Hollywood cash registers fail to ring at box office

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Hollywood cash registers fail to ring at box office
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Most of Robert Pattinson’s earnings
from his first acting job - a supporting
role in the television film Curse of the
Ring (2004) - went into paying his
own fees at The Harrodian School in
Barnes.
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HE year 2011 saw ticket sales in
North America running about
$500 million behind last year –
despite higher prices – prompting
a round of soul searching by studios trying to determine what went wrong
and how best to proceed. North American
ticket revenue for 2011 is projected to be about
$10.1 billion, according to Hollywood.com,
which compiles box-office data.
That is only a 4.5 percent falloff from
2010. But studio executives are alarmed by
the downturn nonetheless, in part because
the real picture is worse than the raw revenue numbers suggest.
Revenue, for instance, has been propped
up by a glut of 3-D films, which cost $3 to
$5 more per ticket. Studios made 40 pictures in 3-D in the last 12 months, up from
24
last
year,
according
to
BoxOfficeMojo.com, a movie database.
Theatres have also continued to increase
prices for standard tickets; moviegoers
now pay an average of $7.89 each, up 1 percent over last year.
Attendance for 2011 is expected to drop
5.3 percent, to 1.27 billion, continuing a
slide. Attendance declined 6 percent in
2010.
Hopes that a group of major releases
would supercharge
the
Christmas box office fizzled.
Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost
Protocol was a solid number one, taking in
$26.5 million in its second weekend for a
total of about $60 million. But Sherlock
Holmes: A Game of Shadows was a softerthan-expected second, with $17.8 million
in ticket sales, lifting its two-week total to
$76.6 million. Alvin and the Chipmunks:
Chipwrecked continued to struggle in third
place, taking in about $13 million for a twoweek total of $50.3 million. Three heavily
promoted new entries had tepid results.
What has gone wrong? Plenty, say studio
distribution executives, who point to competition for leisure dollars, particularly
among financially pressed young people
(the movie industry’s most coveted demographic); too many family movies; and the
continued erosion of star power.
One more thing: “You have to go back
and look at the content,” said Dan Fellman,
president of domestic distribution for
Warner Brothers. “Good movies always
rise to the occasion. Bad ones, not so
much.”
Young people, defined by studios as
teenagers and people in their 20s, certainly
helped power some of the biggest movies of
2011, including Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the year’s number one release with $381 million in
domestic ticket sales. Transformers: Dark
of the Moon was second with more than
$352 million, and The Twilight Saga:
Breaking Dawn
– Part 1 was third with more than $269
million.
But a spate of smaller movies aimed at
younger audiences bombed, including
Prom, Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie,
Sucker Punch, Conan the Barbarian and
Your Highness. The horror genre struggled
as an entire category, with lemons like
Fright Night, The Thing and Priest.
“As bad as the economy is for adults, it’s
worse for teenagers,” said Phil Contrino,
editor of BoxOffice.com, by way of an
explanation. “Because they have less disposable income and because they are more
plugged in to audience reaction on
Facebook and Twitter, the teenage audience is becoming picky,” he added. “That’s
a nightmare for studios that are used to
pushing lowest-common-denominator
films.”
Fellman said he had seen evidence that
younger consumers were choosing other
leisure activities over movies.
“There may be a correlation to the recent
strength of video game sales,” he said. “You
look at a game like the new Call of Duty
selling $400 million in its first 24 hours
and say, ‘What? How is that even possible?”’
On the other hand, several movies aimed
squarely at older audiences attracted
stronger-than-expected revenue, The Help
was the prime example. That period drama
cost DreamWorks about $25 million to
make and took in more
than $169 million in North
America. “We definitely benefited from
coming out at the end of summer, when
women are sick of going with their husbands and boyfriends to nothing but robot
and superhero movies,” said Brunson
Green, a producer of the film.
The R-rated Bridesmaids also clicked
with older moviegoers, who perhaps
responded, distribution executives said, to
a premise that seemed fresh: women
behaving as badly as the guys of The
Hangover Part II, which was a smash with
$255 million. Bridesmaids cost about $33
million and took in $169 million, causing a
race in Hollywood to develop copycat films.
