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Rami Eatessami - A Hollywood Dream-Maker

As CEO of IMAR Entertainment, 29 year-old Rami Eatessami makes peoples' dreams come true. What started as a small idea has fast turned into a thriving business for the Israeli native who's called London, Paris and New York home.

"What we do at IMAR is pretty simple," Eastessami explains. "We provide contest winners with the opportunity of a lifetime. For instance, a European music TV station might run a contest and a simple text message would be all someone needed to send to enter. The prize might be tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert in the United States, complete with a backstage pass and meeting. We offer prizes that money can't buy. Everyone has an idol" he says, "and through our networking we make meeting that person a reality. Some of the lucky ones visit the sets of TV shows and meet their favorite actors. Occasionally they'll land a non-speaking role. We've even done movie premieres like the one for the Oceans Thirteen where the winner got to go to the Cannes Film Festival and party with the cast!" Some IMAR winners become stars themselves. "There was one kid who'd never been out of Belgium," he recalls. "He won our contest to attend a post-Oscar party. Both he and his brother attended the black tie event and had the experience of their lives being photographed with the likes of Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham, P. Diddy and Elton John. After doing an interview with one of the Belgian networks covering the event, the two boys went home celebrities and had paparazzi waiting for them at the airport."

With an international team of contacts helping him in Los Angeles, London, Denmark, Italy and South Africa, IMAR has branched out into a new service, providing breaking news on celebrities delivered to his subscribers' mobile phones. "Paris Hilton is front page news everywhere," he says. "Sometimes I wonder if she has any idea how big she is globally.

"I consider myself pretty lucky," says Eatessami. "It's wonderful to be able to do what I do for others. I didn't know if this little idea of mine would work and now all of a sudden I'm hearing my promotions and contests on stations around the world. That's a great feeling."

PLEASURE SEEKERS

Charming everyone from Raphael, to Proust, to Europe's most powerful politicians, courtesans honed their talents for accumulating power and money at the same time as their skills in the bedroom. How they did it is the subject of The Book Of The Courtesans, a new, impecably researched historical work from author Susan Griffin. Taking an unprecedented look into the pleasure-filled lives of the West's first female power brokers, The Book of the Courtesans documents the most important, most cunning, and most liberated players of the profession--liberated women who seized every opportunity for fame, fortune, and love from 16th-century Venicie, to Versailles, to Hollywood of the '20s and '30s.

A profile on Griffin and this first comprehensive look at the women she hails as the world's first feminists.

COME FLY WITH ME

It's the world's sexiest airline - beautiful and scantily clad cabin crew serve champagne, lobster, caviar and a whole lot more to Hollywood's rich and famous at 23,000-feet. Top stars, who've flown the friendly skies aboard the astonishing sex jets include Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Guy Ritchie David Schwimmer and Matthew McConaughey. Full talks with airline boss and stewardesses. (1,000-words and pics, some topless)

LOVE IS NOT A MANY SPLENDID THING

Hollywood stars wax lyrical about new wives and sweethearts - but when it all goes horribly wrong the verbal vitriol flows with a gusto. Hear what Sylvester Stallone had to say about Angie Everhart; Gwyneth Paltrow on Brad Pitt and Dennis Quaid on Meg Ryan. Altogether 10 hilarious examples of BEFORE and AFTER quotes from when the stars fall in and out of love.(1,500 words plus full pic file)

THE $25 HOLLYWOOD FACELIFT

Studio make-up wizard Maurice Stein reveals how anyone can look 10 years younger in SIX minutes with his instant facelift in a box. It's an old secret which has been used on hundreds of Hollywood actresses S and is now available to anybody at just 25 dollars - a fraction of the cost of plastic surgery. (750 words and pics)

NIFTY FIFTY

Female Hollywood stars who look fantastic at 50-plus reveal their beauty secrets - and how they keep young. Jane Fonda, Jane Seymour, Raquel Welch, Joan Collins and others talk about the Aphrodite Principle - and their determination never to grow old. (1,200 words and pics)

