Anita or ANITA may refer to:

• Anita (given name), people with the given name Anita

Biology[link]

• Amblypodia anita, species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia
• ANITA grade, group of plants, consisting of the most basal angiosperm lineages

Geography[link]

• Anita, California, community in Butte County, California
• Anita, Indiana, former town in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana
• Anita, Iowa, city in Cass County, Iowa
• Batey Anita Airport, located in Consuelo, Dominican Republic
• Lake Anita State Park, state park in Cass County, Iowa, USA
• Santa Anita (disambiguation)

Other uses[link]

• Anita (film), a 1967 Indian suspense film
• Antarctic Impulse Transient Antenna (ANITA), experiment for the detection of cosmic neutrinos
• Hurricane Anita, Atlantic hurricane in 1977
• Sumlock ANITA calculator, world's first all-electronic desktop calculators
• Tropical Storm Anita (disambiguation)

See also[link]

• Anitta, son of Pithana, king of Kussara

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Costa Cordalis in 2011

Costa Cordalis (born 1 May 1944) is a German schlager singer of Greek origin.

Born Konstantinos Cordalis in Elatia, Greece, Cordalis moved to Germany in 1963. His greatest success was his 1976 song Anita which reached the top ten in Germany, Switzerland and Austria^[1]. In 2004 he was a celebrity in the reality television game show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

Awards[link]

• 1981: Goldene Stimmgabel
• 1986: Goldene Stimmgabel

References[link]

External links[link]

• Costa Cordalis at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site

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Anita Ward ((1956-12-20)December 20, 1956) is an American singer and musician. She is best known for her 1979 million selling chart-topper, "Ring My Bell".^[1]

Career[link]

Before signing a recording contract, Ward obtained a degree in psychology from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and had become a schoolteacher. While recording her debut album, record label owner Frederick Knight presented her with a song he had written the previous year for Stacy Lattisaw. Ward did not like the song, but Knight insisted that a dance track was needed to capitalize on the current disco trend, and Ward relented. The song, which was originally a juvenile-targeted tune about teens talking on the telephone, was rewritten with more 'adult' lyrics and the result was the single "Ring My Bell". The single reached number one in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada in 1979.^[2] "Ring My Bell" has been remixed and released several times since its original release. After the huge success of "Ring My Bell", "Make Believe Lovers", which was the b-side on most 12" singles for "Ring My Bell", was released, but it failed to chart.

Ward released a second album that same year; it was common in the 1970s to release albums several months apart. The album, entitled Sweet Surrender, featured the minor hit "Don't Drop My Love", which peaked at #87 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album, similar to Songs Of Love, was disco-infused. A third disco album was in the works due to contractual issues between Knight and Ward, but was canceled after three songs had been recorded. These songs were later included on low-budget compilations featuring Anita Ward's first album Songs Of Love. These disputes with Frederick Knight, a severe car accident Ward later was in, and the fading appeal of disco music halted Ward's career, and she came to be regarded as a one-hit wonder.

Many years later, Ward recorded another album, 1989's Wherever There's Love. The album was recorded in the United States, but was only released internationally as it had no US distributor. The album was a departure from Ward's disco past, but still contained mostly fast-tempo '80s pop songs, in addition to two ballads. It spawned one single "Be My Baby", which was released in Australia, but it did not chart there. After both the album and single "Be My Baby" failed to chart, Ward took another hiatus from the music industry, focusing on her family and her daughter who was born shortly after the release of Wherever There's Love.

On New Year's Eve 2002 she performed "Ring My Bell" in New York City's Times Square before a crowd of revelers as part of the city's official celebration. On New Year's Eve 2005, Ward performed in Memphis, Tennessee at Beale Street. She sang "Ring My Bell" and several other disco songs.

She has also appeared in Zagreb, Croatia on January 4, 2006, the night before the FIS World Cup slalom race on nearby Sljeme, with some other groups and singers from disco era; (Nile Rodgers and Chic, Village People, Thelma Houston and Rose Royce).

In early 2011, it was announced that Ward was back in the studio working on a brand new album titled It's My Night. The first single, also titled "It's My Night" was released to iTunes on May 20, 2011. The single is produced by producer Gilflo.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

See also[link]

• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart
• List of 1970s one-hit wonders in the United States
• List of people from Memphis, Tennessee
• List of disco artists (A-E)
• List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
• One-hit wonders in the UK

References[link]

Anita Ekberg
Ekberg in 2007.
Born	Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (1931-09-29) 29 September 1931 (age 80) Malmö, Sweden
Years active	1953–2002
Spouse	Anthony Steel (m. 1956–1959) «start: (1956)–end+1: (1960)»"Marriage: Anthony Steel to Anita Ekberg" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Anita_Ekberg) Rik Van Nutter (m. 1963–1975) «start: (1963)–end+1: (1976)»"Marriage: Rik Van Nutter to Anita Ekberg" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Anita_Ekberg)

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born 29 September 1931 in Malmö, Skåne) is a Swedish model, actress and cult sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Sylvia in the 1960 Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita, which features the legendary scene of her cavorting in Trevi Fountain alongside Marcello Mastroianni.

