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Editor’s Note: One of our most popular themes on The Hall has always been about the curse of beauty and the bonuses and penalties that come along with it. Many of us have a hard time seeing how being born beautiful can have any negative aspects but many of us agree that it does. To help illustrate the good and the bad of being born beautiful, our own Nadia Arain breaks it down in the following list: Being an attractive woman (PROS): Everyone looks at you! Everyone. Your self-esteem is usually through the roof because you KNOW you’re the center of attention. People marvel at your aesthetics! You get free stuff. Free meals, drinks, rides, AND you get served faster. Since when have you heard that gorgeous people pay for things? Compliments, and lots of them. Having a bad day? Whatever, someone’s bound to compliment you and make you feel better. Remember, you’re pretty, right? Things aren’t… [Read more]

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I first saw Zoe on Pirates of The Caribbean as the original owner of the Black Pearl and between her and Naomie Harris I was having milk chocolate overload. Well if Zoe Saldana doesn’t already have a little tattoo saying “Carpe Diem” by now she should get one because since Pirates she has kicked down Hollywood’s door and demanded that the action audience take notice. Well we have, and while her first headliner Colombiana wasn’t the greatest story ever told in an action film, this slender lady cracking necks and blazing deadly fire was all the audience needed; girl power was in effect and Zoe was steering the ship. A Quick Look at Her Filmography Before Colombiana it was she along with a few other memorable faces that steered James Cameron’s Avatar, and having Sigourney Weaver onboard was beyond epic. She took over as Uhura in the new re-imagination of Star Trek and rocked the… [Read more]

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She has perfect skin, no flaws… wait, maybe a mole in the right place surrounded by blurred tones, continuous color and her jaw is flawless like a Barbie doll’s. The eyes are like exotic glass (even when they are brown), you can see deep detail in each orb and then the lips “la boca!”, they appear soft, succulent and healthy. Her body has no marks, no flaws, it’s as if she was born into adulthood and skipped the playground tumbles and accidental bumps that us normal humans encounter… Who is this creature of unearthly perfection, you may ask? This ladies and gentlemen, is your magazine, website and television (pre-HD) beauty, it’s all a big freaking lie and we still love it. As an artist the above description fits in well with the way I used to draw my fantasy women, I would draw with an eye for perfection over reality. Cadillac Collins says “that’s why… [Read more]

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Okay look, Die Another Day left much to be desired in a Bond movie. I mean it had the debonair Piers Brosnan as 007, token black (kiss my ass colorists) Bond girl hawte Halle Berry and one epically cheesy Ice Palace that turned the first decent half into a laughable kickback to the Roger Moore smear on the series. It left fans with a bad taste in their mouth for James Bond but I remember the buzz about Halle who kicked ass as the sexy Jinx. The beauty went on to star in a movie called Cat Woman which featured a badly animated version of the villainess doing Capoeira in a designer cat suit. This abortion for lack of a better word made Batman nerds very angry. And let’s not forget that she was miscast as the African bombshell Storm in the X-Men trilogy which made nerds wince even more than Cat Woman did. Halle… [Read more]

Nine years ago (August 25, 2001) the world of Hip Hop / Rhythm and Blues was shaken by the news of Aaliyah Dana Haughton’s plane crashing. The thoughts were on the freakishness of such an event in a modern time since artists dying in plane crashes were associated with the 50’s and 60’s (think Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and The Big Bopper). The news was horrible and sobering as I had just witnessed her performance as Akasha Queen of The Damned and commented how extremely beautiful she was. Like most children of talent wish and dream of becoming lucky and having the world see their light illuminate the sky, Aaliyah was given that honor and slam dunked it with much emphasis. Her rhythmically coordinated dances are legendary and no dancer can do their thing these days without comparison checks being made (right Ciara?) Her voice was beautiful and her entire presence a rhythmic motion of… [Read more]

I don’t typically post music videos on the Hall but Ciara could easily have her own section on this site for being so excruciatingly hot. This is her video with Ludacris for the song “Ride” and if you can manage 4 minutes and 39 seconds of fire on your screen then go ahead and hit play and watch the princess dance. Now there are some of you who are probably going to see this and say “I don’t see the big deal”, well unless you can submit a video of yourself popping those gym-toned hips to a beat through several unique dance steps then I suggest you sit your hatin’ ass down and find something else to do. For those of you that can appreciate poetry in motion, witness Ride or as I like to call it “sex music”.

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So Axe has always been great at playing up to the inner perv in us all with their commercials involving chicks ripping off clothes, giving it up in libraries and licking chocolate men on trains (I can sooooo get down with this) – but this time around, I think they have outdone themselves. Presenting the Axe Ball Cleaner with actress Jaime Pressly (a certified lady Dragon) as tennis champ Monica Blake – demonstrating the product quite effectively. The funniest part of the ad has to be when hostess Denese Saintclaire begins playing with a pair of golfballs… you just have to see it. Good job Axe, I even remember the product you are really selling AFTER seeing the ad, so it works! Hell I’ll probably pick it up next time I’m out shopping., just in case it comes with a Jaime Pressly to scrub the… nevermind, I gotta go cool off. Peace!   NEW! Axe… [Read more]