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Victoria's Secret models are hot property when it comes to actors, rock stars and athletes in the dating game
STUNNING:
Brazilian top model Gisele Bundchen wears a creation from the Colccl winter collection during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday.
THE Victoria's Secret Fashion Show happens only once a year. So what do the famous VS models do with the rest of their time?
Date. A lot.
Generally, only actors, rock stars and athletes need apply to be a VS boyfriend or life partner. And boy, do they in spades.
While some prominent couplings have bitten the dust - Heidi Klum and British singer Seal, Miranda Kerr and British actor Orlando Bloom, Selita Ebanks and US host Nick Cannon - others are sprouting up in their place, just a day before the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013 held in New York last Wednesday, US model Hilary Rhoda, 26, announced her engagement to former Canadian pro ice hockey player Sean Avery, making her the latest in a long line of power pairings.
Here are the rankings...
Model: Gisele Bundchen, 33 (Brazil)
Celebrity: Tom Brady, 36 (US)
Married since: February 2009 (dating since December 2006)
After her five-year relationship with Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio ended in 2005, Bundchen was set up on a blind date with American football star Brady.
Although the relationship was thrown a curveball early on - the New England Patriots quarterback found out that his ex-girlfriend, US actress Bridget Moynaban, was pregnant after they broke up in early 2006-the couple now have two children, Benjamin, four, and Vivian, one.
Power score: 9/10 - Four years of marriage, two children and three houses around the world - these two look unstoppable. What's more, Bundchen is still the world's highest-paid supermodel, earning US$42 million (S$52.4 million) this past year.
Model: Behati Prinsloo, 24 (Namibia)
Celebrity: Adam Levine, 34 (US)
Dating since: May 2012
This newly-engaged couple - Levine popped the question in July - did not seem like they were going to last.
Prinsloo was the rebound girl for the frontman of pop-rock band Maroon 5 and mentor-judge of reality TV singing series The Voice, after his break-up with another VS model, Anne Vyalitsyna back in April 2012.
Less than two months later, Levine was spotted cosying up to Prinsloo in Hawaii. They broke up in March this year and Levine signed up for a spring fling with yet another VS girl, Danish Nina Agdal, 21, before he returned to Prinsloo. Their relationship has been stronger since then.
Power score: 7/10 - Levine will reportedly be named as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive this week.
Model: Rosle Huntlngton-Whlteley, 26 (UK)
Celebrity: Jason Statham, 46 (UK)
Dating since: April 2010
Consider them UK's version of Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green - hot young girl together with rough-looking older man.
The pair went public at the Coachella festival in 2010. The Daily Mail has reported talk. of them being headed for splitsville but Huntington-Whiteley said in an interview to Elle magazine: "I feel at home wherever I am in the world because of him."
Power score: 7/10 - If they do get hitched, this couple will be good for People magazine covers about babies and family life. Huntington-Whiteley's acting career since her Transformers: Dark of the Moon debut has been nonexistent and actor Statham has never been able to crack the A-list.
Model: Lily Aldridge, 28 (US)
Celebrity: Caleb Followill, 31 (US)
Married since: May 2011 (dating since 2007)
The drama in this relationship has mostly been one-sided - the Kings of Lean frontman has, in the last few years, been responsible for cancelling gigs on the band's tour due to alcoholism and a poorly performing last record, 2010's Come Around Sundown. He has hinted, however, that his newfound sobriety has something to do with Dixie Pearl, the one-year-old girl he had with Aldridge.
"Now I'm trying to do something that makes my daughter proud," he told Rolling Stone recently.
Power score: 7/10 - They are no Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, but Kings of Leon were once touted as the best rock band in the world, so there may be a chance to be true rock royalty yet.
Model: Toni Garrn, 21 (Germany)
Celebrity: Leonardo DiCaprio, 39 (US)
Dating since: May 2013
Sometime during this year's Cannes Film Festival, DiCaprio transitioned from partying with lots of girls to just one, the nearly two decades-younger Garrn. They jetsetted from Monaco to Venice to Versailles in the first few weeks of their relationship.
Power score: 6/10 - Garrn continues to make waves in the modelling industry, landing cover after coveted magazine cover, but it is unlikely she will be DiCaprio's squeeze for long, judging from his long history with VS models.