Biography[link]

Ekberg was born in 1931, the eldest girl and the sixth of eight children. In her teens, she worked as a fashion model. In 1950, Ekberg entered the Miss Malmö competition at her mother's urging leading to the Miss Sweden contest which she won. She consequently went to the United States to compete for the Miss Universe title despite not speaking English.

Although she did not win Miss Universe, as one of six finalists she did earn a starlet's contract with Universal Studios, as was the rule at the time.^[1] In America, Ekberg met Howard Hughes, who at the time was producing films and wanted her to change her nose, teeth and name (Hughes said "Ekberg" was too difficult to pronounce). She refused to change her name, saying that if she became famous people would learn to pronounce it, and if she did not become famous it would not matter.

As a starlet at Universal, Ekberg received lessons in drama, elocution, dancing, horseriding and fencing. Ekberg skipped many of the lessons, restricting herself to horseriding in the Hollywood Hills. Ekberg later admitted that she was spoiled by the studio system and that she played instead of pursuing bigger film roles.^[1]

The pin-up[link]

The combination of a colourful private life and physique gave her appeal to gossip magazines such as Confidential and to the new type of men's magazine that proliferated in the 1950s. She soon became a major 1950s pin-up. In addition, Ekberg participated in publicity stunts. Famously, she admitted that an incident where her dress burst open in the lobby of London's Berkeley Hotel was pre-arranged with a photographer.^[1]

Film career[link]

Ekberg in one of her most remembered roles, from War and Peace (1956).

By the mid-1950s, other studios offered Ekberg work. Paramount Pictures and Frank Tashlin cast her in Hollywood or Bust (1956) and Artists and Models (1955) both starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Both films used her as a foil for many of the director's sight gags.^[1] Ekberg also played an Amazonian extraterrestrial in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953).

Bob Hope joked that her parents had received the Nobel Prize for architecture as she was touring with him and William Holden to entertain American troops in 1954. The tour led her to a contract with John Wayne's Batjac Productions. Wayne cast her in Blood Alley (1955), a small role where Ekberg's features and appearance were Orientalized to play a Chinese woman, a role that earned her a Golden Globe Award.

In 1956, Ekberg went to Rome to make War and Peace, directed by distinguished Hollywood veteran King Vidor and co-starring Audrey Hepburn. That same year, RKO Radio Pictures gave Ekberg the female lead in Back from Eternity, starring Robert Ryan and Rod Steiger.

[edit] As Sylvia in La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini gave Ekberg her greatest role in La Dolce Vita (1960), in which she played the unattainable "dream woman" opposite Marcello Mastroianni; then Boccaccio '70 (1962), a film that also featured Sophia Loren and Romy Schneider. Fellini would call her back for two other films: I clowns (1972), and Intervista (1987), where she played herself in a reunion scene with Mastroianni.

La Dolce Vita was a sensational success, and Anita Ekberg's uninhibited cavorting in Rome's Trevi Fountain remains one of the most celebrated images in film history.

Personal life[link]

Ekberg was married to the British actor Anthony Steel from 1956 to 1959. From 1963 to 1975, she was married to the actor Rik Van Nutter. In an interview, she said she wished she had a child,^[2] stating the opposite on another occasion.^[3]

Ekberg was romantically linked to Tyrone Power, Marcello Mastroianni, Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra and Gary Cooper; she also had a three-year affair with Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli. In his autobiography Pieces of My Heart, actor Robert Wagner claims to have had an enjoyable one-night stand with Ekberg.

Ekberg has not lived in Sweden since the early 1950s and rarely visits the country. She has welcomed Swedish journalists in her house outside Rome, and in 2005 appeared in the popular radio program Sommar, talking about her life. She stated in an interview that she will not move back to Sweden before she dies, when she will be buried there.^[2] Ekberg has said that the Swedish people and media have not appreciated her sufficiently; nevertheless, her personal and radio appearances have been popular in Sweden.

