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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.

(Editing by Michelle Nichols)

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.

Victoria Beckham won't eat on airplanes.

The svelte star insists on taking strict measures to maintain her slender frame and shuns the food offered to her when flying first class on her frequent trips abroad.

Victoria's nutritionist Monica Grenfell said: "Victoria's always been a teeny little thing. She seems into her diet in a big way. Whenever we chat, she always asks me what she should and shouldn't be eating. She's very Audrey Hepburn looking, slim and neat. She's strict with herself.

"When she goes on business lunches she'll choose white fish and she'll often pick at things rather than have big sit down meals.

"When we talked about the 11-hour flight to Los Angeles, Victoria told me she's not that keen on eating on the plane. She prefers to catch up on her sleep and reenergise."

Celebrating her 30th birthday, Jennifer Love Hewitt got all dressed up (a la Audrey Hepburn) before having breakfast at Tiffany’s in Beverly Hills on Saturday morning (February 21).

Enjoying her special day, the "Ghost Whisperer" beauty sipped coffee and munched on a bagel as photographers took her picture inside and outside of the well-known store.

Looking to be in high spirits, Jennifer recently offered her two cents on the Jessica Simpson weight gain criticism, drawing from past personal experience.

“Not everybody can be super tall and super skinny,” she told Us Magazine. “You have to look inside yourself and find your own confidence.”

Continuing on to offer Jess a little friendly advice, Love Hewitt says: “Ignore it, live your life and be happy.”