Hollywood snippets

Posted on January 19, 2009
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I felt that instead of writing a small article here and there, it would be better to gather all Hollywood snippets and put them on the site as part of the news articles. Only the ones which are interesting in some form or the other would find place here and that also keeping in mind reader’s sentiments. Do let me know if some artilce interests you more or can be more informative in some form or better. Thanks and happy reading.

Tom Cruise says he grew up wanting to kill Hitler


Tom Cruise, who fails to assassinate Adolph Hitler in his new movie Valkyrie, said he grew up really wanting to kill the Nazi leader.In the World War II thriller based on a true story of the unsuccessful attempt by German soldiers to kill Hitler, Cruise plays Colonel Claus Von Stauffenber who plants a briefcase bomb under a table at Hitler’s military headquarters.A heavy wooden table saves Hitler and Stauffenberg is executed with his co-conspirators. “I always wanted to kill Hitler, I hated him,” the Hollywood star of such major blockbusters as Top Gun and Mission Impossible, told the press during a visit to Seoul to promote his latest film. “As a child studying history and looking at documents, I wondered, why didn’t someone stand up and try to stop it? When I read the script, it was entertaining and informative to know what the challenges were and what it was like to be in the environment.”

Kate Moss poses topless for 2009 Pirelli calendar

London: Kate Moss has bared her breasts to pose for the 2009 edition of Pirelli calendar.The supermodel stripped for the raunchy photoshoot shot in a Botswana nature reserve, reports News of the World.The animal-themed shoot had been made in a luxury Elephant-Camp during first week of May 2008.Incidentally, the supermodel recently threw her 35th birthday bash based on animal theme at her North London home. The Pirelli calendar, which often features nude models, was first published in 1964 and is distributed to a select group of 30,000 people each year.

Nude photo of 20-year-old Madonna on auction block
New York: A nude photo of Madonna, taken before erotic songs and risque costumes catapulted her to superstardom, is expected to sell for at least $10,000 (Rs 4.86 lakh), Christie’s auction house says.Madonna, then known as Madonna Louise Ciccone, may have earned as little as $25 (Rs 1,200) for the 1979 modelling session.The raw, full frontal black-and-white image, taken by Lee Friedlander, appeared in Playboy in 1985 and is to be auctioned on February 12. Madonna was a 20-year-old dancer trying to make ends meet when she answered Friedlander’s newspaper ad seeking a nude model, said Matthieu Humery, head of Christie’s photography department.Humery said this week that six photos from the shoot were sold to Playboy and the one up for auction is “maybe the most explicit one.”

“For Friedlander it is a very typical way of taking pictures of a woman,” he said. “He likes very natural women. It reflects Friedlander’s aesthetic.“There’s not a hint of glamorizing,” he added. “That’s what makes it powerful.”He said he knows of no other prints of the black-and-white photo.Friedlander has said of the photo session that Madonna “seemed very confident, a street-wise girl. She told me she was putting a band together but half the kids that age are doing that. She was a good professional model.”The other five pictures from the Playboy spread were sold together in 2003 for $7,170 (Rs 3.48 lakh).Another, later photo of Madonna, by Helmut Newton, is in the auction and is also expected to fetch $10,000 to $15,000. In that shot, also sold to Playboy, Madonna is wearing lingerie, curly blond hair and a seductive expression. A man kneels beside her.The Madonna photos are among 150 images by some of the biggest names in photography that are being sold from the collection of Leon and Michaela Constantiner.Last month, more than 350 photographs from the New York couple’s collection were auctioned. One highlight was a collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe that were taken by Bert Stern for Vogue magazine the year Monroe died. They sold for $146,500 (Rs 71 lakh). Christie’s say the record auction price for a nude photo is the $1.6 million paid last year for Edward Weston’s 1925 “Nude.”

I haven’t had much success in love: Drew Barrymore

London: After two failed marriages and a string of broken romances, Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore has finally come to terms with being unlucky in love.Her most recent relationship, a 10-month romance with 30-year-old actor Justin Long, ended last summer and while he fell into the arms of actress Kirsten Dunst, Barrymore is still unattached, reports mirror.co.uk.I’ve been single for months now and my priorities have changed so much. I’ve turned my attention towards my friends and the causes I believe in. It’s been about learning who I am, not through a man but for myself. I’m happy with my priorities now, she said. Her two marriages — to Welsh-born bar owner Jeremy Thomas in March 1994 and comedian Tom Green in July 2001 — did not last long, while her boyfriends have included actors like Jamie Walters, Val Kilmer, Luke Wilson, and musicians Alec Pure and Eric Erlandson.

 

Pamela Anderson comes to rescue of stray dogs in Mumbai
Mumbai: Hollywood actress Pamela Anderson has come to the rescue of stray dogs after she learnt that the civic authorities under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act can kill stray dogs if they are causing “nuisance”.Anderson, in a letter to Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak, said that she has learnt from an Indian NGO, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), that street dogs of Mumbai may be caught and cruelly killed.”It is well established that killing stray dogs is not a permanent solution to control their population. According to studies conducted by World Health Organisation (WHO), mass sterilisation of stray animals is the most viable solution to nuisance and health concerns in addition to being more humane,” Anderson said in a letter. She also asked to promote a sterilisation programme for stray animals.Anderson said that the animal sex trade perpetrated by dog breeders and pet shops is a part of the problem and curbing it will help end animal overpopulation.

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