MSN has released a list of who they think is the top 10 most sexiest women over 40, so lets not do small talk and get right to the list.
10. Monica Bellucci
Believe it or not, this Italian stunner initially wanted to be a lawyer. Thankfully for us, Bellucci’s modeling career took off when she was still in her teens. That catapulted her to a successful acting career, and she burst onto the scene in “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” in 1992. She absolutely oozes sex appeal, and also speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian. Now that’s pretty damn sexy.
9. Vanessa Williams
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 26 years since she won the Miss America pageant, only to be later famously stripped of her title. Since then, Williams has shown to be a survivor, becoming a multitalented star. She’s grown from a pop music diva in the 90s (who could forget the sappy “Save the Best for Last”?) to blossom more recently as an Emmy-nominated actress in the series “Ugly Betty,” in which she plays a prima donna. She’s arguably one of the most beautiful women to grace the landscape in the history of showbiz, and has incredible staying power in industries that praise youth
8. Sarah Palin
Love her or hate her, you have to admit that Palin has a way of luring people into her world. She’s striking—the whole librarian-in-glasses look is sexy, even if she’s not sure what she reads. She has a style all her own and is a self-made woman. There was no family giving her an easy entrance into politics or favors called in on her behalf. Bursting onto the national scene this past year with confidence—moxie, really—made her an instant celebrity and seems to have cemented her onto the political landscape for years to come
7. Suzy Kolber
A woman with a quick wit who knows more about football than you do? Now that’s sexy. Kolber is best known for working the sidelines for ESPN on “Monday Night Football,” and has elevated the role of sideline reporter to new heights. A single mother with a girl-next-door look, she can handle herself under any situation—such as when an admittedly intoxicated Joe Namath hit on her during a live sideline interview in 2003, which gained major national attention
6. Sheryl Crow
Crow stormed onto the music scene in 1994 with the catchy “All I Wanna Do,” and has never left. Her brand of timeless music is a hybrid of pop, country, folk, and rock with a swagger to it. A nine-time Grammy winner, her singing is all style and attitude. In 2006, Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer, and, after beating it, she turned into an outspoken crusader against the disease, focusing her energies on fundraising. We also like how she also doesn’t take any baloney from anyone, as shown by her going toe-to-toe with Republican strategist Karl Rove on the topic of global warming in 2007.
5. Halle Berry
Would any “sexiest woman” list ever be complete without Berry on it? She’s been charming us on screen now for 20 years, has an Oscar to show for it, and became a mother for the first time in 2008. She seems to have gotten her love life in order now with her relationship with Gabriel Aubry, but has stated that she has no plans to ever marry again, as her first two marriages ended in divorce. With her natural beauty and charm, Halle will continue to grace any “sexiest” list for years and years to come—and we welcome that.
4. Helen Mirren
As the oldest woman on our list, Helen also has the most class—always carrying herself with dignity and timeless style. The British actress has won an Oscar and numerous Golden Globes and has four films due out this year. She’s a classic beauty. She was recently photographed wearing a bikini—and believe me, she pulled it off. Not being shy is extremely sexy, and in addition to the bikini shot, she took bold to a new level by appearing nude in the film “Calendar Girls” when she was over 50. If you’ve got it, flaunt it
3. Carla Bruni
The stunning, Italian-born Bruni has been a high-paid runway model, singer, and songwriter, and is now the first lady of France. Before settling down with President Nicolas Sarkozy, Bruni had high-profile relationships in the past with rockers such as Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. She’s a lightning rod for the press, but has always carried herself with class, even when a nude picture of her taken in 1993 during her modeling days sold for $91,000 at auction.
2. Salma Hayek
Hayek just continues to get better, and dove into motherhood a year and a half ago. She is really the epitome of sexiness: with her sly smile, she’s driven and tough, yet doesn’t take herself too seriously. She’s so irresistibly gorgeous that 22-year-old Megan Fox, the current flavor of the month and bombshell star of “Transformers,” quipped recently on TV that she’s so insecure that she would much rather have Hayek’s body, especially the bust.
