Scarlett Johansson was born in New York in 1984. Her father Karsten Johansson is a Dane and he was the son of the film director Einer Johansson. Her mother Melanie Sloan comes from American Jewish family. As her parents got divorced Scarlett lived in 2 cities: New York and Los Angeles. She attended actor school in New York since her early childhood. But she started her career in Los Angeles: he took part in a non-Broadway performance called Sophistry in the year 1992.
The internet slogans “Scarlett Johansson and movies” appears 1996 when Scarlett played her first main role in “Manny & Lo” after which she got the Independent Spirit Awards as the best actor of the first role. The role of Grace Macklin in the “Exorcist” movie brought Scarlett popularity in the USA.

After that movie Scarlett shot in various movies of different quality until she was invited by Sofia Coppola to be shot in the movie called “Lost in Translation”. The role of Charlotte brought Scarlett the acknowledgement on either hand of the Atlantic. It also brought her a range of awards (including BAFTA as the best actress) and nominations at prestigious cinema awards. The same year Scarlett also shot in a movie “Girl with a Pearl Earring” that brought her the “Golden Globe” nomination. In a movie she played the role of the Holland painter Vermeer’s housemaid called Grit.

The following year was to Scarlett also very successful. She shot in a blockbuster of Michael Bay called “Island” and in an exciting history of the famous film director Woody Allen called “Match Point”. The first movie wasn’t that successful but the second one became lovable by the audience. It got many positive reviews in press and collected 80 million dollars.

In the year 2006 Scarlett Johansson shot in another Woody Allen’s movie “Sensation” that is also called Scoop where Scarlett plays a comedy role of the American student that has the love affair with the English aristocrat. Than comes the autumn release of “the Black Dahlia”, a criminal story about the murder of the young actress Elizabeth Short in Hollywood in 1040s. Scarlett also shot in “The Nanny Diaries” and “The Prestige” the same year.

The last movie releases are “The Other Boleyn Girl” and “Vicky Christina Barcelona”. The two movies were very successful and discrepant.

Scarlett Johansson and movies is not the only headline in articles. Today more and more we can see such an article as Scarlett Johansson and Music. So, in March of 2008 Scarlett produced her first album called Anyway I lay My Head that met loads of positive quotes.

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Today more and more the magazines specialized on famous people biography write about Tarja Turunen. Who is she and what does she do? Let’s make out in this article.

Tarja Turunen (the ex-vocalist of the popular rock band “Nightwish”) is one of the most striking celebrities in the world of music. Her miraculous mezzo-soprano made her popular both in her native country and abroad.

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli was born on the 17th of August in 1977 in Kiteya, Finland. Tarja’s irresistible passion to music became apparent when she was 6. She started to study opera singing ABC in her early childhood and at the age of 18 she entered the Academy of the renowned compositor Jean Sibelius. The year 1996 was very successful to Tarja and brought her 2 essential events: from the one hand her classmate Tuomas Holopainen proposed her to join the musical project “Nightwish” and from the other hand she performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.

When performing in “Nightwish” Tarja entered the Musical University of Karlsrue in Germany. At that time she recorded the vocal for the “Nightwish” album with the name «Century Child» and the album of the Argentinean band called Beto Vazquez Infinity. After the “Nightwish” world tour in 2002 the band gave a respite to Turunen and she returned to Karlsrue. The following year the singer married an Argentine businessman Marcello Kabulli.

After the break Tarja came back to “Nightwish” to record the new album called “Once”. The 21st of October of the year 2005 at the end of the world tour the band participants informed Tarja about her end of the line. The musicians blamed the singer for her growing commercial interests and changing priorities. Tuomas complained that she hadn’t taken part in the band creativity, hadn’t attended rehearsals and had ignored their fans by having deranged their concerts. Tarja was very humbled and upset and so her correspondence with the band worshippers contained these words: “I don’t have words to express my feelings at the moment. I am devastated. This thing happened in a way that I didn’t have a slight chance to give my opinion about it. I got fired out of a band that represents the last 9 years of my life and I am very sad about it. It has been very cruel the way the band handled this in public. This doesn’t change the fact that we were doing amazing music together, but I will never forget the fact that they didn’t give me the chance to say good bye for the people as a Nightwish singer. I love you and I really hope to see you soon in my concerts. Thank you very much for your kind words and support. I will never forget you”.

The year 2005 brought Tarja new hope and lease of life. She gave several Christmas recitals in Finland, Spain, and Rumania. The following year she released the album called «Henkäys Ikuisuudesta» that means “The Breath from Heavens” in Finnish.

Now Tarja’s short-range plans include her participation in Savolinna Opera Festival and the vocal recording for her brother’s debut album.

Today Tarja’s history is considered to be one of the renowned famous people biography. Her strong spirit and unique voice make her very popular.

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The biography of Sarah Jessica Parker starts on the 25th of March in 1965 in Nelsonville, Ohio. Her parents Steven Parker and Barbara Frost got soon divorced and Sarah with her two brothers and a sister continued their life at their stepfather family that had already 4 children. Despite the fact that the girl grew in a big family she was paid much attention and care. Her parents decided to make a professional actress from a small girl. In 1976 Sarah got her first role at the Broadway performance called “Innocent”.

Since then she played in many youth musicales but it wasn’t enough for Sarah. When Sarah finished her school she decided to devote herself to the actor career though her parents insisted on education continuation. But as all the freshmen actresses she had to content herself with soap operas and episodes on the big screen. But showbiz elite paid attention to Sarah due to her romances with Robert Dauni, Nicolas Cage and John Kennedy the youngest. Soon she met Matthew Broderick who became the man of her life.

