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What do Brooke Shields , Catherine Deneuve , and David Beckham have in common?Eyebrows — plucked, waxed, and groomed by Anastasia Soare, the Romanian immigrant who rose from being an 14-hour-a day employee in a Los Angeles beauty parlor to "Eyebrow Queen of the World," as she is known in Hollywood .Two decades after she arrived in the U.S., Soare is living the American dream. This week she came home to share a bit of that dream with Romanians — opening her first European salon in Bucharest.She has an empire of 800 outlets in the U.S. and 600 overseas, including brow salons in Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong. Perhaps the biggest measure of her stardom: she's been on the Oprah Winfrey show.Soare's interest in brows is in fact a passion for the living architecture of the face — plus a talent for spotting and exploiting a niche in the lucrative beauty business.The petite Romanian with flowing caramel locks grew up in the Black Sea port of Constanta during the grim communist era. The daughter...
Deftly mixing comedy with tragedy, director Mario Monicelli laid bare Italy's flaws and sins for a half-century on the screen.In his final script of his own life, he...
PARIS (AP) — The talent agency representing Alain Corneau says the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit "Tous les Matins du Monde" ha...
PARIS (AP) — Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha, who learned the power of art as a boy during the Holocaust when he sketched scenes from a concentration camp onto salvage...
Famed Beverly Hills Courier columnist George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities.Vampires have bared their fangs fo...
Stuart Rosenberg , a prolific director of series television and theatrical films who partnered with Paul Newman on the widely popular prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" a...
Golden Globes | 'Young Frankenstein' Musical | Colin Firth | Bumming a SmokeJamie Foxx Wins 'Desperate Housewife'Yes, we were supposed to be covering the Golden Glob...
Chanel has selected " Pride & Prejudice " star Keira Knightley as the new face of its Coco Mademoiselle fragrance.The 21-year-old actress will appear in Chanel ads b...
Michael Jackson | Celeb Dinner WatchInsiders Fear Jackson Will Commit SuicideMichael Jackson 's close friends now really fear that he will commit suicide. I am not k...
It promises to be deja vu all over again at Cannes, as directors long favored by the festival's organizers tussle for the top prize, which many of them have won befo...
ReutersRobert PattinsonFamed Beverly Hills Courier columnist George Christy gives you an insider's peek into Hollywood's A-list parties and personalities.Vampires ha...
63rd Annual Venice Film Festival Opens in ItalyWednesday, August 30, 2006E-Mail Print Share:VENICE, Italy Brian De Palma's " The Black Dahlia " opened the 63rd Ve...
Kidman campaigns to end violence against womenTuesday, November 25, 2008By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press WriterE-Mail Print Share:UNITED NATIONS U.N. goodwil...
What do Brooke Shields , Catherine Deneuve , and David Beckham have in common?Eyebrows — plucked, waxed, and groomed by Anastasia Soare, the Romanian immigrant who r...
It was a two-night murder rampage in Los Angeles that terrified the Hollywood community and made headlines across the world
The athletes and the Olympic torch have arrived in London — and so has the party.For those keener on celebrity-spotting or dancing the night away than medal counting...
Director Ridley Scott was seen boarding a plane from London to Los Angeles after receiving the news his younger brother, Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits ...
No one ever mistook Tony Scott for a great dramatist. He was a director critics loved to hate for his slick barrage of images at the expense of story. The filmmaker ...
Director Ridley Scott was seen boarding a plane from London to Los Angeles after receiving the news his younger brother, Tony Scott, director of such Hollywood hits ...
Media analyst Peter Guber discusses his favorite movies and whether this year's horror films will rock the box office.