Model: Chanel Iman, 22 (US)
Celebrity: ASAP Rocky, 25 (US)
Dating since: Early 2013
The part Korean, part African-American model has been spotted smooching her rapper boyfriend everywhere recently - from New York Fashion Week to the MTV Video Music Awards.
Iman is so in love, she has been wearing her boyfriend's clothes and putting on metal grills in her teeth to match his dental work.
Power score: 6/10 - This young couple is adorable, and one can almost smell an engagement happening sooner or later. But despite her name, Iman and ASAP are no Iman and David Bowie.
Model: Hilary Rhoda, 26 (US)
Celebrity: Sean A very, 33 (Canada)
Dating since: 2010
This on-off couple are firmly back on now that professional ice hockey player-turned-PR man Avery has put a ring on it. They do seem perfect for each other. Rhoda has a thing for sportsmen - she has dated football player Mark Sanchez - and Avery has been linked to other models and actresses, including Rachel Hunter and Elisha Cuthbert.
Power score: 5/10 - Keep holding your breath for the actual nuptials to happen as these two have reportedly broken up at least three times before.
DiCaprio - hunter extraordinaire
ON TARGET: Leonardo DICaprio, who is now 39, seems to try and get his VS girls when they're about 20 or 21 years old.
If the pool of Victoria's Secret models is a hunting ground for all manner of male celebrities, then Leonardo DICaprio is a hunter extraordinaire.
He has dated not one, not two, but four of them - Gisele Bundchen (2000-2005), Bar Refaeli (2005 to 2011), Erin Heatherton (2011 to 2012) and Toni Garrn (since May 2013).
The US actor, who is now 39, seems to try and get his VS girls when they're about 20 or 21 years old. With the exception of Heatherton, all his ex-es were those ages when he first dated them.
This trend may continue - the star himself has said he's unlikely to settle down any time soon.
"Six months of being on location. or being off in Morocco or someplace like that is not the best thing for a relationship," he told Esquire magazine in May. "I had better success meeting girls before Titanic. My interactions with them didn't have all the stigma behind it, not to mention there wasn't a perception of her talking to me for only one reason."
Well, at least he doesn't have to worry about the competition for VS models any more.
His closest competitor, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. is about to be off the market.
Behati Prinsloo is the third VS girl he has dated - after long-term girlfriend, Russian Anne Vyalitsyna, and Danish Nina Agdal, his fling between breaking up and making up with Prinsloo this year.
Although he has been called a "professional dater of models" by entertainment site Popdust, Levine has always strained against that image.
"I think (the public) have a completely false idea of who I am, and I think that's great. I'd rather them think I'm this playboy sleazeball, or whatever they think I am - a ladies' man ... " he said in a 2007 interview.
Nothing like a wedding to keep those rumours at bay - as long as he stays true to his vows, that is.
Washington - Call it the attack of the zombie refrigerators.
Computer security researchers said they discovered a large "botnet" which infected Internet-connected home appliances and then delivered more than 750,000 malicious e-mails.
The California security firm Proofpoint, which announced its findings last week, said this may be the first proven "Internet of Things" based cyberattack involving "smart" appliances.
Proofpoint said hackers managed to penetrate home-networking routers, connected multi-media centres, televisions and at least one refrigerator to create a botnet - or platform to deliver malicious spam or phishing e-mails from a device, usually without the owner's knowledge.
Proofpoint said the case "has significant security implications for device owners and enterprise targets" because of massive growth expected in the use of smart and connected devices.
The company said it documented the incidents between Dec 23 and Jan 6, which featured "waves of malicious e-mail, typically sent in bursts of 100,000, three times per day, targeting enterprises and individuals worldwide".
More than 25 per cent of the volume was sent by things that were not conventional laptops, desktop computers or mobile devices.
Effort to gain access to 100k computers globally is 'active defence': US agency
WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and create a digital highway for launching cyber attacks.
While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the NSA has increasingly made use of secret technology that enables it to enter and alter data in computers even if they are not connected to the Internet, according to NSA documents, computer experts and US officials.
