Helen Rose (February 2, 1904 - November 9, 1985) was an American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Career[link]

Helen Rose was born on February 2, 1904 to William Bromberg and Ray Bobbs in Chicago, Illinois of German and Russian descent. She attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then designed nightclub and stage costumes for various acts.^[1] She moved to Los Angeles in 1929, designing outfits for the Ice Follies. In the early 40s she spent two years working for 20th Century Fox, where she designed wardrobe for musical selections. In 1943 MGM hired her in the wake of Adrian's departure and by the late '40s Rose was promoted to chief designer at the studio.^[1]

Rose won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, for The Bad and the Beautiful in 1952 and for I'll Cry Tomorrow in 1955.^[1] She was nominated a further eight times and was also very well known for designing famous wedding dresses of the era. She designed the famous wedding dress of Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956.^[2] She also designed clothing for Elizabeth Taylor in the movies Father of the Bride and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as well as Elizabeth Taylor's wedding dress when she married Conrad "Nicky" Hilton.^[2][3]

In the late 60s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy. She also wrote a fashion column. She wrote two books - her autobiography Just Make Them Beautiful in 1976 and "The Glamorous World of Helen Rose". In the '70s Rose also staged a traveling fashion show featuring some of her MGM-designed costumes that was called "The Helen Rose Show".^[4][5]

Helen was married to Harry V. Rose, whose birth name was Harry Rosenstein (1902–1993), and they had a daughter. She died in Palm Springs, California in 1985.

Actresses Designed For[link]

• Betty Grable in Coney Island, 1943
• Lena Horne in Stormy Weather, 1943
• Virginia O'Brien in The Harvey Girls, 1946
• Judy Garland in The Harvey Girls, 1946
• Carmen Miranda in Nancy Goes to Rio 1950
• Lana Turner in The Merry Widow and The Bad and The Beautiful, 1952
• Grace Kelly in Mogambo 1953
• Lauren Bacall in Designing Woman, 1957
• Elizabeth Taylor in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof 1958, and BUtterfield 8, 1960
• Doris Day in Love Me or Leave Me, 1955
• Grace Kelly in High Society and The Swan, 1956
• Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return 1954

References[link]

Additional info[link]

• 1910 United States Federal Census, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Enumeration District 7, Sheet 17, April 22–23, 1910.
• 1920 United States Federal Census, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, Enumeration District 6, Sheet 10A, January 10, 1920.
• California Death Index on Ancestry.com.

External links[link]

• Helen Rose at the Internet Movie Database
• Sewing patterns by Helen Rose

Helene Fischer
Helene Fischer on Tour 2010
Background information
Birth name	Елена Петровна Фишер
Born	(1984-08-05) August 5, 1984 (age 27) Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
Genres	Schlager
Occupations	Singer
Years active	2005–present
Labels	EMI
Website	www.helene-fischer.de

Helene Fischer (Russian: Елена Петровна Фишер (Jelena Petrowna Fischer); born August 5, 1984 in the Soviet Union) is a German singer and entertainer. Since her debut in 2005 she has won several awards, including four Echo awards and three "Krone der Volksmusik" awards. According to record certifications she sold at least 2,905,000 albums.

Upbringing and education[link]

Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, where she spent her early childhood. In 1988 her ethnic German family emigrated to Germany.^[1] In Germany, the family settled in the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.

After graduating from school, Helene Fischer attended the Frankfurt Stage & Musical School for three years, where she studied singing and acting.^[2] During this time, Helene performed on stage at the State Theatre of Darmstadt, as well as on the stage of National Theatre in Frankfurt.

Musical career[link]

During her time at the Stage & Musical School, her mother secretly copied a demo CD with six songs of Helene and sent it to different recording studios to gauge the reaction of professionals.

Helene's debut on stage took place on May 14, 2005 in a program of the TV channel ARD. It was a duet with the singer Florian Silbereisen. The two later became a couple.^[1]

Helene Fischer on Tour with orchestra May 2011

Her popularity has increased greatly; she has won three prestigious “Echo” (German Grammy) awards, the coveted “Goldene Henne” twice, and the “Krone der Volksmusik” prize three times. All her albums and DVDs have achieved multiple gold and double platinum status. Her songs, with their stories of the everyday worries and woes of home-loving folks, are lyrically close to what the English speaking world calls “Country” although musically quite different.

