Archive for November 9th, 2008
1. Denzel Washington
Influential Score*: 40%
The Academy Award-winning actor has lent skill, credibility and gravitas to the roles he’s tackled, be them portrayals of historical heavyweights like Malcolm X and Hurricane Carter or conflicted characters like Training Day’s corrupt cop and The Bone Collector’s depressed detective. Off camera, he has funneled some of his fame and fortune into charitable causes and foundations, including the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of America, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and Save Africa’s Children.
2. Tom Hanks
Influential Score: 37%
No. 3 George Clooney
Influential Score: 34%
No. 4 Will Smith
Influential Score: 33%
No. 5 Morgan Freeman
Influential Score: 33%
No. 6 Angelina Jolie
Influential Score: 29%
No. 7 Robert De Niro
Influential Score: 29%
No. 8 Harrison Ford
Influential Score: 28%
No. 9 James Earl Jones
Influential Score: 28%
No. 10 Julia Roberts
Influential Score: 27%
*Source: E-Poll Market Research, which provides over 45 appeal rankings for more than 3,000 celebrities. For example, 37% would define Hanks as ‘influential’, and 34% would use the descriptor when referencing Clooney. (To put that in perspective, the average celebrity scores 11% on the firm’s Celebrity Influence Index.)
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Jennifer Connelly Tells Us What Turns Her On
This much we know about Jennifer Connelly: She’s devastatingly pretty. She won an Oscar for her work in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind. Her latest, The Day the Earth Stood Still, with Keanu Reeves, opens this month; He’s Just Not That Into You premieres in February. She has two sons — Kai, 11, and Stellan, 5 — and she’s married to British actor Paul Bettany. About to turn 39, she is the face of the Balenciaga campaign. And she is remarkably private and classy for someone who works in Hollywood.
But what tickles Jennifer Connelly? What gets those green eyes glinting? We had to know, so we decided to just ask. Jennifer Connelly, what do you love?
Pink Lady apples. “Three a day. I eat so many apples, it’s stupid.”
Speaking Italian. “It’s so much fun. It’s such a crisp and bright-sounding language.”
Vodka. “Chilled. No ice. Just a tiny bit of orange juice, or with soda and lime.”
Family photographs. “Right over my bed I’ve stuck on a black-and-white photo-booth strip of Paul, Kai, and Stelli, and another of Kai and Stelli with my dad.” (Connelly’s father passed away in September.)
Attending Comic-Con, the comics convention, with Keanu Reeves last July. “It was like going with a Beatle. Women had little handwritten signs that said, ‘I love you, Keanu.’ And he’d just open his mouth, and they’d start screaming.”
Visiting Africa’s Kalahari Desert with her family. “We all walked away from each other and lay down on the sand. It’s crusty, like salt flats. We were just silent for a while.”
Home. “I became a mom before I became a wife. When I had kids, I felt I had a home like I’d never experienced before.”
A hot LBD. “You can just fold it up and throw it in your bag. It always works.”
Making He’s Just Not That Into You. “It’s about being a girlfriend. A lot of my scenes were with other women. I liked that.”
Nick Cave, Cat Power, Vampire Weekend, the Arctic Monkeys.
Doing crafts. “I have a Bedazzler! The last time we whipped it out was for Stellan’s birthday. I sewed capes for all the kids, and then they decorated them with fabric, paint, jewels, and buttons.”
Running. “Six to 10 miles on trails through the woods at our place up in the country.”
Building forts.
Scooby-Doo. “I love that he’s an American hero who is absolutely, 100 percent cowardly.”
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Award-winning actress Maricel Soriano will star in the upcoming horror film T-2 to e directed by Chito Roño under Star Cinema. Maricel shared that T-2 is a unique horror film that many people can relate to and will be all heart and emotions.
She also applauded Chito Roño’s directing style is integral in carrying out the film’s concept.
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