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Springtime for Hitler in Mumbai!
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A new restaurant in India's financial hub, named after Adolf Hitler and promoted with posters showing the German leader and Nazi swastikas, has infuriated the country's small Jewish community.
'Hitler's Cross', which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.
"We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people's minds," owner Punit Shablok told Reuters.
"We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different."
But India's remaining Jews -- most migrated to Israel and the West over the years -- say they are outraged by the gimmick.
"This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man," said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community's umbrella organisation.
"We are going to stop this deification of Hitler," he said without elaborating.
The small restaurant, its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black, also has a lounge for smoking the exotic Indian water pipe or "hookah".
Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery. One slogan reads: "From Small Bites to Mega Joys".
A huge portrait of a stern-looking Fuehrer greets visitors at the door. The cross in the restaurant's name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime.
"This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal," said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery's name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.
The swastika has its roots in ancient Indian Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol for Hindus. Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.
'Hitler's Cross', which opened last week, serves up a wide range of continental fare and a big helping of controversy, thanks to a name the owners say they chose to stand out among hundreds of Mumbai eateries.
"We wanted to be different. This is one name that will stay in people's minds," owner Punit Shablok told Reuters.
"We are not promoting Hitler. But we want to tell people we are different in the way he was different."
But India's remaining Jews -- most migrated to Israel and the West over the years -- say they are outraged by the gimmick.
"This signifies a severe lack of awareness of the agony of millions of Jews caused by one man," said Jonathan Solomon, chairman of the Indian Jewish Federation, the community's umbrella organisation.
"We are going to stop this deification of Hitler," he said without elaborating.
The small restaurant, its interior done out in the Nazi colours of red, white and black, also has a lounge for smoking the exotic Indian water pipe or "hookah".
Posters line the road leading up to it, featuring a red swastika carved in the name of the eatery. One slogan reads: "From Small Bites to Mega Joys".
A huge portrait of a stern-looking Fuehrer greets visitors at the door. The cross in the restaurant's name refers to the swastika that symbolised the Nazi regime.
"This place is not about wars or crimes, but where people come to relax and enjoy a meal," said restaurant manager Fatima Kabani, adding that they were planning to turn the eatery's name into a brand with more branches in Mumbai.
The swastika has its roots in ancient Indian Hindu tradition and remains a sacred symbol for Hindus. Nazi theorists appropriated it to bolster their central hypothesis of the Aryan origins of the German people.
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Even the Hoff thinks he's gay.
This place is hardly ever used, and yet this is my second go this week. When the Rom's away, the Sal will play. Or something.
Besides, I need to warn all you Aussies! Taken from Celebrity Week's website:
First of all, we are NOT making this up. David Hasselhoff – star of Knight Rider, Baywatch and the new hit variety show America's Got Talent told us today that he is heading to Australia to appear in a stage production based on his life.
David Hasselhoff: The Musical will include sets inspired by The Young and The Restless, Knight Rider and the songs of Teddy Pendergrass. "I am also doing a heart-rendering set on my life and the mistakes I have made," the star says. "It sounds like a bad joke, but it is really going to be a good show... totally campy. It's written by the same people who wrote Bette Midler's show and produced by the people who produced Chicago in London."
The production - which features dancers from both Chicago and Jeckyl & Hyde - will open in Melbourne (date to be determined) before hopefully coming to America. "If it ends up in Vegas, how great would that be?" he says. "I want to entertain people. Sammy Davis (Jr.) was my hero." Hasselhoff, 54, will also release his autobiography, Making Waves, on September 10.
Besides, I need to warn all you Aussies! Taken from Celebrity Week's website:
First of all, we are NOT making this up. David Hasselhoff – star of Knight Rider, Baywatch and the new hit variety show America's Got Talent told us today that he is heading to Australia to appear in a stage production based on his life.
David Hasselhoff: The Musical will include sets inspired by The Young and The Restless, Knight Rider and the songs of Teddy Pendergrass. "I am also doing a heart-rendering set on my life and the mistakes I have made," the star says. "It sounds like a bad joke, but it is really going to be a good show... totally campy. It's written by the same people who wrote Bette Midler's show and produced by the people who produced Chicago in London."
The production - which features dancers from both Chicago and Jeckyl & Hyde - will open in Melbourne (date to be determined) before hopefully coming to America. "If it ends up in Vegas, how great would that be?" he says. "I want to entertain people. Sammy Davis (Jr.) was my hero." Hasselhoff, 54, will also release his autobiography, Making Waves, on September 10.
Oprah Lays Rumors to Rest (Or Begins Them. Whichever.)
