MUMBAI: Can you name the most-kissed couple in Bollywood? No prizes for guessing! Lovebirds Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor are on a kissing spree of late, and that too with other actors.Yes, Saif-Kareena have kissed 15 times in just two films. Just on the heels of Kareena kissing Akshay Kumar 10 times in their recently released film Kambakkht Ishq, Saif is said to have kissed Deepika Padukone five times in their film Love Aaj Kal which is set for release tomorrow.
Kareena defended her kisses, saying that the script demanded it. Nobody complaint following the good opening the film witnessed. Now, the question is whether Saif’s kisses will pull in the crowds to the theatres.
You don’t have to wait for too long for the final verdict will be out tomorrow when it hits the theatres.
MUMBAI: Sanjay Gadhvi’s Seven Days in Paris has been shelved for the time being, sources in Bollywood say. Imran Khan and Katrina Kaif were signed up for this project earlier, but the sudden exit on Katrina threw the schedules haywire.
Ever since then, the director had been keen on roping in a well established actress to replace Kat. But with the shooting dates nearing,
Sanjay had not been able to find one that would suit the role. Owing to this, Seven Days in Paris, which was scheduled to begin in Paris during the first week of August, has been put on hold.
Johnny Reid and George Canyon lead the pack of nominees for the Canadian Country Music Association awards.
Reid leads all artists with six nods, including Single of the Year, Album of the Year for "Dance With Me," Songwriter of the Year, CMT Video of the Year for "A Woman Like You," Male Artist of the Year and the Fans' Choice Award.
George Canyon is nominated for five awards: Single of the Year, Album of the Year, CMT Video of the Year, Male Artist of the Year and Fans' Choice Award.
Also landing five nods is Victoria Banks on the strength of her debut album, When You Can Fly, which is up for Album of the Year.
Gord Bamford and Dean Brody also each scored four nominations, including respective nominations for the Rising Star award.
Actor and director Jason Priestley will host the awards in his hometown Vancouver on Sept. 13.
Performers scheduled for the awards include Reid, Canyon, Reba McEntire, Terri Clark, Doc Walker, Jessie Farrell, Martina McBride, Aaron Pritchett and Johnny Reid.
A full list of nominees is available at www.ccma.org.
PASADENA, Calif. -- Contrary to rumour, Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of such edifying film entertainment as Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, The Rock, Black Hawk Down, Beverly Hills Cop and Con Air is not accompanied wherever he goes by his very own personalized thunder-and-lightning storm -- though his studio logo does feature a stylized streak of lightning.
He's positively soft-spoken, in fact.
And when asked what he can do on the cable channel TNT with his new undercover-cop show Dark Blue that he can't do on, say, CBS, the stately -- and staid -- broadcast network that's home to his TV hits CSI, Cold Case and Without a Trace, Bruckheimer will offer only a tepid: "Well, I think (Dark Blue) is, you know, a real hard-hitting show. It's a tough show.
"And we love the people at TNT. They're terrific to us. So it's really a pleasure to be working with them."
Leaving aside the irony of Bruckheimer -- the godfather behind such quiet-sounding movie hits as Pearl Harbor, Top Gun and Armageddon -- making a TV drama series for a cable channel called TNT, the truth is that no one has their finger more on the pulse of what the North American public wants to see, in its movie theatres and on its TV screens.
And when the conversation turns toward popular entertainment -- what the mass audience wants to see, as opposed to the art house crowd -- Bruckheimer warms to his subject.
"Audiences just want to see good entertainment, whether it's a lighter show or a darker show. Especially in tough economic times, they want to lose themselves for an hour, or a half-hour.
"If we can make them laugh, that's one way. If we can involve them in a really interesting drama, that's another way. But it's all about entertainment. We love to laugh. We love great dramas. That isn't an on-and-off thing: It's always. If you look at the New York Times bestseller list, you'll see that the majority of bestsellers are murder mysteries, or something along those lines. Ever since the dime novels, and even before that, the public loves great mysteries."
