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Singer and actress Janet Jackson posed in a mink coat as the new face of luxury fur company Blackglama earlier this month. The Grammy winner stars in Blackglama Fur's new "What Becomes A Legend Most?" campaign and joins a roster of famous names who have promoted the mink fur company over the past 40 years, including Sophia Loren, Diana Ross, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor.

Now some are furious with Jackson for her decision to place her face in front of the company. PETA has criticized her and called her desperate and others are piling on as well.  
Dancing with the Stars and Baywatch babe Pam Anderson is particularly vocal on her complaints with Janet's decision.

Will Janet care?
Earlier Jackson had revealed she doesn't give an "F" what people say about her, and she let loose in a revealing interview. The 44-year-old entertainer made her stunning comments to Essence.
She says: "There comes a time when you don't give an F what people say or think. You just do your thing because it's finally about you and not in a selfish way but in a great way."

Blackglama Fur's chief executive officer Joe Morelli said: "Janet is an icon in the world of music and entertainment, a true legend.
"She represents everything that this storied campaign embodies.
"Janet is to entertainment what Blackglama is to luxury."
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Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz has said she never wants to get to the stage where she is lying about her age. Cruz, 36, who has a role in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie opposite Johnny Depp, said she doesn't want to feel the pressures of aging as she grows older.

She said to UK magazine You: "I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

"I was very close to both of my grandmothers growing up - they lived long into old age and they were always beautiful to me. They loved life and it showed in their faces.
"Of course my face will change as I get older, but that's OK. It's a good thing to be old, because that means you haven't died yet right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it."
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No sooner did news break that Amy Adams is going to play Janis Joplin in the long-awaited biopic of the drug-bedeviled, bisexual 1960s music icon than the outcry began.

Music critics and Internet chatterers alike are bewailing the choice of Adams as Too Pretty, Not Gritty Enough, Not Gutsy Enough, Not Bluesy Enough, Too Sweet, Too Show-Tunesy.
Indeed, some of the near-misses for a biopic (Zooey Deschanel, Pink, Melissa Etheridge) do seem more readily adaptable into portraying Joplin than Adams, of "Enchanted," "Julie & Julia," "Junebug" and "Doubt" fame.
However, we can't help but remember, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx had lots'a naysayers before he proved just how great he could be with his tour-de-force performance as Ray Charles in "Ray."
How about the advance criticism over Joaquin Phoenix daring to play Johnny Cash (and doing his own singing?! What, is he CRAZY?!!). An Oscar nomination for "Walk the Line" ensued.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes? There were complaints that Martin Scorsese should have cast someone more grown-up-looking and manly than DiCaprio for his "The Aviator" -- until the actor turned in a performance that merited an Oscar nom.
It doesn't always work out when stars play stars, of course. James Brolin was critically crucified for his performance as Clark Gable in the film "Gable and Lombard," for instance. Jennifer Love Hewitt's portrayal of Audrey Hepburn in 2000's made-for-television movie "The Audrey Hepburn Story" won her a host of backhanded compliments. Hewitt was said by many reviewers to do an adequate job with the role, and even those critics admitted they were surprised and had expected worse.
However, when performers can nail such a performance, the rewards are big.
That's exactly what happened to Robert Downey Jr., who had done good work in a string of movies, but had yet to prove the immensity of his gifts, when he immersed himself in all things Charlie Chaplin to play Hollywood's supreme genius in the 1992 "Chaplin." He astonished critics and, yep, won an Academy Award nomination.
So Adams deserves a wait-and-see, at least.
TALK ABOUT STUNNING!: British presenter and fashion journalist Louise Roe of MTV's "The City" admits of her July 28-debuting CW "Plain Jane" reality show, "We're ridiculously up to the mark. We are still filming. We're filming till literally four days before it airs. The editors are going to work late at night for sure."
    
But despite the last-minute crunch, she's happy with the show that boasts makeovers "from the inside out. It's not just a giant shopping trip to Bloomingdales."
     
The first episode has Roe even going so far as to employ a hidden dog training electroshock buzzer on a girl, and giving her a jolt each time she falls back into such no-no behavior as slouching and failing to make eye contact. They work up to the big reveal, wherein the girls tell their secret crushes their feelings. Roe hopes viewers get inspired to shape up and speak out themselves.
    
