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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Kabir Bedi lashes out at daughter Pooja Bedi
Kabir Bedi surprised guests at his 70th birthday bash when he tied the knot with long-time girlfriend, model Parveen Dusanj. Kabir's daughter (from his first marriage with Protima) Pooja Bedi, who was not invited for the wedding due to her irreconcilable differences with Parveen, openly expressed her displeasure.
After Kabir married Parveen Dusanj on January 15, in a private affair, Pooja took onto social media to make, what many would call, a shocking post. Later on, she lashed out at her step-mother, who is younger than her. She tweeted, "Every fairy tale has a wicked witch or an evil step~mother! Mine just arrived! @iKabirBedi just married @parveendusanj." [sic]
However, she later deleted her post and wished her father the best for his 4th marriage. However, Kabir didn't take this too lightly and took to Twitter to express his disappointment. He tweeted, "DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED by venomous comments by my daughter Pooja against @parveendusanj just after we married. NO, excuse for bad behaviour." [sic]
Well, we hope the two sort out their differences, and just like fairytales, the family lives happily ever after.
Well, we hope the two sort out their differences, and just like fairytales, the family lives happily ever after.
Winslet tips Titanic co-star DiCaprio for Oscar
AFP
LONDON
Kate Winslet tipped her “Titanic” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio to win this year’s best actor Oscar, though he lost out at the British film critics’ awards.
Winslet, 40, said she would be “surprised” if DiCaprio did not land an Oscar on his sixth nomination when the Academy Awards roll around in Hollywood on February 28.
Speaking on the red carpet at the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards at the city’s May Fair Hotel, she said she thought it was “probably going to be Leo’s year”. “You can sort of feel it and I think everyone wants it for him,” she said.
“It would be amazing. It’s also quite difficult for me too because Michael Fassbender is also nominated and I was his right hand woman for three months making ‘Steve Jobs’. I saw how hard he worked and I thought his performance was extraordinary. “But I think you can feel the temperature and it’s probably going to be Leo’s year.” At the 36th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, “The Revenant” star DiCaprio lost out to British veteran Tom Courtenay, 78, for his role in British drama “45 Years”. British actress and Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling won the actress of the year gong for her role in the film. Mark Rylance received the supporting actor honour for his part in Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge Of Spies”, while Winslet won the supporting actress gong for her role in the “Steve Jobs” biopic.
She is up against Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams and Alicia Vikander for the best supporting actress award at the Oscars. “I really can’t believe it because it has been a very strong year,” she said of her nomination.
“No one has been a shoo-in. People have been flitting in and out of this best supporting actress category for quite some time. “They were like the golden tickets this year. They were really very coveted spots, particularly in this category, so I’m absolutely thrilled.” George Miller’s post-apocalyptic thriller “Mad Max: Fury Road” was named film of the year on Sunday, while Miller won the director of the year award. The awards are voted for by 140 members of the Critics’ Circle Film Section.
Friday, January 1, 2016
William Shakespeare: 2016 is the 400th anniversary of his death
Few cultural figures are afforded quite as many anniversary knees-ups as Shakespeare – then again there’s nothing like being born and dying on the same day to keep you in the calendar. In 2014, the world toasted the 450th birthday of Warwickshire’s most famous son. A new year bringsShakespeare 400, marking four centuries since the playwright’s death.
Chief among the cheerleaders is the Royal Shakespeare Company, whose national tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – directed by Erica Whyman – will cast local performers as the mechanicals in every region of the UK. The same play has inspired four leading Scottish institutions to team up for New Dreams, a festival season of performance in Glasgow directed by Graham McLaren.
On the page, after The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s lyrical retelling of A Winter’s Tale last autumn, comes the next Hogarth Shakespeare edition, Shylock Is My Name, Howard Jacobson’s spin on The Merchant of Venice in February, followed by Anne Tyler and Margaret Atwood’s takes on The Taming of the Shrewand The Tempest in June and October, respectively.
Not to be outdone, Shakespeare’s Globe has commissioned The Complete Walk, new films of all 37 plays to be screened along London’s South Bank, each shot in its rightful location – from Elsinore to the pyramids of Egypt. Titus Andronicusgets a second film treatment in The Hungry, a UK-Indian co-production that is among a raft of anniversary commissions from Film London, fronted by Kenneth Branagh, and the National Archives and King’s College London present By Me, an exhibition at Somerset House telling Shakespeare’s life story in his own words.
On 23 April, Simon Callow hosts a gala concert at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Chorus, while the RSC branches into live TV with The Shakespeare Show, broadcast on BBC2 from Stratford and hosted by one-time Hamlet, David Tennant.
There are rumours that a living Dane, Benedict Cumberbatch, is involved in this paper’s 400th anniversary project – but which Shakespearean stalwart could he be playing next?
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