Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Jet Li
Li Lianjie (born April 26, 1963) better known by his stage name Jet Li, is a Chinese martial artist, actor, film producer, wushu champion, and international film star who was born in Beijing, China and who has currently taken up Singapore citizenship.
After three years of intensive training with Wu Bin, Li won his first national championship for the Beijing Wushu Team. After retiring from wushu at age 17, he went on to win great acclaim in China as an actor making his debut with the film Shaolin Temple (1982). He went on to star in many critically acclaimed martial arts epic films, most notably the Once Upon A Time In China series, in which he portrayed folk hero Wong Fei-hung.
Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (pronounced /ˈtɒməs ˈkruːz ˈmeɪpɒθər/; born July 3, 1962), better known by his screen name of Tom Cruise, is an American film actor and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business,which has been described as "A Generation X classic, and a career-maker" for the actor. After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to these heroic roles, he has starred in many other successful films such as Jerry Maguire (1996), Vanilla Sky (2001), Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004) and War of the Worlds (2005). Almost every film he has starred in has achieved blockbuster status, with box office revenues totaling $100-million or more in the U.S.In 2006, Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity.
Shah Rukh Khan
Shahrukh Khan born 2 November 1965), sometimes credited as Shah Rukh Khan, is an Indian film actor and a prominent Bollywood figure, as well as a film producer and television host. Khan began his career appearing in several television serials in the late 1980s. He made his film debut in Deewana (1992). Since then, he has been part of numerous commercially successful films and has earned critical acclaim for many of his performances. Khan has won thirteen Filmfare Awards for his work in Indian films, seven of which are in the Best Actor category, thus establishing himself as one of the Leading actors of Hindi Cinema. In 2005, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for his contributions towards Indian Cinema.
Khan's films such as Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Chak De India (2007), Om Shanti Om (2007) and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008) remain some of Bollywood's biggest hits, while films like Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Veer-Zaara (2004), Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) and My Name Is Khan (2010) have been top-grossing Indian productions in the overseas markets, making him one of the most successful actors of India.Since 2000, Khan branched out into film production and television presenting as well. He is the founder/owner of two production companies, Dreamz Unlimited and Red Chillies Entertainment. Khan is today considered to be the world's most successful movie star,with a fan following numbering in the billions and a net worth estimated at over Rs 2500 crore (US$ 540 million).In 2008, Newsweek named him one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.
Kim Rossi Stuart
Kim Rossi Stuart was born in Rome. His father, Giacomo, was also an actor. His mother was a former top model.
He began acting at the age of 5. He studied theatre and in 1986 began acting regularly, especially on TV productions like Fantaghirò series and for the cinema with a small role in The Name of the Rose. He reached popularity with Il Ragazzo dal Kimono d'oro and in the film Poliziotti ("Policemen"). After this commercial film he began to act only in quality films, like Senza pelle, where his role, a man with psychological problems, was appreciated by critics. Then he acted with director Antonioni in Al di là delle nuvole and played Julien Sorel in the French TV-series Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) in 1997, based upon the famous book of the same title by Stendhal.
Rossi Stuart came back to act in the theatre with Re Lear and with the most important Italian actors, like Turi Ferro in the work Il visitatore. In 2004, he played in Le Chiavi di Casa ("The Keys to the House"), as a young father that attempts to forge a relationship with his teenage, handicapped son when he met him for the first time. Later he played Mimmo in the TV-film Il tunnel della libertà (2004) and he had one of the leading-roles (Freddo) in Michele Placido's Romanzo Criminale (2005, based on the book, English title Crime Novel).
Ajith Kumar
Ajith Kumar born 1 May 1971 in Secunderabad, Andra Pradesh, India) is an Indian film actor. He began his career as a supporting actor in a Telugu film before gaining critical recognition in the thriller Aasai (1995).[1] A succession of high-grossing films followed where Ajith was usually depicted as a romantic hero, with Kadhal Kottai (1996) and Kadhal Mannan (1998) being the most notable. He later forayed into method acting, as seen in Vaali (1999), Mugavari (2000) and Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000),[2] before establishing himself as an action hero with popular films including Villain (2002), Varalaru (2006) and Billa (2007).
