In
India booze wins votes, in America, it's sex (Go
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New
York: If you thought that the booze bottles that are
distributed amongst voters in India in a bid to win their
votes was strange, take a look at American campaigners,
who are promising to sleep with voters if they vote for
the Democrat candidate, John Kerry. According to the New
York Daily News, the 'liberal' group of campaigners who
very aptly call their organisation 'F- the Vote' are however
not the only ones who have come up with an innovative idea
to attract voters. Another website called 'Votergasm.com'
hopes to get the non-voting population to vote this year,
by promising them free election night sex, reports the New
York Daily News.
Woody
Allen joins the Bush-bashing brigade (Go
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New
York: Film director Woody Allen, it seems, has joined
the George Bush-bashing brigade. According to The New York
Post, Woody, who recently went to Spain for receiving a
lifetime achievement award at the San Sebastian Film Festival,
took a jibe at Bush and said to the audience, "If you observe
(Bush), it's quite amusing." "If you listen to him as he
speaks, if you follow him closely, it would provide you
a great many laughs. But it's comic moments against a very,
very tragic background," he added.
Bush
turns to sister Nirmala to woo Catholic vote (Go
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New
York: President Bush seems to be on an image building
exercise to refurbish his sagging popularity for the upcoming
elections in November by meeting Sister Nirmala of the Missionaries
of Charity at the order's convent in the South Bronx, reports
The New York Daily News. "This smacks of politics. Despite
his photo ops, the President's record has been anything
but compassionate," a Democratic representative was quoted
as saying. Speculators also suggest he may be courting Catholic
voters turned off by John Kerry's pro- choice stand. White
House spokesman Trent Duffy however insisted that the President
simply wanted to "discuss the great work of the Missionaries
of Charity and how they can partner to solve problems like
the AIDS crisis and worldwide hunger and poverty."
More
skeletons from Bush's 'wine and women' closet (Go
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New
York: It seems America's first citizen, President George
Bush was hardly a moral citizen as a youngster, instead,
he was an aimless, inconsiderate and womanising drunkard
who was too lazy to work, often got picked up by the police,
and used his senator grandfather's clout to get away with
everything, reveals an article in the Rolling Stone magazine.
According to the New York Daily News, the author of the
article interviewed Bush's colleagues at the time when he
was campaigning for the Alabama Senate candidate Winton
Blount, and found that Bush would show up for work only
for a few hours, and all he ever did was hang out with his
drinking buddies and date local women. His former co-workers
also divulged that Bush's wild partying ways would often
get him into trouble with the police, but got out away with
everything because his grandfather, Prescott Bush was a
senator at the time. Bush also shirked his National Guard
drills as often as he could. "George had one story he told
a lot ... about how he was always getting picked up by the
police in New Haven during his time at Yale, and how they
would always let him go when they found out his grandfather
was (former Sen.) Prescott Bush. ... I thought it was stunning.
He knew he was bulletproof because of his family," the report
quotes Bush's former colleague Murphy Archibald as saying.
The
`Gladiator' turns director (Go
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Sydney:
After having bagged top accolades for his histrionic
skills, Oscar winning actor Russell Crowe now wants to shift
his focus to direction, for he is all set to make his directorial
debut next year in a film based on a novel by John Hepworth.
According to News.com, the movie titled 'The Long Green
Shore' is set during World War II and centres on an Australian
battalion's mission in Papua New Guinea. It is to be produced
by award winning American producer Mark Johnson. "We are
not quite sure when we are going to start that. I hope we
are going to start that next year but it is a film that
he (Crowe) wants to direct and star in the film called The
Long Green Shore," Mark Johnson was quoted as saying.
