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Dec 14, 2010

Family/Relatives Pictures Of Stedman Graham

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About Stedman Graham - Profile
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Stedman Graham is an American educator, author, businessman and speaker, who has also served in the United States Army, although he is primarily known as the partner of media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Graham and Winfrey were engaged to be married in November 1992, but later decided they would rather have a "spiritual union." Graham was born on March 6, 1951 in Whitesboro, New Jersey. He received a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Hardin-Simmons University in 1974 and a Master's degree in Education from Ball State University in 1979.

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Family/Relatives Pictures Of Stedman Graham
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Stedman Graham, Sr., father of  Stedman Graham
Mary Jones Graham, Mother of  Stedman Graham
Wendy Graham, daughter of  Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham
Oprah Winfrey, girlfriend of Stedman Graham
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham
Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham

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Dec 12, 2010

Oprah Winfrey

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About Oprah Winfrey
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American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born January 29, 1954, in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After a troubled adolescence in a small farming community, where she was sexually abused by a number of male relatives and friends of her mother, Vernita, she moved to Nashville to live with her father, Vernon, a barber and businessman. She entered Tennessee State University in 1971 and began working in radio and television broadcasting in Nashville.
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Profile For Oprah Winfrey
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Personal Information
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Birth Name
Orpah Gail Winfrey
Nick Name
Orpah
The Preacher
O
Deepak Oprah
Lady O
Oprah Winfrey

Date of Birth
January 29, 1954 (to unmarried teenage parents)
Weekday
Friday
Birthday / Birth Anniversary
January 29
Place of birth
Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States
Grew up
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Sex
Female
Hair Color
Dark
Eyes Color
Brown - Dark
Height
5' 6½"
Zodiac sign
Aquarius
Oprah Winfrey

Country
United States
Ancestry
African American
Nationality
United States
Citizenship
United States
Race or Ethnicity
Black, America
Sexual Orientation
Straight
Residence

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Language Speaks
English
Religion
Protestant
Website
www.Oprah.com
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Family Information
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Father Name
Vernon Winfrey (born 1933, a coal miner then barber then city councilman)
Mother Name
Vernita Lee (born1935, a housemaid)
Paternal Residence
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Educational Information(s)
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High School
East Nashville High School, Nashville, TN (1971)
University
Tennessee State University (1971-76)
University
BA Speech and Drama, Tennessee State University (1987)
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Marital Information
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Status
 Single
Boyfriend(s)
  1. John Tesh (dated in 1970s)
  2. Roger Ebert (dated in 1970s)
  3. Stedman Graham (self-help author, cohabiting since 1986)                        
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Professional Information(s)
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Title
African American television host and actress
Occupation(s)
Talk show host, media proprietor, philanthropist, actress
Talk show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Years Active
1983–Present
Rank
  • Richest African American of the 20th century
  • Black women billionaire
Party Affiliation
Democratic Party
Sexual abuse
  • Raped at the age of nine by her cousin, her uncle, and a family friend
  • When14, she became pregnant, her son dying shortly after birth
Childhood jobs
Grocery store, Radio station
Personal wealth
Over $2.7 billion (According to Forbes, in September 2010)
Rankings
The first black woman billionaire in world history
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Oct 22, 2010

Jackie Chan's family pictures

Jackie Chan in police story 2
Birth name   
Chan Kong-sang
Nickname
Paopao
Fong Si-lung
Yuen Lou
Big Brother
Born   
7 April 1954 (1954-04-07), Victoria Peak, Crown colony, Hong Kong
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Jackie Chan in Rush Hour
Jackie Chan with his parents
Charles Chan, Father of Jackie Chan
Etta Wu, daughter of Jackie Chan
Jaycee Chan, Son of Jackie Chan
Charles Chan and Lee-Lee Chan, parents of Jackie Chan
Lin Feng-jiao, wife of Jackie Chan and Mother of Jaycee Chan
 Elaine Wu, mother of Jackie Chan's daughter and Miss Asia 2009
Biography for Jackis Chan

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Jackie Chan


About Jackie Chan
Apprenticed to the China Drama Academy (or "opera school") by his parents at the age of 6, Jackie Chan  was rigorously trained in music, dance, and traditional martial arts. A visiting filmmaker offered Chan his  first (tiny) role as a stunt player. Chan took the part, and soon left the Opera to pursue the world of film.  Fellow Opera students Biao Yuen and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo would also have careers in film, and the  three would star in several films together in the following years. Chan's talent and enthusiasm soon saw  him taking larger and more important roles, graduating first to stunt coordinator, and then to director.
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?