Too much of anything, however, can produce a hangover and studios started to feel
one with family films, which have been
among the most reliable moneymakers in
recent years.
Some new entries delivered solid results,
Rio, The Smurfs, but a number of them
stumbled in North America. Those include
Sony’s Arthur Christmas, Kung Fu Panda
2 and Mars Needs Moms, which was by
some measures the biggest flop of 2011,
costing at least $150 million and taking in
about $21 million.
Even Pixar had trouble. The Disneyowned animation studio had a hit in Cars
2, with more than $191 million in domestic
ticket sales, but that total was Pixar’s worst
single result, after adjusting for inflation.
Star power, or a lack thereof, was again a
negative
factor at the
box office in 2011. There were bright spots,
of course: Tom Cruise appears to be regaining momentum with the latest Mission:
Impossible film; Johnny Depp charmed
audiences once more with The Pirates of
the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which
took in $241 million for Disney (and
exceeded $1 billion globally); Cameron
Diaz earned her keep in Bad Teacher,
which took in more than $100 million for
Sony.
But it was wreckage for most marquee
names: Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig
disappointed in Cowboys & Aliens; Eddie
Murphy and Ben Stiller landed with a thud
in Tower Heist, Julia Roberts and Tom
Hanks bombed in the independently
financed Larry Crowne. New Year’s Eve,
essentially a string of star cameos, has been
essentially ignored.
More troubling, studio executives say,
were failed efforts by some younger stars to
become bigger box-office draws. Ryan
Reynolds never took off as Green Lantern,
and Jonah Hill, praised for a supporting
role in Moneyball, flopped as the main
attraction in The Sitter. Russell Brand
missed in a remake of Arthur, as did Taylor
Lautner in Abduction. Amanda Seyfried
struggled in Red Riding Hood.
Two exceptions were Chris Hemsworth as
Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America:
The First Avenger. Both of those newcomers, helped by their superhero tights, found
substantial audiences.
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The Moon is in
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TAURUS
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Today is only
slightly better than
yesterday! The
planetary influences
are harsh right now.
You might be disappointed
about how something
is shared -- or not.
GEMINI
[may 21 – jun 20]
Use today's energy
to clean up something
at home or to improve
where you live. If this
energy builds up
within you, you'll
only argue with others.
(No fun.)
CANCER
[jun21 - jul 22]
Others will look to
you as an example
today, so be aware of this.
(You are briefly high-viz.)
Since people are quick to
bark at each other, you
can be the role model
others need.
LEO
[jul 23 – aug 22]
Parents must be patient
with children today. They
pick up on the tension all
around them, and believe
me, it's there! Instead, do
something different and
stimulating. Learn
something new.
VIRGO
[aug 23 – sept 22]
Domestic tension
continues today,
so you have to decide
whether to be part
of the problem or
part of the solution.
Basically, you are the
sign of service, right?
LIBRA
[sept 23 – oct 22]
This definitely is an
accident-prone day,
largely because of your
own impatience or
agitation. This means
an accident does
not have to happen.
It's up to you.
SCORPIO
[oct 23 – nov 21]
Don't waste energy
squabbling about money
and possessions today,
especially with groups.
You won't gain any
ground. Instead, improve
where you live, or
entertain at home.
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[nov 22 – dec 21]
You are still in the
mood to fight! Fortunately,
you have the ability to
appreciate beauty in your
everyday surroundings.
Relations with neighbours
and siblings are
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vulnerable to criticism
from others. In fact, it
makes you want to
criticise others as well!
Pamper yourself in some
way today. Send out for
dark chocolate.
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with friends and
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wardrobe items.
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Passwords
may be passe
before long
SOMINI SENGUPTA
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ASSWORDS are a pain to
remember. What if a
quick wiggle of five fingers on a screen could log
you in instead? Or speaking a simple phrase?
Neither idea is far-fetched.
Computer scientists in New
York are training their iPads
to recognise
their owners by the touch of their
fingers as they make a caressing gesture. Banks are already using a software that recognises your voice,
supplementing the standard PIN.
