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Cindy
Margolis is the most popular celebrity on cyberspace. She began her
successful career on the internet in 1996 and quickly became known as
a model, actress and television host. She is the first internet super
model and she is also known "Queen of the Internet" as named
by Yahoo Internet Life Magazines. Her photos have been downloaded from
her site more than 60 million times and she has made her mark on the
"The Guinness Book of World Records Millennium Issue". Cindy
was also chosen by People Magazine as the one of the "50 Most Beautiful
People" in 1998 and on Forbe's Top 100 Celebrities of 1999 and
2000. Cindy has been featured in dozens of articles and magazines, including
Forbes, E-Company, Newsweek, Maxim, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today,
Maxim, People, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington
Post, The New York Times, among many, many other publications. Her popularity with the internet and the entertainment world brought her own televison show entitled, "The Cindy Margolis Show". Cindy is also hosting "In Your Dreams with Cindy Margolis", a special program on channel E!. It was an honor to interview Cindy before she began to film her next film in October 2002. She is very sweet, intelligent and charming. Interview by Mauricio Saravia A.I.: How do you feel with all the success? Cindy Margolis: I feel great about it! I was one of the first people to really explore the internet and I kind of feel like a pioneer, because I was one of the first people to explore this media. Like the first person on television, Milton Berle. I was the first person on the internet to have my own celebrity web site. To me, I feel like I'm on the forefront of technology and I have really exploited this wonderful medium. I was so grateful for the perfect timing and that I was able to make a career out of this new technology. A.I.:: I wanted to ask you about your experience hosting your television show, "The Cindy Margolis Show"? C.M.: "The Cindy Margolis Show" was a great adventure for me and it was also a wonderful experience. I am thankful and grateful that they let me have my own television show. I'm sorry it wasn't on longer. It was so much fun. Hopefully, I'll get to do another show soon. It was interactive with my internet site. It was also more than just that hour, because you could go online and you would see my show 24 hours a day, where on television it was an only an hour. It was complimentary to my web site and just to have it was a fun experience for everybody. The wonderful thing is that I get thousands of e-mails a week, I still answer all my own e-mails and I read everything. It's just so wonderful to have that positive feedback from fans. If they are going to take to write me, then I definitely want the time to write them back. Still, I had my own site since 1996 and here we are in 2002, and I still appreciate it. It's such an honor that someone would take the time to e-mail me. It's such a great experience! That is why site is so successful today, now that everyone can have a web site. Your dog can have a web site! (Laughs). To be able to have such a successful site six years later, I really feel that it's because of my loyal "cyber-buddies". That's what I call them. They are actually not my fans, they are my friends and they are my cyber-buddies. I think it's a great community and I keep in touch with everybody. A.I.:: Cindy, when you were acting, which actor or actress made an impression on you? C.M.: I have to say that I just did a little theme in a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer. I think she is the most beautiful woman on earth! She is always been someone I look up to and I always aspired to be. I think she is a wonderful person. Last year, I got to work on her husband's show, Ally McBeal with David E. Kelly and just to get to meet both of them it was a true honor, and to be in a scene with them. AI: You promote the work of your fans through the online radio program: "Unsigned Hero's Radio Show". It must be a rewarding experience. Can you tell us about it? C.M.: I just feel that I really am an entrepreneur and go-getter and I have done everything myself. (Laughs). I just wished that someone would have helped me when I was starting out. Now that I am at this point, because of all my cyber-buddies. I thank my cyber-buddies for everything. I don't thank the entertainment industry, I thank them for supporting me. I wanted to help them with their dreams. I have show in E! Entertainment called "In Your Dreams With Cindy Margolis". I help people in all aspects of the entertainment world, but for my internet site that's specifically for unsigned bands, because I know that's particularly hard. If I can have a radio program on my site, and have that exposure worldwide for them and to help them in some way, I'm more than willing to do that. It makes me very happy to be able to help people. A.I.: It's very cool to be able to help beginning artists like that. C.M.: It's great. Luckily, I have worldwide