A lil something 4 de ladies-Ethan Hawke

Biography

Ethan Green Hawke is an American actor, writer and film director.Born in Austin, Texas to James Steven Hawke and Leslie Carole Green, Hawke moved to Princeton, New Jersey at an early age, where he took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre. He first appeared in various high school performances, e.g. in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan.At the age of fourteen he made his feature film debut in Explorers (1985). Afterward, Hawke studied acting at the British Theatre Association in England and at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He has twice enrolled in New York University's English program and is one of the founding fathers and artistic director of Malaparte, a New York City theatre company (productions included A Joke!; Wild Dogs; Good Evening; Sons and Fathers; It Changes Every Year; Veins and Thumbtacks; Hesh; and The Great Unwashed)In 1988, Hawke was offered a role in Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society and his part as Todd Anderson was his breakthrough. He left school and appeared in A Midnight Clear, Alive, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, The Newton Boys, Great Expectations and many other movies. In 2001 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Training Day.Hawke has recently directed Chelsea Walls and has written two novels, The Hottest State (1996) and Ash Wednesday (2002).On May 1, 1998 he married actress Uma Thurman with whom he has two children, daughter Maya Ray (born July 8, 1998) and son Levon Roan (born January 15, 2002). They separated in 2004 amid tabloid rumours his infidelity with an unknown woman. In 2005, along with his co-writers (Richard Linklater and Julie Delpy), he received his first screenwriting Oscar nomination for Before Sunset (a sequel to Before Sunrise).Hawke owns a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia. This land was purchased before his divorce from Uma Thurman as a family retreat.Despite not having a mainstream "hit" movie since Training Day, Hawke is still mentioned frequently in tabloid newspapers. Photos are commonly snapped of him going about his life in New York City.

Other Information

Attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School in Central New Jersey, but is not pictured in the yearbook (1984-86).Daughter, with Uma Thurman, Maya Ray Thurman-Hawke. [8 July 1998]Graduated from the Hun School of Princeton. [1988]Published his first novel, "The Hottest State," in 1996 (the novel sold for $400,000 to Little, Brown and Company).Was in a production of "Great Expectations" at West Windsor Plainsboro High School.Was accepted by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Drama in Pittsburgh, PA, but dropped out after only 5 months.Proposed to wife Uma Thurman twice before she said yes.His brother is a Green Beret.Welcomed second child, Roan, a boy on January 15, 2002. The baby weighed 7lbs 15oz.Childhood friend of director Bryan Singer (_The Usual Suspects_ ; X-Men (2000))The cat appearing in the Lisa Loeb music-video "Stay", which he directed, is his own.Has appeared in two film adaptations of William Wharton novels: Dad (1989) and A Midnight Clear (1992).He was the original choice to play FBI Agent Will Graham in Red Dragon (2002), but turned the role down to take time off from making movies.His parents were University of Texas students when Ethan was born, and they separated when he was three.Says that he is constantly mistaken for Mark McGrath from "Sugar Ray" so often that he signs autographs as "Mark McGrath" and, apparently, the same thing happens to Mark McGrath who, in turn, signs autographs as "Ethan Hawke" to fans.Met and became friends with River Phoenix during the making of Explorers (1985).When he was in the seventh grade, he played "Lon" in West Windsor-Plainsboro junior high school production of the play "Meet Me in St. Louis".Remains close friends with Dead Poets Society (1989) co-stars, Robert Sean Leonard and Josh Charles.Attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York for one year.First cousin twice removed of Tennessee Williams. Hawke's great grandfather and Williams' father were brothers.Is close friends with actor/director Frank Whaley, whom he met while filming A Midnight Clear (1992).On father's day 2004 he went to a Yankees game with his kidsIs a big fan of the Star Wars movie series

Babalaas Monday...

1.Youngest son: Tell me Daddy, what is the difference between "potentially and reality"?Dad: I will show you.Dad turns to his wife and asks her,
"Would you sleep with Robert Redford for 1 million dollars"?Wife: Yes of course! I would never waste such an opportunity!Then Dad asks his daughter if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for 1 million dollars?Daughter: Wow! Yes! This is my fantasy!Dad turns to his elder son and asks him,
"Would you sleep with Tom Cruise for 1 million dollars"?Elder son: Yeah! Why not? Imagine what I could do with 1 million dollars!
I would not even hesitate!So the father turns back to his younger son saying: "You see son, 'potentially' we are sitting on 3 million dollars, but in 'reality' we are living with two hookers and a moffie!"

2.A man escapes from prison, where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns, and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair. While tying the girl to the bed, he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom.
While he's in there, the husband tells his wife : "Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you.
Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you."
His wife responds, "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!"

