| DaCapo Music Announces Marc Kunkel Christmas Radio Single! - Nov 28, 2004 12:55 IST |
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Released through The Orchard (New York), the single will be soon be available exclusively only as a download from all major digital music services (DMS) globally. Christmas Starlight was produced for DaCapo Music by Jonell Polansky and will be played on over 250 Adult Contemporary radio stations nationwide!
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| Hot Gift Picks for a Cool Holiday from Grandparents Magazine - Nov 28, 2004 12:45 IST |
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Grandparents can be sure of choosing the coolest toys and games for their grandchildren this holiday season, with a little help from Grandparents Magazine’s 3rd Annual Holiday Gift Guide. The online guide is available free to grandparents, parents, teachers, and others at http://www.GrandparentsMagazine.net.
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| Anil Kapoor ready to rock Dubai - Nov 28, 2004 12:45 IST |
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He’s been creating waves with his exciting new look in Sanjay Gupta’s Musafir. With a stubble, a tan and gelled hair, Anil looks straight out of an international in this action flick.
And in keeping with this new image, he’s all set to wow an international audience in Dubai.
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| Akshay Kumar wows armed forces - Nov 28, 2004 12:45 IST |
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Real life seems to be imitating reel life for Akshay Kumar. The star, whose next release is Anil Sharma’s war flick Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo, is turning out to be a hit with the Indian Army.
Akshay made quite an impact on troopers stationed near Manali while shooting for the movie there. He played a cricket match with them and was rewarded with an army commando cap, which he proudly sported.
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| Hudson to Delaware / THE GREAT VALLEY PHOTO BOOK RELEASED - Nov 28, 2004 12:43 IST |
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Exposures Gallery Press is pleased to announce the release of a new photography book on The Great Valley. Straddling the boarder of New York and New Jersey and located between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers, the regions beauty and environmental quality has become threatened by encroaching suburban sprawl.
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| Jeunet film ruled not French - Nov 28, 2004 12:43 IST |
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A Paris court ruled that director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s big-budget wartime romance Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles is not a French film and disqualified it from receiving French subsidies.
Citing American Warner Bros’ involvement in the film’s financing, the Paris judgement reversed the film’s earlier access to French funds, reported imdb.com.
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| Britney wants a baby - Nov 28, 2004 12:42 IST |
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Britney Spears has told her mother that she cannot wait to have a baby, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
Spears wrote in a letter to her mother posted on her official website: I’ve had a career since I was 16, have travelled around the world and back and even kissed Madonna!
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| The place is excellent even though I have been here for just two days. I don’t mind being the brand ambassador to promote Kerala in Australia and for that someone has to approach me or my manager, said Waugh, winding up his two-day trip here. - Nov 28, 2004 12:42 IST |
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Chanting Hindu god Ayappa’s name and sporting black clothes and sacred beads, they set off for the Sabarimala temple Saturday. But they weren’t quite Indian pilgrims.
The four devotees had descended from Sweden to undertake the journey to Sabarimala, 120 km from this Kerala capital.
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| 750 HACA Resident Families Receive Free Thanksgiving Dinners - Nov 28, 2004 12:36 IST |
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Thanksgiving Day with no dressing, no pecan pie and no turkey. This a very real reality for many Housing Authority of the City of Austin residents. The low income families spend their hard-earned money on basic needs expenses, leaving little for overindulging in gourmet meals.
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| Talented cast overshadows clichéd ’Hulchal’ plot - Nov 28, 2004 12:36 IST |
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Film: Hulchal; Starring Akshaye Khanna, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Amrish Puri, Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Khan, Laxmi, Farha Suniel Shetty; Directed by Priyadarshan
Years ago, the late O.P. Ralhan made a film called Hulchal, which was about a mistaken murder conspiracy. The pace was maddening.
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| Art Helps a Weary World Rejoice: “Recovering Joy” - Nov 28, 2004 12:30 IST |
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”Recovering Joy,” set to open December 10 at the Diesel Gallery in Red Hook, is one of this season’s most aptly-named art offerings. The two-artist exhibit, features Brooklyn artists Alexandra Corbin and Joshua Kibuka, and some of the most cheerful, engaging, and restorative work you’re likely to find this holiday season.
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| Indian restaurant in Chicago a hit - Nov 28, 2004 12:30 IST |
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An Indian restaurant in Chicago, promoting itself as a fusion restaurant for fine dining, is rapidly gaining popularity with the yuppie American clientele.
Patrons at Monsoon are treated to exotic dishes like chicken chaat, mango chicken and suba noodle salad (with Japanese and Indian ingredients) as its chef believes in experimenting with dishes.
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| Hrithik’s next makes ’Koi...’ a ’baby step’ - Nov 28, 2004 12:30 IST |
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After a long hiatus, Hrithik Roshan is ready for his next venture. Yes, it will be directed by his father Rakesh Roshan and he promises it will be thrice as big as Koi...Mil Gaya.
Hrithik says his father made a film twice as big after Kaho Na Pyar Hai and now the next will be three times as ambitious as the hit Koi...Mil Gaya, with more special effects and take him into a realm where no leading man has been before.
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| Straight Up Management Announces 2 NEW Releases - Nov 28, 2004 12:22 IST |
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Straight Up Management, a business consulting/personal services company out of Rosamond, California has announced the release of two new books by author/poet M. Richard Smith (www.MrichardSmith.com).
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| Highway massages just happen at night - Nov 28, 2004 12:29 IST |
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Come sunset and dozens of masseurs emerge from the darkness at the numerous roadside eateries on India’s National Highway One (NH1) - and we’re not talking seamy here, but of villagers coaxing the tiredness away from weary motorists.
For the many motorists driving through the vast Indian hinterland on the busy, accident-prone highway, the massage service is a bonus that comes along with the aromatic, hearty food and the luxury of a string cot to stretch those tired muscles.
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| Clashes of the interesting kind this December - Nov 28, 2004 12:26 IST |
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Shah Rukh Versus Shah Rukh, Shahid Kapur Versus Kareena Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar Versus Mahesh Manjrekar -- just some of the curious Friday clashes lined up for this December.
Shah Rukh Khan’s long-awaited film about reversed brain-drain Swades is eagerly awaited, not only for the return of ’King Khan’ a month after the successful Veer-Zaara but also because it’s Ashutosh Gowariker’s post-Lagaan directorial venture.
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| Celebrity functions see more and more of skin - Nov 28, 2004 12:25 IST |
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There has been a steady trend among celebrities to show skin at functions in the West.
Statistics show that celebrities are now exposing 59 percent of their bodies. In the next six years, if the current graph continues, it is expected to go up to 75 percent.
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| Chowta to compose music for 2008 Olympics - Nov 28, 2004 12:25 IST |
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Composing music for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing is just the beginning, believes Sandeep Chowta.
He has joined up with two musicians from the US - Ricky Gannaway and Jay Oliver - and together they call themselves AO after an ancient Polynesian word.
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| 2.5 million tourists overstay in Malaysia - Nov 28, 2004 12:22 IST |
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Nearly 2.5 million foreign tourists overstayed in Malaysia between 2001 and June 2004, reports Xinhua.
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| ’Cheers’ actress overdoses on drugs - Nov 28, 2004 12:20 IST |
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Actress Shelley Long, 55, star of the hit 1980’s sitcom Cheers, was rushed to hospital following a near fatal overdose of pain killers, the Sun reported.
Long, who played the feisty Diane Chambers in Cheers, has been in severe depression after her husband Bruce Tyson ended their 22-year marriage in 2003, forcing the blonde beauty to sell their Hollywood mansion.
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