Jake Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980, 'dʒɪlənhɑl) is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age ten. He has appeared in diverse roles since his first lead role in 1999's October Sky, followed by the 2001 indie cult hit Donnie Darko, in which he played a psychologically troubled teen and onscreen brother to his real-life sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow he portrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father. He then played against type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead (2005). The same year, he won critical acclaim as Jack Twist in the film Brokeback Mountain.
Gyllenhaal has taken an activist role in supporting various political and social causes. He appeared in Rock the Vote advertising, campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 2004 election, and promoted environmental causes and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs).[1] Maggie Gyllenhaal, his sister, is also an actress, and played his sister in the movie Donnie Darko. Gyllenhaal's father was raised in the Swedenborgian religion and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family. His last native Swedish ancestor was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal.[2] Gyllenhaal's mother is from a Jewish family from New York City. Gyllenhaal's Bar Mitzvah celebration took place at a homeless shelter because his parents wanted to instill in him a sense of gratitude for his privileged lifestyle.[3] Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself "more Jewish than anything else."[4] Gyllenhaal's parents insisted that he have summer jobs to support himself. He worked as a lifeguard, and as a busboy at a restaurant operated by a family friend.

During childhood, Gyllenhaal had regular exposure to filmmaking due to his family's deep ties to the industry. As an 11-year-old he made his acting debut as Billy Crystal's son in the 1991 comedy film City Slickers. His parents did not allow him to appear in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks because it would have required him leaving home for two months.[1] In subsequent years, his parents allowed him to audition for parts, but regularly forbade him to take them if he were chosen.[5] He was allowed to appear in his father's films several times. Gyllenhaal appeared in the 1993 film A Dangerous Woman (along with sister Maggie), in a 1994 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. Along with their mother, Jake and Maggie appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. Prior to his senior year in high school, the only other film not directed by his father in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform was Josh and S.A.M., a little-known children's adventure.[6]
Gyllenhaal graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1998, then attended Columbia University, where his sister and mother also attended, to study Eastern religions and philosophy. Gyllenhaal dropped out after two years to concentrate on acting, but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree.[1] Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner. The film earned $32 million and was described in the Sacramento News and Review as Gyllenhaal's "breakout performance."

Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal's second major film, was not a box office success upon its initial 2001 release, but eventually became a cult favorite.[9] The film, directed by Richard Kelly, is set in 1988 and stars Gyllenhaal as a troubled teenager who, after narrowly escaping death, experiences visions of a 6 foot (1.8 m) tall rabbit named Frank who tells him that the world is coming to an end. Gyllenhaal's performance was well-received by critics; Dan Kois of Salon.com claimed that "Gyllenhaal manages the difficult trick of seeming both blandly normal and profoundly disturbed, often within the same scene."

After the critical success of Donnie Darko, Gyllenhaal's next role was as the lead character in 2002's Highway, a film ignored by audiences and critics alike. His performance was described by one critic as "silly, cliched and straight to video."[12] Gyllenhaal had more success starring opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; he also starred in Lovely & Amazing with Catherine Keener.[13] In both films he plays an unstable character who begins a reckless affair with an older woman. Gyllenhaal later described these as "teenager in transition" roles.[14] Gyllenhaal later starred in the Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy Bubble Boy, which was loosely based on the story of David Vetter. The film portrays the title character's adventures as he pursues the love of his life before she marries the wrong man.[15] The film was panned by critics, with one calling it an "empty-headed, chaotic, utterly tasteless atrocity".[16]
Following Bubble Boy, Gyllenhaal starred opposite Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Ellen Pompeo in Moonlight Mile, as a young man coping with the death of his fiancée and the grief of her parents. The story, which received mixed reviews,[17] is loosely based on writer/director Brad Silberling's personal experiences following the murder of girlfriend Rebecca Schaeffer.[18]
Gyllenhaal was almost cast as Spider-Man for Spider-Man 2 due to director Sam Raimi's concerns about original Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire`s health. [19] Maguire recovered, however, and the sequel was shot without Gyllenhaal.[20] Instead, Gyllenhaal starred in the blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow in 2004, co-starring Dennis Quaid as his father.[21][22]
In his theatrical debut Gyllenhaal starred on the London stage in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This is Our Youth.[23] Gyllenhaal said, "Every actor I look up to has done theatre work, so I knew I had to give it a try."[24] The play, which had been a critical sensation on Broadway, ran for eight weeks in London's West End. Gyllenhaal received favorable critical reviews and an Evening Standard Theatre Award in the category "Outstanding Newcomer."

2005 was a prolific year for Gyllenhaal, who starred in the critically praised films Proof, Jarhead, and Brokeback Mountain. In Proof, featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins, Gyllenhaal played a graduate student in mathematics who tries to convince Paltrow's character to publish a revolutionary proof to a problem puzzling the mathematicians' community. In Jarhead, Gyllenhaal played against his usual "sensitive yet disturbed" type by displaying an aggressive masculinity as a violent U.S. Marine during the first Gulf War.