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Biography forJennifer Lopez (I)

Birth nameJennifer Lynn Lopez

NicknameJ. Lo La Lopez Lola

Height5' 6" (1.68 m)

Mini biography
Jennifer was born on July 24, 1969 in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. Her father, David, was a computer technician. Her mother, Guadalupe, taught kindergarten. Jennifer is the middle of three daughters. Her elder sister, Leslie, is a housewife who sings opera. Her younger sister, Lynda, is a DJ on New York's WKTU, a VH1 VJ., and a morning news show correspondent on New York's Channel 11. Jennifer's parents were born in Puerto Rico, but did not meet until both came to America. Her mother's parents were Europeans who settled in Puerto Rico. She says that it was her parents' work ethic that made a difference in her life. Jennifer took singing and dancing lessons from age 5. She attended 12 years of Catholic school, including an all-girl high school. She played softball and tennis in high school and was a gymnast.After high school, she briefly worked in a law office. During this time, she continued dance classes at night. At 18, she left home because her mother was scared by her decision to pursue show business. With casting on "In Living Color" (1990) in 1990, she moved to L.A., but initially hated it. Finally her boy friend, David Cruz, moved to be with her there and she learned to accept her new environment. Her career took off from her "Living Color" stint and reached new peaks with her portrayal of slain Latino singer Selena (1997) in 1997.IMDb mini-biography by: http://www.imdb.com/SearchBios?John%20Sacksteder%20%3C%20jsack@ka.net%3E

Mini biography
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born in the Castle Hill section of the South Bronx on July 24, 1969. The middle of three musically inclined sisters, Leslie, 34, a homemaker and Lynda, 30, an entertainment consultant for New York's Channel 11, Jennifer always dreamed of being a multi-tasking superstar. Jennifer's parents Guadalupe Rodriguez and David Lopez were both born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the second largest Puerto Rican city. The two were then brought to the United States in their childhoods, and eventually met while living in New York City. While Jennifer is of Puerto Rican descent her paternal grandmother's parents were Europeans who settled on the island of Puerto Rico. As a child Jennifer enjoyed a variety of musical genres, mainly Afro-Caribbean rhythms like salsa, merengue and bachata, and mainstream music like Pop, Hip hop and R&B. Although she loved music, the film industry also intrigued her. Her biggest influence was the Rita Moreno musical West Side Story (1961). At age five, Jennifer began taking singing and dancing lessons. Aside from being a budding entertainer, Jennifer was also a Catholic schoolgirl, attending eight years at an all-girls catholic high school named Holy Family, located in the Bronx, before graduating from Preston High School after a four- year stay. At school, Jennifer was an amazing athlete and participated in track and field and tennis. At age eighteen Lopez moved out of her parent's home. During this time Lopez worked at a law firm while she took dancing jobs at night. Her big break came when she was offered a job as a fly girl on Fox's hit comedy "In Living Color" (1990). After a two-year stay at "In Living Color" (1990) where actress Rosie Perez served as choreographer, Lopez than went on to dance for famed singer-actress Janet Jackson. Her first major film was Gregory Nava's My Family (1995) and her career went into over-drive when she portrayed slain Tejana singer Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1997's Selena (1997).IMDb mini-biography by: GinaL
Spouse
Marc Anthony
(5 June 2004 - present)
Cris Judd
(29 September 2001 - 26 January 2003) (divorced)
Ojani Noa
(22 February 1997 - 1 January 1998) (divorced)

