星期日, 一月 04, 2009
Amerie
美妙的节奏蓝调旋律，包裹住Hip Hop的节拍，并透过一个独特的嗓音来传递——这就是艾蜜蕊（Amerie）的音乐所赋予听者的深刻感受。
获上天所特别眷顾、兼具了美貌与智能，毕业于乔治城大学，年仅22岁却已随家人周游过列国的Amerie，她温暖、风趣的特质，令她一出道就在新人济济的乐坛中予人清新的气息、脱颖而出。除此之外，她甜美、活泼、热情、稍微带点坏女孩气息的嗓音，更是她进军乐坛的致胜武器，就此，她的首支单曲《Why Don't We Fall In Love》便是最好的例证。这首包裹着暗潮汹涌般的丰富情感，传递着渴望寻求心灵伴侣与梦想的人相爱之讯息的作品，在Amerie稳若盘石的声音推进下，甫推出就立刻在乐界引起不断的回响，不仅在排行榜上的席次大幅快速地挺进，更让大家对她的此首张专辑《All I Have》投以极大的关注与期待。
由当红制作人／词曲作家Rich Harrison(Mary J. BligeAmerie)费时两年为Amerie所量身打造的首张专辑《All I Have》，意图创造宣泄出一种声音，粗糙有颗粒之外却又带有滑顺的旋律，美丽却又强韧，独树一格却带着充分的熟悉亲切感足以立即吸引住听众，缔创辑榜Top9佳绩。首支单曲《Why Don't We Fall In Love》，一举拿下节奏蓝调榜Top9，而以如影随形的金属吉他声、鲜明的节奏及Ameries 仰扬顿挫且轻快的嗓音所架构成的单曲《Talkin' To Me》，滑顺而带有爵士风味的抒情曲《Nothin' Like Loving You》，以及情绪高昂，高音绕梁的《I Just Died》，Amerie已证明了她确实成功地创造出结合了美丽的乐音以及Hip Hop坚硬节拍，独特却引人入胜的动人音乐。
Amanda Peet 2
Amanda Peet grew up in New York with her older sister and their parents; Charles, a lawyer; and Penny, a social worker. She made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three, when she jumped onto the stage during a play. Yet, despite this early start, she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else. She studied history at Columbia University, where a drama professor convinced her to audition for acting teacher Uta Hagen, with whom she later went on to study for a four-year period. During this time, she participated in the off-Broadway revival of Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing." She supported herself during the audition phase of her career by working as a waitress and with the residual checks she received from a Skittles candy commercial. Perseverance and hard work paid off, and, in 1995, she was cast in a guest-starring role on the hit series "Law & Order" (1990).
Her feature film debut came in 1995 with the movie Animal Room (1995). For a while afterward, Amanda continued to find steady work but also found herself appearing in a depressingly large number of indie films that were never picked up for distribution. She did, however, meet her boyfriend Brian Van Holt on the set of indie movie Whipped (2000). Her turn as the ditzy hit-woman with the heart of gold in the hit comedy The Whole Nine Yards (2000), opposite Bruce Willis, took her from supporting role status to leading lady. That same year she was voted one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World by "People" Magazine.
Maggie Grace 2
Margaret Grace Denig (born September 21, 1983), better known as Maggie Grace, is an American actress. She is best known for her work as Shannon Rutherford on the television series Lost.
Grace, eldest of three children, was born in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, the daughter of Linn and Rick Denig. She took to acting at an early age, performing in several local theatre productions, among them Jewish Community Center's Gallery Players' 2000 production of The Crucible. The director of that play, John S. Kuhn, said of Grace "Even at that young age she brought a lot to her work."
At 16, Grace left Ohio with her mother, Valinn, for Los Angeles. The actress frequently found herself struggling to pay her rent. In 2001 she landed the eponymous role in the Sony Pictures web-serial Rachel's Room, which took the form of a teenager's video journal. In all, she appeared in 56 short videos dialoguing teen angst and her conflict with her mother and school teachers.
Over the following years Maggie, under her stage name Maggie Grace, had guest appearances on several television shows, including CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Oliver Beene, and portrayed Martha Moxley in the television movie Murder In Greenwich. In 2003, she played the Goth-influenced, estranged daughter of Tom Selleck and Wendy Crewson in the drama 12 Mile Road.
It was in 2004 that Grace landed her big break when she won the role of the affluent, lazy and self-centered Shannon Rutherford on J. J. Abrams' television pilot Lost. When Lost was picked up for a full season by ABC Grace relocated to Oahu, Hawaii where the show is filmed.
During the hiatus between the first and second seasons of Lost, Grace starred in the remake of the John Carpenter horror film, The Fog, alongside Tom Welling and Selma Blair. The film was nearly universally-panned upon its release that fall. She returned to Oahu for Lost's second season, where she filmed the first six episodes, before moving back to Los Angeles.
Maggie was widely rumored to have won the role of Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand, but the role eventually went to Ellen Page. Maggie later revealed that she had never been contacted about the role and was surprised to read she was up for the part in question.
After a break in 2006, Grace returned to both small and big screens in 2007. She returned to Oahu and Lost to film a guest spot in a season three episode, and she co-starred in two movies: Suburban Girl, alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alec Baldwin, and The Jane Austen Book Club.
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