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Brad Pitt with his kids

Brad Pitt says he has become “impervious to poo, snot, urine and vomit”. The hunk actor felt his maturity was all because of his kids who gave him a hard time to prove his worth as a successful father. He said he had hardened and toughened as a human because he has lived his life with his beloved kids and handled them personally. He said his present status was unbreakable and adaptable to any situation.

The macho ‘Ocean’s Thirteen’ actor who raises six children with partner Angelina Jolie has revealed that his fatherhood has made him a toughened man and ensured that he copes with anything repugnant to smell,touch or sound.

He said: “I’m tough as nails. I’m impervious to poo, snot, urine, vomit. You can’t get me. You cannot break me down.”

Brad, 44, also revealed it was tough to handle his kids so he and Angelina do not take their brood shopping very often because it is such a struggle to get everyone organised.

He added to US TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey in an interview : “We don’t go to the mall. It’s like half-an-hour just to get everyone buckled in and make sure they’ve got their snacks, and Zahara has got a blanket and Shiloh’s got her silky…Angelina is militant about it. She’s right on top of it. Thank God, because I’m always forgetting something!”

Angelina had revealed that she could breastfeed her four-month-old twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline for the first three months and could not continue because she had to struggle feeding the babies simultaneously and sort and cope up with time management.

She said: “You think, ‘Ah, if anybody can do that, I can do that.’ There’s this football hold - it’s a lot harder than it looks in the books. I did that a few times. I would take turns. It just takes a long time.”

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman, the famous Australian actor  has been named as “the Sexiest Man Alive”. The star was ranked at the top in the  People magazine’s annual list of “the most attractive guys in the world”. With his unforgettable performances in several movies like  X-Men, The Prestige and Scoop,  Jackman has left female hearts pounding faster.

“He’s a triple threat - a star who can sing, dance and wield a weapon. At 6ft 2in, all scruff and biceps, Jackman, 40, looms large in the epic Australia and left people stammering, ‘Oh. my… God!’ according to co-star Nicole Kidman”, the magazine wrote while explaining why they elected  Jackman as the Sexiest Man Alive.

Close behind Hugh, the second place was secured by the Quantum of Solace actor Daniel Craig. He rose to fame with his most impressive acting in the film as British spy James Bond.  His muscular body and striking blue eyes left all his female fans awestruck.

The third position was given to  the star of hit US TV show Mad Men, Jon Hamm, while  Zac Efron, High School Musical heartthrob and   Robert Buckley, the  Lipstick Jungle hunk came fourth and fifth respectively.

The other personalities to have ranked in the list were Soccer player David Beckham, Oscar-winner Javier Bardem, Twilight star Robert Pattinson, former Dawson’s Creek actor Joshua Jackson and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.

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Quantum of Solace

The latest James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” made another whopping five million pounds ($7.52 million) over its third weekend in Britain as it maintained its top spot on the British box office.

Daniel Craig’s second  007 affair and the 22nd official Bond film has now earned 40.2 million pounds in its British run, according to Screen International on Tuesday. Craig along with the films fame has acquired huge fan following and a massive sense of stardom.

It belittled the 1 million pounds taken by the No. 2 film on its debut weekend, “Max Payne,” a video game spin-off with Mark Wahlberg as a lone avenger in New York. “Quantum of Solace” finally gets solace in Britain with the massive third week grossing.

“High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” with Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale was down one place at three while comedy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” came in at four with its tale of two friends going triple-XXX to pay their rent.

Ricky Gervais was down two at five as the cantankerous dentist in “Ghost Town” while Bollywood movie “Dostana” was new at six.

“Burn After Reading” with Brad Pitt and George Clooney was down by two at seven and “Easy Virtue” stayed at eight with its reworking of Noel Coward’s play set among the inter-war British aristocracy.

The animated evil scientists of “Igor” were stuck at nine while horror movie “Saw V” was the week’s biggest failure, down six places at 10.

