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June 27, 2012
Joseph Benjamin In Tyler Perry Movie Competition: Awww...Awww...This Is So Touching Guys - Check Out His Audition & Please Vote For Him
Hi guys, please first of all, click on the You Tube link below and you'd understand why this is so touching :(
http://www.youtube.com/tylerperrystudios?x=us_showcase_4987_7
Seriously, I am in floods of tears right now; more so, because this was totally unexpected. Joe didn't even tell me that he was doing this. I was awake all night working, when a notification from his Facebook status very early this morning, flashed across my screen, with a message from him asking people to please vote for him.
I assumed Joe was referring to NEA Awards: Pls Vote 4 Joseph, Kunle, Nse, DJ Abass etc, so didn't give it much thought. It was about 4am and I remembered that it had been almost two weeks since we chatted last on BB and I never had the time to finish that conversation, which was very important, so I seized the moment to call him. I told him how it was a good thing I noticed him when I did and he started talking about the competition and said that he didn't want to bug me, because he knew I'd been very busy writing and working very hard almost non-stop since the beginning of this month, and noticed that my blogging had reduced. He further echoed the words of everyone close to me (which I always ignore anyway :D), advising me to please take it easy and try and get some rest. Btw, you'd all soon understand why my blogging has slowed down, so please bear with me in the meantime, as I have been doing everything alone since last month...after I was hacked. If you notice, you'd no longer find anything to do with the Hollywood Weekly Magazine feature on this blog. I put the cover in this post to remind you of how internationally appealing Joe is.
Assuming Joe was referring to the NEA Awards, I laughed and said I could never be too busy for my stars and had already published it everywhere almost two weeks ago. That was when he informed me that this was another competition for a role in Tyler Perry's movie which would end in 2 days (29th) and I clicked on the link on his status as we spoke, meaning to check it out after our phone call. By the time I got off the phone, it was almost time for school run and as the day wore on, I continued working, completely forgetting about Joe's competition. I just decided to close some of my numerous open pages, when I saw the link and remembered I was supposed to check it out.
Now that you have listened to it, you can understand how I feel. It's funny how we forget some talents that people close to us have. A lot of you don't know that Joe used to be a musician before he ventured into acting; in fact I remember he had a band or so. What you heard in that audition was nothing and that was the 'nervous Joe' you saw. Joe sings real powerful ballads that would give you goose bumps...and when I saw powerful, I mean Usher or R.Kelly type. People close to him will testify to this fact...just like London X Factor addicts would tell you that Tiwa Sawage can sing Whitney powerful ballads. Because she now does more of pop songs, you'd only understand if you hear her sing a ballad. I once asked Joe what was happening to his music, and he said he wanted to concentrate on his acting for now, so I forgot about it.
Joe is one of the most ambitious people I know, yet he is so modest, so humble, so simple...yet, so cool...you'd just keep realising every time, how deeply talented he is. Seeing him sing like that, I could tell how much that audition meant to him. Joe has tried to keep his singing talent under wraps all this while, so it was deeply touching to watch him relent on that decision for the sake of this audition...and he just had soppy old me :(
The competition is going to end in about 36 hours and although Joe knows I would definitely have helped if he had informed me about this earlier, he wasn't going to ask me to help cos he was worried about my already heavy workload. He has been doing this almost everyday for two weeks on his Facebook status and I never noticed until this morning...and forgot about it all day. Please guys, help me spread the word until this message goes VIRAL; he has only had 567 views so far. Fellow bloggers, I am going to bug you tonight, tomorrow...and remember...I have your numbers, so if you don't wanna be stalked...hehehe ;) :)
Many thanks in advance to everyone and God bless you.
Egor.
June 19, 2012
Rekha & Ramesh Sippy Win Lifetime Achievement Awards At The 2012 IIFA Awards In Singapore For Their Outstanding Contributions To Indian Cinema + Check Out Bollywood's HOT NKOTB, Vidyut Jamwal, Who Also Won Best Debut (Male); Priyanka Chopra Also Dances To Rekha's Songs In Tribute To The Legend - See Photos & Winners List
Best Debut (Male): Vidyut Jamwal - Force The 13th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2012, was held in the beautiful city of Singapore. The winners have been announced and as expected, Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan have once again won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively. |
The Best movie and director too have been predictable this year, as Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, which swept the IIFA 2012 technical awards, has won in both categories. Ranbir Kapoor and Nargis Fakhri have been voted as the Hottest Pair in Bollywood.
