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Howard Jacobson Takes Home Man Booker Prize

Howard Jacobson. Photo credit: channel4.com

This year’s prestigious British Man Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded to sixty eight year old Howard Jacobson for his comic novel “The Finkler Question.” This is the first comic novel to receive the award in the history of the “Booker prize,” which has even sparkled a debate in Britain as to why the Booker’s [...]

October 15th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Kate Moss Denies Wedding Rumors

Kate Moss & Jamie Hince. Photo credit: Andrew Ross

According to British The DailyStar, the famous super model Kate Moss has vehemently denied rumors she married her long-time boyfriend, 40-year-old guitarist of the Kills, Jamie Hince. Numerous media reports commented on Kate’s wedding ceremony which allegedly took place on the Italian island of Sicily in the Mediterranean sea. According to the reports, it was [...]

October 15th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Courteney Cox Splits up with Hubby David Arquette

Courteney Cox. Photo credit: Felicia C. Sullivan, wikimedia.org

David Arquette and Courteney Cox have decided to part ways, after almost eleven years of marriage, according to the couple’s joint statement. In the statement, the couple said a trial separation has been worked out a little while ago, indicating they needed time to better understand each other as the reason for separation. Elaborating further [...]

October 12th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Lost Michelangelo’s Painting Found Behind Sofa

The lost masterpiece attributed to Michelangelo

A Michelangelo’s painting depicting Madonna’s mourning of Christ has been kept behind a sofa for almost thirty years at the home of a retired US Air Force pilot Martin Kober. The painting has been hanging for generations in the family living room until one of the children accidently knocked it off the wall with a [...]

October 12th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Famous Opera Diva Joan Sutherland Dies Aged 83

Photo credit: Allan Warren, wikimedia.org

The Australian-born opera  diva Joan Sutherland died last Sunday at the age of 83 after a long battle with an unidentified illness at her home in Geneva, Switzerland. Many music experts agree that Sutherland was simply the best coloratura soprano in the world, while the late Povarotti called her “the voice of the century,” during [...]

October 11th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Kusturica Leaves Film Festival in Turkey Amid Scandal

Emir Kusturica. Photo credit: Emir Kusturica

The famous Serbian film director Emir Kusturica was forced to leave Antalya ( Turkey) on Sunday, after he has become embroiled in a scandal. Kusturica was supposed to serve on the jury of the “Goldern Orange” International film festival, and participate in several workshops with film students, when some public associations and Turkish Ministry of [...]

October 11th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Angus T. Jones Becomes Highest Paid Child Star on TV

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The kid playing Charlie Sheen’s nephew on the popular CBS show Two and a Half Men has become the highest paid child star on the modern day TV. Angus T. Jones, known as Jake on the show, will be paid cool $300,000 per each episode. The young TV star has just turned seventeen, and, despite [...]

October 9th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Michael Douglas Finishes Up Throat Cancer Treatment

Michael Douglas. Photo credit: wikimedia.org

According to the latest media reports, the famous Hollywood actor Michael Douglas is finishing up advanced throat cancer treatment. Douglas, who started his treatment back in August, is now said to be on the last radiation and chemotherapy rounds, with the last round scheduled for next week. According to the actor’s publicist, once the active [...]

October 9th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Vienna Opera Fires Ballerina For Racy Pics in Men`s Magazine

Vienna Opera stairs. Photo credit: Svein-Magne Tunli

The Vienna State Opera`s ballet management have decided to part ways with Karina Sarkissova after she has appeared in the nude for a men`s magazine. The management of the one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world says it has warned the ballerina on a couple of occasions but Sarkissova has chosen to [...]

October 8th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »

Online Film Critics Select 100 Best Directorial Debuts

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The association of American film critics – Online Film Critics Society – has compiled a list of the one hundred best directorial debuts in the history of cinema. The rating is based on the online voting, where the voters were asked to select the most memorable, innovative and provocative movies of all times. In a [...]

October 6th, 2010 | Posted in Culture & Showbiz,Featured News | Read More »