Amanda Seyfried may have started out playing teenage bombshells, but she’s defied the trap of typecasting and translated those beginnings into an interesting and diverse career including the high-profile Les Miserables and the upcoming porn-star biopic Lovelace. Now, she’s in talk to join director Noah Baumbach’s (Frances Ha) next project While We’re Young, alongside Ben [...]
Morgan Freeman has given a million-dollar explanation regarding the gradual closing of his eyelids during an early-morning interview yesterday. “I wasn’t actually sleeping,” the Oscar winner said in a statement obtained by E! News after millions of people viewed his televised nap online. “I’m a beta tester for Google Eyelids. I was merely updating my [...]
Despite earlier indications that the developing show was aiming for Broadway, the musical version of Little Miss Sunshine will make its New York debut as the opener of the 35th anniversary season of top-tier Off Broadway company Second Stage Theatre. Written and directed by James Lapine with music and lyrics by William Finn, the show [...]
Who says that three’s company? Johnny Depp and Amber Heard went out for a romantic dinner at Los Angeles eatery Ago. The notoriously private couple were joined by none other than Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Heard looked stunning in a summery white and beige outfit and paired the look with a bold red lip.
Filmmaker JJ Abrams reportedly wants actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers to star in his upcoming film Star Wars Episode 7. The actor is in line to reunite with the Mission: Impossible 3 director in the highly-anticipated sequel, reported Digital Spy.
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has pulled out of directing drama pilot Tyrant as he is exhausted after filming his 3D magnum opus Life of Pi. The Taiwanese-American helmer committed to Howard Gordon’s high profile drama soon after winning a second best director Oscar for his India-set drama in February.
Michael Douglas says it is tough filming love scenes for any movie because everybody judges them. He has shot a gay love scene with actor Matt Damon in his forthcoming film Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra. The 68-year-old believes that the cast, crew and eventually moviegoers are more critical of love scenes because everyone can [...]
With the Cannes Film Festival nearing the finishing stretch, the independent film business already is turning its attention to the fall festival circuit. One title that’s likely to make an appearance is Atom Egoyan’s much-anticipated Devil’s Knot, loosely based on Mara Leveritt’s 2002 nonfiction book about the infamous West Memphis Three case. From Worldview Entertainment, [...]
Details have been emerging of Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut A man of Tai Chi, a Chinese co-produced kung fu movie. Set in modern-day China and filmed in Beijing and Hong Kong, it has dialogue in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. he told reporters he started to think about directing about five years ago.
Security is so tight at the festival this year that the star of the new Coen brothers movie Oscar Isaacs was nearly locked out of his own premiere. “I went out to take a piss and they wouldn’t let me back in, I missed the first half hour of the film!” the US actor who [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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