Biography for Jackie Chan

Birth name   
Chan Kong-sang
Nickname
Paopao
Fong Si-lung
Yuen Lou
Big Brother
Born   
7 April 1954 (1954-04-07), Victoria Peak, Crown colony, Hong Kong
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Height
5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Father
Charles Chan
(French Consul to Hong Kong, Head cook for the American embassy to Canberra,  Australia, born 18 December 1914, Shandong, China, died 25 February 2008, aged 93, Hong Kong)
Mother
Lee-Lee Chan
(born 1916, Wuhan, China, died 28 February 2002, aged 85-86, Canberra, Australia)
Religious view
Buddhist
Ancestry   
Linzi, Shandong, China
Origin   
Hong Kong
Speaks

Cantonese, Mandarin, English, German, Korean, Japanese, Spanish
Occupation
Actor, Action choreographer, Filmmaker, Comedian, Director, Producer, Martial artist, Screenwriter,  Entrepreneur, Singer and Stunt performer
Genre(s)   
Cantopop, Mandopop, Hong Kong English pop, J-pop
Films
Over 100 films
Years active   
1962–present
Spouse(s)     
Lin Feng-jiao (born 30 June 1953, Taiwanese actress, Married in1982–present)
Son
Jaycee Chan (singer and actor, born on 3 December 1982 in Los Angeles, California)
Daughter
Etta Ng Chok Lam also known as Etta Wu (born on 19 November, 1999. Her mother name is Elaine Ng  Yi-Lei also known as Elaine Wu Hong Kong actress and Miss Asia 1990)
Influences   
Bruce Lee, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Jim Carrey
Awards
Hong Kong Film Awards in 1989, Best Action Choreography in 1996 and 1999, Professional
Spirit Award 
in 2004, Golden Horse Awards, Best Actor in 1992 and1993, Golden Rooster Awards, Best Actor in  2005, MTV Asia Awards, Inspiration Award in 2002
Other Awards
MTV Movie Awards in 2002, 1999, 1995
Lifetime Achievement Award

Shanghai International Film Festival in 2005
Personal Quotes
  • Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie.... Study computers instead. 
  • It's very important that I get hurt [when making a movie] 
  • I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid. 
  • I don't want to be an action star, action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to 
  • get longer. 
  • I have a few rules that I tell my manager: No sex scenes. No make love. The kids who like me don't need to 
  • see it. It would gross them out. 
  • "I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan". 
  • The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind    
  • Whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.
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Oct 21, 2010

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is the second woman to be US Secretary of State, after Madeleine Albright during the Clinton administration. She is the first black woman to be Secretary of State, and she holds the highest position in a presidential cabinet that any black woman has held. Rice describes herself as a moderate Republican, and has never been identified with so-called "black issues", which has led some African-Americans to view her with suspicion. She says she became a Republican when she watched the 1984 Democratic Convention on TV, and decided that the Democrats' appeals to "women, minorities, and the poor" really meant "helpless people and the poor". Rice said, "I decided I'd rather be ignored than patronized."

