terça-feira, 30 de outubro de 2012

Profile - Renato Manfredini Jr. (Renato Russo)



Renato Manfredini Jr. was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 27, 1960, son of the economist Renato Manfredini an official of “Banco do Brasil” and Dona Maria do Carmo an English teacher. He learned English since childhood, when he lived, from 7 to 10 years, in New York. New transfer the father took the boy, now aged 13, who both scored in Brasilia your music. Renato had a childhood and adolescence of the middle class. Between 15 and 17 years faced several operations, where three pins placed in the body and lived between bed and wheelchair, fighting a rare bone disease called epifisiolise.
At 78, inspired by Sex Pistols, Joy Division, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and other bands, Renato formed “Aborto Elétrico”, that the coming and going of members, featured appearances by Flavio has done and Lemos (after the Capital Inicial), Ico Ouro Preto and Andre Pretorius. In 82 abandoned by "Aborto Elétrico" fights with Fê Lemos became solo works. This period became known as "The Lone Troubadour." When the legendary "scene of Brasilia" was already a recognized underground force, Renato Russo created “Legião Urbana” with Marcelo Bonfa, Eduardo Paraná and Eduardo Paulista. A year later, Paraná and Paulista left the band and went Dado Villa-Lobos.
When Renato Rocha joined the band in 84, “Legião Urbana” had already presented several times in Brasilia, notably in the famous Flying Circus shows in Rio de Janeiro and Napalm in Sao Paulo. The success of his shows quickly led to a contract with EMI-Odeon. On the first day of the following year came the first album, “Legião Urbana”, which spawned the hits "Geração Coca-cola", "Ainda é cedo” and "Será".
With its powerful choruses and lyrics that spoke of emotional insecurities and nihilism generation grown during the military regime, “Legião Urbana” hit bottom in the aspirations of young Brazilians. The recipe was perfected in the next album, “Dois”, played better, better written and more elaborate. Successes like "Eduardo e Mônica" and "Quase sem querer" spoke a language that any young urban Brazilian 80s could understand and identify with.
Two consolidated Renato Russo as one of the biggest pop stars in the country. Already on tour this second album began appearing Renato Russo star: his shows included speeches preachers and a high consumption of drugs and alcohol.
In 1987 comes the third album, “Que país é esse”, generating hits like "Faroeste Cabloclo," a national tour and more crowded. In 89 out “Quatro Estações” that opens the band's more mature phase, both in sound and in lyrics, addressing issues such as AIDS and homosexuality. In “Meninos e Meninas", Renato suggests bisexuality. Soon after, a story Bizz magazine interview, Renato confirmed the fact.
"V", album released in 91, came loaded with a sadness that reflected the emotional and psychological instability experienced by Renato. The tour that followed had to be stopped due to his poor health.
“O Descobrimento do Brasil”, 93. After the album, Renato gave vent to his solo projects and released “The Stonewall Celebration Concert”, “Equilibrio distante”.
The first, sung in English. Renato then makes her hard to the more militant proud to be gay, to the sound of Broadway and Madonna covers. Stonewall is the name of a New York bar where a famous event in 69, gays rebelled against political action. Balance brings distant songs by Renato Italian music, one of the latest crazes singer.
Renato was HIV positive since 1989, but never publicly took the disease. Since the time of "Descobrimento do Brasil," Renato walked reclusive and aloof and avoided the press. The suspicions were confirmed on October 11, 1996 to her death from complications of AIDS, weighing only 45 pounds.



Adapted from http://www.casadobruxo.com.br/renato/biografia.htm
 Acessado em: 01/10/2012





