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July 16, 2007 · Filed under Celebrity Websites, General
Let me start off with a confession — I’m getting tired of seeing celebrity photos in glamour shots and images from their movies and ads. I mean the promotional media is so constantly trying to boost their image that they start losing their human touch. I love seeing their everyday photos and watching interviews where they actually appear like ordinary human beings — like me.
I was asked to review for a celebrity images website, and I said, “Oh God, the cosmetic life again.” But thankfully I was mistaken. It’s a site with loads of IIFA pictures (International Indian Film Awards) taken during a charity cricket match held in Leeds, UK last month.
High resolution images of quite a few of the top Bollywood celebrities are featured just as they appear in real life–Kabir Bedi, Akshay Khanna, Rakesh Roshan, Shilpa Shetty, the Bachchans, Mansi Scott, Bipasha Basu and of course, Diya Mirza at the IIFA 2007.
A total of 126 photos are available for your viewing pleasure at the moment. Now, everyone knows that the cameraman is the key person who captures a star’s best looks, expressions and profiles. And that’s precisely what’s great about these photographs. Look at the profiles of the stars carefully… almost every photo captures from a sharp angle, presenting some of the never-before-seen profiles of your favourite stars, while still showing them as they appear in ‘normal’ life. You can view the pictures in their high res – 1028×680, but the files are not humongous, so you don’t have to wait forever.
There’s quite some interactivity built in too — comment on the photos, rate them, send them to your buddies as e-cards and even download.
Are you a hard core Bollywood celebrity fan and like to see them the first them the first thing when you start your computer? No sweat. Check out moviegupshup.net for some of the hottest yet Bollywood wallpapers.
Just to let you get an idea of what you can expect at this site, here’s some sample pictures. Enjoy!
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| Abhishek Bachchan at IIFA Cricket Match |
Akshay Khanna at IIFA Cricket 4 |
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| Bipasha Basu in Leeds |
Amitabh Bachchan and Shilpa Shetty |
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July 11, 2007 · Filed under Celebrity Websites
Admit it. There’s at least one celebrity you think is hot. (I stopped counting mine at 38… ) Everyone also knows of a model or actress they have fantasized seeing skinless. Finally there’s one site that satisfies your obsession with unrated views of their movie roles.
CelebKings is the venue where you can see your favorite actress just as you ’saw’ them in your last impulsive thought. At the moment of writing this post, the site offers 7,121 video clips of 2,193 celebrities and 1,545 movies. Which celebrities? Think of a name, and you’ll find her hottest videos.
This huge database is well supplemented by superb navigation - you can start with looking at names (Celebrities A – Z), by movies, the Top 25 or even the blonde and brunette and busty celebrities. All videos are 640 x 480 resolution and are DVD quality or better. Every video is also offered in the standard formats (WMV, MOV, and MP4) and you can watch the Flash movie online or even use your Windows Media Player, QuickTime or download to your Video iPod or PC.
CelebKings is now running a special offer — $5 for a 3-day trial run with unlimited and instant access to Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton, Jessica Biel and 2,000 more of Hollywood’s hottest unrated celebrity videos.
This is a CelebKings.com sponsored review.
May 19, 2007 · Filed under Celebrity Websites, General, Music
I used to imagine that celeb websites were all the same—until I visited ActuPeople.fr. The difference is that while it is about celebrities, it’s also much more than that, covering a broad cross-section of what’s happening in the world of music, movies and TV.
In most celeb sites, you could easily get lost in the areas they’re trying to cover. Not so with ActuPeople.fr—the home page itself obvious that clearly marked sections for News, Flash News briefs, This Week in Cinema, a review of the latest in music, biographies of celebrities and a unique Zoom People section.
While the News column details the latest occurrences in the celebrity world, the Flash News provides interesting snippets with links to previous stories. However, both the news sections are covered in the top menu bar link if you wanted to take in all at once.
A celebrity site is never complete without photos, and ‘Zoom People’ does more than full justice to it. Matter of fact, I don’t quite recall any celeb site with such a massive database of the latest photos of the most popular and the hottest celebrities. Listed alphabetically, there are thousands of high-quality photos. To give you an idea, I found 148 latest photographs of Avril Lavigne alone.
And if you want to add any of these photos in your blog, ActuPeople.fr makes it incredibly simple to do so. No downloading, no cutting and pasting. You click and enlarge the photo you need, and conveniently beneath the photo you’ll find a script that you can simply copy and paste on your blog post and voila! You got it!
The biographies section is also alphabetically listed, and I tried the letter S which listed over 45 celebs, from Salif Keita and Sara Forestier to Sophie Marceau and Sylvester Stallone. The information is well covered, but I hope the publishers will soon add filmograhy stats, trivia or claim-to-fame categories to the profile pages.
The music area singles out and reviews some of the latest albums. The day I visited, Mutya Buena’s “Real Girl” was the featured album on the home page, followed by other top albums including Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Me And My Imagination” Maroon 5’s “Makes Me Wonder” among many, many others..
Movies of the Week featured “El Cielo dividido”, “Heroes Fragiles”, “Shinobi” and more, all of them new releases and were presented with reviews. The TV section is maintained on a daily basis with schedule of programs from top French channels like the Ce soir sur TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal+, Arte and M6.
ActuPeople.fr is a website in French, but it has a lot offer a worldwide audience. Not being able to understand French, what I really missed on the site was a facility to translate the content into other languages. However, there’s no need to despair. Here’s a tip: Do a Google for “actupeople”, and you’ll see ActuPeople.fr listed no.1 on page no.1, and you’ll also find the ‘Translate this page’ link next to it. Hit it, and ENJOY!
This is an ActuPeople.fr sponsored review.
