PROFESSION: Actress and Children’s Author

Julianne Moore is a British- American actress and also, a children’s author. She plays the roles of emotionally vulnerable women generally. Moore pays a lot of attention to her art. She attended Boston University, where she studied theater. Her debut film was in 1990. Moore is generally seen in a supporting role. You can find her in movies like Short Cuts, Vanya on 42nd Street, Nine Months, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Laws of Attraction and Far From Heaven. Moore’s portrayal of Sarah Palin in the television movie Game Change helped her earn an Emmy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Moore enjoys writing children’s books and is known author in this regard. Moore is married to Bart Freundlich, a director, and the lovely has been blessed with two children.

EARLY LIFE

Moore’s birth name is Julie Anne Smith. She was born in 1960, in North Carolina. Her mother was a social worker and psychologist and her father was a paratrooper in the United States Army. She has two siblings and both are younger than her. When she was a child, her family moved around a lot because of the nature of her father’s job. They lived in places like Texas, Georgia, Nebraska, Alaska and New York. She has attended nine different schools because of the same reason. Moore was a good child. She was clever and good at studies as well. Initially, Moore wanted to become a doctor. Her English teacher encouraged her to take up theater. When attended Frankfurt American High School when she was sixteen years old. She loved to read. With a twist of fate, she started inclining towards a theatrical career. Her parents supported her decision.

CAREER

Moore worked as a waitress after moving to New York. Her debut screen role was in an episode of The Edge of Night, in the year 1984. She plays a dual role in As The World Turns. After that, she had a role in the miniseries I’ll Take Manhattan. Following this, she took a break from acting and returned to movies after three years with the TV movies Money, Power, Murder, The Last To Go and Case a Deadly Spell. She made her cinematic debut with Tales for the Darkside: The Movie. In 1992, she did a movie called The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. Her performance got her a lot of attention from the critics. From thriller, Moore shifted to comedy with the movie The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag. She has also appeared in The Fugitive, a Harrison thriller.

The movie Short Cuts was very successful and gave a major boost to her acting career. In 1995, she appeared in movies Roommates, Nine Months, Assassins and Surviving Picasso. She played Dr. Sarah Harding in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. This was her first big budget movie production. She can also be seen in The Myth of Fingerprints and Chicago Cab. Moore met her husband, Bart Freundlich, on the sets of The Myth of Fingerprints. Moore has a lot of movies in her career, mostly good movies that were a commercial success to say the least. Over the years, Moore has done movies like Boogie Woogie, The Big Lebowski, Psycho, Cookie’s Fortune, An Ideal Husband, The End of the Affair, A Map of the World, Magnolia, The Ladies Man, Hannibal, Evolution, World Traveler, The Shipping News, Far From Heaven, Th Hours, Laws of Attraction, Marie and Bruce, Trust the Man, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Children of Men, The Vertical Hour, Next, Savage Grace, I’m not there, Blindness, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Single Man, Shelter, The Telegraph, The Kids Are All Right, Crazy, Stupid, Love and the list goes on and on.

In 2014, Moore will be seen in the movie Maps to the Stars, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 1 and Part 2, Still Alive, and Freeheld. Moore’s acting skills have been widely praised and her versatility has been respected and appreciated.

WRITING CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Apart from being a brilliant actress, Moore also is a children’s author. She made her writing debut with the book, Freckleface Strawberry, in 2007, and the book became a New York bestseller. Moore’s writing has been described as sweet and simple. The book was drawn from a personal experience. When Moore was a kid, she disliked her freckles. So was the case with her son. The book is followed by two book named Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully and Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever. The books encourage kids to overcome their problems.

ASSETS

- New York Pad worth $12.5 million

- New York City Garden

- Toyota Prius

- Toyota Highlander Hybrid

PERSONAL LIFE

Moore has been married twice. Her first husband was John Gould Rubin. They got married in 1984 and their divorce was finalized in 1995. Moore started dating Bart Freundlich in 1996 and tied the knot in 2003. The couple has two children, a son named Caleb and a daughter named Liv. Moore has managed to escape the unwanted attention of the media. She does not support botox or plastic surgery. Moore is a broad minded woman. She supports gay rights and is an atheist. Moore is a humble person and does not attract much gossip. She likes to do her own thing. Moore is a politically liberal person and supports Barack Obama.