1. Jennifer Aniston
Yes, she’s 40. As hard as that is to believe, Aniston seems to be embracing this milestone and might be the best example of how 40 is the new 20. I think we’re looking at the real-life Benjamin Button because she seems to be aging in reverse, looking much better than she did five years ago. The gossip mags have been buzzing about her lately and her cougar-ish, high-profile relationship with rock guitarist John Mayer. Some of the buzz is also thanks to her hit movie “Marley & Me,” which sat atop the box office for weeks over the holiday season. She’ll be pumping out more films this year, including “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “Traveling.”
What do you think, is this list good or bad? I think if you swap a couple of them around and change some of them for other people then the list is good enough, so basically I want a whole new list.
Perhaps Sheryl Crow should have dedicated her song “All I Wanna Do” instead of “Strong Enough” to Barack Obama.
When she opened the Democratic convention on Sunday, convention attendees found it weird when Crow sang, “Are you strong enough to be my man, or my President? God, I feel like hell tonight.” Talk about buzzkill.
In other convention news, Jon Stewart is covering the event with “Indecision 2008“. Among “The Daily Show’s” convention correspondents is Rob Riggle, who spent a week with the Obama campaign in Indiana. His memory of that time:
“Everyone hates you, and the Secret Service wants to shoot you. [Obama's people] said, ‘We love you! Now go stay over there … in the corner!’ “
Riggle won’t say which candidate he supports.
“I am a fake journalist…I have to maintain fake objectivity.”
But there was also plenty of publicity unauthorized by Mr. Armstrong, including three days of coverage in The New York Post, a string of articles on Us Magazine’s Web site and an article in Life & Style entitled “How Lance Stole Kate From Owen,” all chronicling Mr. Armstrong’s relationship with the actress and tabloid darling Kate Hudson.
Furthermore, many people seem to mention his two-year relationship with the singer Sheryl Crow, his romance with the fashion designer Tory Burch and his canoodling last year in a New York nightclub with Ashley Olsen, rather than his serious pursuits.
source: Love all: Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong serve up romance on the tennis court [daily mail]
Some things are just more important than work, you know, like baseball. Even though Ben Affleck’s directorial work “Gone Baby Gone”, starring brother Casey Affleck, was being screened by the Cinema Society, Ben had a better place to be.
Just before leaving a packed IFC Center, he was overheard saying “I’m going to watch the game.” He left to see his Red Sox lose to the Cleveland Indians.
After the screening, stars of the film including, Casey and Amy Ryan, mingled with other celebrities like Sheryl Crow, Jake Paltrow, Maggie Rizer, and Kelly Bensimon at the penthouse at the Soho Grand. Ben was there watching the final innings of the game on the living room TV.
Isn’t this what they make headphones and small TV’s for? Come on, Ben - it’s your movie.
What others are saying:
Mollygood says, “His movie is more boring than baseball? Yikes.”
Source: “FAN’S AGONY” [Page Six]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
This summer marks the 10th anniversary of Lilith Fair, the all-female music festival founded by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan.
Now we celebrate the new generation of women who have taken up the torch passed by McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Fiona Apple and other ladies of Lilith, and who continue to redefine what it means to be a woman who rocks.
#10 - Beth Ditto
Birthplace: Searcy, Ark.
Sound: Dance punk
Frontwoman for the Gossip, Ditto — a plus-sized lesbian with a Southern drawl and a soulful howl — challenges the skinny white boy indie-rock canon with riot grrrl mentality and a disco backbeat. Her firecracker social consciousness has earned an avid fan in Rosie O’Donnell, who toured alongside Ditto on this summer’s True Colors tour.
#9 - Feist
Birthplace: Amherst, Nova Scotia
Sound: Indie rock
Leslie Feist, who, in addition to recording solo, is also member of Broken Social Scene, crafts wistful tunes that will both break and mend the heart. This former flatmate of fellow Canadian Peaches first dropped jaws with the playfully hushed song ‘Mushaboom,’ off her second album, ‘Let It Die.’ When McDonald’s ask to use the song for $1 million in their commercials, Feist, proving herself a little punk, said no.
#8 - M.I.A.
Birthplace: London
Sound: Garage hip-hop
Manthangi “Maya” Arulpragasam, a.k.a. M.I.A., is a Sri Lankan artist who was raised in London after her family was forced to flee the nation during its civil war. Her debut album, 2005’s ‘Arular,’ was a politically potent, musical free-for-all where dancehall, hip-hop and electro clashed in its own sonic war zone. M.I.A.’s lyrics and artwork have gotten her subsequently banned from MTV and denied a U.S. visa, but she marches on, defiant in her personal doctrine.
