In 1983, the world heard the words, "Here she is, Ms America." It was quite the feat as the she layered the expression "Black is beautiful" with her light skin, golden hair and blue eyes.  Many Americans had not acknowledged the vast shades of African American beauty until Williams won.

The Multi Cultural Food Network beauty can throw down in the kitchen, after all she is a chef.  She comes across casual and confident.  If you have a show called, Ask Aida then you probably need to exude confidence.  Although, she is not the most popular of Food Network hosts yet, Mollenkamp has certainly earned her place in the Food Network line up.

Food Network's Family Style is a show that I wanted to hate.  I saw the commercial for it and thought how stereotypical.  And too some extent it is typical. As a person who has worked on some hit reality television shows and knows the reality of reality.  Yes, Family Style is contrived but it does radiate with some authentic humor.(Photo: Tasteof WineTV.blogspot.com)

The beautiful actress Paula Garcés was born in Medellín, Colombia. Her father was a fisherman and her mother a schoolteacher. She moved to the United States at a young age and grew up in Harlem, New York.

Not that the Twilight Series hunk doesn't like to take a bite out of food, it's is just the cooking of it that is a challenge. In a recent interview Robert Pattinson commented that he hardly has got any cooking skills and he can't cook to save his life. The actor further revealed that he relies heavily on home delivery system that supplies healthy and fresh food to him every morning.

In addition to the calling into question for the second time the ethnic choice considerations in  the casting of Cleopatra Queen of the Nile, Angelina Jolie has another thing in common with Liz Taylor, no matter what you say they are drop dead gorgeous women.  Jolie's beauty is not just skin deep.  She loves multi culturally as the mother of children White, Asian and African.  She extends love to the world through humanitarian work. It also seems despite rumors over the years, luvin has not stopped her babies' daddy Brad Pitt.

This multi-cultural beautiful actress is truly a working actress in Hollywood.  Oh sure she has got connections like two famous parents, award winning music producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton.  However, there is a vulnerability in Ms. Jones eyes and her performances which probably has casting directors signing her up for more.  Some would say her beauty coupled with her racially ambiguous/passing looks make her an appealing choice. Like Vanesssa Williams,Jones is constantly cast opposite White men.  It is a touchy subject because honestly any working actress dark skinned Black, Indian, Latina, Asian or White is vying for a role versus the leading man.  Consequently, the leading man in bigger budget films or for most film produced in Hollywood will often be White.  Nevertheless, simply recalling who her famous daddy is helps to make the rose colored glasses tinted a bit more brown.  Congrats to Rashida for landing roles in this competive market.

Besides being one of the best actors of our time, the light haired, light eyed DiCaprio is part Italian and German on his pop's side and Russian and German on mom's side.  German, he speaks almost fluently and he speaks a little Italian. (Picture: Leo with Mom)

Two beautiful people got hitched by the names of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.  The couple have known each other for years having filmed a love scene together in the film Jamon Jamon back in 1992.  Reunited on the Woody Allen film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the fireworks happened and we prounouce them man and wife.  The ceremony happened at a friends home.

MCCN tips a Yankee hat in memory of the former New Yorker Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner who died today at age 80.  For as long, I can remember there has Steinbrenner and the Yankees.  The business man bought the team in 1973 and soon after the team had its glory days of championships back during the 70's where legends such as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter and Lou Pinella were born.

Julieta Venegas is a Mexican singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter who performs Spanish-language rock and pop music. Venegas grew up in Tijuana and began studying music at the age of eight. She went on to join several bands, including Tijuana No!, before starting a career on her own. In addition to singing and writing her own songs, she plays instruments including acoustic guitar, accordion, and keyboard. She has won two Latin Grammys and one Grammy. She has sold more than 6.5 million albums. She speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish fluently.

NBA star Carmelo Anthony of the Denver Nuggets and former MTV VJ LaLa Vasquez finally said I do after a long courtship and having a child together in 2007. 

This Canadian actor has slowly become a favorite among the new league of comedic young actors.  Born in Montreal, wi wi, he does speak French fluently.   His cultural background, is very diverse.  Baruchel is French and Italian Sephardic Jewish descent.   That's a mouthful and we've only begun talking about his father's side.  On mommy dearest side, the cultural breakdown consists of Prussian and English descent.

Adrien Brody does not fit the profile of typical Hollywood good looks or leading man but his charisma, acting abilities and his famous kiss he planted on Halle Berry helped to him on Hollywood's A-list.  Brody's Oscar win was deserved but shocking as he beat the likes of Nick Cage and Jack Nicholson. Even more shocking was the interracial kiss seen round the world.  In a brief moment of euphoria maybe he let the world know a bit more of who we was inside, a man who did not see color but a beautiful moment to seize.

Counting down the days to see the sultry good looks of James Franco in Eat Pray and Love.  Ladies this one's beauty is more than skin deep though admittedly he just oozes with distractingly exotic good looks from his dark hair to his olive skin. James Franco's cultural background is very diverse.  His mom is a Jewish descendant of Russian immigrants. His dad is Portuguese and Swedish.  Franco is California born American.

Alicia Keys proves that you can't judge a book by the cover.  Everytime, you try to get a read on her she proves to be more dynamic.  The Multi-Cultural beauty inherits her looks from a mother of Irish, Scottish and Italian heritage and a Jamaican father.  Born in New York, her given name is Alicia J. Augello Cook.

You loved him in Slumdog Millionaire and now he stars in the Last Airbender, the latest in the predicted M. Knight Shyamalan summer blockbusters.  We hope to see more of this actor.  His lovely on screen love in Slumdog and offscreen love in real life Frieda Pinto is scheduled for several films.

Every wonder the ethnicity of the commanding bearded Laker, Pau Gasol i Sáez (pronounced IPA [ˈpaʊ̯ gəˈzɔɫ] in Catalan). Bborn July 6, 1980 in Barcelona, Spain is the Spanish professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born to Marisa Sáez and Agustí Gasol, and he spent his childhood in Spain. Gasol was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2001 NBA Draft, but his rights were traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, with whom he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.

Former child TV star Gary Coleman has died after an intracranial hemorrhage suffered earlier this week left him unconscious and on life support at a Utah hospital. A former child star of television fame, Gary Coleman has had his share of public, financial and personal ups and downs.

Arab-Americans expressed delight Monday, a day after 24-year-old Lebanese-American Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA."For once, we're talking about beauty and not terror," said Osama Siblani, publisher of The Arab-American News, in Dearborn, Michigan, who knows Fakih and her family.