Novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose scripts for Howards End and A Room With A View earned her two Oscars, has died at home in New York at the age of 85. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala made more than 20 films with producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory over 40 years. The writer also won the Booker Prize for her 1975 novel Heat and Dust, meaning she was the only person to have won an Oscar and th…
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To understand how fast a human can ultimately run, we need to go beyond the record books and understand how Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s legs work. In 2008, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Usain Bolt ran the 100 m in just 9.69 seconds, setting a new world record. A year later, Usain Bolt surpassed his own feat with an astonishing 9.58-second run at the 2009 Berlin World Championships. With…
A new wonder 24kt gold pill promises to “turn your innermost parts into chambers of wealth”. The sparkling capsules, measuring 2 cm long, can be found on the Citizen:Citizen website priced at $425. After digesting the three gold-leaf tablets, shefinds.com claims consumers will find flakes of pure precious metal decorating their excrement. The Gold Pills were designed by late New York artist Tobi…
Dec 9 2012 | Posted in
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The A-listers are currently sweeping into Hollywood as the biggest event in the movie industry calendar looms tonight, Oscars 2012. For all the star quality brought to the red carpet by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Rooney Mara and Halle Berry, it is the enduring icons of the golden age that still show the A-listers how it should be done. The golden generations’ pictures capture the…
…st people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with or know. Michael was the gentlest of souls – an exemplar of decency, integrity and kindness. The sadness I feel is inexpressible.” The 6ft 5in, 300 pound star appeared in dozens of films, including box office hits Armageddon, Planet Of The Apes and Kung Fu Panda. Duncan had a handful of minor roles before The Green Mile brought him an Academ…
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Eddie Murphy resigned from his role as host of 2012 Academy Awards yesterday as the heavyweight producer Brian Grazer has been drafted in to produce next year’s Oscars. Brian Grazer, the man behind Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind has stepped into Brett Ratner’s shoes after his resignation. The Academy Awards president Tom Sherak announced the news yesterday: “Brian Grazer is a renowned filmm…
Actor Ernest Borgnine, whose career spanned more than 60 years, has died aged 95, his spokesman Harry Flynn has said. The Oscar-winning actor died of renal failure in a Los Angeles hospital with his family by his side Harry Flynn told the Associated Press. Ernest Borgnine continued acting until recently with a role in the hospital drama ER in 2009. He won an Oscar in 1955 for his role in the film…
Jul 9 2012 | Posted in
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ce. The role earned him the first of eight Oscar nominations, with others coming for such films as Becket, The Lion in Winter and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Peter O’Toole was given an honorary Oscar in 2003, an award he had initially refused to accept. In a letter he asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to delay the award until he was 80, saying he was “still in the game and…
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…g bangs,” he said, adding that they are in keeping with current fashion trends. “Designers have been showing a lot of retro Seventies looks and they are a great match.” Singer-songwriter Leah Blishi, 37, a client of Mordechai Alvow, admits she had been in two minds about going for the chop, but when Kate Middleton’s new look made the headlines, she was convinced. “I was thinking about havin…
Dec 2 2012 | Posted in
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Gina Rinehart, an Australian mining magnate, has become the world’s richest woman, according to the country’s respected business magazine BRW. The magazine says Gina Rinehart, 58, is now worth A$29 billion ($28 billion), having increased her wealth by nearly A$20 billion in a year. It is now possible that she could become the world’s first $100 billion person, the magazine says….