Click on the link below to check out Priyanka Chopra's dance tribute to Rekha and the unexpected but pleasant surprise the legend, Rekha, delivered: Bollywood Life
Best Actor (Male): Ranbir Kapoor - Rockstar |
Best Supporting Actress: Parineeti Chopra - Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl |
Best Film: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara |
Best Hottest Pair: Nargis Fakhri & Rabir Kapoor - Rockstar |
Best Actress, Vidya Balan & Best Actor, Ranbir Kapoor. |
Best Playback Singer (Male): Mohit Chauhan - Naadan Parindey from Rockstar |
Best Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghosal - Teri Meri from Bodyguard |
Best Music Director: A.R. Rahman - Rockstar |
Green Award: Dia Mirza |
Best Performance In A Comic Role: Riteish Deshmukh - Double Dhamaal |
Best Performance In A Negative Role: Prakash Raj - Singham |
Best Supporting Actor (Male): Farhan Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara |
Best Director: Zoya Akhtar - Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara |
Best Actress (Female): Vidya Balan - The Dirty Picture |
Lifetime Achievement Award: Rekha |
Lifetime Achievement Award: Ramesh Sippy |
Best Debut (Female): Parineeti Chopra - Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl |
June 18, 2012
Kareena Kapoor Has No Place For Insecurity In Her Life
Latest news is that Kareena is insecure about Bipasha shooting with Saif . When asked by TOI, Kareena laughed off the rumours. Here’s what she said:
"Insecurity is an emotion that has no place in my life. And I am going to Turkey because I want to spend quality time with Saif. Also it is vacation time for us," said Kareena. She further says, " I encourage Saif to please work with everybody. He is free to work with whoever he wants to, it is not my concern. Even I am free to work with whoever I want, Saif never interferes".
"My career will always be the way it is. Work is my passion. Both Saif and I are very urban and contemporary in our thoughts. We have our own space, he does his own thing. We don't even discuss work and I don't think Saif has ever asked me which film I am doing. He probably gets to know from the newspapers and magazines (laughs). If I am in a meeting, he doesn't even ask me who I had a meeting with. He is the most supportive man I could have asked for."
Images Via Glamsham
Freida Pinto Is A Big Fan Of Kareena Kapoor And Can't Wait To Meet Her
Kareena Kapoor has got herself another fan – and this one is none other than Freida Pinto. In an interview to an international magazine, Freida had some good things to say about Kareena – like how she’s responsible for how much women get paid in Bollywood. Here’s what she said to Flaunt Magazine:
Talking about Kareena Kapoor, Freida Pinto says: "Now, it seems to me, even taking Indian cinema in consideration, I feel like this year we have kind of experienced a shift in humanity. In India, actually, there has been a large disparity in how much a female and male actor gets paid, but this year, one actress changed all that,"
She also wants to meet Kareena during her next trip to India, as she’s a big fan and has watched Kurbaan several times on DVD.
Kareena Kapoor 'Sparks A Trend'
Kareena Kapoor revealed her 'most good looking' (sic) guy. Well its not Saif Ali Khan but her nephew Kiaan. She loves her nephew so much that she even keeps his pic as his wallpaper on her desktop.
“It will have to be Kiaan Kapoor,” said Kareena Kapoor
“He is my sister’s (Karisma) son. He is the most good looking man in my life right now. He has rosy cheeks, big eyes, and the most amazing lips, so it is obviously his face that I love to see every day,” added the 31-year-old.
Sony Vaio Laptops brand ambassador is Kareena Kapoor. The actress was at the launch of its new campaign – spark a trend.
Talking about the Indian film industry, she says, “I am a member of the Indian film industry. I come from the Kapoor family. Acting is in my blood. This industry has given me everything. There is nothing more I could have asked for.”
