Belinda Carlisle Unsealed", published in June 2010, was a "New York Times" Best Seller and received favorable reviews. On August 11, 2011, as a member of the Go-Go's, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Belinda Jo Carlisle was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on August 17, 1958 to Harold Carlisle, a gas station employee, and his wife, Joanne (née Thompson), a homemaker. Her mother met her father, who was twenty years her senior, at age eighteen, and Carlisle was born nine months later. She was named after her mother's favorite film, "Johnny Belinda" (1948). Carlisle was the
Belinda (cigarette) Belinda (cigarette) Belinda is a Dutch brand of cigarettes currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco. Belinda was founded in the 1940s and quickly gained popularity in the Netherlands, especially amongst females (as it was targeted towards them) and the wealthy. It was one of the most known and popular cigarette brands in the Netherlands, along with Caballero. During the period of 1946 until 1996, posters made by the Dutch artist Frans Mettes were put on Dutch railway stations featuring the ""Belinda Cigarette Girl"" (""Sigarettenmeisje van Belinda"" in Dutch), along with other known brands at the time like Droste