"We've all, every single one of us, had Plain Jane moments where we've felt rejected by a guy or lost confidence for some reason. Hopefully, they can watch and relate. There's a lot of takeaway information, a lot of tips, for instance, when we go shopping -- 'If your body is like this, wear something like this.' I hope it will make everybody want to go out and buy shoes!" she adds with a laugh.
     
Fans can get Roe's help landing a crush without the electroshock aspect at the CW's www.cwtv.com. The website experience offers such goodies as first-date strategies and the opportunity to make a customized video to reveal one's feelings to that certain someone.
     
STAR SPANGLING: Caitlyn Taylor Love of Disney XD's "I'm in the Band" gets to showed off her vocal prowess before a massive crowd when she sang the national anthem in front of the Dodgers vs. Mets game at Dodger Stadium. "I'm so stoked. I don't think I could be any more excited," says the one-time "America's Got Talent" finalist -- who now plays rocker girl Izzy on the series about a teen (Logan Miller) who winds up as part of his favorite old-school big hair rock band.
     
Love is a lifelong music performer -- "I sang my ABCs and 'Jesus Loves Me' at 10 months old" -- and says that she and Miller are always jamming together in between shots on the "I'm in the Band" set. As far as the members of the faux Iron Weasel band, Steve Valentine, Stephen Full and Greg Baker, "They're really good actors. They're awesome. Since we've been doing the show, they've gotten better and better" -- performing musically, she says. "Steve Valentine actually has a pretty good voice."
     
THE BLOODLUST GOES ON: You have to know the vying is intense for the roles of vampire sisters Tanya, Kate and Irina of the Denali coven in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn" -- when speculation over the casting had fans posting prospects for the parts even before Bill Condon was announced as director. Also being cast is vampire Eleazar, and casting notices specify someone who is "able to play a Spaniard." We sure wouldn't want anything unrealistic in a "Twilight" movie, after all. Based on the fourth and final novel in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" saga, "Breaking Dawn" is supposed to hit theaters Nov. 18, 2011.
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Audrey Hepburn is the most beautiful woman of the last century, according to a new poll. The British actress is famed for her roles in films such as Breakfast At Tiffany's and My Fair Lady. She was known for her glamorous appearance; often posing in simple dresses paired with pearls and hats, and passed away of cancer in 1993 aged 63.

In a survey by television channel QVC, 2,000 women were asked who they thought the most beautiful women of the last 100 years were. The poll was taken to mark QVC’s Beauty Month, taking place throughout July.
Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole won second place. The star has undergone a style overhaul in recent years, becoming known for her glossy hair and fashion-forward style. She judges UK talent contest The X Factor, and is regularly praised for the unusual outfits she wears on the show.
Marilyn Monroe, who died in 1962 aged 36, came in third. Marilyn was known for her curvy figure, with her body regularly lauded as being the perfect shape. Actress Angelina Jolie scooped the fourth spot, with Grace Kelly rounding out the top five.
A number of big name stars shocked with their failure to make the top ten, including Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Kylie Minogue and Beyoncé Knowles.

QVC poll top ten most beautiful women list:

1. Audrey Hepburn
2. Cheryl Cole
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Angelina Jolie
5. Grace Kelly
6. Scarlett Johansson
7. Halle Berry
8. Diana, Princess of Wales
9. Kelly Brook
10. Jennifer Aniston
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Colin Firth would be "brilliant" in the 'My Fair Lady' remake.

The movie's writer Emma Thompson claims the Oscar-nominated star would be great in the remake of the 1964 Audrey Hepburn classic but admits the decision is out of her hands.

She told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "He would do it brilliantly, but because it's a really expensive movie it's really up to the studio. They're always really picky about these things."

Emma recently hinted rumours Colin's fellow Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan would be playing Eliza Doolittle - a London flower girl who becomes a lady after meeting and falling in love with Professor Henry Higgins - were true.

Movie Review Broken Embraces - Great - 4 out of 5 beams.  Penélope Cruz plays the object of desire for two powerful men - one a handsome filmmaker, the other a rapacious businessman - in Broken Embraces.

Hmm, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest creation includes more than a little wish fulfillment, doesn’t it: He projects himself as the virile lover of his favorite actress and conjures up a cliché capitalist as a craven destroyer of beauty.
Fortunately he does all this with consummate skill and with a great Screen Queen at the movie’s center. So it’s more than worth seeing for fans of cinema and/or of Cruz.

