Pancho Gonzales

Born into a Mexican American family, Gonzales as a youth had no access to tennis clubs and was largely a self-taught player. In 1943 he achieved top ranking in boys’ tennis in southern California. Before turning professional in 1949, he won six major amateur championships: United States Lawn Tennis Association singles (1948–49), U.S. clay-court singles (1948–49), U.S. indoor singles (1949), and U.S. indoor mixed doubles (1949, with Gussie Moran). His speed, agility, and aggressive play, which was complemented by colourful and outspoken behaviour, won him a large following. In addition to his eight singles titles, Gonzales as a professional won the U.S. men’s doubles championship five times (1953–54, 1957–58, and 1969, with various partners). In 1969, at age 41, he defeated Charlie Pasarell in a 112-game match that was the longest in the history of the Wimbledon tournament.

In late 1955 and early 1956 Gonzales beat the athletic Tony Trabert by 74 matches to 27, a series made more compelling by the fact that the two players disliked each other intensely. At the end of 1956 Kramer signed Ken Rosewall to play another long series against Gonzales. In early 1957 Gonzales flew to Australia for the first 10 matches against Rosewall in his native country. Gonzales had developed a "half-dollar"-size cyst on the palm on his right hand and there was speculation in the newspapers that his tennis career might be over. Kramer's personal physician began to treat it with injections, and it gradually began to shrink. It was still painful, however, when Gonzales beat Rosewall in their initial match and eventually won their brief Australian tour 7 matches to 3, with Rosewall beating Gonzales in a tournament whose results did not count towards the series total. By the time the tour opened in New York in late February, the cyst had shrunk considerably and Gonzales went on to beat Rosewall by a final score of 50 matches to 26.

Kramer has written that he was so worried that Rosewall would offer no competition to Gonzales and would thereby destroy the financial success of the tour that, for the only time in his career as a player or promoter, he asked Gonzales while in Australia to "carry" Rosewall in return for having his share of the gross receipts raised from 20 percent to 25 percent. Gonzales reluctantly agreed. After 4 matches, with Gonzales ahead 3 to 1, Gonzales came to Kramer to say that "I can't play when I'm thinking about trying to carry the kid. I can't concentrate. It just bothers me too much." By this time, however, it was apparent that Rosewall would be fully competitive with Gonzales, so Kramer told Gonzales to return to his normal game — and that he could keep his additional 5 percent.

Later that year, Gonzales sued in California superior court to have his 7-year contract with Kramer declared invalid. As proof of his claim, Gonzales cited being paid 25 percent of the gate instead of the stipulated 20 percent. Judge Leon T. David found Gonzales's reasoning implausible and ruled in favor of Kramer. Gonzales remained bound to Kramer by contract until 1960."

Keni thomas

Keni Thomas is an American country music singer. He attended high school at Buchholz High School and after graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in advertising and math, he enlisted in the United States Army, He served in the armed forces throughout the 1990s until leaving active duty. In addition to recording an independently-released album and charting two singles on the Billboard country music charts, he serves as a motivational speaker.