The technology, which the agency has used since at least 2008, relies on a covert channel of radio waves that can be transmitted from tiny circuit boards and USB cards inserted surreptitiously into the computers. In some cases, they are sent to a briefcase-size relay station that intelligence agencies can set up miles away from the target.
The radio frequency technology has helped solve one of the biggest problems facing US intelligence agencies for years: getting into computers that adversaries, and some US partners, have tried to make impervious to spying or cyber attacks. In most cases, the radio frequency hardware must be physically inserted by a spy, manufacturer or an unwitting user.
The NSA calls its efforts more an act of "active defence" against foreign cyber attacks than a tool to go on the offensive. But when Chinese attackers place similar software on the computer systems of US companies or government agencies, US officials have protested, often at the presidential level.
Yesterday, Chinese tech giant Huawei, which has long been dogged by security suspicious abroad, denied a report that its telecommunications network equipment had been compromised by US spies. Huawei chief financial officer Cathy Meng was asked specifically about a report late last month in the German magazine Der Spiegel that technology companies including Huawei had their products penetrated by the NSA.
Among the most frequent targets of the NSA and its Pentagon partner, US Cyber Command, have been units of the Chinese army, which US has accused of launching regular digital probes and attacks on US industrial and military targets, usually to steal secrets or intellectual property.
But the programme, code-named Quantum, has also been successful in inserting software into Russian military networks and system used by the Mexican police and drug cartels, trade institutions inside the European Union, and anti-terrorism partners like Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan.
Mr James Andrew Lewis, the cyber security expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said: "What's new here is the scale and the sophistication of the intelligence agency's ability to get into computers and networks to which no one has ever had access before."
There is no evidence that the NSA has implanted its software or used its radio frequency technology inside the US. While refusing to comment on the scope of the Quantum programme, the NSA said its actions were not comparable to China's.
Agency spokesman Vanee Vines, in a statement, said: "NSA's activities are focused and specifically deployed against - and only against valid foreign intelligence targets in response to intelligence requirements. We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of - or give intelligence we collect to - US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line."
US President Barack Obama is scheduled to announce tomorrow what recommendations he is accepting from an advisory panel on changing NSA practices. The panel agreed with Silicon Valley executives that some of the techniques developed by the agency to find flaws in computer systems undermine global confidence in a range of US-made information products like laptop computers and cloud services.
TV host Amanda de Cadenet will chat with guests about body image, addiction and depression
Honest girl talk - that is what British television host Amanda de Cadenet is offering in her new TV interview series.
In her show, The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet, the former actress- model-photographer will have frank tete-a-tetes with guests including Jane Fonda, Gwyneth Paltrow and Lady Gaga. Issues they talk about range from body image to career disappointments to post- partum depression.
Girl talk is sorely lacking in mainstream television, says the 41-year-old host.
"Everywhere I looked, I found stories that were not true. They were fabricated, they were embellished, they were not authentic and it worries me because if you have women who are comparing themselves to people's lives that they think are a certain way... no wonder that we're all feeling bad about themselves," she says in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where she is based.
The mother of three, who is married to American rocker Nick Valensi of The Strokes, adds: "You're just bombarded with all kinds of information and media imagery, stories that tell you that to be a woman, you have to behave a certain way. I disagree with a lot of the messaging."
Her show, she says, is a platform for "women to speak up and speak out on things that they care about and that give some alternative options", through telling their stories that "were truthful".
Her chat show started broadcasting in the United States last year and has been so successful that it was launched in Britain recently.
She describes her celebrity guests, among them actresses Fonda, Paltrow and Zoe Saldana, and pop star Lady Gaga, as women who are "very outspoken and not apologetic for being who they are".
The TV host herself was a wild child of the 1990s and used to be known for partying hard and dating a string of A-list boyfriends - from American actor Keanu Reeves to English model Nick Kamen to rock band Duran Duran's bassist John Taylor. She was married to Taylor from 1991 to 1997 and has a daughter Atlanta, now 20, with him.
She wed Valensi, 32, in 2006 and has six-year-old fraternal twins with him.
She says she has no qualms about being candid about her own life when chatting with her female guests.
"I don't have any sort of shame about any of the things that I've lived through, and I've lived through some very difficult things in my life. And the good and the positive in that is that I get to talk to other women about those experiences," she says.
