Di's
memorabilia sells like hot cakes (Go
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London:
People from all walks of life in Britian continue to
be infatuated with the Royal Family, or so it seems. A sale
of items used by the late Princess Diana, Prince Charles
and their two sons -- William and Henry -- is generating
a huge interest in the public. According to The Sun, bracelets
given to one of Diana's bridesmaids sold for over 130,000
dollars, while a letter from Diana about the death of her
father, the late Earl Spencer, has already been sold for
55,000 dollars by the Los Angeles collector, Alicia Carroll.
Other items on sale include Christmas cards featuring Prince
Charles and sons William and Harry between 1992 and 2000
for 2,400 dollars each, flowers carried by a bridesmaid
at Diana's wedding for 155,000 dollars and a letter from
Prince Charles in which he mentions Camilla Parker Bowles,
six months before his engagement to Diana, at 40,000 dollars.
'The
Incredibles' does incredibly at the box office (Go
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New
York: 'The Incredibles' continues to rule the box office
for a second continuous week with a collection of over 51
million dollars this week. According to E-Online, the estimated
figures compiled by Exhibitor Relations show that despite
its groundbreaking animation techniques and Tom Hanks tag
,'The Polar Express' failed to usurp 'The Incredibles',whose
overall collection after this week's estimates is a whopping
144 million dollars. According to the estimates, the top
10 movies of the week are: 1. The Incredibles, 51 million
dollars 2. The Polar Express, 23.5 million dollars 3. After
the Sunset, 11.5 million dollars 4. Bridget Jones: The Edge
of Reason, 8.9 million dollars 5. Seed of Chucky, 8.7 million
dollars 6. Ray, 8.4 million dollars 7. The Grudge, 7.1 million
dollars 8. Saw, 6.4 million dollars 9. Shall We Dance?,
4 million dollars 10. Alfie, 2.7 million dollars
Bridget
Jones, meet the Joneses (Go
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Sydney:
If you thought that someone like Bridget Jones would
be an anomaly in society, then you are wrong, for figures
and dating surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of
Statistics suggest that there are thousands like her. According
to the Herald Sun, one in 10 Victorian singles surveyed
by the on-line dating service Match.com has exchanged suggestive
e-mails with their bosses. Half of them have worn revealing
outfits to attract a colleague and a third have had two
men fight over them, while four in 10 have caused awkward
silences by saying or doing something inappropriate. Over
a third of the 30-something women consider themselves overweight,
and most of them enjoy at least the occasional drink of
Chardonnay.
It's
pay back time for Rod Stewart (Go
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New
York: Rocker Rod Stewart has been ordered by a court
to return the money that he pocketed when a planned South
American tour was cancelled. According to ratethemusic.com,
Stewart attempted to convince a Los Angeles court that he
had every right to keep the 780,000 dollars paid to him
by a group of Latin American promoters before the deal was
cancelled. However, the jury did not agree with him, and
ordered him to return the amount.
Fizzy
drinks could tear your guts (Go
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Sydney:
Pesticides in cold drinks is not the only danger to
be reckoned with, as doctors have also found that fizzy
drinks can damage your gut. According to ABC online, the
rare danger of gulping down cold fizzy drinks are highlighted
in a case study of a woman who tore her oesophagus by gulping
a large mouthful from a bottle. Dr Hui Jern Loh, of the
surgery department at Fremantle Hospital in Western Australia,
reported that the 57-year-old woman lost consciousness briefly,
was in pain, felt nauseous and had a fever after having
the drink. "We postulate that because it's a cold fizzy
drink and she drank it quite rapidly in one gulp, the coldness
and the quantity of the drink caused spasms in her oesophagus
so the space between her mouth and the oesophagus closed
up," Dr Loh was quoted as saying. "The bubbles popped and
made the pressure much worse," she added. People who suffer
from digestive problems, including reflux oesophagitis,
infectious oesophagitis or Barrett's ulceration, are at
greatest risk of developing this rare condition.
Lost
kingdom of Atlantis found in Cyprus (Go
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London:
A team of American ocean researchers have claimed to
have found the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of
Cyprus. According to The Telegraph, the researchers led
by Robert Sarmast used the latest sonar technology to create
images of the sea bed a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean.
"I am absolutely convinced I have found Atlantis. The sonar
images showed what appeared to be two straight walls each
about a mile long at either end of a flat-topped hill where
the city's temples would have been situated," Sarmast said.
The images also showed evidence of two streams that Sarmast
said had flowed from springs on the summit. These fed into
a trench or canal bed, which seemed to run concentrically
around the hill. Sarmast added that the latest evidence
matches exactly the detailed description of Atlantis given
by Plato. "There are about 60 specific points that match
Plato's account. How can you explain away a bunch of coincidences
like this? ," he said.
Is
Liz Hurley pregnant? (Go
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New
York: Liz Hurley has been at the centre of enough media
speculation regarding her marriage with Arun Nayar, and
now close family sources have revealed that she is also
pregnant. According to the New York Daily News, Hurley's
London rep has denied the rumour, but an insider says Hurley
told her family she is almost two months pregnant. "I am
very fond of children and would like to have one more. I
don't think I will be able to handle more than two, though,"
Hurley was quoted as saying.
Rebecca
Loos turns footie shrink (Go
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London:
Rebecca Loos, whose claim to fame was her alleged affair
with soccer star David Beckham, is all set to make her debut
on the silver screen. According to The Sun, Loos plays a
shrink, in the TV soap 'Dream Team', who helps footballers
cope up with the stress of the game. "This is a dream come
true. I'm very excited. It's the perfect part for me as
I've worked with footballers before," Loos was quoted as
saying. "Problems off-pitch can really affect a player's
game. It's vital they get help. That's what Naomi does,"
she added. Rebecca will start work on the Sky One series
this month and will be seen on screen in February.
Angelina
Jolie's day out with snakes (Go
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London:
'Tomb Raider' star Angelina Jolie reportedly spent three
days living with snakes, to get accustomed to them during
the shooting for her film Alexander. The actress was specially
concerned about her screen son Jessie Kamm, around whose
neck she had to wrap the snakes. "I liked the snakes. The
snakes showed up in a truck in a bunch of different baskets
and I wore them around for a few days," Femalefirst quoted
Jolie as saying. "They would hang out on me. We became somehow
united. It was only difficult when I had to put the snake
on the little boy because suddenly the parent in me came
out and I was thinking, 'What if the light bulb on the set
pops and the snake gets freaked out?' Anything like that
could happen," she added.
Denzel
Washington to play Brutus on Broadway
Washington:
Playing a Shakespearean character is probably every
actor's dream, and Oscar winner Denzel Washington is the
latest celebrity to jump on the Broadway bandwagon after
he has been roped in to play the role of Brutus in an upcoming
Broadway production of 'Julius Caesar,' reports Zap2it.
The 'The Manchurian Candidate,' actor will star in the play
which will be produced by Carole Shorenstein Hays and Freddy
DeMann and directed by Daniel Sullivan. Although the play
is slated to open in April, next year, the rest of the cast
has yet to be announced.
