The Original Fergie has reportedly turned down 28 offers from American TV networks to work as a commentator during the April 29 royal wedding of her nephew Prince William and his bride Kate Middleton. (This despite the Duchess’ crippling mountain of debt…) She can’t very well commentate on it if she’s a guest, which Britain’s [...]
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Sarah Ferguson Lands Invite To Will & Kate Royal Wedding As Bride & Groom Enter Couples Counseling
February 3rd, 2011 |
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Jennifer Aniston Doesn’t Want Heidi Montag At “Just Go With It†Premiere
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Just Go With It, the new romantic comedy featuring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, opens in theaters this month, complete with a cameo from fallen reality star Heidi Montag’s boobs. But as the film’s release date inches closer, we hear the star is none too thrilled . She’s trying to get Heidi uninvited from the [...]
Best & Worst Of Desirable Celebrity Spouses!
February 2nd, 2011 |
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A UK poll has predictably christened engaged and expecting Oscar frontrunner Natalie Portman the world’s most desirable celebrity bride. In other non-shocking news, celeb trainwreck Charlie Sheen has also topped the poll for the dude you’d least like to marry. Tough break, Carlos. Natalie beat the likes of Megan Fox and Kim Kardashian to snatch [...]
Scientists find trigger behind spread of cancer
February 2nd, 2011 |
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Scientists have cracked one of the secrets behind the spread of cancer — a protein that helps the disease thrive and spread through the body, besides aiding its return post treatment. The breakthrough opens the way to drugs and better ways of picking out the most dangerous tumours, the Journal of Clinical Investigation reports. Cancer [...]
BlackBerry stock slips on India report
February 1st, 2011 |
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Shares of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) slipped about two percent Monday after India rejected its offer for partial access to its encrypted corporate emails. Since August last year, India has been seeking access to BlackBerry encrypted emails to counter threats to its national security. Since BlackBerry encrypted emails travel between smart phones through [...]
Prince William Kate Middleton Honeymoon: Scilly Islands
January 31st, 2011 |
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Prince William’s royal wedding to college sweetheart Kate Middleton is just around the corner and we hear the soon-to-be newlyweds have already settled on a honeymoon spot. Wills and Kate, both 28, are reportedly eyeing Britain’s Scilly Islands as the place where they’ll spend their first week together as husband and wife, according to at [...]
Christina Hendricks Breasts Set Off Plastic Surgery Craze In UK
January 31st, 2011 |
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Checking in at a size 14, fiery redhead Christina Hendricks has brought SexyBack to pop culture for The Curvy Set, and now it seems that an increasing number of women in the United Kingdom are going under the knife to achieve the Mad Men star’s signature hourglass frame. The Chi-Chis are a sensation! There was [...]
Egypt protesters defy curfew; Baradei says no going back
January 31st, 2011 |
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Anti-government demonstrators defied a curfew to protest Monday morning in Egypt’s capital, demanding President Hosny Mubarak step down from office after three decades of rule. Leading opposition activist Mohammed ElBaradei had earlier Sunday promised tens of thousands of protesters that change would come to their country, as they staged a sixth day of demonstrations in [...]
Obama speaks with foreign leaders on Egypt situation
January 31st, 2011 |
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US President Barack Obama has spoken with leaders from Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Britain on the present situation in Egypt, the White House said. Obama spoke to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi King Abdullah Saturday, and to British Prime Minister David Cameron Sunday, Xinhua reported citing [...]
Äoković wins Australian Open
January 30th, 2011 |
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Serbia’s Novak Äoković beat Britain’s Andy Murray 6-4 6-2 6-3 to win his second Australian Open title on Sunday.
The third seed won his only previous grand slam title in Melbourne in 2008.
Abhishek’s ‘Game’ to release on Fools’ Day
January 28th, 2011 |
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First time director Abhinay Deo’s upcoming action thriller “Game”, which has Abhishek Bachchan in the lead role, has been scheduled for an April 1 release. Produced under Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar’s banner Excel Entertainment, the film has been shot in Greece, Turkey, Thailand, Britain and India. Filmmaker-actor Farhan Akhtar has penned dialogues for the [...]
