Ishqiya

Ishqiya is starring Vidya Balan, Naseruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi. Ishqiya is directed by Abhishek Chaubey and produced by Vishal Bharadwaj.

Ishqiya is a story about love arising in characters, portrayed uniquely according to their own personal traits. The situations in the plot lead the characters to experience the emotion creeping into their lives in the [...]

Hope and Help for Haiti

Hope and Help for Haiti by Susan Stackpole

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 – Port-au-Prince, Haiti is devastated by a 7.0 earthquake, and the word rushes to aid Haiti. Businesses, countries, celebrities, governments, governmental agencies, and individuals dig deep into their hearts and bank accounts to help Haiti. Loved ones wait prayerfully for information on the condition [...]

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci — A biography

Name-Monica Anna Maria Bellucci
She was born in 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, Bellucci originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to earn money for school, and this led to her modeling career. In 1988, she moved to one [...]

Holiday Love

By Susan Stackpole
When the star in the sky is gone,
When the Kings and Princes are home,
When the shepherds are back with their flocks,
The real work begins.
To find the lost,
To heal the broken,
To feed the hungry
To release the prisoner,
To teach the nations,
To bring [Love] to all,
To make music in the heart.
adapted from Howard Thurman’s “The [...]

Dirty Secrets : Part II

By Susan L. Stackpole (contd…)
Dr. Don-David Lusterman, author of “Infidelity: A Survival Guide”, explores the definitions of infidelity, inquiring, “Does a stolen kiss count? What about erotic chats with strangers online? A lap dance?” Lusterman suggests infidelity is defined as occurring when one member of a couple secretly violates the commitment to monogamy. Lusterman states, [...]

I can’t save the world from Climate Change

By Rowena Cherry
I tried when I was twenty eight years old. I purchased an acre of Rainforest. Well, I dare say that was about as much of a scam as if –instead– I’d bought a star and named it after myself!
No doubt, my certificate of ownership of an acre of rainforest wasn’t worth diddlysquat even [...]

Dirty Secrets : Part I

By Susan L. Stackpole
Does sexual fidelity correlate to respectability in Hollywood? Is bad press still better than no press? Can a celebrity career survive sexual indiscretion? Let’s ask Tiger Woods and other celebrities accused of cheating on their spouses. Woods’ name is on everyone’s lips as his life has become fodder [...]

Extreme Entertainment

By Susan L. Stackpole
Is art imitating life or life imitating art?
Britney Spears’ video, “Three” features her in an extremely revealing white bathing suit singing of the innocence a sexual threesome, “What we do is innocent, just for fun and nothing meant.” Britney asks, “Are you in? Living in sin is the new [...]

New Moon Opens with a Bang

By Ronda Suder
It’s no secret that part two of the Twilight Saga, ‘New Moon’, opened with a big bang last weekend. With a whopping gross earnings of $141M* opening weekend, the film doubled the opening weekend gross earnings of its predecessor in the saga, ‘Twilight’. The high-grossing success of the movie didn’t stop with opening [...]

Life beyond the Darkness

By Amilya  Antonetti
When asked about how or where I found the where-with-all to birth Soapworks and take on Corporate America to bring in a “new way of thinking” to the consumer market, I can’t help but giggle. People see the success now that it’s happened, but I always need to remind folks that every moment in [...]

Entire universe as one

by Kimberly Aislinn Badgett
I am not a religious person and I do not believe in god but I do crave to understand the universe in such a way that empowers me to live in it both healthily as well as advantageously. The concept of religious faith has always troubled my desire for logical answers, and [...]

The love of her parents

By Sri Purna Widari
I remember Michelle Obama once said in her speech about the love of her parents which enables her to take a risk. A lot of times, I feel sad that I am raised in such parents who were not taught to express love and even worse they do not allow me to [...]

‘ P A Y IT F O R W A R D ‘ !!

Internet trivia from Heather Jay
In my 38 yrs I’ve learned…
That life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
That I should be glad that God doesn’t give me everything I ask for!
That money does not buy you class.
That it is the small daily happinings that [...]

