Gul Panag to be Twitter Face for Wills fashion weekOctober 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gul Panag is among the most regular celebrities on the social networking site Twitter and the actress is now taking it to the next level - she has been signed to post live updates of the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW), starting Saturday. The critically acclaimed actress has been given the tag of the 'Twitter Face for the event, said a press release.
Ewan McGregor finds Polanski's arrest "strange"October 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Actor Ewan McGregor has become the latest celeb to join the tirade against the imprisonment of famed filmmaker, Roman Polanski, thirty two years after he sexually assaulted a teenaged girl. The Rosemary's Baby director, who had fled the US on the heels of a sentence award, was sent to a Zurich jail last month after he was arrested on an American warrant while in the city to attend a film festival.
Music world shocked by Gately's deathOctober 12th, 2009 LONDON - The music world is shocked with the untimely death of Boyzone star Stephen Gately. His bandmates, Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham and Shane Lynch, said: "We are completely devastated by the loss of our friend and brother, Stephen.
Hasselhoff Loves Friendly BritsSeptember 29th, 2009 DAVID HASSELHOFF loves spending time in the U.K. - because strangers offer him cups of tea wherever he goes.
Van Halen To Tour In 2010?September 10th, 2009 Rock supergroup VAN HALEN are set to hit the road again in 2010 on the back of the band's new Guitar Hero videogame in December (09). Ticketmaster boss Irving Azoff let slip the news during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Conference on Wednesday (09Sep09).
Gimmick or the future of reruns? Fox adds on-air tweets to 'Fringe' repeat broadcastSeptember 3rd, 2009 Fox adds on-air tweets to 'Fringe' rerunsNEW YORK — Summer reruns are ho-hum television, but Fox is trying out a possible solution: Add Twitter. On the network's repeat broadcast of its supernatural drama "Fringe" on Thursday night, tweets were added on-screen to the show.
Jane Wants To Get Back To BollywoodSeptember 1st, 2009 THE PUNISHER star THOMAS JANE is desperate to return to the Bollywood movie industry in India - because he had a great time filming PADAMATI SANDHYA RAGAM there at the start of his career. The actor, who is married to Patricia Arquette, shot the film in 1986 and admits he developed a great love for the sub-continent.
Lynch Rules Out Theatre ReturnAugust 25th, 2009 Actress JANE LYNCH has turned her back on theatre since becoming a TV and film star - insisting she has "no desire" to return to the stage. The 39-year-old started her career in theatre and has become an award-winning star thanks to the success of her own play Oh Sister, My Sister and starring roles including her turn as Carol Brady in The Real Live Brady Bunch.
Among character actors, Jane Lynch is leading ladyAugust 21st, 2009 Among character actors, Jane Lynch is leading ladyLOS ANGELES — Jane Lynch looks fresh, well-rested — a surprise, given she seems to have appeared in, well, what seems like every film and television show this year. She's logged at least a dozen 2009 screen credits, perhaps the highest-profile role as Sue Sylvester, the diabolically funny cheerleading coach in Fox's high-school musical series "Glee," and as "French Chef" host Julia Child's towering sister Dorothy McWilliams opposite Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia."
Starting Friday, Lynch appears in the coming-of-age comedy "Post Grad" with Alexis Bledel, and next month, she's in the season opener of the CBS' sitcom "Two and a Half Men." Lynch is busy, in the way character actors used to be in the movie-a-week studio-system heyday.
Becks, Arnie to appear in TV ad promoting tourism in CaliforniaAugust 3rd, 2009 LONDON - David Beckham is set to team up with California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for a TV advert that will promote tourism in the state. The soccer icon will reportedly be seen playing football on a Los Angeles beach in the commercial.
David Walliams to join Hollywood leagueAugust 2nd, 2009 LONDON - British comedian David Walliams has decided to take the leap into the glamorous world of Hollywood. According to the News of the World, Walliams of the Little Britain fame will now act in a Hollywood flick about a dog.
Mallika Sherawat rocks Twitter HQJuly 23rd, 2009 "Mallika, the temperature and glamour quotient at Twitter has gone way up!" is what the CEO of Twitter, Evan Williams exclaimed as the Bollywood siren arrived at the Twitter HQ in San Francisco yesterday. Mallika arrived in a stretch limousine, with fans and media channels waiting outside for her.
Julius Shulman, who elevated architectural photographs into fine art, dies at age 98July 17th, 2009 Famed modernist photographer Julius Shulman diesLOS ANGELES — Colleagues say famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at his Los Angeles home. He was 98. Gallery owner and representative Craig Krull says Shulman died Wednesday night and had been in declining health.
Mills' tweets about relationships on Macca's b'dayJune 25th, 2009 LONDON - Heather Mills may have been thinking of her former husband Sir Paul McCartney while updating her Twitter page about relationships on the Beatle's birthday. The former model, 41, was said to have posted the tweets on the morning of June 18, the artist's 67th birthday.
Scorsese, Madsen pay tribute to CarradineJune 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Martin Scorsese and Michael Madsen have paid tribute to David Carradine, who passed away on June 4 aged 72. Madsen, who co-starred with the Kill Bill villain, spoke of his close relationship with his late friend, who was found dead in a Bangkok hotel.