Leaders of the world’s leading economies confronted a financial system in shambles on Friday as they gathered in Washington with panic selling in the stock markets, credit frozen solid and the world teetering on recession.
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven gathered in Washington ahead of a weekend meeting, in search of [...]
Kid Rock has ended his resistance to digital music services by granting Rhapsody a four-month exclusive offering of his recordings.
Starting Friday (October 3), Rock’s music on Rhapsody, the online music service run by RealNetworks, is available for digital-rights-management-free purchase as full albums only, while individual songs can be downloaded only under the subscription plan, or [...]
Academy-award winning director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro are teaming up once again for a film.
According to Variety magazine, the movie will be an adaptation of Charles Brandt’s book ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’ - about a mob assassin Frank Sheeran, who is believed to have been involved in the death of America’s [...]
Film: ‘Drona’; Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Jaya Bachchan; Director: Goldie Behl; Rating: ***
Goldie Behl dares to dream. He’s back after a seven-year hiatus to let us know that ‘Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai’ was not where his ‘khwab’ (dream) ended. As a matter of fact, the dream begins now.
‘Drona’ is a [...]
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is reportedly very upset with her co-hosts on the talk show ‘The View’, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar, over the US presidential election.A long-time staff member of the show is said to have revealed that The View creator Barbara Walters has called a “cooling off” meeting between the conservative Hasselbeck and the more [...]
Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney is helping his former assistant Holly Dearden get her singing career off the ground.Dearden, 30, has signed a deal for her first album ‘The Optimist’s Daughter’ with the independent label Ambiguous, reports dailymail.co.uk.
She will debut at a London jazz club in three weeks’ time.
Dearden was reluctant to tell McCartney about [...]
A photographer is suing two men who are said to have stolen some of late American actress Marilyn Monroe’s nude pictures that he had taken.The photographer, Bert Stern, had taken the famous Last Sitting series of photos of Monroe, just six weeks before she died from a drug overdose in 1962.
In his claims, Stern said [...]
It was business as usual for India’s hero through six decades who spent his 85th birthday Friday in the studios. But the ever ebullient Dev Anand was also ready to party — a day before he leaves for London.’I will be there in my studio and my friends will drop in to wish me. All [...]
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta says there will be no barrier to her latest film ‘Heaven On Earth’ because it is in Punjabi, as domestic violence has universal resonance and audiences across the globe can relate to it. This was evident at the recent Toronto Film Festival where the film got a standing ovation.’This was the [...]
Kelly Osbourne has called Victoria Beckham and Jennifer Lopez’s friendship ‘fake’, insisting that the two pretend to like each other in front of media.The 23-year-old daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne claimed that there is no substance to their camaraderie.
Apparently, Osbourne spied on the pair at Marc Jacobs fashion show in New York City on Sep [...]