Moustache magic in Bollywood

The power of the moustache is in full flow in Bollywood. Screen idols are banking on it to look different on screen - if Saif Ali Khan has gone for the zappa, Aamir Khan boasts of the chevron and Shahid Kapoor the painter's brush.When Salman Khan was seen as funny cop Chulbul Pandey, sporting a pencil moustache in the super duper hit "Dabangg", his fans went crazy, especially those from Uttar Pradesh where the movie was set.Another popular actor...

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Holly Madison needs a dependable man'

Holly Madison has disclosed that she is looking for a boyfriend who will not be easily intimidated by her celebrity status.Earlier this month, it was reported that the former Girls Next Door star had split with boyfriend and All Time Low singer Jack Barakat.In an interview with People, the model, who was previously linked to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, suggested she is seeking a man who isn't bothered by dating a "successful woman"."It definitely...

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Claire Danes 'would undergo cosmetic surgery'

Claire Danes has expressed her belief that cosmetic surgery can help some women improve their self-confidence.Stylelist quotes the actress, who made her screen debut at age 11, as saying that she believes women have the right to fix physical imperfections and wouldn't rule out going under the knife as she grows older."I'm really fortunate in that I'm still quite young, and can get away with a lot, and my body is very forgiving," Danes said. "We'll...

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Model reiterates vow to go nude if India wins

Model Poonam Pandey Thursday reiterated her promise to run in the buff if India wins the cricket World Cup here Saturday.Pandey tweeted: "3 days to go to Complete my Promise to INDIA :)"Her tweet came a few hours after India thrashed Pakistan by 29 runs in the semifinal held in Mohali, near Chandigarh.India will now play Sri Lanka at the final that takes place in Mumbai Saturday.Pandey is not the first one to pledge to go naked if her country wins.Model...

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Shania Twain 'stalker' arrested at Junos

A man accused of stalking Shania Twain has been arrested after showing up at the Juno Awards in Toronto, where the singer was receiving a special award.Dr Giovanni 'John' Palumbo was picked up by authorities at the Air Canada Centre on Sunday night after being recognised by someone purported to be a member of Twain's entourage, reports the Ottawa Citizen.Prior to this latest incident, Palumbo had been previously charged with criminally harassing...

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Rihanna backs expiry of ex's restraining order

R and B singer Rihanna has said that she is relieved now that the restraining order handed to her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown has expired. The actress has admitted that she never wanted their fight to impede his music career. "What he did to me was a personal thing; it had nothing to do with his career," the Daily Express quoted the 23-year-old as saying. "Saying he has to be 100 feet away from me, he can't perform at award shows – that definitely made...

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Shiney Ahuja sentenced to 7-year jail for raping maid

A Mumbai sessions court Wednesday sentenced actor Shiney Ahuja to seven years in jail after he was found guilty of raping his maid.Ahuja was arrested June 15, 2009, after medical tests on the maid confirmed sexual assault. The Bombay High Court had granted him bail in October 2009.Ahuja's maid had turned hostile in October 2009, which led to his release on bail.Ahuja was accused of rape, criminal intimidation and holding his maid hostage, and faced a maximum punishment of up to 10 years in ja...

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Actor Farley Granger dies, aged 85

Strangers on a Train actor Farley Granger has died in New York City at age 85, it has been confirmed.The star died at his Manhattan home of natural causes on Sunday, a spokesperson for the New York medical examiner's office told The AP.Over the course of his seven-decade career, Granger worked with some of the most acclaimed directors in world cinema including Alfred Hitchcock on the thriller Rope and Luchino Visconti on 1954's Senso.The San Jose,...

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Elizabeth Taylor's 150 million dollars jewellery collection to go under the hammer

If sources are to be believed then late Dame Elizabeth Taylor''s vast collection of jewellery will be auctioned at world-famous auction house Christie''s.The late actress''s dazzling array of gems are rumored to be worth about 150 million dollars in total.According to the sources familiar with matter, the collection would be put up for sale at Christie''s, the famous British auction house, which has salesrooms in major cities across the globe, including...

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Lady Gaga becomes first person to have 9m Twitter followers

Pop star Lady Gaga has become the first person to have nine million followers on micro blogging site Twitter.The eccentric singer became the most popular person on the social networking site last August overtaking Britney Spears when they both had just over 5.7 million followers, reports the BBC.She joined Twitter in 2008 with her first Tweet saying she was rehearsing for the ‘Just Dance’ video.Justin Bieber is the second most popular celebrity on...

