Who is Bijou Lilly Phillips?

Who is Bijou Lilly Phillips? The world knows her by her stage name Bijou Phillips, she is an American actress, fashion model, and singer. Some of her larger film roles include Bully, Havoc, Hostel: Part II, and Tart.

Phillips was born April 1, 1980 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and his then-wife Geneviève Waïte, a South African model, artist, and actress. Phillips was born two months premature. She was a year old when her father was arrested for selling pharmaceutical cocaine from a drug store he owned in NYC. He spent a year in rehab. Bijou and her mother Genevieve Waite were then homeless for a year in NYC, sleeping on couches. Her mother was still addicted to drugs[1] The youngest of Phillips' children, she has one brother—Tamerlane—and three half-siblings—Mackenzie, Jeffrey, and Chynna. Her father got out of jail/rehab and took Bijou to Upstate NY Bolton Landing, through a custody battle in which her parents were found unfit and Bijou was placed in foster care with a family in Bolton Landing, NY. She lived there on and off doing extended visits with her parents who had both gotten houses upstate. Her father won custody when she was in third grade and she moved with him to Long Island, he had a liver transplant two years later.[2]
At 13, she moved to NYC to be a model. She appeared on the cover of Interview Magazine, Italian Vogue twice, and did a number of ads for Calvin Klein. At 17, she got a record deal and began working on her album 'I'd Rather Eat Glass' produced by Talking Heads' Jerry Harrison.
She was later cast in Black and White by director James Toback and garnered glowing praise from critics for her performance. Later, director Larry Clark cast her in Bully and won a role opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in The Door in the Floor, a film adaptation of John Irving's novel A Widow For One Year.
She starred opposite Anne Hathaway in Oscar-winning writer Stephen Gaghan's Havoc, directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Her portrayal of 'Lorna Doom' opposite Shane West in What We Do Is Secret, about late '70s seminal punk band "The Germs" also earned her glowing reviews. She can be seen in the film Choke, with Angelica Huston and Sam Rockwell.
Other films include the comedy Made for Each Other with Chris Masterson. She was also cast as Nancy Spungeon in a biopic about the Chelsea Hotel directed By Abel Ferrara.[2]].



In 2004, Phillips began dating That '70s Show actor Danny Masterson;[3][4] the couple met at a poker tournament in Las Vegas[5]. The couple announced their engagement in March 2009.[6]

Besides Vogue, Phillips has also appeared on the cover of Stuff, Interview,People, Detour, Nylon, Paper, 944, and Missbehave magazines. She has been on the catwalk of Jill Stuart and Heatherette.

Her debut album, released in 1999, was titled I'd Rather Eat Glass,[7] She toured with the Lilith Fair music festival in 1999. As of 2007[update], Phillips is working on a second album and has posted several demos on her MySpace page.


In 1999, Phillips had a brief cameo in the film Sugar Town, playing a girl wanting an autograph. That same year, Phillips appeared in Black and White as Charlie. In 2000, she played Estrella Starr in Almost Famous. Beginning in 2001, Phillips got bigger parts, including a supporting role in Bully and starring roles in Tart and Fast Sofa.
Later film appearances include Octane, What We Do Is Secret, and Hostel: Part II, for which she was nominated for Scream Queen in the 2007 Scream Awards. Her most recent starring roles are in Dark Streets and a remake of It's Alive.[8] She also has an uncredited cameo in the as-yet-unreleased Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead.[9]
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Who is Brian Keith Bosworth?,

Who is Brian Keith Bosworth? The football world knows him as Brian Bosworth or The Boz, is a former American football player. He was a linebacker for the University of Oklahoma (1984–1986) and the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (1987–1989).

Bosworth was born March 9, 1965 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, he attended MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas.

Bosworth was a college standout at the University of Oklahoma, where he was one of many blue-chip recruits from Texas lured across the border by longtime coach Barry Switzer.