Britney
and Federline celebrate their honeymoon in Louisiana (Go
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London:
Pop star Britney Spears and her brand new husband Kevin
Federline have reportedly flown to the 'Toxic' star's home
town of Kentwood, Louisiana, for their honeymoon. The couple
who said 'I Do' to each other last week, spent the first
48 hours after their wedding in the privacy of Los Angeles'
Bel Air Hotel, before taking a private jet back home. Meanwhile,
designer Monique L'Huillier, who created Britney's 15,000
pounds wedding gown, has revealed that the colour of the
'Everytime' singer's gown was a light coffee colour, and
that her bridesmaids wore burgundy-coloured gowns. "Britney
wore a creamy latte colour. She wanted the gown simple and
elegant," The Sun quoted Monique as saying.
Brits
don't know where their navels are (Go
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London:
A recent survey conducted by Encyclopaedia Britannica
has revealed that most Britons have very little knowledge
of their bodies. According to The Daily Mail, the survey
found that one in five out of the 500, 18-24 year olds questioned,
did not know where their navel is and almost two out of
five people were unaware about what their kidneys do. One
in seven was ignorant about where their rib cage is and
over a third were not familiar that the femur bone is in
their leg. "It's rather shocking to discover that although
many of us take such an interest in our bodies and our health,
we actually know very little about the human make-up," Christine
Hodgson, direct marketing manager of Encyclopaedia Britannica,
was quoted as saying.
J
Lo no more the 'ballsy' and 'gutsy' Bronx babe (Go
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Washington:
Latino diva Jennifer Lopez has revealed that after getting
married to singer Mark Antony, she has become a softer person
and has shed her tough girl attitude. The 'Play' singer
said that although earlier she just didn't care about what
people thought about her and was usually up for anything,
her third marriage has made her an entirely different person.
"I was always so Bronxy in a way - gutsy and ballsy and
'I don't care what anybody thinks...,'" Rate the music quoted
her as saying.
A
bread to boost men's sperm count (Go
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London:
Now all men have to do to ensure that they can have
babies, is eat a new bread that has been developed by scientists
at the Warwick University, which includes a mineral called
selenium, which boosts men's sperm count. According to the
Sun, the scientists have developed a fertiliser that increases
the selenium levels in the wheat which is used to make bread.
They claim that the sperm enhancing bread could be available
in general stores in about four years. The scientists also
found that at the moment the daily intake of selenium in
men is almost half of what it should be.
Rare
1623 edition of Shakespeare's plays to go on auction (Go
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London:
A rare collection 36 Shakespeare plays published in
1623, is being put up on auction by a British woman. The
collection of the Bard's plays ,the 1623 'First Folio of
Comedies, Histories & Tragedies' ,owned by Anne Humphries
of Stockport, Greater Manchester ,is one of only six owned
privately. According to The Sun, Anne reportedly got the
book from one of her cousins who had no other family and
had not made a will, and now wishes to auction it at Bloomsbury
Auctions next month. "Your heart wants to keep it, but your
head tells you it would be nice for a wider audience to
have the benefit," Anne, was quoted as saying. "Whenever
someone phones up and says they've got a 1623 Shakespeare,
you automatically think it's a copy.But this time, someone
has turned up the real thing," a Bloomsbury, spokesman said.
'King
Kong' is no jet-setter (Go
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London:
Hollywood director Peter Jackson, who is filming his
version of King Kong, has reportedly hired a plane spotter,
so that the shooting of his movie is not affected by commercial
jets flying over the location in New Zealand. The director
decided to employ an aircraft anorak, to warn the unit of
incoming Boeing 747s and other jets, which would otherwise
be inconsistent with the time frame of the King Kong movie,
that is based on the early 20th century, when jets did not
exist. Jackson's movie, staring Jamie Bell, Jack Black and
Adrien Brody is expected to be ready for release early next
year.
Its
splitsville for Salma Hayak and Josh Lucas (Go
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London:
It's all over between Hollywood beauty Salma Hayek and
her boyfriend Josh Lucas. According to the New York Daily
News, the actress, started dating Josh after they met at
a party in August 2003, have officially broken off now.
"We're not still together," Lucas confirmed to 'People'
during the promotional campaign for his new movie, "Around
the Bend." While Hayek's representatives stated that they
had broken off three months ago.
