Rich Asuncion-Pretty Girl of Starstruck GMA7
Rich Asuncion (born Richell Pacaldo Angalot on January 22, 1989 in Bohol, Philippines) is a Filipina actress who became the First Princess of StarStruck: The Next Level. Asuncion is also a First Runner-up in Binibining Pilipinas 2009.
As of September 1, 2007, Rich Asuncion is a Regal Films contract star.[1]. Among other Starstruck Batch 4 contestants, Rich Asuncion easily towers over the rest of the female gang. And it’s not only because of her height—there’s a certain glow in her eyes that, if kindled to a passionate fire, could serve her in good stead when, say, Katrina Halili decides to retire. A diamond in the rough an FHM shoot can cut to a shiny gem.
Asuncion is declared First Runner-up during the grand coronation night on March 7, 2009 at the Arenta Coliseum. She is using her real name and she’s Candidate No. 3[3]. From the original 170 plus applicants, only 36 were asked to return, until they were trimmed down to the final 24 after undergoing gruelling hours of pressure and tension at the Mandarin Suites last February 5.
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Bai Ling-Pretty Girl From Chengdu,Peoples Republic Of China
Bai Ling (traditional Chinese: 白靈; simplified Chinese: 白灵; pinyin: Bái Líng; born October 10, 1966[1][2]) is a Chinese-born American actress.
Bai was born in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China; “Bai”, her family name, literally means “white”. Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang (白玉祥), was a musician in the People’s Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin (陈彬彬), was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University; Bai’s maternal grandfather was a military officer of the Kuomintang army, and thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In the early 1980s, Bai Ling’s parents divorced, and later remarried. Her mother remarried to the writer Xu Chi (徐迟), renowned for his report titled Goldbach’s Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one older sister Bai Jie (白洁), who works for the Chinese tax bureau, and a younger brother Bai Chen (白陈), who emigrated to Japan and works for an American company.
Bai has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), she learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays her elementary school shows. After her graduation from middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu (双流), a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located.
Before long, she managed to pass the People’s Liberation Army’s exams, and became an “artist soldier” at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was entertaining in the musical theater[citation needed]. She also served shortly as an Army nurse. Three years later, she was discharged from the army.
Subsequently, Bai spent some time in a mental hospital. Though she insisted then and now, “I’m not crazy,” she maintains to this day that she is from the moon, where her grandmother lives, “I’m not really in reality. I’m in my own universe and my mind is a million miles somewhere else,” she claims, further explaining, “Why I feel like I come from the moon is because my mother told me I was found somewhere.” She believes that when she looks up at the moon, she can often spot her grandmother there, still living in her childhood home.[3]
Soon after her release from the hospital, Bai joined People’s Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance as a young man in the stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger drew the attention of movie director Teng Wenji (滕文骥), which gained her her first movie role in On The Beach (1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and struggles against her father’s will for her to marry her cousin.
In later years, she appeared in several movies. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University’s film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.
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Bond Girl-Pretty Girl Actress Portraying A Love Interest Of James Bond
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres, such as “Pussy Galore,” “Mary Goodnight,” “Plenty O’Toole,” “May Day,” “Xenia Onatopp,” and “Holly Goodhead.”
Bond Girls are often victims rescued by Bond, fellow agents or allies, villainesses or members of an enemy organization, most typically the villain’s accomplice, assistant or mistress. Some are mere eye candy and have no direct involvement in Bond’s mission; other Bond Girls play a pivotal role in the success of the mission. Other female characters such as Judi Dench’s M, and Miss Moneypenny are not typically thought of as Bond Girls.
