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| Published on: 2011-02-02 22:34:18 |
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Donatella Versace (born 2 May 1955) is an Italian fashion designer, as was her brother, the late Gianni Versace, the founder of the Versace clothing brand. Her current title is Vice-President of the Versace Group and Chief Designer of the fashion line. She owns 20 percent of the entire stock market assets of Versace. Her brother, Santo Versace, owns 30 percent. Donatella's daughter Allegra Versace inherited 50% of the company stock after Gianni Versace died.
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| Published on: 2011-02-02 22:18:33 |
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„Wenn ein Anzug auffällt,
Ist man schlecht angezogen.“
( Zitat: Giorgio Armani )
| Published on: 2011-02-02 22:14:43 |
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„In meiner Kindheit durften nur böse Jungs Jeans tragen.“
( Zitat: Jean Paul Gautlier )
| Published on: 2011-02-02 22:11:35 |
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“You have a better life
if you wear impressive clothes.“
Zitat: Vivienne Westwood )
| Published on: 2011-02-02 00:49:42 |
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„Auch Müll im Kopf ist Umweltverschmutzung.“
( Zitat: Ulrich Wickert )
| Published on: 2011-02-02 00:32:47 |
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Die einzige Möglichkeit, etwas vom Leben zu haben,
ist, sich mit aller Macht hineinzustürzen
( Zitat: Angelina Jolie )
| Published on: 2011-02-02 00:24:11 |
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Es gibt nicht demokratischeres als einen Fernsehapparat: Man kann einschalten,
umschalten und ausschalten.“
( Zitat: Guenther Jauch )
| Published on: 2013-02-02 00:18:57 |
Published by Starstatement / Celebrity Statements At 21, Diaz auditioned for The Mask, even though she had no previous acting experience, based on the recommendation of an agent for Elite who met the film's producers while they were searching for the female lead. After obtaining the lead female role, she immediately started acting lessons. Over the next three years, she won roles in low-budget, independent films, such as The Last Supper, Feeling Minnesota, and She's the One, preferring to feel her way effectively into the business. Her breakthrough began with her roles in My Best Friend's Wedding and There's Something About Mary, a film for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Being John Malkovich, which earned her Best Supporting Actress nominations at the Golden Globes, the BAFTA Awards, and the SAG Awards.
During 1990–2000, Diaz starred in many films, such as Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her, A Life Less Ordinary, Any Given Sunday, and the hit adaptation of Charlie's Angels. In 2001, she won nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, the SAG Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the AFI Awards for Vanilla Sky, and also voiced Princess Fiona in Shrek, for which she earned $10 million. In 2003, Diaz received another Golden Globe nomination for Martin Scorsese's epic Gangs of New York, and became the third actress (after Wedding costar Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon) to earn $20 million for a role, receiving the sum for Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Her next film performances were in Shrek 2, In Her Shoes, and The Holiday. During 2004 and early 2005, Diaz explored some of the planet's environmentally unique locations while discovering ways to help preserve them for the 10-episode MTV series Trippin' which featured numerous celebrities and friends of Diaz, such as Jessica Alba, Drew Barrymore, Mark Hoppus, Eva Mendes, and Justin Timberlake.
Diaz returned to the screen for Shrek the Third in 2007, in which she co-starred with her then boyfriend Justin Timberlake. She was set to team up again with The Mask co-star Jim Carrey in the film Fun with Dick and Jane, but dropped out to star in In Her Shoes. She also appeared in the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas, opposite Ashton Kutcher. Diaz will again voice Princess Fiona in Shrek 4 and is set to star in The Box, a horror thriller, as well, scheduled to be released October 30, 2009, co-starring James Marsden.
On July 7, 2007, Diaz participated at Live Earth in New York by introducing Bon Jovi and The Police. In 2007, People ranked her as the Best Dressed Female Celebrity. In August 2008, Forbes Magazine listed Diaz as the highest paid actress in Hollywood. She reportedly earned $50 million in the period of a year ending June 2008, for her roles in What Happens in Vegas and the Shrek films.
She made an uncredited guest appearance on Saturday Night Live on February 15, 2009 with guest star Alec Baldwin on a skit called "The Cougars' Den".
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| Published on: 2011-02-01 23:47:39 |
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Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She eventually turned to UNHCRfor more information on international trouble spots.In the following months she visited refugee camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leoneand Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.In the coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later met with Afghan refugeesin Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.She insisted on covering all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.As a result of assistance rendered to their former subjects the Royal family of Swat (princely state)have awarded her the honor Khanum Sahibathe equivalent of being made a lady.Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadoron August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."
Jolie on her motives for joining UNHCRin 2001
Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and internally displaced personsin more than 20 countries.Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon. In 2002, Jolie visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailandand Colombianrefugees in Ecuador.Jolie later went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovoand paid a visit to Kakumarefugee camp in Kenyawith refugees mainly from Sudan. She also met with Angolanrefugees while filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.
In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzaniawhere she traveled to western border camps hosting Congoleserefugees, and she paid a week-long visit to Sri Lanka. She later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to North Caucasus. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field missions (2001–2002). During a private stay in Jordanin December 2003 she asked to visit Iraqi refugees in Jordan's eastern desert and later that month she went to Egypt to meet Sudanese refugees.
On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizonain 2004, visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. She flew to Chadin June 2004, paying a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's Darfurregion. Four months later she returned to the region, this time going directly into West Darfur. Also in 2004, Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a private stay to Lebanonduring the Christmas holidays, she visited UNHCR's regional office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese capital.
In 2005, Jolie visited Pakistani camps containing Afghani refugees, and she also met with Pakistan's President Pervez Musharrafand Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz; she returned to Pakistan with Brad Pittduring the Thanksgiving weekend in November to see the impact of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. In 2006, Jolie and Pitt flew to Haitiand visited a school supported by Yéle Haïti, a charity founded by Haitian-born hip hop musician Wyclef Jean. While filming A Mighty Heart in India, Jolie met with Afghan and Burmeserefugees in New Delhi. She spent Christmas Day 2006 with Colombian refugees in San José, Costa Ricawhere she handed out presents. In 2007, Jolie returned to Chadfor a two-day mission to assess the deteriorating security situation for refugees from Darfur; Jolie and Pitt subsequently donated $1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfur.[58]Jolie also made her first visit to Syriaand twice went to Iraq, where she met with Iraqi refugees as well as multi-national forces and U.S. troops.
Over time, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Dayin Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forumin Davosin 2005 and 2006. Jolie also began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital, where she met with members of Congress at least 20 times from 2003.[53]She explained in Forbes: "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball.
In 2005, Jolie took part at a National Press Clubluncheon, where she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children, an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first two years.Jolie also pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in the Third World.In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using her public profile to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. She filmed an MTV special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachson a trip to a remote group of villages in Western Kenya. In 2006, Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made initial donations to Global Action for Childrenand Doctors Without Bordersof $1 million each.Jolie also co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, founded at the Clinton Global Initiativein 2006, which helps fund education programs for children affected by conflict.
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Awardby the United Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoniawarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambangand owns property there.In 2007, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,and she received the Freedom Awardby the International Rescue Committee.
After she and Pitt donated $1 million to relief efforts in Haiti following a devastating 2010 earthquake, Jolie visited Haiti and the Dominican Republic to discuss the future of relief efforts.She also donated $100,000 to the United Nations for the 2010 August flood relief operations in Pakistan.
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