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By the time you read this, you probably heard of the inspiring life story of Susan Boyle. A 47-year old, unemployed, never been married (and never been kissed) woman from Scotland who elicited lots of praises and compliments not just from the three judges, but also from millions of people across the universe, thanks to Youtube.

Her inspiring story spread rapidly like wildfire and inspires others (especially underdogs and dark horses like her) to reach for your dreams no matter what. The Britain’s Got Talent contestant (by far the most popular these days), delivered a strong performance backed up with an even appropriate and inspirational song, “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Miserables. I like watching that show, in the sense that Britain’s Got Talent is indeed about talent. It’s about talent through and through, despite your looks, and your age. And what I even like most about the inspiring story of Ms. Susan Boyle is that it’s as if she’s the epitome of dreaming and believing in your dreams—and not putting an age limit to your dreams and goals.

What makes this inspiring story so appealing to the masses, is the fact that we have a not-so-young dreamer dreaming to be a professional singer (wants to be as successful as Elaine Page at that!), when generally, dreaming is associated for the young and their promising future. But here, we have Susan Boyle to change the face of dreaming big and giving us her inspiring story.

Truly, she’s not just a living example, but also a living inspiration as well! I know of other singing competitions that imposed age limits on their contestants. It’s good that Britain’s Got Talent never limits their contestants for a certain age bracket only. Why this allure about second chances and underdogs and dark horses? And why not—it just goes to show that all of us, at some moments in our lives, can relate to being underdogs, since we experienced what it feels like being an underdog ourselves.

We want to inspired and strengthened after failure, rejection, and frustration. An inspiring story like Susan Boyle’s is just one strong validation and we felt justified that we can be like her. She’s also a real person (and not just any fictitious character) and she’s like one of us, living an ordinary life but who wants to have a better life.

So, how who can resist this inspiring story? As we live our day to day struggle in our lives, we all need some bits of inspiration to make us smile, enlightened, hopeful and optimistic for our future. And we don’t need pretty faces, toned muscles, almost-perfect hair that light up our TV screens to make us inspired.

On the contrary, it’s those flawed, ordinary-looking individuals which we can relate to that make us more humane and we can say, “If she can do it, I can too.” And I love that smiling aura of Ms. Boyle devoid of any arrogance or self-pity (unemployed, but still looking) when asked what she’s going to do onstage.

She said, “I’m gonna wow the audience”. And boy, she did more than just that—she even received a standing ovation not just from the crowd, but also from the two judges. Everybody’s got an inspiring story—what’s yours?

In her book she advises that after a break, you take about 72 hours to find yourself and then move on. “Seventy-two hours is an appropriate time. After you begin to smell and your friends do not want to talk. … This does not mean you manage your feelings of sadness or removed. Just starting to move to the status, ‘I’m fine’. “

She also advises us to accept that boys always throw his look at other women and not give too much meaning to certain things.

It also has a section written by her former partner, where he claims to men like women with curves and not those super thin women. The book includes personal anecdotes and stories about romances that have come to the press and were not necessarily true. “It has been written about my love life since I was 15 years, so this book is my way of saying, ‘No, this is what I am and this is what I really thought about that, and these are the things that I’ve done that maybe have not read. “

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Life has returned to normal for Kate Winslet, who recently won an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in “The Reader” ( “Reader”). Although Winslet post brought a glamorous dress differently every time they saw him during the awards season, the mother of two children said he was tired of using the red carpet attire, and she plans to pass next year dressed in a comfortable pair of pajamas!

While both Kate and her husband, director Sam Mendes, working in the entertainment world, the actress insists they are a normal family. “It is important to us that our children are normal children,” he told BANG Showbiz. “So we go to the park, play the ball, going to the museum, see a movie together or just stayed at home playing Monopoly.”

The other day, Kate was seen with casual clothes when leaving his home in Manhattan with her 8 years old daughter, Mia with a cup of coffee in one hand and a sheath for a dress in the other. Looked like any other mother who brings her daughter to school, except that she has that Academy Award, which proudly displays in her bathroom. “The statue will be in the toilet, next to the ¡Sam!” Laughed Kate. “I’m not going to bring it to the film set. I’m going to work the same way I’ve always worked, which is simply to continue doing things. ”

The Oscar-winning costume changes of the red carpet by a pair of jeans and a bulky winter jacket.