A couple days old, sure, but this belongs here. I looked for a decent article, and I just love how this one was written. From Giant Magazine's website:
And now for some news about a debate we didn't even know was going on. The debt-diet queen finally announces in the August issue of her other official broadcast medium, O magazine, that her long, long friendship with Gayle King that involves four phone calls a day has nothing whatsoever to do with fevered sexual bump-humping or old-woman-on-old-woman love of any kind.
"The truth is, if we were gay, we would tell you, because there's nothing wrong with being gay," says her friend King, even though that almost sounds like a line from South Park.
Oprah's comment to the AP was somewhat stranger: "Something about this relationship feels otherworldly to me, like it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this friendship is, it's been a very fun ride."
And by "fun ride," once again, she does not mean feverishly grinding her pelvis on top of Gayle King's face while holding on to leather hand-straps.
Personally, we think it'd be great if she was gay, since she's certainly no human man's sexual fantasy.
No one was even talking about it until she said something. Although, I'd thought about it, but then stopped because who gives a crap? It's Oprah. Still, I think she should go for it. Gayle's not too bad looking. Oprah could do worse. And with that hinky quote she gave, I think she might be thinking about it. You go, girl!
And now for some news about a debate we didn't even know was going on. The debt-diet queen finally announces in the August issue of her other official broadcast medium, O magazine, that her long, long friendship with Gayle King that involves four phone calls a day has nothing whatsoever to do with fevered sexual bump-humping or old-woman-on-old-woman love of any kind.
"The truth is, if we were gay, we would tell you, because there's nothing wrong with being gay," says her friend King, even though that almost sounds like a line from South Park.
Oprah's comment to the AP was somewhat stranger: "Something about this relationship feels otherworldly to me, like it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this friendship is, it's been a very fun ride."
And by "fun ride," once again, she does not mean feverishly grinding her pelvis on top of Gayle King's face while holding on to leather hand-straps.
Personally, we think it'd be great if she was gay, since she's certainly no human man's sexual fantasy.
No one was even talking about it until she said something. Although, I'd thought about it, but then stopped because who gives a crap? It's Oprah. Still, I think she should go for it. Gayle's not too bad looking. Oprah could do worse. And with that hinky quote she gave, I think she might be thinking about it. You go, girl!
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It's so insanely funny how large groups of people react to celebrity babies.
The obvious example of this, of course, would be Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby, 'Shilouh'. I have seen numerous tv shows already where people have used modern computer technology to try and figure out what she is going to look like at 18 years of age. People are also estimating what her fate will be and how much she will be worth. Everyone's gone Shilouh crazy!
Do people really care that much about a baby that's not even theirs, or anybody they truly know for that matter? It's just a baby!
Nobody seems to really care about Gwen's baby =D
And on a humourous side note, seems some mods of certain communities have been getting poopy about pictures of Brian Molko's son Cody being circulated through various Placebo communities. Oh noes it's gonna receive the same amount of media attention as Brad and Angelina's baby!
The obvious example of this, of course, would be Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's baby, 'Shilouh'. I have seen numerous tv shows already where people have used modern computer technology to try and figure out what she is going to look like at 18 years of age. People are also estimating what her fate will be and how much she will be worth. Everyone's gone Shilouh crazy!
Do people really care that much about a baby that's not even theirs, or anybody they truly know for that matter? It's just a baby!
Nobody seems to really care about Gwen's baby =D
And on a humourous side note, seems some mods of certain communities have been getting poopy about pictures of Brian Molko's son Cody being circulated through various Placebo communities. Oh noes it's gonna receive the same amount of media attention as Brad and Angelina's baby!
News just in! Katie Holmes no longer allowed to have sex!
Article found here:
The biggest mystery at this year's Sundance Film Festival: Who gave Katie Holmes the snip?
At a sold-out screening for his new satirical comedy, Thank You for Smoking, rookie filmmaker Jason "Son of Ivan" Reitman was shocked--shocked!--to discover that a 12-second scene of a hookup between Holmes' journalist character and a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart had vanished.
"We were sitting there in shock," the movie's writer-director told the Los Angeles Times. "And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care."
Following the screening, Reitman immediately addressed the audience, which included Holmes and Eckhart, explaining that the scene was missing and "something went wrong with he reel." (The steamy encounter between Holmes and Eckhart's characters were in the version screened at last fall's Toronto Film Festival.) His remarks instead drew grumblings, and even a few boos, from the crowd.
Thus began the Case of the Missing Sex Scene.
News of Holmes' disappearing act spread quickly around the mountain town of Park City, Utah, and became fodder for the gossip mill. Several publications posited that the missing scene was somehow the work of Holmes' fiance, Tom Cruise, who, the theory goes, is so protective of his future missus that he didn't want her to be seen cavorting in the nude.
