Category: People
Marion Cotillard: Harper’s Bazaar August 2010
Posted by on August 5, 2010
French actress Marion Cotillard is the fascinating beauty on the cover page of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar UK for the month of August 2010. More…
India’s Opaque Gandhi God-Kings
Posted by on July 26, 2010
To make sense of the latest storm in the tea cup of Indian politics, you need to wrap your mind around a curious epithet: intellectual arrogance. That, says Digvijay Singh, a senior leader of the ruling Congress Party, is the problem with Home Minister P. Chidambaram, the man tasked with perhaps the toughest job in Indian public life—keeping its 1.1 billion citizens safe.
Mr. Singh’s broadside against his party colleague, launched in an op-ed in April and repeated Saturday in a television interview, comes against the backdrop of a deepening insurgency by Maoist rebels in eastern and central India that has claimed nearly 800 lives this year. By suggesting that Mr. Chidambaram pays too much attention to security, and not enough to public welfare, Mr. Singh has triggered a flurry of speculation about government policy on what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (no relation) has called the country’s “most serious security problem.”
Has the home minister lost the confidence of his party’s leadership? Will the current law-and-order-led approach to the insurgency be replaced by a “hearts and minds” alternative? Should the government view Maoists primarily as rabid ideologues and brutal killers, or as gentle tribals forced to take up arms to defend their way of life? More…
Amisha Patel – The MAN Magazine
Posted by on July 8, 2010
Amisha Patel who is currently trying to revive her bollywood career seems going in right direction. She patch-up with her family whom she left due to Vikram Bhatt, her then boyfriend. She will be seen in Run Bhola Run and Chatur Singh Two Star , but looking at star cast of the movie, she can only hope for some sort of miracle.
Deepika Padukone – FHM Magazine June/July 2010
Posted by on June 28, 2010
Deepika Padukone features on the cover of FHM Magazine’s Indian edition for the month of June & July 2010. Deepika Padukone once again gets acknowledgment from top magazine house for being Sexiest woman in the world, previous by Maxim Magazine. Deepika Padukone will be seen in Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey with Abhishek Bachchan and Break Ke Baad with Imran Khan.
Marilyn Monroe & President Kennedy: One & Only
Posted by on June 3, 2010
The black and white photograph that shows actress Marilyn Monroe, President Kennedy, who seems to be turning away from the camera, and his brother Robert, is to be put for an auction.
The image will be put to be auctioned on Tuesday at the Art & Artifact Gallery in West Hollywood, California.
The photograph that has her wearing her revealing, rhinestone studded dress that she wore singing at Madison Square Garden in New York, is the only one photograph available that pictures JFK and Marilyn together.
The dress she is wearing was auctioned for £860,000 in 1999.
The photograph was clicked on May 19 1962 at a Democratic fund raising event after her infamous rendition of “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” for him. This was Marilyn’s last public appearance after which she had a mystifying death in August 1962. Since then, her affair with the President has been in news.
“There is no other known photo of Bobby [Kennedy] with Marilyn or JFK with Marilyn, and it’s not because they were never photographed together,” said filmmaker Keya Morgan, who is selling the print.
“In fact, they were photographed together many times, but the Secret Service and the FBI confiscated every single photograph.”
Mr. Morgan who bought the photograph for the documentary he is making about Miss Monroe claims that Mr. Stoughton told him that the photograph survived because when the agents came to confiscate it, the negative of the pictures were in the photographic dryer. Mr. Stoughton has not revealed the photograph since then because he didn’t want to upset the President’s wife, Jackie Kennedy, who was in good terms with him.
It is one of only 10 prints from the negative and is expected to reach £16,000 at auction. “You know, Marilyn died within months. President Kennedy died the next year and Bobby a few years from that. So what a haunting photograph, and it’s the only one of any of them together,” said Mr. Morgan.
The picture also shows President Kennedy’s aide American historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr and singer Harry Belafonte. Schlesinger’s personal journal, published in 2007, quoted the impact Monroe had on him, at the private gathering. “The image of this exquisite, beguiling and desperate girl will always stay with me,” he wrote. “I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating.”
Miss India 2010: Manasvi Mamgai
Posted by on May 31, 2010
Manasvi Mamgai is an Indian model and beauty pageant contestant who was crowned Miss Tourism International held in Malaysia. She has also just won the crown of Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2010 and will represent India at Miss World 2010 in November. She was also the winner of Elite Model Look, India in 2006. The 22-year-old Manasvi claimed the Miss India title after beating 18 stunning participants.
Rima Fakih Miss USA
Posted by on May 17, 2010
The representative of Michigan, Rima Fakih was crowned as the most beautiful woman in the United States and won the title Miss USA 2010 and to represent the country in the upcoming Miss Universe 2010. The 24-year old Rima Fakih beat 50 other candidates vying for the title. Rima Fakih, replacing Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton, has also won the right for a year to live in fully-paid apartment in New York and enjoy the various services in the field of health and beauty.
Anja Rubik: Numero France – May
Posted by on May 11, 2010
Polish model Anja Rubik zoom by the Camila Akran and done a photo shoot for the fashion magazine Numero France for the month of May 2010. Featuring the work of Calvin Klein, Galliano and D&G among others. More…