On 19 July 2009, she had been admitted to the San Giovanni Hospital in Rome, after falling ill in her home in Genzano, according to a medical official in its neurosurgery department. She had been living in Italy for many years. Despite her condition not being considered serious, she has been put under observation in the facility.^[4]

In December 2011, it was reported that the 80-year-old Ekberg was "destitute" following three months in a hospital with a broken thigh in Rimini, during which her home was robbed and badly damaged in a fire.^[5] Ekberg applied to help from the Fellini Foundation, itself in difficult financial straits.^[6]

In popular culture[link]

• Bob Dylan mentions her in the song "I Shall Be Free" from the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.^[7]
• At the 49-minute point in From Russia with Love, the killer Krilencu attempts to escape through a hatch opening from Ekberg's mouth in a huge film poster for Call Me Bwana. After his friend shoots the man, James Bond notes that "she should have kept her mouth shut."
• In 1980, Ekberg was referenced in the controversial Canadian Top 20 hit "High School Confidential" by the popular 1980s Canadian new wave band Rough Trade. In 2005, "High School Confidential" was named the 38th greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.

Partial filmography[link]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• McDonough, Jimmy (2005). Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-07250-1. 
• Sullivan, Steve (1995). VaVaVa Voom!Glamour Girls of The Pinup Era. London: Stoddart. ISBN 978-1-881649-60-1. 
• Mancini, Henry (2002). Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini. USA: Copper Square Press. ISBN 978-0-8154-1175-8. 

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anita Ekberg

• Anita Ekberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Anita Ekberg at the TCM Movie Database
• Anita Ekberg at AllRovi
• Anita Ekberg at Yahoo! Movies

Anita Meyer

Anita Meyer (Annita Meijer), born in Rotterdam 29 October 1954, is a Dutch singer. One of her most notable songs is "Why Tell Me Why"^[1] that charted for 14 weeks^[2] and topped the Dutch singles list for six weeks in 1981.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[link]

[edit] Albums^[3]

• In The Meantime I Will Sing (1976) #20 NED
• Love You Too Much (1979)
• Past, Present and Future (1982) #5 NED
• Shades of Desire (1982) #1 NED
• Moments Together (1983) #10 NED
• Face to Face (1984) #10 NED
• Greatest Hits (1985) #10 NED
• Now and Forever (1986) #23 NED
• Run to Me (with Lee Towers) (1986) #5 NED
• Première (1987) #13 NED
• The Ahoy Concert (Live album) (1988) #15 NED
• Close to You (1989) #21 NED
• Autumn Leaves (1990) #37 NED
• The Commandments (1990)
• Memories of Love (1991)
• RTL 4: De Hits van Anita Meyer (1991)
• The Alternative Way (1991)
• The Very Best of Anita Meyer (1991)
• Music Music (1992) #53 NED
• Best Of (1993)
• The Love of a Woman (1994)
• A Song Can Change Your Life (1996)
• Dichter bij Elkaar (1998) #95 NED
• Just Once (1999)
• Spanish Guitar (2001)

[edit] Singles^[4]

• "Just a Disillusion" (1976) #18 NED
• "The Alternative Way" (1976) #1 NED
• "You Can Do It" (1976) #9 NED
• "Anita That's My Name" (1977) #21 NED
• "It Hurts" (1977)
• "You Are My Everything" (with Hans Vermeulen) (1979)
• "Rock Me Up A Mountain" (1980) #28 NED
• "The Hurtin' Doesn't Go Away" (1981)
• "They Don't Play Our Lovesong Anymore" (1981) #3 NED
• "Why Tell Me Why" (1981) #1 NED (Best-selling single in the Netherlands in 1981)
• "Blame It On Love" (1982)
• "Idaho" (1982) #4 NED
• "The One That You Love" (1982) #16 NED
• "Goodbye To Love" (1983) #23 NED
• "Sandy's Song" (1983) #23 NED
• "Blame It On Love" (1984) #33 NED
• "Heart Of Stone" (1984) #26 NED
• "This Ain't A Life To Be Lived" (1984)
• "Sometimes When We Touch" (1985)
• "The Story Of A New Born Love" (1985)
• "Run To Me" (with Lee Towers, live) (1986) #9 NED
• "We've Got Tonight" (with Lee Towers) (1986) #31 NED
• "You Are My Life" (1986)
• "Now and Forever" (1987)
• "The Exodus Song" (1987)
• "Having My Baby"(with Paul Anka (1988)
• "That's What Friends Are For" (1989)
• "Freedom" (1990) #21 NED
• "Music Music (This Is Why)" (1992) #34 NED
• "The Medicine Of Love" (1992)
• "Het Spijt Me" (Title song for TV-program) (1993) #24 NED
• "I Couldn't Say Goodbye" (1993)
• "I've Heard It All Before" (1994)
• "The Love of A Woman" (1994)
• "De Warmte Van Je Hart" (1996)
• "I Don't Wanna Cry Again" (1996)
• "We Are The Wave" (1996)
• "Nooit Meer Naar Parijs" (1998)
• "Wacht Op Mij" (1998)
• "Mas Alla" (2001)
• "Salomé" (2001)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Homepage

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