"If you're a woman or a girl and you are dealing with infidelity or body image issues, or finance and security, or career disappointment or post-partum depression or addiction, whatever your thing is... If you're dealing with that, don't feel ashamed about it because there are hundreds of thousands of other women who are also dealing with it. So let's just help one another and talk about it."
Asked if she has always been a girl's girl, she says: "I was a boy's girl for a long time and I guess somewhere in my mid-20s, I realised boys come and go, but your girlfriends stay the same.
"I value women's friendships. They have been the most valuable part of my life, other than my children."
Porcelain Horse from Ecuador had US$120,000 for its Oscar campaign.
Elevating a foreign-language film hopeful to a contender costs, but win or lose, it may be a worthwhile investment
New York - Director Drasko Djurovic is very grateful to be part of the Academy Awards.
"We're not a big country," he said from his home in Montenegro. "We're like the Bronx." He added about being in the Oscars: "It means great opportunities for future projects."
Peruvian director Adrian Saba agreed. "People hear 'Oscar' and everything changes." The same goes for Ecuador, said film-maker Javier Andrade: "That word sort of drives people crazy. But it's healthy for us."
Not one of these men has actually won an Academy Award for foreign-language film. Or been nominated. Or even made the shortlist that the Academy released this month in advance of the upcoming announcement of its five nominees.
But their movies - Ace Of Spades: Bad Destiny from Montenegro, El Limpiador (The Cleaner) from Peru and Porcelain Horse from Ecuador - were named their countries' official submissions to the 86th annual Oscars. That can lead to great things.
As Mr Tom Bernard, a co-president of Sony Pictures Classics, put it: "An Oscar nomination is incredibly important for the country that the film comes from. And if they win, they celebrate like it's the World Cup."
It is also expensive. Elevating a hopeful to a real contender takes money and film-makers from poorer nations often go hat in hand to national film organisations, producers, agents, festivals, even tourism boards, to find the money to underwrite their chances.
"A decent campaign is US$50,000" said Ms Tatiana Detlofson, a Los Angeles publicist who has been handling foreign Oscar campaigns for 13 years, including five this season. "The really good ones, from countries like Belgium or Germany, are US$200,000. And the money is usually eaten by the ads."
Advertisments in trade papers such as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter are de rigueur. As Ms Detlofson put it, "a couple of half-pages and a couple of full-page ads, and it's one third of the budget."
Then there are screenings. While members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can see every every Oscar submission at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Hollywood, there are options for further exposure. Variety, The Los Angeles Times and the website The Wrap all run high-profile series for Oscar hopefuls, each charging about US$10,000 a film, which includes post-screening question-and-answer sessions and advertising. There are fees for publicists, invitations, on-site staff, even tchotchkes like key chains.
Saba said the budget provided by PromPeru, an organisation that promotes Peruvian culture, was US$32,000. Andrade said his budget from Ecuador was about US$120,000. Djurovic had enough for a screening held during the American Film Market in Los Angeles (a little over US$2,000) and round-trip airfare from Montenegro (where his film is the first Oscar submission ever).
Is a campaign for an Oscar you're not going to win worth more than US$100,000? Probably not, said Ms Kathleen McInnis, a Los Angeles festival strategist and publicity consultant who handled Saba's film. "Is it worth US$50,000? Probably yes, if you're investing in your film-maker's career."
The Ecuadorean budget was "reasonable for a campaign to mean anything", she said. "But is that too much to get some attention? There's your sticky wicket." The other question is whether the outlay does any good.
"I don't believe I've ever seen an ad campaign help a foreign film get to the shortlist," said Mr Michael Barker, the co-president with Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics. The two men are the big kahunas of the foreign-language field (with 12 wins and 32 nominations over their 33 years at the company). "It's a very different category. I don't think that that kind of campaign works."
Mr Bernard added: "There aren't a lot of people in the foreign-language business, but there are a lot of people in the foreign-language Oscar business." Whether all the tub thumping translates into awards would seem to be negated by the Academy's rules.
"The rest of Academy voting is specifically designed to reward passion," Ms Cyntthia Swartz, a veteran Oscar campaigner and president of the New York-based Strategy PR, said, referring to the preferential voting system used for best picture nominees, for instance.