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Cheryl Cole 'not invited to royal wedding'

Cheryl Cole has joked that her invite to Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding may have been lost in the post.The 'Promise This' singer met Prince Charles last month and confirmed that she is launching a charity foundation in aid of The Prince's Trust. Speaking to Hello magazine, Cole admitted that she has not received an invite to the royal wedding next month."I'm going to ask Prince Charles where it is," she quipped. "I think it must have...

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Pregnant Mariah Carey tweets pic of her painted belly

Pregnant Mariah Carey has tweeted a pic of her growing baby belly with a butterfly painted on it.The painting has one pink wing and one blue, to symbolise the girl and boy that are due any day, reports Radaronline.com.“My attempt festiveness on 327! For ATLITL thank u plus I?U! Comin soon #dembabies! LYMA+thanx 4 making me happy:)” she tweeted as a caption for the adorable pic on Monday.The Grammy winning ‘Vision of Love singer’, in an earlier tweet,...

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Life Goes On (Movie Review)

One of the many pleasures of watching this supple evocative elegiac family saga is to see the timeless Sharmila Tagore share screen space with her real-life daughter Soha, who by the way, has never looked lovelier. That inner-glow comes from the company she keeps in this gentle drama suffused in melodious whispers and mellifluent suggestions of tunes long-forgotten and yet stored in the most inviolable chambers of the heart. Luckily for us, and the...

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Kate Winslet struggled with 'tough' break-up scenes in 'Mildred Pierce'

Kate Winslet has revealed that she struggled to portray the breakdown of a relationship in new TV mini-series 'Mildred Pierce', because the scenes reminded her of splitting from husband Sam Mendes.The 'Titanic' star announced the end of her seven-year marriage to the 'American Beauty' director last year (10)."It was tough. There were moments like that one where I was using things from my own life in my performance," the Daily Express quoted Kate...

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Britney Spears walks into new airbrush row

Britney Spears has been accused of trying to dupe fans after releasing a heavily airbrushed image of herself.The singer appeared to have shed pounds in glamorous publicity shots for her new album Femme Fatale.The 'Toxic' hitmaker looked super slender in a polka dot swimsuit, but in a gig on TV she looked much bigger.She was seen bursting out of a leather basque and fishnet tights and appeared much older than in the album shots."Britney still looks...

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Tania Zaetta wept in prison after nightclub arrest

Former Bollywood actress Tania Zaetta has revealed that she broke down in tears in prison after being arrested at a Gold Coast nightclub in Australia.The TV host and Australian actress, 41, was charged with being a public nuisance and obstructing police after a disturbance outside the nightclub last Monday.The former ‘Who Dares Wins’ host said she wept when her night in the cell meant that she left her father, who is battling prostate cancer, stranded...

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Kashmera Shah gives Pakistan team a cold shoulder!

Not many can do what actor Kashmera Shah does! As if going topless for her newly launched calendar wasn't enough, the reloaded sex symbol has done the unthinkable again!It so happened that Kashmera was in Chandigarh for a city launch of her calendar Kashensuous and was put up in the same hotel where the Pakistan team is staying.As coincidence would have it, she encountered the entire team (or should we say, the team encountered her), at the hotel's...

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Aamir Khan is 'Maharashtrian of the Year'

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan and Maharashtra Home Minister R.R.Patil received the 'Maharashtrian of the Year' award, instituted by leading Marathi daily Lokmat, at a function held recently.While Aamir received the award in the entertainment category, Patil received it in the politics category. Others who received the award on the occasion include Kalpana JoshiSanjay Gaikwad (industry), Bhagwan Rampure (arts), Kavita Raut (sports), Dr Ravindra Kolhe...

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Monica (Movie Review)

One doesn't know if the real-life journalist Shivani Bhatnagar was meant to be a kind of promiscuous enigma. But that's how she is purported to be portrayed by writer-director Sushen Bhatnagar. A kind of Madame Bovary (a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert) of the fringe world. A cryptic woman and a mystery to others and to herself whose story is pieced together after her death through the wonderfully nimble vision of the movie camera.Alas, the...

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Abhishek Bachchan breaks Will Smith's record

Will Smith seems to be running into the Bachchans' lives in one way or another. The African-American superstar was very keen to star with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Hitch which she couldn't do. Now it's Abhishek's turn to run into Will Smith professionally. Abhishek has beaten Will's world record for a film actor performing the maximum number of media events in one day for the promotion of a film. The earlier record-holder was Will who had performed...

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Wipeout: 'Soul Surfer' lacks bite

LOS ANGELES: Sports writers invariably call any last-minute heroics or unbelievable upset a "Hollywood ending," yet in reality Hollywood usually does a poor job with sports stories based on real-life events.Such stories force filmmakers to drastically alter the filmmaking playbook, draining away all color or quirks of personality from characters based on living people and removing any complications that might distract viewers from the "inspirational"...

