CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR

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CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR: FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST TALENTED

MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES

DENISE RICHARDS

Name: Denise Richards. Birth Name: Denise Lee Richards. Height: 5'.6". Nationality: American. Birth Date: February 17, 1972. Birth Place: Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. Occupation: Actress, model. Education: El Camino High School in Oceanside, California (graduated in 1989). Husband: Charlie Sheen (actor; began dating in 2001; engaged on Christmas 2001; married on June 15, 2002). Relationship: Patrick Muldoon (actor; costarred together in Starship Troopers; began dating in 1998). Father: Irv Richards (former telephone-company employee). Mother: Joni Richards . Claim to fame: as Carmen Ibanez in Starship Troopers (1997). Quotes: Fashion has become such a huge part of Hollywood. Actors have taken the place of models on the front covers of the majority of fashion magazines - so you have to really put a lot of thought into what you wear to big events. I was on one magazine's fashion 'Don't' list for my hair the other week. Because it's a fun, funky event, I had it styled all big and frizzy. I thought it looked great. It was obviously not to everyone's taste.

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Okura Hotel Amsterdam

High-rise Japanese hotel with private jetty on Amstel Canal.

This upscale, contemporary hotel is on the south edge of the city, 2 blocks from the RAI Congress Center. The 370 guestrooms offer subtle Japanese decor, wireless Internet access, fax machines, and twice-daily housekeeping. Restaurants include a Michelin-starred sushi bar and the top-floor Ciel Bleu with frescoed ceiling and panoramic views.

What to expect: As part of a Japanese luxury hotel chain, the Okura is popular with Japanese business and leisure travelers, as well as other international guests who appreciate the extraordinary service and amenities. The 23-story hotel is in a quiet, safe neighborhood two blocks from the RAI Congress Center and a short tram ride from the museum district. The Okura’s private jetty for water taxis and canal cruises is right outside.

Amenity highlights: Dining options include a 23rd-floor French haute-cuisine restaurant, a conservatory lounge with canal views, and a Michelin-starred sushi bar with tatami room.

The hotel’s professionally staffed health club, built around an atrium, includes a 60-foot pool with jet stream, coed and women’s saunas, a spa tub, steam baths, and Nautilus fitness equipment. The on-site Tachibana Massage Clinic offers Shiatsu and other Japanese massage treatments.

Insider tip: Amsterdam has been an important city in the international diamond trade since the 16th century. Most factories and diamond shops offer complimentary demonstrations of the intricate diamond-polishing techniques. The hotel concierge has information about nearby opportunities.

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CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR: FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST TALENTED

MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES

DENISE RICHARDS

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: Not just another model-turned-actor, Denise Richards has done very well in Hollywood, with many roles to her credit. It was her star turn in 1998's Wild Things, though, that generated the most press, and certainly the most Internet interest in her career. The actor is refreshingly philosophical about her claim to fame, and wonders aloud how a mere kiss (actually a bit more than “mere,” and titillating for its menage-a-trois distinction) could precipitate such attention. There’s more to Richards than that kiss. The strikingly pretty 15-year-old up-and-comer moved with her family from their Illinois home to New York, where her modeling career took off. Photographed there and in Tokyo and Paris for magazines and commercials, Richards was a success. Her next home (and career) was in Los Angeles, where she was cast in television’s Life Goes On (1989), and also where, the next year, she met Melrose Place’s Patrick Muldoon, with whom she now has lived for ten years. In 1991, Richards appeared in TV’s Saved By The Bell and Married With Children. She went on to roles in the TV movies Eerie, Indiana (1992) and Bodies of Evidence (1993), and the series Against the Grain (1993), as well as appearances in Seinfeld (The Shoes episode - 1993) and Lois and Clark (1994). Richard’s film debut came with National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon (1993), and she took on Tammy and the T-Rex and Lookin’ Italian in 1994. More TV followed -- 919 Fifth Avenue (1995), PCH (1995), Weird Science (1996), and In The Blink Of An Eye (1996). The next year was big -- big roles in big pictures. Richards starred with Muldoon in Starship Troopers (1997), then went on to that famous kiss (and celebrated nudity ) in Wild Things (1998). In 1999, the actor worked steadily, filming Tail Lights Fade, Drop Dead Gorgeous and the James Bond flick, The World Is Not Enough (for a couple of Razzies -- Worst Actress and Worst Couple, the last shared with Pierce Brosnan). Upcoming for the actor are roles in The Third Wheel and Starship Troopers II. As well, her popularity is such that she is booked for at least a half dozen gigs as awards presenter this year. To counter all those Internet shrines erected to her Wild Things image, Richards plans to have her own website up and running soon. Web surfers will be given a chance to see what casting agents already know -- that that famous kiss was delivered by a hard-working actor with talent, presence and charm.