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Rihanna recorded duets with Chris Brown

I imagine that many of you have heard the news of Rihanna and Chris Brown on charges of aggression by Chirs to Rihanna, but now the last news are that they want to record a song together. Almost two weeks ago that Brown is legally accused of abusing Rihanna, the indictment alleges that he punched her face and bit her one ear and a finger.

The night of the attacks, which was the same night of the Grammy Awards in February, he was arrested but not detained in jail, but he faces the possibility of going to prison, his lawyers are working to reach a agreement and avoid that he goes to prison.

Despite the incident, local media reported that the couple reconciled weeks ago.

According to celebrity website TMZ, the idea of recording the duet came just after the two settled their differences and to translate their recent feelings, they decided to do a song together. According to TMZ, an informant who will assure that the meetings were very emotional and the feeling in the room was pure love. ”

The song originally written by Rihanna describes the difficult for a couple to overcome their difficulties, the topic could be included in the next Brown CD.

I personally find it very regrettable the decision of Rihanna to comeback again with this man after he assaulted her, the statistics show that if a man attacks a woman once he will make it over and over again, it is unfortunate that a young, talented and with a lot of money like Rihanna did not had enough courage and continue with a person who dared to do what he did. Of course I also believe in repentance of the people and I am not God to judge anyone, but I would not had returned with so fast and easy with him, if I would be her I would not return to him ever. What would you do it?
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Cruz, Jolie and Beyoncé

The best and worst

Cruz wore beautiful, sensual Angelina and Beyoncé was a disaster.

* The red carpet

Cruz, with her lunatic ex-wife role in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” was imposed as Best Supporting Actress the following year that his compatriot Javier Bardem achieved in the male category.

Ledger, meanwhile, won the male category and became just the second player to win the statuette posthumously, for their dark version of the Joker in the Batman film “The Dark Knight.”

The Australian actor died 13 months ago by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, the same day as the nominees were announced last year. His Oscar joins him with Peter Finch, who won after he died the prize for best actor in 1976 for “Network.”

The parents and sister Ledger accepted the honor on behalf of his daughter Matilda.

“Have you ever lost someone here? Because I believe that I will be the first, were the first words of Cruz, who looked obviously overwhelmed by receiving her statuette, the first night.

After thank Woody Allen “for entrusting this beautiful character, she dedicated the Oscar to his parents, his brother and sister, and the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Fernando Trueba, Bigas Luna, who has worked with. And before she went off to his compatriots in Spanish: “All those from Spain that are now sharing this moment with me and also feel that this is theirs, to they are dedicated. And to all the actors in my country. ”

This is the fifth time that an actor or actress won an Oscar for sharing an Allen film. Cruz joins with Dianne Wiest, winner for “Hannah and Her Sisters” and “Bullets Over Broadway”; Michael Caine for “Hannah and Her Sisters” and Mira Sorvino in “Mighty Aphrodite.”

Cruz received his Oscar from five previous winners in the same category: Tilda Swinton, Eva Marie Saint, Anjelica Huston, Whoopi Goldberg and Goldie Hawn.

It was a great change to the format in which winners of previous years gave the statuette to the new winner of the opposite sex. Tradition has been maintained, Cruz could receive their award from the hands of Bardem, who was in Barcelona filming “Biutiful” by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

The organizers had announced major adjustments but remained silent on the details for a boost to its ratings, which last year reached their minimum.

The most-nominated for the evening, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, won three statuettes, a visual effects, art direction and makeup. For this latest award-competed the U.S. Mexico Mike Elizalde, for his work on the film by Guillermo del Toro “Hellboy II”.

Among other winners, “WALL-E” won as best animated feature film, “Milk” also won the prize for best original screenplay and “The Dark Knight” the sound editing. Japan “Departures” took the honor for best foreign language film.

The host of the evening, the Australian actor Hugh Jackman, stole the show when it opened with a musical number in which it welcomed the nominees and received by a standing ovation from their peers.

The delivery of the 81st Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

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Source: AOL Latino Entretenimiento