Meet American actress Ariel Winter. Although she has appeared in numerous movies and television shows, currently she is best known for her role as Alex Dunphy on the ABC series ?Modern Family?. Read more below.
In the photo above you see Ariel Winter wearing an adorable fall dress and boots at the Los Angeles Premiere [...]
11/08/2010
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Happy Halloween
From Beverly Bieber!
"Baby, baby, baby... ohhh!"
My friend Cristin was like, "How are you going to get the wig to stay on her head?"
I said, "That's the beauty of the costume... she doesn't need a wig."
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In 'For Colored Girls,' Janet Jackson Puts 'Her Walls Up'
'That was a tough thing for me, to drop the 'please' and the 'thank you,' just trying to get into the role,' she tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner
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Tyler Perry's latest film, "For Colored Girls," is garnering a lot of buzz — both for being adapted from playwright Ntozake Shange's 1974 Broadway hit "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" and also for the dazzling group of high-profile actresses Perry assembled for his cast, including Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Loretta Devine, Janet Jackson, Tessa Thompson and Whoopi Goldberg.
In transporting Shange's celebrated work from stage to screen, Perry selected 14 of the play's 20 poems and shaped them into a narrative that follows the lives of nine black women living in and around Harlem — all of whom are confronted with a range of crises, from love, abandonment and rape to infidelity and abortion.
Jackson plays a high-powered magazine editor in the film, who, to put it bluntly, is a witch on wheels. Given the fact that Jackson comes across as shy and soft-spoken in person, we asked her what she pulled from in crafting her hardened, hard-to-like character.
"Everything was there [in the script]," Jackson told MTV News. "I'm a lover of old black-and-white [movies], so I did a lot of research in that area, one in particular was 'Adam's Rib' with Katharine Hepburn. Her running this company, being the head and just the energy she carried. She's someone who has no time for niceties, really," she explained, adding that getting into that hardened place required putting distance between her fellow castmembers. "That was a tough thing for me, to drop the 'please' and the 'thank you,' just trying to get into the role, get into her head and doing that at home and in my world, that was kind of tough, but eventually it happened. [Laughs.] She has her walls up, for sure."
"For Colored Girls" opens Friday.
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Shakira Rocks Out at the 2010 MTV EMAs
Giving the crowd quite the show, Shakira took the stage for the MTV Europe Music Awards 2010 in Madrid, Spain on Sunday (November 7).
Held at the La Caja Magica, the Colombian beauty rocked a skimpy ensemble as she danced the night away during her scheduled performance of the World Cup tune "Waka Waka".
As for the show, the 2010 installment of the EMAs was hosted by Eva Longoria with a digital host appearance by Justin Bieber.
Meanwhile, performers gracing the stage during the annual ceremony aside from Shakira included B.o.B., Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Ke$ha and Linkin Park, among many others.
For those interested in checking out the action, the two-hour show premieres 9PM ET/PT tonight (November 7) on MTV2.
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Jay-Z, Beyonce, Usher Support Alicia Keys At AIDS Charity Ball
Jay, Janelle Monae, Swizz Beatz were among performers at Keys' 8th annual Keep a Child Alive event.
By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Hillary Crosley
Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
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Alicia Keys has proven to be as selfless in real life as she is in song.
The singer held her 8th annual Keep a Child Alive Black Ball event in New York on Thursday night. The fundraiser brought out Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Usher, Jay Sean, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston and more.
Jay-Z and Keys' husband, Swizz Beatz, performed "On to the Next One," and Jay later performed "Empire State of Mind." Monae also hit the stage, as did Keys and Sade, who performed a duet, "Love Is Stronger Than Pride."
"It's my heart and soul," Keys told MTV News about the organization she co-founded. "Since the beginning, we've been very driven to do incredible work. I'm proud to show what four to five women who are very dedicated can do."
The organization benefits children and families who have been affected by AIDS but can't afford to purchase medicine; the event reportedly helped raise $2.4 million.
This year, Keep a Child Alive introduced the "Buy Life" T-shirt. The shirt features a large barcode on the garment; donors can buy the shirt and scan the code with their smart phones to make a donation to the charity. Every time the code is scanned by a phone, a donation goes through. Ryan Seacrest, Kim Kardashian and Katie Holmes are among the celebrity spokespeople appearing in ads for the shirt.
"It's like a dream to me to be among these people singing and performing, and opening people's eyes to what Keep a Child Alive can do," Keys said.
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