Known for his then radical hairstyles and criticism of the NCAA as much as his play on the field, Bosworth was never one to shy from publicity or controversy. On more than one occasion "The Boz" referred to the NCAA as the "National Communists Against Athletes." He wore a shirt bearing that slogan during the 1987 Orange Bowl following the 1986 season. Banned from the game because of steroid use, Bosworth unveiled the shirt while standing on the sidelines to the shock and outrage of many, including his own coach, Switzer. While Switzer was known for running a loose ship, this incident was too much even for him, and he threw Bosworth off the team.[1]
A strong side linebacker throughout his college career,[2] Bosworth was known for raising his level of play in big games. He was regarded as a great tackler, though sometimes criticized for tackling too high. The winner of the first two Butkus Awards
as the nation's top college linebacker, he remains the only player ever to have won the accolade more than once. College Football News named him #30 on its list of the "100 Greatest College Players of All-Time."
In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Bosworth was a very good student who graduated a year ahead of his freshman class, thus making him eligible for the NFL's supplemental draft.
In September 1988, Bosworth wrote an autobiography, The Boz, with Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly. In it, Bosworth said the Sooner program was laden with drug use, gunplay in the athletic dorm and other wild behavior. Although many Sooner boosters dismissed it as the rantings of a resentful ex-player, an NCAA report issued three months later revealed many of the same things Bosworth had written about, and ultimately led to Switzer being forced to resign.[1]

Prior to his entry into the NFL supplemental draft, Bosworth had sent letters to various NFL teams stating that, if they drafted him, he wouldn't report to their training camp and he wouldn't play for them. As a joke, the Tacoma Stars of the Major Indoor Soccer League selected him in the 12th round in their 1987 draft, as their general manager jokingly stated, "Because we didn't receive a letter from him that he wouldn't play for us."


Bosworth was drafted by the Seahawks in the 1987 NFL supplemental draft and signed what was both the biggest contract in team history and the biggest rookie contract in NFL history: 10 years for US$11 million. After being drafted by the Seahawks, Bosworth sued the NFL for the right to wear #44 (the number he wore in college). Bosworth lost the case and was forced to wear #55 in the pros. Despite playing his entire college career on the strong side, he was moved to the Seahawks' weak side.
Remembered for his less than stellar professional career, Bosworth was named the 6th worst flop on the Biggest Flops of the Last 25 Years list by ESPN in July 2004 and number three on NFL Network's NFL Top 10 Draft Busts). Most recently, Bosworth made an appearance in the booth during the Monday Night Football broadcast that saw the Seattle Seahawks host the Oakland Raiders on November 6, 2006. During the discussion, he stated he had no regrets about his football career, but wished that he and Bo Jackson
had had longer careers. He also stated that he thought he and Jackson would have developed a good rivalry, had they both been able to play longer.
Bosworth was also a color commentator for the short-lived XFL during their only season of existence in 2001.



Bosworth starred in the 1991 action film Stone Cold and has had an on-again, off-again film career starring in several low budget titles such as One Man's Justice that went straight to DVD. In 2005, he had a role as one of the prison-guard football players in the Adam Sandler movie remake The Longest Yard.



Bosworth married his high school girlfriend, Katherine Nicastro, in September 1993. The couple have three children, but have currently filed for divorce. Brian also has two nephews, Kyle and Korey Bosworth, who play for the UCLA Bruins. Bosworth became a real estate agent for The Sotheby's International Realty Malibu Brokerage office.[3] In August 2007 he was listed as the selling agent for the sale of his own Malibu home at 6375 Meadows Court.[4] On July 5th, 2008, Bosworth assisted with the rescue of a woman who rolled her SUV east of Winnipeg, Manitoba.[5]

On March 6, 2009; Bosworth was arrested for a DUI charge by Los Angeles police.[6]

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Who is Linda Cohn?

Who is Linda Cohn? The sports world knows her as a female American sportscaster. She periodically anchors ESPN's SportsCenter.