Trivia
Father David Lopez is a computer specialist at Guardian Insurance in NYC.
Dated musician 'Sean 'P. Diddy Combs' . [1999-2001]
Sisters are Linda López and Leslie Lopez.
Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997]
Her parents are from Puerto Rico.
At the movie wrap party for Selena (1997), on October 28 1996 in San Antonio, the star played an unexpected love scene when her boyfriend Ojani Noa grabbed a microphone and proposed to her in the middle of the dance floor, presenting her with a large marquis-cut diamond ring. She said, "Yes."
She was one of the "Fly Girls" dancers on the TV comedy series "In Living Color" (1990).
In the gyms they called her "La Guitarra" because her body curved like a guitar.
In her Bronx neighborhood they call her "The Supernova."
She moved to Manhattan to learn how to dance and used to sleep in the studio where she was practicing.
Rumored to have her body insured for $1 billion, and had her rear protected with a $300 million policy. [December 1999]
Lopez and boyfriend musician 'Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs' were arrested in connection with a nightclub shooting. Police found them with a stolen gun. The charges against Lopez were dropped, but the charges against Combs stayed. He was eventually tried and acquitted. [December 1999]
Lopez worked with Janet Jackson in her videos and on her tours, and can be seen in the video for "That's The Way Love Goes".
Grew up in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. It was from this neighborhood that she took the local "6" train to get to her auditions in Manhattan, as well as the inspiration of her debut album "On the 6".
Mother is a schoolteacher in Westchester County, New York.
Voted #1 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women list. [2001]
She and boyfriend Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs announced that they had ended their relationship. [February 14, 2001]
Is the highest paid Latina(o) actress to date for her performance in The Wedding Planner (2001). She was paid $1 million for her role in Selena (1997). [2001]
First actress to have a movie (The Wedding Planner (2001)) and a music album hit number one in the same week.
Met her husband, Cris Judd, while filming the music video for her single "Love Don't Cost A Thing". The two were married in a small ceremony (about 170 guests) at a home in a Los Angeles suburb officiated by attorney Barry Hirsch. Judd is a dancer and choreographer.
Is the only woman to have been voted the sexiest woman in the world twice in FHM.
Named one of E!'s "top 20 entertainers of 2001".
Voted the #1 best female body in "Celebrity Bodies" (UK) magazine. [October 2001]
She once hosted "Saturday Night Live" (1975) and appeared in a sketch as a singer for the USO who performs for soldiers during WWII. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01, she did this for real, performing in a USO concert at an American Air Force base in Germany.
Debut album went 6 x platinum.
Attended Baruch College in New York.
Ranked #76 in Premiere's 2002 annual Power 100 List.
Opened a new Cuban restaurant called Madre's in Pasadena, California.
Has relocated to Miami Beach after purchasing an estate there worth $9.1 million. Her neighbors on both sides of the house are Robin Gibb and Barry Gibb, and singer Ricky Martin lives eight houses away. [May 2002]
Was ranked 1st of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan (2001).
Came in at #5 in FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll, American edition. She had come in first in the 2000 & 2001 editions of the poll. [June 2002]
Grew up on Blackrock Avenue in the Bronx.
Released her third album, "This is Me... Then," on November 26th 2002. The first single from the album was the song "Jenny from the Block." Another track, "Baby I Love You!", borrows heavily from the melody of John Barry's theme for Midnight Cowboy (1969). Barry gets co-composer credit.
Engaged to Ben Affleck. [October 2002]
Was the first Latina actress to be paid $1 million for a movie role (Selena (1997)).
Ranked #47 in Premiere's 2003 annual Power 100 List. Had ranked #76 in 2002.
Does not drink alcohol.
Voted the 4th Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
Her ex-husband Cris Judd and ex-fiancee Ben Affleck share the same birthday. Ben is 3 years younger.
Ranked #5 in Maxim's Hot 100 List 2003, behind Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) stars Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, & Cameron Diaz, and Kristanna Loken, Shania Twain, and top-ranked Christina Aguilera.
Ranked #5 on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2003 list, behind only Alyssa Milano, Carmen Electra, Britney Spears, and Halle Berry.
Ranked #4 in the "Loveliest Latin Ladies" section of Stuff's 125 Sexiest Women of the Year 2003, along with Shakira, Salma Hayek, Daisy Fuentes, Roselyn Sanchez, Penélope Cruz, Eva Mendes, Sofía Vergara, Lana Parrilla, Marieh Delfino, and Sissi.
20 January 2004: Ended engagement to Ben Affleck.
Struggles to converse in Spanish, even though she was raised by Puerto Rican immigrants.
Wrote the song "Dear Ben" about her fiancee Ben Affleck and how much she loved him.
After four unsuccessful previous nominations, she won the worst actress Razzie for Gigli (2003).
Wears a size 6 shoe.
Her mother won a $2.4-million jackpot at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 2004.
Grew up blocks away from actor, Mills Pierre, where they both took classes at Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.
Sister Linda López is an Entertainment Correspondent for WB Network Channel 11 News in New York.
Secretly married Marc Anthony on June 5th 2004; all the guests were invited to a "afternoon party", and they were never told that they were going to a wedding.
Both her parents have European ancestry.
Stated in interviews during her engagement to Ben Affleck that once married, she would go by the name Jennifer Affleck both privately and professionally. This never came-to-be as she and Affleck broke off their engagement in January 2004.
2004 Honoree for the Noche de Niños Gala (Childrens Hospital Los Angeles)
Her new perfume is called "Still" and is the second perfume she has released with her first being "Glow"
Ranked #2 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
She was named one of People magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful People for 1997
Owns a home in Old Westbury - Long Island, New York.
Years before they married (or even became a couple), she and Marc Anthony sang a song together called "No Me Ames" which appeared on her album "On the 6"
Her favorite film is Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
