…And that’s all that everyone’s been wondering eversince the Miss Universe pageant had some of the contestants pose topless with body paint covering their assets. While the organizers’ argument has been ‘the pictures were a form of artistic expression of beauty’, there are others arguing, if the pageant hasn’t really boiled down to presenting women [...]
Every story eventually gets mythologized, especially when it comes to the history of popular music groups and performers. The history of the most popular band of all times The Beatles also became a subject of this mandatory mythologizing. Here’s an example of one such myth. Many sources on the Internet claim that Beatlemania started on [...]
It has been reported that 14-year old, Rebecca Javeleau of England recently posted an event on Facebook inviting her close friends to her birthday party. She received a little more than expected when almost 21,000 Facebook users RSVP’d to her invitation. This incident occurred as the teenager forgot to mark her birthday party as a [...]
‘I worked a lot on my forearms because I knew there was going to be a lot of gripping, a lot of wrestling, a lot of holding.’ Sylvester Stallone holds up a pair of beefy fists to demonstrate the fine art of action-hero gripping. ‘I wasn’t planning on taking my shirt off, so I decided [...]
M.I.A. has claimed that the Sri Lankan government is forcing her fans to remove her videos from YouTube. The ‘XXXO’ singer told The Guardian that the UPFA-led government is exploiting its technological awareness to suppress her fans’ uploads, only leaving those from official channels like Vevo. M.I.A. said: “They buried my ‘Paper Planes’, none of [...]
It’s not been very long that Indian skipper MS Dhoni tied the knot to Sakshi Rawat. However, the media has already embroiled him in a web of controversy. With the ongoing India-Sri Lanka series being played in Galle, Sri Lanka, MS Dhoni, as luck would have it, was put up at the same hotel as [...]
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has begun shooting his latest film “Ready” in Sri Lanka, weeks after the Indian ocean island hosted the annual Bollywood awards that drew protests from South Indian film artists. The film, directed by Anees Bazmee, also stars South Indian actress Asin Thottumkal and Paresh Rawal. The story is woven around Prem [...]
There’s a reason M.I.A. is so angry. The controversial musician reveals that the recording of “/\/\/\Y/\” (a funky way of writing M.I.A.s real name, Maya) was influenced by death threats to her son, Ikhyd, reports the Huffington Post. The threats came after M.I.A. criticized the government in her native Sri Lanka. “People would write on Twitter [...]
Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi, who hopes to build schools for orphans and underprivileged children in Sri Lanka, visited the Vavuniya district in the north region to understand the needs of Tamil people there. ‘The Oberoi family is off to Vavuniya to spend the day understanding the needs of the Tamil people and to take our [...]
The IIFA awards in Sri Lanka may be overshadowed by a boycott call but former union minister Shashi Tharoor believes cinema should build bridges and act as ‘Ram Sethu’ between two countries. “Hindi cinema embodies India’s diversity and pluralism and film world should built a Ram Sethu of imagination,” said the Congress MP, who is [...]
Pageant organizers on Sunday night crowned a 24-year-old Lebanese immigrant from Michigan as Miss USA 2010. Rima Fakih was born in Lebanon, moved to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York City, where she attended a Catholic school. She told pageant organizers her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths. [...]
The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will hold a charity match between Indian celebrities and Sri Lankan cricketers here in June to help rehabilitate former Tamil Tiger child soldiers. The event will be held in conjunction with the Sri Lankan cricket board, NGO Habitat for Humanity and UNICEF. Bollywood star Salman Khan will be the [...]
Pamela Anderson and Damian Whitewood Last dance … Pamela Anderson and Damien Whitewood take to the floor. Photo: AP Perth dancer Damian Whitewood and his celebrity partner Pamela Anderson have been booted off Dancing with the Stars in the US. The pair, who stole the show early in the season with some saucy routines, have [...]
Iconic actor Amitabh Bachchan Tuesday announced that an annual roadshow of the Indian film industry will be held in Sri Lanka. Bollywood superstars will converge in Colombo June 3-5 for the International Indian Film Academy or IIFA. Bachchan said that the festival is held in different countries each year to introduce Indian cinema to the [...]
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