STARS AND THEIR SEX LIVES

Making love in an elevator or the floor of a forest - Hollywood celebrities boast they have sex whenever, however and wherever they want. Even singing diva Barbra Streisand says she needs it like food.- daily. We reveal the passions and secrets of some of Tinseltown's biggest names. (750 words plus pics)

THE LOLLIPOP GIRLS

That's the name given to Hollywood stars Calista Flockhart, Gwyneth Paltrow and Portia De Rossi because of their wafer thin body shapes. Their head size is normal, but the rest of them is skin and bone. Health chiefs say their stick insect looks are having a disaster effect on young girls worldwide. Other women stars in Tinseltown hit out at the Lollipop Girls. (1,000 words and pictures)

ZELDA THE BULLDOG SUPERMODEL

Hilarious picture-feature about a fancy-dressing bulldog that's made a staggering $75 million in the past three years as a canine supermodel (750 words and pics)

STARS AND BARS

The drinking secrets of the stars laid bare by Hollywood barmen (1,000 words and pics)

PORN STAR BLUES

The grim downside of being a male porno star. Text reveals the reality of bedding up to 20 women a week is anything but "the best job in the world" and why male porn stars need the constant help of psychiatrists. (2,000 words and pics, some nude)

HOLLYWOOD STUNT WOMEN

The stand-ins for top female stars talk about the dangers of their hair-raising job and working alongside leading celebrities. (2,500 words and excellent action pics)

PAWN SHOP

The most glamorous pawn shop in the world. The Beverly Hills establishment takes in movie memorabilia, including Oscars, from one time famous celebrities who've now fallen on hard times. (1000 words plus pics)

TRASHY LINGERIE

The world's most exclusive lingerie store where beauties like Cameron Diaz, Sharon Stone, Drew Barrymore and Pamela Anderson splash out on the hottest and most expensive designer underwear money can buy. (1,350 words and pics)

HOLLYWOOD GOES HOLLYWEIRD

Top psychics and mystic gurus tell of celebrity clients who consult them over future movie roles and their love lives. Studio bosses reveal they dare not say a word against the new age soothsayers for fear of upsetting the stars. (2,200 words plus pics)

BODYGUARDS TO THE CELEBS

Don Crutchfield and other top private bodyguards in LA talk about how they safeguard Hollywood's leading stars from stalkers and psychos. (2,200 words and pics)

MOVIE COSTS

It's not only top stars who come expensive in Hollywood. Cockroaches wanted on movie sets now rent at $25-a-day. Breakdown on why it now totals over $75 million to make the average Hollywood movie. (2,600 words plus excellent pics)

SCREEN GENIUS

Recently deceased movie legend Hedy Lamarr was hailed "the most beautiful woman on earth" as a screen star - but now it's revealed she was also a technocrat genius. Her band- hopping radio wave invention could have made her billions, but she gave away the patent to the US government for taking her in as a refugee. Her extraordinary story is told at length by her son. (1,500 words and pics)

HOLLYWOOD PLATTERTUDES

A survey of servers at LA's leading restaurants reveals just how the stars behave when they eat out. Which stars shine as they dine ... and which ones have totally the wrong platter-tude. The waiters dish the dirt on both their best-loved and most hated customers. ( 1000 words)

WORLD'S TALLEST CENTREFOLD

Penthouse Pet Roxy Leroux is six feet eight inches tall and easily the biggest glamour model in the world. She talks at her home in Las Vegas about her incredible height and how it's affected her life, loves and career. ( 600 words and pics)

ROMANTIC STARS

What puts a twinkle in the eyes and a song in the hearts of Hollywood's top stars? How do the most glamorous names of the silver screen find inspiration for true romance in a town full of gold-diggers. Top names reveal how they fell in love. (1,200 words and pics) (romance)