And after years of predicting its
demise, security researchers are
renewing their efforts to supplement
and perhaps one day obliterate the
old-fashioned password.
“If you ask me what is the biggest
nuisance today, I would say it’s the
40 different passwords I have to create and change,” said Nasir Memon,
a computer science professor at the
Polytechnic Institute of New York
University in Brooklyn who is leading the iPad project.
Many people would agree. The
password has become a monkey on
Computer
scientists in New York
are training their iPads
to recognise their owners
by the touch of their
fingers as they make a
caressing gesture
our digital backs – an essential key
to our many devices and accounts,
but increasingly a source of exasperation and insecurity.
The research arm of the Defense
Department is looking for ways to
use cues like a person’s typing quirks
to continuously verify identity – in
case, say, a soldier’s laptop ends up
in enemy hands on the battlefield. In
a more ordinary example, Google
recently began nudging users to
consider a two-step log-in system,
combining a password with a code
sent to their phones. Google’s latest
Android software can unlock a
phone when it recognises the
owner’s face or – not so safe – when
it is tricked by someone holding up a
photograph of the owner’s face.
Still, despite these recent
advances, it may be premature to
announce the end of passwords, as
Bill Gates famously did in 2004,
when he said “the password is dead.”
“The spectacularly incorrect
assumption ‘passwords are dead’
has been harmful, discouraging
research on how to improve the lot
of close to 2 billion people who use
them,” Cormac Herley, a researcher
at Microsoft, the company that
Gates founded, wrote in a recent
paper. Herley suggested instead that
developers try “to better support the
use of passwords” – for example, by
helping people protect their wireless
connections from eavesdroppers.
“Passwords,” Herley continued,
“have proved themselves a worthy
opponent: All those who have
attempted to replace them have
failed.”
The touch-screen approach of
Memon works because, as it happens, each person makes the same
gesture uniquely. Their fingers are
different, they move at different
speeds, they have what he calls a different “flair.” He wants logging in to
be easy; besides, he said, some people find biometric measures like an
iris scan to be “creepy.”
In his research, the most popular
gestures turned out to be the ones
that feel most intuitive. One was to
turn the image of a combination
lock 90 degrees in one direction.
Another was to sign one’s name on
the screen. In principle, the gesture
can be used to unlock a device, or an
app on the device that safely holds a
variety of passwords.
Despite their resilience, passwords are weak, notably because
their users have limited memories
and a weakness for blurting out
secrets. Most people need dozens of
them, and they tend to pick ones
that are so complex they need to be
written down, or so simple they can
be easily guessed. Recently, criminals have become adept at stealing
passwords by sneaking malicious
software onto computers or tricking users into typing them into an
illegitimate site.
Companies like Facebook and
Twitter have sought to address the
frustration with passwords by allowing their usernames and passwords
to open the door to millions of websites, a convenience that brings
obvious risks. A thief with access to a
master username and password can
have access to a host of accounts.
Rachna Dhamija, a California
computer scientist turned entrepreneur, sought to combat those weaknesses by breaking up the password.
The user first logs in to the service
that Dhamija built, UsableLogin,
and signs in with her own partial
password. Behind the scenes, the
service verifies that the user is on an
authorised device, and pulls the
third piece from the cloud, generating a unique password for any website that the user wants to log in to –
Facebook, for instance. In other
words, one piece of the password
rests with the user, another is stored
in her device, and a third piece is
kept online.
“You take a secret and you spread
it across,” said Dhamija, whose service was recently acquired by
Webroot Software, based in
Broomfield. “You’re spreading the
risk. The password is not stored in
its whole form anywhere.”
But even if a user has been authorised at the start of a session, what if
someone else gains access to her
computer an hour later? Darpa, the
Defense Department’s technology
research arm, has invited security
researchers to develop ways to verify a user every instant, based on the
way the individual uses the machine
– “for example, how the user handles the mouse and how the user
crafts written language in an email
or document,” it explains on its website.
Each of these techniques is driven
by the notion that a password alone
is an insufficient means to verify
online identity. Think of them as a
fortification: a password plus.
