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Elizabeth Hurley

One thing's for sure: Hurley must be quite tolerant and patient, having survived the storm of controversy she found herself implicated in her ex-boyfriend's public indiscretion a few years back.

She obviously doesn't take herself too seriously considering she starred in Austin Powers (and appeared in Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me). Hurley was known as a dramatic actress in her native England, and was best known for emotionally heavy roles. On the other hand, her reputation as a comedic actress in North America has continued with her appearance opposite Matthew Perry in Serving Sara (2002) .

She may not have won any major acting awards yet, but we're confident that she'll land a role that will highlight her talents as both a drama queen and a funny lady simultaneously.

biography

Born on June 10, 1965, in Hampshire, England, Elizabeth Hurley is the daughter of an army officer and an elementary schoolteacher mother. While growing up in Basingstoke, England, Hurley dreamed of becoming a dancer, which prompted her to attend a boarding school that specialized in ballet at the age of 12.

Her attendance at the boarding school was short-lived, and Hurley then went through a different phase: the English punk stage. Although it must be hard to imagine the now glamorous Hurley with pink hair and a nose ring, she was a victim of early '80s punk fashion, since this was the thing to do at that time and place.

elizabeth hurley is christabel

At age 21, Hurley got her first film role in the 1987 film Aria, after having attended the London Studio Centre on scholarship. Hurley's role in the film Remando al viento (a.k.a. Rowing In the Wind) that same year also starred her future boyfriend Hugh Grant. One year later, Hurley received critical acclaim for her role as Christabel Bielenberg in the BBC miniseries, Christabel.

Hurley gained some recognition in the United States for her role in the 1992 action film Passenger 57, starring Wesley Snipes. Although this was a Hollywood movie, she was still having difficulty receiving quality roles, and consequently returned to England.

Whoever said that clothing isn't important doesn't know about Elizabeth Hurley's claim to fame. Apparently, Versace did Hurley a favor by giving the statuesque beauty an unsold dress to wear to the 1994 London premiere of Hugh Grant's film, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The low-cut, risque dress held together by safety pins became Hurley's ticket to stardom, as she made heads turn at the premiere.

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More attention followed when Estee Lauder signed Hurley to be the face of the international cosmetics company. And who could forget Hugh Grant's arrest, due to a one-night tryst with prostitute Divine Brown?

Contrary to public belief, Hurley and Grant remained a couple, and together founded the production company Simian Films. Its first production was the film Extreme Measures, a 1996 thriller starring Hugh, Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker.

elizabeth stars in austin powers

If by this point, anyone had still not heard of Elizabeth Hurley, 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery -- the little movie that became a smash hit -- surely got her the recognition she deserved. With her comedic turn as agent Vanessa Kensington alongside Austin Powers, played by Mike Myers, Hurley was now seeing movie scripts roll in.

Several movie roles followed, including parts in 1998's Permanent Midnight, and 1999's My Favorite Martian, EDtv and Austin Powers 2: The Spy Who Shagged Me. That same year, Hurley worked as producer of Mickey Blue Eyes, which starred boyfriend Hugh Grant and marked the second film for Simian Films.

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Hurley has continued to appear in smaller productions over the past couple of years, including 2000's The Weight of Water and Bedazzled, 2002's Bad Boy with Denis Leary, and Serving Sara, a comedy co-starring Matthew Perry. In 2004, Elizabeth can be seen in Method, in which she stars as a serial killer.

elizabeth hurley has bing baby

After a 13-year relationship, she and Hugh Grant parted ways in 2000, triggering rumors that the breakup stemmed from a disagreement over having children together. Liz began a romance with millionaire movie producer Stephen Bing in 2001, and gave birth to a son, Damian Charles, on April 4, 2002.

Bing initially denied that he was the baby's biological father, claiming he and Liz had a non-exclusive relationship. DNA testing has since proven that Bing is indeed the child's father, although he and Liz are no longer romantically involved.

Hurley is now currently dating Indian textile magnate Arun Nayar, and although they are reportedly engaged, the rumors have yet to be confirmed. Elegant yet provocative, Liz is one of the best-dressed actresses in Hollywood.

natural beauty

At certain angles, Elizabeth's face is as beautiful as any supermodel's. Although she doesn't exactly have a button nose, her own does give her face personality.

Her (usually) dark hair and deep-set eyes add a mysterious quality to her stunning beauty. The fact that she was chosen to represent one of the top cosmetics companies, Estee Lauder, over so many other beautiful women the world over is a testament of Liz's delectable beauty.