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Remembering Liz’ eyes...

Everett Collection In death, as in life, it is her eyes that haunt. After Hollywood’s grande dame Elizabeth Taylor passed away, people paid their online respects, searching out her biography, baby pictures, good works (AIDS foundation), her relationships both familial (children, Richard Burton) and famous (Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol). Yet most unique were those eyes, and people wanted another look into them as they sought out “elizabeth taylor...

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Kylie Minogue spends GBP 10m on designer costumes for latest tour

Pop singer Kylie Minogue has apparently forked out almost 10 million pounds on designer costumes for her latest tour.The singer, who kicked off the UK leg of her Aphrodite world tour in Cardiff last night, was dressed by Dolce and Gabbana.She wore gold costumes encrusted with Swarovski crystals and real pearls, a chiffon gown so sheer it "looks like smoke" and a chain-mail Barbarella-inspired dress covered in priceless vintage brooches.All her backing...

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Happy birthday Lady Gaga

NEW YORK: It feels like Lady Gaga has been around for ages, so it’s hard for us to believe that the pop star is only celebrating her 25th birthday today Monday! Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, born March 28, 1986, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter. After performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and later enrolling at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts,...

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Sonakshi Sinha 'finds ally in Sarah Palin'

Sonakshi Sinha has reportedly been praised by Sarah Palin after the two spoke at the same event.The actress, who recently signed up for a Bollywood remake of Hannibal, was a recent speaker at a conference in New Delhi, DNA reports.A source said: "Sarah seemed impressed by Sonakshi. Both ladies chatted about women's empowerment and how it can change the world."Although Sinha has only appeared in one film, Dabanng, she has become a popular figure in...

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Game (Movie Review)

“What a story!” Abhishek Bachchan, playing a cross between a fugitive and a guardian-angel, says wrily at the of this elegantly crafted whodunit. What a story, indeed. And full marks to writer Althea Delmas Kaushal for crafting a jigsaw that would have made Agatha Christie smile. It wouldn’t be incorrect to say, they don’t make movies like this anymore. Stylishly crafted, cunning in plot and nubile in its narrative thrust, Game is one of the most...

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Elton John 'planning royal dinner party'

Elton John is reportedly planning a star-studded dinner party with Prince William and Kate Middleton as guests of honour.The singer has also invited David and Victoria Beckham to the event, which is due to take place at his Windsor home three weeks before the April 29 royal wedding, The Mirror reports."Elton loves entertaining and hosting people at his home," a source said. "He is touring America at the moment but flits between there and the UK,...

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Kate Moss 'buys own engagement ring'

Kate Moss reportedly paid for the ring that boyfriend Jamie Hince proposed with.The supermodel, who has apparently amassed a £45m fortune during her career, allegedly wanted a ring out of The Kills guitarist's price range, meaning that he had to use money she had given him to build a recording studio."Jamie has virt­ually no savings but did make a contribution for the ring," a source told the Daily Star. "They joke about how dependent he is on her....

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Alex Reid 'considered suicide after split'

Alex Reid has admitted that he considered suicide during the darkest moments of his split from Katie Price.In an interview with the News of the World, the cage fighter expressed his anguish at the model dating Leandro Penna so publicly and confessed that he often wonders which parts of their relationship were real."I've had some really dark moments over the last few weeks," said Reid. "I'm a fighter but this has drained me. At my lowest I thought...

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Winslet, Dicaprio voted most romantic onscreen couple

LONDON: Titanic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have been voted the most romantic movie couple ever.The 36-year-old US heartthrob and the stunning British actress, 35, appeared opposite each other in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, which was based on the tragic sinking of the infamous ship in 1912.More than 500,000 movie fans offered their opinions in a poll for ABC TV and People magazine, with the results airing on US TV.According...

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Bachchan's wax figure at Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong

Amitabh Bachchan is the first Bollywood actor to get a wax figure at the world famous Madame Tussauds museum in Hong Kong. His statue features in the Hall of Fame section and was unveiled by award-winning actor Moses Chan.With a successful career spanning 40 years, Amitabh has four National Film Awards to his credit. The 68-year-old's wax avatar sports a black sherwani with red buttons, teamed with a white pyjama."There are more and more Indian visitors...