There was some controversy around her fashion line "Sweetface" due to the excessive use of fur for the clothes. Members of PETA protested against her and famous PETA member Heather Mills stormed with some reporters into Jennifer's office in New York and expected an explanation from Jennifer, but the singer wasn't there. Mills then left a DVD in Lopez' office, which shows how brutally animals are murdered just to get their fur. Mills was then asked to leave by Lopez' assistant. [September 2005]
Wore a Vera Wang gown to her June 2004 wedding to Marc Anthony
She and Marc Anthony live in Bel-Air. In addition, they have a house on Fisher Island and another one in Long Island, New York.
10 April 2006 - Filed a request for injunction against her first husband, Ojani, to stop him from publishing materials that are disparaging. He supposedly signed an non-disclosure agreement in 2004 that prevents him from such a publication.
Named #31 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
One of her earliest appearances in entertainment was as a dancer in the music video for the song "Summertime" by rappers Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew. A closeup of her face can be seen in one shot when she is passing in front of Doug E. Fresh.
One of her first dancing gigs was dancing for an opening number by the New Kids on the Block for their performance on the American Music Awards in the late 1980s. She can be clearly seen dancing with her hair in a ponytail and wearing a cap in the middle of the dance troupe.
Owns a house in Miami
Named #26 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
Attended Holy Family Catholic Church and Grammar School in Castle Hill, Bronx, New York, New York, USA. She also attended Preston High School in Throgs Neck, Bronx, New York, New York, USA where she graduated from in 1987.
Personal quotes
"I thought she'd offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did." - to Redbook magazine August 1999, on the lesson in tough love she got from her mother.
"You laugh it off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go." - on the "outrageous" tabloid stories she hears about herself, at a press conference to discuss her movie, The Cell (2000) in August 2000
"This film certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs" (about The Cell (2000))
"I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing."
"Nail Polish" (upon being asked what she got on her SAT's)
"When I'm not prepared, which is almost never." -when asked if she ever feels insecure
"I don't really check out other people's butts."
"I'm not mad about my ankles - they're too skinny."
"We've all had a love of our life and failed love affairs. I'm just the biggest romantic - it's really sad. I tell people that, but nobody listens."
"I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. Were loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life."
In every movie they want you to look as thin as you can look. In Selena, it was the other way around: "How can we shoot her butt so it looks like Selena's?"
I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.
If you focus on the money, you're not going to get anywhere. You can want to be successful, but at the end of the day, if money is your motivation, if that's how shallow your outlook is on life, then you're going to be such an empty person. Because there's nothing driving you from the inside -- there's no passion...
My mom always told me that if you work hard, you can achieve anything. And it's true. It's one of the truest things ever.
I think crossroads come at many times during your life. Up to this point, I've had several. You get to a certain point in your life and you're like, Am I supposed to be doing this? And it's usually in the face of some failure - something that didn't work out the way you wanted it to. And you're faced with a decision: Do I keep trying to do this or do I give up?
"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face."
"If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else."
"I was in third grade when Rapper's Delight changed my life. But when I came home, my mother would be listening to Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Diana Ross. I want to include all those elements in my music."
"I didn't expect it to happen like this, wrapping one film and flying out to do a new one the next day. But I'm fresh enough and ambitious enough to stay up all night for the sake of a job. I'm not gonna take it easy. I want to do so much more when I'm getting these great opportunities."
"I'm trying to get the focus back on what I do as an artist, not what I do at home."
"It was all a bit mad. For a girl like me, wearing gorgeous clothes and having all this attention was amazing. It was like being a princess. But it didn't take me long to realise that that sort of fame can be scary. The more the circus builds up around you, the more you start to lose all those intentions that get you there in the first place. I was always about being a good performer and working hard, doing movies, making music, but that started to get lost in all that crazy stuff."
"I throw myself into love because I believe in it, but when things don't work you have to take responsibility. You all know things have gone wrong for me. Everybody has laughed, everybody has had a knock at me. It hurts, it always does. There have been times when I didn't want to be me any more. From the outside looking in, it may have appeared that it was a glamorous exciting life, but I would have swapped places with anybody. It really did start to get to me and the easy thing to do would be to walk away."
"I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer. I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J.Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more."
Salary
Monster-in-Law (2005)
$15,000,000
Jersey Girl (2004)
$4,000,000
Gigli (2003)
$12,000,000
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
$12,000,000
Angel Eyes (2001)
$9,000,000
The Wedding Planner (2001)
$9,000,000
The Cell (2000)
$4,000,000
Antz (1998)
$500,000
Out of Sight (1998)
$2,000,000
U Turn (1997)
$1,000,000
Anaconda (1997)
$1,000,000
Selena (1997)
$1,000,000
Blood and Wine (1996)
$250,000
Jack (1996)
$200,000
Money Train (1995)
$200,000
My Family (1995)
$50,000
Where are they now
(November 2004) On the set of new music video for her song 'Get Right' in Hollywood, California.
(February 2005) She and Michael Vartan are doing re-shoots of romantic comedy Monster-in-Law (2005) in Los Angeles from February 10 to February 15.
(February 2005) Launched third perfume in the J.Lo perfume line called Miami Glow.
(December 2005) Filming the movie _Cantante, El (2006)_ in New York City.

