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If you’re like us, you grew up with a deep appreciation of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and Victoria’s Secret catalogs, though it had nothing to do with a love for swimsuits or lingerie.
This, of course, was during the 80s and 90s — widely considered the “Supermodel Era.” That meant the models in those publications, as well as on the covers of Vogue, Cosmopolitan and a host of other magazines were all household names, not just the unattainable goals of teenage boys everywhere.
We did a little research to find out what those supermodels are up to now, and not surprisingly, it brought back waves of bittersweet post-pubescent nostalgia. After checking out the photos below, you’ll know what we mean.
Christie Brinkley - The ultimate sun-kissed California blond, Christie reigned as America’s sweetheart during the early 80s.
Christie’s recent tabloid divorce from fourth husband Peter Cook proves that just because a woman has her pick of men doesn’t mean she is good at picking men.
Iman - The quint-lingual (that means five) daughter of a Somali diplomat was legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent’s “dream woman.”
Iman has been married to David Bowie since 1992, and currently hosts “Project Runway Canada.”
Cindy Crawford - With her trademark mole and early embrace of “tasteful” nudity, the former high school valedictorian stood out even in the era of the supermodel.
These days Cindy does former supermodel stuff like charity work and being photographed with other famous people as she sunbathes in St. Tropez.
Christy Turlington - Her flawless skin made her the perfect pitchwoman for Maybelline’s “Maybe She’s Born With It Maybe It’s Maybelline” ad campaign, and helped her become one of highest paid supermodels of all time.
Turlington is married to director-actor Ed Burns, and in 2006 she signed a multi-year deal to return to Maybelline. She also has no problem posing in the buff, as evidenced by her work for PETA.
Carol Alt - Labeled “the face” for her piercing blue eyes and pouty lips, appeared on over 500 magazine covers before abandoning the fashion industry for an acting career that never quite took off.
Alt has found success as a nutritional guru — her two cookbooks promoting the virtues of the “raw diet” became national best sellers. She’s also gone toe-to-toe with Trump on “The Apprentice.”
Paulina Porizkova - This Czechoslovakian stunner gave the world a preview of the bevy of beauties that would eventually emerge from post-Communist Eastern Europe, and then gave hope to not-traditionally-handsome men everywhere when she married gangly Cars front man Rick Ocasek.
Paulina has been doing the reality TV circuit lately, with appearances on “Dancing With The Stars” and “America’s Next Top Model.”
Janice Dickinson - The self-proclaimed “World’s First Supermodel” also claims to have slept with leading men Sylvester Stallone, Warren Betty, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Willis, as well as rock legend Mick Jagger, during her 80s heyday.
Dickinson and her special brand of crazy has gotten more out of the reality television format than any other former supermodel thanks to Oxygen’s “Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency.”
Grace Jones - During the 80s, the androgynous model had a successful singing career and displayed disturbingly superhuman strength in the movies “Conan the Destroyer” and “A View to a Kill.”
Jones has a new album coming out later this year, although, sadly, she no longer sports her once-signature flat top.
Claudia Schiffer - A fashion insider once said that Guess Jean girl Schiffer “looks better in jeans than any other model has looked in Chanel.”
After making long-time beau David Copperfield disappear, Schiffer married a film producer, had a couple kids and enjoys horseback riding, painting, playing tennis and skiing.
Jerry Hall - The one-time roommate of Grace Jones used her 6-foot frame and long blond hair to end up on the cover of every fashion magazine and nab common law hubbie Mick Jagger.
After having four kids with Jagger, the couple split in 1999. Hall is currently working as a pitchwoman for Levitra, an erectile dysfunction drug. No joke.
Elle Macpherson - In 1986, the Aussie sensation had men all over the world learning the proper way to say g’day after she landed on the front of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition for the first of her record five covers.
Macpherson dabbles in acting — she had a cameo on “Friends”– and has just signed up to be the global brand spokeswoman for cosmetics manufacturer Revlon.
Kathy Ireland - Ireland appeared 13 times in Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition, including three covers, and was known for having mesmerizing green eyes befitting of her surname.
Ireland has been so successful selling clothes, furniture and skin care products through her company Kathy Ireland Worldwide, that Forbes Magazine called her “the prototype for the model turned mogul.”
Brooke Shields - At 14, Shields was the youngest model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue. But it was probably her controversial nude film scenes and her provocative advertisements for Calvin Klein that made her one of the most recognizable faces in the world by the age of 16.