Birth Name
Condoleezza Rice
Born   
November 14, 1954
Birth place
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Gender
Female
Grew up
Titusville
Father
John Wesley Rice,Jr. (Presbyterian minister,football and basketball coach,professor and assistant vice chancellor of the University of Denver,second marriage after first wife's death "Clara Bailey" In July 1989,died in December 2000, aged 77)
Mother
Angelena Ray (Science, music and oratory teacher at Ullman, died of breast cancer in August 1985,aged 61)
Step-mother
Clara Bailey (School principal)
Step-brother
Gregory Stuart Bailey
Religion   
Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity
Black, African-American
Sexual orientation
Matter of Dispute
Nationality
United States
School
St. Mary's Academy, Englewood, CO (1970)
Education
  • B.A. degree (in political science from the University of Denver, in 1974)
  • Master's Degree (in political science from the University of Notre Dame,in 1975). 
  • Ph.D. degree (in Political Science from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, 1981) 
George W bush and Condoleezza Rice

Her first work
In the State Department in 1977, during the Carter administration, as an intern in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
First political Affiliation
Democrat (until 1982,she changed her political affiliation having found fault with former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.)
Political Affiliation(Present)
Republican
Profession   
Professor (political science at Stanford University), Provost (from 1993 to 1999),Author, Diplomat, Politician
Executive summary
  • Senior Director, Soviet & East European Affairs (1989-91)
  • President Bush's National Security Advisor (January 20, 2001 – January 26, 2005 and served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor) 
  • United States Secretary of State (66th-January 26, 2005 – January 20, 2009)
Author of books
The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1948-1983: Uncertain Allegiance (1984)
The Gorbachev Era (1986, with Alexander Dallin) Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995, with Philip Zelikow) Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (2010, memoir)
At present
In March 2009, Rice returned to Stanford University as a political science professor and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. In September 2010, Rice became a faculty member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a director of its Global Center for Business and the Economy.
Marriage
Rice has never married, and has no children


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Oct 19, 2010

Profile of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson


His name is not Mr. Bean. His name is "Rowan Atkinson".  Mr. Bean is a British comedy television series of 14 half-hour episodes. Rowan Atkinson had stared as the title character at that comedy series. 

Atkinson appeared in several movies, including Dead on Time (1983), Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976) (TV) (aka "Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe"), Never Say Never Again (1983), and The Tall Guy (1989). He played "Mr. Bean" in the TV series, "Mr. Bean" (1990) but, apart from that and "Not the Nine O'Clock News" (1979), he also appeared in several other series like "The Black Adder" (1983) and "Funny Business" (1992), etc.







Bio of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson

Birth name                      
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson 
Nickname                    
Row  
Height                           
5' 11" (1.80 m)  
Born                              
6 January 1955 (1955-01-06)  Consett, County Durham, England, United Kingdom 
Father                           
Eric Atkinson (A farmer and a company Director) 
Mother                          
Ella May 
Brothers                       
Rodney(Eurosceptic economist) and Rupert(Both are elder) 
Schools                        
Durham Choristers School,Bede Grammar School for Boys, Sunderland Tyne and Wear, England
Study                            
electrical engineering at Newcastle University, England 
Education                   
M.Sc. at The Queen's College, Oxford,England 
Profession                  
English comedian, actor and writer 
Spouse                       
Sunetra Sastry (1990–present,Make-up artist)  
Children                    
Benjamin and Lily.
Notable works
and roles            
Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, Mr. Bean The Thin Blue L ine         

Award                                         
"British Academy Award" and was named "BBC Personality of the Year(1979)" and  "International Emmy Award", "British Academy Award" for "Best Light Entertainment Programme of 1980."

Why American audiences like him ?

Best known to American audiences as the Black Adder and Mr. Bean, black-haired, bug-eyed, and weak-chinned comedian Rowan Atkinson is one of the most popular funnymen in England whose keen, often black humor and knack for physical comedy has earned him a huge international following.

Why is he famous ? 

He starred in Mr. Bean, and in a successful films including Black Adder Goes Forth (1989), The Witches (1990), Bean (1997), Rat Race (2001), Scooby-Doo (2002), Johnny English (2003), Love Actually (2003), Keeping Mum (2005), Mr. Bean’s Vacation (2007), and Johnny English 2 (2011).

