Red Pages: Hot 100 2008

21 Dec 2007 09:00 Africa/Lagos


Red Pages Announces Annual Hot 100 Report of Rising Stars for 2008

LONDON, December 21/PRNewswire/ --

Red Pages, the UK's celebrity contacts service for the media industry, with agent, publicist and management details for over 16,000 international celebrities and more than 20,000 live contacts online, today releases its annual Red Pages: Hot 100 report for 2008.


Last year's Red Pages: Hot 100 predicted the top 100 up-and-coming celebrities likely to hit headlines in 2007. From Burberry supermodel Agyness Deyn to Heroes IT girl Hayden Panettiere, to F1 hero Lewis Hamilton and music's The Enemy, Kate Nash and Mika - the Red Pages: Hot 100 report accurately identified some of this year's big headliners.


Once again, this year's Hot 100 2008 report predicts tomorrow's movers, shakers and newsmakers in the world of music, film, television, politics, sport, society, lifestyle and business, including the stars from US exports Gossip Girl, Pushing Daisies and Cashmere Mafia, sportsmen Danny Cipriani and Michael Johnson, solo artists David Jordan and Adele and fashion's hot new designers and muses.


The Red Pages: Hot 100 report is compiled by a panel of impartial industry experts including A&Rs, journalists and advertising creatives. Red Pages subscribers are able to access the full details and contacts of every celebrity featured in the Red Pages: Hot 100 report - putting them in touch with tomorrow's stars.


Red Pages Editor, Nina Tsang says, 'As the UK's foremost celebrity contacts directory, Red Pages is always monitoring, researching and adding new celebrities in our ever-growing database. We realise that interest in celebrity culture shows no signs of abating and as a result, we're in the unique position to be able to handpick those we believe will make an impression in next year's headlines.'


Nina Tsang and other members of the Red Pages team are available for interview. The Red Pages report is available for media syndication. For subscription enquiries, contact info@theredpages.co.uk.


Red Pages: Hot 100 is published periodically and any entry suggestions are welcome. Although inclusion is not guaranteed in the list, each artist may well be added on to the ever-growing Red Pages celebrity database.


Source: The Profile Group (UK) Ltd

Contact nina.tsang@theredpages.co.uk or caroline.citrin@theredpages.co.uk - Tel: +44-(0)20-7190-7795


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Time After Time

"Live as long and as well as you can and help others achieve the same, what happens thereafter or how people choose to see you is beyond your making."

~ Bill Clinton


Time After Time

Time is not on the clock
For even when the clock stops ticking
Time does not stop moving.
For time waits for no one.

Our destinies are not in the stars
But in our own hands.

Everybody has a chance to make a choice
And chances depend on the circumstances.
But whenever you have the chance
Choose wisely, for all choices have their consequences.

A Common Destiny for All

1. So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no man knows whether love or hate awaits him.

2. All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, [a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good man,
so with the sinner;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.
3. This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.

4. Anyone who is among the living has hope —even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!

5. For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
and even the memory of them is forgotten.

6. Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.

7. Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for it is now that God favors what you do.

8. Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil.

9. Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

10. Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, [c] where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

11. I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.

12. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so men are trapped by evil times
that fall unexpectedly upon them.

Wisdom Better Than Folly

13. I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me:

14. There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siegeworks against it.

15. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.

16. So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.

17. The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.

18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.

~ Ecclesiastes 9