Attitudes to business: Milton Friedman goes on tour
January 27th, 2011 |
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A survey of attitudes to business turns up some intriguing national differences
PUBLIC-RELATIONS folk are not noted for burning the midnight oil over the works of great economists. But Edelman, an American firm, has come up with a clever idea. It asked members of the “informed public”—broadly, people with university degrees who are in the top quarter of wage-earners in their particular age groups and countries—what they think of Milton Friedman’s famous assertion that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”
The issue of whether businesses should promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) is hotly debated. Many of the world’s biggest companies (including BP and the now defunct Enron) have embraced the notion. So have politicians. Britain’s 2006 Companies Act requires businesses to report on their CSR records. The United Nations has a “global compact” for CSR. But the world’s Friedmanites have waged a relentless guerrilla war against the idea, denouncing it as a farrago of value-destroying nonsense. …
Susan Boyle Sold 14 Million Albums In 14 Months
January 25th, 2011 |
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It’s a great start to a New Year for Susan Boyle, who just received a plague celebrating 14 million albums sold in 14 months. The Scottish talent show sensation was presented with the award last Friday in London, where those who have worked with Boyle on her first two albums — I Dreamed a Dream [...]
Oprah Brands Sarah Ferguson Reality Show “Boringâ€
January 24th, 2011 |
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Uh-Oh: O’s not happy with The Original Fergie! Sarah Ferguson’s much-hyped new TV reality show on The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) has been pushed back after The Big Cheese herself complained that much of the early footage was far “too boring” for broadcast. Winfrey offered the cash-strapped Black Sheep of the Royal Family her own [...]
Jan. 24, 1935: First Canned Beer Sold
January 24th, 2011 |
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1935: The first canned beer in the United States goes on sale in Richmond, Virginia. By the end of the year, 37 breweries follow the lead of the Gottfried Krueger Brewery.
The American Can Co. began experimenting with canned beer in 1909. But the cans couldn’t withstand the pressure from carbonation — up to 80 [...]
Lady Gaga Engaged?
January 24th, 2011 |
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Pop’s most notorious fashion nightmare may soon have a diamond sparkler to match her animated hatwear and heeless stilettos. Music hitmaker Lady Gaga is reportedly engaged to wed her bartender boyfriend, Luc Carl. We’re not sure how true this dish is, but we’ve got two words for you, Gaga: Prenuptial Agreement! Rumors are abuzz that [...]
Live music: Pricing the piper
January 20th, 2011 |
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An economics lesson for the concert business
ARE you longing to see Take That, a British boy band approaching middle age? More than 1.3m people are. So heavy is demand for the tour, which begins in Sunderland in May, that Britain’s phone network at one point creaked under three to four times the normal weight of calls. But even sold-out concerts are never really so. Plenty of Take That tickets are for sale online—at up to five times the original prices.
For the hottest acts, the concert business is good. Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber have little problem selling tickets. Yet trouble lurks below the stratosphere. Pollstar, a research firm, estimates that the 50 biggest worldwide tours grossed $2.93 billion last year—12% less than in 2009. StubHub, a large website on which tickets are traded, says the average concert-ticket price dropped by 18% between 2008 and 2010. …
Face value: John Quelch: Teaching case studies in China
January 20th, 2011 |
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The Western dean of a business school in Shanghai
AS HE left Rupert Murdoch’s office at the Sun newspaper clutching a fat cheque, John Quelch realised he was interested in business. He was a history student at Oxford and had not previously given the subject much thought. But in 1972 he stepped in to help Cherwell, the student rag, after cocky editors (for such people can occasionally be found at that university) had driven it, in his view, into the river after which it was named.
The young Mr Quelch displayed a certain chutzpah, too. He turned up at Mr Murdoch’s office with a rudimentary business plan “which wouldn’t have passed muster with any accountant”, and walked out with a sizeable sum. Cherwell’s editors were duly dispatched. One, Peter Stothard, went on to edit the Times. The other, Howard Davies, became chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority. Mr Quelch took over at Cherwell. …