As for her beauty secrets, Hurley claimed in an Evening Standard interview that she gets her "hot-date look" by devouring large amounts of watercress soup. If that's what works for her, more power to the soup!

spy [spaI] шпион; тайный агент

indiscretion ["IndIs'kreS(q)n] неосмотрительность, неосторожность

to shag [Sxg] поймать; ; Br., sl., vulg. иметь сексуальный контакт

simultaneously ["s'm(q)lteInjqslI] одновременно

acclaim [q'kleIm] шумное приветствие

fame [feIm] известность, популярность, слава

statuesque ["stxtju'esk] величественный

risque ['rIskeI] рискованный; непристойный

tryst [traIst] назначенная встреча

script [skrIpt] сценарий

to bedazzle [bI'dxzl] ослеплять блеском

rumor ['rHmq] молва

DNA дезоксирибонуклеиновая кислота (ДНК)

stunning ['stAnIN] сногсшибательный; великолепный

delectable [dI'lektqbl] восхитительный, очаровательный

watercress ['wLtqkres] кресс водяной (пряноароматическое растение)

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By Sonal Panse

The Celts were a non-Mediterranean people with a formidable reputation for fighting, courageous in battle, yet sensitive in their art. For a long time they were the dominant force in Europe and later on challenged and on many occasions even dented the might of the Roman Empire.

When the Roman Empire began its expansion through Mid and Western Europe it was met with very fierce resistance from the local tribes, collectively called the Celts. The Celts, a non-Mediterranean people, had dominated this area for over a thousand years prior to the Romans. Perhaps originally from the lands later known as Germanic, they had, between 500 B.C. and 100 B.C., spread outwards in migratory waves that took them eventually from Ireland and Spain to Turkey in their quest for newer lands and better opportunities. Creating a new life thus for themselves of course involved dislodging the original inhabitants, who naturally weren't exactly welcoming, and so habitual warfare became a way of life with the Celts, establishing their reputation permanently as a quarrelsome, war-mongering lot. Their invasions however were periodic irritations rather than large concentrated attacks. For the Celts, although a people with a common ancestry, language, and religion, were deeply divided into many different tribes, each loyal to their own Chieftain and having their own social structure and customs, including coinage. More often than not these tribes were at war with one another as well, and they actually seemed to relish it too.

According to the accounts left by Greek and Roman writers of the period - to whom we owe our knowledge of the ancient Celts as they themselves left no written records - wars were always elaborate affairs, with finely embellished weapons, armors and chariots brought into use; although many of the warriors were also known to eschew everything and rush headlong and stark-naked into battle. Their courage was legendary and most of them were very tall and sturdy, with wild, bleached-blond hair and enormous mustaches. They usually heightened their daunting appearances with blue woad dye and horned bronze helmets, and then further unnerved the enemy before battle by issuing weird, spine-chilling screams while clanging up a fearsome cadence with their swords against their shields. Working themselves into a terrible fury in this way and certainly disheartening the enemy also, they charged into battle and fought with incredible savagery.

Their preferred mode of fighting was using guerilla tactics rather than straight head-on. They made swift, lightning raids in small groups of foot soldiers, cavalry and chariots, attacking adeptly with bows and arrows, swords, spears, javelins, and slingshots, harassing the enemy from an unexpected side and then withdrawing before the enemy could fully retaliate while another group attacked from another side. These unusual methods of fighting quite annoyed the disciplined, orderly Romans, who, often put to loss, dubbed them as cowardly. They certainly were quite disconcerted too by the Celtic penchant for chopping off enemy heads and hanging them from their belts or around the necks of their horses to be later on proudly displayed as mounted trophies atop door-posts or embalmed with cedar oil in special boxes. The head-taking was not only supposed to endow the Celtic warrior with the additional powers of his fallen foe, but the greater the number of displayed heads the greater his social standing. The Celts were a rough crowd, and had some pretty primitive and bloody-thirsty customs. Another one of these apparently involved ritualistic animal and human sacrifices, carried out in woods and near watering places by the infamous Druids. There is, of course, some controversy regarding this since the Roman view-point which we have is not exactly an unbiased one. They were not likely to be glorifying their enemy and it suited their purposes to show the Celts as barbaric and immoral as compared to their own civilized ways.

The Druids were the Celtic Priests and particularly abhorred by the Romans. Not just for their grisly religious practices, but also for the enormous influence they wielded within their Tribe, usually greater than even that of the Tribal Chieftain and always to Roman detriment. The Druids were not just priests, but political advisers, healers, teachers and mediators. As the Celts leaned more towards Oral tradition rather than a written language (they sometimes used Greek alphabets or some special marks, but the written language as such didn't really develop until the Christian times), the passing on of information and history and customs was done by word of mouth, usually sung in poetic format and fine Celtic timbre, and this was the responsibility of the Druids as well as the Bards and Poets. Celtic history, often inseparable from mythology, abounded with accounts of fairies, dragons and so on, and these tales were diligently saved through troubled times. The Druids were also responsible for keeping the Celtic Calender, which, according to Caesar and Pliny, was counted by nights not days as the Celtic belief was that the earth came into being in darkness and it was later that the light came. Similarly they believed that winter (beginning November 1) preceded summer (beginning May 1), and their various festivals, commemorating the large pantheon of Gods, were celebrated in accordance.