Lately Shields has been guest starring on TV shows and forgiving Tom Cruise for making insensitive comments about her.
Naomi Campbell - With her distinctive catwalk strut and exotic Chinese/Jamaican looks, Campbell was a fashion powerhouse well into the 90s.
Campbell’s charity work in Africa and on behalf of the victims of Katrina tends to get overshadowed by her nasty habit of assaulting underlings with cell phones and other PDAs.
Carrie Otis - In 1990, Otis was thrust into the spotlight amidst rumors she shot an unsimulated sex scene with then-boyfriend Mickey Rourke during filming of the movie “Wild Orchid.”
Otis has overcome anorexia and heroin addiction and now works as a plus-size model.
Linda Evangelista - Evangelista was famous for constantly switching up her hair style, and for coining the supermodel maxim, “We don’t wake up for less than 10,000 dollars a day.”
Linda, who had her first child in 2006, still pops up on the modeling scene from time to time — presumably for at least 10,000 dollars a day.
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Brooke Shields drove her car right into her house! She admits she was ‘multi-tasking’ when her shoe became tangled in the pedals and ran smack into her home, but seriously, drives a car right into her own house?
 “I drove into the beam that supports our house! I was wearing these enormously high heels and one of them got stuck on the pedal.”I said to my husband (Chris Henchy), ‘Should that beam really be there? Maybe we can move it.’ And he was like, ‘Uh, it holds up the whole place!’”
I was in a bar once when some drunk ass drove their tore up car into the corner of it. To this day, the car is still there, holding up the north side of the roof.
Source: “Brooke Shields Drives Into Her House; Blames High Heels” [hollywoodbackwash] Image Courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
Beckham mania continues. After playing 13 minutes with the L.A. Galaxy, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith hosted a welcome party for David and Victoria Beckham Sunday night. The bash went down at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s Geffen Contemporary in L.A.
Guests of the star-studded affair included Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, Bruce Willis, newlywed Eva Longoria (without Tony Parker), Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Quincy Jones
Katie and Tom flew in from Germany just for the big event, where they hit the dance floor with the Smiths and the Beckhams.
The party appears to be a bigger success than Victoria’s NBC special, about which few people seemed to care.
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 The Way We Were (1973)
Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford play a couple who fall for each other because of their differences, then break up because of them, too. This scene catches them at the height of their doomed romance and begs the question, if a nice Jewish girl and a hot WASP can’t make it happen, who can?
 The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Ever tell a guy, “I wouldn’t sleep with you if you were the last man on earth?” Luckily for Emmeline (Brooke Shields)—stranded on a deserted island with Richard (Christopher Atkins)—the last man around was hot.
 An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
A handsome young Navy pilot-in-training (Richard Gere) picks up a local girl (Debra Winger) in a bar. Takes her to a motel. Rips off her clothes. Devours her. Rewind!
 Risky Business (1983)
Tom Cruise plays a college-bound teen seduced by a call girl (Rebecca De Mornay). Their steamiest liaison: on a train. And, no, he didn’t jump up and down on the seat afterward to proclaim his love for her.
 Dirty Dancing (1987)
After a summer of flirtation, the oh-so-innocent Baby Houseman (Jennifer Grey) finally gets up the nerve to say “Dance with me” to beefy Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze). Dancing, et cetera ensues—emphasis on the et cetera. No matter how many times you’ve seen this scene, it’s always hot. The time of her life, indeed.
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 Say Anything… (1989)
After John Cusack pulls out all the stops to woo the object of his obsession (who could forget the scene in which he held a boom box over his head and serenaded her with In Your Eyes?), he finally gets to kiss the girl. It’s enough to make anyone want to go find her own devoted nerd.
 Ghost (1990)
Shortly before he’s killed in a tragic mugging, a man (Patrick Swayze) seduces his wife (Demi Moore) while she’s sculpting pottery and shows just how skilled his hands are. How many women signed up for ceramics class after this aired?
 Love Jones (1997)
When a photographer (Nia Long) gets turned on by shooting a couple making out on a bridge, she heads home and ambushes her boyfriend (Larenz Tate) while he’s on the phone. Without saying a word, she starts undoing his belt buckle—reminding women everywhere of the power of the silent seduction.