Many companies use a smart card
or a security “dongle” – a small piece
of hardware that plugs into the computer and functions as a key – as
that second step of verification to
allow access to internal networks.
Today, biometrics – an individual’s
unique physical traits – are emerging as an alternative.
At least a half-dozen banks in the
United States ask their customers to
verify who they are by reciting a twosecond phrase to a computer over
the phone, in addition to punching
in their PINs. It could be as simple
as “at my bank,” and a million
customers could recite the very
same phrase and still sound
unique, according to Nuance
Communications, a company based
in Burlington, that makes the technology.
As mobile phones become bodily
appendages for people worldwide,
they too are emerging as instruments to verify identity. Google
introduced its two-step process earlier this year. It sends a six-digit code
to an application on a Google user’s
cellphone to be entered, along with a
password, when signing onto a
Google account on a computer or
tablet. The code can also be sent as a
text message for those who don’t
have smartphones, or it can be conveyed through a phone call.
The extra step is not mandatory,
and the company will not say how
widely it has been adopted. But as
vulnerable as passwords are to theft
and compromise, Google says, it is
increasingly important for a user’s
identity to be verified through
another channel – a cell phone, in
this case.
“I think we’ll start to see people
using their mobile devices as
their pervasive identifiers,” said
Brendon Wilson, a security
researcher at Symantec. “The password will no longer be the final
arbiter that you are you. You will
see layers on top.”
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11:35 Who On Earth Did I Marry?
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Big B takes piano lessons!
It’s time for a break: Farhan Akhtar
AN actor learns a lot of new things every day — and age
is no bar for 69-year-old megastar Amitabh Bachchan
who is taking piano lessons and is loving it too. “There is
so much to gather and imbibe in this world... need time
and concentration... But by far the most enlightening
hour spent was with Aadesh Shrivastav, friend, music
director, creator of many important works! He gave me
some basics on the piano to practice... ahhh!! The best
feeling in the world... a connect to the Almighty,”
Amitabh posted on Twitter.
AFTER a heavy year with Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Don 2:
The King Is Back, Farhan Akhtar is more than glad to take a sabbatical from work. “Good morning. Finally taking a break from
work. Time for family, friends, pets, reading a book, watch films,
do nothing if the heart desires,” Farhan posted on micro-blogging
site Twitter. He not only won praise for his acting in Zindagi Na
Milegi Dobara, but his slick directorial skills in Don 2: The King
Is Back also brought him a lot of appreciation recently. In 2012,
Farhan will be seen in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Bhaag
Milkha Bhaag.
AMITABH BACHCHAN
Iconic punch-lines
back with a bang
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zarooratein kam hai, isliye mere
iman me dum hai - Ajay was surely
dumdaar enough to carry the movie
to the next level - the opening collections created a new Box Office
record. Even baddie Prakash Raj
got his share of one-liners, Ata
mazhi satakli, to which Devgn
replied, Ata tujhi satkel.
O
NCE upon a time in
Bollywood films, crying
moms in their crumpled
cotton saris would
believe that Mere Karan
Arjun aayenge long after they had
been killed; bad guys would sit on
golden thrones, sporting hideous
blond wigs, and say Mogambo
khush hua; a golden hearted drunken lover would say Pushpa, I hate
tears; a bandit king would ask his
sidekick, Ab tera kya hoga Kaalia
and 11 mulkon ki police would look
for an underworld hero.
Just when we thought those iconic and sometimes genuinely funny
one-liners were going to be relegated to history books, the return of the
B-Town potboiler gave new hope
and life to those punch-lines that
had almost gone missing.
Thank God for Hindi masala films
that helped revive the art of punchlines. Now you have new age commercial filmmakers rediscovering
the relevance of smart one-liners in
helping
create
blockbusters.
Everytime superstars like Salman
Khan, Ajay Devgan and Amitabh
Bachchan voiced their thoughts on
screen, you could hear the thunderous round of applause and the
almost unheard, ceetees. The year
2011 went down in cinematic history as one that redefined the way our
stars speak. On screen, of course!
