Singer Justin Bieber is keen to become a movie star. He says he is interested in trying out action and comedy roles. ‘’I have a few offers after my tour is done. I’m pretty excited, I want to do comedy stuff and some action but I don’t know what exactly. I am a jokestar and [...]
Actor Jamie Foxx is likely to take up the role of supervillain Electro in the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man. According to variety.com, the Oscar winner will star as at least one of the villains in Marc Webb’s planned sequel to the film. The news is still unconfirmed but both Foxx and Webb have given [...]
Actor Ashley Greene feels Twilight has made her career “a little difficult” and says it is especially tougher to get work in “in-depth films”. Greene, who has portrayed the role of Alice Cullen in the vampire series, is grateful for the part, but admits it can be a problem for her sometimes, reports contactmusic.com. “It’s [...]
Alicia Keys has bagged 14 Grammy awards in her career, and she keeps them all in a box as she can’t think of what to do with them. “I just haven’t found the place for them, I guess “I just feel weird about hanging them. Maybe I can hang them on top of somewhere that [...]
Making her third appearance on the campaign trail on Saturday, the pop star performed a mini-concert wearing a blue dress with the president’s poll slogan “Forward”. An estimated 20,000 people turned out Saturday In Milwaukee at Obama’s rally. She also urged people to vote. Perry then launched into the song Firework, according to the Journal [...]
Supermodel Kate Moss says she stumbled upon rocker hubbie Jamie Hince while she was “googling men”. “I was at my friend’s house and we were Googling men. And I went, ‘Ooh, I like the look of him.’ A pal set us up. He turned up, and we spent the next four days together,” Moss says. [...]
Nicole Scherzinger brought technology closer to fashion with her unique Twitter dress, inspired by the popular blogging site. The X-Factor judge turned up at the launch of 4G from EE at the London Battersea Powerstation in a dress that was full of thousands of tiny LED lights that responded to tweets sent in, lighting up [...]
Panaji: He is one of India’s biggest superstars but Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan says it is lonely at the top and he is constantly fighting with the “feeling of emptiness”. “There is something wrong in me. I sense it. I feel it but I don’t know what it is,” Shahrukh said during the ThinkFest conclave, [...]
Veteran journalist Anna Vetticad quit her job and embarked on a quest to watch every film that released in Delhi in 2011. She ended up watching 121 films, did countless interviews and wrote a book on her experiences.
It’s not everyday that you come across an actress who has dabbled with stand-up comedy. Meet Melanie Kannokada, an Indo- American actress, who was seen in Chandra Pemmaraju’s Love, Lies and Seeta earlier this year. So how did her tryst with stand-up comedy begin? “I had never considered doing standup comedy until this summer when [...]
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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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
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 [...]
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