Jackie Appiah having an offset holiday in Hawaii

What’s more entertaining than enjoying a break from work and chilling out?
That’s exactly what Jackie Appiah is doing in Hawaii. The beautiful island is the wishful dream holiday destination for many people but very few are able to actualize it. So for Jackie Appiah, it’s a privilege and she wants to enjoy every bit of her stay there.
Jackie began keeping us updated by sharing her first class flight pictures while in the sky, and subsequent pictures after she arrived in Hawaii.

I.C.I's African Star Of The week

MAJID MICHEAL

Irrefutable Creative Ideas Salute our Star of the week as we look into his irrefutable profile..

Biography

Majid Michel, a GHANAIAN ACTOR (nicknamed Shaker) born September 22, 1980 in Accra Ghana to a Lebanese Father Michael Michel-Erawoc, and Ghanaian Mother Paulina Olympio. Majid has ten other siblings, four sisters and six brothers (Aro, Isaac [RIP] Reggie, Roberta, Shawki, Sputnic, Juliette, Michael, Georgette, and Isabella). He is married to Virna Michel and blessed with two beautiful girls, 9-year-old Keira, and five yeard old Zara.
 

Career

Majid’s love for acting started at a tender age. He got his first break in Secondary School. As part of the schools drama club, Majid won the Best Actor for his performance in the event on “Emancipation Day.” After secondary school, he joined the modelling agency “Super Model Agency” while furthering his studies at the Academy of Screen Arts. After several auditions he got casted by producer Ivan Quashigah as Shaker for a program dubbed for Ghana radio, Things We Do for Love which later turned into a prime time T.V. series. In 2004, Director Jayke Aernan casted Majid in his first film Divine Love.
Majid has since then compiled a filmography of over forty movies. The African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) has nominated him four times for the Best Actor category. He has won the 2010 Zafaa Awards for Best Actor in the movie Silent Scandals and the 2010 Actor of the Year Award in a leading role The Beast in Ghana. He won best actor at the 2011 NAFCA AWARDS for film SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA. Majid is a partner with the production company Ad-visors Ghana Limited. They produce documentaries and are involved in several charitable projects, some of which include his personal passion, building clean water wells in parts of Ghana and Africa. For further philanthrophy passions of Majid Michel, please visit his foundation link (Majiwoc Foundation). Majid is married to Virna; they have two daughters Kiera and Zara.

Movies Featured 

He has featured in so many movies, both Ghollywood and Nollywood. here are some of his movies you can check out.

• Agony of Christ
• Somewhere in Africa
• Shakira
• The Game
• Silent Scandals
• Bursting Out
• 4 Play
• 4 Play Reloaded
• A Sting in a Tale
• Silent Scandal
• Passion of the Soul
• Crime to Christ
• Royal Battle
• Divine Love
• Gangster
• Guilty Pleasure
• Tears of a Womanhood
• St. Michael
• Shattered Mirror
• Save The Prince
• The Beast
• Royal Madness
• Her Excellency
• Reason To Kill
• Blood of Fire
• Final Crisis
• Captain
• Under The Sky
• The Three Widows
• Professional Lady

Writers Who Didn't Study Writing

1-Rebecca Skloot 

 
 The advice Rebecca Skloot gives when she speaks is “follow your curiosity”—because without it, she’d be a vet and not a writer. When she was 16 and sitting in biology, her teacher wrote the name Henrietta Lacks on the board and told his students the little information known about her. Skloot wanted more and her teacher encouraged her to investigate and write an extra-credit paper. Though she found nothing, Henrietta Lacks stayed in her mind. While earning her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Colorado State University, she took a creative writing class and returned to her old fascination. One day her writing teacher pulled her aside and said, ‘you don’t have to go to vet school just because that’s what you always planned to do—you could go to graduate school in writing instead.’ I told him I couldn’t imagine giving up on my dream of becoming a vet. Then he said these essential words: ‘Letting go of a goal doesn’t mean you’ve failed, as long as you have a new goal in place. That’s not giving up, it’s changing directions, which can be one of the most important things you do in life.’ The next day I started researching MFA programs in creative nonfiction writing.” Skloot spent a decade researching and writing a biography on Henrietta Lacks. Once the book was finished—it’d eventually become a bestseller and be optioned for a film by Oprah Winfrey—she tracked down her old biology teacher and sent him a copy.

2.Robert Ludlum

 

 

Before penning The Bourne Identity, author Robert Ludlum struggled with his own: he pursued a college degree in drama and attempted an acting career, landing minor roles in plays and TV commercials before becoming a full-time Broadway producer. The job “bored” him, but introduced him to a lot of playwrights who made him realize, “I can write,” Ludlum told Absolute Write's Hal Gieseking. His theatrical background further inspired the content of his first book—about “the funny things that happen when actors meet the general public”—and the structure of most of his bestselling thrillers: “I have […] applied the theatrical principles to writing.” 