DON 2
The year ended with SRK’s
dhamakedaar dialoguebaazi. From
well-versed one liners that included
that cult Don ko pakadna mushkil hi
nahin... namumkin hai to new
tongueteasers like, ‘Sir’ bahut shareef
lagta hai, call me ‘Don and Mr Mallik,
aap meri maa ko nahin jaante the.
The dialogues of the film also started
an entire series of ‘Donisms’ that’s on
everyone’s lips now.
BODYGUARD
Salman Khan had already played
his pivotal part in kick-starting the
trend of powerful punch-lines with
Wanted and Dabangg; but he’s not
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Salman Khan in the film Ready.
had enough of them. Sample this,
Bodyguard
hoon,
dhoondh
nikalunga to the almost memorable, Mujh par ek ehsaan karna,
ke mujhpe koi ehsaan mat karna.
There are more Salman-isms after
every 15 minutes with one random
line in Sallu-ishtyle. Who wants
story-lines and plots? After directing the same film in three other languages, Siddique got his punch
power right in his Bollywood directorial debut.
READY
Main kutta hun, yeh meri kutiya
hai; aaya mausam kat ne ka... Bow
Wow is an almost spoof of a song
from Maine Pyaar Kiya and now a
film dialogue too! Salman Khan reestablished the old Bollywood saying, ‘dialogues alone can bring audience to cinema halls, was re-established in this Anees Bazmee flick
that saw Salman mouthing lines
like, Teen cheezo ko kabhi underestimate mat karna; I, me and
myself.
SINGHAM
Years after he thought standing on
two speeding bikes was the coolest
thing ever, Ajay Devgn did something cooler (and we are not talking
of his tattoos). Clad in khaki hues,
he said, Abhi ke abhi to Meri
Director Milan Luthria and producer Ekta Kapoor clearly understood
how badly the audience wanted to
wolf-whistle and throwing chillars
everytime the hero/heroine spoke
her/his lines. Here was a heroine
who delivered one liners that could
give her male counterparts (in the
film and the industry) a run for
their money. Vidya Balan topped
the year with her impeccable performance and flawlessly dished out
an entire series of witty punch lines
that might have been also instrumental in the film’s A-certification.
Vidya’s main entertainment hoon
and Mera naam badnaam hokar
hua hain were simply teasers that
sent the audience drooling in collective fantasy in the dark confines of a
movie theatre. Ooooh la la anyone?
FARHAN AKHTAR
Just when we thought those
iconic and sometimes genuinely
funny one-liners were going to
be relegated to history books,
the return of the B-Town
potboiler gave new hope and life
to those punch-lines that had
almost gone missing
here for working hard to
live up to the trend of ‘dialogues are back’.
With upcoming remakes
like
Agneepath
and
Chasme Baddoor (remembered for their witty one-liners), looks like there will be
plenty of bindaas bol moment
for us in store. In upcoming
films like Rowdy Rathod (Ilaka
tera, dhamaka mera and Faulad
ki aulaad) the dialoguebaazi
continues unabated.
Shah Rukh Khan in
Don 2.
BUDDAH HOGA TERRA BAAP
The original angry young man and
the principal packs some more
power-packed lines in his new,
revamped macho avatar. In Puri
Jagannath’s Hindi directorial debut
Big B is the angry not so young man
whose dialogues are ‘beeped’ into
silence (this one is to save the
Censor Board some time and hassle, and leave the room open for
imagination). His epic one-liner
Hum jahan khade hote hai, line
wahin se shuru ho jati hai shared
space with many brand new ones
like Yeh aaj-kal ke bachche hamen
copy karne lage hai in the film.
The five-minute long frustrated
lover’s rant and rave in Pyaar Ka
Punchnama by the character of
Rajat (Kartik Tiwari), the giggling
trio of Delhi Belly and many
other movies like Yeh Saali
Zindagi and Sahib Biwi Aur
Gangster also deserve mention
2011: Debut directors’ cut
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HE year 2011 saw many
Bollywood directors making their debut on the silver screen. We take a look
at them.