Maria Eduarda Santos
Pedro Lavalle

segunda-feira, 29 de outubro de 2012


Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus as she likes to be called as birth name is Destiny Hope Cyrus, was born on November 23, 1992, in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. American 19 years old is already an actress, singer, songwriter, fashion designer, author and dancer, began her acting career in 2003, but became world famous in 2006 when she played Miley Stewart / Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel series, Hannah Montana. In 2008, Miley was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the famous 100 highest paid in the world. As a singer, has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.
At age nine she became interested in acting, then began, acting classes at Armstrong Acting Studio, where her family lived in Toronto. Her first role was a small Kylie, on the television series Doc, which starred her father. In 2003, Cyrus was credited with her birth name for her role as "Young Ruthie" in the film Big Fish, Tim Burton.
At 12, Miley auditioned for the role of "best friend" in a Disney Channel show about a "secret pop star". Disney Channel executives judged her for being too young, but Cyrus persisted, resulting in a call for future hearings. She did then auditioned for the lead role, Zoe Stewart. When she won the role, the character's name was changed to Miley Stewart. According to the president of the channel, Gary Marsh, Cyrus won for its energy and its operations. She tried to lose her Southern accent, but Disney decided to include it in the story. Then Cyrus auditioned with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, for the role of his father's character.
The Hannah Montana star has become popular among children and adolescents, leading it to a successful music career. Her musical debut took place on April 4, 2006, when it launched the fourth edition of Disney Mania. Cyrus did a cover of the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" by James Baskett, the original animated film of 1946, Song of the South. On 24 October the same year, Walt Disney Records released the first album of Hannah Montana, was one of eight best-selling albums in the U.S. in 2006, selling nearly two million copies.
In July 2008, Cyrus released her second studio album, the first who had no connection with the character Hannah Montana, titled Breakout. At the time, she said Breakout was inspired by "what happened in her life last year." The album debuted at # 1 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., selling 371,000 in its first week copies. "7 Things" was the first single from this album. The single debuted at # 84 on the Billboard Hot 100. Two weeks after the launch, it jumped from # 70 to # 9.
In June 2009 Miley Cyrus began recording her movie, “The Last Song”, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, in which she plays a young rebel who will spend the summer with her father in a quiet seaside town. The film opened in several countries in 2010, was designed with the intention of introducing Cyrus to adult audiences.
Cyrus starred in The Last Song, which was released on March 31, 2010, and received several poor reviews, as well as the performance of Miley. However, the film was commercially successful, grossing over 88 million dollars in worldwide booffice. According to box-office analyst Exhibitor Relations, the film marked "a successful transition to adult roles for Miley Cyrus."
Cyrus's career has been full of controversies, which extend up to date. Under the spotlight from a young age, the attitudes of the singer and actress are observed and analyzed constantly by the media. In December 2007, a controversy began when Cyrus posted some pictures on her private MySpace account, which were leaked to the public. The photos showed the singer and a girlfriend sharing a sweet and almost kissing, which led to rumors on the Internet, generating rumors of lesbianism.
The performance of the Cyrus singing "Party in th USA" during the Teen Choice Awards 2009 also caused controversy, with some viewers criticizing provocative clothing used by the singer and the inclusion of a brief pole dance, inappropriate for their age (sixteen at the time) and for her young fans.
In early 2011, in an interview with GQ magazine, Miley's father, Billy Ray Cyrus said that the relationship with the family was badly affected because the Hannah Montanna serie. "Everything is falling apart and people just want to blame Miley for everything. [The serie] destroyed my family ... That drug program destroyed my family.It´s so sad." When asked if he was sorry that you let her enter the program, he replied: "I hate to say it, but yes, I am. Would have changed everything if I could. For my family to be well and all being well, happy and safe and seem normal It is .... I erase it all in a second if I could. "
Miley filmed two more films: LOLA and So Undercover in 2010. The first to debut in August 2012 and the second also with debut slated for the second half of 2012.
Having spent nearly a year away from the spotlight, Cyrus has confirmed that this time has passed and she is now back. Miley can release a new single in November 2012. In April, Miley began recording their fourth studio album, no release date scheduled.
Miley Cyrus announced her engagement with Liam Hemsworth in early June 2012. The actress and singer is focused on raising a family, which currently consists of five dogs.


terça-feira, 23 de outubro de 2012

Personal Profile Cornelia Funke



      The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, in the German region of Westphalia. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut and/or a pilot, but then decided to study pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. After finishing her studies, Funke worked for three years as a social worker. During her social work she focused on working with children who came from deprived backgrounds.
      Following university, she worked for three years as a social worker in an educational project, working with children from difficult backgrounds. Following a post-graduate course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a designer of board games and as an illustrator of children's books. Disappointment in the way some of the stories were told, combined with her desire to draw fabulous creatures and magical worlds, rather than familiar situations of school and home, she was inspired to write her own stories for young readers.
      During the late 1980s and the 1990s, Funke established herself in Germany with two children's series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Funke has been called "the J. K. Rowling" of Germany; although she was highly successful in Germany, the first of her books to be translated into English was Herr der Diebe in 2002.[9] It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic and made it to the number 2 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list. The fantasy novel Dragon Rider (2004) stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks. Following the success of The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider, her next novel was Inkheart(2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). The trilogy was concluded in Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, English version Spring 2008, American version Fall 2008).
           Funke also worked as a producer on the film adaptation of Inkheart.
          On her personal homepage, Funke states that the vital starting point for a good book is an "idea", and if that idea is worth it, to research on interesting topics which support the idea, and to search for appropriate places and characters. She said of ideas that "they come from everywhere and nowhere, from outside and inside. I have so many, I won't be able to write them down in one lifetime." The characters, Cornelia Funke elaborates, "Mostly they step into my writing room and are so much alive, that I ask myself, where did they come from. Of course, some of them are the result of hard thinking, adding characteristics, manners, etc., but others are alive from the first moment they appear", and pointed out that Dustfinger from "Inkheart" was one of the most vivid characters who ever popped into her mind. For aspiring authors, Funke says: "Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word."