A lil something 4 de ladies

Mini biography of Ben Affleck











Benjamin Geza Affleck
Actor, producer

Birthday: August 15, 1972

Place: Berkeley, California

His father: Tim Affleck, a worker that divorced Ben’w mother short after he was born. He has a smaller brother, the actor Casey Affleck born in 1975.

Former girlfriend: Jennifer Lopez

The first apparition of of Ben Affleck in movies was during the publicity of some hamburgers, and later in the miniseries travel of PBS. Ben Affleck met Matt Damon who became his friend, later Ben abandoned school in order to become an actor.

In 1977 he wrote along with Matt Damon the setting of Good will hunting.

1998 Ben Affleck appeared in the first plan of the publicity for the movie Shakespeare in Love of John Madden, he won an Oscar Award for "Good will hunting", as well as a Golden globe to the best screenplay.

2000 Ben Affleck founded with Matt Damon, Chris Moore and Be Bailey the company LivePlanet, Inc., which first production: "Project Greenlight", gives sample of the works of the filmmakers. Affleck and Bailey have also conceived a project for television "Push, Snowed", and "Project Greenlight 2", in which they have worked with young screenwriters and directors

2001 Ben Affleck starred "Pearl Harbou" playing the role of a professional technician of data processing

2003 Ben Affleck interpreted a blind super hero in the film Daredevil of Mark Steven Johnson.

2004 In the movie "Surviving Christmas" Ben Affleck interpreted "Drew Lathem", with the director Mike Mitchell.

Ben Affleck, 31 and Jennifer Lopez , 34, split apart. Affleck has been seen alone in Europe and in the film Festival of Sundance, and JLo has been seen strolling with her former couple, the rapper Puff Daddy.

June. Surprisingly and few days after ending her relation with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez got married in Beverly Hills in a secret ceremony with the singer Marc Anthony, also Puerto Rican, who had himself just recently been divorced. The New York times published today that the wedding was planned after JLo discovered that she is pregnant with Marc Anthony’s baby.

Salary
Jersey Girl (2004)
$10,000,000

Paycheck (2003)
$15,000,000

Gigli (2003)
$12,500,000

Daredevil (2003)
$11,500,000 + gross participations

The Sum of All Fears (2002)
$12,500,000

Changing Lanes (2002)
$10,000,000

Bounce (2000)
$12,500,000

Reindeer Games (2000)
$6,000,000

Good Will Hunting (1997)
$300,000 (split $600,000 script sale with Matt Damon)

Chasing Amy (1997)
$7,000

School Ties (1992)
$30,000

Daddy (1991) (TV)
$20,000

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This article is about the term for an ethnic group used in Southern Africa. For other meanings, see Colored or colour.

Coloureds
Total population
4.5 million10% of South Africa's population

Regions with significant populations
South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe

Languages
Afrikaans, English

Religions
Christian, Muslim

Related ethnic groups
Khoikhoi, Afrikaners, Cape Coloureds, Cape Malay

In the South African, Namibian, Zambian and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers to a heterogeneous group of people who possess some degree of sub-Saharan ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under South African law. They are technically mixed race and often possess substantial ancestry from Europe, Indonesia, South India, Ceylon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, St. Helena and Southern Africa. Besides the extensive combining of these diverse heritages in the Western Cape – in which a distinctive Cape Coloured and affiliated Cape Malay culture developed – in other parts of southern Africa, their development has usually been the result of the meeting of two distinct groups. Thus, in KwaZulu-Natal, most coloureds come from British and Zulu heritage, while Zimbabwean coloureds come from Shona or Ndebele mixing with British and Afrikaner settlers. Griqua, on the other hand, are descendants of Khoisan and Afrikaner trekboers. Despite these major differences, the fact that they draw parentage from more than one "naturalised" racial group means that they are "coloured" in the southern African context. This is not to say that they identify themselves as such – perhaps preferring to call themselves "black" or "Khoisan" or just "South African" – but the history of racial segregation and labelling has placed all such "mixed race" people in a certain relationship together by virtue of the fact that the imperial and apartheid governments categorized them as coloureds and because, for the most part, Africans, Indians, and Whites continue to view them through such a lens.[citation needed]

Extended Coloured family with roots in Cape Town, Kimberley and Pretoria
During the apartheid era, in order to keep divisions and maintain a race-focused society, the term Coloureds was used as one of the four main racial groups identified by law: Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Indians. (All four terms were capitalised in apartheid era law.) Coloured people constitute a majority of the population in Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces. Most speak Afrikaans, while about ten percent of Coloureds speak English as their mother tongue, mostly in the Eastern Cape and Natal. However, virtually all Cape Town coloureds are bilingual, comfortably codeswitching between "Kaapse taal" (a creolized dialect of Afrikaans spoken mostly in the Cape Flats), "suiwer Afrikaans" (formal Afrikaans, as taught at school), and English.

Contents[hide]
1 History of the idea of “Coloured” people
2 Politics in the pre-apartheid and apartheid eras
3 Post-apartheid politics
4 Southern Africa
5 Other usage
6 See also
7 External links
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[edit] History of the idea of “Coloured” people
The Oxford Dictionary of South African English reveals that the word “Coloured” has been used since the 1840s to refer specifically to South Africans of mixed race, while the term Cape Coloureds came into use around the turn of the twentieth century. During the nineteenth century, the people of Griqualand, who would now be known as Coloured, were known by the Afrikaans term basters. An offshoot of the Cape Coloureds now make up a separate ethnic group in south-central Namibia, known as the Rehoboth Basters; they migrated to their current location in pre-German times. They have also subsequently migrated to the urban centres.