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Writer, filmmaker, director, producer, film editor.

Born on 13 August 1899 in Leytonstone, a part of London, England, Alfred Hitchcock was the youngest of three children born to William Hitchcock, a greengrocer and poulterer and Emma Jane Hitchcock. He led a lonely and sheltered childhood which was made worse by his obesity. This would go on to deeply affect his psyche as he grew older. It also led to him being rejected by the army at the age 15 during the First World War. However, he did not allow this to deter him and as a young man, he signed up to a cadet regiment of the Royal Engineers in 1917. His military stint was limited to theoretical briefings, weekend drills and various other exercises.

                                                                                                            A young Alfred Hitchcock

He eventually left St. Ignatius to study at the London Country Council School of Engineering and  Navigation in Poplar, London. Upon leaving, he found work as a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company called Henley’s. This would help him make his first steps into the world of creativity. The company’s in-house publication The Henley Telegraph, was founded in the year 1919, to which he would often contribute short articles. Eventually, he became one of its most prolific contributors. His first piece was “Gas” and it was published in the first issue of the company’s publication. The story narrates the experience of a young woman who images she is being assaulted one night in Paris- only for it to later be revealed that it was a hallucination at the dentist’s chair, caused by an anesthetic he used. Another very short, but remarkable contribution by Hitchcock to the publication was a piece titled “Fedora.” It was published in 1921 and it had a strikingly accurate description of his to-be wife Alma Reville; whom interestingly enough, he had not met at that point of time.

FILM CAREER

During his stint at Henley’s, he began to take interest in the nuances of photography. He began his work in the field of film production as a title card designer for the London branch of what later would be more famously known as Paramount pictures. He then received a full time job at Islington Studios, designing titles for silent films. It was from here on wards, that his rise began, from title designer, to film director, producer and editor in a period of five years.

In 1925, Hitchcock went on to direct his first film, making movies that belong to the thriller genre which would soon be known world over. It was a silent film that went by the name “The pleasure garden.” He went on to make many more such silent films. Some of them include The Lodger (1926), Downhill (1927), Easy Virtue (1927), The Ring, The Farmer’s wife (1927), Champagne (1928), The Manxman (1929), Blackmail (1929). By then, Hitchcock had made his first Talkie. Though “Blackmail” was initially produced as a silent film, it was reproduced as a talkie film.

Hitchcock went on to direct about 53 films in the three genres- the silent film, the black and white and colour. Notably, he delivered movies that would go on to become epics in their own right in each category. Hitchcock believed that silent film was the purest form of film. At this point in time onwards, he began pursuing themes such as sexual obsession and characters who were wrongly persecuted for others’ crimes. These themes would prevail throughout his career, with Hitchcock experimenting with various technical aspects of films that would later be used frequently in cinema.

EXPERIMENTS WITH CINEMA

Hitchcock’s earliest experiment in cinema was when he shot thee 1948 thriller Rope. It was not well received by the critics, but it went on to be one of his most legendary movies. During the course of filming Rope, Hitchcock intended for the film to have the effect of one long continuous take, but the cameras at that point in time were not so advanced. They could hold no more than 1000 feet of 35 mm film. As a result, each take used up to a whole roll of film and lasts up to 10 minutes. This caused the movie to move at a slow pace, causing the audience to build up guilt and share the feelings of the antagonist until the movie draws to an end. Many takes end with a dolly shot to a featureless surface (such as the back of a character’s jacket), with the following take beginning at the same point by zooming out. The entire film consists of only 11 shots.

