`Blue-eyed'
Barbie dethroned by 'cosmopolitan' Bratz dolls
London:
Every little girl's fantasy Barbie has been replaced
as the best-selling doll in Britain by the Bratz dolls,
renowned for their passion for fashion. "The key to the
success of Bratz is we're dealing with the post- Spice Girls
generation," The Sun quoted Nick Austin, boss of Vivid Imaginations,
which markets the Bratz dolls, as saying. "Little girls
aren't sugar and spice anymore. Barbie is a white blue-eyed
girl and Bratz are more cosmopolitan," he added. The range
of ten-and-a half-inch-high stylish plastic dolls are the
first to end Barbie's 44 years of monopoly in the toy market.
Gwyneth
Paltrow threatens the paparazzi over Apple's safety (Go
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Washington:
Film star Gwyneth Paltrow has reportedly threatened
the paparazzi with legal action if they continue to follow
her on London's roads. The Oscar-winner, who is the wife
of British singer Chris Martin, has complained that the
photographers' actions are endangering the safety of their
daughter, Apple. "In London, they chase you in cars, and
I will start pressing charges because they are endangering
me by the way they drive. It's really scary. It's just unacceptable,
especially when there's a life of a small baby in your hands,"
USA today quoted Paltrow as saying.
Paris
Hilton makes waves in literary world (Go
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New
York: Hotel Heiress Paris Hilton seems to have made
a mark in the literary arena with her new book being lapped
up from store shelves. According to New York Daily News,
the 179-page book titled "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic
Peek Behind the Pose" details 23 rules for How to Be an
Heiress. It has been published by Simon & Schuster which
already has 115,000 copies of it in print. "I take my dog,
Tinkerbell seriously. I take my work seriously. But I don't
take myself all that seriously. Never be too easy. If you're
too easy, a guy knows he has you," Paris is quoted in the
book as saying. "Tt doesn't hurt to act rich as well as
hot. I've found it to be a fairly unbeatable combination.
Who's a guy going to go for: a girl who's gorgeous, or a
girl who's gorgeous and rich?," she adds.
After
her skirt, Miss Universe now loses her balance (Go
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Sydney:
Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins seems to be having a
spate of embarrassing moments, recently her skirt slipped
during a fashion show in Sydney and now the lovely lass
tripped over stairs during a gondola ride. According to
news.com Hawkins dressed in a knee-length black dress, lost
her balance while descending from the stairs and fell, however
she managed to hold her dress in place avoiding any further
embarrassing situations. "Oh my God, what's my luck," the
Newcastle beauty was quoted as saying as she tried do laugh
off the incident. "Can I just say it was raining in Melbourne
today," she added.
Zeta
Jones' stalker declared sane (Go
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London:
Welsh Beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones traumatised for being
endlessly stalked, can now breath a sigh of relief as the
judge hearing the criminal case against her alleged stalker
has ruled her fit for trial. According to Eonline, the Los
Angeles Superior Court Judge John Shepard Wiley Jr. stated
that following the verdict of a court- appointed psychiatrist
who had established Dawnette Knight's sanity, it has been
decided that she was liable to be hauled up for the charges
levelled against her. Charges on Knight had earlier been
dropped upon assertions by her counsel Richard Herman that
she was insane and therefore unable to comprehend the charges
levelled against her. However, with her sanity now having
been proved, she is liable to be prosecuted on 24 charges
of stalking and making criminal threats against Zones, that
could send her for several years behind the bars.
Nicole
Kidman is reluctant to share her trade secrets (Go
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London:
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman has revealed that she is
not comfortable sharing her acting method secrets with anyone
and wants to keep them to herself from now on. "I think
if you reveal anything too much about anything to do with
the performance you're stripping it away, so I don't like
to reveal anything that I use, even psychologically," Nicole
was quoted as saying at a press conference in Venice. "I'm
trying to do less of that now. Other films that I'm made
I've spoken freely about all sorts of things and I feel
like it does somehow demystify the process," she added.
The 'Cold Mountain' actress is famous for getting into the
skin of her screen characters. She has won an Oscar for
her performance in 'The Hours' and has been lauded for her
role in 'Moulin Rouge'.
World's
biggest nude roller coaster ride (Go
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London:
Thirty people participated in the world's biggest nude
roller-coaster ride on Nemesis at Alton Towers, London,
which will soon be aired on ITV1's '50 Years, 50 Records'.
The nude participants clung on for two corkscrews, a 104ft
dive and two 50mph flips. "It was the maddest thing I've
done," The Sun quoted the 21-year- old Krystle as saying.
"I was nervous, but it was fun," added the 22-year-old Leah.