That is not the case in the foreign race (or its cousin, documentary). The early voting there is based on the average score, on a scale of 1 to 10, as determined by those Academy members who watch the 76 films submitted from around the world - not by the kind of weighted ballot used in other categories, where a film can be nominated for best picture even if only 5 per cent of the voters rank it No 1.
Having a lot of people see your best picture hopeful, therefore, makes sense. In foreign, not so much. Hypothetically, if you had just one screening with just onw viewer, and that viewer gave the film a 10, you should stop showing anyone your film because your average score would be 10.
"The Academy says, 'Submit your film', even through only 10 of them are going to be what the membership is talking about," Ms McInnis said. "So what the point of submitting? Well, there's the tiny sliver of a possibility you could get a 10. But it's also the time of year when Hollywood is paying attention to foreign film. Which means I can get my film-maker in front of audiences who might otherwise never see his film, get him meetings with agents and managers because he was his country's official selection. I can get him in front of people, not so much for this film, but to help other films."
Disco hairdos: American Hustle stars Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence. Adams' dress is vintage Bob Mackie in the movie.
Los Angeles - From Christian Bale's burgundy velour blazer to Amy Adams' plunging sequin halter dress, American Hustle is a cinematic romp through the over-the-top styles of the 1970s.
Set in New York and New Jersey in 1978, the film tells the story of a pair of con artists (Bale and Adams) forced to work for a cocky FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) bent on bringing down powerbrokers and politicians.
The decadent world of power, crime and big money comes to life through ostentatious fashions and outrageous hairdos.
All the characters are reinventing themselves and it shows in their clothes.
"They had ideas, they lived large and they took risks," costume designer Michael Wilkinson said of the 1970s styles that inspired his designs.
"Clothes were less structured, had less underpinnings - it was like people didn't give a damn."
Though the Australian-born Wilkinson said his childhood was drenched in American pop culture, "I approached this as a research project, just like you would study about the Greek ruins or outer galaxy".
He scoured Cosmopolitan magazine, along with advertisments, movies and TV shows of the era. Goodfellas and Atlantic City were particularly influential films.
"And Saturday Night Fever from 1977," Wilkinson added. "(That) had the most pertinence to Bradley Cooper's character. He's a guy from the Bronx and he lived life as a black-and-white moral shooter working for the FBI and wears a cheap polyester suit that doesn't fit him so well." The character ups his fashion game after meeting the dapper con-couple.
"He ends up in a silk shirt and silk scarf, which are pop-culture references," Wilkinson said. "And then he wears a leather jacket to the FBI."
The designer revelled in Halston's vintage vault, to which he was granted access for the film, and he dressed Adams in authentic pieces from the 1970s.
"The lines (of clothing silhouettes) of the late 1970s, with designers like Halston, were re-inventing the wardrobe of women," he said. "It was about being comfortable in your skin and walking tall."
Hair is so prominet in American Hustle that it is practically another character. Lead hairstylist Kathrine Gordon studied old issues of Playboy and high-school yearbooks from the 1970s for inspiration.
She and Bale worked together to create his character's elaborate comb-over, complete with a fuzzy, glue-on hairpiece. The filem opens with a scene of its careful construction.
"I came up with this idea to stuff it," Gordon said of the comb-over she cut into Bale's real hair. "And then (director) David (O'Russell) rewrote the script and I taught Christian how to do it on camera."
Adams wears styles reminiscent of disco parties, Studio 54 and "the Breck girl" ads of the era. Jeremy Renner, who plays a New Jersey politician, has a fluffy bouffant.
Jennifer Lawrence, an unhappy wife in the film, wears bouncy, sex-kitten updos whether she's going out or not. And Cooper rocks a tight perm: He's shown wearing curling rods in one scene.
Wilkinson, whose film credits include Man Of Steel, Tron: Legacy and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part II, said he especially loved playing with fabrics, colours and prints for Bale's charming conman.
"I'm really proud of Christian Bale," the designer said. "It shows the possibility of an expression of personality in menswear. He explores his character in his clothes and he's a man of the world. He mixes prints!"
