Gloria Stewart Dies at 100

Gloria Stuart famous for her role as 100 year old survivor of the sinking Titanic in the 1997 movie of the same name, passed away 26th September.

The Washington Post reported that Stuart's daughter Sylvia Thompson confirmed that her mother, who had been diagnosed with lung cancer a few years ago, died in West Los Angeles at the age of 100.

The Santa Monica born actress was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Titanic and was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild.

John Travolta landed at Mumbai Airport

The Hollywood actor who is in India on a two day visit will launch a new model of a premium aviation watch company on Sunday morning. He will also make an appearance at an award function later in evening where he will be honoured.

The actor who flew down to India by his private Jet is accompanied by his daughter Ella. Travolta is likely to meet some Bollywood stars on Sunday.

There were reports that Akshay Kumar is likely to get Travolta to a jig with him on the actor's popular number Saturday Night Fever. But Travolta denied saying that it is not on the agenda. Asked what was his looking forward to while here in India, he said, "People of India. I have heard so much about the country."

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Madonna, Lourdes launch 'Material Girl' clothing line

Madonna walks the pink carpet with daughter Lourdes Leon at the collection launch of their new fashion line, Material Girl, at Macy’s Herald Square on Wednesday (September 22) in New York.

The mother and daughter duo was accompanied by the face of the line, Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen.

Material Girl was designed by Madonna and Lola along with Iconix Brand Group’s in-house fashion department. The collection includes apparel, footwear and accessories including handbags and jewelry!

The 52 year old giggled much like her teenage daughter Lourdes Leon Ciccone as she admitted to borrowing clothes from the 13 year old's wardrobe.

The mother and daughter designers teamed up in New York to launch their Material Girl clothing line.

In a rare joint interview on the pink carpet - not Lourdes favourite colour she admitted - the pair opened up about their differing taste, and stealing from each other's no doubt enviable wardrobes.

Lourdes, 13 and Madonna, 52, spoke at an event at New York store Macy's promoting their co-designed Material Girl clothing line.

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Julia Roberts uncomfortable with praise for smile

Julia Roberts said, she is uncomfortable with the praise heaped on her trademark wide smile as she presented her latest film "Eat Pray Love" at the San Sebastian film festival.

Its strange being appreciated for something that is not a skill, that is something that I don't have any control over, the Oscar-winning US actress told a news conference.

Roberts, a married mother of three, attended the news conference alongside her Spanish co-star Javier Bardem, who plays her doting love interest in the movie.

It is in every contract that I have that in films men must satellite and follow me, worship me in an every imaginable, conceivable way, she joked.

Eat Pray Love, based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir of a globe-trotting quest for meaning after divorce, follows Roberts' character Liz to Italy, India and Indonesia as she searches for life's lessons.

Roberts, 42, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her role as a single-mom-turned-legal-crusader in "Erin Brockovich", was to collect the San Sebastian festival's honorary Donostia Award later Monday.

Eat Pray Love is being screened out of competition at the festival, the oldest and most prestigious event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world.

Catfish Cast and Review

Catfish Cast

Release Date
9/17/2010

Director Credit
Henry Joost Director
Ariel Schulman Director

Producers Credit
Ariel Schulman Producer
Henry Joost Producer
Andrew Jarecki Producer
Marc Smerling Producer
Zac Stuart-Pontier Co-Producer
Colin Wilhm Associate Producer
Ryan Kavanaugh Executive Producer
Brett Ratner Executive Producer
Tucker Tooley Executive Producer

Production Companies Credit
Rogue Pictures Rogue Pictures

Film Camera Credit
Yaniv Schulman Cinematographer
Ariel Schulman Cinematographer
Henry Joost Cinematographer

Sound Credit
Coll Anderson Supervising Sound Editor
Coll Anderson Re-Recording Mixer
Matt Snedecor Sound Effects Editor

Visual Effects Credit
Andrew Zuchero Animator


This is the point in Catfish where one feels tempted to start tapping the Bulls**t Button. Nev’s naiveté, as well as that of the filmmakers, feels more than a little disingenuous. It’s hard to believe that the trio of educated, digitally savvy gents from New York, a city accustomed to scams and scam artists of all types, would fall so wholeheartedly for such a scenario. And Nev, though geeky and neurotic and a tad hirsute, appears plenty appealing enough to snag a flesh-and-blood mate in a city where Woody Allen is considered sexy. Their professed shock at their discovery is betrayed by a barely concealed glee over having stumbled upon a documentary subject considerably more intriguing than a second-grader who paints pretty pictures. We'll never know what their real suspicions were, if any, but it seems fairly obvious that they at least suspended their disbelief for the sake of compelling drama.

