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Disaster Movie Release Date: August 29 2009 Character: Unknown Status: filming Genre: Comedy More Info |
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Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust Release Date: 2008 Character: (voice) Status: post-production Genre: Comedy/Video Game More Info |
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Meet the Spartans Character: Not avaliable Release Date: January 28 2008 Status: Completed Genre: Comedy More Info |
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Hollywood Dreams 1981 After four years of dance lessons, Electra is enrolled in Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts, where she appears in Peter Pan with classmate Nick Lachey. "I wanted to dance on Broadway," Electra tells |
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Hollywood Dreams 1990 After graduating from Cincinnati's Princeton High School, Electra moves to L.A., where a talent scout working for the singer Prince sees her dancing at the Hollywood club Spice. She eventually gets a record deal on Prince's Paisley Park record label and follows his suggestion to change her name from the more prosaic Tara Leigh Patrick to Carmen Electra. |
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Weak Debut 1993 Electra's self-titled debut album is released and it's a dud. Shortly after, she leaves Prince's Minneapolis digs and returns to L.A. to pursue an acting career. Her first Hollywood gig? A guest spot on Baywatch Nights. The following year, Electra begins a three-year relationship with B Real of the Latino hip-hop band Cypress Hill. |
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Becoming a Playmate 1996 Electra appears nude in Playboy for a photo spread titled, "Electra!" Her mother recalls , "I said, 'Go for it, girl!'" This sexy, head-turning spread puts the aspiring actress on the map. Electra is faithful to the magazine, appearing in Playboy in June 1998 and on the covers in Dec. 2000 and April 2003. |
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Singled Out 1997 Electra takes over for fellow Playboy model Jenny McCarthy on Singled Out, MTV's Gen-X version of The Dating Game. "There's only one Jenny McCarthy, so I'm not going to try to be the same type of person," Electra says. The show is cancelled in less than a year. |
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Baywatch Babe 1997 Following yet another Playmate, Electra joins the cast of Baywatch as the character Lani McKenzie after Pamela Anderson's departure. |
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Wild Love 1998 Electra first encounters NBA wild man Dennis Rodman at L.A.'s Billboard Live nightclub when his friend grabs her by the arm and pulls her over to meet Rodman. Eight months later, they wed at the Little Chapel of Flowers in Las Vegas, sometime before 8 a.m. Less than two weeks later, Rodman files for annulment, claiming he was inebriated at the nuptials. "It's easy to get caught up in a moment," Electra says. "You think it's romantic, but then you realize, 'God, we did it in Vegas?' It's like getting a cheeseburger at a fast-food restaurant." |
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Double Tragedy 1998 Electra's sister Debbie dies of a heart attack. Ten days later her mother dies of a brain tumor. Electra says, "Dennis sent enough flowers to fill my entire apartment. I never had a man do something like that for me before. I see how much good he has inside of him. That's what I fell in love with." |
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Love & Work 1998 Electra and Rodman celebrate New Year's Eve together in Las Vegas. "I love her to death," Rodman says. His sister Debra adds, "There will be no annulment. They will remain married." In January, Electra heads back to work in her new WB series, Hyperion Bay. She plays a cutthroat, eager-to-claw-her-way-to-the-top vixen, opposite Mark-Paul Gosselaar. The show is cancelled at the end of the first season, and that April, Electra files for divorce from Rodman. |
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Fisticuffs 1999 A month after their divorce is finalized, Electra and Rodman are arrested and taken out of South Beach's Bentley Hotel in handcuffs after police answer a domestic dispute call. Both spend several hours in custody before being released on $2,500 bail. Battery charges against both are later dropped. |
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Horror Humor 2000 Electra spoofs teen horror films like Scream – and herself – in Scary Movie, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Electra appears in the opening scene as a foolish nymphet, who is killed when a masked murderer slashes out her silicone implant. The movie becomes a hit, grossing over $42.3 million in its opening weekend. |
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New Love 2001 Electra and Dave Navarro, a guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane's Addiction, who meet on a blind date in 2000, announce their plans to marry. "It was refreshing to meet someone who still has an edge but also a good heart," Electra says of Navarro. The couple buys a Beverly Hills house together the following fall. |
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Burlesque Babe 2002 Electra returns to her dance roots and becomes a principal dancer with the Pussycat Dolls in a L.A. burlesque dance troupe. The show has guest vamps including Charlize Theron, Gwen Stefani, and Scarlett Johansson. "It's shockingly sexy and creative," Stefani says of the show. "It's frickin' fun." |
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Full Circle 2003 Electra, MC Hammer and Jamie King are judges for a new version of Dance Fever on ABC's family channel. Electra watched the original show with her mom, a seamstress who got costume ideas for Electra's childhood outfits from the contestants. |
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Hitched 2003 Electra and Navarro tie the knot at L.A.'s St. Regis Hotel in a Garden of Eden-themed wedding, complete with a white snake. She wears a cream-colored, strapless, beaded Badgley Mischka gown, accented by Neil Lane chandelier drop earrings. "It was all about the sexy part of Carmen," wedding producer Randie Pellegrini says, "and the rock-and-roll part of Dave." The newlyweds share the three-bedroom Beverly Hills house they bought together a year earlier. |
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Reality Romance 2004 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave premieres on MTV. The show documents the couple for two months as they prepare for their wedding. Executive producer Fernando Hernandez says of the show to Entertainment Weekly, "It's the fairy-tale rock & roll antiwedding." Case in point: The couple's wedding invitations, shot by famed photographer David LaChapelle, feature the couple lying naked on a morgue slab as if they are dead. |
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Lip Luck 2004 Electra has a supporting role in Starsky & Hutch opposite Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. She wins best kiss at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards for her triple kiss with Wilson and Amy Smart. |
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Sudden Separation 2005 After nearly five years together, Electra and Navarro announce their split, and Electra files for divorce the following month, citing irreconcilable differences. Navarro writes on his official blog: "Carmen and I love each other; we are and always will be best friends. In fact, we are supporting each other through this time. What better way to get through a tough spot than with your best friend?" Their divorce is finalized in February 2007. |
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Carmen Teaches Sex-Ed 2007 The newly single star releases her first book, How to be Sexy, which is filled with advice and tips on beauty, fashion, flirting and keeping the passion in a relationship. "There's nothing sexier than knowing who you are and having the courage to be that person," Electra writes. |
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Carmen does a body good 2007 Carmen’s back and bringing total body fitness to the sexiest room in the house in Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease: In the Bedroom. A follow-up to her top selling fitness series, In the Bedroom combines body-sculpting dance moves with sultry stretches and toning exercises you can perform on or around your own bed. |
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Carmen & Rob Go Public 2008 Electra, 35, spends Valentine's Day shopping at a Berlin Mall with her new man, Korn guitarist Rob Patterson, 37. The stunning bombshell also recently starred as Queen Margo in the comedy satire, Meet the Spartans, which opened at No. 1 at the box office. |