Washington:
Hotel heiress and hi-flying socialite Paris Hilton is
fleeing from the sets of her new project 'National Lampoon's
Pledge This!' being filmed in Florida, to avoid getting
caught in the hurricane currently lashing the area. "We
are getting ready to evacuate right now," Zap2it quoted
Paris as saying. "It's been hard to shoot with so many starts
and stops, but it's a really funny movie, and I can't wait
to get it done so everyone can see it," she added.
Naomi
Campbell is Usher's new lady love (Go
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New
York: For Usher, Alicia Keyes is passe, for he seems
to have found love in the arms of Naomi Campbell, if rumpoursare
to be believed. The duo were caught canoodling in Miami,
which spilled the beans on their secret romance. "Usher
asked Naomi to perform with him at the VMA's. She's performing
with him this week in Miami . . . she is absolutely besotted.
He is so nice and lovely to her. She is head over heels
in love with him," New York Post quoted an insider as saying.
Nicole
Kidman may have finally found her love (Go
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London:
Hollywood star Nicole Kidman is reportedly dating the
multi-millionaire New Zealand businessman Eric Watson, who
owns the Warriors rugby league club in Auckland. The 'Cold
Mountain' actress met Eric in Los Angeles while filming
her upcoming film 'Bewitched', after which the pair supposedly
went on a series of secret dates and became close to each
other. Nicole and Watson, however, made their first public
appearance at a boxing match between Oscar De La Hoya and
Bernard Hopkins at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and laughed
and joked openly. "It's early days and they are both taking
things very easily. But let's just say they are great pals.
They've been out on a few dates and formed a very close
bond," The Sun quoted a close friend of Watson as saying.
"They get on incredibly well. Let's hope Nicole has at last
found something meaningful," added Watson's pal. Eric, who
is one of the richest men of New Zealand, was in the limelight
in November 2002 when he was involved in an ugly fight in
London restaurant Zuma with movie actor Russell Crowe.
Crowe,
Clooney, Hanks, Jackman want to crack The Da Vinci Code
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London:
Dan's Brown's bestseller book will soon be seen on screen
and it seems that director Ron Howard have a tough choice
to make when choosing the protagonist. According to The
Sun, Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Tom Hanks And Hugh Jackman
have all been shortlisted for the lead role of Robert Langdon
but only one of them will be chosen.
Da
Vinci Code's Dan Brown being sued for plagiarism (Go
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London:
Dan Brown, the author of the book 'The Da Vinci Code,'
which is being touted as one of the biggest bestsellers
ever, after it has sold more than 12 million copies since
its release, is being sued by four authors on the charges
that he plagiarized their works. According to the authors,
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, who wrote
the 'The Holy Blood' and 'The Holy Grail' and Lewis Perdue,
the author of 'The Da Vinci Legacy,' say that Brown borrowed
heavily from their works and instead of doing his own research
he just copied the research that had already been done by
them. In his book, Brown writes about the 'Priory of Sion'
and says that Jesus did not die on the cross, instead he
married Mary Magdalene and started a family in France, where
descendants of their child survive to this day. The authors
of the 'The Holy Blood and 'The Holy Grail' claim that they
were the ones who had initially discovered the 'Priory of
Sion' and it's members and that Jesus did not die was their
concept, reports the Times of London. Similar to Brown's
book, both the books, which had become hits when they were
released in the 1980's and had also raised controversy back
then, begin with a mystery that leads sleuths to more sinister
intrigues. 'The Da Vinci Code,' begins with the murder of
Jacques Sauniere, a curator at the Louvre. In 'The Holy
Blood,' it is death of a real-life priest in the south of
France, also called Sauniere.
