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  • Bradley Cooper takes cooking lessons from Ramsay

    Hollywood actor Bradley Cooper is reportedly taking cooking lessons from well-known Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay to prepare for his role in director John Wells's "Chef". Cooper is playing a cook named Adam Jones, who destroys his career with drugs before getting clean and trying to open a restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. Ramsay, who also hosts TV cookery shows, was the first ...

  • Lady Gagas tattoo parlour visit helped her bag Machete Kills role

    Lady Gaga's movie debut in Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills' came due to a chance encounter with actor Danny Trejo in a Los Angeles tattoo parlour. According to a source, the film's star, Trejo, was getting inked at Shamrock Social Club in LA, right next to the 27-year-old singer, shortly before the movie started its production. When Gaga overheard Trejo saying that his film will be a ...

  • Jennifer Lawrence brother being stalked

    Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence and her brother Blaine Lawrence are reportedly being stalked by a Canadian named Han Cong Zhao. Han, 23, was said to be remanded on bail after Judge Annette Karem at Kentucky court here heard he sent Blaine 200 messages and a threatening voicemail. "You got me really upset, when I am upset, wait and see what happens," thesun.co.uk quoted Han as ...

  • Chris Brown hit with death threats

    Chris Brown is the focus of an investigation by Los Angeles Police Department after his lawyer Mark Geragos received multiple calls at his office threatening his client's life. Sources told TMZ.com that though it's unclear if any specific threats were made, the caller threatened to kill Brown. Insiders told the publication that Geragos, who represented Brown during his arrest and trial for ...

  • Warner facing CA disciplinary hearing over vitriolic Twitter outburst ahead of Ashes

    Australian opening batsman David Warner is facing a Cricket Australia (CA) disciplinary hearing for his vitriolic social media outburst at respected News Limited sportswriters Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn. Warner, whose captaincy aspirations have taken a hit, had been reported for breaching the code of behaviour of the CA, which will be deciding a date for the hearing ahead of this week's ...

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The Brave One

The Brave One

Who would have though that, when two vigilante movies come out within a few weeks of each other, the one starring and coproduced by Jodie Foster and directed by Neil Jordan would be more reactionary and ideologically simplistic than the one made by the director of Saw? Yet, that is ... ...

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  • US-based Pak filmmaker calls for ban on Hollywood Bollywood movies to save failing Pak film industry

    An US-based Pakistani filmmaker has urged on a ban on Bollywood and Hollywood movies in Pakistan, and has offered his guidance and support to save the deteoriating Pakistani film industry. Urging the government to make efforts in the revival of the large screen by encouraging independent filmmakers and movies on social issues, Mumtaz Hassan said that it can be possible only by imposing a ban ...

  • Effective Immediately All Semi-Automatic Pistols Sold In California to Require “Micro Stamp” Ballistic Identification

    Shftplan May 20, 2013 In a controversial move that some believe will essentially lead to a de facto ban on semi-automatic handguns, Attorney General Kamala Harris announced that, effectiveimmediately,all new semi-automatic firearms sold in the State of California will require a unique microstamp on every shell ejected when a gun is fired. Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a ...

  • Calif. Law To Require Ships To Cut Pollution

    California is about to become the first state to require shore power at its ports. A new law mandates at least half of a shipping line's fleet to shut down their diesel engines and plug into shore-side electric power when they unload their cargo. It's part of a larger effort to cut pollution at the state's busiest ports, but costs have been a sticking ...

  • Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform

    The political debate over immigration focuses on jobs and border security, but the wounds of broken bonds are inescapable in cities like El Paso, ...

  • Gunmen shoot into Calif. home 10-year-old killed

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen who walked up to the door of a Northern California home and opened fire, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring her parents. "Whoever these gunmen were, they were directly outside the front ...

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