am grateful to the access of this information that allowed me to compile this biography!

[oli-reads]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123274973-beyond-the-story

"I knew Bangtan would win. No matter what anyone says, Bangtan is going to win." -V

[hadira]

she was sunshine, i was gay

"Love was the law and religion was taught"

A quite blasphemous statement that turned into our reality before we ever even heard these words. This wasn't a thought we could shoo away or an ideology we could unlearn, it was an organic sentient parasite that grew within us regardless of what we thought about it. You don't choose to have cancer, do you? No, cancer cells are born on their own and you deal with the consequences.

When you're a child it's hard to notice the growing pains. You live as usual, without much thought. So when it all unravels, it bursts open like pubescent acne on your face, coating it in sticky, burning pus. It's hard to wash off. Believe us, we've tried.

Imagine this, it's a random day in October of 2021 and you're on the school campus waiting for your bus when the personification of an androgynous grunge lesbian walks by you and you realize — oh. Oh damn. Butterflies tickle the inside of your stomach and your eyes are glued to that one figure in a crowd of hundreds. Your mind keeps rewinding the moment you saw her like a broken record. Your friend is right beside you, yet it feels like the world stopped moving and life withered away, taking that girl with it. But she had such a presence that she weaved her existence into the threads of the universe, so you can always feel her, you will always remember her even if the fire engulfing the earth eats you up as well. Her name would be the last word on your lips and the last sound to ever be made in your solar system. She will live forevermore.

Thus, the entire bus ride home you sit silently in your seat, contemplating life with a myriad of questions being asked again and again and again in your mind.

'Do I like her?'

'But she's a girl'

'Am I gay?'

Now when you are a dumbass it is the way of the universe to give you a fellow dumbass. And when you tell that dumbass about your epiphany, your conversation goes a little like this:

'Hey, I think I have something to tell you'

'What'

'I think...I like a girl'

'Oh, okay'

'.....dude its a girl'

'Oh. OH'

'Yeah'

'Lmao, me too'

'Huh'

Long story short, you now have two gay dumbasses controlling this blog where they feel like their business is everyone's business <3

[hollywoodoutbreak]

Everything seemed to happen quickly in Christopher Reeve's life: Superman made him an overnight success, and then a horse-riding accident toolkit all away in an instant, paralyzing him and saddling him with the health problems that ultimately led to his death at the young age of 52. Now, a new documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, takes a closer look at his life, in part through the eyes of the people who knew him best: his family. Christopher's son, Will Reeve, was one of those participating in the documentary, and said he was very impressed with the way the producers and directors approached the project.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is now playing in theaters.

[ohdady5]

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[mbrainspaz]

many times in my life I have felt the self doubt of 'but am I ace though?' No more. I'm almost done reading Pageboy and now I'm very emphatically able to say 'holy shit what the f*ck I am so ace oh my gods.'

Through this whole book I have been so confused. Not by the gender stuff—my experience is different but I still can nod along—but the lust. People really been out there looking at other people and wanting them carnally I guess. Whack. I mean good for them. Could never be me.

There are aspects of the book I really liked but most of it left me feeling like the weird kid at the school lunch table wishing everyone else would pick a different topic for once. Anybody wanna talk about trains?

[taylorvaughnsaidso]

[shakira-fan-page]

First look into the new ''Female Force: Shakira'' comic book biography. Out this week!

[loksewa-vision]

Cristy Ren Wiki, Age, Height, Net Worth, Figure Size, Biography & Images

Cristy Ren is a beautiful Russian TikTok Star, Instagram Celebrity, OnlyFans Star & Model. She was born on March 2, 1997 in Russia. Her current age is 26 years old as of 2023. Her real name is Kristina Alexandrovna Gotfrid.

She is well known for her curvy figure, stunning look, charm, beauty, modeling, acting in video, sharing her attractive bikini photos and entertaining content on social media platform.

Nick Name - Cristy

Gender - Female

Real/Full Name - Kristina Alexandrovna Gotfrid

Occupation - TikTok Star, Instagram Celebrity, OnlyFans Star & Model

Date of Birth - March 2, 1997

Age - 27 years Old (in 2024)

Birthday - 2nd March

Birth Place - Russia

Nationality - Russian

Hometown - Russia

Hobbies & Interests - Photography, Travelling, Internet Surfing, Taking Photos & Videos, Selfie Lover

[the-myrna-loy-blog]

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

~ Myrna Loy

[ellinafox02]

Alia Shelesh famously known as SSSniperWolf is an English-American YouTuber known for her gaming, cosplay, and reaction videos. SSSniperWolf Age was 21 when she started the "SSSniperWolf" YouTube channel in 2013. SSSniperWolf's Net Worth is almost $16 million.

[dakota-zen]

Pau Dones🎸

Pablo Donés Cirera más conocido como Pau Donés fue un cantante, guitarrista y compositor español. Donés es mejor recordado por haber sido el vocalista del grupo musical Jarabe de Palo.

[hadira]

The boogeyman got us

As the sun casts its glaze on our faces, a sinking sensation pools in our stomachs. We realize, with all the horror of a Truman Show-esque main character, we're just too funny for this not to be scripted. As we figured this out, BOOM the fourth wall is broken.

You might be wondering, why are we not in a psych ward right now? I promise you we are not delusional, just truth-seekers. This is a preservation of the endless deranged things that have happened to us and will definitely continue to happen to us because how the fuck is this real?????????

If you follow us along, you will get to witness in real-time the mental breakdown of two teenage girls. Doesn't that just sound fun!? Join us.

(This is not a cult babes, unless you want it to be <3)