Katherine Jackson Sues Concert Promoters

Michael Jackson's mother has filed suit against promoters of a concert series he was supposed to give in London in 2009, claiming they shared the blame for his death during rehearsals.

Katherine Jackson filed the suit in Los Angeles Superior Court in her name and those of the singer's three children.

She charged that the AEG group did not give her son appropriate medical care during rehearsals for the shows, and alleged negligence in allowing Dr. Conrad Murray to care exclusively for her son.

A Los Angeles judge has set a January 2011 hearing to weigh whether there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Murray for involuntary manslaughter over the singer's death.

The doctor who was with Jackson when he died, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in February this year, but is free on a 75,000 dollar bond.

Officials have ruled that Jackson died after being injected with a powerful cocktail of sedatives and painkillers, including propofol, which the singer regularly requested from Murray to help him sleep.

Jackson's death sent shockwaves around the world, and family and fans were outraged to learn that the man dubbed the King of Pop was administered a dangerous mix of powerful prescription drugs in the hours before his death.

Freida to star opposite Banderas

Freida Pinto has signed a Hollywood period movie opposite Spanish actor Antonio Banderas.

Titled Black Thirst, the movie is directed by Jean Jacques Annaud of Enemy at the Gates and Seven Years in Tibet fame. It is the story of how America, in pursuit of oil, started targeting the Gulf as early as 1920.

The movie that stars Tahar Rahim and Mark Strong is to be shot in Tunisia. Pinto plays an Arabian princess and is paired opposite Rahim, but she has a lot many scenes with Banderas.

The film is based on Hans R Ruesch's globally acclaimed work South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia published in 1957.

The story is set in 1929 when an affluent Arab prince falls in love with a princess but his marital bliss is shortlived as tension and duty to protect his country after oil is discovered in the Gulf befalls on him.

The movie is Pinto's sixth straight international film after Rise of the Apes, Immortals, Miral, You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger and Slumdog Millionaire.

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New Yorkers Celebrate Fashion's Night Out

Champagne flowed all night into the early morning hours Saturday in New York city, where thousands of people took over shops and department stores to celebrate "Fashion's Night Out" with famous celebrities.

It's early, but I think out of the gate it seems to have become so much bigger, American Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour said of the event timed to coincide with New York Fashion Week.

The queen of glossy magazines first launched the evening festivities last year in a bid to boost fashion sales that have suffered in these hard economic times.

With support from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the initiative has morphed into a shopping fiesta.

All across the Big Apple, long queues formed starting Friday afternoon outside department stores like Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys New York and Macy's, while jewelers and luxury boutiques offered champagne and canapes for handpicked guests and customers.

Many retailers seized on the occasion to invite musicians, DJs and other performance artists.

Dutch designers Viktor Horstling and Rolf Snoeren ("Viktor & Rolf") clinked glasses in suits and ties in a big bed at Saks and a French-style flea market was installed at the Ace Hotel.

Others, like Italian jeweler Pomellato, proposed a lottery to win a ring from its latest collection.

In some corners, the festivities nearly grew into riots, namely at Macy's where singer Jennifer Lopez was introducing her latest perfume scent.

The first 300 people who paid a fee of 135 dollars had the privilege of getting photographed with the star, while the rest were ruthlessly pushed back by her bodyguards.

Hundreds more fans waited elsewhere for a chance sighting of model Naomi Campbell, "Sex and the City" actress Sarah Jessica Parker or tennis champion Serena Williams.

Johnny Depp highest paid Hero in Hollywood

Hollywood Actor Johnny Depp has been named as the highest paid actor in Hollywood thanks to his role in Alice in Wonderland, according to Forbes

The actor earned £50m for portraying the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s 3-D version.

The Disney film has grossed $1 billion in box office, making Depp the only actor to headline two $1 billion films, the other being Pirates of the Caribbean.

Depp also landed a big upfront payday estimated at more than £15m for The Tourist starring alongside Angelina Jolie.

Last year Johnny Depp was 10th place on the Forbes annual list of top earning actors with a salary of £18m.

