New Delhi: Popular comic series Archie has announced that issue #636, will focus on issues related to gender by featuring gender-swapped versions of the three main characters. So, Archie become Archina, Veronica become Ronnie and Betty becomes Billy. The issue is scheduled for release on August 22. Steven Scott of Archie Comics on his blog wrote, "a magical twist sees the guys and gals of Riverdale stepping into each others...
11:54 AM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: She rose to fame as the desi 'Ugly Betty' in 'Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi', after which Mona Singh deliberately kept away from fiction shows. As she gears up to return to TV soaps with Ekta Kapoor's 'Kya Hua Tera Vaada', she says this is the right time for old actors to come back and take control of the small screen. "I have never planned anything in life; so...
12:24 PM, Jan 21, 2012
London: After introducing its first gay character, Archie Comics has now featured the same-sex wedding between Kevin Keller and partner Clay Walker on its front cover for the first time. 'The Life With Archie' 16th issue due out on Wednesday feature soldier Kevin marry doctor Clay in front all their friends and family, the Daily Mail reported. The 70-year-old magazine is known for keeping up with the changes and world...
04:48 PM, Jan 09, 2012
London: Model-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who is considered as one of the sexiest women in the world, has revealed she was an 'Ugly Betty' as a teenager. The 24-year-old admits she resembled the spectacle-and-brace wearing character Betty Suarez from the comedy-drama television series 'Ugly Betty', reports femalefirst.co.uk. "I was a bit of an Ugly Betty when I was 15," Huntington-Whiteley told America's Harper's Bazaar magazine. ...
12:31 PM, Nov 24, 2011
First Lady Betty Ford beat cancer in more ways than one. In the 1970s, when the c-word was fearfully whispered and only weeks moving into the White House, Ford announced she had cancer. Her motivation was to increase awareness to save at least one person " maybe more. She had a huge effect on early breast cancer detection, something epidemiologists call the Betty Ford blip. She went all out to...
11:45 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Los Angeles: Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it. According to Mrs Ford, her young adult children probably had smoked marijuana - and if she were their age, she'd try it, too. She told "60 Minutes" she wouldn't be surprised to learn that her youngest, 18-year-old Susan, was in a sexual relationship (an embarrassed Susan issued a denial)....
07:26 PM, Jul 09, 2011
Los Angeles: America Ferrera, the actress who played the leading character in the television series 'Ugly Betty', has married filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, her long-time boyfriend, the online edition of People magazine said on Tuesday. The 27-year-old actress and Williams were married on Monday night in "an intimate setting amongst close friends and family", Ferrera's agent told the magazine. Among the wedding guests were Ferrera's "Ugly Betty" co-star Vanessa Williams,...
01:27 PM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: Mumbai-born author Anjali Joseph, whose debut novel "Swarasati Park" created a splash in the literary circles by winning the Betty Trask award, has won the Desmond Elliot Prize. The novel is about a Mumbai housing complex and the lives of its inmates, says a statement from the award committee. The writer is delighted that her first novel has earned two international awards. The chair of the judges, broadcaster...
02:30 PM, Jun 27, 2011
New Delhi: The iconic red-haired Archie, a comic book heartthrob with a perpetually hassled look and two girlfriends, will soon be dancing to Bollywood numbers in the book's Indian avatar published in Hindi and Malayalam. Seventy years after its birth in the US, 12 titles of the popular Archie comics will be published in 2011 by Variety Book Depot and distributed by EuroBooks, a leading publisher of children's books in...
12:08 PM, Jun 08, 2011
Philadelphia: After his debut in "Veronica" No. 202 caused Archie Comics to do a second printing for the first time in its history, the publisher is giving its first openly gay character his own mini-series this summer. The character, Kevin Keller, has connected with the comic book publisher's fans, said Dan Parent, who is writing and drawing the four-issue series that comes out in June. There have been and are...
12:22 PM, Apr 02, 2011
Philadelphia: The company behind Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica is expanding its reach by making its comic-book titles available for digital download the same day their printed counterparts go on sale. Archie Comics said Wednesday that starting in April, several of its titles featuring the gang from Riverdale will be released simultaneously in print and digital versions, including Archie & Friends, Jughead and Betty & Veronica. That decision makes the...
03:32 PM, Jan 13, 2011
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