 | Can Daniel Radcliffe get
out of Harry mode? "YOU just
really freaked
me out,´´
Daniel
Radcliffe says. The 22-yearold
actor, forever to be
remembered for eight outings
as Harry Potter, is
speaking over the cell-phone
from New York, where he´s
looking down on the city
streets from ...
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| | Twinkling, bejewelled Indian
wedding cards designed to wow | THEY could be
Swarovski studded,
they could
match the bride´s
trousseau, they
could come in multiple folds
and, yes, they might just cost
Rs 100,000 (about $2,000)
each. Welcome to the world of
the big fat Indian wedding
card!
The country´s wedding
market is said to be worth
about Rs 1,500 billion (about
$30 billion) - and growing at
about 10-15 percent every
year; so little surprise that
marriage invites are getting to
be a glitzy and exclusive
affair.
NRIs, especially, are a
major constituent of this market.
The wedding in 2004 of
Britain-based Indian steel billionaire
Lakshmi Mittal´s
daughter was said to have
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| | It´s ´Ex-Factor´ for Abdul,
Scherzinger, Jones | SIMON Cowell gave his talent
show The X Factor a
major shake-up, showing
the door to host Steve
Jones, judge Nicole
Scherzinger, and even his old friend
Paula Abdul after a lacklustre
first season on US television.
Cowell and broadcaster Fox
confirmed on Tuesday that
British host Jones, and former
Pussycat Dolls singer
Scherzinger would not be
returning for the second season
of the show in
September.
Abdul — Cowell´s old
American Idol sparring
partner — was also voted
off in what some industry
watchers called a bloodbath
for the TV show that
failed to measure up to its
hype last year and struggled
l... |
| | Friendship
gone sour! |
ALL´S well that ends well. Shah
Rukh Khan and Shirish
Kunder, husband of choreographer-
filmmaker Farah
Khan, called a truce on
Tuesday, a day after they were embroiled
in a scuffle. Shirish said their friendship
has become stronger than ever now.
Farah was upset about a brawl between
her superstar friend Shah Rukh Khan and
her husband Shirish Kunder at a highprofile
party recently.
The fight is said to have taken place at
popular club Aurus during Sanjay Dutt´s
success party for Agneepath.
"Shah Rukh has always told me that
physical abuse is the worst way to sort
out a problem and that it means the person
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