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$2.6 mn necklace spirited away at Cannes Film Festival
CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place ...
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Board approves News Corp split into two entities
WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...
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Brad Pitt follows Gwyneth Paltrows dads advice
Hollywood star Brad Pitt follows his former fiancee Gwyneth Paltrow's father advice on remaining grounded. Pitt was romantically involved with Paltrow in the mid-1990s, and the couple was briefly engaged before splitting in 1997. And that's when he learnt some life lessons from her father, late director Bruce Paltrow. Despite 15 years, a marriage to Jennifer Aniston, and raising six kids with ...
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Beyonce creates fashion range for website
Singer Beyonce Knowles has created her own fashion range named Beyonce Boutique for a fashion rental website. She has come up with designs for Rent the Runway, which lets people hire designer wear at an affordable price. "Making women feel confident and beautiful is something I've always been passionate about. That's why joining forces with Rent the Runway was so organic," femalefirst.co.uk ...
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Perry strikes romance with agent
Singer Katy Perry, who has been single since splitting from John Mayer earlier this year, is said to have struck up a romance with her agent Michael Kives. "Katy and Michael have been hooking up. They were friends first, but Katy leaned on Michael for emotional support after her break-up with John," a source told America's Star magazine, reports thesun.co.uk. Perry, 28, has been friends with ...
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Predator [DVD]
Predator is perhaps the perfect 1980s movie, melding as it does the three most popular mainstream genres of that decade: action/adventure, science fiction, and horror, specifically slasher horrorand its an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie to boot. It takes all those components and mixes them ... ...
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First look of D-Day movie unveiled in Mumbai
The first look of Nikhil Adwaini's movie 'D-Day' was revealed in the entertainment capital Mumbai. Lead actors, Irfan Khan, Arjun Rampal, Rishi Kapoor and Huma Qureshi graced the occasion with their presence. Talking on the occasion, filmmaker Advani clarified the reason for choosing this controversial subject for the film. "I am particularly obsessed with the fact that I was 21 years old ...
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Psys look-alike dupes stars at Cannes
A look alike of the Korean star 'Psy' had a gala time with top Hollywood celebrities at Cannes. The fake PSY partied with stars such as Naomie Harris and Adrien Brody at a party thrown by luxury jeweller- Chopard, the Sun reported. The man also tried his hands at DJ decks at an event hosted by a Russian oil-magnate and where big names including Trance beauty Rosario Dawson were present. A ...
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No hatred between Mayers former girlfriends
There's no ill-will between singer John Mayer's former girlfriends Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Swift dated Mayer from 2009 to 2010 while Perry has been in an off-and-on relationship with him since last year, reports entertainmentwise.com Indeed, Swift and Perry's friendship was on display on social networking platform Twitter. Perry changed the lyrics of Swift's song "I knew you were ...
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George Michael didnt try to commit suicide by throwing himself from car says pal
George Michael, who fell out of his Range Rover while travelling as a passenger at 70mph on a motorway, did not throw himself from his Range Rover on purpose, a pal of the singer has insisted. The star was rushed to a hospital after getting serious head injury last week. It was rumoured that the 49-year-old, who has battled drugs and depression, may have jumped from the vehicle in order to ...
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Prince Harry names himself ginger queen
Prince Harry dubbed himself the "Ginger Queen" in a bowling match against Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia on Friday. The 28-year-old royal, who snuck with Imbruglia into a bowling alley to have some fun, mocked his own strawberry-blond hair when he inputted 'Ginger Queen' as his name on the electronic scoreboard, the Daily Star reported. Later Sam Branson, 27, playboy son of billionaire ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
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Hotel Galvez, Galveston, Texas
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