        As a reader, Cornelia has always loved good fantasy, particularly British fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M Barrie's Peter Pan. Cornelia Funke's own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal – and power – of her storytelling.
       Cornelia Funke researches for each novel meticulously. For example, before writing Inkheart, she researched about booksellers, book collectors, book thieves and even book murderers as well as reading about martens and fire eaters. She then imagined the characters and the places they might go, writes down plot lines for the first 20 chapters. Then, and only then - after about six months – she writes the first sentence. A major novel will take her about a year to write. She always does her own sketches – in pen and ink (her grandfather was a famous etcher), she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them.
             She married printer Rolf Funke in 1981. They have two children, Anna (b. 1989) and Ben (b. 1994). Up until 2005 the Funke family lived in Hamburg, Germany, when they moved to Los Angeles. Sadly, in March 2006, Rolf died of cancer.

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COLBIE AND JASON INTERVIEW


Colbie Caillat
Colbie Maria Caillat is a singer and songwriter of North-America. Born in 28 of May 1985. Your first successful was in Myspace social network where she put some music, for example “Bubbly”
That leave her to get the album “Coco” the 5° place position on the Billboard. She is from Malibu but grow up Newbury Park, California. When she was eleven years old she start to sing professionally but play piano.
In 2010 she was indicate for the Gammy Awards with the song “Lucky” in the category  “Best vocal pop collaboration” in the case with Jason Mraz and won.


Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is one of the most famous pop music singer of the world. He was born in the state of Virginia in 23 of June 1977. Jason is not just a good. He is a songwriter and violin player too. In your musical’s influences there is reggae, rock, jazz, pop and folk music.
He had a lot of Grammy indications and he get be in the 50° Best Billboard’s albums. ”I’m Yours” can be considered your best ever song of your career. It was released in 2008 and today is played radio



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Leticia Cardoso
Victor Tadeu
Matheus Venancio

David Letterman interviews Johnny Depp



segunda-feira, 22 de outubro de 2012

David Letterman interview James Hetfield


Jessie J


Jessie J profile
Jessica Ellen Cornish was born in the London district of Chadwell Heath, England, on March 27, 1988. Best known by her stage name Jessie J, is a British singer-songwriter.

 Before achieving fame as a singer, Jessie had already gained notoriety in the music industry by writing hit songs for artists like Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Chris Brown. Released their debut album, Who You Are, in February 2011 - at which he has already released seven singles so far: "Do It Like a Dude", "Price Tag" (featuring participation by American rapper BoB) " Nobody's Perfect "," Who's Laughing Now "," Who You Are "," Domino "and" Laserlight "(featuring DJ Frances partnership of David Guetta). Hailed by critics and audiences, the album reached the second position of the UK Albums Chart, the UK, as the best, selling 600,000 copies in the country until July 2011 - and reaching the Top 10 in several countries worldwide, including Australia, Switzerland, United States, Canada and Ireland. Jessie J was also a backing vocalist for Cyndi Lauper during Lauper concert in their UK tour of 2008, Bring Ya To The Brink Tour.
 Following other aspects of his career, the singer is currently a judge and mentor the musical reality show The Voice UK. Citing several important names of world music as influences, Jessie is known for a musical style and unconventional artistic performance that mixes your voice singers typical style soul with contemporary R & B, pop and hip-hop. Since achieving international stardom, the singer has received dozens of awards and nominations in recognition of his contribution to the music world, including the Critics' Choice BRIT Award 2011 and the Sound of the 2011 BBC television network. Until April 2012, Jessie has sold a total of 2.5 million albums and over 12 million singles worldwide.

