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Sharon Stone to endorse Dior products
Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has become the latest 40-plus star to sign up for a new beauty ad campaign.
Amitabh Bachchan turns 64
Tuesday,
October 11, 2005: (Mumbai):
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, iconised as Bollywood's "angry young man" for all times to come and mesmerizing cinemagoers
cutting across all ages, today turned 64.
The actor was flooded with flowers, phone calls and cards greeting him on
his birthday.
An admirer even cycled from Delhi to
Mumbai to wish Amitabh on his birthday while another fan plans to write a 25-km-long letter to the star and personally hand
it over to 'Big B'.
"On his birthday, the actor will be shooting for KBC II. Later, he will be leaving for New York with his son Abhishek to join the crew of Kabhi Alvida
Naa Kehna," Amitabh's office said.
Craig
to be new James Bond
Friday, October
14, 2005: (London):
Actor Daniel Craig has been unveiled as the new James Bond.
The English star of gangster film Layer Cake
arrived at a press conference in London by speedboat to be
confirmed as the next 007.
Producers announced last year that they were seeking a replacement for Pierce Brosnan,
who has played the smooth-talking British spy in the last four Bond films.
Since then, rumor has linked many actors
to the part, including British actors Clive Owen, Daniel Craig, Colin Farrell and Australian Hugh Jackman
Superman
returns to earth next June
Monday, October
10, 2005: (New Delhi):
Superman, the Man
of Steel, is all set to sweep into Next Generation, staging a comeback to earth next June after a gap of several years, in
an action adventure.
The film, Superman Returns, was shot in and around Sydney
mid-August and will be released by Warner Bros on June 30, next year.
"Rather than being a remake of the original
movie, the film explores Superman's influence on our global culture and the impact of his return to earth after an absence
of several years" says director Bryan Singer.
Following a mysterious absence of several years, one of the world's
most beloved superheroes comes back to earth.
While an old enemy plots to render him powerless once and for all, Superman
faces the heartbreaking realisation that he loves, Lois Lane,
has moved on with her life, a Warner Bros release said.
Superman's return challenges him to bridge the distance between
them while finding a place in a society that has learned to survive without him.
In an attempt to protect the world
he loves from cataclysmic destruction, Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption, that takes him from the depths of
the ocean to the far reaches of the outer space. (PTI)
Ronnie
Barker passes away
Wednesday,
October 5, 2005: (London):
British comedian Ronnie Barker, half of the long-established and much-loved duo The Two Ronnies has died at
the age of 76, his agent said on Tuesday.
Rosalind Chatto said Barker died Monday after a long period of heart trouble.
Barker
had a busy career on the West End stage and in radio before moving into comedy as part of
the classic 1960s TV shows The Frost Report and Frost on Sunday.
There he met Ronnie Corbett, and in
1971 the pair became The Two Ronnies. Their program ran for a dozen series over 16 years, and at its peak was watched
by 17 million viewers.
Jodie
Foster flies high at Berlin premiere
Thursday,
October 13, 2005: (Berlin):
Jodie Foster was in Berlin for the German premiere
of her latest movie Flightplan.
Returning to the big screen for the first time since the critically acclaimed
Panic Room, Foster gives another strong performance in the claustrophobic Hitchcock style thriller by German director
Robert Schwentke.
It's been three years since we last saw the Oscar winning actress, a move, which she says was done
to protect her sanity.
"I think it's a good amount of time, it's good to leave it and come back and leave it and come
back, I've been working for a ling time so I think if I did nothing but work I'd be crazy," she said.
The film, which
has already done very well at the US box office, is set at 40,000 feet
on a flight from Berlin to New York.
Kyle Pratt (Foster) faces every mother's worst nightmare when her young daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) vanishes mid-flight.
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