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Hugh Jackman, Aishwarya Rai bag top honours at FICCI-Frames

The 12th edition of the three day FICCI-Frames conclave concluded Friday with Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman and Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai bagging the top awards.FICCI Frames Excellence International Honour was awarded to Jackman, who is best known for his role as Wolverine in the "X-Men" series. The actor is also famed for his versatile style of acting and his rugged on-screen roles in films such as "Kate and Leopold", "Van Helsing", "The Prestige"...

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Elizabeth Taylor 'was expecting to come home'

Elizabeth Taylor was expecting to return home from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre before her death from congestive heart failure this week, her friends have claimed. The Hollywood legend, who made a full recovery from an emergency tracheotomy in 1961 and cardiac surgery in 2006, passed away at the age of 79 in her room at the Los Angeles facility on Wednesday. Speaking to People, the Cleopatra star's friend Firooz Zahedi revealed that she had begun...

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Khan says, 'RA.One' will change the genre of films

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan says his upcoming sci-fi superhero film "RA.One" is an attempt to create something that will change the genre of Indian films."It's an indigenously made film and it's made in VFX studios in India and is trying to create something which will change the genre of films. If Indian filmmakers would like to make something alike, they have the access to the technology," King Khan told reporters at FICCI-Frames Friday.He...

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Shahrukh Khan "Tom Cruise of Bollywood"

Kareena Kapoor has admitted that she has no desire to make it in Hollywood because it is too much work.The Kurbaan actress also compared co-star Shah Rukh Khan to Tom Cruise, The Times of India has reported.Speaking to the paper, she said: "I think Shah Rukh is our answer to Tom Cruise. For me he is bigger than Tom Cruise. "And talking of Hollywood... to get a role there you have to give screen tests, park yourself there for about seven to eight...

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Penelope Cruz: 'Depp likes toilet humour'

Penelope Cruz has revealed that her Blow co-star Johnny Depp is a big fan of toilet humour. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actress recalled being pranked during an incident on the film's set involving a "fart machine" owned by Depp, with whom she recently reunited for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. "He fooled me once when we were doing Blow," she recalled."I was doing a very dramatic close-up, and he kept making that...

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Elizabeth Taylor 'leaves bulk of her 375 million-pound fortune to AIDS charities'

Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who passed away on Wednesday after losing her long battle with congestive heart disease, has reportedly left the bulk of her 375-million-pound fortune to AIDS charities.The star, frequently praised for her role as an AIDS/HIV activist, has continued her good work by leaving a large portion of her wealth to her beloved charities, reports The New York Post.According to Fox News, Taylor''s famous jewellery collection will be auctioned...

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Bipasha Basu set to launch second fitness DVD

MUMBAI: Actress Bipasha Basu, known for her fitness levels, will launch her second fitness DVD soon."I'm working on it and it will come out in July. I was supposed to shoot it a couple of months back, but I've been very busy. My schedules were really tight; so I pushed it back. I'll film it as soon as possible," Bipasha told Indian news agen...

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Trailer of final Harry Potter film released

LOS ANGELES: The first trailer of the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, has been released online. The film is set to be released in the UK on July 15 and will bring the series to a close.The trailer shows footage from the film, plus video of the cast and crew talking about tying up the loose ends of JK Rowling's story.Daniel Radcliffe, who plays lead role as Harry said: "The reason they're on this journey is much...

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Emma Roberts bags role in 'Adult World'

Actress Emma Roberts is set to take the lead role in coming-of-age drama "Adult World".Emma, who is Julia Roberts' niece, beat off strong competition from contemporaries Carey Mulligan, Rooney Mara, Emily Browning, Juno Temple and Brie Larson to get the role of a Stanford University graduate with aspirations of becoming a poet who ends up working in a bookstore.Contactmusic.com reports that Scott Coffey will direct the movie which is scripted by...

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Elizabeth Taylor's 'White Diamonds' still best-selling celeb fragrance

Elizabeth Taylor's 'White Diamonds' remains the world's best-selling celebrity fragrance of all time - 20 years after it first launched.It is estimated that the global sales of the scent, which is manufactured by Elizabeth Arden, reached 61.3 million pounds in 2010.The Oscar-winning actress, who died on Wednesday at the age of 79, was one of the first stars to launch a signature fragrance with any success, reports the Daily Mail.Follow-up perfumes,...

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Movie tribute for Formula One legend Ayrton Senna

Formula One legend Ayrton Senna journey has been documented in a new film, which is set for release this summer.Opening in Cinemas in June, ‘Senna’ tells the remarkable story of the Brazilian’s rise to superstardom in the world of racing.After starting off in karting, Senna moved to Europe at the age of 18 before switching to open-wheel racing, The Sun reports.But winning the British Formula 3 championship in 1983 acted as the springboard into his...

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