Tawny Cypress / Simone Deveaux / Heroes

Simone Deveaux was a character from the first season of the NBC TV series Heroes.
She was played by Tawny Cypress.

Simone was the romantic interest/ art dealer of the pre-cog painter Isaac Mendez.
And she was part of the love triangle involving her, Issac and Peter Petrelli.
Simone had problems with Issac because of his behavior, and him claiming to be able to paint the future.
Their issues never really got resolved because she was gunned down by Issac, who was shooting at an invisible Peter.
Even though she was taken out by a stray bullet, she did show back up in the first season's finale, "How to Stop an Exploding Man", in a flashback role.

The character of Simone Deveaux was originally a bohemian white woman named Stella. But when Ali Larter got the role of Niki Sanders, the character of Stella was changed from a bohemian to an art dealer, her name was changed to Simone Deveaux and Tawny stepped into the role.

Interestingly, Tawny's older brother Toby Cypress is a comic book artist ( he graduated from The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon, and Graphic Art in 1997).
He was the artist on Batman: Gotham Knights (2000), Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne (2002) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: N-Vector (2000) among others.
You can visit his blog here:
http://tobycypress.blogspot.com/

Besides Heroes, Tawny has appeared in "All My Children", "Rescue Me", "K-Ville" and "Army Wives".

Jessica Biel as Jessica Rabbit on SNL

Source http://www.egotastic.com/

Did anyone happen to catch Jessica Biel as Jessica Rabbit on SNL this week?
If you didn't, here's a link to a video on YouTube.

Of course Jessica Biel (not Rabbit) is the real life girlfriend of Justin Timberlake.
And Jessica Rabbit (not Biel) was voted the sexiest ever cartoon character in a recent Cadbury's Dairy Milk poll.
Jessica came in first followed by Betty Boop in second place and the Cadbury Caramel Bunny (?) in third place.
The Bunny was in third place?
Sounds fixed to me...LOL

Jessica Rabbit was voiced by Kathleen Turner in the 1988 film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".
Appeared over 20 years ago and still has enough impact to be voted number one huh?

Deepika Padukone in Chandni Chowk to China

source: http://www.desihouston.net/

Chandni Chowk to China may have not done very well at the box office in India, but the film has netted Deepika Padukone a lot of good press in China.
Deepika has been nominated for Best Actress at the 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival.
She is the first Indian actress to ever get this honor.

Chandni Chowk to China starred Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles with Hindi cinema veteran Mithun Chakraborty and Hong Kong action cinema veteran Gordon Liu in supporting roles.
The film was shot in China and in Bangkok, Thailand and it was distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros.
It was Warner Bros. first Hindi film.

The film got negative reviews by critics, but what struck me as unusual was that the fim was reviewed in the US by USA Today, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune.
To me this testifies to the widening appeal of Bollywood films.