In Brokeback Mountain, Gyllenhaal[27] and Heath Ledger play young men who meet as sheep herders and embark upon a homosexual relationship that begins in the summer of 1963 and continues until the death of Gyllenhaal's character in 1983. The film was often referred to in the media with the shorthand phrase "the gay cowboy movie,"[28] though there was differing opinion on the sexual orientation of the characters. The film won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film went on to win four Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, and three Academy Awards. Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor for his performance, but lost to George Clooney for Syriana. Gyllenhaal also won the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA for the same role and received a Best Supporting Actor nomination and Best Film Ensemble nomination from the Screen Actors Guild. Also for "Brokeback Mountain", he and Ledger won an MTV Movie Award for "Best Kiss" in 2006. Shortly after the 2006 Academy Awards, Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy in recognition of his acting career.[29] Most recently, Gyllenhaal was awarded the 2006 Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence by The Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards for his role.[30]
Gyllenhaal expressed mixed feelings about the experience of being directed by Ang Lee in Brokeback Mountain, but generally had more praise than criticism for Lee's directing style. While complaining of the way Lee tended to disconnect with his actors once filming began, Gyllenhaal praised his encouraging direction of the actors and sensitive approach to the material.[31][32] At the Directors Guild of America Awards on January 28, 2006, Gyllenhaal also praised Lee for "his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him."

Gyllenhaal narrated the 2005 short animated film The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,[36] based on Mordicai Gerstein's book of the same name about Philippe Petit's famous stunt.[37] In January 2007, as host of Saturday Night Live, he put on a sparkly evening dress and sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the musical Dreamgirls for his opening monologue,[38] dedicating the song to his "unique fan base... the fans of Brokeback."[39]
In 2007, Gyllenhaal starred in David Fincher's Zodiac, which was based on a true story. He played Robert Graysmith, a San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist and author of two books about the Zodiac serial killer.[40] Gyllenhaal stars opposite Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, and Reese Witherspoon in the October 2007 release Rendition, a Gavin Hood-directed political thriller about the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition.[41] Gyllenhaal's next roles will be in Jim Sheridan's remake of Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish language film Brothers[42] and Doug Liman's as yet untitled film about the race for lunar colonization.[43] He will also shoot 2009's Nailed in South Carolina, opposite Jessica Biel.[44]
Internationally viewed as a sex symbol, Gyllenhaal was named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2006.[45] He was also listed in People's "Hottest Bachelors of 2006"[46] and their Top 10 Hottest Men of 2007. In response to mainstream press lists like these, thousands of gay and bisexual men were polled for the 2007 and in 2008 "AfterElton.com Hot 100 List." Gyllenhaal was ranked at #1 in both consecutive years.[47] He was ranked at #2 on the Gay Wired Magazine poll of male actors who have played gay characters in movies.[48]
On the show Entourage, Gyllenhaal, though not featured on screen, was the replacement for Vincent Chase in Aquaman 2 after Chase was fired.
On May 20th 2008 it was announced that Gyllenhaal will play the lead role in the movie adaptation of the video game Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Production is set to start July 2008.

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (Los Angeles, 1980. december 19.) Oscar-díjra jelölt amerikai színész.

Stephen Gyllenhaal rendező és Naomi Foner forgatókönyvíró fia. Testvére Maggie Gyllenhaal színésznő. Jake 11 éves korától, 1991 óta foglalkozik színészettel. Több kisebb szerepben tűnt fel, míg megkapta első főszerepét az 1999-es Októberi égbolt című filmben. Ezt követte 2001-ben a Donnie Darko, amelyben egy zavart lelkű kamaszt személyesít meg. Filmbeli nővérét való életbeli testvére, Maggie játszotta. 2004-ben a Holnapután című katasztrófafilmben Dennis Quaiddel szerepelt, aki édesapját alakította. 2005-ben a híres, a vadnyugat számára érzékeny témát bemutató, de a kritikusok által üdvözölt filmben, a 3 Oscar-díjat kapott Túl a barátságonban (Brokeback Mountain) tűnt fel. A két meleg cowboy szerelmét feldolgozó, Annie Proulx novellájából készült alkotásban Jake alakította Jack Twistet és Heath Ledger játszotta Ennis Del Mart. A filmben nyújtott teljesítményükért mindkettőjüket Oscarra jelölték, és számos díjat el is nyertek.

David Schwimmer

David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 2, 1966 in Astoria, Queens, New York) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director for television and film, who gained popularity when playing Ross Geller on the hugely popular American sitcom Friends.

Schwimmer was born in Astoria, Queens, New York, to Jewish parents, Arthur Schwimmer and Arlene Colman, and then lived in Valley Stream, Long Island, until he was 2 years old. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Beverly Hills High School.
Having attended Northwestern University’s summer “Cherub” program (the National High School Institute) in 1983, he subsequently enrolled at the university as a theater major, joining Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and Arts Alliance in addition to acting and directing. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company.

Schwimmer is best known for his role as palaeontologist Dr. Ross Geller in the television sitcom Friends. The program was hugely successful and Schwimmer, along with his co-stars, gained widespread and worldwide recognition among television viewers. He earned an Emmy Award nomination in the “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series” category for the role in 1995. This made him the first cast member of Friends to receive such a nomination.
Aside from acting, he also directed 10 episodes of the series.' During the show’s 10-year run, Schwimmer appeared in numerous movies but perhaps gained most recognition outside of Friends playing Captain Herbert Sobel in the dramatic mini-series Band of Brothers. He was the first Friends character to host Saturday Night Live in 1995, with all the other main cast members to follow in his footsteps over the rest of the seasons in the '90s, apart from Matt LeBlanc who never hosted.
Schwimmer played himself on the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm. He also appeared in the TV series The Wonder Years. [1]
In 2005, Schwimmer portrayed the main protagonist in the independent drama Duane Hopwood, and received positive reviews for his role as an alcoholic looking to turn his life around. In 2007, David directed his first film, the British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, produced by Robert Jones, where he teamed up with British actor Simon Pegg. He had previously starred with Pegg in the movie Big Nothing and briefly in Band of Brothers. He is currently in talks to direct Simon Pegg's and Nick Frost's new project Paul.

David Schwimmer (1966. november 2. – ) amerikai színész, producer, rendező.

1966-ban született Queensben. David Schwimmer először színházi előadásokban lépett fel, majd 1988-ban a Biloxi Blues című filmben szerepelt statisztaként. A filmes szakmában nehezen jött meg a siker, így sorozatokban lépett fel (pl. The Wonder Years, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue). 1994-ben eljött a nagy áttörés, amikor a Jóbarátok című sorozatban ráosztották Ross Geller szerepét. A sorozat világsiker lett, így készült belőle még 10 évad, közben persze filmekben is játszott, lényegesen kisebb sikerrel. Mindazonáltal nagy sztárokkal játszhatott együtt, köztük Jack Nicholsonnal a Farkasban, Ian McKellennel Az eminensben és Harrison Forddal a Hat nap, hét éjszaka című filmben. Szinkronhang is volt a Madagaszkár című animációs filmben. Ezután több filmjében producerkedett, de nem arattak nagy sikert. Reméli, hogy a többi filmje, is olyan sikere, lesz, mint a Jóbarátok című sorozat.

David Schwimmer amolyan apatípus: már nagyon szeretne gyerekeket nevelni és rendes jövőt biztosítani leendő gyermekeinek. Szabadidejében imád softballozni, kosarazni, ping-pongozni és pókerezni az ismerőseivel. Kedvenc dala Elvistől a Crying in the Chapel, és imádja a fölözött tejet. A sztársággal járó kellemetlenségeket viszont rosszul viseli. Mint mondta: "Ez bizony nehéz. Amikor egy paparazzi egyfolytában követ a kocsijával és a videokamerájával, szeretnék egyszerűen elbúcsúzni az egésztől és tanítani meg a színházi csoportommal foglalkozni."

Robert Capa

Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a 20th century combat photographer who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. Capa's younger brother, Cornell Capa, also a photographer, worked to preserve and promote Robert's legacy as well as developing his own identity and style.

Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1913 as Endre Ernő Friedmann, Capa left the country in 1932 after being arrested because of his political involvement with protestors against the government (his parents had encouraged him to settle elsewhere).
Capa originally wanted to be a writer; however, he found work in photography in Berlin and grew to love the art. In 1933, he moved from Germany to France because of the rise of Nazism (he was Jewish), but found it difficult to find work there as a freelance journalist. He adopted the name "Robert Capa" around this time because he felt that it would be recognizable and American-sounding since it was similar to that of film director Frank Capra. (In fact, "cápa" is a Hungarian word meaning shark.)

From 1936 to 1939, he was in Spain, photographing the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 he became known across the globe for a photo he took on the Cordoba Front of a Loyalist Militiaman who had just been shot and was in the act of falling to his death. Because of his proximity to the victim and the timing of the capture, there was a long controversy about the authenticity of this photograph. A Spanish historian identified the dead soldier as Federico Borrell García, from Alcoi (Alicante). There is a second photograph showing another soldier who fell on the same spot.[1]
Many of Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War were, for many decades, presumed lost, but surfaced in Mexico City in the late 1990s.[2] While fleeing Europe in 1939, Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the "Mexican suitcase".[2] Ownership of the collection was transferred to the Capa Estate, and in December, 2007, moved to the International Center of Photography, a museum founded by Capa's younger brother Cornell in Manhattan.

At the start of World War II, Capa was in New York City. He had moved there from Paris to look for new work and to escape Nazi persecution. The war took Capa to various parts of the European Theatre on photography assignments. He first photographed for Collier's Weekly, before switching to Life after he was fired by the former. When first hired, he was a citizen of Hungary, but he was also Jewish, which allowed him to negotiate visas to Europe. He was the only "enemy alien" photographer for the Allies. On October 7, 1943, Robert Capa was in Naples with Life reporter Will Lang Jr. and photographed the Naples post office bombing.[4]
His most famous work occurred on June 6, 1944 (D-Day) when he swam ashore with the second assault wave on Omaha Beach. He was armed with two Contax II cameras mounted with 50 mm lenses and several rolls of spare film. Capa took 106 pictures in the first couple of hours of the invasion. However, a staff member at Life made a mistake in the darkroom; he set the dryer too high and melted the emulsion in the negatives. Only eleven frames in total were recovered.[5]
Although a fifteen-year-old lab assistant named Dennis Banks was responsible for the accident, another account, now largely accepted as untrue but which gained widespread currency, blamed Larry Burrows, who worked in the lab not as a technician but as a "tea-boy". [6] Life magazine printed 10 of the frames in its June 19, 1944 issue with captions that described the footage as "slightly out of focus", explaining that Capa's hands were shaking in the excitement of the moment (something which he denied).[7] Capa used this phrase as the title of his alternately hilarious and sad autobiographical account of the war, Slightly Out of Focus.
In 1947 Capa traveled into the Soviet Union with his friend, writer John Steinbeck. He took photos in Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and among the ruins of Stalingrad. The humorous reportage of Steinbeck, A Russian Journal was illustrated with Capa's photos. It was first published in 1948.
In 1947, Capa founded Magnum Photos with Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Vandivert, David Seymour, and George Rodger. In 1951, he became the president.