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Adresse
Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny
6, place Paul Painlevé
75005 Paris

Visites inter-musées

- avec le musée des Antiquité nationales
Quatre des thèmes de visites commentées par la même conférencière sont proposés et traités de façon chronologique de la Préhistoire au Moyen Âge :

- à 11h 30 au musée des Antiquités nationales (Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
- à 15h 30 au musée national du Moyen Âge (Paris)

- le samedi 15 mai : la table, art et alimentation
- le samedi 12 juin : l'écriture

Les collections

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CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR: FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST TALENTED

MOST TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES

DEMI MOORE

Name: Demi Moore. Birth Name: Demitria Gene Guynes. Height: 5'.5". Nationality: American. Birth Date: November 11, 1962. Birth Place: Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Occupation: Actress, model, producer. Education: Quit school around the age of 16. Trained for the stage with Zina Provendie. Husband: Bruce Willis (actor; re-married on November 21, 1987; separated on June 24, 1998; divorced on October 28, 2000), Freddy Moore (rock musician; 1980-1984) . Relationship: Oliver Whitcomb (martial arts instructor; reportedly dating as of 1999), Emilio Estevez (actor; born on May 12, 1962; engaged in 1986; separated in 1987). Father: Air Force man (left Demi's mother after a two-month marriage) Mother: Virginia Guynes (died of a brain tumor at age 54 on July 2, 1998). Half Brother: Morgan Guynes (special effects technician; born in 1967), James Craig Harmon. Step Father: Danny Guynes (salesman; suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide from the exhaust of his car in 1979). Aunt: Mary Guynes Hinman Capps. Daughter: Tallulah Belle Willis (born on February 3, 1994), Scout LaRue Willis (born on July 20, 1991), Rumer Glenn Willis (born on August 16, 1988). Claim to fame: as Molly Jensen in Ghost (1990). Agent: Special Artists Agency, Suite 302 345 No. Mapler Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA.

BIOGRAPHY SYNOPSIS: First there was her dad, Charles Harmon, who left his wife before the birth of his daughter, Demetria Guynes. Then there was a stepfather, Danny Guynes, who moved his family 30 times in search of work, while gambling away the money he did make, ultimately committing suicide at about the time his teenaged stepdaughter was told he wasn’t her “real” father. Mom, Virginia, didn’t provide much help, with her own substance abuse problems and long criminal record. So it was on to Freddy Moore, the 30 year old musician who married 18 year old Demi and whisked her off to Los Angeles, where the couple divorced four years later. The last move, though, turned out to be fortuitous for the young bride. She had been working as a model since dropping out of high school, but decided upon acting while helping neighbour Nastassja Kinski rehearse parts. Demi Moore began her acting career with stage work, winning a Theatre World Award for her role in The Early Girl (1981). She went on to play a recurring character in the soap opera General Hospital (1982/83), taking on the films Choices (1981), Parasite (1982) and Young Doctors In Love (1982) at the same time. Her next role, in Blame It On Rio (1984), got her noticed, and led to a lead role in No Small Affair (1985) and a breakthrough performance in St. Elmo’s Fire (1985). It was at this career height that the actor’s unfortunate cocaine habit came to light. A determination to stay employed helped her kick the addiction. And stay employed she did with the 1986 films Wisdom, One Crazy Summer, and About Last Night. The next year Moore broke with fiancé Emilio Estevez and married TV (and soon to be big-budget movie) actor Bruce Willis.

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