Miami: Young school teachers, middle-aged nurses and even the elderly flocked to a Miami book store Sunday for a chance to meet the author of the bestselling erotic romance 'Fifty Shades of Grey' in the launch of her US book tour. British newcomer E L James drew more than 500 men and women at a morning book signing and spoke that evening to a boisterous, uninhibited crowd at the historic...
03:00 PM, Apr 30, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
New York: EL James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trilogy, a word-of-mouth romance smash so erotic it's sometimes labeled 'mommy porn', has been signed up by a paperback division of Random House Inc. Vintage Books announced Saturday that it had acquired the three books - 'Fifty Shades of Grey', 'Fifty Shades Darker' and 'Fifty Shades Freed'. E-book editions will be out Monday and paperbacks are expected in early April. The novels...
06:16 PM, Mar 11, 2012
London: A British couple who have been married for 76 years - the longest in the country - have now joined Twitter to speak about the secret of their remarkable romance. Lionel and Ellen Buxton from Dover, Kent, have invited users of the networking website to tweet them with their problems. The couple said they have not spent more than one night apart in the past eight decades, the Daily...
10:37 PM, Feb 11, 2012
London: Actors Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law have promised there will be more focus on the 'bromance' between their characters in 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'. The movie is a sequel to the 2009 film 'Sherlock Holmes' directed by Guy Ritchie, which was noted for the chemistry between Downey Jr and Law in the main roles and the pair have insisted the sequel won't be any different. "Last...
12:21 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New York: PD James could hold back no longer. The 91-year-old detective novelist said on Wednesday she was glad to finally complete a long-desired project - a sequel to Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.' James' "Death Comes to Pemberley" will be published by Faber & Faber in Britain in early November and by Alfred A. Knopf in the United states on December 6. James said in a telephone interview from...
02:08 PM, Oct 13, 2011
London: Scientific theory has it that people are attracted to the opposite sex who have similar facial features. An American entrepreneur has now launched a website that helps people find their look-alike mate. The online dating agency "FindYourFacemate.com" uses sophisticated facial recognition software to pair off people with a partner who is "facially compatible" to them, says the Daily Mail. The website's 54-year-old founder Christina Bloom said she started investigating...
05:22 PM, Aug 30, 2011
London: Men may have been known for straying in relationships but the reality is women are more likely to get caught up in a love triangle, says a study. Almost a quarter of women asked during the study were found to have been romantically involved with more than one individual at a time, while just 15 percent of the men admitted to two-timing, Daily Express reported. Of those love triangles...
12:45 PM, Aug 23, 2011
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03:43 PM, Aug 05, 2011
Gijon, Spain: Mark Keating could never find pirate novels he liked to read so he decided to write his own. Most of the fiction he consumed had fantasy or supernatural elements, or was about people who became pirates out of need and then went straight as soon as they could. "That's not what I felt about pirates. I thought, I'll write one about pirates who want to be pirates, who...
08:41 PM, Jul 27, 2011
New York: Contrary to conventional wisdom, cuddling and caressing are more important to men than women in a long-term relationship, according to a new international study. Researchers, who studied responses from adults in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Spain, also discovered that men were more likely to be happy in their relationship and that frequent kissing or cuddling was an accurate predictor of happiness for men. "I was...
01:23 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: A "timeless" romance is brewing between actors Sonam Kapoor and Shahid Kapur in their upcoming film 'Mausam', the first teaser trailer of which was released on Tuesday. Sonam was excited about the trailer and tweeted saying that she hasn't slept a wink prior to its release. The trailer was received well by people in the industry and fans. Filmmaker Karan Johar tweeted "the Mausam promo is beautiful...promises to...
01:20 PM, Jul 12, 2011
London: Romantic novels like Mills and Boon are a danger to relationships and sexual health, a British medical journal has said. They are also a cause of marital breakdown, adulterous affairs and unwanted pregnancies, the Daily Telegraph reported Thursday quoting the journal. An article in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care said that women struggle to distinguish between romantic fiction and real life. Susan Quilliam, a relationship...
11:33 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Los Angeles: The MTV Movie Awards are turning into a free infomercial for the "Twilight" movie franchise. For the third year in a row, the vampire romance was named best movie at the light-hearted -- and frequently X-rated -- salute to Hollywood's biggest crowd-pleasers. "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," which led the field with eight nominations, ended up with five awards. In a replay from last year Robert Pattinson and Kristen...
11:08 AM, Jun 06, 2011
London: The average man spends about 24,000 pounds on his lady love before getting married, a British study has found. In a "typical courtship" of about three years and 10 months, unmarried men spend up to 6,367 pounds a year, on holidays and dinner dates, says the poll of 2,000 men by card and gift company Me To You. The study found that single men spend 761 pounds on a...
11:21 AM, May 31, 2011
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