 | The Hunger Games
Promising tale, poorly told
THERE´S a short anxious scene in the new
film The Hunger Games when its 16-yearold
heroine, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer
Lawrence), races through a deep, dark forest;
falls down a hill; and rolls and rolls, only
to rise up and thrust herself again ...
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paint stay longer |  MOST beauty
conscious
will agree
that one of
the most
boring of
beauty rituals is painting
nails.
Sooner than you breathe a
sigh of relief of being done
with the tedious procedure,
you spot a chip here or there
pushing all your efforts down
the drain. But have you ever
tried to figure out why most
nail colours chip off so easily?
Well, it´s got nothing to do
with the ingredients of the
polish, if you´re thinking so.
We tell you the reasons and
the remedies.
Imagine painting on an oily
surface. Will the paint ever
stay? Similar is the case with
nail colour. Our nails are covered
with a thin layer of natural
oil that the body secretes.
This oil is responsible for all
the chipping and ... | | | Cowell´s Britain´s
Got Talent
ready to take on
The Voice |  ATELEVISION ratings
battle in Britain is about
to begin between music
mogul Simon Cowell´s
Britain´s Got Talent and
newcomer The Voice, and neither
side is backing down.
Both shows premiered on
Saturday in a head-to-head battle
with both sides recruiting celebrity
judges. Cowell, the music executiveturned-
television producer, is
returning to Talent as a judge after
working in the United States on his
other programs, the newly launched
X Factor and audience favourite
American Idol.
Britain´s Got Talent has helped
launch the career of Susan Boyle,
who has sold 30 million albums
worldwide, according to Cowell. It´s
not the first time Cowell, whose
shows air on ... | | | Great music lost under
modern sounds: Big B |  MODERN technology has overshadowed the feel
of original music, rues Amitabh Bachchan, who
is recording his father Harivansh Rai
Bachchan´s Madhushala in his voice. The
megastar is also sceptical about the poetry connecting
with today´s youth.
"...singing the verses of Madhushala, the alaap and
lending orchestral brilliance to the basic structure that
I made in an impromptu setting on my piano. What a
different world this is...
"We crave today in music sittings for the age of
unplugged instrumentation. The reality and the joy
of listening to the original sounds of string and dholak.
Of the great masters and their wares - the Sarod,
the Shehnai, the Sarangi... | |
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