Josie maran

Josie is an extremely accomplished model and actress. Known as the Face of Maybelline, GUESS? girl, and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, she's graced countless magazine covers, been in many high profile advertising campaigns, movies, videogames, and more
Born and raised in northern California, Josie Maran aspired to become a model at a young age. Her father is Polish and Russian; her mother is Dutch, French, and German. At the age of 12, while attending a barbecue, a woman asked her to be in a San Francisco fashion show. A modeling agent at the show saw her and encouraged her to begin modeling. This was the foundation that led toward her professional career.Demand for her has been steady over the years. After an appearance in a Backstreet Boys music video, the growing attention focused on her skyrocketed. Some of her earlier works included American Eagle Outfitters, Allen Allen and Mango. Glamour Magazine gave Josie her first magazine cover and she later graced future covers. She has an impressive resume which includes work for Marie Claire, Guess, and Victoria's Secret. A very popular ongoing gig for her is the annual Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue which has featured her for three years in a row. Her most prestigious professional contract to date is with Maybelline International as their spokesmodel, where she has appeared in numerous ads and commercials. Recently, Josie began her transition from modeling to acting by starring in the lead role of an independent film titled, The Mallory Effect.

Jessica alba

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in Honey, Dark Angel, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue and Idle Hands.Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Mark Alba, who is Mexican American (though both of his parents were born in California), and Catherine (née Jensen), who has French and Danish ancestry; the two married while in their teenage years. Her maternal grandfather was a Marine NCO for 30 years, serving in the Pacific during WWII, and later as Asst. Drum Major for the United States Marine Band. Alba was raised in an Air Force family, along with her brother, Joshua (an actor who appeared with her in the season one finale of Dark Angel), and her grandparents, until she was seventeen years old. Her father's Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before they settled back in California.Alba's early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies; she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a burst appendix, and a cyst on her tonsils. This served to isolate her from other children at school because, as she claims, she was in the hospital so often that no one knew her well enough to befriend her.She has also acknowledged suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder during childhood. Her health improved, however, when her family moved to California.Alba had expressed interest in acting since the age of five. She took her first acting class at age twelve, and an acting agent signed her nine months later.Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a two-month job when the actress in one of the prominent roles dropped out.Alba appeared in two national TV commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child; she was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the TV series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.

Rambo returns with a flourish

Has it really been 20 years? Last time we saw John Rambo, In 1988, he was involved in some cold war endgame stuff in Afganistan, and his action-movie franchise, begun in 1982 with First Blood, seemed to be sputtering toword self-parody.Since then Rambo has faded into semi-obscrity, though his name is sometimes still used, perhaps a bit unfairly, as a synonym for revanchist, go-it-alone militarism.
When I saw the posters announcing his imminent return, I wondered whom he would be fighting this time. In Rambo: First Blood Part-2, he went back to Vietnam to collect pay back both from the Communists and from the pusillaniomous desk jockeys. Given this resume, it seemed reasonable to assume that now he might be heading back to Central Asia to huntdown Osman bin Laden.
But it turns out to I misjudged Rambo,and may be also Sylvester Stallone, Who directed and Wrote the newest Rambo,and who plays the title character.When we first encounter him, this weary warrior has retreated from geopolitics,passing the time at a remote river station in the Thai jungle, where he hunts poisonoussnakes and dabbles in blacksmithing.Old Rambo seems kind of depressed, to tell the truth, until his wrath is stirred by the viciousness of the Burmese Army.
Burma? But why not Burma? As a precredit montage of actual news clips reminds us, the military government of that nation has been engaged not only in wide-spread authoritarian abuses but also in a brutal, long-running campaign against the Karen ethnic minority. And it is with the Karen that Rambo, once roused from his weary cynicism, throws in his lot. No longer the bloody avatar of wounded American Pride, he seems more inclined toward humanitarian intervention- a one man N.G.O. With a mathete. Will he show up in Darfur next?
Not that he is motivated by abstract moral Concern. With Rambo,the Politicalis always personal. He temporarily joins the Karen cause because some westernaid workers carrying only Bibles, Medical supplies and an air of Sanctimony, hire him to ferry them upriver into Burma. He is Skeptical about their mission, and their Leader(Paul Schulze) Seems like kind of a jerk, but something about Sarah(Julie Benz), the only woman in the group, touches Rambo’s Soul. This is not a matter of Sexual desire, But rather the kind of Spiritual awakening that can be expressed only misty abstractions.
Ms Benz is on hand to Scream, gasp ,Fall in the Mud and huddle in a dump bamboo cage, waiting to be molested by the Burmese bad guys or rescued by Rambo.
And these bad Guys make the Vietcong in the Second Rambo movie look like Paintball-Slinging weekend warriors. Rambo is for most of its fairly brief running time, a blood bath punctuated by occasional bouts if clumsy dialogue.
But the movie does have its own kind of blockheaded poetry. Mr Stallone is Smart enough to present the Mythic dimensions of the Charcter without apology or Irony.