Children from Cape Town's "Cape Coloured" community.
The idea of “Coloured” people developed partly to describe the complex position of those who were neither white nor members of groups that spoke African languages. In part, the ethnic category reflects the destruction of distinct Khoisan political structures and the decline of spoken Khoikhoi language. During the 18th century in particular, Khoikhoi people in the southern parts of South Africa were squeezed between white settlement and Xhosa groups, with Khoikhoi numbers reduced by smallpox and the loss of the range they required to run cattle, the basis of the pre-settlement Khoikhoi economy.
So while many Xhosa people thus also share Khoikhoi ancestry, the white power structure designated them as Xhosa along with any other Xhosa-speaking person. The Afrikaans-speaking and increasingly diverse groups of black people who lived on white farms and in cities, on the other hand, were the descendants of the Khoikhoi serfs, the African and Asian slaves brought to South Africa from elsewhere, and the white settlers — and they spoke Afrikaans. The “Coloured” identity then became a way for whites to describe this group concisely as both not white, and not the same as African groups like the Xhosa and later, the Zulu and other groups.
The majority of people who came to be described as “Coloured”, then, shared three features that allowed some to describe them as an ethnic group in the anthropological sense:
Khoikhoi family lineage and racial features
traditional association with the Afrikaans language and the Dutch Reformed Church
a historically complicated and ambivalent relationship with the related ethnic group of Afrikaners

This did not apply to all people who Apartheid described as “Coloured”, however; for instance, so-called Cape Malays were at least partly of Asian descent and were often Muslims. In fact, the description came to apply to a number of groups, including Cape Malays, Cape Coloureds, Basters and Griqua; some also included the Namaqua into this group.
In the 1950s and 1960s, laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage, the proclamation of separate residential areas, the provision of separate schooling and other apartheid laws attempted to make the so-called “Coloureds” appear to be far more of a unified identifiable ethnic group than they were in reality. Indeed, many sub-classifications were required in the law to include all those that the government categorised “Coloured”. The political function of this group was to define “Coloured” people as distinct from Indian and Black people, with both small privileges and large policies of discrimination being designed specifically for each group.
There are approximately 4.1 million Coloured people spread across the country but the largest are located in the Western Cape where roughly 2.5 million Cape Coloureds live.[1] Within that population are included the Cape Malays who are distinguishable primarily by their Islamic faith and Asian culinary influence. During the Dutch rule thousands of people were bought, tricked or kidnapped from various coastal regions around the Indian Ocean and brought to the Cape Colony to work as slaves, mostly originating in Java, southern India, Mozambique and Madagascar. The Asian influence had led to a slightly different language use and a strongly Muslim heritage among Cape Malays.

One of the more distinctive subgroups is that of the Griqua, numbering between 100,000 and 300,000, depending on how they are defined or define themselves.
The absurdity of the systems of racial classifications were vividly seen in the convoluted criteria the government attempted to use to distinguish so-called Coloured people from people classified as being "purely" of African or European descent.[2] The Apartheid bureaucracy devised complex (and often arbitrary) criteria at the time that the Population Registration Act was implemented to determine who was Coloured. Minor officials would administer tests such as the so-called pencil test (testing the curliness of hair) to determine if someone should be categorised Coloured or Black, or Coloured or White. Different members of the same family found themselves in different race groups. Further tests determined membership of the various sub-racial groups of the Coloureds.

The most common language of South African Coloured people is Afrikaans, followed by English, though Cape Coloureds generally use a unique variation of the two in everyday speech.
Some Coloureds, especially of the middle-class, do not like the term "coloured," preferring alternative expressions like "so-called Coloureds" (Afrikaans sogenaamde Kleurlinge) and "brown people" (bruinmense) and "brown Afrikaners" (bruine Afrikaners) or “brown South Africans” (bruine Suid-Afrikaners). Others refer to themselves as "black" in the terms of the Black Consciousness Movement, which extended black identity to Coloureds and Asians in South Africa.

However, the term Coloured is still widely used in South Africa, including by some organisations which opposed apartheid, for example, the Congress of South African Trade Unions. It is also used amongst the great majority of working-class coloureds on the Cape Flats. In the United Kingdom problems have arisen when teachers have come from South Africa, some of whom define themselves as Coloured, and prefer this term to "mixed race"; some British people consider the term Coloured to be pejorative or, at least, out-moded. But some people who identify as Coloured reject the term "mixed race" on the grounds that it suggests that they are somehow the exception to a general rule of racial purity — an idea not borne out by genetics or history.

[edit] Politics in the pre-apartheid and apartheid eras

Zackie Achmat, founder of the Treatment Action Campaign, began campaigning at fourteen when he burnt down his school in order to persuade his fellow students in the Coloured community to join the Soweto uprising and school boycott.
Coloured people played an important role in the struggle against apartheid and its predecessor policies. The African Political Organisation, established in 1902, had an exclusively Coloured membership; its leader Abdullah Abdurahman rallied Coloured political efforts for many years.[1] Many Coloured people later joined the African National Congress and the United Democratic Front and whether in these organisations or others, many Coloured people were active in the fight against apartheid.