 

3.Michael Crichton

 

 

Man begins writing. Man abandons writing. Man studies medicine. Medicine bores Man. Man returns to writing. After being disenchanted by his English literature department at Harvard, Michael Crichton switched his major to biological anthropology. Continuing his education at Harvard Medical School, Critchton found himself “disappointed in a lot of ways” and after earning his MD finally made the permanent switch back to writing and later film production, direction, and screenwriting. “I think it's what I always wanted to do,” reads an interview with the late author on his Web site. “The only other doctor I know of who's done the same thing, Jonathon Miller, has said something which I think if true—namely, that being a doctor is good preparation for this, because it teaches you to deal with the kind of life that you will inevitably have. It teaches you to work well when you haven't had enough sleep. It teaches you to work well when you're on your feet a lot. It teaches you to work well with technical problems and it teaches you to make decisions and then live by them.” His medical knowledge continued to come in handy and was featured in many of his novels such as Next, a novel about genetic research, and Jurassic Park.

 

 

4.John Grisham 

 

 

John Grisham “never dreamed of being a writer” as a kid, or so he said in an interview with non-profit foundation Academy of Achievement . Eager to break free from the restraints of a Southern Baptist upbringing, he set off to Northwest Mississippi Community College and later Cleveland’s Delta State University to “have fun.” But after two years of partying and poor grades, he decided to “get serious”: an accounting degree from Mississippi State University led to law school there, and law school to the hallowed halls of a local courthouse. As a young attorney quickly swamped with criminal cases, Grisham gathered more than enough material for A Time To Kill, the first of many bestselling legal thrillers to his name.

 

 

5.Jean M. Auel 

 

After getting her M.B.A. from the University of Portland at 40, the last thing Jean M. Auel was expecting to do was begin work on a series of six novels that would take her 31 years to complete. “The thing that happened was that I thought I would write a short story, or I thought I’d try to write a short story,” she said in an 2002 interview with Absolute Write. “I got this idea for a story: a young woman who was living with people who were different, except they thought she was different. It’s a little like, ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ you know. I always used to get a little annoyed with those shows where you had some young starlet who was adored by some native people just because she was a young Hollywood starlet. And I wanted to really say, ‘Yes, she might be a beautiful woman, but to the people who raised her, she was different. And I wanted it to be more than physical.” Her short story idea turned into the Earth’s Children series which has sold more than 45 million books worldwide.

 

 

Top 2 known male Actors who went from rich to broke

1- Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director, and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Cage is known for his prolificacy, appearing in at least one film per year nearly every year since 1980, with the exception of 1985 and 1991.
At the peak of his career, Nick was one of the highest paid celebrities in the world who pulled down as much as $40 million per year. Between 1996 and 2011 Nick earned more than $150 million from acting alone. He earned $16 million for Snake Eyes, $20 million for Gone in Sixty Seconds, $20 million for Windtalkers, $20 million for National Treasure… just to name a few.

 

To make matters worse, while he was spending money like there was no tomorrow, Nick wasn't paying his taxes. By 2009, his unpaid tax bill and penalties totaled more than $13 million! Nick immediately began attempting to dump as many of his assets as possible, starting with the houses.

 2-Wesley Snipes

 

Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, and martial artist, who has starred in numerous films, including action thrillers and dramatic features. Snipes is known for playing the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy, among various other high-profile roles. Snipes formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991 and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes has been training in martial arts since age 12, earning a 5th than black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd than black belt in Hapkido

 

Between December 2010 and April 2013, Wesley Snipes served 845 days in federal prison in McKean County, Pennsylvania, stemming from a tax evasion conviction. He served 90% of his three year sentence. Wesley's problems with the IRS date back to 2006 when he was charged with attempting to avoid paying taxes and filing $12 million worth of false returns dating all the way back to 1996. Between 1996 and 2004, Snipes earned $37.9 million from his acting career and apparently failed to pay any taxes during that entire time. Not only that, he also used forged documents to receive $12 million worth of refunds reflecting his income between 1996 and 1998. Wesley's defense was that he was misled by a group of accountants. In addition to his prison sentence, Wesley was required to pay $17 million in back taxes, interest and penalties to the IRS. A co-defendant was sentenced to 10 years in prison and another was sentenced to 4 years.

Guideline to be on top as an actor

1.Learn Your Craft

Too many people think that acting is easy. Just like any art form, acting is a craft and must be mastered. Take acting classes, watch other actors and take the time to hone your craft. There are a number of top tier actors who make a point of working with acting coaches to be sure they remain at the top of their game. You can never know too much.

2.Never Be Late

This might seem obvious, but there are hundreds if not thousands of actors out there who simply can’t tell time. Casting sessions are usually just a few minutes and are scheduled at odd times like 7:25 or 6:50 on purpose. Be early or don’t bother showing up. Patience weighs thin at a casting session and few things will hurt your chances more than being late.

3.Know Your Lines

Again, this might seem obvious, but there are too many actors who learn a few of their lines and then try to “wing it” and fail miserably. Spend time preparing your lines. Prepare not only what you’re going to say, but how you’re going to say it.

4.Don’t Rewrite Your Lines

  Never, ever, ever say something other than what’s in the script. There’s no better way to offend a writer then to come up with your own lines. If you want to write your own dialogue, then become a writer.

5.Listen, Listen, Listen

 

I repeated this one three times because I’m hoping you’re listening. Listen to what you are being told. Sometimes the casting director or writer or director will give you a bit of direction prior to the audition or during the audition on a particular line. Listen to what they’re saying and take the time you need to process it. If it’s during an audition, more often than not, they will be happy to give you a few minutes to incorporate the new direction into the lines. So ask for it if you need it.