Educated at Mayfield High School, also attended Colin's Performing Arts School and eleven was cast for the production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind at West End Jessie has two sisters, who are five and seven years older than it. Unlike her sisters, Jessie said that he did "was never really that good." She says she was always good at singing and it was her passion. However, at age 11, she was expelled from her school choir for singing too loud.
Jessie J has an irregular heartbeat since its 11 years, and suffered a minor stroke at 18. As a result, she does not drink alcohol or smoke. In early 2011, she had a panic attack on stage, after being forced to perform in the dark. On June 12, 2011, Jessie broke her foot while rehearsing for the Summertime Ball, needing to undergo transplant surgery some bones. During the recovery process she continued to perform, and now sitting in a chair with decorated plaster foot. The videocliples songs "Who's Laughing Now" and "Who You Are", for example, launched in August and September 2011, respectively, were recorded at this time, so she appears sitting.
As for his sexuality, Jessie is openly bisexual. Despite not liking to talk about his love life, about this, she said: "I never hid from anyone (...) Yes, I've dated girls and boys ... Get over it."


 Interview


Students: Marina Jorge Gouvêa and Luiza Helena Sampaio

James alan Hetfield


     James Alan Hetfield


       James Hetfield performing with Metallica in 2012.  
 

 

Hetfield was born August 3, 1963. He is of German, English, Irish and Scottish descent. He has two older half-brothers from his mother's first marriage and one younger sister. He attended Downey High School his freshman and sophomore years. He graduated from Orange County's Brea Olinda High School in 1981.
His father, Virgil, was a truck driver who left the family when Hetfield was young. His mother, Cynthia, was a light opera singer. The two divorced in 1976. Virgil and Cynthia were very strict Christian Scientists, and in accordance with their beliefs, Hetfield's parents strongly disapproved of medicine or any other medical treatment and remained loyal to their faith even as Cynthia was dying from cancer. This upbringing became the inspiration for many of Hetfield's lyrics later in his career with Metallica, such as songs like "The God That Failed".
Cynthia Hetfield died of cancer in 1979 when James was 16 years old. After the death of his mother, Hetfield went to live with his older half-brother David. Virgil died in late 1996, during Metallica's Load tour.

When he is not writing, singing or playing, Hetfield engages in a variety of outdoor activities including hunting, skateboarding, snowboarding, water and jet-skiing; sketching, working in his garage customizing cars and motorcycles, watching his favorite football team the Oakland Raiders, and going to hot-rod shows.

He also collects vintage guitars — particularly those from 1963 — and enjoys working on classic automobiles. Among his favorites are a '74 Chevy Nova, which he helped restore, and "The Beast", an all-terrain four wheel drive Blazer.

He put his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro up for sale on eBay, with the proceeds going to a Music for Schools program. The car was used in the video for "I Disappear" and was given to him as a gift upon the video's completion. Years later, James donated the car to the Hard Rock Cafe which is featured in the movie Hard Rock Treasures. "Slowburn," his 1936 Auburn boat tail speedster won the 2010 Goodguys West Coast Custom of the Year.

Hetfield has a number of tattoos, including one which shows flames encasing four cards, – ace (1), 9, 6 and 3 – representing the year of his birth, and the words "Carpe Diem" ("seize the day", also part of the title of the track "Carpe Diem Baby" of ReLoad). The flames from the tattoo are in reference to the pyrotechnic accident which he suffered in 1992 during a concert in Montréal, Canada. He has tattooed an 'M' on his right hand which stands for "Metallica" and 'F' on his left hand which stands for "Francesca". He also has some Christian tattoos, including crosses and one of Jesus in his right arm. He has a tattoo of two razors forming the straight edge X symbol on his left wrist.

Aside from these pursuits, Hetfield says he is often happiest spending time with his wife Francesca and their three children: Cali (b. June 13, 1998), Castor (b. May 18, 2000), and Marcella (b. January 17, 2002). Hetfield married his wife Francesca Tomasi on August 17, 1997.

During an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Hetfield stated that his wife had helped him to mature and learn to deal with his anger issues more constructively, explaining that after they met, his destructive tendencies embarrassed both of them. He is also sober and has been since undergoing a rehab program in 2002 (documented in the film Some Kind of Monster), maintaining total abstinence from alcohol. In a 2010 interview with So What!, the official magazine of Metallica's fan club, Hetfield stated that he is a "reborn straight edge".

The first single he ever bought was "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

He and his family currently reside in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. He was featured in a documentary, called Absent, directed by Justin Hunt, which takes a look at the effects of absent fathers on their children and the "father wound" that they leave behind. Hetfield and Hunt were interviewed about the film by Fox News Channel's Fox and Friends program on March 30, 2011.