Rowan and Sunetra Sastry

Rowan and Sunetra Sastry

                                         Wife of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Sunetra Sastry
                              Father of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Eric Atkinson
                              Mother of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Ella May
                         Elder brother of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Ender Brother- Rodney

                       Another Elder brother of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Rupert
                                     Son of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Benjamin Atkinson
                                  Daughter of Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Lily Atkinson

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Profile of Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi
 Sonia is the widow of the late Rajiv Gandhi, elder son of Indira Gandhi. Her son, Rahul Gandhi, was elected to Parliament from the Amethi constituency (UP) in 2004. Her daughter Priyanka Gandhi has not stood for office, though she has worked as a Congress campaign manager. There has been considerable media speculation about their future in the Congress.


Name                     : Sonia Gandhi
Maiden Name       : Edvige Antonia Albina Maino
Born                       : 9 December 1946 (1946-12-09)
                                 Orbassano, Piemonte, Italy
Father                     : Stefano Eugene Maino (Building contractor)
Mother                    : Paola Maino  
Sister                     : Marouchka
Spouse                  : Rajiv Gandhi (1969–1991,7th Prime Minister of India- 31 October 1984 – 2                                   December 1989)
Citizenship            : Indian
Nationality             : Indian
Political party        : Indian National Congress party(President )
Son                         : Rahul Gandhi
Daughter                : Priyanka Gandhi
Residence             : 10 Janpath, New Delhi, India
Profession             : Politician
                                 Social Worker
Religion                  : Roman Catholicism
Birth place             : contrà Màini ("Maini street") in Lusiana, Italy.
Met Rajiv Gandhi   : in 1965 at a Greek restaurant at the University of Cambridge (UK)
Sonia Worked        : As waitress at a Greek restaurant in the city of Cambridge (UK)
Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi    : Married in 1968 
Father-in-law           :  Feroze Gandhi (Born- 12 September 1912, Died- 8 September 1960- an                                     Indian politician and journalist, and publisher of the The National Herald                                         and 'The Navjivan' newspapers from Lucknow, Member of the provincial                                         parliament (1950—52), and later a member of the Lok Sabha) 
Mother-in-law          : Indira Gandhi(Former Prime Minister of India
Hasband-Rajiv Gandhi

Father- Stefano Eugene Maino
Mother-Paola Maino
Sister- Marouchka
Son-Rahul Gandhi
Daughter-Priyanka Gandhi
Father-in-law-Feroze Gandhi
Mother-in-law-Indira Gandhi



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Oct 18, 2010

Hilary Swank stars in a controversial role in her latest film

Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank stars in a controversial role in her latest film. "Conviction". The following review of the film comes from a Boston Globe Writer who gives Hilary Swank and the film a B+ grade. From the review: Who killed Katharina Brow, and is Hilary Swank her generation's Meryl Streep? These are the questions you might ask yourself after watching Tony Goldwyn's Ayer, Massachusetts iinspired, true-crime-and- redemption drama "Conviction."

Beginning more or less with the 1983 conviction of Kenneth Waters for the gruesome murder of neighbor Brow, the film is a genuinely moving experience, a tribute to great acting and a movie Attorney General Martha Coakley probably wishes hadn't come in an election year. The supporting cast - Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Peter Gallgher and Karen Young - is wondrous.

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Oct 17, 2010

Black and yellow = Blackanese

Wiz Khalifa



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Rihanna proved that she can do anything

Rihanna


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Oct 16, 2010

Kat Von D proclaimed her love for Jesse James

Kat Von D
Kat Von D has fueled rumors she’s split from Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband Jesse James — after she hit the red carpet alone for the Los Angeles premiere of the new Jackass movie earlier this week.

Kat Von D proclaimed her love for Jesse James only last month, but is trouble already brewing between the tattooed twosome?

The couple were last seen together lunching at The Counter in West Hollywood on Oct. 3. At the time, “they looked very happy and kept kissing,” a source tells PEOPLE.

But a source says that Kat Von D isn’t happy about James’s having moved to Austin, Texas, and is losing patience with their “weekend fly-back-and-forth relationship.” And since the pair’s last outing, the L.A. Ink star, 28, has been spotted getting close to other guys.