Miss Plastic Hungary competition

It was a night for unnatural beauties. Contestants showed off breast implants, nose jobs and face lifts Friday as Miss Plastic Hungary 2009 strove to promote the benefits of plastic surgery in a country where artificial enhancements are viewed mostly with a wary eye. “I think this competition is long overdue,” said photographer Marton Szipal, [...]

Why celebrities matter ?

By Dr Robi Ludwig
I don’t know about you, but it’s sometimes easy to forget why celebrities really matter, especially after looking at countless tabloid magazines, endlessly showing who’s dating who and who’s wearing what. We forget the real point about being a celebrity is about the talent they bring to the world, rather then the [...]

Renaissance man by Leonora Veterano

By Dr Robi Ludwig
Dr. Glenn Losack is a very busy man telling the stories of the world, our world and you’re bound to listen. The seeker of truth is no way content in “just being a Doctor.” This physician, psychiatrist, photojournalist, musician, lecturer and charity worker just to name a few is on [...]

Wild Card with Patrick Swayze

By Susan Stackpole
Hollywood celebrities and fans across the world mourned the passing of the beloved Patrick Swayze, dance legend, movie icon, dedicated spouse, cancer warrior, lover of life, and wild card. Swayze died surrounded by his family after a brave struggle with pancreatic cancer. Stars including: Kirstie Alley, Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore, Jennifer [...]

Country Singer Kevin Skinner Wins 2009 America’s Got Talent Show

By Jennifer Akers
America’s Got Talent crowned country crooner Kevin Skinner. In season four, the AGT competition came down to two singers: Barbara Padilla and Kevin Skinner. Most fans correctly pinned these for the final two acts. Many favored Barbara’s pitch perfect opera to Skinner’s raw country. Host Nick Cannon paused, in typical nerve-wracking suspense, before [...]

INDONESIAN HOTTEST COUPLE OF THE YEAR

by SRI PURNA WIDARI
I wrote about Luna Maya before but now it I will expose her controversial relationship with one of the most wanted bachelors in Indonesia Ariel Peter Pan. Ariel is the lead vocalist of a notorious pop rock band Peter Pan. This group was officially founded on September 1st 2000 in Bandung where [...]

He’s just not that into you

By Sri Purna Widari
I am all about women empowerment. I will watch everything about strong and independent women who survive through all the pain in their childhoods, romances, and female discrimination. all women in the world need to realize their own strength and understanding their values.
He is not into you is a must when you have [...]

Coco Chanel the movie

By Sri Purna Widari
For a broken hearted woman like me, this movie helps me to heal my pain. This woman Coco Channel has really guided me to stay strong and determined in all that I want to achieve in life. It is started with Coco who wanted to show the world that after two [...]

Two for the Weekend -’Love Khichdi’ and ‘Daddy Cool’

By E. Nina Rothe
There are two fun Hindi films opening this weekend, light and easy. The first - ‘Love Khichdi’ is touted as a true ‘date movie’ by some of the bloggers in India and I’ll allow them to tell me what they know best. The second ‘Daddy Cool’ is with a favorite, though highly [...]

Engendered Presents I-View Film in NYC

By E. Nina Rothe
Come this weekend, everyone who knows me also knows where to find me: At Lincoln Center, bum flatter for the wear and heart happier for the view, watching South Asian cinema at its best. That’s when the I-View Film festival organized by the Engendered organization for Human Rights takes over the Stanley [...]

Independence

By Amilya Antonetti
Choosing the theme for July was easy for me; Independence. But as I started to think about what I wanted to say, I realized that the word independence has so many meanings in my life. My brother is a Marine and my grandfather and Uncle both served in the military so I was [...]

‘Sikandar’ Shoots Straight to the Heart

by Nina Rothe
One late afternoon this past April, I flopped down into my seat at the Hollywood Arclight cinema, weary and exhausted from a full schedule of movie-watching during one of my favorite film festivals — the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, IFFLA for short. As much as love the yearly event, this time [...]

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