Posted On: September 25, 2014
Social media the world over exploded in discussion over one speech on Sept 20. It is none other than Emma Watson‘s HeForShe Speech at the United Nations. The Speech On Everyone’s Lips The newly minted UN Goodwill Ambassador for Women, Watson is best known as the actress who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter […]
read more
Posted On: January 2, 2011
This article first appeared on Good Vibrations Magazine. For the second time this year, fashion magazine Elle finds itself caught in a racial controversy after reportedly whitening the skin of Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the photograph that appears on its cover. Readers reacted with anger after it was suggested that the fashion magazine […]
read more
Posted On: November 17, 2010
This article first appeared on the Good Vibrations Magazine. Karen Mok is a two-time Golden Melody Award-winning Hong Kong-based actress and singer/songwriter. In case you assume this makes it likely that she is yet another bimbo, think again. She attended the United World College of the Adriatic near Trieste, Italy from 1987 to 1989, and […]
read more
Posted On: April 18, 2010
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is a Golden Globe- and Satellite Award-winning Irish actor, who has appeared in Hollywood films including Tigerland, Daredevil, Miami Vice, Minority Report, Phone Booth, The Recruit, Alexander, In Bruges, and S.W.A.T. He has thrown his support behind an anti-homophobia campaign in his native Ireland – recalling the horrific […]
read more
Posted On: February 4, 2010
Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘divorce’ from longtime partner Kelli Carpenter was smooth and drama-free because neither partner wanted to fight and lose touch with each other. The A League of Their Own star insists women can always find a way to split graciously because they always want what’s best for everyone involved. Do you agree with this? […]
read more
Posted On: January 29, 2010
Ethan Hawke thinks there is something “weirdly sexual” about vampires. The ‘Daybreakers’ star said he was so taken with how beautiful a vampire character was in one film he saw as a child, he can see how young people find them compelling today. He said: “I know why I like vampires, it’s the same reason […]
read more
Posted On: January 9, 2010
Hugh Grant hates filming rain scenes because he’s convinced the drizzle makes his head swell. The actor hates watching himself performing in the rain – because it always looks like he has a “gigantic pumpkin head”. He warned director Marc Lawrence about scripting a rainy moment in new film ‘Did You Hear About The Morgans?‘ […]
read more
Posted On: December 18, 2009
Disney is featuring its first black pricess in The Princess and the Frog, featuring its first black princess, for over three years now. It’s a happy coincidence that the film arrives during the first term of US first black President — but for little girls, seeing a Disney princess who looks like them might be […]
read more
Posted On: November 1, 2009
What would Bond films be like without the Bond girls? They are sexpots, saviors, villainesses and heroines, examples and exemplars. Like them, hate them? I bet you are curious as to who is the best of the Bond Girls. Click here.
read more
Posted On: July 25, 2009
Farrah Fawcett , the feathered-hair star of Charlie’s Angels, had a private funeral on 30 June at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles. Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in late 2006. Anal cancer is a relatively rare cancer that occurs in the anus. The anal canal is a small section, […]
read more