Nearly all of Ian Fleming’s Bond novels and short stories include one, or sometimes more than one, female characters who qualify as Bond Girls, most of whom have been adapted for the screen. While having some individual traits, the Fleming Bond Girls, at least in their literary forms, also have a great many characteristics in common.[1] One of these is age: The typical Bond Girl is in her early to mid-twenties, roughly ten years younger than Bond, who seems to be perennially in his mid-thirties.[2] Examples include Solitaire (25),[3] Tatiana Romanova (24),[4] Vivienne “Viv” Michel (23),[5] and Kissy Suzuki (23).[6] The youngest may be Gala Brand; she is named for the cruiser in which her father is serving at the time of her birth.[7] If this were the Arethusa-class Galatea launched in 1934, than Gala is possibly as young as 18 at the time she meets Bond and certainly no older than 20, though since she and Bond do not sleep together, going no further than a few kisses, the thirty-something Bond here narrowly avoids bedding a teenager. If on the other hand the Galatea in question is the cruiser sold for scrap in 1921, Gala is possibly the oldest of the Bond Girls, being in her mid- to late-30s and possibly as old as 40. The indications are, however, that she is young, so a 40-year-old Bond Girl is unlikely in this case.
All Bond girls are, almost by definition, beautiful, and they follow a fairly well-developed pattern of beauty as well. They possess splendid figures and tend to dress in a slightly masculine, assertive fashion, with few pieces of jewelry and that in a masculine cut, wide leather belts, and square-toed leather shoes. (There is some variation in dress, though, and Bond Girls have made their first appearances in evening wear, in bra and panties and, on occasion, naked.) They often sport light though noticeable sun-tans (although a few, such as Solitaire, Tatiana Romanova, and Pussy Galore, are not only tanless but remarkably pale[3][8][9]), and they generally use little or no makeup and no fingernail or toenail polish, also wearing their nails short. (Early Bond commentator O. F. Snelling maintained that the fact that Goldfinger’s Jill Masterton is painting her fingernails when Bond first encounters her is a tip-off that she will not be the novel’s main Bond Girl,[10] and, indeed, Goldfinger has her killed after her brief liaison with Bond.) Their hair may be any color ranging from red (Natalya Simonova), to blonde (Mary Goodnight)[11] to auburn (Gala Brand) to brown (Tatiana Romanova)[8] to blue-black (Solitaire)[12] to black (Vesper Lynd),[13], though they typically wear it in a natural or casual cut that falls heavily to their shoulders. Their features, especially their eyes and mouths, are often widely spaced (e.g. Vesper Lynd, Gala Brand, Tiffany Case, Tatiana Romanova, Honey Ryder, Viv Michel, Mary Goodnight).[14] Their eyes are usually blue (e.g. Vesper Lynd, Solitaire, Gala Brand, Tatiana Romanova, Honey Ryder, Viv Michel, Tracy Bond, Mary Goodnight),[15] and sometimes this is true to an unusual and striking degree: Tiffany Case’s eyes are chatoyant, varying with the light from gray to gray-blue,[16] while Pussy Galore has deep violet eyes, the only truly violet eyes that Bond had ever seen.[9] The first description of a Bond Girl, Casino Royale’s Vesper Lynd, is almost a template for the typical dress as well as the general appearance of later Bond Girls; she sports nearly all of the features discussed above.[13] In contrast, Dominetta “Domino” Vitali arguably departs to the greatest degree from the template, being relatively old (29), dressing in white leather doeskin sandals, having brown eyes and a tan arguably heavier than other Bond Girls, sporting a soft Brigitte Bardot haircut, and giving no indication of widely-spaced features.[17] (The departure may be due to the unusual circumstances behind the writing of the novel Thunderball, in which Domino appears.) Even Domino, however, wears rather masculine jewelry.
The best-known characteristic of Bond Girls except for their uniform beauty is their pattern of suggestive names (the most risqué and famous being Pussy Galore). Some of these, but not all, have explanations in the novels. While Solitaire’s real name is Simone Latrelle, she is known as Solitaire because she excludes men from her life;[12] Gala Brand, as noted above, is named for her father’s cruiser, HMS Galatea; and Tiffany Case received her name from her father, who was so angry that she was not a boy that he gave her mother a thousand dollars and a compact from Tiffany’s and then walked out on her.[18] Conjecture is widespread that the naming convention began with the first Bond novel Casino Royale, in which the name “Vesper Lynd” is a pun on West Berlin, signifying Vesper’s divided loyalties (she is a double agent under Soviet control). Several Bond Girls, however, have normal names (e.g. Tatiana Romanova, Mary Ann Russell, Judy Havelock, Viv Michel, Tracy Bond [née Teresa Draco, aka Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo]).