 Hetfield has expressed his disdain for politics and celebrities who "soapbox their opinions," stating that, "For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion." In 2007, Metallica performed at London's Live Earth concert. When James was asked for his thoughts on climate change, he responded by saying,

"I really avoided the press around the Live Earth day. I didn't quite agree with what was going on there. Politics drive me crazy, and I don't like talking politics. Politics get in the way of things; they get in the way of getting things done, and getting our music across is what we wanna do — we don't wanna cloud it with 'Democrat, Republican,' whatever. Our philosophy is 'think for yourself' at the end of the day — do what you think feels right. I really believe that humans will survive. I have a lot of faith in mankind that we will overcome and adapt — whatever it is; whether it's man-made or God-made, or Earth/Mother Nature — we have a lot of smart people on this planet that will make something good out of bad."    
 
Alunos : Lucas Lourenço barros e Vinicius Fornazier
 

Profile and Interview


Profile – Emma Watson

                           Watson at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Struck by Lightning  

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress and model. Watson rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. She was cast as Hermione at the age of nine, having previously acted only in school plays. From 2001 to 2011, she starred in all eight Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. Watson's work on the Harry Potter series has earned her several awards and more than £10 million. She made her modelling debut for Burberry's Autumn/Winter campaign in 2009.
In 2007, Watson announced her involvement in two productions: the television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes and an animated film, The Tale of Despereaux.Ballet Shoes was broadcast on 26 December 2007 to an audience of 5.2 million, and The Tale of Despereaux, based on the novel by Kate DiCamillo, was released in 2008 and grossed over US $86 million in worldwide sales. In 2012, she starred in Stephen Chbosky's film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and was confirmed for the role of Ila in Darren Aronofsky's biblical epic Noah.

Early life
Emma Watson was born in Paris, to Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both British lawyers. Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young; following their divorce, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Oxfordshire, spending weekends in her father's house in London. Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though "not as well" as she used to.
From the age of six, Watson had wanted to become an actress, and for a number of years she trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. By the age of ten, she had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince, but she had never acted professionally before the Harry Potter series. "I had no idea of the scale of the film series," she stated in a 2007 interview with Parade; "If I had I would have been completely overwhelmed."

Career

In 1999, casting began for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), the film adaptation of British author J. K. Rowling's best-selling novel. Casting agents found Watson through her Oxford theatre teacher, and producers were impressed by her confidence. After eight auditions, producer David Heyman told Watson and fellow applicants Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint that they had been cast for the roles of the schoolfriends Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley respectively. Rowling supported Watson from her first screen test. She acted in all Harry Potter movies playing the role of Hermione Granger, the smart, loyal and charismatic witch and also one of Harry’s best friends.
She also acted in the BBC film Ballet Shoes, an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Noel Streatfeild and The Tale of Despereaux, a children's comedy starring Matthew Broderick with Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane (playing the character of Rubeus Hagrid) also starring in the film. In May 2010, Watson was reported to be in talks to star in a film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Also that month, she announced that she would appear in a music video for One Night Only after meeting lead singer George Craig at the 2010 Winter/Summer Burberry advertising campaign.  In her first post-Harry Potter film, Watson appeared in 2011's My Week with Marilyn as Lucy, a wardrobe assistant who has a few dates with the main character, Colin Clark. In June 2012, Watson was confirmed for the role of Ila in Darren Aronofsky's Noah. and in August 2012, she confirmed that she would begin filming Guillermo del Toro's Beauty and the Beast in the summer of 2013.

Personal life

After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, Watson attended The Dragon School until June 2003 and then moved to Headington School, also in Oxford. While on film sets, Watson and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day. In June 2006, Watson took GCSE examinations in 10 subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades. After leaving school, Watson took a gap year to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009, but said she "definitely want[ed] to go to university". Watson has stated she is a Christian.
The Providence Journal reported that Watson had confirmed that she had chosen Brown University, located in Providence, Rhode Island. In March 2011, after 18 months at the university, Watson announced that she was deferring her course for "a semester or two to give her more time to participate in the advertising buildup for the release of the second Deathly Hallows film, and other projects. Watson continued her studies reading English at Worcester College, Oxford University. Watson was due to return to Brown for her senior year, but has postponed her studies until further notice to work on film projects.


 Interview


STUDENTS: MELINA ASSUNÇÃO GOMES DE ARAÚJO
MARINA XAVIER TEIXEIRA