Canadian singer and occasional songwriter and actress, Celine Dion has been conferred an honorary doctorate in music by Laval University in Quebec City.  The award was given to Dion on Thursday, August 21. The day after, she was scheduled to perform for free at the 400th birthday celebrations ...

Singer Ricky Martin giving birth to twin boys via a surrogate mother is going to act as fuel for re-igniting rumors about him being a gay. Nevertheless the Grammy Award winning Puerto Rican singer is reportedly elated and has taken a break from work and public spotlight to spend time with his ...

Soccer star David Beckham ruled a recent poll that was conducted to find out which male celebrity has got the best abs. There may be many gorgeous looking men around in the media, film and fashion world, but the dashing British footballer beat them all to emerge as the winner of the poll conducted ...

After successfully pairing Abhishek and Aishwarya in Guru, Mani Ratnam is next going to feature the couple as Ram and Sita in his upcoming film that is based on the epic, Ramayana. For the role of hanuman, one hears the veteran Tamil director had roped in the much loved and pudgy ...

The UNESCO has presented India’s Girish Karnad with the ambassadorship of its International Theatre Institute. Karnad, who is now nearing 70, is counted amongst the veterans of Indian TV, theatre and cinema. A number of plays composed by Girish Karnad have received international awards and ...

Bollywood’s golden pair Sridevi and Anil Kapoor set hearts racing when their film Mr India hit the silver screen in 1987. A sequel of the movie starring the same actors is now being made and a similar response is avidly awaited. This film would also mark a comeback for one of India’s ...

The Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone is being linked up with a guy who is less than half her age. It is reported by contactmusic.com that 50 year old Sharon Stone is dating 24 year old Chase Dreyfous. Though the high profile Hollywood actress is maintaining silence on this issue, the guy in ...

The Harry Potter actor, Daniel Radcliffe has revealed in a recent interview that he suffers from a brain disorder called dyspraxia that impedes organization of movement. Fortunately for Radcliffe as well as his millions of fans the world over, his dyspraxia is in a very mild form. Dyspraxia ...

LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist and one of the founding members of the highly popular Dave Matthews band (DMB), died on Tuesday, August 19. He was 46 years old. In June, Moore had met with a serious ATV accident at Charlottesville, Virginia, which resulted in a punctured lung and broken ribs. ...

Germany is soon going to see a clash of titans from the kingdom of Bollywood. The termination of the much-touted world concert tour of the Bachchan family ‘The Unforgettable’ in Germany will be followed by Shahrukh Khan’s own global tour Temptation Reloaded. SRK’s troupe has ...

Fans of Shahrukh Khan who could not read his biography ‘Still Reading Khan’ just because it is priced exorbitantly can look forward to grabbing its sequel, Shah Rukh Can. Just like the prequel (costing Rs 3000), Shah Rukh Can too has been authored by good friend Mushtaq Shiekh but ...

The winning of a phenomenal eight gold medals at the ongoing Beijing Olympic Games by 23-year-old American swimmer Michael Phelps has brought him praise, adulation in tow with endorsement offers worth approximately 100 million dollars. At least, that is the figure which his agent Peter Carlisle ...

Jade Goody who was in controversy last time for her racially discriminatory comments on another participant Shilpa Shetty in Bigg Boss reality show has been detected with Cancer. In consequence she has to sit out of the reality show now. Reportedly, this 27 year old lady, and a mother of two kids ...

Farhan and Zoya Akhtar’s forthcoming film Luck By Chance is going to be a rather special one as it will feature their father Javed Akhtar and his wife veteran actress Shabana Azmi in guest appearances. Farhan will be producing Luck By Chance, whereas sister Zoya will be making her directorial ...

Recent statements from Irish singer Brian McFadden have created controversy. Recently, he in some function in New Zealand opined that men should not wear pink color clothes for pink is like red which is a homosexual color. Gay rights activists have taken it sensitively and have accused him for his ...

The 11th Rajiv Gandhi Annual Award for contribution to Indian cinema was presented to actors Saif Ali Khan, Lara Dutta and Darsheel Safary during a gala function organized in Mumbai. The biggies from the political fray as well as Bollywood were present at the event.
 
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Following the recent ruling of California's Supreme Court labeling the previous ban on gay marriage as unconstitutional, popular American television talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wedded her longtime actor girlfriend Portia de Rossi in Los Angeles. It was in May during the taping of a hit show that ...

American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey accidentally revealed a bit too much than she wanted to during her second honeymoon at Capri with hubby Nick Cannon. Carey, who is famous and envied for her toned body, soaked up the warm sun and took dips in the Mediterranean.   
 
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After debuting as an actor in the film Aap Ka Suroor - The Real Love Story that was a semi-hit, singer Himesh Reshammiya has turned to acting again. The buzz is that Subhash Ghai-directed Hindi film Karz is being remade as Karzzz and that it will have Himesh Reshammiya as the lead actor. For a ...

Record producer Jerry Wexler has died of congestive heart failure at the age of 91. He has been the record producer for performers such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin. Jim Henke, VP and chief curator for the Hall of Fame commenting on Wexler said that he played a major role in bringing black ...

Sandy Allen may be the tallest woman in the world but her age was certainly not. At the age of 53, the woman from Shelbyville, who boasted her 2.31 meter height in Guinness World Record, died on Wednesday at a private nursing home in Indiana.
 
Allen, once appealed to Guinness World Records ...

Pop diva Madonna has reinvigorated her plans to adopt a three year old Malawian girl. The woman, who gave the world block buster hits like Papa Don’t Preach, is adamant about bringing Mercy James home. Presently, the Malawian girl lives in the same African country from where she adopted her ...

Veteran Indian actor Kamal Hassan may soon be seen in a martial arts film and that too an Indo-Japanese one. One hears that Bharatbala will produce and direct this film, which will also star the Japanese megastar Tadanobu Asano.
 
Tadanobu Asano is widely known for playing a Samurai in the ...

The Deepika Padukone fans are soon going to see her in a new avatar. One hears the lady was adamant about performing tough stunts all by herself in her forthcoming movie Chandni Chowk To China. Director Nikhil Advani is all praise for the Padukone girl, who is heard to have performed the stunts ...

As wife to the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, former supermodel, singer cum songwriter Carla Bruni is well aware of her duties and responsibilities. Though she recently released her latest music album Comme Si de Rien N'etait (As if nothing has happened) in French, Carla Bruni has stated that ...

Sources spill that the former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is in love and is contemplating marriage. One hears he is just hooked to Nancy Shevell, his new love interest and has even apprised his daughter Stella about it. ‘Paul’s utterly enchanted with Nancy and he’s already rolling ...

A recent poll conducted by the international magazine Verve has voted the sexy and sensuous Kareena Kapoor as the ‘most powerful personality of Bollywood.’ It sure indicates who will be the Hindi filmdom’s next reigning diva!
 
The contest also saw Katrina Kaif being ...

To promote the young, vibrant and dynamic India on the global stage, the Tourism Ministry has roped in actor Aamir Khan to be the face of its multi-pronged campaign Incredible India. The Incredible India is a multi-million dollar media campaign created to inform the tourists across the globe about ...

The recent passing away of noted American soul and funk singer cum songwriter Isaac Hayes has come like an unexpected jolt to the music industry. Hayes was 65 years old. As per sources he collapsed near a treadmill in his home located just east of Memphis, though what exactly caused the death is ...

As the latest symbol of their love, Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan and DJ girlfriend Samantha Ronson have got similar tattoos etched out on their hands. The lesbian couple began dating last year and announced just recently that they are planning to walk down the aisle.  
 
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