Her circle of fans extends beyond Germany in large part to Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

She released her first English album, "The English Ones", on June 7, 2010. The album was produced by Jean Frankfurter, one of the most renowned German producers, composers and arrangers of the previous 40 years. The album opens new horizons for Helene: “I have always dreamed of singing my songs in another language. English is the language of Country, the music that we call ’Schlager’. Language is a tool, but it is important that what you sing comes from the heart – and that is what this album is about.”

Discography[link]

Studio Albums[link]

Compilations[link]

Remix-Albums[link]

• 2011: Best of Helene Fischer – Der ultimative Dance-Mix

English language albums[link]

• 2010: The English Ones

Singles[link]

• 2006: Feuer am Horizont
• 2006: Von hier bis unendlich
• 2006: Und morgen früh küss’ ich dich wach
• 2006: Im Reigen der Gefühle
• 2007: Du fängst mich auf und lässt mich fliegen
• 2007: Du hast mein Herz berührt
• 2008: Ich glaub dir 100 Lügen
• 2008: Mal ganz ehrlich
• 2008: Ich geb’ nie auf (Am Anfang war das Feuer)
• 2009: Vergeben, vergessen und wieder vertrauen
• 2009: Du läßt mich sein, so wie ich bin
• 2010: Hundert Prozent
• 2010: Nicht von dieser Welt
• 2010: Von Null auf Sehnsucht
• 2010: Manchmal kommt die Liebe einfach so 2010
• 2011: Wär heut mein letzter Tag

DVDs[link]

• 2007: So nah so fern
• 2008: Mut zum Gefühl – Live aus Chemnitz vom 2. Januar 2008 – GER #18
• 2009: Zaubermond live – GER #12
• 2010: Best Of Live – So Wie Ich Bin – Die Tournee – GER #1
• 2011: Live – Zum ersten Mal mit Band und Orchester – GER #14

Awards & Certifications[link]

[edit] Echo

• 2009: for Deutschsprachiger Schlager
• 2009: for DVD Produktion des Jahres (Mut zum Gefühl – Helene Fischer live)
• 2010: for DVD Produktion national (Zaubermond live)
• 2012: for Deutschsprachiger Schlager

Goldene Henne[link]

• 2007: for Aufsteigerin des Jahres
• 2008: for Musik
• 2010: for Musik

Goldene Kamera[link]

• 2012: for Beste Musik national

Krone der Volksmusik[link]

• 2008: for the Erfolg des Jahres 2007
• 2009: for the Erfolg des Jahres 2008
• 2010: as Erfolgreichste Sängerin 2009
• 2012: as Erfolgreichste Sängerin 2011

Gold Record[4] Germany 2012: for the DVD „Live - Helene Fischer - Zum ersten Mal mit Band und Orchester“ Austria 2011: for the album „Für einen Tag“ Denmark 2010: for the Album „Best of“ Switzerland 2010: for the album „So nah wie du“ 2010: for the album „Zaubermond“ 2010: for the album „So wie ich bin“ 2010: for the album „Best of“ 2012: for the album „Für einen Tag“ Platinum Record[4] Austria 2007: for the album „So nah wie du“ 2009: for the album „Zaubermond“ 2010: for the album „Von hier bis unendlich“ 2010: for the album „So wie ich bin“ 2011: for the album „Best of“

3x Gold Record[4] Germany 2011: for the DVD „So nah, so fern“ 2011: for the DVD „Zaubermond (live)“ 2011: for the album „So wie ich bin“ 2012: for the album „Für einen Tag“ 2x Platinum Record[4] Germany 2010: for the album „Zaubermond“ 2011: für die DVD „Mut zum Gefühl (live)“ 5x Gold Record[4] Germany 2010: for the album „Von hier bis unendlich“ 2011: for the album „So nah wie du“ 7x Gold Record[4] Germany 2012: for the album „Best of“ Country Gold Platinum  Denmark 1 0  Germany 9 15  Austria 0 6  Switzerland 5 0 total 15 21

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Helene Fischer

• official website from Helene Fischer
• Helene Fischer on YouTube
• Helene Fischer at the Internet Movie Database
• English Lyrics

Charlie Rose
Rose in May 2010
Born	Charles Peete Rose, Jr. (1942-01-05) January 5, 1942 (age 70) Henderson, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Duke University B.A. (1964) Duke University J.D. (1968)
Occupation	Talk show host Journalist
Years active	1972–present
Notable credit(s)	Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes II, 60 Minutes, CBS News Nightwatch, CBS This Morning
Website
http://www.charlierose.com/

Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942)^[1] is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored CBS This Morning since January 2012. Rose, along with Lara Logan, has hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.^[2]

Early life[link]

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child^[3] of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store.^[4][5] As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven.^[6] Rose admitted in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble.^[7] A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics.^[8] Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.^[6] He met his wife, Mary (née King), while attending Duke.^[3][4]

Career[link]

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), Rose handled some assignments for the BBC on a freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal. Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers's series U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976 Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the Charlie Rose show.

Rose worked for CBS News (1984–1990) as the anchor of CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast. The Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won an Emmy Award in 1987.^[4] In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of Personalities, a syndicated program produced by Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show. Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET on September 30, 1991, and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing.^[9]

Rose was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II^[10] from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.^[11]

Rose was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.^[3] In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor CBS This Morning, replacing The Early Show, commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Erica Hill and Gayle King.

Cameo appearances[link]

Rose has appeared as himself in the 1998 film Primary Colors,^[12] in a 2000 episode of The Simpsons^[13] and in the 2008 movie Elegy.^[14] He and his show were also used in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. He also appears as himself in the 2011 George Clooney directed film, The Ides of March.

[edit] Accusations of conflict of interest

While hosting the 2002 Coca-Cola Company shareholders' meeting, Rose said "few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is. It is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time."^[15] Afterward, Coca-Cola agreed to become what Rose called "a leading underwriter" of The Charlie Rose Show, paying "six or possibly seven figures."^[16] Even the Charlie Rose mugs used on his PBS show feature a Coca-Cola logo on one side.^[17][18] Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the Washington Post reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions. Rose insists he "would never do a story on 60 Minutes II about anybody who underwrites my PBS show."^[16]

[edit] Quiet influence

The New York Times reported that Rose encouraged a discussion between the leaders of NBC and Fox, that led eventually to a mutual reduction in ad hominem attacks between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly on their respective news programs.^[19]

Rose has attended several Bilderberg Group conference meetings, including meetings held in the United States in 2008;^[20] Spain in 2010;^[21] and Switzerland in 2011.^[22] These unofficial conferences hold guests from North America and Western Europe, most of whom are political leaders and businessmen. Details of meetings are closed off to the public and strictly invitation-only, and critics^[who?] speculate the controversial nature of these meetings of highly influential people. Accusations from conspiracy theorists against The Charlie Rose show claim that it has become the US media outlet for Bilderberg.^{[23][unreliable source?]}

Personal life[link]

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. Mary is the sister-in-law of Morgan Stanley Chairman John J. Mack. Since 1993, his companion has been socialite and chairman of the New York City Planning Commission and director of the city department of planning Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.^[24]

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for mitral valve repair in the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of Alain F. Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure.^[25] Rose returned to the air on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss his surgery and recuperation.

In a 2009 Fresh Dialogues interview, Rose described his life as "great and glorious."^[7] He added, '"I get up every morning with a new adventure. The adventure is fueled by interesting people. I get a chance to control my own destiny. I do something that is immediately either appreciated or not. I get feedback."

Rose owns a 575-acre (2.33 km²) farm in Oxford, North Carolina, an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York City, a beach house in Bellport, New York, an apartment in Washington D.C.^[3] and an apartment in Paris, France.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Charlie Rose Official website of his eponymous show
• Charlie Rose official channel on YouTube
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Charlie Rose at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie Rose collected news and commentary at the Los Angeles Times
• Charlie Rose collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Charlie Rose at the Notable Names Database
• Charlie Rose shows on Hulu
• celebritynetworth.com, Celebrity Net Worth, Charlie Rose
• Why Business Loves Charlie Rose David A. Kaplan, Fortune, September 28, 2009