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Tom Cruise Katie Holmes with Suri

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter Suri has been named the World’s Most Powerful toddler. A new poll carried out by Forbes magazine has named two-year-old Suri as the most powerful. This means Tom Cruise’ adoring daughter is well ahead of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s brood of kids. The poll was done in order to search for the most influential child under the age of five.

Others who featured in the survey include David Banda, Madonna’s adopted kid with estranged husband Guy Ritchie, Victoria and David Beckham’s youngest son Cruz, and Britney Spears’ three year old son Sean Preston with ex Kevin Federline.

The top 10 is as follows:

1. Suri Cruise

2. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt

3. Zahara Jolie-Pitt

4. Pax Jolie-Pitt

5. Sam Alexis Woods (daughter of golf ace Tiger Woods)

6. Cruz Beckham

7. Matilda Rose Ledger (daughter of actress Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger)

8. David Banda

9. Sean Preston Federline

10. Sam Sheen (daughter of Charlie Sheen and ex-wife Denise Richards).

Katie Holmes has been busy celebrating her second year of marriage with husband Tom Cruise. She was seen quickly jetting home to Los Angeles after a recent performance in New York so that she could be with her husband and daughter who spreads her newly found happiness.

Holmes took off to the west coast after Sunday’s (16Nov08) matinee performance of her hit Broadway play - ‘All My Sons’.

Tom and Katie reportedly spent a quiet evening at their L.A. home on Monday (17Nov08) before the actress had to rush back for her regular Tuesday show.

Cruise and Holmes married on 18 November 2006 in a star-studded ceremony in Italy to the dismay of critics, skeptical their relationship was a mere publicity stunt. Critics had even presumed that their relationship would not go further and surely they would not ever be together making a family. But they had proven all of them wrong by staying together and even raising their Suri and only time will witness the couple’s growth as proud parents.

In an interview last year (07), Cruise talked about the lavish wedding, “As big as it was from the outside, it was a very personal experience and something obviously I’ll never forget.”

The pair was reportedly joined by their two-year-old daughter, Suri, and Cruise’s adopted children from his marriage to Nicole Kidman - Isabella, 15, and Connor, 13 to mark the event.

Until we receive any other speculations the valid Forbes list will definitely create a furore with Suri creating ripples all over.

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Twilight

“Twilight” saw a grand opening With teenagers shouting at the top of their voices to get a glimpse of the author. It sure sounds a massive affair. Like never before, Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series of books, draws screams and lunging teenagers as she signs autographs and takes pictures before walking into the theater. Twilight’s World Premiere rocked Los Angeles with thousands of fans in every corner of the Westwood Village. Surely they were loud.

For a vampire love story tickets are literally selling like hot cakes. The upcoming midnight shows are being sold and at a random pace.Summit Entertainment film has already sold out hundreds of performances four days before its Friday opening in about 3,400 locations. Movie Ticket sellouts were definitely more than 400  of various show times.

Going by the ticketers the movie has more than 85% of pre-sales. With industry hearsay suggesting an overdose of spice is already ringing with spectacular advance ticket sales.

Several marketing heads of the industry are simply awestruck at the tremendous effect and with the film itself. Until now Summit Entertainment was just another name with no such movie to go by. With dim and modest success streak with its martial arts film “Never Back Down,” the teen comedy “Sex Drive,” Summit Entertainment had nothing to fall back on. BUt this time around Summit Entertainment has an amazing ace up its sleeve - “Twilight.”

Robert Pattinson Kristen Stewart

“Twilight” is the first in a series of enormously popular vampire love stories written by Stephenie Meyer. They now rest in peace before the final show stealing and probably one of the hottest Hollywood literary franchises since “Harry Potter.” The film, directed by Catherine Hardwicke stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Oscar winner Jamie Foxx and the band Paramore, who have a song on the soundtrack. The young actors,Stewart and Pattinson are treated with The Beatles style mania by fans. Last week, 10,000 kids literally mobbed them in a Dallas mall. They’ve been on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and several teen tabloids as well as all over MTV. Before the film actually hits the masses the stars are a real hit.