On Oct. 5 during a Slash concert at the House of Blues, Von D was seen hanging out in the V.I.P. section with her ex-boyfriend Nikki Sixx. “They were on the balcony chatting and ended up disappearing together,” a source tells PEOPLE. “They were acting pretty cozy and chummy.”
Kat Von D and Jesse James

This week, Von D was “smiling and flirting over an intimate dinner” at the Redbury Hotel’s Cleo restaurant in Hollywood, with rumored former love interest Bam Margera. “They were being very sweet to each other,” an onlooker says. “They didn’t hang around for long, and after a quick cigarette break, they made a dash for the exit.”

A source says Von D and Margera, who is married, “are not more than friends.” They both attended Wednesday night’s Jackass 3D premiere in L.A., where Von D once again spent time with her ex, Nikki Sixx.

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The American League Championship Series, Yankees rally

Yankees rally

Fifty thousand people stood, stunned. It had happened so quickly, so easily. With the Rangers seemingly gliding to a win in their first trip to the American League Championship Series, with the Yankees staring at a must-win Game 2 before facing Cliff Lee in Game 3, the eighth inning brought everything to a halt.

It was in that disaster of an inning — one that could be responsible for the Rangers’ demise in this series — that New York scored five runs against five Rangers pitchers before recording an out. They took the lead and soon closed out a 6-5 victory, a crushing blow for a Texas team that lacks the history and experience of the Yankees.

“It’s a great win for our club,’’ New York manager Joe Girardi said. “We start scratching and you get a double by [Derek Jeter] and guys start putting good at-bats and you get the walk and double. It’s a huge win.

“Some might feel we were fortunate to come out with a win to night, but I thought our club played hard and kept playing and playing and playing. And [we’ll] try to build on it tomorrow.’’

As the Rangers cycled through starter C.J. Wilson and relievers Darren Oliver, Darren O’Day, Clay Rapada, and Derek Holland in the eighth, the Yankees went single, double, walk, walk, single, single, single, and suddenly Texas’s lead, once at 5-0, was gone. It was the largest comeback in an ALCS game since the Red Sox rallied from a seven-run deficit in Game 5 against the Rays in 2008.

Perhaps the biggest hit in the eighth was the first, as Brett Gardner reached on an infield hit on what Wilson called a “kung-fu’’ swing. The Yankees just seemed to roll after that.

“For us all to not get the job done today, it was an aberration,’’ O’Day said. “We know we’re better than that. We’ll be better than that the rest of the series.’’

The message was not defeat in the Rangers’ clubhouse.

“It’s not devastating at all,’’ Young said. “We lost Game 1. We’ll come back and play hard in Game 2.’’

The Yankees won without much help from their ace, CC Sabathia, who gave up five runs in just four innings. It was his shortest outing of the season, and he had little command from the start. Of the 21 batters Sabathia faced, he got to a three-ball count on nine of them, increasing his pitching count and decreasing his effectiveness.

It seemed as if the Rangers were on their way to a win. Then came the eighth.

“I don’t know if we gave it away,’’ Rangers manager Ron Washington said. “We just didn’t execute. When you face a team like the Yankees there, you’ve got to execute. We didn’t execute. It certainly was our ballgame, especially when you just need six outs. We didn’t get them. So I guess in a sense it got away from us. But gave it away? No. We just didn’t execute.’’

The Rangers jumped on Sabathia in the first inning as leadoff hitter Elvis Andrus reached on a walk and Young singled. That brought up Josh Hamilton, and prompted “MVP!’’ chants in the Ballpark at Arlington. And Hamilton delivered, sending a laser-beam home run into the right-field corner for three runs.

The Rangers loaded the bases with two outs in the inning, but that threat ended with perhaps the most crucial play of the game. When a high pitch that eluded Yankees catcher Jorge Posada went to the backstop, Nelson Cruz darted for the plate. Posada quickly grabbed the carom and fired to Sabathia, who used a quick, athletic play to tag Cruz before he touched the plate with his back leg. Texas built its lead to 5-0 in the fourth inning on a two-run double by Young. .

And with Wilson dealing on the mound, that cushion seemed insurmountable, even for the Yankees.

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