And while another Holmes romp later in the film remained intact in the Sundance print, the Cruise conspiracy theorists were undaunted.
Us Weekly, for instance, quoted one unnamed insider as saying "industry people started whispering that Tom Cruise didn't want the scene in there because it was dirtier than he was comfortable with." Another anonymous wag tells the magazine that the Cruise-is-culpable theory "was the first thing that went through everyone's mind!"
Holmes, who's pregnant with the Mission: Impossible star's first biological offspring (Cruise adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, with Nicole Kidman), wasn't available for comment. Cruise's camp rejected assertions the couch-jumping thespian and self-proclaimed sonogram expert had anything to do with the edit.
Cruise himself was said to have ditched the screening to hit the slopes, according to TMZ.com.
It was up to Reitman to clear Cruise's name and solve the mystery. He told the Times that the scene was accidentally cut when two reels were spliced together in Los Angeles as filmmakers prepared a print for Smoking's four festival screenings.
In any case, Reitman said he plans to restore the sex scene when Fox Searchlight releases Thank You for Smoking in theaters on Mar. 17.
The world deserves that sex scene, dammit! Tom Cruise will not deny us!
Actually, my favorite part of this entire article is the one sentence that said Tom was off skiing during the screening. Dude, Tom. She's your beard. You can't look the least bit supportive to make the whole thing almost believable?! No? No. I didn't think so either.
The biggest mystery at this year's Sundance Film Festival: Who gave Katie Holmes the snip?
At a sold-out screening for his new satirical comedy, Thank You for Smoking, rookie filmmaker Jason "Son of Ivan" Reitman was shocked--shocked!--to discover that a 12-second scene of a hookup between Holmes' journalist character and a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart had vanished.
"We were sitting there in shock," the movie's writer-director told the Los Angeles Times. "And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care."
Following the screening, Reitman immediately addressed the audience, which included Holmes and Eckhart, explaining that the scene was missing and "something went wrong with he reel." (The steamy encounter between Holmes and Eckhart's characters were in the version screened at last fall's Toronto Film Festival.) His remarks instead drew grumblings, and even a few boos, from the crowd.
Thus began the Case of the Missing Sex Scene.
News of Holmes' disappearing act spread quickly around the mountain town of Park City, Utah, and became fodder for the gossip mill. Several publications posited that the missing scene was somehow the work of Holmes' fiance, Tom Cruise, who, the theory goes, is so protective of his future missus that he didn't want her to be seen cavorting in the nude.
And while another Holmes romp later in the film remained intact in the Sundance print, the Cruise conspiracy theorists were undaunted.
Us Weekly, for instance, quoted one unnamed insider as saying "industry people started whispering that Tom Cruise didn't want the scene in there because it was dirtier than he was comfortable with." Another anonymous wag tells the magazine that the Cruise-is-culpable theory "was the first thing that went through everyone's mind!"
Holmes, who's pregnant with the Mission: Impossible star's first biological offspring (Cruise adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, with Nicole Kidman), wasn't available for comment. Cruise's camp rejected assertions the couch-jumping thespian and self-proclaimed sonogram expert had anything to do with the edit.
Cruise himself was said to have ditched the screening to hit the slopes, according to TMZ.com.
It was up to Reitman to clear Cruise's name and solve the mystery. He told the Times that the scene was accidentally cut when two reels were spliced together in Los Angeles as filmmakers prepared a print for Smoking's four festival screenings.
In any case, Reitman said he plans to restore the sex scene when Fox Searchlight releases Thank You for Smoking in theaters on Mar. 17.
The world deserves that sex scene, dammit! Tom Cruise will not deny us!
Actually, my favorite part of this entire article is the one sentence that said Tom was off skiing during the screening. Dude, Tom. She's your beard. You can't look the least bit supportive to make the whole thing almost believable?! No? No. I didn't think so either.
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Ashlee Simpson is set to host the Australian MTV video music awards.
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Back then they call me KFed, but you can call me Fucktard instead!
Britney sure hooked up with a real winner in Kevin Federline. No longer a back up dancer, nor milking Britney for everything she's worth, oh wai.. he's still doing that one, KFed, which has got to be one of the shittiest nicknames ever (God damn you Jennifer Lopez, look what you started! *tasers* incidentally from now on I demand to be known as LFo *jumps on the bandwagon like omg!*) KFed now is going to be a RAP SUPERSTAR!
what the fuck?! seriously. I thought all that ghetto stuff was just himtrying failing to be fashionable (nice braids you douche) but it seems he's taken this thing way too seriously and is going to have an album out, unless we're somehow saved and someone grows a brain and decides to can this shit before we all suffer.
