Chisaki Hama / Rika Izumi

Chisaki Hama has returned to modeling, but now her stage name is Rika Izumi.
In December 2008, she appeared in a commercial for Nissin Food Products.
Nissin Foods is known to colledge students all over the world as the company that makes instant ramen noodles!

And it appears that she has an official MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/official_rika_hama

You can also check out her fan page here:
http://www.izumirika.com/index.php

Here is a Rika Izumi Tribute video from YouTube

Britney Spears and Candies

Britney Spears is now the official spokesperson for Candies.
She'll be doing print and TV ads for them.
I'm glad to see Britney getting endorsements again.
But even the ads are already starting to get controversy.
Some people are saying Brit was air brushed and digitally enhanced in the print ads.
Wow.
Who isn't?
You think all those models look like that right outta the gate?
Ummmm...no.
You can find lots of sites on the internet showing famous people without make up and some of those "beauties" are down right scary.
So what if they enhanced Britney's ads?

BTW, click on Candies site now and all you see is Britney.
http://www.candies.com/

Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen was of the hottest stars in the 1980s.
But now "The Haunting in Connecticut" has brought her to the attention of a whole new fan base.
Virginia was born on born September 11, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois.
And yes she is the sister of actor Michael Madsen.
Virginia has been in a ton of movies, everything from Dune to Candyman to her critically acclaimed performance in the 2004 film, Sideways.
But she was also in one of my favorite movies of all time, The Prophecy with Elias Koteas, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, and Viggo Mortensen.
I love that movie.

The Haunting in Connecticut is a movie based on the allegedly true story of a family's encounter with the paranormal in Southington, Connecticut.
And this film reunites Virginia with her Prophecy co-star Elias Koteas.
Virginia plays Sara Campbell in the film, and some of the critics say that she resues the movie.
"The Haunting in Connecticut "came in second in it's opening week, right behind "Monsters vs. Aliens".

Her next film will be in "Amelia", a film about the legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart.