Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor, producer and professional wrestler. Johnson was a college. Directed by Stephen Kijak. With Yoshiki, Hiroshi Morie, Sugizo, Toshimitsu Deyama. A documentary film about the legendary Japanese rock band X JAPAN.

Iggy Azalea - Wikipedia. Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known professionally as Iggy Azalea (; born 7 June 1. Australian rapper.

The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs.

Official website of Universal Pictures. Watch trailers and get details for current and future movies!

And that's just one fertility story out of Hollywood, where a booming baby business has sprung out of gay-friendly parental rights and existing new technology (Pick. Amethyst Amelia Kelly, known professionally as Iggy Azalea (/ ə ˈ z eɪ l i ə /; born 7 June 1990), is an Australian rapper. Born in Sydney and raised in. Watch Planet Terror Online Hollywoodreporter here.

Born in Sydney and raised in Mullumbimby, she moved to the United States at the age of 1. She earned public recognition after releasing music videos for her songs "Pu$$y" and "Two Times" on You.

Tube. She signed a recording contract with American rapper T. I.'s Grand Hustle Records imprint in 2. Ignorant Art, a mixtape. Azalea's debut studio album, The New Classic (2. It topped the Billboard Top R& B/Hip- Hop Albums making Azalea the first non- American female rapper to reach the summit of the chart.[2] The album was preceded by her debut single "Work", and generated the US Billboard Hot 1.

Fancy". Azalea was featured on Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which peaked at number two while "Fancy" was number one; Azalea joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously with their first two Hot 1. She achieved three top ten hits simultaneously on the Hot 1. Black Widow", later that year.[6]Early life[edit]Amethyst Amelia Kelly was born in Sydney and brought up in Mullumbimby, New South Wales. Her father, Brendan Kelly, was a European- Australian painter and comic artist,[7] while her mother, Tanya,[8] cleaned holiday houses and hotels.[9] Azalea lived in a house that her father built by hand from mud- bricks, surrounded by 5 hectares (1. According to Azalea, she has some Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian) ancestry: "My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family's been in that country for a long time, over 1. If your family's lived in Australia for a long time, everyone has a little bit of [Aborigine blood].

I know my family does because we have an eye condition that only Aboriginal people have." Azalea has also said that her father "made her look at [art] as a teenager", which has always influenced her life and work.[9] She began rapping at age 1. Before embarking on a solo career, Azalea formed a group with two other girls from her neighbourhood: "I was like, I could be the rapper. This could be like TLC. I'll be Left Eye."[1. Azalea eventually decided to disband the group because the other girls weren't taking it seriously: "I take everything I do serious [sic]. I'm too competitive."[1. In pursuit of her desire to move to America, Azalea dropped out of high school.

She worked and saved the money she earned by cleaning hotel rooms and holiday houses with her mother. She claims to have hated school, which, apart from art class, only made her miserable. She also said she had no friends and was teased for her homemade outfits.[1. Azalea travelled to the United States in 2. She told her parents she was going "on a holiday" with a friend, but eventually decided to stay and shortly afterwards told them she was not coming back home: "I was drawn to America because I felt like an outsider in my own country, I was in love with hip hop, and America is the birthplace of that, so I figured the closer I was to the music, the happier I'd be. I was right."[1. 5] She recalled, "My mum was crying, saying, 'Just be safe.' I was thinking, 'I'm going by myself.

I'm fucking crazy!'."[1. After her arrival in the US, she received her GED, and resided in the country on a visa waiver for six years, returning to Australia every three months to renew it. Azalea worked in the US illegally until February 2. O visa.[1. 7]Music career[edit]2. Career beginnings in the US[edit]When she first arrived in the United States in 2. Miami, Florida, and afterwards lived briefly in Houston, Texas. Azalea settled for a few years in Atlanta, Georgia, working with a member of the Dungeon Family named Backbone.

During that period, she met future collaborators FKi and Natalie Sims.[1. She took her stage name from the name of her childhood dog, Iggy, and the street she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day.[2. She said people would laugh at her because "they thought my raps sucked." But having grown up getting laughed at, she was able to shrug it off.[2. Meanwhile, she'd met someone from Interscope Records who encouraged her to move to Los Angeles, and so in the summer of 2. She was briefly managed by Interscope.[1. On 2. 7 September 2. Azalea released her first full- length project, a mixtape titled Ignorant Art, saying she made it "with the intent to make people question and redefine old ideals".[2.

Her song "Pu$$y", was included on the mixed tape and features guest appearances from YG, Joe Moses, Chevy Jones, and Problem. In November 2. 01. My World", directed by Alex/2tone. The video features a cameo appearance from character actor and former wrestler Tiny Lister, which earned her more attention due to its rising popularity online.[2. It's supposed to have like, all the ridiculousness of a big- budget '9.

Azalea, of the video.[2. In December 2. 01. Azalea revealed she would release her debut studio album, entitled The New Classic, as soon as she signed a major record label deal: "Once that's sorted out and I establish an overall sound and direction for the album, I will be able to know what artists would make for a dynamic collaboration".[2.

On 1. 1 January 2. Azalea released the music video for "The Last Song", her third video from Ignorant Art.[2. In an interview with Billboard, released on 2. January, Azalea hinted at an Interscope Records signing, while also revealing hopes of releasing The New Classic in June, and for her debut single to precede it in March.[2. Label issues and Glory[edit]"I'm working with a different production company for my album than what I did for my mixtape Ignorant Art, and I don't know who yet. I'm still looking. T. I.'s gonna be helping me with it, kinda like A& Ring, kinda like executive- producing.

He called me up and was like, 'Yo.' And I was like, 'Definitely. You're Tip. I love you, of course.' So he's gonna be kinda helping me out, like just kinda reaching out to people and helping me find production and pointing me in the direction of things that I might like. We're gonna start on that next week together. I'll probably fly out to Atlanta and we'll do it in between there because he's weird with traveling and stuff. I understand. We're in touch with each other.

I have legal issues, he has legal issues. I get it. So hopefully that will be really dynamic and it'll help speed things along."— Azalea speaking on her phone call and decision to work with T. I.[2. 8]Azalea reached out to Southern rapper. T. I., for the direction of her debut album. T. I. was set to executive produce. The New Classic, soon after a phone call the two had.

At the time, Azalea was eyeing a summer release for The New Classic: "Hopefully if all goes to plan, my album will be out in June and I'll have it recorded by the end of the month."[2. However, after Interscope did not allow T. I. to be an ongoing part of her deal, Azalea opted not to sign with the major label and stay independently signed to Grand Hustle Records, until the release of her first album, which had then been postponed.[2. In early 2. 01. 2, Azalea was featured on the cover of XXL, as part of its annual "Top 1. Freshman List", along with fellow up- and- coming rappers French Montana, MGK, Danny Brown, Hopsin, and Roscoe Dash.[3.

On 1 March 2. 01. T. I. announced he signed Azalea to Grand Hustle Records, along with rappers Chip and Trae tha Truth.[3. On 2. 6 March 2. 01. Azalea posted "Murda Bizness", the intended lead single for The New Classic, on her You. Tube account. The song was produced by Bei Maejor and features a verse from her Grand Hustle label- boss T.

I. Around this time, Azalea also caused controversy for her 2. D. R. U. G. S", a remix of Kendrick Lamar's "Look Out for Detox", having adapted one of its lyrics to "When the relay starts, I'm a runaway slave / Master," leading her to release a letter online apologising, stating that it was a "tacky and careless thing to say."[3.

Hollywood Moms With Same Sperm Donor and One Crazy Vacation. This story first appeared in the Jan. The Hollywood Reporter magazine. When Sarah Fain, a TV writer- producer for The Shield and The Vampire Diaries, decided at 3.

It's like online dating, only you don't have to have a relationship with the person," she says. It's not: 'What if this is the love of my life?' It's: 'This person doesn't have Alzheimer's in their genetic history.' " Fain lined up a fertility entourage that included a therapist, acupuncturist, nutritionist and private chef for when she was too busy developing shows for Warner Bros. I did acupuncture, herbs, teas; I juiced wheatgrass daily for months because my reproductive endocrinologist [RE] said anecdotally people who did got pregnant," she says. Despite her efforts, Fain required two years and nine rounds of intrauterine insemination (or IUI, which involves "washing" the ejaculate to up the sperm quality before injecting it into the uterus, at about $1,5. At age 4. 0, Fain had a girl named Violet. When Violet was a toddler, Fain took her to a music class, where "two women walked in with two boys about Violet's age," she says.

One of the boys looked familiar. Fain went home and checked her Facebook group comprising 1.

Open donation, in which the donor's info can be released on the child's 1. She recalls: "There they were," just a mile and a half away. Read more Sperm Washing Clears Hollywood Actor's Baby of HIVNow they all have dinner every Sunday. They're my family," says Fain. In September, the Facebook group rented a vacation house.

Talk about crazy — there were 1. Fain, who adds: "It's one of those things that feels incredibly bizarre for half an hour. Then it feels totally normal."At a time when Apple and Facebook are picking up $2. Many of them will need it: At least one in eight couples overall suffer from infertility, and much of that is due to delayed childbearing.

Even as the U. S. In 1. 98. 0, there were 7.

U. S.; in 2. 01. 2, there were 1. Credit goes to the 4. U. S., 7. 5 of them in California. The Centers for Disease Control keeps statistics on IVF success rates by age; many clinics in Los Angeles beat the national averages.

California is widely regarded to be the most friendly state in terms of assisted reproduction," says attorney Richard Vaughn, whose twin sons with actor husband Tommy Woelfel (Mr. Mrs. Smith) were born with the help of an egg donor and surrogate mother: "Our courts are very friendly to the intended parents and their rights." In California, case law makes clear that "regardless of genetics, intended parents are the natural parents," adds Vaughn. If not for their intent, the child would never have come into existence." His firm, the International Fertility Law Group — along with some of the world's most famous fertility clinics, sperm banks, egg donation agencies and surrogacy brokers — has made L. A. a capital of high- tech fertility. Read more Jaime King Reveals Fertility Struggles on Instagram. Even so, media coverage of glowing older celebu- moms — from Halle Berry, who just had her second child at age 4. Laura Linney, who gave birth to her first child in 2.

My concern is when celebrities in their mid- to late- 4. Guy Ringler of California Fertility Partners, one of Southern California's most in- demand clinics. It gives many people false hope that you can get pregnant at any age. It's not realistic."L. A. women in particular have misguided expectations, adds Ringler: "Many of our patients eat well, exercise, are very health- conscious." Then they realize physical health and appearance largely are irrelevant to the viability of their eggs.

Desperate Housewives actress Brenda Strong, who in her late 3. Hollywood hyper- vigilance about weight can create its own issues. Dr. Ringler said, 'Your hormones are off- kilter because you've lost too much body fat,' " recalls Strong. After her successful first pregnancy, which she attributes to yoga and fertility acupuncturist Daoshing Ni, the actress and American Fertility Association board member suffered a miscarriage at 4. They've done studies that found going through infertility is equivalent in stress to cancer or HIV."Though TV writer Fain achieved success using IUI — the first choice for single moms and lesbians — a growing number of doctors feel it's "becoming a dinosaur," says Jeffrey Steinberg, a veteran of the team that produced the first "test- tube baby," Louise Brown, in 1.

Fertility Institutes, a clinic in L. A. and New York that specializes in cutting- edge genetic procedures. In states where insurance is required to cover infertility, some plans require that a patient fail several IUI rounds before moving on to in vitro fertilization. IVF is a more complicated process in which sperm and harvested eggs are joined in a petri dish to become 1.

The best one or two embryos are implanted; the rest are frozen for later use. A round of IVF costs from $1. Alicia Wyld, senior vp field publicity at Paramount, had five failed IUIs and IVFs (including one in which her RE transferred seven embryos at once) before finding a new RE, Sam Najmabadi, who said her body was overstimulated from too many fertility drugs. A few months after reducing her meds, and a year and a half into her fertility struggle, Najmabadi extracted 1. Just two, that's normal," says a relieved Wyld, who gave birth to twins at 4. Going through all the IUIs and IVFs felt so isolating. I felt my body was failing me and my husband."Genetically testing the embryos, known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, is one way to stack the odds in favor of a pregnancy.

Nearly every embryo that Steinberg transfers has been tested to confirm that it has the correct number of chromosomes; other tests confirm the lack of certain inheritable- disease genes such as BRCA, the breast cancer gene that Angelina Jolie carries. Steinberg says PGD reduces miscarriages: "What that's done is eliminate Down syndrome. We can't guarantee a perfect baby, but we can guarantee that anything you're concerned about isn't there." (Including the wrong eye color: In 2. Vatican and the medical community, Steinberg stopped allowing parents to choose their babies' blues — the most popular color — but quietly started up again with 1. There's a huge interest. Even when we retracted, the emails just kept coming in.")See more Hollywood's 1. Favorite Films. Despite genetic testing, IVF still has significant limitations.

A woman in her 4. Ringler, while a woman in her early 3. One proven way to conquer fertility decline from aging eggs is using a donor egg. A woman's eggs start to decline in fertility in the late 2. At 4. 0, most women drop off the cliff," says Steinberg.) "For a woman in her mid- 4. Ringler, who thinks donor eggs are the best option for "all women 4. Adds Steinberg, "Nature won't let abnormal embryos make babies."Egg donation, however, is a largely unregulated industry.

Says the owner of an entertainment PR firm that reps top actors and musicians who experienced secondary infertility at age 4. Nothing's done to say the donor's fertile, sane or healthy." After spending $2,5. She looked like me, had a great GPA and was athletic." Two embryos were transferred, and she had twin girls at 4.

Most donor eggs come from women in their 2. Bloating was the biggest downside," says an egg donor named Sara, who first donated eggs in 2. Sperm donors are paid $7. Regardless of the number of eggs produced, they all belong to the intended parents. Sara knew nothing about her client except that he wanted an Italian baby and she's Italian.

You don't sign up to be part of someone's family," she says. You do it because it is selfless and you are strong enough to deal with the idea afterward."Disclosure is one of the stickiest issues with egg- donor use, which one L. A. mom, who suffered three miscarriages on the way to a biological son at 4.