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Having been in love both on and off screen, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova know a lot about bittersweet romance.
The singer-songwriters, who charmed millions of moviegoers with their surprise indie hit film "Once" in 2007, are back with a new album called "Strict Joy" (Anti-) which delivers a slew of songs about past love. The album, which takes its name from a poem by James Stephens, was released this week in the United States.
Hansard, speaking with his soothing Irish accent from a hotel room in Los Angeles, California, to CNN this week, shared details of the album, his music-writing process, and his connection with Irglova.
He said some of the songs on this album are about himself and Irglova, who ended their romantic relationship last year but continued recording music together.
"That can be a little bit challenging sometimes when we're playing them, but we're so close as mates I think it's OK to report on your emotional sort of self without it being personal," he said. "The songs are just designed to be about where you're at personally."
Hansard, 39, and Irglova, 21, met in 2001 when Hansard's band the Frames from Ireland was touring Irglova's native Czech Republic. Her father, a concert promoter, invited the band to a party, where 13-year-old Irglova played a Mendelssohn piece on the piano, Hansard said. Impressed, he invited her to play with him at several other gigs.
He later suggested Irglova for the part of a Czech piano player in the movie "Once," directed by John Carney, the original bass player of the Frames, which has essentially merged with Irglova to become The Swell Season. The film showcased the musical collaboration between Irglova and Hansard, playing the roles of unnamed singer-songwriters who fall in love, but do not end up together.he music-driven story was so touching that reports of their real-life romance while promoting the film were especially heartwarming for fans. The couple didn't hide it on stage either. At a New York performance in November 2007, the duo frequently exchanged starry-eyed looks during the concert, and walked offstage with their arms around each other's shoulders after the encore.
There were some awkward moments -- "thankfully they were private" -- between the two after they went back to being friends, but Hansard insists they're fine as pals. "The romantic thing was great, it was a lovely adventure, but you know, if you're mature enough to sort of look someone in the eye and go, 'You know what, this isn't working' -- which she is and I know I'm getting there -- it actually frees you and allows you to go be mates," he said.
"It works out really much better because we've got a deeper understanding of who each other are," he said.
Visit their Web site to sample the new album
In recent months, Hansard and Irglova have tended to independently generate song ideas at their respective homes and then present them to each other, Hansard said. Before, they would have had more of an influence on each other's work, having "caught each other's ideas from the very birth of the idea."
But it's still good, he said. "Nowadays, it's more opinion and correction rather than getting excited about the original idea and just sort of running with it until it's finished," he said.
The Swell Season tends to be more folk than the Frames, Hansard said. The band takes its name from a Czech novel by Josef Skvorecky that he and Irglova enjoyed.
Hansard's personal favorite song from the new album, "In These Arms," which highlights the ethereal blend of their voices, came together in a day. It started with the central chorus line that Hansard had in his head that was "almost like a Johnny Cash refrain," he said.
"Then I played it for Mar and she was like, 'Oh that's beautiful, let's follow that,' and we sat at the piano and we just knocked out some chords, and I wrote the lyrics on that day, and we recorded it that evening," he said.
Another song, "The Verb," was resurrected from a Frames song from eight years ago that Hansard had abandoned because he thought it was too sad. When one of the other musicians suggested working on it while recording the new album, Hansard dismissed it again until Irglova sang the part at the end of the song.
"She added this whole dimension that I thought was very hopeful," he said.
Although Hansard's default mood for songs is "semi-sorrowful," things are actually going really well, and he's trying to get himself to write more about that.
"There's a reason I put 'Low Rising' first [on the album] because it's the one song I felt I got closest to that mood in -- which is like, 'It's all good.' "
The duo won the 2008 Academy Award for best original song from a motion picture for the movie's song "Falling Slowly," depicted in the film as an impromptu duet between Irglova and Hansard in a music store.
Hansard had no idea that particular song would become their most famous, but he remembers feeling proud of it when he wrote it. "And for that then to have gone on to be the song that basically brought us to the world has just been brilliant," he said.
Hansard said he hopes he and Irglova continue playing music together, although to a large extent it will be up to her, he said.
"There's nobody on this planet that I enjoy making music with more," he said. "The one thing that's never going to fade, if you like, is this connection musically," he said.


source: CNN

Joel Robuchon

Who is joel robuchon and why You ar reading about him? Guy makes some excelent food and many celebrity goes into his restaurant (famous restaurant) so we can say that he is part of celebrity hollywood world.

Long praised for the way in which he intensifies the essence of a dish — he often pays more attention to accentuating two or three flavors than creating unusual combinations — Joël Robuchon has for a quarter century been on the shortlist of renowned chefs.

Mr. Robuchon, who now has restaurants in Paris, New York, Las Vegas, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Macao and Monaco, hails from Poitiers in France, south of the Loire Valley. At age 28, in 1974, he was named chef of the Hôtel Concorde La Fayette in Paris, which served 3,000 meals a day. In 1981, he started his own small Paris restaurant, Jamin, which three years later was awarded three Michelin stars, the highest rating. Among his standout dishes in those years were his take on mashed potatoes (his famous purée de pommes de terre) and his tossed green salad (salade aux herbes fraîches).

Wanting a larger kitchen, he opened a grander restaurant, Joël Robuchon, in the Hôtel du Parc, where he also received three stars. He soon though began to feel stifled, and, at age 51 in 1996, he closed the restaurant, saying he was retiring at the top of his game.

But six years later, after testing the waters by starting a small restaurant in Tokyo, he opened L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Paris. The new Paris restaurant was a radical departure for both Mr. Robuchon and haute cuisine, challenging almost every tradition in fine dining. L’Atelier’s seats were placed around a counter that overlooked the kitchen, eliminating the traditional wall between diner and chef, making the restaurant one flowing space and creating an essentially informal, contemporary environment.

These days, in addition to the Paris Atelier, which has one Michelin star, he also has a more formal Paris restaurant, La Table du Robuchon, which has two. Mr. Robuchon’s New York version of L’Atelier, at the Four Seasons on East 57th Street, opened in 2006. It has 20 seats around its counter, and 26 at tables. Frank Bruni of The New York Times gave the New York version of Atelier three stars out of a possible four; it has one Michelin star.

Mr. Bruni wrote that Mr. Robuchon created “a layered cake of smoked foie gras and caramelized eel that's the stuff of dreams; a mélange of sea urchin roe, lobster and cauliflower cream that's pure rapture; a pair of precocious sliders - made with Kobe beef, foie gras, caramelized peppers and the most perfect little brioche buns imaginable - that get my vote for haute burger of the new millennium.”