Industry speak suggests that half of Hollywood’s biggies missed “Twilight” and just let it go. The project was stalled for over a year. Twilight” was originally at Paramount’s MTV Films. Paramount reportedly wasted two years in developing before actually letting it all go. Paramountallowing the film slip through its hands brought it good times for the film. Former Paramount benefactors helped the film to develop. Karen Rosenfelt, a longtime Paramount production executive, and a veteran became attached with “Twilight” as a producer in fall 2006. There were several others like Summit Chief Executive Friedman, who’d been a top Paramount executive for years who came together. And the rest of “Twilight” remains to be seen if a history is in the making.

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Britney Spears

Britney Spears admitted that her new and controlled life is worse than life in prison. She also feels that life would have been easier to live in a cell. Her new life is “like Groundhog Day”. The much troubled star was tearfully open about her life post breakdown, in a new documentary.

Britney has come out of hellish life. She has taken awards and stunned her bedazzled fans with her rise. She also said how her entire life was dedicated to freedom. She always wanted to be free and her present status is making things worse for her “freedom” to live her life on her terms. She said : “If you do something wrong in your work, you can move on, but I’m having to pay for a long time…I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.”

The stunning 26 year old pop beauty feels that people only needed to payback when they did something wrong in their work but she felt that she was suffering for a long time and her paying back seems like an “endless” thing.
Britney who is to perform on X Factor next weekend, believes that she was being payed back for her public meltdown when she shaved her head and lost custody of her two sons. The paying was still going on which reflects in her “controlled” life, Britney feels.

She added in the end : “I think I’ve learnt my lesson now and enough is enough.”

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Coldplay

Coldplay has expressed their desire to play with Take That. They are planning to perform on a big stadium show. Coldplay frontman has posted on the band’s website : “I would open for Take That. We were in the dressing room the other day and, for whatever reason, we started singing ‘Back For Good.’” Chris has written that he would love to perform in a show next summer.

Chris Martin wants to use the Coldplay website as their platform to “…announce that if Take That want us to open for them, we’ll do it…”

Coldplay had failed in an attempt to book legendary concert venue Knebworth House, in Hertfordshire, England. They had planned long before for their proposed 2009 tour. Presently they are looking for the right venue. Take That will perform at London’s Wembley Stadium, Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium and Sunderland’s Stadium of Light.

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The Beatles

After 41 years an unreleased Beatles track could be made public. All thanks to former Beatles, Paul McCartney. The track was so far regarded as one that was “mythical” by The Beatles fans. But the mythical track awaits the light of release.

Paul McCartney has come out with one of the Beatles’ most revered track (according to Paul). He told BBC Radio that “Carnival of Light” was The Beatles at their most free, “going off piste.”

Paul said that would be great for the track to be made public. He believes that the track was the most ” avant-garde stuff. ” The song was reportedly recorded at London’s Abbey Road studios four decades back.

Paul has confirmed that the master track is with him. The “mythical” track (as regarded by several Beatles fans) which was assumed to be a piece of musical that was not to be found has finally come out. The 14-minute track was made for an electronic music festival. This was the only occasion where the music was made public.

The sound as suggested by McCartney is more like an echo of notes. Beatles recorded the track keeping in mind all forms of stuff. There was a little bit of everything in it starting from bang,boom,shout,hovering over piano chords and all in one.

Paul Mccartney

The track in order to be made public requires a nod from Ringo Starr, and an agreement from the estates of John Lennon and George Harrison. “Carnival of Light” was a track that according to BBC was to be included on The Beatles’ Anthology compilations in the mid-1990s but the band members had then vetoed against it.

Paul McCartney ended his interview with Radio 4’s Front Row culture show in an interview to be broadcast on Thursday by saying : “The time has come for it to get its moment.”

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Jennifer Aniston John Mayer

Jennifer Aniston finally breaks the ice. She has an open secret. Nowadays whenever she is asked about her personal life or anything in line with her relation with Mayer, she bursts out saying : “People need to mind their own business.”

Aniston,39, had a traumatic period post break up with Mayer. But the recent gossip mill surrounding her and Mayer suggests that the actress is going steady with her boyfriend John Mayer. Rumours were abound that she was pregnant with Mayer’s child.

