Los Angeles: Fame hasn't gone to actor Bradley Cooper's head. He readily came to the rescue of his friends and their families to pay off their debts in their hard times.
The 38-year-old admits that finding fame has been disorientating, but he hasn't let his star status go to his head.
"There is a certain amount of disorientation. You can't relate to having more money than you ever imagined or even know how to spend or invest. It's absolutely luxury, I know that," dailymirror.couk quoted Cooper as saying.
"But I don't think I've let it affect the way I live or change how I think. I still live pretty much like a nomad going from one film shoot to another. I don't collect sports cars or have ambitions to own my own private jet. Making a lot of money has enabled me to help some of my closets friends pay off debts, mortgages, things like that," she added....
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08:27 AM, May 18, 2013
New York: When Thomas Herndon, a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's doctoral program in economics, spotted possible errors made by two eminent Harvard economists in an influential research paper, he called his girlfriend over for a second look. As they poured over the spreadsheets Herndon had requested from Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, which formed the basis for a widely quoted 2010 study, they spotted what they...
01:31 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Jalandhar: Terming Punjab as the most 'corrupt' state in the country, People's Party of Punjab leader Manpreet Badal accused the state finance minister of acting as merely the 'munim' (accountant) of the government. "Punjab is the most corrupt state in the country. The people looting the state are being actively shielded by the ministers," said Manpreet Badal, the former state finance minister. He was speaking to reporters after the ending...
02:24 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Shajapur: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday slammed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for making "tall claims" about development, and claimed that despite all talks of progress every citizen of Gujarat is burdened with a debt of Rs 26,000. "When Modi became Gujarat Chief Minister for the first time, the state had a loan burden of Rs 46,000 crore, but today it has risen to Rs 1.72 lakh crore,...
02:30 AM, Apr 15, 2013
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a family of four including two children was charred to death in Uttam Nagar. Police sources said that prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide. Meanwhile, the neighbours claimed that the family had a financial debt of over Rs 40 lakh. The neighbours informed the police and the fire station after noticing the blaze. The police are now investigating the case....
11:00 AM, Apr 06, 2013
uzlon Energy, which recast its loans in January, is hitting the overseas bond markets to raise USD 650 million to prepay its forex debts, making it the first domestic company under CDR to do so, according to company and merchant banking sources. ...
12:44 PM, Mar 24, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said the ministry has moved the Cabinet note for setting up of a Debt Management Office (DMO), which will handle the government's borrowing programme. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Citigroup Inc has agreed to pay $730 million to settle a class action lawsuit on behalf of investors who said they were misled by the company's disclosures. ...
05:42 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday claimed to have sufficient proofs of alleged irregularities committed in the farmers's loan waiver scheme of the Centre which was brought out by CAG report recently. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 17, 2013
The Lok Sabha is likely to discuss the CAG report on the farm loan waiver scheme on Thursday. On Wednesday, the House was adjourned after repeated ruckus by the Opposition. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had promised stringent action against defaulters. ...
10:34 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The BJP on Tuesday alleged that nearly 34 lakh farmers had been denied their right under the loan waiver scheme of the UPA government and demanded a CBI inquiry to unearth the real extent of the "massive scam". ...
02:07 AM, Mar 06, 2013
The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament earlier on Tuesday criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
10:48 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The CAG report which was tabled in Parliament earlier on Tuesday criticised the scheme's implementation, citing lapses in 22 per cent of the cases. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The main Opposition BJP called for an inquiry into the farm debt waiver scheme after CAG report highlighting government's lapses and irregularities in implementing the scheme. "There are things rotting somewhere and that is why we want an in-depth inquiry because without that you won't be able to prove the nexus," said BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar. ...
03:25 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) final report on the farm debt waiver scheme highlighted loopholes and pointed out irregularities in implementation of the Rs 52,000 crore scheme. The report was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. ...
12:44 PM, Mar 05, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) final report on the farm debt waiver scheme is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. Sources said the report is fairly critical of its implementation, alleging that beneficiaries of the scheme were selected randomly and did not reach the needy farmers. ...
09:55 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Kingfisher Airlines' promoter Vijay Mallya is likely to meet Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday to discuss ways to deal with the financial challenges faced by the airline. With more than Rs 15,000 crore in the form of debt, accumulated losses and various dues, the airline has remained grounded since October 2012. ...
08:48 AM, Mar 05, 2013
The publisher of iconic magazine Reader's Digest has filed for bankruptcy to cut a $465 million debt. The magazine has been in circulation for 9 decades now and is read by over 25 million people across the world, but has lately felt the pressure of reader's switching from print to electronic media. ...
09:07 AM, Feb 19, 2013
With banks planning to monetise Kingfisher Airlines' securities to recover a debt of about Rs 7,000 crore, the grounded carrier today said it was continuing discussions with its lenders and had not received any formal communication from them on the matter. "We have received no formal communication from the banks till date. We are in continuing discussions with them on ways to bring down their exposure, inter alia, from the...
10:10 AM, Feb 16, 2013
The economy of the 17 nations in the Euro shrank by 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter, which was worse than forecast. ...
10:00 AM, Feb 15, 2013