Most Bond Girls are apparently (and sometimes expressly) sexually experienced by the time they meet Bond (although there is evidence that Solitaire is a virgin). Not all of their experiences, however, are positive, and many (though by no means all) Bond girls have a history of sexual violence that often alienates them from men (until Bond comes along). This darker theme is notably absent from the early films. Tiffany Case was gang-raped as a teenager;[19] Honey Ryder, too, was beaten and raped as a teenager by a drunken acquaintance.[20] Pussy Galore was subjected at age 12 to incest, and rape, by her uncle.[21] While there is no such clear-cut trauma in Solitaire’s early life, there are suggestions that she, too, avoids men because of their unwanted advances in her past. Kissy Suzuki reports to Bond that during her brief career in Hollywood when she was 17 “They thought that because I am Japanese I am some sort of an animal and that my body is for everyone.”[22] The inference is that these episodes often (though not always) turn the Bond Girls in question against men, though upon encountering Bond they overcome their earlier antipathy and sleep with him not only willingly but eagerly. The cliché reaches its most extreme (some would say absurd) level in Goldfinger. In this novel Pussy Galore is clearly a practicing lesbian when she first meets Bond, but at the end of the novel she sleeps with him. When, in bed, he says to her “They told me you only liked women,” she replies “I never met a man before.”[21]
Many Bond Girls have some sort of independent job or even career, and often it is not a particularly respectable one for 1950s women. Vesper Lynd, Gala Brand, Tatiana Romanova, Mary Ann Russell, and Mary Goodnight are in intelligence or law enforcement work. By contrast, Tiffany Case and Pussy Galore are very independent-minded criminals, the latter even running her own syndicate. Most other Bond Girls, even when they have more conventional or glamorous jobs, show an investment in their independent outlook on life. While the Bond Girls are clearly intended as sex objects, they nevertheless have a degree of independence that the Bond films tended to dispense with until nearly 1980. It was the films, therefore, that turned the Bond Girl into purely a sex object.
Most of the novels focus on one particular romance, as some of them do not occur for a while into the novel (“Casino Royale” is a good example). However, three exceptions have been made: In Goldfinger, the Masterton sisters are considered Bond girls (although Tilly is a lesbian), and after their deaths, Pussy Galore (also a lesbian) becomes the primary Bond girl. In Thunderball, Bond romances Patricia Fearing, followed by Domino Vitali. In You Only Live Twice, Bond has relationships with Kissy Suzuki, mainly, but also romances Mariko Ichiban, and a girl so insignificant that she is unnamed.
Several Bond girls have obvious signs of inner turmoil (Vesper Lynd or Vivienne Michel), and others have traumatic pasts. Most Bond girls that are allowed to develop are flawed, and several have unhappy sexual backgrounds (Honey Ryder, Pussy Galore, Tiffany Case, Vivienne Michel, and Kissy Suzuki, among others). It is perhaps this vulnerability that draws them to Bond.
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Pretty Girl Francine Prieto
Francine Prieto born Anna Marie Falcon (September 19, 1982) is a model and actress from the Philippines.
Francine studied in Adamson University with the degree in Bachelor of Science in Psychology.
She began her career in the entertainment industry as a member of That’s Entertainment. She had done sexy roles and she’s a Seiko Films contract star along with Diana Zubiri. But her biggest break came when she played Queen Avria in Etheria, the second book of Encantadia. She has done in her comic roles in Bubble Gang where she’s one of the current members. She recently played Kuran, a villainess in Kamandag. As of now, she is not only a sexy star but a great actress with the likes of Diana Zubiri, Rufa Mae Quinto and among others. She played a supporting role as Aureana in Codename: Asero. In Early 2009 she played Shiela, one of the villains in Ang Babaeng Hinugot Sa Aking Tadyang.
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