Her interview with Vogue (to be featured in December) she has even said, “I Feel Seriously Protective” of Mayer.

Aniston added : “It’s funny when you hit a place in a relationship and you both realize [that] we maybe need to do something else, but you still really, really love each other. It’s painful. There was no malicious intent. I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that’s where it is.” Aniston says that she is overly practical in love in the present times.

Aniston says she’s been “unbelievably lucky in love” but her practicality about the subject reflects in her statements : “Whoever said everything has to be forever,” “That’s setting your hopes too high. It’s too much pressure. And I think if you put that pressure on yourself … that’s unattainable.”

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Nanette Burstein

All the major directors are getting ready for a busy 2009 film schedule. Despite shaky economic conditions the major ones are getting into production. There is absolutely no dearth of interest or enthusiasm for the coming year’s film activity in the film circuit. The flurry of signing ins and production madness are already turning out to be a dampener for the economic depression majorly in the US.

Among the directors signing projects that have been revealed this week goes like this:

Greg Mottola will direct the ET comedy “Paul” for Working Title and Universal Pictures. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the duo behind “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” will star.

Greg Mottola

Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell will helm “Nagasaki Deadline,” an action thriller that will be financed by Alcon Entertainment and co-produced with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and 8:38 Prods.

New Line Cinema has pulled in documentarian Nanette Burstein (”American Teen”) to direct the romantic comedy “Going the Distance,” with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot producing via their Offspring Entertainment shingle.

Inspite of the strikes carried out by SAG and the fact that Feature productions are slowing down there has been a serious attempt to fight against the strike. Studios are putting in and around 40 films into production in the spring and summer.

Motolla’s “Paul” will be filmed from mid-April in New Mexico. Story revolves around two British slackers who, after visiting Comic-Con, go on a road trip to Area 51, where they encounter a small alien named Paul, who enlists them to help him find his way home.
Campbell (”Casino Royale”) will return to work on “Nagasaki”. “Distance,” a romantic comedy under New Line production which will likely go into production early next year, re-teams Shankman and Gibgot with New Line after they produced the upcoming “17 Again.” It was a bold decision taken by New Line to tap a documentarian.

Despite a serious stoppage in feature film activity the above mentioned scenario is sure to lighten the mood and joyously mark the return of filmic activity despite aborted circumstances.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen helped raising more than $100,000 for wounded war veterans on Wednesday. He turned out to be one good generous rocker when he threw his leather jacket in a charity auction.

Bob Woodruff Foundation had organized the New York Comedy Festival where the legendary star took part. The show also saw

appearances by funnyman Ricky Gervais, U.S. TV presenter Regis Philbin and Saturday Night Live comic Darrell Hammond.

But Springsteen simply highlighted the show. He rode onstage on his 1994 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which he later donated for the sale.

Guest auctioneer Whoopi Goldberg helped get the initial proceedings. But bidding on the powerful motorbike stalled at $40,000 when the all so  kind-hearted hero of the day, Springsteen literally sold the clothes off his back and took off the leather jacket he was wearing to boost the sales. The two items eventually sold for $70,000.

But
Bruce was not over yet with his generosity. CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour handed over $50,000 for The Boss’ autographed guitar.

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Beyonce Knowles

Beyonce Knowles has finally brought out the kitty out of her bag. She has revealed how difficult the times were when she was the lead singer for Destiny’s Child. She insisted that she was not the one to blame. In 1999 LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson broke out of the band. Both of them filed suit against the band’s manager and Knowles’ father, Matthew, claiming favoritism.

The singer said that she was young then and was definitely an easy target. So everyone had blamed her for their departure. Knowles and band mate Kelly Rowland had already risen to superstardom with new member Michelle Williams. She said she and her father had tried to bring together the band which lived like a family all the time they were a band.

She said she was to be blamed because she was the lead singer : “…That was the first time I had to deal with rumors and people attacking me. I was an 18-year-old kid, so I didn’t understand it was just a part of this life and it wasn’t personal. I didn’t have a thick skin yet. I was so embarrassed and wanted to defend myself and please everybody.”

