Eminem's
'Just Lose It' raises Jackson's ire
New
York: Michael Jackson is severely offended by Eminem's
latest video 'Just Lose It' that portrays him as a child
molester and he has raised a public hue and cry about it.
It features Eminem dressed like Jackson, sitting on a bed
with young boys jumping in the background. The lyric says:
"Come here, little kiddie, on my lap." "I am very angry
at Eminem's depiction of me in his video ['Just Lose It'].
I feel that it is outrageous and disrespectful. It is one
thing to spoof, but it is another to be demeaning and insensitive.
I've admired Eminem as an artist and was shocked by. The
video was inappropriate and disrespectful to me, my children,
my family and the community at large," New York Daily News
quoted Jackson as saying.
Tom
Cruise,Oprah Winfrey to co-host Nobel Peace Prize concert
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New
York: Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey would host this year's
Nobel Peace Prize concert at Oslo, Norway, in December.
"They really wanted to do it, right from the start.They
clearly know what the Nobel concert is, and what the Nobel
Peace Prize is about," concert organizer Odd Arvid Stroemstad,
was quoted by Zap2it as saying. The show will feature a
variety of artists, including jazz singer Diana Krall, opera
star Andrea Bocelli, Cyndi Lauper, Patti Labelle, soul singer
Joss Stone and several Norwegian artists.
Robert
De Niro may return to theatre (Go
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New York: Veteran Hollywood actor Robert De Niro has
reportedly revealed that he may return to the New York stage,
where he began as a theatre actor. According to the New
York Post, the Oscar winning actor who launched the Tribeca
Theater Festival in the city, revealed that the festival
would infuse new life into American theatre. "We're very
excited about it - it's a great situation for theater in
New York and America. In fact, it's going to bring me back
to the theater even more," De Niro was quoted as saying.
Laughter
is the best way to communicate emotions in therapy (Go
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Washington:
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
have reported the first physiologic evidence of the role
of laughter during psychotherapy in the latest issue of
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. The researchers
found that patients use laughter to communicate emotional
intensity to psychotherapists, much like an exclamation
point at the end of a sentence. In addition, patients' and
therapists' laughing together magnifies that intensity and
may contribute to feelings of rapport between them. "Current
research on laughter in general shows it is more about communicating
emotion than about humour," said Carl Marci, the director
of Social Neuroscience in the MGH Department of Psychiatry,
and lead author of the study. "Many therapists have been
caught up in the old notion that laughter only signifies
humor, even ridicule, and have questioned whether using
laughter in therapy is appropriate. We wanted to take an
objective look at the occurrence of laughter during therapy
and measure its physiologic effect," he added.
The
authors of the study videotaped therapeutic sessions and
took physiologic measurements of both members of ten unique
patient- therapist pairs. The patients were being treated
for common outpatient mood and anxiety disorders in previously
established patient-therapist relationships. In the ten
recorded sessions, the observers identified 145 episodes
of laughter, some involving both patient and therapist.
On average, patients laughed more than twice as often as
therapists did and were most likely to be laughing in response
to their own comments. Therapists also were more likely
to laugh in response to what patients had said. The skin
conductance measurements showed that laughter produced physiologic
arousal in both patients and therapists. "We were surprised
to find how common laughter was in therapy. The clinical
implications of the findings support the need for therapists
to pay closer attention to when patients laugh during psychotherapy.
Therapists should explore the meaning of what is said immediately
preceding laughter," explained Marci.
Arnie
wary about groping women (Go
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New
York: It seems that Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally
resolved to keep his hands to himself as the California
Governor revealed that he has learned his "lesson" about
groping women. According to the New York Post, while speaking
to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
he admitted no wrongdoing and said that now even a single
comment on a women can land one into a legal soup. "The
world has changed so much that any kind of a comment you
make to a woman now about her clothes or about this or that
could be misinterpreted and could make someone uncomfortable
and open the door to a lawsuit," he was quoted by the paper
as saying.
Tatum
O'neal's book reveals Hollywood's most sordid secrets (Go
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New
York: Oscar winning actress Tatum O'Neal's "A Paper
Life" is a book which Hollywood would dread as the book
not only spills sordid secrets of the stars but also their
names have been spelled explicitly. According to the New
York Daily News, O'neal reveals in her book that Melanie
Griffith, dragged her to an opium orgy when she was only
12 and pop star Michael Jackson tried to seduce her when
she was 17. "I was just twelve and not at all ready for
a real-life encounter.Michael, who was sweating profusely,
seemed as intimidated as I was. He jumped up nervously and
said, 'Uh ... gotta go.'" She writes in her book. The most
ugly revelation of her book is about her abusive father
actor Ryan O'Neal. O'Neal reveals that when she won an Academy
Award for "Paper Moon," at the age of 10 , her jealous dad,who
also starred in the movie,slugged her. She has also written
that she was molested by her dad's drug dealer, and her
father accused his daughter of leading the dealer on instead,
and kept him on the payroll.Till date Tatum O'Neal remains
estranged from her 63-year-old father. "The role I longed
to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter,"
she writes in the book. The book goes on stands today and
Tatum is scheduled to kick start its promotional campaign
with an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Angry
teenage girl destroys ATM machine (Go
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London:
An angry schoolgirl, merely 14 years of age, destroyed
a cash machine with her bare hands in Ukraine. The police
was called to investigate reports of a 'burglar' vandalising
the ATM machine in Yalta, but after reaching the site they
found to their surprise that the 'burglar' was a fragile
teenager. The officers said that that the girl punched the
machine in anger after it swallowed her bank card. "I just
got angry and couldn't control myself after the machine
took my card. I train regularly at a local boxing club to
keep fit - I guess I must have learned a few things," Ananova
quoted the teenage girl as saying. Meanwhile, bosses at
Privatbank who own the ATM machine are demanding 4,500 pounds
in damages from the girl for the repair the broken machine.
