Gisele Bundchen

Gisele Caroline Nonnenmacher Bündchen (born July 20, 1980), is a Brazilian supermodel who has been acclaimed as the highest-paid model in the world. Since her introduction onto the fashion scene in the ’90s she has appeared in countless billboards and magazine covers, as well as numerous TV and print ads. Bündchen is currently the face of more than 20 brands from different countries such as United States, Russia, Brazil, Italy, France, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, South Korea, Germany and Switzerland. According to Forbes, she made $33 million in 2006, adding to her estimated $150 million fortune. She is currently listed in the Guinness World Records as the “world’s richest supermodel”

Celebs use yoga to support UN peace day

Christy Turlington, who relies on yoga to keep her healthy and balanced, is among a group of celebrities hoping to bring those benefits to the world.

Turlington, Russell Simmons and Ziggy Marley are participating in the Global Mala Project, an international effort that aims to use yoga-centered events to raise awareness and funds for global causes on the United Nations’ International Day of Peace. Events will be held in 30 countries, including Israel, Africa, India, Australia and the United States, beginning Sept. 21.

“With so many people involved, the impact is going to be quite astounding as a collective consciousness,” Turlington told The Associated Press. “There will be an energetic charge.”

“Selfless service” is part of the yogic tradition, the 38-year-old supermodel said, “so if anyone can lead in this way, this is the group to start with.”

Dozens of events will benefit charitable groups dedicated to fighting global warming and AIDS.– (AP)

“Secret Love” Back on Stage in Beijing

After a successful July presentation in Hong Kong, the classic contemporary drama “Secret Love” will be back on stage in the Capital Theater in Beijing from Aug. 21 to 25.

On Aug. 24 and 25, actors from the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre will bring to their audience a Cantonese version of the play, with subtitles in Mandarin, Cantonese and English.

Leading roles in the Cantonese version have been taken by popular Hong Kong actress Su Yuhua and her real-life boyfriend Pan Canliang, an award-winning veteran drama actor. It’s the first time for the two to cooperate on stage.

Ticket prices for the last two days’ special version are set to range from 100 yuan to 300 yuan, quite acceptable for ordinary drama fans.

“Secret Love” debuted in Taipei in 1986 before touring the United States, Singapore, Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.

A film based on the drama, starring renowned Hong Kong actress Brigitte Lin (Lin Qingxia), was shot in 1992, grabbing many international awards including the Silver Bear in Berlin, the Silver Cherry in Tokyo, and the Golden Horse in Taipei.

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Hong Kong-based actress and martial artist Maggie Quigley said Friday that her hands were badly cut while filming car stunt scenes for the coming film “Die Hard 4.0.”

The latest installment in the “Die Hard” series, titled “Live Free or Die Hard” in the United States, revolves around a planned cyber-terror attack on the United States.

In the film, Bruce Willis teams up with Justin Long, who plays a computer hacker, to thwart the evil Mai, played by Quigley.

Audiences will get to see Quigley beat Willis up.

The movie opens in Japan on June 23. It opens in the United States and elsewhere on June 27.

Quigley made her name in the Hong Kong film industry before moving on to Hollywood projects such as the recent action flick “Mission: Impossible III,” the comedy “Rush Hour 2″ and Jackie Chan’s “Around the World in 80 Days.”

The actress grew up in Hawaii, the daughter of a Polish-Irish American father and a Vietnamese mother.

Singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, who had breast cancer surgery early last year after a breakup with champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, said on Friday she had adopted a 2-week-old baby boy. The Grammy-winning recording star, known for such hits as “All I Wanna Do,” “Soak Up the Sun,” and “If It Makes You Happy,” announced the adoption with a short message to fans posted on her official Web site.

“His name is Wyatt (after my dad) Steven (after my little brother and Scooter) and we are enjoying some very private family time,” she wrote. Scooter is the nickname of her longtime manager and friend, Steven Weintraub.

No other details about her newly adopted son were revealed, but Crow’s publicist said the child was born in the United States.

Crow, 45, postponed a North American concert tour in February of last year to undergo “minimally invasive” surgery for breast cancer. She announced during an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in October that she was cancer-free.

The singer’s surgery came about a month after she and seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, himself a cancer survivor, broke off their engagement, ending a high-profile two-year relationship.

Posing naked isn’t something new for our actress Bai Ling. And the Chinese beauty has agreed to again bare all, this time for German artist Udo Spreitzenbarth.

The sexy actress will bare all in a new exhibition of life-size prints at the Berlinale gallery in Germany.

A Chinese actress who also has fame in the United States, Bai Ling once posed naked for the famous men’s magazine Playboy back in 2005. She was reportedly performing research for her upcoming film, an undisclosed film about the sex trade.