Hitchcock was also famous for the creative special effects used throughout his movies. His experiments were mostly successful, though some of them were not well received by the critics of that time. It was one of these trysts with experimentation that led him to produce his most iconic film Psycho (1960). By this time, Hitchcock had began to comfortably work with colour film and sound, but Psycho was a film that he purposefully chose to shoot in black and white. The concepts he centred his movie around were indeed, controversial- so controversial that Paramount pictures were appalled at the concept of a movie being based on the real life story of Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein. Paramount pictures refused to provide the budget that they normally would have (His previous movie, North by Northwest [1959] was granted a generous budget of $3,101,000.) Hitchcock however, was adamant upon pursuing this project and he decided to finance 60% of the budget himself with the help of his own Shamley studios, shooting the movie in Universal studios. Hitchcock purchased the rights to the novel (written by Robert Bloch based on the life story of Ed Gein) for $9500 and had it taken off bookshelves across the country, in order to preserve the suspense.

An old film poster advertising Hitchcock’s Psycho

The infamous shower murder scene of Psycho caused the censor board authorities to do a double take. It was the first time that a toilet was being shown in American cinema. The following shower murder scene is no less. The scene had to be shot over a period of one week, and the scene itself was composed of 90 shots; which were captured from 70 different camera angles. This took a week to shoot; the entire movie itself took only 6 weeks to complete.

A still from the iconic shower scene in ‘Psycho’

One cannot talk about special effects without speaking about his classic favourite The Birds (1963). The movie is centred around technical strengths in the form of special effects that do not distract the viewer from the plot or the movie itself, yet adds intense shock value to the movie. The final shot of the movie involves the lead characters driving away from Bodega Bay (where it was shot; in San Francisco) as they are being closely watched by a flock of birds. This was the film’s trickiest shot as it was done with a combination of live trained birds, puppet birds and animated birds; with the car moving towards an extremely detailed matte painting as a backdrop. It was the trickiest shot in the movie as it was shot in a composite manner that blended 32 separate exposures, leading Hitchcock to call it “The most difficult single shot I’ve ever done.

A film poster advertising Hitchcock’s masterpiece ‘The Birds.’

A behind the scenes look into the shooting of the final scene of ‘The Birds’

In his next film, Vertigo (1959), Hitchcock used what would later be a very powerful effect which would later come to be popularly known as the Dolly zoom method. It was achieved by zooming in on a zoom lens in order to achieve the desired result- a successful portrayal of James Stewart’s supposed Vertigo- fear of heights.

The Vertigo effect, portrayed with the help of dolly zoom, in Hitchcock’s famous film, ‘Vertigo’

PERSONAL LIFE

Hitchcock was a frugal man, probably because of his strict upbringing. When he died, he left millions of dollars in stocks and bonds, two magnificent estates in California- one in Santa Cruz and one in Bel Air to his family who survived him- Alma Reville and his daughter Patricia Hitchcock.

Years later(2012 to be precise), famous pen manufacturer Mont Blanc decided to pay a tribute to the iconic filmmaker with the help of their pens. Two of them were introduced-

1. The limited edition 300

As a tribute to the critically acclaimed filmmaker, this particular pen features 925 sterling silver rings with 53 hatch marks that represent the years he spent as a part of his film-making career. It is available at Mont Blanc boutiques throughout the world and is priced at £2,325.

The Montblanc 80- paying a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock’s first technicolor movie “Rope”

2. The limited edition 80

This pen is created exclusively with 750 white gold and just 80 of these pens were produced. They retail at £17,900 per piece. It features a dramatic swirls, said to be a tribute to the famous Alfred Hitchcock phenomenon ‘The Vertigo effect’, complete with re; reminiscent of blood stains. The clip of the pen is shaped like the knife used by the killer of his famous movie Psycho and it is encrusted with diamonds.

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BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD:

Chingy as we all know him, but born as Howard Bailey Jr on March 9, 1980 is an American rapper and actor. He was born in an area called Walnut Park at St. Loius, Missouri, USA to two struggling parents. He passed his early childhood living in a small two bedroom house with a dozen of his relatives. He had almost never seen money! He had two older brother and two younger sisters and his parents divorced when he is a small kid.

