Sandra Bullock desperate to have a baby
(Go
To Top)
London:
Sandra Bullock is dying to have a baby! The 'Miss Congeniality'
star, who is reportedly engaged to motor mechanic Jesse
James, believes that 40 is not too late an age to become
a mother. "I don't do anything by anyone else's schedule.
It's so harmful to say women have to have children by a
certain time," Female First quoted her as saying. Ironically,
Sandra had earlier admitted to being too immature to have
kids before this, "I think most children are harmed because
they are born to other children. I am the most immature
person I know," she added.
Beckhams
buy a 3.5 million pound Spanish mansion (Go
To Top)
London:
Victoria and David Beckham have finally found a house
in Spain after spending almost a year in hotels and rented
apartments. According to The Sun, the couple have reportedly
shelled out 3.5 million pounds for a lavish mansion located
in one of Madrid's most happening suburbs and consists of
two acres of woodland along with a swimming pool. Posh has
reportedly selected the place for bringing up her third
baby due in March. The couple are expected to shift into
their new home soon.
Keira
Knightly snares 2004 Annual Hollywood Film Festival awards
(Go
To Top)
Washington:
This year's Annual Hollywood Film Festival will see
British beauty Keira Knightly and the lovable ogre Shrek,
take away the top honors as they are all set to receive
the breakthrough awards for performing and animation. According
to Zap2it, while Knightly will receive an award for her
performance as Guinereve in 'King Arthur,' actor Jamie Foxx
will receive the award for the best male in a breakthrough
performance for his portrayal of the legendary Jazz singer
Ray Charles in the film 'Ray.' The coveted film festival
will take place in October and run from Oct. 12 - 18. It
will include press conferences, film screenings and the
awards, which will be given on the last day.
Carmen
Electra steals 'best bum' title from Kylie Minogue (Go
To Top)
London:
Actress Carmen Electra has snatched the 'best bum' title
from pop star Kylie Minogue in a poll carried out by FHM
magazine. According to Ananova, the former Baywatch bombshell
beat the 'Slow' star by just 1 per cent of votes and the
third position went to the dusky pop beauty, Beyonce Knowles.
Pop diva Britney Spears was also voted as the No.1 fantasy
babe in the poll. The survey also saw Slovakian bra model
Adriana Karembou, voted as the sexiest soccer wife. She
is married to French footballer Christian, who plays for
Olympiakos in Greece. Louise Redknapp, wife of Tottenham
skipper Jamie was runner-up followed by Czech beauty Eva
Kiliano whose hubby is Liverpool's Milan Baros. Victoria
Beckham, however, got no place in the list of sexy wives
of football players.
Jemima
Khan and Hugh Grant steam up the Mediterranean sea (Go
To Top)
London:
Hollywood star Hugh Grant and Jemima Goldsmith Khan,
ex-wife of former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan, could
not keep their hands off each other while soaking up the
sun on a yacht in the Mediterranean in Italy. Jemima, clad
in a sexy white bikini, reportedly enjoyed passionate kisses
with the 'Love Actually' star. "They looked very much in
love," The Sun quoted an onlooker as saying. Hugh and Jemima
had earlier tried to hide their blossoming romance but have
now become more open about their relationship. Hugh was
also recently snapped leaving Jemima's West London home
wearing a mask.
Harrison
Ford is coming back as Indiana Jones (Go
To Top)
Sydney:
Movie buffs may soon hear from the whip- lashing, villain
chasing screen hero, Indiana Jones once again as insiders
have revealed that ace director Steven Spielberg has decided
to take up the project to bring him back to life. According
to the Daily Telegraph, Spielberg has been in talks to make
a fourth installment of the 'Indiana Jones' series and veteran
actor Harrison Ford will reprise his role as the title character.
The film will reportedly be a joint project for Spielberg,
Ford and 'Star wars' director George Lucas, who had taken
up the project earlier, and it will be better than any of
the previous three films. "I was talking to Steven Spielberg
the other day and we discussed a fourth one. We're in with
the chance of making something absolutely extraordinary,
it is the intention of these three great filmmakers (Lucas,
Spielberg and Ford) to make another one," the report quoted
actor John Rhys-Davies, who played the role of Sallah in
"Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," as saying.
'The
Faces' threesome back on stage together (Go
To Top)
London:
It was a rare treat for music lovers when three members
of 'The Faces', Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan and Rod Stewart
performed together once again at Stewart's Hollywood Bowl
concert. Wood, who left the band to join the Rolling Stones
in 1975, accompanied Stewart on five songs, including the
finale of Ooh La La as McLagan played organ. It was the
first time that Stewart and Wood came together after an
MTV show in 1993.
Kirsten
Dunst fractures Paul Bettany's rib at 'Wimbledon' (Go
To Top)
Washington:
Hollywood star Paul Bettany fractured his rib while
shooting a particular sequence for the romantic sports comedy
"Wimbledon", with his co-star Kirsten Dunst. After repeating
a particular dive a number of times, the actor reportedly
requested for a mat because he was beginning to get sore.
