 | Has Rebekah scandal forced
Amanda Brooks to quit? IT was a little more than a year
ago that the New York City
socialite Amanda Brooks was
appointed fashion director of
Barneys New York, to some
cluck-clucking in the industry. After
all, Brooks, 38, had little experienc.
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Chelsea Flower Show |  CONSERVATISM – it must be in
the air. At this year´s Chelsea
Flower Show, you could almost
smell it. Was it a sign of the continuing
recession? The result of
a cold spring, making preparations difficult
and discouraging risk? Or fatigue
among designers who have been here one
too many times without recharging their
batteries?
Our false summer in March, followed by
prolonged cold and wet, certainly made
for a dramatic run-up to Britain´s biggest
flower show. One grower, Marina
Christopher of Phoenix Perennial Plants,
told me she had a panicked call in March
from exhibitors afraid their annuals
would blow in the heat (and could she
grow more?). And yet a ... | | | Sarah Jessica
Parker
plans Obama
fundraiser |  SEX and the City
star Sarah Jessica
Parker is borrowing
a tactic from
the George Clooney
fundraising book, planning
a campaign dinner
for President Barack
Obama and offering a
chance to win two tickets
with $3 online donations.
Parker, who is married
to actor Matthew
Broderick, sent an email
to supporters and
appeared in an advertisement
on Sunday´s MTV
Movie Awards telling
people of the online
donations and tickets
to the affair at her
New York home.
"I´m hosting this
event on June 14th
because there is so
much at stake this
year and I want to
keep doing what I
can," she wrote in the
email. "I hope you´ll
help me welcome
President Obama and
the First Lady to New
York." | | | Top actresses
don´t need item
numbers, says
Hema Malini |  THE dream girl of Indian cinema, Hema Malini, feels
there is no need for top notch actresses to endorse item
songs.
"It´s not my taste but people´s taste has changed. What to
do? People love to see all that. But I would like to say one thing
that big heroines who have earned a name for themselves
don´t need to do item numbers. There are a lot of other people
to do item numbers," she said at an event celebrating 100
years of Indian cinema in Mumbai.
Recently some of the item songs like Katrina Kaif´s Sheila ki
jawani and Chikni Chameli, Deepika Padukone´s Dum
maaro dum and Kareena Kapoor´s Chammak challo became
chartbusters.
Hema does not personally like ... | |
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