In the early 1950s, Capa traveled to Japan for an exhibition associated with Magnum Photos. While there, Life magazine asked him to go on assignment to Southeast Asia, where the French had been fighting for eight years in the First Indochina War. Despite the fact he had sworn not to photograph another war a few years earlier, Capa accepted and accompanied a French regiment with two other Time-Life journalists, John Mecklin and Jim Lucas. On May 25, 1954 at 2:55 p.m., the regiment was passing through a dangerous area under fire when Capa decided to leave his jeep and go up the road to photograph some of the advance. About five minutes later, Mecklin and Lucas heard a loud explosion. Capa had stepped on a landmine. When they arrived on the scene he was still alive, but his left leg had been blown to pieces and he had a serious wound in his chest. Mecklin screamed for a medic and Capa's body was taken to a small field hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He had died with his camera in his hand.

In 1934 "André Friedman", as he called himself at that time, met Gerda Pohorylle, a German Jewish refugee. The couple lived in Paris where André taught Gerda photography. Together they contrived the name and image of "Robert Capa" as a famous American photographer. Gerda took the name Gerda Taro, becoming successful in her own right. She traveled with Capa to Spain in 1936 with the intention to document the Spanish Civil War. In July 1937 Capa went on a short business trip to Paris while Gerda remained in Madrid. She was killed near Brunete during a battle. Capa, who was reportedly engaged to her, was deeply shocked and never married.
In February 1943 Capa met Elaine Justin, the beautiful young wife of actor John Austin. They immediately fell in love and the relationship lasted until the end of the war, although Capa spent most of his time in the frontline. Capa lovingly called the redheaded Elaine "Pinky," and their romance became the topic of his war memoir, Slightly Out of Focus. In 1945, Elaine broke up with Capa and married her friend, Chuck Romine.
Some months later Capa became the lover of actress Ingrid Bergman who was travelling in Europe at the time entertaining American soldiers. In December 1945, Capa followed her to Hollywood where he worked for American International Pictures for a short time. Bergman tried to persuade him to marry her but Capa didn't want to live in Hollywood. Their troubled romance was immortalized by their mutual friend Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window. The relationship ended in the summer of 1946 when Capa travelled to Turkey.

In order to preserve the photographic heritage of Capa and other photographers, his younger brother, Cornell, founded the International Fund for Concerned Photography in 1966. To give this collection a permanent home he founded the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1974.
The Overseas Press Club created an award in his honor, the Robert Capa Gold Medal. It is given annually to the photographer who provides the "best published photographic reporting from abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise".[8]
In 1995, thousands of negatives to photographs that Capa took during the Spanish Civil War were found in three suitcases bequeathed to a Mexico City film-maker from his aunt. In 1939, after Capa fled Europe for America during the World War II, these negatives were left behind in a Paris darkroom and they were assumed lost during the Nazi invasion of Paris. It is not known how the negatives traveled to Mexico, but apparently Capa asked his darkroom manager, a Hungarian photographer named Imre Weisz, to save his negatives during 1939 and 1940. Jerald R Green, a professor at Queens College, was informed by a letter from the Mexican film-maker about this discovery. In January 2008, the negatives transferred to the Capa estate, but the Mexican film-maker has asked to remain anonymous.

"Ha nem elég jók a képeid, nem voltál elég közel"

Robert Capa (eredeti nevén Friedmann Endre Ernő) (1913. október 22., Budapest – 1954. május 25., Indokína, Thai Binh) magyar származású fotográfus.
Friedmann Endre néven született Budapesten, a 20. század egyik legjelentősebb fotósa, elsősorban dokumentaristaként, haditudósítóként tartják számon. Rövid élete során öt csatatéren fotózott (a spanyol polgárháborúban, a japánok kínai inváziójakor, a II. világháború európai hadszínterein, az első arab-izraeli háborúban és Indokínában). A II. világháború folyamán Londonban, Észak-Afrikában, Olaszországban, a normandiai partraszállásnál az Omaha Beach-en és Párizs felszabadításakor is ott volt és dokumentálta a háború eseményeit.

Szülei szabók voltak, a Kossuth Lajos utcában volt az üzlethelyiségük. Egy bátyja (László) és egy öccse (Kornél) van. Öccse később szintén fényképész lesz és Cornell Capa néven fut be szép karriert. A Budapesti Madách Gimnáziumban végezte középfokú tanulmányait. 1931 júliusában előbb Bécsbe, majd Prágába, aztán Berlinbe kölözött, ahol a Német Politikai Főiskolán újságírást tanult, ahonnan zsidó származása miatt 1933-ban távozni kényszerült. Egy rövid időre visszatért Budapestre és csatlakozott a Kassák-féle Munka körhöz, de a növekvő antiszemitizmus miatt ősszel Párizsba emigrált.
Capa (ekkor még Friedmann) a harmincas évek elején hobbifotósként kezdett képeket készíteni. Bohém figura lévén hamar rájött, hogy kedvtelését megélhetésként is űzheti. Mivel Párizsban sem volt neki könnyű a megélhetés, 1934-ben felvette a Robert Capa nevet (u.i.: magyar barátai között cápa volt a beceneve), ami amerikai hangzású volt, hasonlított az akkoriban népszerű amerikai fimrendező, Frank Capra nevére. Ettől remélt több megbízást újságíróként vagy fotósként.
A várakozása sikerrel járt, 1934-ben megkapta első megbízását a Vu magazintól. Haditudósítóként vett részt az 1936-os spanyol polgárháborúban, az 1938-as japán-kínai háborúban, a II. világháború észak-afrikai és olaszországi hadjárataiban, a franciaországi (normandiai) invázióban, 1950-ben az izraeli harcokban. Capa, mikor nem a harcmezőkön fotózott, nagykanállal habzsolta az életet. Egyik szeretője Ingrid Bergman volt, azonban Capa ezt úriemberhez méltóan titkolta, csak később, Bergman önéletrajzi könyvéből derült rá fény. Isabella Rossellini, Bergman lánya több romantikus levelet is őriz, melyeket Capa küldött a dívának. 1954-ben a Life Indokínába küldte, hogy tudósítson a francia gyarmati harcokról. Május 25-én délután öt perccel 3 óra előtt aknára lépett, és meghalt.