The political rights of Coloured people varied by location and over time. In the nineteenth century they theoretically had similar rights to Whites in the Cape Colony (though income and property qualifications affected them disproportionately) but had few or no political rights in the Transvaal Republic or the Orange Free State. There were Coloured members elected to Cape Town's municipal authority (including, for many years, Abdurahman). The establishment of the Union of South Africa gave them the franchise, though by 1930 they were restricted to electing White representatives, and there were frequent voting boycotts in protest. This may have helped the election of the National Party in 1948 with an apartheid programme aimed at stripping Coloured people of their remaining voting powers, and led to a constitutional crisis between the Government and the Supreme Court over entrenched clauses of the constitution. Coloured people largely lost their votes in the 1950s, with the last municipal votes being removed in 1972. Coloured people were subject to forced relocation; for instance, the multicultural Cape Town area of District Six was bulldozed and its inhabitants moved to racially-designated sections of the metropolitan area on the Cape Flats. Additionally, apartheid meant that Coloured people received an inferior education, albeit better than that provided to Black South Africans.

In 1983, the Constitution was reformed to allow the Coloured and Asian minorities a limited participation in separate and subordinate Houses in a tricameral Parliament, a development which enjoyed limited support. The theory was that the Coloured minority could be allowed limited rights, but the Black majority were to become citizens of independent homelands. These separate arrangements were removed by the negotiations which took place from 1990 to provide all South Africans with the vote.

[edit] Post-apartheid politics
During the 1994 all-race elections, many Coloured people voted for the white National Party, which had formerly oppressed them; and the National Party recast itself as the New National Party partly to woo non-White voters. This political alliance, often befuddling to outsiders, has sometimes been explained in terms of the common Afrikaans language of White and Coloured NNP members, opposition to affirmative action programs that might give preference to non-Coloured Black people, or old privileges (e.g., municipal jobs) that Coloured people feared giving up under African National Congress leadership.

Since then, coloured identity politics has continued to be important in the Western Cape, particularly for opposition parties which see the Western Cape, in particular, as a place where they might gain ground against the dominant ANC. The Democratic Alliance wooed away some former NNP voters as the NNP collapsed in the 2004 elections, winning considerable coloured support; this support played a role in the DA's victory in the 2006 Cape Town municipal elections. Patricia de Lille, leader of the Independent Democrats, does not use the label "Coloured" to describe herself but would be recognised as a so-called Coloured person by many; the ID party has also sought the Coloured vote and gained significant ground in the municipal and local elections in 2006, particularly in districts with heavily Coloured constituencies in the Western Cape. The firebrand Peter Marais (formerly a provincial leader of the New National Party) has also sought to portray his New Labour Party as the political voice for Coloured people.

The ambitions of the opposition parties aside, however, there is also substantial Coloured support for and membership in the African National Congress before, during and after the apartheid era: Ebrahim Rasool (now Western Cape premier), Dipuo Peters, Beatrice Marshoff, Manne Dipico, and Allan Hendrickse have been noteworthy Coloured politicians affiliated with the ANC, and the ANC is now the strongest political force in the Western Cape. The ANC has had some success in winning Coloured votes, particularly among labour-affiliated and middle-class Coloured voters, but there is also distrust of the ANC, reflected in the comment ‘not white enough under apartheid, and not black enough under the ANC’. [2] Voter apathy was high in historically Coloured areas in the 2004 election. [3]

[edit] Southern Africa
The term "Coloured" is also used to describe persons of mixed race in Namibia, to refer to those of part Khoisan, part white descent. The Basters of Namibia constitute a separate ethnic group that are sometimes considered a sub-group of the Coloured population of that country. Under South African rule, the policies and laws of apartheid were extended to what was then called South West Africa, and the treatment of Namibian Coloureds was comparable to that of South African Coloureds.
The term "Coloured" or "Goffal" is also used in Zimbabwe, where, unlike South Africa and Namibia, most people of mixed race have African and European ancestry, being descended from the offspring of European men and Shona and Ndebele women; under white minority rule in the then Rhodesia, Coloureds had more privileges than black Africans, including full voting rights, but still faced serious discrimination. In Swaziland, the term Eurafrican is used.

[edit] Other usage
The American English term (spelt as colored) had a related, but different meaning and was primarily used to refer to African Americans - except in the State of Louisiana, where it legally denoted people of mixed European and sub-Saharan African ancestry. The use of term in this way is now considered archaic and offensive in most contexts; nonetheless it remains part of the title of the NAACP, a prominent African-American organisation, and has been employed by some members of the African-American community as a legitimate ethnic/racial label when intentionally self-chosen and used in a respectful manner. "People of color" is currently used more frequently than "colored", but in the American usage, the phrase refers more generally to all people who do not describe themselves as "white", including people of Asian, Native American, Latin American and African descent. In a British context "coloured" has also been used to refer to black people, although this is now regarded as an old-fashioned and somewhat offensive usage.

Babalaas Monday...

The 6th grade science teacher, Mrs. Parks, asked her class,
"Which human body part increases to ten times its size when stimulated?" No one answered until little Mary stood up, angry, and said,
"You should not be asking sixth-graders a question like that! I'm going to tell my parents, and they will go and tell the principal,Who will then fire you! With a sneer on her face, she then sat back down.
Mrs. Parks ignored her and asked the question again, "Which body partIncreases to 10 times its size when stimulated?" Little Mary's mouth fell open; then she said to those around her, Boy, is she going to get in big trouble!" The teacher continued to ignore her and said to the class, anybody?"
Finally, Billy stood up, looked around nervously, and said,"The body part that increases 10 times its size when stimulated is the pupil of the eye."
Mrs. Parks said, "Very good, Billy," then turned to Mary and continued,
"As for you, young lady, I have three things to say:
One, you have a dirty mind,
Two, you didn't read your homework, and
Three, one day you are going to be very, very disappointed."

