If it’s summer and the weather is too hot to even breath the it’s time for some Hollywood awards. Of course I’m talking about Emmy Awards 2008. The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, September 21 at the Nokia Theatre at the L.A Live entertainment complex, downtown Los Angeles.

Let’s see who are the nominees for this years gala:

Outstanding comedy series:

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
The Office
30 Rock
Two and a Half Men - this is my favorite comedy serial! I really hope they will win!

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Elisabeth Taylor is one of my favorite actresses. She was born in Hampstead, London, England on February 27 (like my best friend) 1932 and that makes her 76 in 2008. She had won 2 Academy Awards for Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf (1966)

Her first appearance in a movie was in Lassie Come Home (1943), at age nine.

Love Life

Elisabeth is also known for her many marriages. Her first marriage was at age 18 with Conrad Nicky Hilton, grandfather of Paris Hilton. The marriage lasted only a year.

Then she married again but with Michael Wilding. This time the marriage lasted for 5 years.

Soon after divorcing Michael she married another one named Michael Todd. This marriage lasted a year. Amazing!

After a year of bachelor Elisabeth married Eddie Fisher who was her husband for 5 long years. In 1963 she met Richard Burton, her partner in Cleopatra to whom she cheated on Eddie. She was even accused by a Vatican newspaper of having descended into “erotic vagrancy. The two divorced and soon after Elisabeth married Richard. He was Liz’s hubby for 10 long years. In 1974 the two got divorced so they would marry again in 1975, a marriage that lasted only a year. No doubt they loved each other but could not stay married.

Then Liz met John Warner to whom she was married for 6 years. Her last marriage was with Larry Fortensky, from 1991 to 1996.

Nowadays Elisabeth Taylor may have lost her looks but she’s still one classy woman. Unfortunately, she’s got diabetes and that’s really a torture.  Perhaps her lifestyle got to her eventually

Quotations

“Big girls need big diamonds.” speaking about her passion for jewlery

“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.”

“I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.” - she got that right

“I don’t think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I’m not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.” - speaking about politics and health care

“I really don’t remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.” - well, she obviously was busy with Richard Burton

Photos

Photo from BigPicturesPhoto.com and the Daily Mail

One of my favorite comedians, George Carlin has died Sunday night. He was 71. George was having some heart problems and it seems that the cause of death is his heart condition.

George Carlin will remain one of the greatest American comedians this world will ever know.

May God rest his soul in peace!

According to Yahoo and The Associated Press Britney’s young sister, Jamie Lynn finally gave birth. She is now the mother of a baby girl named Maddie Briann and weighs 7 pounds and 11 ounces.

“Jamie Lynn Spears gave birth to Maddie Briann on Thursday morning at a hospital in Mississippi, the magazine said.

A high school student who lives in Louisiana, Jamie Lynn Spears reportedly met the father, Casey Aldridge, the son of a Tennessee paper mill worker, at church. The couple are engaged, People magazine said.” Reuters

I bet Jamie and Casey Aldridge are now thrilled about having a baby. Now they can say goodbye to all those quiet and peaceful nights, and try to find as much patience as they can to deal with the responsibility that comes with the new born baby.

And now all that we can do is sit and wait to see if Jamie is going to go crazy like Brit did. I really hope Jamie learned something from her sister and that means she’s not going to refuse the support from her familyto get past that post natal depression. A woman who just gave birth needs encouragement and someone beside her.

The former Doctor Who actress, pregnant with her first child is craving for Greek food. That’s a good sign. It means she’s doing great and her pregnancy is perfect.

Billie Piper and husband Laurence Fox got married last year and are happy about having their first baby.

Hubby Laurence is cooking moussakas, salads and meze, Greek food.

Hmm… yummy!

It’s a bit odd that so many celebrities are going to be parents this year. It’s like some sort of a pipe broke and celebrities just got pregnant.

Anyway, although I’m not pregnant, I’m also craving for Greek food. Unfortunately, the Greek restaurant is not open yet so I’m going to have to wait a few hour more.

While watching Step Up 2 my mind was busy with some great tango dance scenes. Here are 3 of them:

Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere - Shall we dance?

Jenna Dewan and Antonio Banderas - Take the lead

Gabrielle Anwar and Al Pacino - Scent of a woman

According to The Daily Mail, Jessica Alba has given birth to a baby girl.

Hollywood actress Jessica Alba has given birth to a baby girl, according to reports out of the US.

The 27-year-old, who married her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend.

Jessica and her husband, Cash Warren are now parents.

Good luck and may God give you a lot of patience, you’re going to need it.

I hope magazines won’t fight for the first pictures of the new Jessica Alba baby, or at least they’re going to donate the money to kids who really need them

Next month Nicole Kidman’s baby is expected to come and, who knows maybe even Angelina’s twins.

Another sad story in Hollywood! After Sydney Pollack’s death, the Great Ripper felt the need to take another star: Harvey Korman.

Four months ago Harvey suffered a rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm and last night he died after some complications from the rupture. He was 81.

Harvey had won 4 Emmy Awards for his contribution to “The Carol Burnett Show“. He gained attention with his appearance on “The Danny Kaye Show”. The most memorable film role of Harvey Korman was as the outlandish Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 Western satire “Blazing Saddles“, directed by Mel Brooks.

Sydney Pollak, the famous director, producer and actor has died on 27 May 2008. He had won an Academy Award in 1985 for Out of Africa (starring Meryl Streep) but for the last 10 months he was fighting a cancer. Last August he was forced to withdraw as a director of an HBO movie due to some health problems.

The Tootsie actor was diagnosed with cancer about 10 months ago but doctors couldn’t determine the primary source of the dreadful disease.

Sydney Pollack was born in Indiana in 1934. As a young man he used to work as an acting coach and TV director before his directing debut with The Slender Thread in 1965.

He directed movies with Barbara Streisand, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford (The Way We Were), Tom Cruise (The Firm) and Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie). I think I saw at leas half of his movies and still can’d

May God rest his soul!

Britain has lost another actor: young Rob Knox was deadly stabbed in front of a club in Sidcup, Kent. The 18 years old actor was trying to protect his brother, Jamie but was deadly injured. The fight left three of Rob’s friends with serious knife injures.

Rob Knox plays the Hogwarts student Marcus Belby in the forthcoming movie “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince“, the sixth part of the Harry Potter series.

Fortunately a man was brought in for questions. His name is Karl Bishop, currently unemployed from Sidcup will appear at Bexleyheath Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. He is charged with murder and wounding five other people.

Photo via The Sun.co.uk

I hope Rob will find his peace in Heaven!