1936-1937-ben Gerda Taro-val tudósítottak a spanyol polgárháborúból, a francia, baloldali Regards nevű hetilap megbízásából. Az itt készült A milicista halála című képe meghozta számára világsikert. A képet több más fotója kíséretében a LIFE magazin közölte, és szinte azonnal vitákat váltott ki szakmai körökben. Ellenlábasai azt próbálták bizonyítani, hogy a fotó – Capa állításával ellentétben – nem dokumentum, hanem egy megrendezett, beállított kép. A vita tulajdonképpen a mai napig tart, a hivatalos álláspont az, hogy a kép eredeti, vagyis Capa valóban abban a pillanatban fotózta le egészen közelről a katonát (akit később Federico Borrell Garcia néven azonosítottak), amikor egy golyótól elesett a harcmezőn. 1938-ban a japán-kínai háború miatt Kínába, 1940-ben Mexikóba utazott.

A sors furcsa fintora, hogy "a világ leghíresebb háborús fotósa" egészen 1943-ig nem kapott megbízást, hogy a világháborúról tudósítson (a Blitz idején Londonban van, de nem mint tudósító), ettől kezdve azonban szinte végig az első vonalakból küldte képeit a LIFE magazinnak. Előbb Észak-Afrikában, majd Szicíliában kísérte az amerikai katonákat. 1944. június 6-án hajnalban ő volt az egyetlen fotós, aki a partraszállók első hullámával Normandia földjére lépett. 6 tekercs filmet (106 kockát) fotózott el, majd délután 2-kor, amikor már biztosnak látszott a hídfőállás, az első kórházhajóval visszatért Portsmouth-ba. A filmtekercseket bevitte a LIFE londoni irodájába, majd lefeküdt aludni. A laborban az asszisztens, az akkor 15 éves Larry Burrows (aki később maga is hadifotós lett) annyira kíváncsi volt a képekre, hogy az előhívás után a szokásosnál magasabbra állította a szárítóban a hőmérsékletet, hogy gyorsabban száradjanak a negatívok. A hő azonban leolvasztotta az emulziót, 8 teljes kép és további 3 kocka bizonyos részeinek kivételével teljesen megsemmisültek a felbecsülhetetlen értékű, megismételhetetlen fotók, a megmaradtak is elmosódtak. Mindazonáltal a LIFE június 19-én leközölt 10 képet "slightly out of focus"("enyhén életlen") magyarázkodó képaláírással. Ez annyira felbosszantotta Capa-t, hogy később ezt a címet adta önéletrajzának is. (Ez a kötet 2006 októberében jelent meg magyarul Kissé elmosódva Emlékeim a háborúból címmel a Park Könyvkiadó gondozásában.) Ezek a fotók – mint egyedüli hiteles vizuális dokumentumok – inspirálták később Steven Spielberg-et a Ryan közlegény megmentése c. film nyitó képsorainak megalkotásakor.

1947-ben megalakította a Magnum fotóügynökséget, amelynek elnöke is lett, alapító kollégái barátja Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour, George Rodger és William Vandivert.
1948-ban Magyarországon is fényképezett, a háborús pusztítást és a kommunista befolyás nyomait rögzítette.
1954-ben Japánba utazott egy Magnum fotókiállítás megszervezése végett, ekkor kérte fel a LIFE magazin, hogy "ha már úgyis ott van", tudósítson az Indokínában (Vietnamban és a környező Laoszban és Kambodzsában) akkor már 8 éve zajló függetlenségi háborúról. Május 25-én reggel egy francia ezreddel gyalog indultak el a laoszi határvidéken egy felderítő útra. Út közben fotózta a katonákat és a leégett, kifosztott falvakat, a temetetlen halottakat. Délután öt perccel 3 óra előtt (az alakulat parancsnokának határozott figyelmeztetése ellenére) egy kis dombra kapaszkodott fel, hogy látképet késztíthessen a környékről, amikor egy taposóaknára lépett, ami felrobbanva azonnal megölte.
"Ha nem elég jók a képeid, nem voltál elég közel" – mondta több interjúban is a sokat látott, de tragikusan rövid életű riporter.
Hagyatékának gondozására öccse, Kornél (Cornell Capa) 1964-ben alapítványt hozott létre, ez később kiegészül más fotósok munkáival is, majd ebből jött létre 1974-ben New Yorkban az International Center of Photography, amely ma archívum, galéria és fotós iskola.

Kate Hudson

Kate Garry Hudson[1] (born April 19, 1979) is an American film actress. She came to prominence in 2001 after receiving an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for her role in the drama Almost Famous, and has since established herself as a Hollywood lead actress, starring in several films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Skeleton Key, You, Me and Dupree and Fool's Gold.

