Omar Sharif in a boozy brawl at the Umaid
Bhavan Palace
London:
Egyptian actor Omar Sharif reportedly rammed a table
lamp into his fellow actor, 'Lord of the Rings' star John
Noble's face after the two got into a violent argument at
the Umaid Bhavan Palace in Jodhpur recently. The two actors,
who are shooting in the desert city for the movie 'One Night
With the King,' which also stars acting legend Peter O Toole,
were reportedly quite drunk when an argument turned into
a fist fight following which Sharif hit Noble with the lamp.
Although the reason behind the argument is not known, 72-year
old Sharif, who has starred in movies like 'Laurence of
Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago,' is said to have stopped immediately
after he hit Noble with the lamp. Noble later had to be
helped by the hotel staff as he picked out glass pieces
from his face. Spokespersons for Sharif and Noble refused
to comment even as the filmmakers decided to go ahead with
the shooting of the movie, the next day, despite the fact
that Noble was not present on the sets. "A bunch of people
were having dinner at the hotel and they had been drinking
heavily. The conversation developed into a major disagreement
between John Noble and Omar - although no one is quite sure
what it was about," the Mirror quoted an onlooker as saying.
"Their voices were getting louder and louder and then the
next thing we knew there were fists flying everywhere. Omar
then grabbed a small lamp and hit John in the face with
it. The shock of what happened seemed to bring the fight
to an end and John was later picking bits of glass out of
his face with the help of the bar staff," the source added.
Kurt
Cobain's death songs to be released (Go
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London:
Fans of the world's most famous grunge band Nirvana
can now hear what Kurt Cobain was feeling like just before
he shot himself dead in 1994, as a new CD set box is going
to contain some of his previously unreleased numbers that
he recorded just before his death. According to Female first,
the set called 'With the Lights Out,' will contain three
of the pieces that he recorded at home, and will hit the
shelves later this month. The three CD set will feature
all of Nirvana's songs in a chronological order including
their first hit, their cover version of Led Zeppelin's classic
'Heartbreaker' and their other unreleased songs 'Rape Me'
and 'My Apologies.'
Alicia
Keys's and Usher's 'My Boo' tops American ringtone list
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New
York: That mobile ringtones have replaced song downloads
as the money churners is a well known fact, and now a new
survey conducted by Billboard magazine has listed the top
20 ringtone favourites with Alicia Keys's song 'My Boo'
emerging as the favourite. According to the New York Daily
News, it was found that most Americans wanted hip hop numbers
as ringtones and the only non hip hop number in the top
ten downloads list was 'The Halloween Theme' by John Carpenter.
The top ten ringtones were: 1) "My Boo" Usher and Alicia
Keys 2) "Lean Back" Terror Squad 3) "Drop Like It's Hot"
Snoop Dogg 4) "Locked Up" Akon 5) "The 'Halloween' Theme"
John Carpenter 6) "Sunshine" Lil' Flip 7) "Goodies" Ciara
8) "Freek-A-Leek" Petey Pablo 9) "Game Over" Lil' Flip 10)
"Yeah" Usher
Tiniest
Harry Potter book sold for 11,000 pounds (Go
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London:
The smallest ever Harry Potter book containing details
of what all the wizard needs and just one inch high has
been sold for 11,000 pounds at a charity auction at Sotheby's.
The leather-bound edition was one of a series of lots which
has been put for auctions organized by Tatler magazine,
to raise fund for the homeless. The lot of mini books were
reporetdly sent to various celebrities to fill the pages
with whatever they liked and Harry Potter author JK Rowling
made hers into a guide to everything Harry needed for his
life at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The
book, which included pictures of Harry's witch's hat, broomstick
and wire-rimmed spectacles, was the third most expensive
lot. The highest bid was for boxing legend Muhammad Ali,
who drew a sketch of himself fighting arch-rival Joe Frazier,
prozed at 17,000 pounds. Sir Paul McCartney's contribution,
the handwritten lyrics to Hey Jude, fetched 13,000 pounds.
The auction has reportedly conjoured up a total of 125,000
pounds for the charity.
Tom
Cruise wants David Beckham in Mission Impossible 3
London: If Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise has his way then
soccer star David Beckham will soon be seen doing a cameo
in 'Mission: Impossible 3'. The 'Collateral' star who is
a soccer aficionado and a great fan of Beckham, has struck
a good rapport with David and his family, and would love
him to have a small role in his latest movie. "David is
building up a profile in the States as a soccer stud and
could easily feature in a cameo role in the movie. Tom is
not only the star of the movie but also the producer, so
what he says goes. If he wants David to feature in the film,
then he will," a source was quoted by the Daily Star as
saying. "It would boost audiences in the UK and the Far
East. Tom is very shrewd and would be fully aware of the
benefits of having Becks in the film," he added.
Indian
improves on Hawking's speech software (Go
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London:
A leading Indian software engineer Arun Mehta, who helped
paralysed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking to communicate
through the software developed by his team, is working on
improvements to it which he hopes will be of greater help
to people suffering from the degenerative motor neurone
disease. "I am developing this as an open source software
so that scientists all over the world can work on this platform
and modify it according to specific requirements," Dr Mehta
was quoted by the BBC, as saying. "This project will become
the basis of a platform to develop software for people with
all kinds of disabilities in the near future," he added.
Magazine
offers free sex as part of its promotional campaign
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London:
A Swiss men's magazine which offered free sex as a promotional
campaign to celebrate its 20th anniversary has come under
fire from the local authorities "We wanted to offer something
that beats the free music CDs or posters that our rivals
were offering," Pietro Attardo, spokesman for the magazine
Okay, was quoted by Ananova as saying. The magazine offers
every reader a free trip to an 'erotic studio' including
free sexual services. "It's a disgrace, this magazine is
not even classed as an adult magazine," Swiss MP Heiner
Studer was quoted as saying.