Freaky Friday...

Why coloureds can't be terrorists:
1. We are always late. We would have missed all 4 flights.
2. Mooi kinnes on the plane would distract us.
3. We talk kak loud and bring attention to ourselves.
4. Met kos en cooldrink oppie plane, we'll soema forget why we're there.
5. We praat with our hands, so we must put the weapons down.
6. We would ALL want to fly the plane.
7. We'll soema argue and start a fight in the plane.
8. Os kannie 'n secret keep 'ie. We would have told everyone a week before doing it.
9. We would have put our country's flag on the windshield.
and last but not least...
10. We would have all lined up to get our photograph taken by one of the hostages.

Coloured thought for the day:
Great people talk about ideas.
Average people talk about things.
Small people talk about other people
And f@cking legends, like us, never talk...we just drink.

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Thirsty Thursday- -Nicole Scherzinger

Biography for Nicole Scherzinger

Birth name
Nicole Elikolani Prescovia

Nickname
Cola Elikolani The Lead Pussycat Nikki

Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)

Mini biography

Nicole Scherzinger was born June 29 in Honolulu, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest and performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She then furthered her studies majoring in theater arts at Wright State University before entering the premiere season of the WB's television show, Popstars where she earned a role of lead vocalist in the female pop group "Eden's Crush.Outside of her work with the Dolls, Nicole recently performed with Japanese superstar, Yoshiki, at the Tokyo International Forum of Japan and had guest appearances on My wife and Kids and Wanda at Large. Nicole also has a single, "Breakfast in Bed" out on Adam Sandler's 50 First Dates soundtrack.
IMDb mini-biography by
AlishaSquarePants

Trivia
Mother was a professional hula dancer.
Former member of teen pop group Eden's Crush.
Attended Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio
Is a member of the Pussycat Dolls.
Ethnicities are Hawaiian, Filipino, and Russian.
Even though she is Hawaiian, Filipino, and Russian, she played a Puerto Rican in 2003's Chasing Papi.

Formerly engaged to 311 singer Nick Hexum.
Has a younger sister named Ke'ala.
Her mother's name is Rosemary, and her step-dad's name is Gary.
Joined the infamous Burlesque group Pussycat Dolls under the stage name, Nicole Kea.
Opened for Nsync on their Pop Odessey Tour as a member of Eden's Crush.
Toured with Days of the New as a female background vocalist.
Has worked with the Black Eyed Peas, Busta Rhymes and Timberland
Song 'Don't Cha' with the Pussycat Dolls went to number one in America
Is Eurasian like fellow actresses Jessica Anderson, Devon Aoki, Moon Bloodgood, China Chow, Kelly Hu, Kristin Kreuk, Jaymee Ong, Maggie Q, Monica Young and actors, Andrew Johnston, Brandon Lee, Keanu Reeves, Rob Schneider,Russell Wong, and Michael Wong.
She majored in theater during her college years and she's planning on going back to stage on Broadway.

She describes herself as a spiritual, hardworking and passionate person.
Her favorite bands are U2 and Black Eyed Peas.
Her favorite movie is Napoleon Dynamite.
Her favorite Pussycat Doll song from PCD is Feeling Good.

Personal quotes
Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.
Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

Where are they now
(November 2006) Doing some final touches on her solo album due for release before Christmas
(October 2006) Working on Pussycat Dolls second album that is due for release middle of next year.

Happy Valentines Day.

1.Be my Valentine, my love,

As I will be for you,

And we will love the whole day long,

And love our whole lives through.
For love has no parameters

And does not end with time,

But is the gift of paradise,

A pinch of the sublime.
So let us take this holiday

To resubmit our love

To those within that know no sin

And with the angels move.

2.Happy Valentine, my love!

All my love is yours.

Praised be love that brings us home,

Pilgrims to these shores.

Yearnings here find harborage;

Vanities, sly smiles.

All that righteous anger rends,

Love here reconciles.

Even in the darkness where

No bitterness finds rest,

Thoughts of you are like a dawn

Intent on happiness.

Nor would I have so light a heart

Except that I am blessed!

3.Hearts and roses and kisses galore...

What the hell is that schtuff for

People get mushy and start acting queer

It's definitely the most annoying day of the year.
This day needs to get the hell over with and pass.

Before I shove a dozen roses up Cupid's ass.

I'll spend the day so drunk I can't speak

And wear all black for the rest of the week.
Guys act all sweet but soon it will fade…

For all they are doing is trying to get laid.

The arrow cupid shot at me must not have hit,

Because I think love is a bunch of $#!+.
So there's my story... what can I say… Love bites ass... SCREW VALENTINE'S DAY!