Hudson was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson, an actor, comedian, and musician.[2] Hudson's parents divorced eighteen months after her birth; she and her brother, actor Oliver Hudson, were raised in Colorado by her mother and her mother's long-time boyfriend, actor Kurt Russell.[3] Hudson has stated that her biological father "doesn't know me from a hole in the wall", and that she considers Kurt Russell to be her father.[4] Hudson has described her mother as "the woman that I've learned the most from, and who I look up to, who has conducted her life in a way that I can look up to".[5] She has three half-siblings, Emily and Zachary Hudson, from her biological father's subsequent marriage to actress Cindy Williams, and Wyatt, from her mother's relationship with Kurt Russell. Hudson is of Hungarian, Italian, and Ashkenazi Jewish descent,[6] and was raised in her maternal grandmother's Jewish religion;[7][8] her family also practiced Buddhism. Hudson graduated from Crossroads, a performing school in Santa Monica, in 1997. She was accepted to New York University, but chose to pursue an acting career instead of attending.

Hudson's breakthrough role was as Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.[3] She had previously appeared in the lesser-known films Gossip, a teenage drama, and 200 Cigarettes, a New Year's-set comedy with a large cast of actors. Regarding her early career and success, Hudson has noted that she is a "hard worker", and did not want to be associated with her well-known parents, wishing to avoid the perception that she "rode on somebody's coattails".[3]
In the 2002 Hudson starred in remake of the historical romance The Four Feathers, a film which was not well received by critics or audiences. Her next film, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a romantic comedy, became a big success at the box office, grossing over $100 million after its February 2003 release. Hudson subsequently appeared in several romantic comedies, including Alex and Emma and Raising Helen; the films met with varying degrees of success.
Hudson headlined a thriller called The Skeleton Key in 2005. The film, which had a production budget of $43 million, enjoyed box office success, grossing over $91.9 million worldwide ($47.9 million in North America).[9] Her later film, a comedy titled You, Me and Dupree and co-starring Owen Wilson and Matt Dillon, grossed $21.5 million on its opening weekend of 14 July 2006.[10]
In 2007 Hudson directed the short film Cutlass, one of Glamour magazine's "Reel Moments" based on readers' personal essays. Cutlass co-stars Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Virginia Madsen, Chevy Chase and Kristen Stewart.[11]
In 2008, her latest film, Fool's Gold, was released on February 8th. This romantic comedy is her second film to co-star Matthew McConaughey. She had been certified in scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef for the movie's underwater scenes. Her latest film, another romantic comedy entitled My Best Friend's Girl, will be released in September.
It was recently announced that Hudson will appear in the highly anticipated movie musical Nine alongside the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench, among others. The film, directed by Rob Marshall, will be released in the fall of 2009.

In 2000, Hudson married Chris Robinson, the frontman for The Black Crowes. They married on New Year's Eve in Arlington, Colorado. Hudson gave birth to their son, Ryder Russell Robinson, on January 7, 2004. The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson's film shoots or Robinson's music tours.[3] On August 14, 2006, Hudson's publicist announced that Hudson and Robinson had separated. Rumors swirled that the reason was Hudson's affair with Owen Wilson on the set of You, Me and Dupree.[12] On November 18, 2006, Robinson filed divorce papers, citing "irreconcilable differences".[13] The divorce was finalized on October 22, 2007.[14]
After she and Robinson separated, Hudson publicly dated Stephen McNally and Owen Wilson, her You, Me and Dupree co-star. However, the two broke up in May 2007. In May of 2008, she began dating Lance Armstrong, however the couple split in July. [15]
Hudson has also said that she does not enjoy seeing herself on screen, specifying that she "gets cold... shakes and... sweats" when watching her performances for the first time.[5] In July 2006, Hudson sued the British version of the National Enquirer after they had stated that she has an eating disorder and described her as "painfully thin." Hudson said that the tabloid's actions were "completely inappropriate" and a "blatant lie," and specified her concern relating the impressions about weight that she feels the tabloid could have on young girls.[16]
Hudson is left-handed.
According to Peoplestar and US Magazines, Kate Hudston and her Tour de France champ Lance Armstrong have ended their very high-profile romance in July 2008.

Kate Garry Hudson (1979. április 19.) amerikai színésznő. 2000-ben vált széles körben ismertté, miután eljátszotta Penny Lane szerepét a Majdnem híres című filmben, ami Oscar-jelölést hozott neki. Azóta vezető hollywoodi színésznővé érett, számos sikerfilmben feltűnt, köztük a Hogyan veszítsünk el egy pasit 10 nap alattban és A titkok kulcsában.

Kate Hudson Los Angelesben született Bill Hudson (énekes, komikus és a Hudson Brothers tagja) és Goldie Hawn lányaként.[1] Hudson szülei tizennyolc hónappal születése után elváltak, ő és bátyja, a szintén színész Oliver, Coloradóban nevelkedett anyjával és anyja régi barátjával, Kurt Russellel.[2] Mivel Kate biológiai apja élete legnagyobb részében nem volt jelen, elidegenedtek egymástól, így Russellt tekinti apjának.[3] Anyját úgy írta le, hogy ő az „a nő, akitől a legtöbbet tanultam, akire felnézek, aki olyan módon irányította életét, amire felnézhetek”.[4] Kate-nek három féltestvére van, Emily és Zachary Hudson apja új házasságából Cindy Williams színésznővel, és Wyatt, aki Kurt Russell fia. Hudson unokatestvére Sarah Hudson énekesnő.
Hudson magyar, olasz és ashkenazi zsidó származású,[5] s az anyai nagyanyja zsidó vallásának jegyében nevelték;[6][7] családja szintén gyakorolta a buddhista vallást. Hudson a santa monicai Crossroads iskolában diplomázott 1997-ben. Felvették a New York Universityre, de végül a színészi pályát választotta helyette.