Hit-making is an inexact science, Bruckheimer insists. "I never know what's going to be a hit."
One thing Bruckheimer does know is that audiences seem to respond well to characters who are tough to get a read on at first.
"You watch a movie like Serpico and you see where these police officers go undercover and they can't quite tell if they're the criminal or the good guy. Those kind of lives have always intrigued me, and I think they intrigue the public, too.
When Bruckheimer weighs a new TV show, he asks himself if it's a show he himself wants to see every week.
"I don't know what other people like to watch, but I know what I like to watch. That's my gauge for what we do. If I love the characters, if I love the storylines, I'm in."
Dark Blue is coming soon to a TV screen near you, on Citytv.
Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela, who is the newly crowned Miss Universe 2008 winner. video and a biography of Dayana below.
The gorgeous Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela, was crowned the 2008 Miss Universe winner earlier this evening in Nha Trang, Vietman. The pageant, which was hosted by talk show host Jerry Springer and Spice Girl Mel B, had four Latina finalists in the Top 5 – Miss Mexico, Miss Colombia, Miss Dominican Republic, and Mendoza, Miss Venezuela.
During an interview with the judges, she was asked who she thought life was easier for – men or women, to which she replied:
We always knew Megan Fox's constant flow of bizarre and awkward interviews would get her into trouble. We just thought it would be with Michael Bay.
However, we did not predict that a group of top testosterone-fueled websites would band together to ban the babe. We thought she was their Robert Pattinson dream girl or something!
But Asylum.com called upon its fellow men-centric pubs to plan a hot date without Megan Fox next week. And the dudes are coming out in droves—more than a dozen like-minded sites will be Fox-free come Tuesday.
Apparently, even a half-naked hottie can suffer from overexposure.
Between her six magazine covers this summer and never-ending press tours for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Jennifer's Body, guys are almost as sick of their one-time goddess as ladies have been since Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
"You can have too much of a good thing," AskMen.com's editor-in-chief James Bassill tells the New York Daily News. "We're joining in the media blackout and giving our readers a one-day reprieve from the woman we've been drowning in all summer."
Doug Sheckler of On205th.com tells the newspaper, "She needs to do more to earn our undying praise and affection. For instance, she hasn't even returned any of my calls this year asking for a date. What's up with that?"
She's prolly too busy doing that silly back-and-forth thing with Brian Austin Green, which most likely is adding fuel to the guys' fires.
Whatever the reason, Fox is again fair game come Aug. 5—seems one day is just about as long as the laddies can hold out.
Who would you like to see replace Megan Fox as the hottie of the moment? Tell us in the comments!
Sure, the music snobs here at E! Online prefer Demi Lovato's acid-rock rendition of the Barney theme to anything off her latest CD. But everyone else seems to like Here We Go Again just fine.
The Disneyfied tween queen proved more popular than former American Idol stars Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks, debuting at No. 1. It's the first chart-topper for Lovato, whose rookie release, Don't Forget, opened at No. 2.
Speaking of No. 2, that's where Daughtry's Leave This Town is parked this week. Sparks's Battlefield, meanwhile, checked in at No. 7.
The number crunchers at Nielsen SoundScan report that Lovato's latest sold 107,000 to Daughtry's 100,000 last week, while Sparks' sophomore effort tallied 48,000.
Meanwhile, on the Catalog chart, Michael Jackson continues to rule. The King of Pop's Number Ones collection moved a week-best 151,000 units.
Overall, sales were down 9 percent compared to last week and down nearly 21 percent compared to the same week last year.
To recap, the top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 are as follows:
MUMBAI: Can you name the most-kissed couple in Bollywood? No prizes for guessing! Lovebirds Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor are on a kissing spree of late, and that too with other actors.Yes, Saif-Kareena have kissed 15 times in just two films. Just on the heels of Kareena kissing Akshay Kumar 10 times in their recently released film Kambakkht Ishq, Saif is said to have kissed Deepika Padukone five times in their film Love Aaj Kal which is set for release tomorrow. 