Leggy and ravishing, lithe yet voluptuous, strong yet vulnerable, Cruz plays an upstanding gal who resorts to prostitution, a Spanish Pretty Woman who puts Julia Roberts to shame.
As if that’s not enough, she easily assumes an Audrey Hepburn look and role in Broken Embrace’s movie-within-a-movie. Bravo!  Plus, she’s especially dynamic in her native Spanish.
Regarding that last: the dialog comes fast and furious. So be prepared to read the captions rápidamente.
Full review at WikPik.
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Cheryl Cole is the most photogenic woman ever.

The 'Fight For This Love' singer - who is the face of L'Oreal hair products - beat Audrey Hepburn, Beyonce Knowles and Marilyn Monroe to the title in a new poll of 4,000 British women.

A spokesperson for Nikon, who commissioned the study to promote their new D300 camera, said: "Cheryl Cole was a clear winner and is loved by the nation for her looks, dress sense and friendly nature."

Others to make the top ten included Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Megan Fox and Grace Kelly.

Cheryl, 26, has previously admitted that style plays a big part in her self-confidence.

Commenting on the infamous David Coma black and metallic dress she wore while on UK TV show 'X Factor', the Girls Aloud star suggested it wasn't a personal favourite.

Audrey Hepburn once declared her look was "attainable" and an upcoming auction of some of the fashionable film star's wardrobe will make that possible.

Some 35 dresses, gowns, separates and other items will be sold at a London auction on December 8 at the largest sale of clothing that belonged to the actress, who won an Oscar for her first starring role as a runaway princess in "Roman Holiday,

Hepburn, who is also known for roles as divergent as cockney Eliza in "My Fair Lady" and a terrorized blind woman in "Wait Until Dark," had "a purity and an innocence and a vulnerability that made her especially attractive," said Kerry Taylor, the fashion auctioneer who is offering the collection.

"She personified that svelte, chic, minimal, European look of the post-war period," Taylor said at an exhibition of the items. "And she was a firm believer that less is more."

Among the highlights is a haute couture cloque silk dress by Givenchy, the designer with whom Hepburn was most closely linked, which she wore to promote "Paris when it Sizzles."

"It was a terrible film, but the clothes were marvelous," Taylor said.

The dress is estimated to sell for $17,000 to $25,000, but could fetch far more. Hepburn's clothes are not often available at auction. Recently offered designs sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The sale stemmed from a June phone call to Taylor by Hepburn's lifelong friend, Tanja Star-Busmann, to whom the actress gave much of her clothing over the years before her death in 1993 at age 63.

The actress always "hated waste," Taylor noted.

She said 50 percent of the proceeds from the sale held in conjunction with Sotheby's will be donated to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and UNICEF, for which she worked during her final years.

Another highlight is a black cocktail dress estimated at about $30,000.

Worn by Hepburn in the glossy 1966 caper "How to Steal a Million," the Givenchy Chantilly lace number will afford the buyer a primer in how to look like a million -- or at least a bit like Hepburn.

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For those not yet accustomed enough to her face, Keira Knightley, long rumoured to be on for the role, will shortly be starring as Eliza Doolittle in a redo of My Fair Lady. She'll be re-teaming with Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), whose Indian Summer is currently on-hold, and possibly now permanently cancelled.

As you'll recall from your A Levels, My Fair Lady is the famous musical based on George Bernard Shaw's song-free Pygmalion, in which cockernee Eliza Doolittle is taken under the wing of Professor 'Enry 'Iggins, and lady-fied, for a bet. Julie Andrews made the role her own on stage, but was passed over for George Cukor's 1964 film version in favour of Audrey Hepburn, whose voice was then dubbed for the singing bits.

Not so with Keira, who's been taking singing lessons, and won the role despite stiff competition from Scarlett Johansson. Emma Thompson is writing the script, and Daniel Craig has been mooted as Higgins. Wouldn't that be luvverly?

She’s a daring actress who’s not afraid of any role, so it’s no surprise that Anna Friel is baring all in her latest performance in London.

The “Pushing Daisies” actress plays Holly Golightly in “Breakfast At Tiffany’s,” a role made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the film adaptation.

The only difference? Friel is giving her Theatre Royal audience something to look at as she strips down to her birthday suit, while Hepburn kept her clothes on for the role.

The free-spirited actress, 33, was the first woman on British TV to share a lesbian kiss and more recently played a prostitute in the BBC series “The Street” where she filmed wearing an array of racy lingerie.