Cohn was born born November 10, 1959, as a teenager, Cohn, a New Yorker, demonstrated talent at ice hockey, joining her high school's boys team for eight games. She is also an avid New York Giants, New York Mets, New York Knicks and New York Rangers fan.[1]
After graduating from Newfield High School, based in Selden on Long Island, Cohn attended SUNY at Oswego. She is remembered by students at Newfield to this day as one of the few notable alumni.Cohn graduated with a bachelors degree in arts and communications from SUNY at Oswego. She was also the goalie for the women's ice hockey team at Oswego and was inducted to the Oswego State athletics hall-of-fame on November 11, 2006.




In 1981, Cohn debuted as a sports anchor for the Patchogue, New York-based radio station WALK-AM (also WALK-FM). After leaving that station in 1984, she worked as a sports anchor for four other New York area radio stations until 1987. The most notable stop was a brief stint as an update person at WFAN, New York.


In 1987, Cohn made sportscasting history by becoming the first full-time U.S. female sports anchor on a national radio network when she was hired by ABC.[2] She anchored WABC TalkRadio from 1987-89. In 1988, Cohn got her first television break, after being hired by what was at the time one of ESPN's top competitors, SportsChannel America. In 1989, she hosted a call-in radio sports show back home in New York.
Cohn moved to Seattle, Washington, after her stint at the SportsChannel America Network, being hired by KIRO-TV to work as a sports anchor there.


Cohn returned to the East Coast in 1992, when she was hired by ESPN to work at SportsCenter. She has become a familiar face among SportsCenter viewers ever since, and she is one of a group of women that have worked at the show. She has also been featured in many of the show's comical This is SportsCenter commercials.
In 2005, Cohn signed a contract extension with ESPN, which adds doing play-by-play for WNBA telecasts to her duties.
On June 20, 2008, ESPN announced that Cohn would be a regular anchor for the new morning block of SportsCenter, which launched on August 11. She would have been the co-anchor, alongside Steve Berthiaume,
of the first three hours of the block, from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET on weekdays.[3] Several weeks later, though, ESPN announced that the new SportsCenter morning block would be scaled back from nine to six hours, effectively canceling Cohn's section.
Cohn's memoir about her career as a sportscaster and at ESPN, Cohn-Head: A No-holds-barred Account of Breaking into the Boys’ Club, was published in September 2008.[1]


Cohn was married to Stew Kaufman, whom she met while attending Oswego. They had two children. Among the things Cohn writes about in her book is the recent breakup of her marriage.[4] In an interview on WFAN with Mike Francesa, Cohn admitted she occasionally sings backup at REO Speedwagon concerts.

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Who is Angelena Dara Grace Torres?

Who is Angelena Dara Grace Torres? The world knows her as Dara Torres. Torres is an American swimmer who is the first swimmer from the United States to compete in five Olympics: 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2008. She competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the 50 meter freestyle, 4×100 medley relay, and 4×100 freestyle relay and won[2] the silver medal in all three of these events.

Torres has won twelve Olympic medals (four gold, four silver, four bronze), five of which she won in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that, at age 33, she was the oldest member of the US Olympic Swim Team. She has also won at least one medal in each of the five Olympics in which she has competed, making her one of only a handful of Olympians to earn medals in five different Games.[3]
On August 1, 2007, at the age of 40 (just 15 months after giving birth to her first child), she won gold in the 100 meter freestyle at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, her 14th win at these events. She then followed that up on August 4 by twice breaking her own American record in the 50 m freestyle, 26 years after she first set the American record at just 15 years old.

Torres grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School), and swam under coach Darlene Bible, where she set California Interscholastic Federation records that remain to this day.[4] As a teenager in the 1980s, she swam for the Mission Viejo Nadadores, in Mission Viejo, California, under Mark Shubert, the 2008 Olympic swimming coach.
Torres was one of the 2000 Olympics swimmers featured in the book Gold in the Water, by P. H. Mullen. It describes Torres's comeback for the 2000 Olympics under coaches Richard Quick and Dick Jochums. She broke the World Record in the Women's 50 Meter Freestyle race three times during the early 1980s.
She subsequently attended the University of Florida, where she received 28 All-American honors.
Torres uses resistance stretching with trainers Anne Tierney and Steve Sierra from Innovative Body Solutions and refers to this training as her "secret weapon" for continued success.[5]