#7 - Tegan and Sara
Birthplace: Calgary, Alberta
Sound: Folk punk
Tegan and Sara Quin are out and proud identical twin singer-songwriters from Canada. The two have released five albums of hearty folk-punk, and garnered mainstream attention after the White Stripes covered ‘Walking With a Ghost,’ off the sisters’ album ‘So Jealous’ — a record Rolling Stone named on their 50 Best Albums of 2004 list.
#6 - Amanda Palmer
Birthplace: Lexington, Mass.
Sound: Cabaret punk
Palmer — one-half of Boston’s Brechtian punk cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls — ain’t no damsel in distress. The former street artist chokeholds her demons, teetering between sinister screeches and whimsical whispers of alcohol, self-mutilation and sexual exploration, while discordantly pummeling the piano — stocking-clad legs akimbo — in a sultry, sinful self-deprecation exorcism.
#5 - Regina Spektor
Birthplace: Moscow
Sound: Anti-folk
Part oddball, part girl next door, the Russian-born, Bronx-raised Spektor is an anti-folk ivory tickler who crashes quirky head on with profound. Her one-two punch of lilting melodies and vocal gurgles juxtapose something fierce, while her myriad of styles surface best live, where Spektor’s likely to offer up two kinds of beatings: that of a drumstick on her piano bench, or the beatbox flurry that buzzes from her lips.
#4 - Jenny Lewis
Birthplace: Las Vegas
Sound: Indie rock
Just as the brassy Lewis can curl toes with a sleepy, girly-crooned tune about jumping ship and falling deep despite herself, she’ll just as soon haunt with done-wrong tales buoyed by a soul-scraping howl. As both a solo artist and member of indie rock darlings Rilo Kiley, this former child actor is more Joan Collins than Jett, more Laura Nyro than Veirs.
#3 - Karen O
Birthplace: South Korea
Sound: Art punk
From orgasmic screeches to epileptic body-thrashing, the New Jersey-raised Karen O is more than an idiosyncratic rocker with an unnatural affinity for Spandex. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman is a self-possessed force of nature who’ll dizzy you up with lyrical riddles, douse you in beer and then sing you a love song to rest your pretty little head.
#2 - Lily Allen
Birthplace: London
Sound: Reggae pop
This lippy Limey was listed on Entertainment Weekly’s Top Albums of 2006 with ‘Alright, Still’ — thanks to the much MySpace-buzzed tune ‘Smile’ — despite any proper album release. Allen, whose Godfather is late Clash guitarist Joe Strummer, has since turned heads for her unapologetic verbal barrages. Among her tussles: Kylie Minogue, Lady Sov, Pete Doherty, James Blunt, Madonna, the jerks who stole her dog and the NME.
#1 - Amy Winehouse
Birthplace: London
Sound: Girl-group soul
The tatted-up, beehive sportin’ British neo-soul chanteuse is unapologetic about two things. One is her drinking, which is formidable. The second is the uncanny way in which she meshes modern urban attitudes with classic blues, soul and girl-group sounds. Her second album, ‘Back to Black,’ was recently certified gold, no doubt in part to its lead single, the middle-finger lush anthem ‘Rehab.’
Brand-new mom, Sheryl Crow, talks about spending the past three weeks holed up in her Los Angeles mansion with her newly-adopted newborn son, Wyatt.
Sheryl on Wyatt’s arrival: “The day he came home (on April 30), I felt like the whole house had changed. The house felt fuller. You just feel like nesting and making sure he’s acclimated to the world. It is all so fascinating.”
Sheryl on her new title as Mom: “My mom would hand him to me and say, ‘Here’s your mommy.’ It was really poignant (and very startling) to hear my mom call me Mommy. It took me a while to get used to it.”
Sheryl on her favourite Mommy moment: “Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing him next to me and realizing, ‘Oh, he’s still here! How fantastic! It’s not a dream.”
According to In Touch Magazine, these 10 ladies are having a heck of a time finding their soul mates. They are the 10 Most Unlucky in Love.
