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Hollywood hues
IN keeping with the image of the jet-setting professional of the new millennium, Hollywood has taken to spectacles with enthusiasm. Square ones, round ones, vintage ones and bizarre ones are all a part of the dream town’s fashion accessory. Tom Cruise, Richard Gere, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwrazenegger, Denzil Washington, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and Jean-Claude Van Damme are all wearing them. The glasses they wear are no coolers but regular spectacles. These focals, bifocals, convex and concave lenses are fast becoming a fashion statement. In real-life, too, actors like Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Al Pacino, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfieffer, Bruce Willis and Daryl Hannan won’t be seen without specs. And the manufacturers of the starry look-alike specs are laughing all the way to the bank. The Stallone frames cost
around $400 each, while the Denzil Washington pair is around $350. The
one’s that Demi Moore wears come for a whopping $700 a pair while
Meryl Streep’s are at a more affordable $ 250. And the good news for
the manufacturers is that the trend has just begun and is likely to last
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Dress circle
Alarmed by the theft of the famous fluttering dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and also the skin-tight sequined dress she wore when she sang a breathless ‘Happy Birthday’ to President John Kennedy in 1962, the custodian of Monroe’s estate, Anna Strassberg, widow of the renowned acting coach Lee Strassberg, has decided to auction some of her stunning apparel in a bid to save it from the hands of thieves. The first wearable to go on a combined celebrity sale was a bra worn by Monroe in Some Like It Hot and it went for an amazing $ 20,000. The same U.S. Memorabilia company is offering a silk slip worn by Judy Garland in Easter Parade for $ 3,500. But items of underwear which belonged to Cher cost just $120 each. Now, there’s a true measure of star quality! Jerry’s hall of fame
From a cowboy’s moll to a waitress to the most expensive face in the world, leggy Jerry Hall has come a long way. But now she’s getting a little tired of it all. Especially of being known just as Mick Jagger’s former wife. In fact, ever since she split with Jagger in 1999 after a nine-year marriage she is going around with British millionaire Hugo Swire. Jerry says she broke up the marriage as she was fed up of Jagger’s secret love affairs and finally decided to annul her marriage and concentrate on her film career. Not that she’s new to films. In the nineties she had important roles in hit films like The Holocroft Covenant, Marathon Man and She’s The Boss. She’s picked up prestigious projects like The Blue Mountain, A Life Unfinished and For Pete’s Sake. Now, having finally broken free of Jagger she is determined to make a bid for acting’s hall of fame. Rowling’s fortune There’s nothing stopping her now. Just four years ago she was a penniless writer who didn’t have money even to get Xerox copies of her manuscript she was writing. Now she has perhaps lost count of the wealth she has. And the reason for the reversal of fortune is a young magician called Harry Potter — the character she created who has whipped up a storm in publishing akin to Alice In Wonderland, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz? Her Harry Potter series have sold upwards of 160 million copies in 47 languages and earned J.K. Rowling a record $ 77 million making her one of the highest earning women in the world. Her annual income is six times that of Queen Elizabeth. Nobody knew of Rowling before 1996. She was a struggling Scottish writer who had never published a book. Like many other struggling writers, this single mother living on state security pension in Edinburgh dreamt of writing a fantasy book for children. And her dream has come so true that it has almost turned into fantasy. Voice over
Sean Connery has never raised his voice on the sets. Ever since his 007 days, he has nursed a secret fear that he may lose his voice. Connery has been undergoing laser treatment. But this time the doctors warned him that if he did not go for radiation therapy, it could result in cancer. In any case the repeated use of laser surgery could cause scars on the vocal cord which would result in the permanent impairment of his voice. Now after the six-week treatment Connery looks, fit and healthy again. Doctors, however, say that it will take at least two years to determine whether the radiation treatment has succeeded or not. Which means that Connery will have to be extra careful about eating and speaking for a couple of years. Though he can easily handle that, drinks are his problem. Known to guzzle like the Scottish do, Connery has been warned that he can kiss his voice goodbye if he continues his wild ways with the bottle. — Newsmen Features |
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Hollywood seems to have
started a contest of selecting the best male kisser. First Halle Berry
cast her vote for Pierce Brosnon saying that she virtually swooned every
time he kissed her in Tomorrow Never Dies. Then Demi Moore talked
of Robert Redford’s delicious kisses in Indecent Proposal. The
latest lady to cast her vote for the best kisser award is Angelina Jolie
who says Antonio Banderas made her feel like jelly when their lips met
in The Original Sin. Now Salma Hayek has put her stamp of
approval on Banderas as well, saying that no one has kissed her the way
he did in Desparado. Now you know what the phrase "Sealed
with a kiss" means.