Keep in mind that Britney described Kevin as like Eminem but with a more positive message. Disco D, the producer mainly working with Kevin on this, has made a few comments about it on his website: "(Kevin) doesn’t even write anything down he just goes in and straight freestyles. You gotta understand the first song we did was the first time my man was ever in the booth. So he wrote 2 songs and then got a copy of fade to black, watched it, and never wrote a lyric down again."
Yeah I bet that's working out well for you.
Clicky clicky -> http://wwtdd.com/media/kfedsong.wma to listen to his lovely little tune "Y'all Aint Ready". You're sure right on that one buddy!
One part of me can’t wait till this is released because the film clip is going to be absolutely horrendously hysterical. The other hopes to never ever hear KFed doing any sort of singing ever again.
what the fuck?! seriously. I thought all that ghetto stuff was just him
Keep in mind that Britney described Kevin as like Eminem but with a more positive message. Disco D, the producer mainly working with Kevin on this, has made a few comments about it on his website: "(Kevin) doesn’t even write anything down he just goes in and straight freestyles. You gotta understand the first song we did was the first time my man was ever in the booth. So he wrote 2 songs and then got a copy of fade to black, watched it, and never wrote a lyric down again."
Yeah I bet that's working out well for you.
Clicky clicky -> http://wwtdd.com/media/kfedsong.wma to listen to his lovely little tune "Y'all Aint Ready". You're sure right on that one buddy!
One part of me can’t wait till this is released because the film clip is going to be absolutely horrendously hysterical. The other hopes to never ever hear KFed doing any sort of singing ever again.
Anything you can do, I can do better!
LINDSAY LOHAN is set to bare all for an upcoming
VANITY FAIR cover.
The 19-year-old MEAN GIRLS star, who has been the subject of weightloss shock
stories in the US media for the past year, is keen to show off her healthy
figure - and she has chosen to get naked for the style magazine.
According to America's In Touch magazine, Lohan shot the top secret cover photo
on a beach in Malibu, California last week (21SEP05) - and it was actually her
idea to pose naked.
A source says, "It was Paris Hilton's recent Vanity Fair cover, where
she's topless and covering her breasts with her arms, that inspired Lindsay to
push the envelope even further."
In some of the Vanity Fair photos, Lindsay mimics her idol, MARILYN MONROE.
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I don't think it's possible to roll my eyes any more without causing some sort
of permanent damage.
eek!!
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This is in a friend's journal, and I think she transcribed it herself from the NY Daily News.
DANES IN PAIN: Believe it or not, Claire Danes isn't siding with another "other woman," Angelina Jolie. Said Danes: "I worried about Jennifer [Aniston], you know?" Danes, for whom Billy Crudup left his pregnant girlfriend, Mary-Louise Parker, confides in Details' Fifth Anniversary issue: "It's the Jennifer we all carry inside of us." Huh? She adds: "I am still in the cocoon, I think, and waiting to emerge as a grownup. It's kind of an amorphous, transitional time. I feel like I should be more congealed than I am." Double huh? Danes also complains about her first-ever nude scene in "Shopgirl," with Steve Martin. "Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. ... But they played jazz. That helped." Hmmm, maybe violins would have been more appropriate.
Clair Danes may be my new "WTF are you talking about?!" girl, possibly edging out Vanessa Carlton, who to my knowledge, hasn't said anything completely off it recently.
And dude. Who in their right mind would choose Claire Danes over Mary-Louise Parker? Damn. People are insane.
DANES IN PAIN: Believe it or not, Claire Danes isn't siding with another "other woman," Angelina Jolie. Said Danes: "I worried about Jennifer [Aniston], you know?" Danes, for whom Billy Crudup left his pregnant girlfriend, Mary-Louise Parker, confides in Details' Fifth Anniversary issue: "It's the Jennifer we all carry inside of us." Huh? She adds: "I am still in the cocoon, I think, and waiting to emerge as a grownup. It's kind of an amorphous, transitional time. I feel like I should be more congealed than I am." Double huh? Danes also complains about her first-ever nude scene in "Shopgirl," with Steve Martin. "Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish. ... But they played jazz. That helped." Hmmm, maybe violins would have been more appropriate.
Clair Danes may be my new "WTF are you talking about?!" girl, possibly edging out Vanessa Carlton, who to my knowledge, hasn't said anything completely off it recently.
And dude. Who in their right mind would choose Claire Danes over Mary-Louise Parker? Damn. People are insane.