The Celtic Clan was the life-blood of the Celts and to be excommunicated from it was the ultimate disgrace. Headed by the Chieftain, it was categorized into the Druids, the Warriors, and the Commoners. Families usually lived together and, as Polygamy prevailed, these were quite complex and large. The polygamy practice didn't however adversely affect the social standing of the Celtic women, which was far better as compared to the other contemporary European societies. In many ways they had equal rights as the men, could own and inherit property, and could marry according to their own choice. In some cases they were also able to assume charge of their tribe and didn't do too badly either, as is seen in the example of the Icenic Queen Boudicca. The children were jointly reared, often fostered out with near relatives, and this deepened the family ties further. It was considered the duty of the family, from both paternal and maternal sides, to take up on behalf of a wronged or insulted member and so personal feuds often enough transcended into tribal feuds.

The Celts normally lived in small hamlets comprising of several Roundhouses and encircled by protective stone or wooden palisades. The Roundhouses were made of arched timbers with either wattle and daub or stone walls and thatched roofs of straw or heather. Very often, since the Celts were perpetually at war, hill forts for stronger defense purposes were built. Strategically located and protected additionally by tall palisades and deep ditches, these ranged from small family-sized affairs to somewhat bigger ones for a larger number of people. As there were no water sources inside these hide-outs, it is assumed that they were utilized only as short term shelters during enemy attacks. In these situations, the Celts would also take their sheep and cattle with them. These herds were very precious and the person having the largest number was the wealthiest. The Tribal lands however seemed to have been communally owned. When the Celts were not at war, they were farmers, herders, iron workers, and artists. They were the first people to bring iron working to the British Isles, where iron was found in plentiful quantities. With this knowledge, particularly with their iron plough, farming became easier and more lands could be brought under cultivation. The artistic side of the Celts was displayed not just in their poetry and music, but also in their metal-work, pottery, textiles, tattoos and later on, most famously, in their Illuminated Manuscripts. This art was characterized by a pleasing combination of fanciful, curvilinear motifs and intricate, geometrical designs. The Celts also had towns or 'Oppida' as they were called and these don't seem to have been permanent settlements either, but gathering places for annual festivals and trading.

All of Celtic Tribes in Europe were eventually either defeated and annihilated by the Romans or, with force or diplomacy, made their feudatories. The reason for the final Roman victory lay both in their shrewd politics and well-disciplined army as well as the traditional feuds and inherent disunity amongst the Celts.

Some of the main Celtic Tribes in Europe were – the Aedui (France), the Helvetii (Switzerland), the Boii (Italy), the Eravisci (Hungary), the Volcae (Anatolia), the Brigante (Northern England), the Parisii (Paris), the Nervii (Belgium), the Venetii (Armorica), the Arverni (Auvergne), the Scordisci (Beograde), the Durotriges (Dorset), the Iceni (Norfolk and Suffolk), and the Trinovantes (Eastern England, north of the Thames).

Celts [kelts] кельты (общее название близких по языку племён, населявших Британию)

formidable ['fLmIdqbl] грозный; пугающий

fierce [fIqs] жестокий; агрессивный

prior ['praIq] прежний; предшествующий

quest [kwest] поиски

warfare ['wLfFq] война; борьба, столкновение

invasion [In'veIZ(q)n] нашествие; набег

ancestry ['xnsIstrI] предки

chieftain ['tSJftqn] вождь

to relish ['relIS] получать удовольствие, наслаждаться

elaborate [I'lxb(q)rIt] детально разработанный; продуманный

chariot ['tSxrIqt] колесница

to eschew [Is'tSH] остерегаться, сторониться

sturdy ['stWdI] крепкий, сильный; выносливый

woad [wqud] вайда ( Isatis )

helmet ['helmIt] защитный головной убор (шлем)

spine-chilling ['spaIntSIlIN] ужасающий

savagery ['sxvIG(q)rI] дикие звери

guerilla [gq'rIlq] партизанская война

javelin ['GxvlIn] метательное копье, дротик

slingshot ['slINSOt] рогатка

foe [fqu] враг, противник

controversy ['kOntrqvWsI] дебаты, спор, разногласия

barbaric [bR'bxrIk] грубый, варварский

to abhor [qb'hL] питать отвращение; ненавидеть

grisly ['grIzlI] суеверный страх

to commemorate [kq'memereIt] почтить память; отмечать, праздновать

polygamy [pO'lIgqmI] многобрачие

to inherit [In'herIt] наследовать

paternal [pq'tWnl] отцовский

feud [fjHd] взаимная вражда

hamlet ['hxmlIt] деревушка, село

timber ['tImbq] древесина

daub [dLb] штукатурка из строительного раствора с соломой

heather ['heDq] вереск

plough [plau] плуг

curvilinear ["kWvI'lInIq] криволинейный

to annihilate [q'naIqleIt] истреблять, уничтожать

feudatory ['fjHdqt(q)rI] феодальный вассал

disunity ['dIs'jHnItI] отсутствие единства; разлад

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