The 39-year-old son of lead O’Jays singer Eddie LeVert, was declared dead Sunday night at about 11:57 a.m. Leveret was reportedly sick and went to the infirmary of the Cuyahoga County Jail, where he was detained for failing to pay approximately $80,000 in child support.
His body was taken from the prison’s medical facility to the [...]
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch lawmaker whose anti-Quran film drew worldwide condemnations will edit out a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after complaints of copyright infringement, his office said Monday.
Geert Wilders used the cartoon by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard twice in the film “Fitna.” The drawing, which depicts Islam’s prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban [...]
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Bollywood is set to get a bigger dose of Pakistani pop this year!
Maheen Sabeeh
2008 is turning out to be an interesting year for Bollywood and Pakistani music. While musicians like Strings have refused offers from the likes of Dharma Productions and Madhur Bhandarkar and even Jal - who received an offer [...]
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Posted in Atif Aslam, Bollywood on March 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Atif Aslam has aided stars like Emraan Hashmi (Woh Lamhe in Zeher), Saif Ali Khan (Pehli nazar in Race) to up their sex appeal with his soulful singing. But now the Pakistani crooner is planning to turn competitor. lready riding high on a popularity wave, thanks to chartbusters like Adaat from Kalyug and Bas Ek [...]
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Rolling Stones Shine A Light movie trailer
Rolling Stones Movie - Interview
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Director Martin Scorsese won’t say the Rolling Stones are like the underworld characters in many of his movies, but he admits the band’s music evokes memories of the rough, mob-tinged street life he grew up around.
The Academy Award winner and [...]
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SHANGHAI — After two weeks in which China contended that Tibet’s government in exile had instigated the riots earlier this month to tarnish the coming Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government on Sunday issued for the first time what it said was evidence of the plot.
Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said the Chinese police [...]
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HARARE, ZIMBABWE — The main opposition party and independent observers said today that President Robert Mugabe was suffering a resounding defeat as election results were tallied, but no official returns were released and capital was rife with speculation that they were being rigged.
Tension was high in the capital, Harare, with police deployed on most corners [...]
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Ram Gopal Varma had created a coup of sorts by casting the father-son jodi (Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek) in ‘Sarkar’, a film that left people awestruck, all thanks to the power-full performances by the Bachchans. This time round, Ramu has gone one-step ahead to add one more member (Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan) from the Bachchan clan and [...]
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Posted in France, Jean Nouvel on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
The designer of a soaring, glass-shelled condo planned for Century City is the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.
French architect Jean Nouvel is singled out in the Prizker jury citation for his “persistence, imagination, exuberance, and, above all, an insatiable urge for creative experimentation.”
Nouvel is the architect behind Paris’ Arab World Institute [...]
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Scraping together a little extra income to support one’s party lifestyle can be a struggle for most hard-up students.
But when you are set to inherit the best part of £650million pounds, the drinks are bound to taste a little sweeter.
And the party appears to have started in earnest for Fawn James.
The 22-year-old granddaughter of porn [...]
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