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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Kristin Elizabeth Cavallari - American actress

Bikini hottie Kristin Cavallari cranked up the heat on the first and second seasons of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. Next, she got a part in Fingerprints (2007), a big-screen screamfest featuring Lou Diamond Phillips.

BiographyKristin Elizabeth Cavallari was born January 14, 1987, in Denver, Colorado. And that’s precisely where she might have stayed if her mother and father hadn’t run into some marital difficulties. After her parents decided to call it quits due to irreconcilable differences, Kristin and her mother moved to Barrington, Illinois, while her father and older brother Michael relocated to the sunny climes of Laguna Beach, California.

Naturally, it didn’t take long for Kristin to realize that she had received the raw end of the deal, and she soon began acting out at home and at school. Her surly behavior eventually forced her mother’s hand, and “Kris,” as she’s known to friends, was granted her wish to move to Laguna.
kristin transfers to laguna high Although Kris immediately took to her new surroundings, school was another matter altogether. After a year of attending a stifling Catholic school, she transferred to a hip public school called Laguna High at the beginning of her sophomore year. The move clearly paid off and Kris was soon invited to audition for a new MTV reality show called Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

Not surprisingly, producers fell in love with her combination of good looks and bad attitude, and the network soon turned its cameras on Kris and seven of her rich and beautiful friends. “It’s funny,” she says. “Literally we were all going to high school one day, then the next day everyone knows your little inside jokes.”

kristin steals the show Although Kris stayed in the shadows for most of the first season, she emerged to rule the school during her senior year in 2005, quickly becoming the show’s breakout star. In fact, she was even nominated for “It Girl” of the year at VH1’s Big in ’05 Awards, and she topped out at number No. 8 on Reality TV Magazine's list of the Greatest Female Reality Stars of 2005.

Unlike some reality show stars who simply fade into oblivion, Kristin later parlayed her notoriety into an episode of Veronica Mars, in which she played a lesbian cheerleader. Added to that, she became a regular fixture on the late-night talk show circuit and she was the subject of a vehicular prank on Punk'd. Kristin also got her feet wet with modeling, appearing in glossy magazines such as Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, CosmoGIRL, Seventeen, Teen People, and Maxim, which put her on its annual Hot 100 list.

Although she enrolled at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Kristin is still pursuing a life in front of the camera. “I’m done doing reality and I want to move on and do acting and movies and stuff,” she says. Luckily, we're already seeing the results. Kristin got a part in Fingerprints (2007), a terrifying horror film about a deadly Texas town, and another one in Spring Breakdown (2007), an upbeat comedy about three 30-something friends who invade a popular coed retreat.

Kristin Cavallari Takes Camera

What do you get when you mix a reality TV crew, four handheld digital camcorders, and an eye surgeon-to-the-stars, with a TV beauty’s pursuit of 20/20 vision and one innovative company willing to document it all? You get the breakthrough online docu-drama RealityLASIK, which documents Kristin Cavallari’s pursuit of the latest in vision correction surgery and her decision to ultimately undergoing Advanced CustomVue(TM) LASIK with the IntraLase Method(TM).
The online series, underwritten and produced by Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) (NYSE: EYE - News), the company behind the advanced blade-free LASIK procedure, premieres today. It is the first docu-drama to use a reality show format as the vehicle for not only entertaining, but also educating viewers about the popular vision correction surgery.
Cavallari added, “I am a person with real questions, fears, and ultimately, extreme elation with the end result. AMO gave me the freedom to tell my story, on my terms, with my own friends and family using my own cameras.”

Reality crews follow Kristin Cavallari’s every LASIK move over a one month time span, capturing her first doctor’s visit, the advanced blade-free LASIK procedure itself performed by renowned ophthalmologist Dr. Robert Maloney, and the subsequent post-op visits. The 8-episode docu-drama also catches Kristin in candid, confessional moments — some filmed by close friends and family and some by herself with the use of four digital camcorders. The reality series also includes a companion blog and audiocast of her experience.
RealityLASIK: Beauty Real-EYE-zed

The first episode opens with Kristin entering her management offices to pitch the concept for an online reality journal. The concept is met with much enthusiasm around the room as she details her desire to reach out to her fans and other young people.

“My frustration with my vision began in sixth grade with my first pair of glasses and didn’t get any better with my first pair of contacts two years later,” said Cavallari. “No matter how you look at it, glasses and contacts are a huge inconvenience, especially when you’re young.”

American actress

Lived with her parents in Colorado, until her parents divorced. Her dad moved to Laguna Beach, California with her brother, and she moved to Illinois with her mother. She also has a step-father and step-brother there. She acted out while there to get attention, and after her mother couldn't handle it anymore she moved to Laguna to be with her dad and brother. Her freshman year she attended a Catholic school with the uniforms to boot. But that year she took Driver's Ed at Laguna high.. where she met Alex M. and soon the rest of the Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County crew. She convinced her Dad to let her switch to the public school starting her sophomore year.

If you are one of those super-selective moviegoers who watches three films a year then make sure Aamir figures on your list. Varnaa….This is by far one of the finest attempts in recent times to explore the psyche of a modern 'foreign-returned' Indian as he's plunged headlong into the Kafkaesque nightmare of crime grime extremism and fanaticism in the underbelly of that big bright and bewildering city known as Mumbai.A Swades on skids hurling down into an abyss of unpatriotic instigations.From the moment Aamir (Rajeev Khandelwal) touches down on Mumbai's international airport, what assails you is that overpowering sense of an individual's struggle to survive in a pitiless and often unforgiving city.That debutant director Rajkumar Gupta is able to muster a fair amount of smiles and chuckles in this tale of one day in the life of a man caught in a nightmare that even Kafka would find hard to create let alone condone, is entirely providential.Aamir could've easily slipped into being a heavyhanded polemical study of the isolation and persecution of the Indian Muslim and his constant battle to remain part of the mainstream even as he's provoked and instigated from both ends to keel over and surrender to forces of chaos anarchy and annihilation.Ironically a work of art like Aamir embraces the chaos to create a universe that is in a strange a stirring way, the opposite of destruction.Persistently, Aamir repeatedly invokes images of ominous doom as we see the protagonist wind his way through a dreadful day that would end in abject tragedy.The taut and tense narration finds supreme sustenance from its outdoors. Indeed apart from Khandelwal and his portrayal of the the reluctant hero, the real protagonist of Aamir is Mumbai city.The crowded congested chawls and gullis, the reek of deprivation and the stench and sweat of anxiety assail your semses in a way that we last saw in Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday.Squalor seldom seemed so splendidly evocative. As the protagonist winds his way through a day in the city that would lead to his inevitable doom, the camera captures crowds of bored bystanders and curious passersby looking at our man on the run with a tell-tale red briefcase….or shall we call it the grief case?...in his sweaty hands.First-time cinematographer Alphons Roy has done to Mumbai what most movies set on the city have not. He has made Mumbai at once the perpetrator and victim of a socio-political perversity that goes beyond crime and punishment.