Hudsonnek az áttörést Cameron Crowe 2000-es filmje, a Majdnem híres hozta meg, amiért a legjobb női mellékszereprő kategóriában Oscar-díjra jelölték. Ez előtt szerepelt a kevésbé ismert Pletyka című tini-drámában és a 200 szál cigiben, ami egy újévkor játszódó vígjáték számos ismert színésszel. Pályája korai szakaszát és sikerét illetően Hudson megjegyezte, hogy keményen dolgozik, s nem akarja, hogy jól ismert szüleivel hozzák összefüggésbe.[2] Hudson legutóbbi filmje, az Én, a nő és plusz egy fő, melyben Owen Wilson és Matt Dillon mellett látható, szintén jó fogadtatásra lelt az anyagiak tekintetében, csak hazájában 75 millió dollárt keresett.[8]
2007-ben Hudson rendezőként is kipróbálta magát a Cutlass című rövidfilmmel, aminek a forgatókönyvét is maga írta. A produkcióban feltűnt Kurt Russell, Chevy Chase, Dakota Fanning és Virginia Madsen is.[9] Legutóbbi filmszerepe a Bolondok aranyában volt, ahol újfent Matthew McConaughey partnere volt.
2008 szeptemberétől lesz látható a My Best Friend's Girlfriend című vígjáték. Az A Dream of Red Mansions-ben Hudson Diana Mellorst alakítja majd, egy valóban élt fotóriportert, aki Kínába költözött és kommunistává vált. A film várhatóan 2009-ben kerül a mozikba, akárcsak a Bride Wars című komédia és egy dráma, a Big Eyes.

2000-ben Hudson feleségül ment Chris Robinsonhoz, a The Black Crowes frontemberéhez. 2004. január 7-én fiuk született, akit Ryder Russell Robinsonnak hívnak. A pár abban a házban élt, ami egykor James Whale rendezőjé volt, s együtt utaztak Hudson filmforgatásaira és Robinson zenei turéjaira.[2] 2006. augusztus 14-én Hudson szóvivője bejelentette, hogy a pár különvált, aminek feltételezett oka volt, hogy Hudson közel került az Én, a nő és plusz egy fő-beli partneréhez, Owen Wilsonhoz.[10] 2006. november 18-án, Robinson beadta a válási papírokat, kibékíthetetlen ellentétekre hivatkozva.[11] A válást 2007. október 22-én véglegesítették.[12] Hudson és Wilson kapcsolata 2007 májusában ért véget.
Hudson elmondta, hogy „nem túlzottan vallásos”,[13] mindemellett zsidónak írja le magát,[7] s elkötelezett ellenzője az antiszemitizmusnak, amivel kapcsolatban Párizsban voltak rossz tapasztalatai.[14]
Szintén elárulta, hogy nem szereti nézni magát a vásznon/képernyőn, mert „fázni kezd...remeg és...izzad”, ha első alkalommal látja alakítását.[4] 2006 júliusában Hudson beperelte a National Enquirer brit kiadását, mert azt állították, hogy táplálkozási rendellenességei vannak, s „fájdalmasan soványnak” nevezték. Hudson azt mondta, mindez „egyáltalán nem helytálló” és „ordas hazugság”, és aggodalmának adott hangot a testsúlyról kialakult képpel kapcsolatban, ami a fiatal lányokat befolyásolja

Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City) is an American singer-songwriter and actor of Romanian Jewish ancestry, best known as half of the

Grammy Award winning folk duo Simon and Garfunkel.

Garfunkel attended Forest Hills High School.
He met his future singing partner, Paul Simon, in the sixth grade. Between 1956 and 1962, the two had performed together as Tom & Jerry. Garfunkel ("Tom Graph") chose his nickname because he liked to track, or "graph" hits, on the pop charts. Garfunkel attended Columbia University in the early 1960s, where he sang with the Kingsmen, an all-male a cappella group (not to be confused with The Kingsmen of "Louie Louie" fame) and was a Brother in the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. In 1962, Garfunkel earned a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in art history, followed by a Master's degree in mathematics.

In 1963 he and Simon reformed their duo under their own names as "Simon and Garfunkel" and released their first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. on Columbia Records in October 1964. It was not a critical success, and the duo subsequently split again. The next year, producer Tom Wilson lifted the song "The Sound of Silence" from the record, dubbed an electric backing onto it, and released it as a single that went to #1 on the Billboard pop charts. Simon and Garfunkel reunited and went on to become two of the most popular artists of the 1960s, releasing five studio albums. Citing personal differences and divergence in career interests, they split following the release of their most critically acclaimed album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, in 1970.

After attending Leicester University in the 1970s, Garfunkel released several solo albums. He scored hits with "I Only Have Eyes For You." (a 1934 song written by Harry Warren[1]) and "Bright Eyes" (both British #1 hit singles), and "All I Know" (#9 in the United States). A version of "Bright Eyes" also appeared in the movie (based on the famous novel) Watership Down. Garfunkel briefly reunited with Paul Simon in the 1975 hit "My Little Town". During this time, he also starred in major motion pictures Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge (1971).
Following disappointing sales of his 1981 album Scissors Cut, Garfunkel reunited with Simon for The Concert in Central Park and a world tour. They had disagreements during the tour, and Simon excluded Garfunkel's voice from a new album, initially slated to be a Simon and Garfunkel album, but released as a Simon solo album (Hearts and Bones)[citation needed]. Garfunkel then left the music scene until his 1988 album, Lefty and later 1993's Up 'til Now, neither of which received significant critical or commercial success. His live 1996 concert Across America, recorded at the registry hall on Ellis Island features musical guests James Taylor, Garfunkel's wife, Kim, and his son James.[2]
Garfunkel performed the theme song for the 1991 television series, Brooklyn Bridge, and "The Ballad of Buster Baxter" for a 1998 episode of the children's educational television seriesArthur, where he was depicted as a singing/narrator moose.[3] Garfunkel's performance of Monty Python member Eric Idle's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was used in the end credits of the 1997 film As Good as It Gets.