 Titanic (1997)
As star-crossed lovers on the ill-fated ship, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio fall for each other on an epic scale. But it was this scene, in which they make love after he sketches her nude portrait, that kept our love for Leo afloat for the next 10 years (including that unfortunate pasty, bloated period).
 How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)
On vacation in Jamaica, a Type-A stockbroker (Angela Bassett) has a torrid affair with an islander (Taye Diggs). When they get into a fight, she follows him into the bathroom to apologize and steps into the shower with him, fully clothed. Five ultra-sexy minutes later, she does get her groove back—and so did we.
 Shakespeare in Love (1998)
In order to act in a play during an era in which women weren’t allowed on stage, an enterprising young woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) poses as a man. When the writer (Joseph Fiennes) discovers her true identity, he seduces her, takes off her clothes and utters the classic Shakespearean line, “Wowza!” (or something like that).
 The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
When Andy Stitzer (Steve Carrell) finally gets to have sex with the love of his life (Catherine Keener), it’s without any tooth-knocks, fumbling hands or awkward facial expressions. Just a sweet, happy moment of shared intimacy: Oh, yeaaaah.
 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
By the time this movie premiered, the world knew Brad had fallen in love with Angelina for real. So how could you not watch this scene and feel like you’d just been given front-row-seats to a very private moment?
 The Departed (2006)
This Best Picture Oscar winner also had the year’s hottest love scene, in which an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio, looking H-O-T again) hooks up with his shrink (Vera Farmiga)—who’s moving in with her boyfriend (Matt Damon). Yes, complicated. Loads of bad guys and good guys to keep track of. Lucky for viewers, Leo’s a little bit of both in this scene.
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Brooke Shields is reaching out to Britney Spears, who is currently in rehab.
 “I hope she’s fine,” Shields, 41, tells TV’s Access Hollywood in an interview to air Monday. “I believe she’s going to be fine, and she just needs the support and her kids. She’s their only mom, and she’ll earn that back in her own mind.”
Shields, who suffered postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, says that if Spears – mom to Sean Preston, 18 months, and Jayden James, 6 months – is suffering from the condition as some have speculated, “then it really needs to be reckoned with, and it’s very common, and she’ll get through it.”
Shields, the mother of two daughters, Rowan, 3, and 10-month-old Grier, wrote the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression detailing her experience and how she overcame it.
“If [Britney] is reading my book,” Shields adds, “I hope it’s helping her. If it’s not, and she wants to talk to someone, I’m available.”
Shields, who like Spears has been a public figure since she was a child, says the constant pressure of being in the media spotlight may have contributed to the singer’s trouble. “[She is] followed every moment of her life, and she’s documented every minute of her life.”
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Katie Holmes is taking it slow with another important matter: getting back to her acting career after her marriage to mega star Tom Cruise and the birth of daughter Suri.
 Ms. Holmes has taken a long hiatus from the movie business, avoiding new roles since getting involved with Mr. Cruise nearly two years ago. Now, she wants to be back in the game. In recent weeks, representatives at the Hollywood talent firm Creative Artists Agency have been working hard to map out a new career plan for the temporarily out-of-work actress, her associates say.
There are signs that it won’t be easy, partly because studios may be gun-shy of her new status as a tabloid fixture, and partly because her expectations may be raised as the new Mrs. Cruise. She recently was unable to make a deal with Warner Bros. to land what appeared to be a good opportunity: a reprisal of her role as assistant district attorney Rachel Dawes in the sequel to 2005’s “Batman Begins,” scheduled for summer 2008 and titled “The Dark Knight.”
Resuming a movie career is sometimes difficult in Hollywood, where a break can turn into a permanent vacation from the fast-moving business if an actor isn’t careful. Stars of much bigger stature than Ms. Holmes, including Meg Ryan and Demi Moore, have found it tough to regain their momentum after taking time off.
Yet Ms. Holmes has an added problem: her relationship with Mr. Cruise has been a tabloid free-for-all from the moment it started, generating negative publicity that may make studios more reluctant to take a chance on her. Unlike, say, Russell Crowe , who garnered a ream of bad publicity from throwing a malfunctioning phone at a New York hotel employee, Ms. Holmes’s trouble stems simply from getting involved with a fellow actor who himself has generated controversy — certainly no crime. But the impact on her job prospects could be similar; Mr. Crowe’s career appears to have veered off track since his eruption.
