`The
Grudge' emerges as the week's highest grossing flick
Washington:
Horror flick "The Grudge" emerged as the highest grossing
film this weekend after earning a total of 40 million dollars,
while the "Shark Tale"which has been reigning at the box
office for the past three weeks has been pushed down to
number two. Sarah Michelle Geller's "The Grudge" which is
a remake of the blockbuster Japanese film "The Ring" was
also named the third biggest opener of October, following
in the footsteps of "Scary Movie" and "Shark Tale", reports
E Online.
The top ten movies of this weekend and their estimates according
to Exhibitor Relations were: 1. The Grudge, 40 million dollars
2. Shark Tale, 14.3 million dollars 3. Shall We Dance?,
8.6 million dollars 4. Friday Night Lights, 7 million dollars
5. Team America: World Police, 6.6 million dollars 6. Ladder
49, 5.4 million dollars 7. Surviving Christmas, 4.5 million
dollars 8. Taxi, 4.3 million dollars 9. The Forgotten, 3.4
million dollars 10. I Heart Huckabees, 3 million dollars.
Lisa
Minelli reveals her fear of balloons (Go
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New York Most people are scared of ghosts and boogeymen,
but Oscar winner Lisa Minelli has a horror of different
kind as was recently revealed when she refused to go to
a fans birthday party because the venue was decorated with
balloons. According to the New York Daily News, the actress
cum singer was invited to a birth day party but she refused
to go in while confessing her fear of the sound of balloons
bursting. However the story had a happy ending when the
fan did away with the balloons all together. "I can't come
in if there are balloons, They have to take all the balloons
away. But the birthday girl decided to get rid of all the
balloons,' the report quoted the bar owner as saying.
Kate
Winslet is tired of being a mother (Go
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London:
Being a parent is a full time job and Oscar nominated
actress Kate Winslet seems to be tired already as she recently
revealed that, "being a mother has taken its toll." "Two's
fantastic, one of each and such nice ages. I cant imagine
having more right now," The Sun quoted the actress, who
has two kids, Joe and Mia aged 10 months and four years
respectively, and is married to director Sam Mendes, as
saying.
Charles
says children can be introduced to alcohol very young (Go
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London:
If you have been wondering about what must have spurred
Prince Harry to get drunk and lash out at a photographer,
maybe the fact that his father Prince Charles sees nothing
wrong in introducing alcohol to children could begin to
explain it. According to The Sun, Prince Charles recently
visited an Italian vineyard, and one of the first things
he asked the owners, was if they had introduced their young
children to alcohol. In fact, he even had advised them to
add water to the wine so that it would be mild enough for
the kids to drink. "Have you started your children on wine?
You can always put water in it. The French start their children
very young," the report quoted him as saying to Beppe Accomo
and his wife Loredana, the owners of the vineyard.
New
protein linked to cancer recovery discovered (Go
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Washington:
A new study, by researchers at the University of Texas,
has found that the presence of a protein called Rab25 is
to a large extent responsible for how well women react to
treatment for ovarian and breast cancer. The study, which
will be published in the journal Nature Medicine studied
tumor samples to outcomes in about 100 patients diagnosed
with either breast or ovarian cancer and found that a low
level of Rab25 protein on a patient's cancer sample was
associated with a better clinical outcome in both cancer
types. Patients with early stage (I and II) ovarian cancer
who had low Rab25 tumor _expression had an 80 percent survival
five years after treatment, compared to 50 percent survival
if Rab25 expression was high. In women with advanced breast
cancer, a low level of Rab25 protein expression was associated
with a 60 percent five-year survival, compared to 40 percent
if Rab25 protein expression was high. The researchers are
now saying that adding this protein to other known molecular
markers of progression could contribute to a highly predictive
test of outcome in breast or ovarian cancer. The study also
found that Rab25 is involved in deciding whether those internalized
cell surface receptors will either be degraded or will be
returned to the cell surface. According to the researchers
Rab25 is deciding the fate of those whose case is related
to cell growth. "If you had more growth receptor going back
to the surface instead of being degraded, you would have
increased signaling, and more cell proliferation. But that
working hypothesis has not yet been proven," the report
quoted Gordon Mills, the lead author of the study, as saying.