1. Sheryl Crow
2. Jennifer Aniston
3. Paul Abdul
4. Hilary Duff
5. Tyra Banks
6. Lauren Conrad
7. Mariah Carey
8. Carrie Underwood
9. Kirstie Alley
10. Cameron Diaz
Ok, where’s Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton? What, no men? You know there’s a lot of people who are having this problem. Who do you think should have been included?
The ultra-exclusive Soho House set up shop in the hills above the Sunset Strip for its annual Oscar-time hideaway, featuring swank dinner parties, designer label giveaways and serious pampering.
At the London party, Jennifer Aniston had a lock on old friend Courteney Cox. Sheryl Crow, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Drew Barrymore, Penélope Cruz, Eric Dane and Mark Wahlberg are among the other A-listers who have stopped by the exclusive mansion for a taste of Oscar style.
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the awards are a major part of the film industry’s “awards season” which culminates each year with the Oscars. This is particularly true since 1996, when the HFPA signed a new television broadcast contract with NBC (prior to that, they were aired on TBS, but before the existence of TBS, one of the “big three” commercial networks, i.e. CBS, NBC, or ABC, always broadcast the show). The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and Grammys, and movie studios actively solicit support from HFPA members and mention nominations and awards in their advertisements.
The Golden Globes are awarded early in the year, based on votes from (as of 2005) 86 mostly part-time journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States.
Unlike the Academy Awards, for which the eligibility period begins January 1, the eligibility period for the Golden Globe Awards begins October 1.
Michael J. Fox and Sheryl Crow stage a rock ‘n’ roll performance at a Beatles-themed fund-raiser for the Michael J. Fox Foundation in New York on Saturday. The benefit, which attracted other celebs such as Denis Leary, Muhammed Ali, Martin Scorsese and Elvis Costello, raised more than $5 million for Parkinson’s research.
Sheryl Crow & Lucy Lui were pictured together at the “Tod’s Fall-Winter 2007 Collection”. Lucy Lui is so adorable, her shorter hair style really suits her. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of her on the big screen.
So John Mayer was on stage doing one of his girly love songs when Sheryl Crow showed up on stage wearing nothing but a bikini in an attempt to distract him. Later, two guys in diapers came out to join her. Apparently this was in retaliation for a prank Mayer pulled on Crow earlier at a show Crow was doing, where Mayer showed up in a bear suit and guitar.
Her body’s not bad, either:
For an old chick, anyway. She’s almost 45–old enough to be Mayer’s grandma.
Here’s a video of Mayer in his bear suit:
So far, no one seems to have posted one of Crow in her bikini. And they say YouTube’s useful?
US Weekly has confirmed it. Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are indeedy engaged. Okay, I have no idea if this is actually the real deal or not. I have heard so many different things. That the whole relationship was a “ploy” to make Jen not look so bad to the press throughout the whole Brangelina thing. That they have broken up and that Jen had a fabu “girl’s night” with Courtney Cox Arquette and Sheryl Crow to sow her oats. So, I dunno. You decide.
Us Weekly has confirmed that Vince Vaughn, 36, has popped the question to his girlfriend of one year, Jennifer Aniston, 37. “They’re engaged!” a friend of the couple’s tells Us, adding, “Vince almost cries whenever he tells the story of the proposal.”
On June 27, as the couple returned home on a private Gulfstream jet to L.A. after a romantic, nine-day vacation at Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis’ $25 million coastal retreat near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the actor nervously got down on bended knee. At that moment, he asked for Aniston’s hand in marriage – with, say sources, a substantial diamond ring.
“He was going to propose on the beach during the trip, but he chickened out because he wasn’t sure if she would accept,” says the source. “But he knew he was leaving town [to film Into the Wild in South Dakota] for awhile, so he just felt he had to ask her before they landed.”
Sheryl on Wyatt’s arrival: “The day he came home (on April 30), I felt like the whole house had changed. The house felt fuller. You just feel like nesting and making sure he’s acclimated to the world. It is all so fascinating.”
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. Run since 1944 by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the awards are a major part of the film industry’s “awards season” which culminates each year with the Oscars. This is particularly true since 1996, when the HFPA signed a new television broadcast contract with NBC (prior to that, they were aired on TBS, but before the existence of TBS, one of the “big three” commercial networks, i.e. CBS, NBC, or ABC, always broadcast the show). The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars and Grammys, and movie studios actively solicit support from HFPA members and mention nominations and awards in their advertisements.