In 2003, Garfunkel made his debut as a songwriter on his Everything Waits to Be Noticed album. Teaming up with singer-songwriters Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock, the album contained several songs whose origins were poems written by Garfunkel. The album is recognized as his first effort at songwriting since his teenage years with Tom & Jerry.
In 2003, Simon and Garfunkel reunited again for a successful world tour that extended into 2004. In 2005, his song "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" from The Art Garfunkel Album (1984) (written by Mike Batt) was re-recorded by ex-ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog on her album My Colouring Book.
In 2006, Garfunkel signed with Rhino Records (revived Atco Records), and his first Rhino/Atco album Some Enchanted Evening was released in America on January 30, 2007.[4] In late February 2007 during a German television interview to promote the new album, he expressed interest in reuniting with Paul Simon on a new Simon and Garfunkel album.

Paul Simon és Art Garfunkel először 1957-ben készített közös számot. Eleinte különböző művészneveket használta, mint például a Tom and Jerry. A rajzfilmekből jól ismert név alatt jelentették meg első jelentősebb számukat, a Hey Little Schoolgirl -t. A "Hé, kis iskoláslány" sikere a profi zenélés felé mozdította volna őket, de a "nagy iskolásfiú", Art inkább tanulmányait folytatta. Az 1941-ben született Garfunkel még középiskolás volt, amikor megismerkedett a vele egyidős Paul Simonnal. A szülői ösztönzés és a továbbtanulási vágy miatt egyetemen folytatta tanulmányait. Diplomával a zsebében ismét a zene felé fordult, és felkereste régi társát, a magyar származású és jó szerzői képességekkel rendelkező zenészt, Paul Simont. két muzsikus 1964-től ismét együtt dolgozott. Elkészítették a "Szerda reggel három óra" című lemezüket amely a CBS-nél jelent meg. A korong Angliában érthetetlen módon csak négy év késéssel került a boltokba. Bár a két zenésznek egyéni stílusa volt, dalaik szövege erősen idézte Bob Dylan -t. Szerzeményeik harmóniája az Everly Brothers hangzásvilágára emlékeztetett. Második albumuk és annak címadó dala, a The Sound Of Silence (A csend hangja) világraszoló nagy siker lett. Ebben az időszakban jónéhány sikeres dalt komponáltak, köztük a Homeward Bound -ot, a hazakívánkozás dalát és a Boxer -t. 1968-ban ők írták a Graduate című film zenéjét, amit nálunk "Diploma előtt" címmel mutattak be. A kiválóan megkomponált zenéjért és különösen a Mrs. Robinson című dalért Grammy -díjat kaptak. A duó mind zenei tekintetben, mind a siker szempontjából 1970-ben ért a csúcsra, a Bridge Over Troubled Water (Híd a zavaros víz felett) című albumával. Arra mindenki számíthatott, hogy a lemez és annak címadó dala óriási siker lesz, de arra nem, hogy épp ekkor oszlik fel a sikeres duó és kezdenek szolópályát mindketten.
Paul Simon, aki - amíg Garfunkel tanulmányait végezte - már megfordult különböző együttesekben, 1965-ben adta ki első szolólemezét. A számok többségét ő írta, így nem okozott gondot a saját lábán megállnia. Vándorlásai során zenei stílusára nagy hatással volt a dél-amerikai, majd az afrikai zene. Ezt késöbbi lemezein erősen érezni lehet. A sikeres karriert befutott népszerű zenész alkotásaiért többször kapott Grammy-díjat. 1980-ban a zenélés mellett filmes vállalkozásba is belefogott, de ez nem hozta meg a várt sikert így felhagyott vele. Garfunkel ez idő alatt inkább a filmiparban tevékenykedett. szerepet kapott a Catch 22 (A huszonkettes csapdája), a Carnal Knowledge és a Bad Timing című filmekben. 1973-tól kétévente albumai is megjelentek. Szerzeményei néha a legjobbak között szerepeltek, de szolózenészként ő alkotott kevesebbet és kevésbé értékeset. 1981 mindkét zenész életének a fénypontja lett. Újra együtt énekeltek. A New York Central arkban félmillió ember volt kiváncsi a két egykori társra. A koncert anyaga lemezen is megjelent, de a duó nem maradt sokáig együtt. Ezt követően Paul tovább folytatta sikeres szolókarrierjét és gyakran lépett fel segélykoncerteken. 1991 nyarán Budapesten is fellépett. Garfunkel viszont ritkán adott ki lemezt, neve egyre kevesebbet szerepelt a zenei körökben, mígnem teljesen eltűnt a zenei életből. Lemezeik, munkásságuk ma is óriási hatással van a lírai rockzenére: Simon művészi értékű költői szövegeivel, a folk hagyományaiban gyökerező de mégis aktuális mondanivalót hordozó szerzeményeivel a műfaj valódi gyöngyszemeit alkotta meg, amelyekben érzékenyen reagált a korosztályát foglalkoztató problémákra. A munka nagy részét ő vállalta magára, amit jól egészített ki Garfunkel tiszta tenor hangja. Bársonyosan összecsengő énekük egy sor nagy sikerű szerzeményt eredményezett.