Much has changed for Ms. Holmes since two summers ago, when she was known primarily as the pretty ingénue from “Dawson’s Creek” and films like “First Daughter” and “Go.” Since then she’s become a mother, married into great wealth and begun hobnobbing with figures like Yahoo’s chairman and chief executive, Terry Semel, and David and Victoria Beckham, the world-renowned soccer player and his wife. (Ms. Beckham — the former Spice Girl known as Posh — “styled” Ms. Holmes for a coming Harper’s Bazaar cover).
She’s also become inextricably linked to the 44-year-old Mr. Cruise, a Hollywood legend who has been criticized for his controversial Scientology faith and a pattern of erratic public behavior that is regarded in some quarters as a box-office liability. Mr. Cruise’s production contract was not renewed last August by Paramount, partly because of his antics, including ecstatically proclaiming his love for Ms. Holmes on Oprah Winfrey’s couch and inveighing against the use of antidepressants by Brooke Shields and others on the “Today” show.
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It’s official: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are now husband and wife. The couple exchanged vows Saturday in front of more than 150 guests at the Odescalchi Castle in Lake Bracciano, Italy.
With thousands of fans, photographers and TV cameras watching from afar, Cruise and Holmes were joined by family – Katie’s dad Martin walked her down the aisle – and a slew of celeb pals, including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy, among others.
The sunset ceremony was performed by a Scientology minister, according to a statement from their reps. The wedding party included Cruise’s children, Isabella and Connor, the best man was Cruise’s best friend, David Miscavige – the head of the Church of Scientology – and Katie’s sister Nancy Blaylock served as the matron of honor.
Though initially there were questions about whether Cruise and Holmes’s marriage on Saturday was official – the Mayor of Bracciano, Italy, said the couple needed to have a civil ceremony in town in order to make it legal – Cruise’s reps say Tom and Katie took care of everything beforehand.
“As is customary for couples marrying outside of the United States, Cruise and Holmes officialized their marriage in Los Angeles prior to their departure for Italy,” according to the statement.
Other details released Saturday by the newlyweds:
• The bride: Holmes wore an off-the-shoulder Armani gown with a train in ivory silk cadis adorned in Valenciennes lace and Swarovski beaded crystal embroidery. Holmes also wore an ivory tulle floor-length veil and ivory silk shoes. Armani, which outfitted the entire wedding, also supplied Katie’s bouquet of calla lilies, as well as a champagne evening gown, which she wore at the reception.
• The groom: Cruise wore a navy blue Armani tux.
• The couple’s rings: Their rings were white gold Cartier with diamonds.
• The meal: After cocktails, guests were served Italian hors d’oeuvres, followed by a multi-course meal.
• The cake: Five-tiered white chocolate, decorated with marzipan roses, and studded with white chocolate chips.
• The entertainment: Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.
Saturday’s wedding started on a damp note, with scattered rain throughout the morning. Holmes and 7-month-old daughter Suri were escorted into the castle under a cluster of green umbrellas. A little over an hour later, the groom was escorted from the Hassler hotel in Rome to Lake Bracciano 18 miles away. With the sun going down, candles lit up the perimeter of the 15th-century castle as limousines carrying the guests drove through the gates.
Fans and media were kept at a safe distance from the castle: Police checkpoints prevented anyone unauthorized from getting too close, and journalists were stationed in the nearby town square.
Saturday’s ceremony brought the couple’s 19-month romance full circle: Cruise and Holmes first stepped out as a couple in Rome in April 2005, with Cruise already referring to Holmes as “amore mio” just a few weeks after their first date (sushi, a private plane ride and a motorcycle trip to the beach).
Holmes wasn’t shy about her feelings either. “(I’m) totally in love. He’s amazing, he’s kind, he’s generous. He made me laugh like I’ve never laughed,” she gushed two months later. “I feel like he’s made my life.” source
Katie Holmes ran into Brooke Shields at a private party in Beverly Hills this past weekend. Even though Tom Cruise once threw judgement on Brooke for taking meds to battle depression (he has since apologized), this didn’t stop Brooke from speaking with Katie.
Not surprisingly, Suri was nowhere to be found. The poor kid rarely sees the light of day. Is Katie getting taller… cause I thought Brooke was taller than she appears.
Tell me… in the second picture below… doesn’t it look like Katie is offering Brooke’s baby, Grier, a sip of her drink? Hmmm… pushin’ the booze on the kid.
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