Torres has worked in television as a reporter and announcer for American networks such as NBC, ESPN, TNT, OLN and Fox News Channel. She now hosts the golf show The Clubhouse, on the Resort Sports Network. She is also an occasional model, having appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1994. In 2005, she was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. [6]


At age 41, Dara Torres returned to the pool to obtain a spot in her fifth Olympic games, unprecedented for an American female swimmer, especially given the fact that she sat out the 1996 and 2004 Olympic games. In fact, she is the first woman in history to swim in the Olympics past the age of 40.Her Olympic career spans 24 years. On July 5, she qualified for the finals in the 50 m freestyle that were held on July 6. In that semi-final, she broke the American record with a time of 24.38 seconds. On July 6 in the finals she broke that record for the 9th time, setting it at 24.25 seconds and winning the top American women's spot in the 50 m freestyle.[7] Torres' time of 24.25 is .28 seconds off the current world's best in the 50 m, set by Australian Libby Trickett at the Australian Olympic Trials in March.
On July 7, 2008, Torres confirmed that she would be pulling out of 100 m freestyle swim for her time at the Beijing Olympics to focus her efforts on the 50 m freestyle. Lacey Nymeyer took over the position from Torres.[8]
On July 30, 2008, at the U.S. swim team's final training in Singapore, Torres, together with Amanda Beard
and Natalie Coughlin were elected captains of the U.S. Olympic women’s swimming team.[9]
In order to pre-empt any speculation that she might be taking performance-enhancing drugs, Torres volunteered for an enhanced drug-testing program. She has not been accused of steroids-use.[10]
Torres won silver on August 10, 2008, at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as the anchor position of the US 4×100 meters women's freestyle relay (the fifth time in five tries she has earned an Olympic medal in that event).
On August 17, 2008 at the age of 41 years and 125 days, she won silver in the women's 50 meter freestyle race finishing in American record time of 24.07, 0.01 seconds behind the winner, Britta Steffen.
About 35 minutes later, she won another silver medal as part of the American 4×100 m medley relay team. Her 12 Olympic medals tie the all-time medal record for a female Olympic swimmer with fellow American swimmer, Jenny Thompson. Eight of Thompson's medals were gold, compared with Torres' 4. However, Dara has twice as many individual medals (4) as Thompson (2). Torres' split on the 4×100 medley relay (52.27) is the fastest 100 freestyle split in relay history. The American record in that as a single event is 53.39 seconds as of August 2008.






2008 Summer Olympics Events
Medal count: 3 (0 gold, 3 silver, 0 bronze)
Date
Event
Final Time
Place
August 9
4×100 m Freestyle Relay
3:34.33
2nd
August 16
50 m Freestyle
24.07
2nd
August 16
4×100 m Medley Relay
3:53.30
2nd

Torres was born April 15, 1967 in Jupiter, Florida, the daughter of Edward Torres and Marylu Kauder.[11] She grew up in Los Angeles, California the fifth of six children and the older of two girls. At age 7, Torres started following her brothers to swim practice at the local Y.M.C.A. and later joined the Culver City swim team. During her junior year in high school, Torres moved to Mission Viejo, Calif., to train for the 1984 Olympics. Torres started attending the University of Florida in 1985. At Florida, Torres earned 28 N.C.A.A. all-American swimming awards, the maximum number possible during a college career.[12]
In the mid-1990s, she married and subsequently divorced sports producer Jeff Gowen. Her second husband was Israeli-born surgeon Itzhak Shasha, whom she later divorced.[13] Prior to marrying Shasha, Torres officially converted to Judaism[11] (her late father was Jewish).
Torres and her partner, David Hoffman, the father of her 2-year-old and also the fertility doctor who treated Shasha and Torres, have a daughter named Tessa Grace, born in April, 2006. [14].

Dara Torress keeps adding to her awards as she also won an ESPY for her performance in the 2008 Olympics.

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