At an early age itself Chingy started loving music and began to write lyrics at the age of 9 and started recording raps at 10. He was a student of McCluer High School in Florissant, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. He still is known among his close friends and family as “Howie”, the same name which he was called by during his school time.

HIS CAREER:

Chingy felt it was such a good idea that he started recording as much as possible. He became a studio rat, almost taking up residence in recording houses. His dedication to his music paid off when the songs he recorded before he became famous ended up becoming the backbone for Jackpot.

He started his musical career by providing a mind blowing super hit song “Right Thurr” which positioned at Number 2 in the US Hot 100 and at Number 17 in the United Kingdom pop charts. He was the name of the households for two long years. He was into limelight with his two platinum selling albums. He also appeared in some television programs and acted in movies. He was first signed by Fo-Reel Entertainment, an artist management firm which took him for a tour along with Nelly in 2002. By the time he met DTP chief Ludacris and signed a deal with DTP in 2003 and released Right Thurr.

He worked on a few tremendous successful songs and albums like Jackpot in 2003 with label Disturbing the Peace, Powerballin’ in 2004 and Hood Star in 2006 with label Capitol Records and after feeling unhappy with the way Capitol Records dealt with its urban artists he came back to DTP Records and released a song ‘Hate It or Love It’ in 2007. In 2011 he was working on his fifth studio album titled No Risk No Reward but never released due to insufficient funds. He then released a music video for “King Judah” and then a song “Watch the World” in 2013 November which reached the second position on the iTunes Urban Chart in both Australia and New Zealand.

Chingy didn’t stop himself into music but also tried his hands at acting like many pop stars in the industry and made his acting debut in the TV Comedy series My Wife and Kids in the year 2005. He also acted in the TV comedies One on One and George Lopez. He then went on to act in the comedy film Scary Movie 4 in a cameo role and also appeared in TV series Yo Momma. In 2010, he even played a role in the movie ‘Speed-Dating’. He also acted in movies like The System Within in 2006, Psycho in 2008 and Polish Bar in 2010. Chingy and his wife Temple also appeared in the third season of popular celebrity reality show Couples Therapy. He also made an appearance in TV shows Punk’d and Caramel.

He is not just an artist, but also an entrepreneur. He launched Full Dekk Music Group which was previously knows as Slot-A-Lot Records. The label currently handles artists like Chris Woodhouse, SmallTalk and DJ Noize.

WEALTH, PROPERTIES AND ASSETS:

Chingy has earned his net worth from his album releases beginning in 2003 until to date as well as from his work as an actor. He owns a 2005 Chrysler 300 with custom paint, custom wheels and tires, custom audio and video system, custom Lambo doors, custom interior, custom grill and custom sunroof! This shows how was the taste of the rap star Chingy towards his cars. This custom car is worth around $ 32,995. Many recent reports tell us that the car was kept for sale! He even has a Range Rover worth around $ 60,000, Monte Carlo and pimped out SS96 Impala making himself a collector of cars. But after all this, he still consider himself as a person who does not dig much into the engines and cars!

FOND WITH VIDEO GAMES:

Chingy is also fond of playing videos whenever possible and in fact carries a PlayStation with him every where he go with him on his tours. He loves to play Need For Speed series a lot and also has contributed a soundtrack for Need For Speed : Underground 2. He plays a lot of other games like Grand Theft Auto : Vice City and every James Bond game.

APPEARANCE:

Chingy is always seen with a bandanas under various hats.

INFLUENCES:

Chingy always considers Micheal Jackson, Marvin Gaye and the Temptations.

A GRADUAL DECLINE:

His debut album, Jackpot, went double-platinum. His follow-up, Powerballin’, went platinum and 2006′s Hoodstar went gold before he fell off the national radar. In creative terms, Chingy had some jams. His initial singles were massive successes: “Holidae Inn” hit No. 3 on the Hot 100, while ”Right Thurr” and “One Call Away” both hit No. 2. He was also featured on Houston’s hit “I Like That.” But commercial success has since shifted away from the rapper, who released a single in 2012 called Let It Go. He hasn’t, but the bulk of his audience has.

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