Celebrity Dogs

I'M NOT FEELING WELL WHEN I ANSWER THE PHONE. It's that season, I suppose. The one that can leave you talking through your nose-freezing with unexplained shivers in one stuffed breath, and sweating like a UFC fighter in the next. Basically, it's a day that reminds me how grateful I am to have a work-fromhome gig that sees mismatched Old Navy pajamas and a Lululemon headband as formalwear.

San Francisco-based artist Mark Ulriksen is well known for his bold, vibrantly expressionist paintings and illustrations. His use of simple, well articulated lines and strong colours results in highly graphic works that are full of character and immediately command attention.

Imagine landing your dream job right after graduating from university; then imagine being launched into Broadway stardom just two years after that. Sound surreal, amazing…maybe supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Not if you’re Ashley Brown, who stepped off the campus of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music straight into a touring production of On the Record and from there into the starring role of Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Currently, she is headlining Disney’s hit revival of Mary Poppins.

Actress Virginia Madsen has spent most of her career playing girlfriends, femmes fatales and sexy blondes, but her recent role as a wine-savvy waitress in the low-budget film Sideways has boosted her career into high gear. With the role earning her a Best Supporting Actress award from the National Society of Film Critics, a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild award, and plenty of Oscar buzz, Sideways has turned Virginia’s world upside-down.

We know all about the tempestuous romances and ill-fated marriages, her violet eyes, larger-than-life beauty and enormous diamonds-but who'd ‘a thunk that doggies were this girl's best friend?

Ellen talks rescuing coyotes, blazing trails, and mouth-to-mouth on a sparrow

You could forgive a person for assuming that Pamela Anderson is in fact the camp Hollywood dramatic figure she has perfected—a buxom blonde known for her sizeable assets (her new FOX TV series is called Stacked) and tumultuous relationships. Considered by many a modern-day Marilyn Monroe, she has made a career out of playing the self-deprecating blonde bombshell.

Paris Hilton has undeniable star power, the paparazzi hound her every step, feeding the public's apparently insatiable appetite for even the smallest scrap of news or gossip about the leggy blonde heiress to the Hilton fortune. The Fox television network capitalized brilliantly on Paris's privileged socialite status in the reality show The Simple Life, which followed Paris and her best friend, Nicole Ritchie, as they temporarily exited their rarefied sphere of wealth to experience life with an ordinary farming family in small-town Arkansas.

Of the many gifts dogs bestow upon mankind, their ability to put smiles on our faces, even in the most difficult of times, is surely one of the greatest. Our dogs captivate and delight us with their quirks, their antics and their seemingly limitless capacity for joy. But as any dog owner knows, photographing those wonderful qualities and unique moments that make our canine companions so special is most often impossible. By the time we get the camera out, the moment is gone-and despite our best efforts to position, bribe and cajole, we are unable to recreate that spontaneous magic.

Ever since she catapulted to international stardom via Baywatch, Pamela Anderson has been one of the world's most watched and talked-about people. Plug her name into an internet search engine and you will come up with over two million sites discussing every available detail of Pam's life-and there have been plenty of details available. We've all heard the stories about her romantic entanglements, her plastic surgeries, and of course, those infamous home videos.