You don't come across many movies that feel obliged to include their genre along with their title, but that's the route that this year 2000 movie has gone for. It's a semi-autobiographical tale from Greg Berlanti, who also directed the film, which means it's one man's vision. All of the characters are loosely based on himself and his friends, and their lives as a small gay community in West Hollywood.
What makes this film stand out for its time is that it didn't make the homosexuality of its characters into the source of the drama or the comedy. Their homosexuality is presented as normally as heterosexuality is in other films, with the characters shown to be perfectly normal people who just happen to be gay. While this may not be unusual as we approach the 2020s, it was in 2000. With Zach Braff from 'Scrubs' in the central role, this is almost 'Friends' re-imagined as a gay comedy.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.