31 Mei 2011

Jurugambar dedahfoto Marilyn Monroe


GAMBAR menunjukkan aktres Marilyn Monroe berbikini di sebuah kolam mandi dipercayai di Los Angeles pada tahun 1950.


LOS ANGELES - Seorang jurugambar di Amerika Syarikat (AS), Anton Fury mendedahkan lapan gambar aktres legenda Marilyn Monroe yang belum pernah disiarkan sebelum ini, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Dia membeli dua keping sampul surat yang mengandungi negatif filem pada harga cuma AS$2 (RM6) dalam satu jualan garaj di bandar Parsippany, negeri New Jersey pada tahun 1980.

Sekeping sampul surat mengandungi lapan imej termasuk beberapa imej Monroe memakai bikini dan bergaya di tepi kolam mandi, selain gambar aktres berkenaan berbaring di katil bersama seorang lelaki misteri di sisinya.

Sampul surat kedua pula mengandungi 70 negatif filem yang menampilkan aktres Hollywood, mendiang Jayne Mansfield.

"Saya membawanya pulang dan melihatnya di bawah cahaya lampu dan mendapati negatif ini mengandungi gambar Marilyn Monroe," katanya.

Fury merahsiakan penemuannya sehingga minggu lalu apabila dia membawa kedua-dua negatif filem itu kepada seorang peniaga hasil seni, David W. Streets yang juga pakar tentang arkib Monroe.

Streets percaya imej-imej itu tulen dan dirakam di sini pada tahun 1950 ketika Monroe berusia 24 tahun, tetapi tidak tahu siapa yang merakamnya.

Monroe yang popular menerusi filem Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire dan The Seven Year Itch dianggap simbol seks Hollywood.

Dia meninggal dunia pada tahun 1962 ketika berusia 36 tahun dipercayai akibat pengambilan ubat penenang berlebihan.

Nenek 74 tahun ahli bina badan


ERNESTINE SHEPHERD tersenarai dalam Guinness Book of Records sebagai ahli bina badan wanita tertua.


BALTIMORE - Walaupun sudah berusia 74 tahun dan bergelar nenek, kekuatan dan stamina Ernestine Shepherd sukar ditandingi oleh wanita muda.

Malah, warga emas itu diiktiraf Guinness Book of Records sebagai ahli bina badan wanita kompetitif paling tua di dunia.

"Usia hanyalah angka semata-mata," kata Ernestine yang mempunyai perut langsing dan berotot.

Suaminya yang berusia 54 tahun, Collin Shepherd berkata, sejak 18 tahun lalu, isterinya telah menyertai 18 acara marathon dan memenangi dua pertandingan bina badan.

Pasangan tersebut menetap di Baltimore, Amerika Syarikat (AS) bersama anak lelaki dan seorang cucu yang berusia 14 tahun.

Mengenai rutin hariannya, Ernestine bangun seawal pukul 3 pagi untuk bermeditasi sebelum berjoging sejauh 16 kilometer di sebuah taman.

Dia cuma makan nasi perang, dada ayam dan sayuran bersama segelas putih telur tiga kali sehari untuk kekal bertenaga dan langsing. - Agensi

This Drog is for life

BADGE OF HONOUR ... Blues are desperate to keep strike star
BADGE OF HONOUR ... Blues are desperate to keep strike star

DIDIER DROGBA is set to be offered a new, improved deal to finish his career at Chelsea.

The striker had been tipped to leave this summer after the £50million club record signing of Fernando Torres.

But a Blues insider said: "As soon as the new coach has been appointed one of the first things that will happen is that Didier signs a new extended deal.

"There's no way the club want him to leave - he's one of the best strikers in the world."

Torres' dismal form - just one goal in 12 games - means the Ivory Coast star, 33, is indispensable.

The insider added: "Can you imagine the outcry if Didier was sold and Torres continues to struggle? The decision's been made - it's better to keep both."

Drogba, who has a year of his current £130,000-a- week deal to run, has been linked with a switch to Real Madrid or Spurs.

Now he is on course to land a pay rise and an extra year to take him through to 2013.

Pardew to offer Berba New start

FUTURE IN DOUBT ... Utd striker Berbatov
FUTURE IN DOUBT ... Utd striker Berbatov

NEWCASTLE are in the hunt to sign Dimitar Berbatov.

The Bulgarian striker wants out of Manchester United after his shock Champions League final snub.

And Toon boss Alan Pardew is ready to meet United's £7.5million valuation.

Pardew is in the market for a big-name striker after Andy Carroll was sold to Liverpool for £35m in January.

Berbatov, 30, won the golden boot this season along with Manchester City's Carlos Tevez after hitting 20 league goals.

But he did not even make the bench for Saturday's Euro decider against Barcelona.

Now he wants a club where he is regarded as the main man and not down the pecking order.

Berbatov, who cost United £30.75m in September 2008, has always liked Newcastle having idolised Toon legend Alan Shearer when he was a boy.

The former Tottenham star did not travel home with United after his Champions League final axing.

He did, however, turn up for the club's victory parade through Manchester yesterday to celebrate their 19th league title.

Newcastle, meanwhile, have landed French midfielder Yohan Cabaye from Lille for £4.3m.

Cabaye, 25, confirmed the switch to St James' Park after Toon triggered a release clause in his contract.

He will sign a four-year deal in the north-east after Newcastle beat the likes of Valencia, Aston Villa and Lyon to his services.

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