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The fashion industry's top-billed event, the annual Met Gala, is an invitation-only fundraiser held for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. The Gala is held on the first......
Actresses come and go, but these ladies will always dazzle. A recent list of Hollywood's highest paid-actresses, topped by Sandra Bullock, made us think about heroines in the movie business, who......
Stephen Daldry's The Hours makes a shocking premise-- that suicide is an acceptable response to a faulty world. The three main characters in the movie are the writer Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman),......
Critics of Miramax, the mini studio fabled for its award-winning medium budget hits, had to eat humble pie when its movies won at least 30 Oscar nominations this week. In addition, The Hours, which......
With a hat-trick of flops that lost about $200 million inone single year, Eddie Murphy, who gets $15million to $20 million per movie, became the costliest loser in Hollywood last year.Among the......
Lord Harry Woolf, a former Chief Justice of England and Wales, has been named chairman of the ICC's Independent Governance Review Committee that will draw up a new strategic plan for 2011-2015,......
Lord Harry Woolf, the former judge whose review of the ICC's governance structure was rejected, has lambasted the proposed revamp of the body which would cede executive decision-making to India,......
Controversy is brewing over Zaka Ashraf taking over the Pakistan Cricket Board's chairmanship as legal and constitutional issues have prevented the government from issuing an official notification......