Kim Kardashian Covers Latino's Esquire Magazine - June 2012
Check out Kim Kardashian's full spread for the June 2012 issue of Esquire Magazine Latin America.
Also, Kim along with her sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, recently announced their very own makeup line. “I’ve been waiting forever to be able to tell you guys and I finally can… my sisters and I are launching our own makeup line!!”
Kim wrote on her site. “We’ve teamed up with Boldface Licensing+Branding to create Khroma Beauty, our line which will feature all kinds of makeup products, from eyelashes to compacts and everything in between! We will be launching a special holiday collection featuring eyelashes, mascaras and Kardazzle Compacts this winter and then the full line will launch next year"!
Read more here: Kim Kardashan's Website
Kangana Ranaut Will Never Marry Her UK Based Doctor - "I will have to be really unhappy with myself to get married"
In an interview to Stardust, Kangana spoke about her relationship with UK based doctor, Nicholas Lafferty. “It has been almost two years now,” she said. “He keeps coming to India and I go for holidays with him. We’re young and we’re loving where we are today. This long-distance relationship works perfectly for us, contrary to popular belief.”
When asked if she plans to tie the knot anytime soon, she responds:
“I don’t believe in marriage. In fact, I am strictly against marriage. We are all born free and we should set each other free. Just because I am going out with someone, doesn’t mean that I have to marry the person. So what if I am seeing someone? When you can just live with the person and be happy, why would you want to ruin a relationship? It doesn’t make sense to make things legal and tie someone down. I’d never do that", she says animatedly.
"I will have to be really unhappy with myself to get married”, she ends.
Oh dear!!!
Saif Ali Khan & Kareena Kapoor To Wed In October - Confirmed!
Saif Ali Khan's younger sister, Soha Ali Khan has come out to confirm Saif and Kareena's wedding details on a social networking site.
Here what she wrote - Thank you all for the good wishes for Bhai and Kareena - I am happy to say that the wedding date has been set for October 16th in Pataudi.
Congrats to the lovely couple!!!
Janet Jackson To Executive Produce A Documentary About Transgender People
Multiple Grammy Award winner, Janet Jackson is set to executive produce a documentary called “Truth”, a film that will examine “the lives of transgender and non-gender people around the world and their epic struggle for equality”.
It will be directed by Robert Jason.
In a statement, the superstar said:
“All people are very important to me. I’ve been fortunate to make friends and learn about very different lives. Truth is our small chance to ask that you try and understand someone who lives their life in a way that is a little bit different from yours, even though all of our hearts are the same. We want to stop the hate and find understanding”.
The documentary begins production this year.
It will be directed by Robert Jason.
In a statement, the superstar said:
“All people are very important to me. I’ve been fortunate to make friends and learn about very different lives. Truth is our small chance to ask that you try and understand someone who lives their life in a way that is a little bit different from yours, even though all of our hearts are the same. We want to stop the hate and find understanding”.
The documentary begins production this year.
Orvillecopter: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat, Orville, Into A Helicoper. (See Videos)
Orvillecopter the flying cat |
Bart Jansen had his pet stuffed after he was hit by a car before enlisting the help of radio control helicopter flier Arjen Beltman to build the unique machine.
The Orvillecopter - "half cat, half machine" - is now on show at the Kunstrai art festival in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital.
Mr Jansen said after a period of mourning he decided to pay tribute to Orville, named after the famous aviator Orville Wright, with the art project.
The Orvillecopter does not fly quite right, but Mr Jansen said he will receive more powerful engines and larger propellers for his birthday, allowing for a more "steady flight".
He said Orville will soon be "flying with the birds".
"Oh how he loved birds" he said. "He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight".
Kai...were!!! .
GuGu E Michaels Releases Trailer For His New Supernatural Action Thriller, "Jacob's Eye".
The ace American/Nigerian director is out with another one of his talented work. Check this out:
The supernatural action thriller "JACOB'S EYE": When nightmares becomes reality for detective Jacob, what will he do to stop it?
Directed by GuGu E. Michaels.
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