1. KIRAN RAO: DHOBI GHAT
The film was marketed and promoted well (thanks to hubby
Aamir Khan). The cinematography and the treatment of the sub-
7. AMOL GUPTE: STANLEY KA DABBA
His foray into direction was a
painful one after actor-producer
and good friend Aamir Khan took
over the reins of Taare Zameen
Par. But Amol Gupte did show his
magic with his debut directorial
venture Stanley Ka Dabba. His
own son Partho’s acting earned
much appreciation. A moderate
hit, it received good reviews.
ject was also appreciated. Made
with a budget of Rs 10 crore, the
film did recover its money.
2. PARVIN DABAS: SAHI DHANDHE
GALAT BANDE
Produced and directed by actor
and photographer Pravin Dabas.
The movie failed to create a buzz.
This resulted in a major flop.
3. ABHINAY DEO: GAME, DELHI BELLY
An advertising professional, Deo
had two films in his kitty in 2011.
And he directed films titled Game
for Farhan Akhtar’s production
house and Delhi Belly for Aamir
Khan’s productions. Game failed
miserably but Delhi Belly was a hit
and hugged the limelight for different reasons including the cuss
words used in the film.
4. DEEPA SAHI : TERE MERE PHERE
Actress Deepa Sahi turned a director with Tere Mere Phere. The film
turned out to be a disaster.
5. REMO D’SOUZA: F A L T U
This choreographer turned director’s film did not have much to
offer. But the movie was marketed
well. And the song Char baj gaye
became popular. A surprise hit, as
they say.
6. PANKAJ KAPUR: MAUSAM
Pankaj Kapur is considered as one
of the finest actors so people’s
expectations were riding high on
this film. The film which starred his
son Shahid Kapur and actor Sonam
Kapoor was a big disappointment.
8. ROHIT DHAWAN : DESI BOYZ
His father David Dhawan is considered as a ‘hit’ magician.
Following his father’s footsteps,
Rohit directed this comedy starring Akshay Kumar and John
Abraham. Another movie centred
on bromance, this one failed to
rake in the moolah.
9. NILA MADHAB PANDA: I AM KALAM
I Am Kalam, a children’s film,
earned international acclaim even
before its release in India. The
child star of the film, Harsh
Mayyar, won a National Award for
the film. The movie received critical appreciation.
10. ALI ABBAS ZAFAR: MERE
BROTHER KI DULHAN
Yash Raj Films gave a dream platform for Ali Abbas Zafar, with
stars like Imran Khan and Katrina
Kaif as the lead. Katrina Kaif again
showed her mettle as a leading
star. A feel good movie.
11. ROSHAN ABBAS: ALWAYS KABHI
KABHI
His directorial debut film Always
Kabhi Kabhi which he shot in his
alma mater, The La Martiniere
Boys’ College in Lucknow, failed to
click.
12. BIJOY NAMBIAR: SHAITAN
He broke new grounds in film
making by directing a crisp, stylish film. His effort to think out of
the box was much-appreciated
even though the film didn’t particularly break box office records.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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DENISE Richards has become the latest star to turn shoe designer - she
is designing a pair of shoes to raise money for charity. Richards has
designed a pair of light pink and gold embellished peep-toe shoes, with
a gold metallic pin heel, in honour of her mother, who passed away
from kidney cancer in 2007. “Fashion has always been a passion of
mine and I love shoes. Who doesn’t love a feminine, yet sexy pump in
her collection? I am teaming up with ShoeDazzle to help a charity. The
cause is particularly dear to me because of my mother. It provided an
amazing opportunity to combine my passions,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted
Richards as saying. The proceeds will all go to the Kidney Cancer
Association (KCA).
POP star Lady Gaga has gone public with her new
boyfriend Taylor Kinney in California. The 25-year-old
was first linked to The Vampire Diaries actor in July
last year after he played her love interest in her music
video You And I. Now the couple were photographed
with their arms wrapped affectionately around each
other in California recently. According to the
sun.co.uk, the couple celebrated the holidays at a
beach house.