"They put a mat down for me and I sort of half-busted up
my rib on the floor. Usually you put your hand down but
I saw a big fluffy mattress and I didn't put my hands down
and I fractured a rib. Slightly stupid of me," he was quoted
by zap2it as saying. The movie revolves around Bettany and
Kirsten Dunst, who plays his lady love and their struggle
for a Wimbledon title.
Quentin
Tarantino wants to 'Kill Bill' for a third time (Go
To Top)
London:
'Kill Bill' director Quentin Tarantino has plans to
bring out a third 'Kill Bill' movie which will be a version
of the last two films merged together. "It's not just like
slapping the two together. There are slight changes, and
it has an intermission, like a 60s movie," the director
was quoted by Ananova as saying. The director also said
that some never seen before footage would feature too in
the new movie.
Buyers
get 'passionate' about Christ (Go
To Top)
Washington:
Buyers turned up in millions to grab their copies of
the DVD and VHS' of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"
as they went on sale in markets on Tuesday. According to
E-Online, Fox Home Entertainment has claimed that it sold
4.1 million copies in its first day on store shelves, exceeding
its projections by 20 percent. Fox said that the average
consumer was buying multiple copies of the video, even though
it contained no bonus material. "It almost appears there's
a strong segment of the market that wants to own this in
the same way that they want to own the Bible," the report
quoted Scott Hettrick, editor-in-chief of trade magazine
DVD Exclusive, as saying. He said that the DVD could sell
upwards of 18 million copies and generate approximately
400 million dollar revenue, putting it on par with Spider-Man
2 and the "Lord of the Rings" series.
Atomic
tests may be behind Blair's falling health (Go
To Top)
London:
British Premier Tony Blair's falling health may be due
to his exposure to radiation following a nuclear test carried
out by the British government near Australia in the post
war years. According to The Daily Mail, Blair then a three-year
old toddler was living with his family in Adelaide when
the British detonated an atomic device in the Maralinga
desert way back on October 11, 1956. As per the report,
a windstorm carried the radioactive dust to Adelaide, which
enveloped the city for six days from October 11- 16, 1956.
Medical officials believe that Blair's mother Hazel, who
died due to thyroid cancer, may have probably been afflicted
with cancer due to the radiation. It may be the case with
Blair as well. "Adelaide in South Australia was plastered
with radioactive fallout from 11 to 16 October, 1956. As
a youngster in Adelaide drinking local milk, Tony Blair
is very likely to be at risk of bone cancer himself," The
Bulletin magazine quoted British Medical researcher and
toxicologist Dick van Steenis as saying. However, Downing
Street has rebutted the theories as absurd. "It sounds like
the silly season's been going on a little bit longer than
we thought. The Prime Minister's perfectly fine," a spokeswoman
for Blair was quoted as saying. However, Van Steenis believes
that though Blair has acknowledged radiation as the cause
of his mother's death, he would himself never own up to
it as his government might be sued by former personnel involved
in the nuclear tests. "He has never denied that radioactive
fallout in Australia was ultimately the cause of his mother's
death. But he won't acknowledge it because to do so would
strengthen the legal case against his government for the
compensation entitlements of British and Australian servicemen
involved in the British atomic testing programme," he further
added.
Venice
film festival to be a star studded event (Go
To Top)
London:
Organisers of the 61st annual Venice Film Festival want
to make it an event that fans will not forget for a long
time, and they are promising that everyday will be as glamorous
as it gets. The list of celebrities slated to walk down
the red carpet for the oldest film festival in history,
includes Tom Hanks, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Nicole Kidman,
Scarlett Johansson, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Reese Witherspoon,
Denzel Washington and Steven Spielberg. The festival will
reportedly also give some indication as to who will take
home the Oscars this year. "Every day will have at least
a couple of 'glamour' moments, I want this to be an audience's
festival, with cheering as though it were a stadium," Ananova
quoted festival director, Marco Muller, as saying.
Britney's
DNA bids reach 3 million dollars (Go
To Top)
Washington:
Pop star Britney Spears' used chewing gum, currently
for sale on eBay, is attracting lots of bids, with prices
stretching at one point to almost 3 million dollars. In
fact, nearly two dozen listings for the 'Toxic' singer's
used chewing gum have popped up since the original auction
appeared last month. "This is an all-time low. Anything
is possible, I've come to realize, and I do think it's pathetic,"
Eonline quoted Britney's spokewoman, Leslie Sloane Zelnick,
as saying. EBay had taken out the original posting for violating
its human body parts and remains policy, which prohibits
the sale of human body parts, including bodily fluids. The
original auction had bragged, "For you budding scientists
out there, this means Britney's DNA is all over this piece."