The 47 year old actor is currently filming the latest instalment of the Pirates series in Hawaii.

Comic Ben Stiller is named as the second on the top earning actors list with £38m.

His film “Night at the Museum 2” was a huge success and he also received an estimated £10m for the third in the series of “Meet the Fockers” with Robert De Niro.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is the only British star on the top 10 list for 2010, which was dominated by US actors.

His income for last June to June 2010 was put at £16.6m.

He has completed filming the last in the series of the Potter films and his next role will be in the ghost story “Woman in Black”.

Forbes calculated the rankings by surveying agents, managers, producers and lawyers to determine what the stars were paid.

They also took into account money they received as a percentage of the box office profits.

New York Fashion Week kicks off Wednesday

New York's Spring Summer 2011 Fashion Week kicked off Wednesday in new digs at the prestigious Lincoln Center.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the event and temporarily renamed the city's number one subway route the "Fashion Line" in honor of the week running until September 16th.

Starting Thursday, designers from around the world will show their creations in tents set up in Damrosch Park within the Lincoln Center complex hosting the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet and New York Symphony Orchestra.

The New York event is the first of the four principal twice-a-year fashion weeks, followed by London, Milan and Paris.

Starting tomorrow, one of the world?s most eye-catching events comes to one of the world?s greatest cultural institutions, as we kick off Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, Bloomberg said.

For years, the famed fashion tents have drawn people from all over the world to New York City, and the buzz is even greater this year with it debuting at its new home at Lincoln Center.

Fashion Week in New York is attended by some 230,000 people and brings an estimated 770 million dollars in economic activity to a city where 175,000 people are employed in the fashion industry, the mayor's office says.

Until this year Fashion Week always took place in more cramped conditions at Bryant Park, near Times Square.

Lincoln Center is an ideal location for the semi-annual events, with more outdoor space than was available at Bryant Park and terrific transit access, including the Number One subway line, or as it will be called this week: The Fashion Line, Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg was accompanied at the opening ceremony by designer and Council of Fashion Designers of US president Diane von Furstenberg, whose collection will be shown Sunday.

Friday will feature "Fashion Night Out" when city stores stay open late and fashionistas are encouraged to shop and party into the wee hours.

Swinging sixties film director dies

Clive Donner, the British film director whose movies helped set the tone for the swinging sixties, died Tuesday at the age of 84, his family said.

He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and died in London.

Donner's career began at Pinewood Studios outside London when he was 15, his cousin Gavin Asher said.

"One of the things he was most proud of was what he did for the careers of quite a lot of British actors including Alan Bates, David Hemmings and Ian McKellen," he said.

"A lot of them went on to eclipse his fame and success but he was very giving in that sense."

Donner directed "Nothing But The Best", a 1964 comedy featuring Bates and Denholm Elliott.

He directed 1965 comedy "What's New Pussycat?", starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Woody Allen, and Ursula Andress, and "Luv" (1967), featuring Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk.

Coming of age film "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" (1968) captured the spirit of the times.

"He was a man of the sixties and those films were the very essence of swinging London," Asher said.

Donner later moved to Los Angeles to work in television.

He and his late wife had no children.

Jolie Visits Pakistan's Flood Effected Areas

Hollywood Actress Angelina Jolie arrived in Pakistan to meet victims of the floods and highlight the need for international help, the United Nations said.

Angelina Jolie was in the country on Tuesday in her role as a "goodwill ambassador" for the UN's refugee agency.

International relief agencies sometimes enlist celebrities to draw attention to their work and get more funds.

The UN gave no details of Jolie's itinerary.

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9/11 Movie Open Friday in New York

"Clear Blue Tuesday" is a musical film about love and overcoming tragedy in New York City after attacks of September 11, 2001, opens this weekend, its producers said Tuesday.

Dubbed an "indie rock musical drama," the movie follows the lives of 11 New Yorkers over seven Tuesdays in the following seven years after the World Trade Center was destroyed, killing nearly 3,000 people.

In the musical drama, the eleven protagonists "are transformed by love, desire, art, ambition, fury, grief, faith, fear, hope and, ultimately, connection with each other," said a joint statement by the producers, who included director Elizabeth Lucas.

The film, which opens eight days before the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, is "about the persistence of love and the resilient heart of a city in the face of catastrophe," they said.