Ji Hyun Woo
Kamal Hassan
Kamal Haasan born 7 November 1954) is an Indian film actor, script writer, and filmmaker, considered one of the leading method actors of Indian cinema.[1][2] Haasan is known for winning several Indian film awards, including earning the most National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards, and also has the distinction of being the actor with the most number of films submitted by India in contest for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to acting and directing, he is a screenwriter, lyricist, playback singer and choreographer. His film production company, Rajkamal International, has produced several of his films.
Madhavan
R. Madhavan is an Indian actor who has appeared in Indian films in seven languages, predominantly Tamil and Hindi. Unlike other prominent actors in India, Madhavan began to appear in films after marriage, at the age of twenty-nine, and his career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received several Filmfare Awards in various categories.
Lee Min Ho
Lee Min Ho (Hanguk: 이민호, born June 22, 1987) is a South Korean actor who is best known for his leading role as the leader of F4, Gu Jun Pyo, in the South Korean adaptation of the popular manga series, Hana Yori Dango, titled Boys Over Flowers, in 2009. He started his career in 2006 since then has been cast in various TV shows, short dramas and minor movie roles.
My Favorite Actors - Surya
Saravanan Sivakumar better known as Surya; born 23 July 1975) is a Tamil film actor. Son of actor Sivakumar, he starred in Tamil films, such as Nandha (2001), Kaakha Kaakha (2003), Pithamagan (2004), Perazhagan (2005), Ghajini (2005), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Ayan (2009). As of 2009,[1] he has won three Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
A Teacher's Love
An Universal's Love
"UNIVERSAL LOVE is both conscious and loving at the same time.
When you experience universal love you understand the action of love.
A loving action is a gentle action when gentleness is needed, a firm action when firmness is needed, a compassionate action when compassion is needed, yielding when yielding is needed.
Whatever is needed is present — and in the correct balance — depending on the situation...
Universal love is an expression of the harmony of the totality.
Everything is in harmony with everything else.
Nothing is excluded. Your will is in harmony with your compassion.
Your compassion is in harmony with your joy. Your joy is in harmony with your anger.
Your anger is in harmony with your body. Your body is in harmony with your ego.
Your ego is in harmony with other people. There is no conflict anywhere.
Everything fits and functions as a togetherness, as a oneness. That oneness is you
A Lover's Love
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
A Friend's Love
You're a true friend,
that I want you to know,
Our love for each other
has helped us to grow.
We've been through some tough times,
but we've made it through,
The only one I ever trusted was you.
You helped me through anger,
you've chased away fears.
You held me through sadness,
and kissed away tears.
You stayed by my side
when the world turned away.
You helped me see joy
when the skies were all gray.
A Brother's Love
Forever supportive, strength from within is always stemmed from you
A brother's love gives you that hidden warm embrace
It affords us all the privilege of both time and place
A brother's love protects us from all things that are bad
Our hearts connect in such a way that times are never sad
A brother's love will always fill our minds, bodies and souls
They are the part of our family that makes this family whole
A brother's love, it lifts us up to plateaus never known
Regardless of the spoken word the love is always shown
A brother's love is loud and bright.
A Sister's Love
A sister’s love is special
in oh so many ways
Now miles stretch between us
and minutes turn to days.
We’ve shared so much as children
the tears, the joys, the pain
A lifetime spent together
those memories remain.
In times gone by we’ve pondered
the paths our lives have taken
Knowing that in spite of this
our sister love unshaken.
A sister’s love is special
in ways that are unspoken
Still that binding force exists
our sister love unbroken.
A Father's Love
"The Savior's Love"
that never goes away.
It's the presence of the God of love
that makes us want to stay.
We're searching. We're longing.
We need a love that will remain.
We sing of the Savior's love,
of a love so great we can't escape its wonder.
We know of the God of love,
of the God who loved a fallen world
so much He gave us Jesus.
He's lovely, lovely. His name is Jesus.
A Mother's Love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappointments
And calm all our fears.
There are times when only a Mother's Love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a Mother's faith
Can help on life's way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.
For a Mother's heart and a Mother's faith
And a Mother's steadfast love
Were fashioned by the Angels
And sent from God above...