Jessica Alba nipple

We already sow Jessica Alba showing nipple, and also Jessica nipple on red carpet, and today I found some more beautiful Jessica Alba  nipples for You, me personali think, that she has sexiest boob in hollywood:

Some more hot tila nguyen pictures

For Your health, this sugar: Tila Nguyen pictures:

If You ask me, tila tequila nguyen is sweetest creature that i ever sow :)

Tila nguyen

Tila nguyen

Nguyen was born in Singapore to French Vietnamese parents[1], where her family emigrated from Vietnam after the Vietnam War.[4][5] When she was one year old, she and her family lived in a neighborhood in Houston until they were admitted to a gated community run by a strict Buddhist temple.[6] The family left the community when Nguyen was eight.[7]

While in middle school, Nguyen became a tomboy and was eventually sent to a boarding school for six months for her combative behavior before transferring to another school.[7] While in high school, she used her sister's identification card to enter nightclubs, where she began taking drugs[7] and joined a gang. In an interview with Import Tuner, Nguyen said she had been searching for a sense of identity: "I was really confused then, [because] at first I thought I was black, then I thought I was Hispanic and joined a cholo gang".[8] Later, friends outside the gang briefly helped turn her life around. However, her past caught up with her, and she fled to Queens, New York at the age of 16.[6]

Kirsten gum

Adventure traveler Kirsten Gum travels the world to dig up undiscovered gems on "Treasure Hunter: Kirsten Gum." The show, Kirsten and her guests will inspire the adventure traveler and treasure hunter in you.

So who is Kirsten Gum? Kirsten has quickly become one of the most recognized on-air personalities in sports commentating. She is versatile and charismatic, with a vivacious on-screen presence. But Kirsten is not just another pretty face -- even if she was voted the sexiest woman in Charlotte, NC, twice.

Her trip to the top has been a quick one. Kirsten began her broadcasting career at age 23 as a news reporter in Jefferson City, MO, and paid her dues in a number of markets as she sprinted through the ranks.

Her ease in front of the camera comes from years of experience covering a wide range of world-class events: from NASCAR and the Tour de France to ESPN's Great Outdoor Games, the PBR World Championships, World Cup Skiing and the grueling three-week off-road race through Africa -- the Dakar Rally.

An Alaskan native currently living in Los Angeles, Kirsten is hardly a spectator. In October 2005, she completed the "Beast of the East," a 400-mile adventure race in Virginia. Racing on just 10 hours of sleep during the five-day event, Kirsten and her team fought their way to a strong second-place finish.

Don't pigeonhole her as a tomboy, though. She is equally at home in Lycra or a little black dress. Kirsten is passionate about sports, but her enthusiasm extends to travel and a wide range of experiences.

When she's not searching for gems on the set of "Treasure Hunter," Kirsten can be found hiking, cycling, snowboarding, scuba diving, kayaking, horseback riding or surfing.

Christina Mchale

A litle bit about Christina Mchale:

Christina McHale (born May 11, 1992) is a professional American tennis player. Her highest WTA singles ranking is 373rd, which she reached on November 17, 2008.[2] Her career high ranking in doubles is 506th, which she reached on October 20, 2008.

McHale was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.A. She is a right-handed player. As of 2009, she resided in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Rocko Rapper and Monica

“Monica” premieres on BET tonight. Monica has two children with rapper Rocko. Rocko is a So So Def / Island Urban artists with his own imprint Rocky Road Records. His first album in 2008 “Self Made” went to number 6 in the U.S R&B chart and number 4 on the U.S. rap chart. Rocko’s single Umma DO Me went to number 7 on the U.S. rap singles chart.


His next album Complete drops 2010.


The Monica series profiled on LALATE first in September will air 8 episodes on BET. BET says of the show:




 “After a brief hiatus from the music industry, Monica is back in the spotlight with an intimate, profound docu-drama that takes a look at her day-to-day world in the new original BET series MONICA: STILL STANDING. Beginning Tuesday, October 27, Monica will open her heart and life to viewers every week at 10:00 pm* and take them on her personal journey of survival and enlightenment. Viewers will have the chance to experience the many faces of Monica as she balances family, deals with trials, triumphs and health challenges, records her fifth album, “STILL STANDING” and tackles the hardest job of all - being a full-time mother of two young sons. Even with all of the success in her entertainment career as a Grammy(R) Award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and actress, Monica’s life has not been without its challenges. Yet, through the spiritual guidance of her parents, family and fiancee she withstood the storms of life and that same support keeps her standing today. Strong, poised and vivacious, Monica wants to show viewers and fans that anything is possible once you set your mind to do it. She wants them to know “