LADY GAGA (RIGHT) AND
TAYLOR KINNEY
DENISE RICHARDS
Bradley Cooper
romancing Zoe Saldana
A source has claimed the pair have started to tell their friends and family
that they are in a relationship, and were planning to spend the holidays
together on a skiing break in the Rockies
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S
HE became the envy of millions of
women worldwide when photographs emerged of her locking lips
with Bradley Cooper for upcoming
movie The Words earlier last year.
Zoe Saldana better get used to being the
focus of the actor’s jealous female fans, as it
has now been claimed the pair have
become more than just friends following
their celluloid hook-up in June last year.
A source has claimed the pair have started to tell their friends and family that they
are in a relationship, and were planning to
spend the holidays together on a skiing
break in the Rockies.
The source told E! News, “They are totally dating.”
The claims come just months after the
pair first sparked rumours they had taken
their friendship to the next level following a
picture of the couple together at a New York
nightclub.
At the time, a representative for the
Avatar actress Saldana denied the claims.
The rumoured relationship comes just a
month after Saldana and fiancee Keith
Britton announced they had amicably split
after 11 years together.
The pair had revealed their engagement
in June 2010 when Saldana said she felt
entrepreneur Britton was the only person
who knew ‘the real Zoe.’
She had previously said of Britton, “I feel
that the partners who stay at home have
their own lives, but they’re the ones that are
living with the real you. I think that they
need to be recognised, every now and then,
every 10 years, just come out in public - put
him on the spot and just say thank you.
He’s a very independent soul. He understands what I do, but this is not what he fell
in love with and that’s what I love.”
Meanwhile, Cooper, who was voted
People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive earlier this year, has recently been linked to
French actress Melanie Laurent following a
rumoured dalliance with Jennifer Lopez.
Zoe Saldana
(right) and
Bradley Cooper
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Katherine Heigl
doesn’t
believe in
love at first sight
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K
ATHERINE Heigl says she doesn’t believe in love
at first sight and insists that she was attracted to
husband Josh Kelley because of the pheromones
at play.
The New Year’s Eve actress thinks strong feelings grow
over time but she accepts the fact that you can tell if you like
someone as soon as you meet.
“I don’t believe in love at first sight. I think loves grows as
you get to know the person. But definitely I believe in chemistry. You can be attracted to somebody and instantly feel
something you’ve never felt before,” Contactmusic quoted
her as saying.
“I swear it’s a pheromones
thing. There is something
about Josh that is so
uniquely attractive and
sexy to me. And he
wasn’t my usual
type at all. I went
for moody and
mysterious guys,
usually
actors.
Josh is so different from any
man I know,”
she added.
Katherine
Heigl
Rose McGowan splurges
$1.39million on new house
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R
OSE McGowan no doubt felt like
pulling out a tissue after selling her last
house.
The Charmed star sold her Las Feliz property
earlier this year at a loss after believing it was the
cause of her allergies.
But she is surely feeling a lot better after buying a new dream home in the Hollywood Hills
for an eye-watering $1.39 million.
The new property has four bedrooms, three
and a half bathrooms, a two-car garage and an
outdoor fireplace, as well as plenty of space to
entertain, including a large living room, a dining
area and a luxury kitchen.
There is also plenty of outdoor space with an
expansive decking area to the rear of the property, which provides the perfect place to soak up
some rays.
Most importantly, it was advertised as ‘ready
to move in,’ which is a boon for the busy model.’
However it is doubtful she will enjoy living
there as much as she did in her beloved previous
home, which she only let go of because of her
troubles with allergies.
She decided to sell her old Spanish villa style
home in February after becoming tired of her
constant suffering.
She reluctantly made the final decision after
spending thousands of dollars in an attempt to
fix the air ducts. Rose said, “My eyes kept
swelling. I spent about $17,000 overhauling the
duct system. Everyday I was staying at hotels
because my eyes were swollen. It felt like I got
stung by a bee.”
And it was not until after she had sold the
house to top music manager Scott Rodger for
$1,775,000 that she realised it was actually her
pillows that were causing her troubles.
She said, “I went to the new house, which I
loathe, and it happened again. It turns out I’m
allergic to the pillows.”