The Destiny’s Child trio eventually parted ways in 2005. And Beyonce is not the one to take the pain of all the “blame game”. Her opening up about the split proves her being on the denial side. Till then we can count on the other former band members’ reactions after they read about it all !

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The 9 striking performances along with a funny and “fruity” debut performance by the host Katy Perry, the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards was a blast last night. Between the performances the pranks and chaff  from the VIP bar at the Glamour Pit added to the wit of the show.

The 15th  MTV Europe Music Awards was opened by  Katy Perry, who came riding on  a Cherry Chapstick surrounded by cheerleaders in a performance of ‘I Kissed A Girl’. Beyoncé stole the hearts of millions with her third performance at  MTV EMAs. She fascinated the audience with a heartwarming performance of new single ‘If I Were A Boy’.  Take That was a show stealer even after their 15 years break. They made a come back to the EMAs hypnotizing the audience with an exclusive first performance of their new single, ‘Greatest Day’. The Killers performed ‘Human’ in a steel box installation that came with an arresting three dimensional visual. The versatility of the set  was revealed after the screen was unveiled up to reveal the performance of the band.

Among the debutant performers Kanye West and Estelle both made a remarkable entry. They performed ‘Love Lockdown,’ and ‘American Boy’ in style with full vigor. The Ting Tings, also had their debut performance, who performed their hit single, ‘That’s Not My Name’. ‘So Hot’, the  new single of  Kid Rock, received huge applaud from the audience. Duffy performed ‘Mercy’, which was her debut performance in the MTV Europe Music Awards. The Wombats  rocked the stage with a performance of a cover version of Leona Lewis’ ‘Bleeding Love’, establishing the  MTV’s love affair with Liverpool yet another time.

The closing performance by P!nk added to the grandeur of  the fifteenth MTV Europe Music Awards. Her spectacularly energetic performance of ‘So What’ simply stormed the audience. Raving from the  glamour pit through the crowds to the stage, P!nk  was soon joined by over 30 crazy fans who ended up in a pillow fight. In the end the whole audience were showered with 40,000 4-inch white feathers.

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Liz Hurley(Courtesy : Hello magazine )

Liz Hurley shows off her perfect tanned beach body. The 43 year old British actress has bared her beautifully tanned British body in a sultry photo shoot.  Hurley, mom of one, shot for a beachwear collection in India.  She says that she hates modeling for bikinis. In her recent interview in “Hello” magazine’s current issue she reveals that her husband Arun Nayar wants a child of their own. Liz, 43 spoke to Hello saying that her love for India was endless.

She talked about her plans to become a working farmer. “I love being Mrs Nayar,” she adds, in the intimate interview. She is presently in Rajasthan working on her new range. The interview with Hello includes amazingly fresh photographs of the stunningly beautiful British actress.

Liz on her exclusive interview revealed how she plans to get a perfect beach body by maintainig a good diet. She was eating “a lot less” and doing “a great deal more exercise”. Liz Hurley has requested Hello to donate to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for this interview.

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James Gray Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth Paltrow seems to set the red carpet straight. She dared to wear a see through black and white dress at the premiere of “Two Lovers” in Paris.

The dress was no where near subtle. Nothing more was left to imagine. revealing dresses are a part of tradition on the red carpet. But this time around Paltrow took it a bit far.

The 36-year-old was in loss of her usual pseudo-dignity. Her Pris premiere marks her return to work having two children Apple, four, and Moses, two with husband Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay.

She seemed desparate to show off and was seen smiling and waving off to fans standing beside U.S. director James Gray. She arrived at the Publicis cinema in Paris seemingly in a do not care attitude.

She had once admiited to being apprenhisive to return to the “cut-throat world” of Hollywood. She said: “Hollywood is pretty cut-throat and everybody’s got a short memory and there’s always somebody younger or hotter … or prettier or whatever.” So her dress fits the bill.

Her revealing outfit at the premieres is suggestively publicising her role in the film where she shows off one of her breasts.

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