Los Angeles: Jim Parsons has skipped the 'I'M GAY!' magazine cover approach to coming out: Far down in a New York Times profile Wednesday was the subtle mention that the two-time Emmy winner has been in a same-sex relationship for a decade. The blink-and-you'll miss it aside appeared in a story about Parsons' starring stint in the Broadway production of 'Harvey.' Discussing Parsons' small role in the play 'The Normal...
02:44 PM, May 24, 2012
Raleigh: The image of slain University of North Carolina Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson has turned up in an unlikely place: adorning billboards in southern India. The News & Observer of Raleigh reports that Carson's picture is being used to advertise a company called Jubeerich Consultancy, which offers study opportunities and job placements in Western countries. It's not clear how the company came across the photo of the...
11:06 AM, Mar 22, 2012
New York: Apple Inc unveiled a new digital textbook service called iBooks 2 on Thursday, aiming to revitalise the US education market and quicken the adoption of its market-leading iPad in that sector. The consumer electronics giant has been working on digital textbooks with publishers Pearson PLC, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a trio responsible for 90 per cent of textbooks sold in the United States. The move pits the...
12:35 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Los Angeles: Hollywood star Tom Hanks is producing a World War II drama based on Erik Larson's book, which is set in the world of Hitler's Germany. Universal studio and Hanks' Playtone have bought the rights of Larson's non-fiction best-seller 'In the Garden of Beasts' to produce. Hanks is also eyeing the project as a potential starring vehicle, the Hollywood Reporter said. The book tells the true tale of William...
01:28 PM, Nov 29, 2011
London: The Girl power action film 'Sucker Punch' has been voted as the worst film of 2011 in an online poll conducted by movie website Fandango.com. Dailystar.co.uk reports that the film directed by Zach Snyder beat 'Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star' and 'Cowboys and Aliens' to top the Thanksgiving Day-themed top movie Turkey list. 'Shark Night 3D' and 'Mars Needs Moms' also made to the top five, while...
12:35 PM, Nov 26, 2011
London: A 11-year-old boy on Wednesday became the youngest person to be sentenced for stealing a waste bin worth 50 pounds during the recent London riots. He was given an 18-month youth rehabilitation order at Havering Magistrates' Court in Essex after admitting burglary. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, stole a waste bin from Debenhams in Romford, Essex, on August 8 after the windows of the store...
11:17 AM, Sep 01, 2011
London: British novelist Tony Parsons is gearing up to tell tales from the terminal, as he assumes the role of writer-in-residence at London's Heathrow Airport. The author and journalist, best known for his novel "Man and Boy," moved into a hotel in the airport Wednesday and will spend a week roaming the terminals in search of inspiration for his first collection of short stories. Describing airports as "places of extreme...
11:04 AM, Aug 04, 2011
San Francisco: The parent company of GoDaddy.com, a top registrar of Internet domain names, has been sold to a group of private investment firms for $2.25 billion, a person familiar with the transaction told The Associated Press. Go Daddy Group Inc.'s sale to KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Crossover Ventures comes as the company expects to top $1.1 billion in revenue this year because expanding Internet use has fuelled the...
07:49 AM, Jul 02, 2011
London: In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will be the main attraction in one of his country's most bizarre museums. Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic fishing town of Husavik, said Arason's organ will help round out the unusual institution's extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears and other mammals. Several people had...
12:38 PM, Apr 13, 2011
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New Delhi: Sigurour Hjartarson will finally get to claim the penis promised to him by an Icelander 14 years ago. The donor of the penis, Pall Arason, passed away on January 5, 2010 and Hjartarson, the curator of Iceland’s Penis Museum, is now preparing to collect the museum’s first human specimen. Hjartarson said while he does not know if the agreement - made 14 years ago - will be respected,...
07:10 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Los Angeles: "Mad Men" and "Modern Family" won the Emmy awards for the best TV drama and comedy series respectively at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, while Jim Parsons and Edie Falco took home major acting trophies. "We are so thrilled that families together are sitting down and watching a TV show," said executive producer Steve Levitan after "Modern Family" beat "Glee" for the top comedy honors. The win...
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