Ad interim the biography of Sarah Jessica Parker was being developed by her professional career changes. Having been a fan of Woody Allen creativity she took part in the television project of the year 1995 where her idol played the main role. The year 1996 became meaningful for the actress. She shot in such blockbusters as “The First Wives Club”, “Extreme Measures” and “Mars Attacks!”.

But Sarah continued to work as the theatrical actress having won some prestigious awards. By the way one of her performance roles was the role of a dog!

Sarah’s Jessica Parker big time came when the channel HBO produced the series about the independent and strong women that live in New York. “Sex and the City” brought the actress not only lots of nominations of the “Golden Globe” and “Emmy” awards but made her really famous all over the world.

On the 19th of May in 1997 Sarah got married her old friend Matthew Broderick and in the year 2002 she gave birth to their son David Perkins Broderick.

 Today Sarah Jessica Parker successfully does good, works in UNICEF and is a member of the Hollywood women political committee.  

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Looking through Hollywood news and gossip columns one can think that family moorings are not popular in the creative environment. But here is the list of the longest Hollywood couples that will argue out of this topic.

Goldie Hawn (21.11.1945) and Kurt Russell (17.03.1951)
Kurt Russell is an important movie macho of the 1960s. He impressed on Goldie during musical “Original Family Ensemble” having been shot in the year 1968. The couple thinks that the secret of their marriage durability is the fact that they are not married officially.
They have been together for 25 years.

John Travolta (18.02.1954) and Kelly Preston (13.10.1962)
One of the most model Hollywood couples doesn’t cause gossips. They met in 1989 when Kelly was married. After her divorce she was proposed by George Clooney… But the destiny gave Travolta this magic chance to be happy. The pair has 2 children.
They have been together for 18 years.

Melanie Griffith (9.08.1957) and Antonio Banderas (10.08.1960)
Nobody still can explain the passion of a handsome brought up by the strict Catholics to a drug and plastic operations exhausted Melanie.But it is the fact of life that he fell in love with her at the “Oscar” awards ceremony in 1989. Today the couple looks after their daughter and 2 Melanie’s children.
Together: 12 years.

Johnny Depp (9.06.1963) and Vanessa Paradis (22.12.1972)
A problem child complexes have disappeared when Johny met Vanessa and now he is an exemplary father of 2 children. The couple is not officially married.
Together: 10 years.

Madonna (16.08.1958) and Guy Ritchie (10.09.1968)
The couple met at Sting’s family lunch. Madonna told that Guy was the most talented person she had known while Guy affirmed that Madonna was a shy silent woman at home and she was not similar to the Madonna of showbiz. There are three children in Madonna/Guy family.
Total time of their marriage: 9 years.

Michael Douglas (25.09.1944) and Catherine Zeta-Jones (25.09.1969)
Catherine is a sly woman that made Douglas marry her before various romantic voyages, sex and other entertainment. She didn’t want to be next-in-turn girl in his women list. Michael got divorced at once, having paid an astronomic sum of compensation to his wife. The family has 2 children.They have been together for 8 years.

Angelina Jolie (4.06.1975) and Brad Pitt (18.12.1963)
This pair doesn’t need any prehistory to be told. It seems we know everything about them. Nevertheless much is off screen. Mass media has recently told about the discord in the family. Today we know that is was only Angelina’s pregnancy when she was in pod with twins.

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Sarah Palin, VP of the USA in future is in the swim once again: hackers have promulgated her private correspondence by cracking her e-mail on Yahoo and published some fragments from it on the Internet.

Particularly they got the access to her correspondence with Sean Pernell where a TV anchorman who has condemned the latter was talked over. Besides this hot thing the hackers got the correspondence of Palin and her husband Todd, and also an Emmy McKorkel. The agency conceals the e-mails contents.

The Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain claimed that Alaska governor private mail box cracking should be punished.

“It’s a rude interference to the governor private life and law violation. The case was given to the competent authorities and we hope that the citizens that have governor’s private e-mails will annihilate them immediately”, - states officially candidate McCain.
Let’s note that an unnamed activist-republican from Alaska state reproached Palin with the fact that at least 40 mails contents was known to Palin’s husband though he is not a civil servant and therefore has no right to read them. Besides this fact she was also reproached with the usage of unofficial mail box on accessible Yahoo service for concerning state business. This service doesn’t give a 100% guaranty of information safety.

Let’s remember that in the 29th of august presidential candidate John McCain claimed that in that  case he won the elections the VP title would be given to Sarah Palin, Alaska governor, a 44-years old mother of 5 children.

But this decision became a real scandal soon: it was known in some days that Sarah’s under age daughter is pregnant. This news caused disturbance wave among religious McCain-Palin supporters: Sarah, a successive conscientious objector of pupils’ sexual education and antifertility agents’ sale in educational institutions, didn’t manage to bring up her daughter “correctly”. However it was claimed that 17 years old Bristol was going to marry her boyfriend Levi Johnson; their child should born in December.
In the beginning of September Palin was in the spotlight once again. The entire Internet was full of her nude photos made when she studied in college where she was called Sarah Barracuda.

Days before Sarah Palin called NATO to let Georgia and Ukraine enter.
She also criticized publicly Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama for his passiveness blaming him for telling much but doing nothing. But this critic helped the dark-skinned candidate: his pre-election fund has increased up to $10 mln.
As it became known Sarah Palin, VP of the USA in future will supervise energetic politics in John McCain administration.

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