Why France is burning

I love Paris in the springtimeI love Paris in the fallI love Paris in the summer when it sizzlesI love Paris in the winter when it drizzlesCole Porter's standard, sung by everyone from Frank......

Did George W take drugs?

Kitty Kelley is no stranger to controversy. She has, in the past, written gossip-filled books on everyone from Frank Sinatra to the British royal family, Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy. It......

Peek-a-boo outfits and shocking lyrics

'Motherf*&^%$', 'Frank Sinatra's dead baby', 'If you don't like the music tonight, please don't keep it to yourself. Tell the DJ'.Stuff you normally associate with a rowdy pub and not a fashion......

The Celebrity as a Padrone

Ever wondered why a celebrity can charm you?Sreehari Nair has the answer. IMAGE: When M S Dhoni was slyly psycho-analysing Australian journalist Samuel Ferris, Ferris' world stopped but Dhoni's......

Why rupee will continue to be volatile all through 2014

With apologies to Frank Sinatra:It's ve-e-ry clearVolatility is here to stayNot for a yearBut ever and a day…In time, the dollar may crumbleThe euro may rumble…They're really not......

Time to grow again?

Growth in the United States might end the long period of economic malaise that has afflicted the world since 2007, says Ajit Balakrishnan. Last Friday, at the end of three days of absorbing......

Billy Crystal, Hugh Jackman, Frank Sinatra: Top 10 Oscar hosts

Oscar 2015 host Neil Patrick Harris has several big shoes to fill in. Neil Patrick Harris is an extraordinary performer, one who has not just played iconic television characters Doogie Howser and......

Dying to Robbie's song!

A new survey conducted by digitaltelevision channel MusicChoice shows that Robbie Williams' hit Angels is thesong most Brits want played at their funeral. According to The Sun, 45,000 adults across......

Mallika's hot in Pyaar Ke Side Effects

First things first, it's way better than you expect.You'd be forgiven for not having great expectations walking into Pyaar Ke Side Effects -- it features Mallika Sherawat, whose last films induced......

Zeta-Jones and Clooney spice up Ocean's 12

They loved and hated each other in Coen Brothers' Intolerable Cruelty. Catherine Zeta-Jones and George Clooney will team up again in Steven Soderbergh's sequel to Ocean's Eleven, says a report in......

Serena Williams did it 'Her Way'

With an unrestrained jig in the most hallowed hallway in tennis, Serena Williams confirmed that 'Her Way' was just about the most formidable method the women's game had seen. Minutes after......

US Open Fashion: What the stars wore

If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere New York, New York Lines from a Frank Sinatra song is probably what some of the leading ladies of the tennis world had in mind when they......

Virender Sehwag- a man who set his own rules

Sehwag's unpredictability and carefree attitude made him a unique batsman ‘See ball, hit ball’ was his mantra and he lived by it IMAGE: India's Virender Sehwag during a nets session.......

'The Nicest World Champion Ever'

'I like to challenge myself. Competing against players much younger than me is something that I want to keep doing,' Chess Legend Viswanathan Anand tells Dhruv Munjal. IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand......

The Muhammad Ali tribute you MUST read!

'Every Ali obituary I read made the point that he 'transcended his sport' -- a reference to the many battles he fought with America even as he fought in America.''What the obituaries leave out is......