By the time she realised the real cause of the
problem it was too late.
She said she returned to her old home upon
learning what the root of her health problems
was - and sobbed in the driveway.
She added, “I tried to see if the current owner
would sell me my house back, but he didn’t.”
And while Rodger, who has represented the
likes of Paul McCartney and Arcade Fire, did
eventually quote her a price, it was far too high
for her.
No doubt she will be pleased with her new
house though. While it is not as classy as her
previous address, it is still good enough for
any starlet. It is a more modern looking
mid-century modern style house with
2,927 square feet of living space.
Rose
McGowan
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Traffic team up again
RICHA Gangopadhyay, the Mayakkam Enna and Osthi actor
has landed an offer from her hometown in West Bengal. The
Bengali beauty is very excited about her new venture. “Yes, it’s
official. Initially, I was not sure about the dates and felt it would
clash with my other projects. Shooting is going on well in
Kolkata,” she wrote on Twitter. Richa further expressed that its
her first Bengali film. Meanwhile, buzz is that she has been
approached by a top Kollywood filmmaker to star in his forthcoming film. Grapevine also has it that Richa is flooded with
offers from Tollywood. “She will sign a couple of projects soon,”
sources say.
AFTER creating a mind blowing hit Traffic, director Rajesh Pillai
is getting ready to shoot his next film in Malayalam. This time he
will work with Anoop Menon who had done an interesting role in
Traffic for scrpting his new film. The new film will also have
Jayasuriya apart from Kunchakko Boban, Asif Ali and Nivin Poly
who were also a part of Traffic. Rajesh will start shooting for the
movie in the initial months of 2012. Meanwhile, the pre-production works of the Hindi remake of Traffic is also progressing
briskly. The Hindi version will feature big stars of the industry.
RICHA GANGOPADHYAY
Sportive Deeksha,
serious Karthika
RAJESH PILLAI
Will Nayantara
play ball with
Ram Gopal Verma?
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Karthika
TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK
T
HE headline has nothing to do with the real
life characteristics of Deeksha Seth, the
Rajapattai heroine and Karthika, the ‘Ko’ girl.
But about the characters they are portraying in
their forthcoming projects in the neighbouring
Tollywood.
While Karthika, who is sharing the screen space with
NTR Junior and Trisha in Dammu, is playing the heir of a
royal family, Deeksha is doing the role of a soccer player in
her upcoming Telugu film Nippu, which has Ravi Teja in
the lead role.
Though Karthika is not the heroine of Dammu, her role
has got enough importance and it comes at a crucial juncture. As far as Nippu is concerned, it is a commercial entertainer with a difference and Deeksha is happy romancing Ravi Teja, a source from the Telugu Desam say.
Meanwhile, both the actresses are keen on taking their careers to the next level in Kollywood.
Karthika is already part of Bharathiraja’s
magnum
opus
Annakodiyum
Kodiveeranum. Deeksha plays
Simbu’s love interest in Vettai
Mannan.
AYANTARA has a way of catching headlines even if
she maintains a stoic silence, be it her films or her
life. The actress bid a teary farewell to films, albeit a
short one, during the last day shooting of her historical
Telugu film Sri Rama Rajyam. The actress is now making
waves in the Tamil and Telugu film industry,
because of some reports suggesting that she
might get back to acting soon.
There is news doing the rounds in the
entertainment circles in Kollywood
and Tollywood that Nayantara might
be the heroine in Ram Gopal
Verma’s upcoming film. This film
too is believed to be on the historical
lines and according to sources the
heroine (Nayantara, if she agrees to
do the role) gets to play Mandodhari,
the wife of demon king Ravana.
Some sources in the industry also
reveal that Nagarjuna might play
the role of Ravana. Nayantara’s
previous attempt at doing a
mythological role, as
Sita, had proved a
huge success for
the actress in Sri
Rama Rajyam.
Now if she
nods in the
affirmative
then
this
film
too
m i g h t
repeat history,
say
media specialists.
But there
are some
insiders in
t
h
e
Tollywood
circles who
feel otherwise about
Nayantara’s
role in this proposed film.
Nayantara
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