Westlife
tops the first ever download chart (Go
To Top)
London:
Westlife has topped the first-ever, official download
chart. The band's number ' Flying Without Wings' came at
the number one spot in the chart based on music legally
downloaded from online sites including iTunes and Napster.
Westlife had reportedly re-issued the song especially for
the occasion. The singles that made it to the top 20 in
the first download chart aired on Scott Mills show on BBC
radio 1 are: 1. Flying Without Wings - Westlife 2. Blazin'
Day - Blazin' Squad 3. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 4. Lola's
Theme - Shapeshifters 5. American Idiot - Green Day 6. This
Love - Maroon 5 ( 7. Dry Your Eyes - The Streets 8. Bedshaped
- Keane 9. Laura - Scissor Sisters 10.Apocalypse Please
- Muse 11.Sick And Tired - Anastacia 12.Dumb - 411 13.Everybody's
Changing - Keane 14.Left Outside Alone - Anastacia 15.My
Happy Ending - Avril Lavigne 16.Guns Don't Kill People Rappers
Do - Goldie Lookin' Chain 17.Natasha Bedingfield 18.Harder
To Breathe - Maroon 5 19.Hey Ya - Outkast 20.Sunshine -
Twista
Robbie
thinks Diaz looks like puppet 'Zippy' (Go
To Top)
London:
Singer Robbie Williams has reportedly lashed out at
Christina Aguilera for her weird dress sense and Cameron
Diaz for being too talkative, in his autobiography 'Feel'.
"She looks like a cross between someone in a gay club at
six in the morning and someone who's trying to save trees,"
Femalefirst quotes an excerpt from the singer's book, referring
to Aguilera. While he compares Hollywood beauty Cameron
Diaz to the wide- mouthed puppet Zippy, from '70s children's
TV programme 'Rainbow'. Although Robbie admits that he was
infatuated by her but her big mouth put him off. "She looks
a bit like Zippy. Crush is over. I can get on with the rest
of my life," the singer writes in his memoirs.
Lindsay
Lohan has a fetish for shoes (Go
To Top)
Washington:
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has confessed that she
has a fetish for shoes and just can't resist buying them,
despite the fact that she already owns 50 pairs. The "Mean
Girls" actress rates a pair of moccasins as her favourite
shoes which she literally lives in. "I have too many shoes!
Maybe 50 pairs. I have some cool flats and a pair of moccasins,
which are so comfy that I never want to take them off,"
Now magazine quoted her as saying.
Cameron
Diaz says she wants to produce (Go
To Top)
London:
Hollywood beauty Cameron Diaz, who has been displaying
her acting skills in front of the cameras since years, now
wants to take up the mantle of a producer. The 'There's
Something About Mary,' actress has reportedly been reading
a number of scripts and is interested in producing a sitcom.
"She's talking to telly bosses about making a sitcom and
is reading scripts for it," the Sun quoted a friend of the
actress as saying.
Denzel
Washington is protected by a 'guardian angel' (Go
To Top)
London:
Movie actor Denzel Washington has claimed that he had
a close encounter with a celestial being as a child and
is pretty convinced that he has been protected ever since.
"When I was a young boy I saw an angel. It looked like my
sister but then I saw wings. I walked over to the door and
opened it so some light came in the room. Then it faded
away," femalefirst quoted Denzel as saying. "I later asked
my mother about it and she said, 'It's probably your guardian
angel.' Ever since I've felt protected," he added.
Cruise
dines with Cruz in Madrid (Go
To Top)
London:
Tom Cruise, who visited Madrid recently for the Spanish
premiere of his new film 'Collateral', ended up spending
time with his ex-flame Penelope Cruz. According to Hello
magazine, Penelope was also in Madrid for the filming of
an advertisement and, Cruise and she reportedly dined together
at a posh restaurant. However, despite the continuing 'friendship'
between Penelope and Cruise, whether the spark is back in
their relationship, is yet unknown. Cruise has publicly
said that he is on the lookout for a new babe and Penelope,
recently snapped acting lovey-dovey with 'Sahara' co-actor
Matthew McConaughey, has admitted that there is more than
just friendship to their relationship.
ET
has spoken (Go
To Top)
Washington:
Scientists from SETI, the worldwide project for Search
for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence claim to have detected
what they believe to be the first radio signal from an alien
civilisation. The report to be published in the science
journal New Scientist states that the faint pulse, detected
by the world's biggest single-dish telescope, the Arecibo
radio telescope, in Puerto Rico originated from a planet
located somewhere between the two constellations Pisces
and Aries. Scientists have ruled out the possibility of
the signal as interference from Earth, satellites or other
cosmic sounds. "It boggles my mind. We' re looking for something
that screams 'Artificial' but this just doesn't do that.
The signal is moving rapidly in frequency. You'd expect
that from a transmitter on a rapidly-rotating planet," the
journal quoted SETI scientist Eric Korpela as saying. Interestingly,
the signal was first detected by two home computer users
in Germany and the United States, following which SETI redirected
Arecibo towards the source.