May 24 2012 | Posted in
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New reports claim that Katie Holmes’s fears that daughter Suri was set to be inducted into a hardcore Scientology organization were the driving force behind the end of her marriage to Tom Cruise. Katie Holmes, 33, was allegedly convinced husband Tom Cruise was planning to send Suri, 6, away to Sea Organisation – an association of Scientologists established in 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard, t…
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…#8217;ll make mine.” Mark Coulier and American J Roy Helland are both up for an Oscar for their work on the film. J Roy Helland has been doing Meryl Streep’s hair and make-up for more than 35 years. During the course of The Iron Lady, Meryl Streep’s Thatcher is seen both in her political prime and as a woman in her mid 80’s, struggling with dementia. For the younger version, Mark…
ad a fling with Olivia Munn – who had apparently referred to him in her book Suck It, Wonder Woman!: The Misadventures Of A Hollywood Geek. In one visceral and nauseating paragraph, Olivia Munn, 31, recounts walking in on the movie big-wig – who she doesn’t name – while he was pleasuring himself. She recalls: “A grown man in an oversized shirt holding his undersized m…
…Opening Ceremony in a short film that showed Bond escorting the Queen to the Olympic Stadium. Audiences in the US were treated to a teaser of the new footage during NBC’s telecast of the London 2012 launch. Other scenes unveiled on Tuesday include one showing British actress Naomie Harris, in her role as field agent Eve, “shooting” James Bond off the roof of a moving train in Tu…
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Sean Young spent four hours in a police station after allegedly fighting with a security guard at the Governor’s Ball, the official Oscar party, last night. Sean Young, 52, who hasn’t been in a major film since 2008, is said to have argued with a guard at the Governor’s Ball in Los Angeles. The actress was placed under citizens’ arrest by another member of the security team then…
…uropean Film Academy The Oscar-winning actress will be a guest at the European Film Awards on 1 December in Malta. Helen Mirren, 67, won the Academy Award for best actress for her role in The Queen in 2007. She was nominated for an Oscar again in 2010 for her role as Tolstoy’s wife in The Last Station and is tipped to pick up another nomination next year for playing Alfred Hitchcock’s…
Sep 25 2012 | Posted in
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Mexico has beaten Brazil with 2-1 at Wembley and has won the men’s Olympic football gold medal for the first time. Oribe Peralta struck from the 18-yard box after 32 seconds following some poor Brazilian defending. Fabian Marco hit the Brazil crossbar before a completely unmarked Oribe Peralta headed his team’s second goal. Brazil, also hoping to win gold for the first time, pulled a…
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…Apatow’s comedy This Is 40, a sequel to his 2007 hit Knocked Up, debuted at number three, taking $12 million. Barbra Streisand comedy The Guilt Trip was another new entry, at number six, while a 3D version of Pixar’s Monsters Inc came in at seven. A prequel to the hit movie, about two Monsters employed to scare small children, is due for release next year. Meanwhile, a limited release…
Dec 24 2012 | Posted in
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…ill took a savage beating, persuaded him to scale back his ultra-aggressive style in favor of a more cerebral, defensive approach. The change in style was a big reason that Hector Camacho, at the time 38-0, lost a close split decision to Greg Haugen at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas in 1991. Hector Camacho won the rematch to set up his signature fight against Chavez, this time at the Thomas &a…
Millionairess widow Christine Ince was trying to find love again when she started dating younger Gambian man, Mustapha Jabbai. Christine Ince, 59, spent a year getting to know Mustapha Jabbai, 36, before agreeing to marry him. The woman, who is a mother of three, believed Mustapha Jabbai intentions were honourable because he had a permanent job in the UK and had never asked her about her wealth….
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…lay a part. This was a case of a millionaire against a poor black woman with no education.” DSK, 62 year-old former IMF chief, was arrested last May in New York, after Nafissatou Diallo, 32 year-old hotel maid, said he had forced her to perform oral sex when she arrived to clean his suite at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan. DSK was arrested on a plane scheduled to fly to Paris. …
…nst the wealthy one per cent of Americans, but he has been uncharacteristically quiet about one thing: his own wealth. Houses on the lake cost as much as $3million. Michael Moore originally bought the 2,500 sq ft home before expanding to two surrounding lots, according to local real estate sources. Public records show the property in the name of Michael Moore and his wife, Kathleen Glynn, and note…
…le, was unpatriotic at a time of cutbacks Next year, the top rate of income tax in France is due to become 75% on earnings above 1 million euros. It is currently 50% in Belgium. Speaking on the France 2 TV channel, Jean-Marc Ayrault said: “I find this quite shabby… All that just to avoid paying tax.” Gerard Depardieu was a “great star” whom “everyone loves as an…
Dec 12 2012 | Posted in
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…everal classic French films. Gerard Depardieu has criticized the Socialist government for its new 75% wealth tax. Next year, the top rate of income tax in France is due to become 75% on earnings above 1 million euros ($1.3 million). Belgium’s highest tax rate is currently 50%. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has condemned Gerard Depardieu’s decision as “shabby”. Ca…
Dec 21 2012 | Posted in
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…what I have.” His charitable donations – which benefit poor people and small entrepreneurs – mean his salary is roughly in line with the average Uruguayan income of $775 a month. In 2010, his annual personal wealth declaration – mandatory for officials in Uruguay – was $1,800, the value of his 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. This year, Jose Mujica added half of his wife̵…
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