exposure, so it's a wonderful opportunity, where they could get to be heard. It's not only in America, but it's all over the world that they can be heard. A.I.: I think technology is changing the way that people access information, to the point where people will be able to see movies and practically do everything from their laptops or handheld computers. C.M.: Yes! Everyday is changing. It's not going away, this medium is here to stay and it's going to be here forever. Compared to just a year ago, things have changed so much! I try to have all of the latest bells and whistles on my site, because I think people expect that from me. It does change a lot everyday and it is really making the world a much smaller place, because you can receive correspondence and be in touch with people from Europe, Asia, all over the world, as much as America. It's really a nice way for everybody to feel close to each other with the touch of a button. It is definitely changing to the better. A.I.: You also hosted the "iBASH" the first "Web cast of the Century" that was transmitted through the web to 100 countries. C.M.: That was one of the first big concerts that worked really, really well! In the past, technology hasn't always been up to par as people have hoped. This is was also broadcast at Times Square. To be there with The Who being reunited and with all my favorite bands such as Kiss and Sugar Ray, The Dixie Chicks, Natalie Cole. It was just an all day concert of great music and to transmit that all around the world. It was just a dream come true. It was a great to be around those people, and to have the world be able to watch from their computer. A.I.: Cindy, speaking about music, which musicians have you been listening to lately? C.M.: I am all over the place! (Laughs). I actually just got the Eminem CD and I liked them. He's really good, so I think I'm one of his later fans. I do listen to all music. I really like Alicia Keys, Bon Jovi, and I still like all the Heavy Metal band from the 80's, that was my time. I still like Aerosmith. I'm really all over the place with music. I listen to jazz when I'm in the bathtub and hard rock when you are driving fast in a Porsche. A.I.: There is music for every mood. CM: Yes, definitely! For every Cindy mood there is definitely music! A.I.: I think that electronic music seems to be getting quicker and quicker. C.M.: Yes, that's true! It does seem like that. For me, techno music reminds of the clubs in South Beach. They have all night clubs there. You are going to breakfast and you see people coming out of the clubs. I think a lot of the music that like club music, or techno seems to be coming out of South Beach. A.I.: Cindy, having traveled a lot, which places have you enjoyed visiting? C.M.: I love the Islands! If I can be on a beach with a ocean with a Strawberry Daiquiri on my hand, I am very happy. I have been luck enough to have done modeling for Swimsuit magazines, posters and they are mostly shot on exotic beaches. I have traveled all over the world. Yes, I still love London, Paris, but if I had only one place to go to relax, it would be a beach. I don't care if it's Cabo or Hawaii, just as long as it's beach I'm happy. All the beaches are beautiful. If it's sand and water, I'm happy. (Laughs). That's why I'm a California girl. A.I.: Cindy, you receive so many letters, e-mails and gifts from your fans. How do people react when they meet you in person, when they see you on a Shopping Mall or a store? C.M.: I think that they think like they know me, which is wonderful. I really feel that I am not intimidating. I hope that I'm not! It would really depress me if anyone wouldn't come up if they saw me. I am always very thankful and I am always surprised when people recognize me. It's such a wonderful feeling. I hope that never stops. To me the computer is very personal and I feel that people do get to know me and I hope that they know that they are meeting a friend. A.I.: The computer is more personal than other media, I think. C.M.: Yes, because you may send a fan letter to your model or actress. When you e-mail my site, you know that it comes to my personal computer and I am here answering e-mails at three in the morning. It is very addictive! My computer at home is on 24 hours a day. It's like checking your voice mail and answering machine. Even if you checked two minutes, you're going to check it again, just in case. (Laughs). A.I.: What's a day in the life of Cindy Margolis like? CM: (Laughs). It's different every day! I just had a beautiful baby boy. I think that a day in my life now is very different! Now, I keep in touch with my cyber-buddies, taking care of my precious little son. I am finally getting back to work. I was out of it for a couple of months, because I was pregnant. Now, to be able to go back to work is so exciting. Sometimes, it's fun to take off for a little while, but then I realize how much I truly love it and I'm just so excited to get back into everything. A.I.: Thank you very much, Cindy! C.M.: Thank you!
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