American Music Awards 2012

Rihanna and Nicki Minaj are the leading nominees at the 40th annual American Music Awards with four nods each.

 

Christina Aguilera announced the nominations Tuesday in Los Angeles. She also said she plans to perform at the ceremony next month.

Drake, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, One Direction and Usher earned three bids apiece. Carrie Underwood, Chris Brown, fun., Gotye, J. Cole, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Luke Bryan, and Pitbull are each double nominees.

Drake, Bieber, Maroon 5, Katy Perry and Rihanna are also in the running for artist of the year.

Nominees are selected based on broadcast airplay and online popularity. Fans can vote online for their favorites in all 20 categories.

The American Music Awards will be presented Nov. 18 at Nokia Theater and broadcast live on ABC.

The complete list of nominees:

Artist of the year: Justin Bieber, Drake, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Rihanna.
New artist of the year: J. Cole, fun., Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen, One Direction.
Male artist, pop/rock: Justin Bieber, Flo Rida, Pitbull, Usher.
Female artist, pop/rock: Kelly Clarkson, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Rihanna.
Band, duo or group, pop/rock: fun., Maroon 5, One Direction, The Wanted.
Album, pop/rock: Justin Bieber, "Believe"; Maroon 5, "Overexposed"; Nicki Minaj, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded"; One Direction, "Up All Night."
Male artist, country: Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Eric Church.
Female artist, country: Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood.
Band, duo or group, country: Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts.
Album, country: Luke Bryan, "Tailgates & Tanlines"; Lionel Richie, "Tuskegee"; Carrie Underwood, "Blown Away."
Artist, rap/hip-hop: Drake, Nicki Minaj, Tyga.
Album, rap/hip-hop: J. Cole, "Cole World: The Sideline Story"; Drake, "Take Care"; Nicki Minaj, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded."
Male artist, soul/R&B: Chris Brown, Trey Songz, Usher.
Female artist, soul/R&B: Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna.
Album, soul/R&B: Chris Brown, "Fortune"; Rihanna, "Talk That Talk"; Usher, "Looking 4 Myself."
Artist, alternative rock: The Black Keys, Gotye, Linkin Park.
Artist, adult contemporary: Adele, Kelly Clarkson, Train.
Artist, Latin: Don Omar, Pitbull, Shakira.
Artist, contemporary inspirational: Jeremy Camp, Newsboys, tobyMac.
Artist, electronic dance music: David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Skrillex.

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Orionid Meteor Shower 2012 this weekend -- Watch for Fireballs

One of the more spectacular meteor showers of the year peaks overnight Saturday, with perhaps 60 visible meteors an hour. Fireballs -- any meteor brighter than Venus -- are likely as Orionids plunge into the atmosphere at 148,000 miles per hour.
Soon, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect 25 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Oct. 21, 2012. The shower should be at its peak the night of Saturday, Oct. 20, until just before dawn on Oct. 21. This year, the moon will be setting at about midnight, which will keep the sky darkened enough that -- barring cloud cover -- an observer should be able to see up to 15 meteors per hour.

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Justin Timberlake Jessica Biel Wedding Photos

 

 They've had bachelor parties, mystery wedding dress shopping sessions and random trips to Europe. Now it appears that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are eventually ready to get married... 

Ten months after getting engaged in a luxury mountain resort in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Timberlake, 31, and Biel, 30, are set to tie the knot in southern Italy this week. The reports are trickling in: Us Weekly quotes sources that claim the ultra-private celebrations have already kicked off, on Tuesday, October 16, in preparation for an "intimate, rustic ceremony" that will be attended by family and friends. Meanwhile, Life & Style is revealing:

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2012 Oscars | 2012 Oscars Arrivals | Oscar Award 2012 Pics

 

Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA

Jessica Chastain arrives at the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA.

Michel Hazanavicius accepts the Oscar for best picture for the film "The Artist."

Monica Almeida/The New York Times Jean Dujardin accepted the Oscar for best Actor for the film "The Artist."

Monica Almeida/The New York Times Jean Dujardin accepted the Oscar for best Actor for the film "The Artist."

Monica Almeida/The New York Times Octavia Spencer gave an emotional acceptance speech after

Jean Dujardin wins Best Actor for 'The Artist'

Jean Dujardin wins Best Actor for 'The Artist'

Angelina Jolie walks the red carpet at the 84th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

 

 

 

 

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DPRK TV shows Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh

Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh took the stage in North Korea during a concert for new leader Kim Jong Un in an unusual performance featuring Disney characters.

Performers dressed as some of America's most memorable cartoon characters danced and pranced as footage from "Snow White," ''Dumbo," ''Beauty and the Beast" and other popular Disney movies played on a massive backdrop, according to still photos shown on state TV Saturday.

The inclusion of characters popular in the West — particularly from the United States, North Korea's wartime enemy — is a notable change in direction for performance arts in Pyongyang.

This appears to be the first time Disney characters have been included in a major performance, though Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse have been popular among children for several years. Backpacks, pencil cases and pajamas imported from China often feature Disney characters, and stories such as "Dumbo" have been translated into Korean for North Korean schoolchildren. However, it is unusual to make such images a central part of a North Korean performance and to publicize it on state TV.

The performance was staged Friday by the new Moranbong band, which was making its debut after being assembled by Kim himself, the state-run Korean Central News Agency said.

Kim, who took power after his father, longtime leader Kim Jong Il, died in December, has a "grandiose plan to bring about a dramatic turn in the field of literature and arts this year," KCNA said.

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Heat wave hits Europe News

A man and his dogs cool off in the Berounka river in the village of Dobrichovice, near Prague August 20, 2012. Temperatures are expected to rise up to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute reported. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: ANIMALS SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)

People walk through a corridor with water showers at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

People walk through a corridor with water showers at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerA man stands behind a shower at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)Horses enjoy water as they cool off at the Old Town Square in central Prague August 20, 2012. An unusual tropical heat wave with temperatures reaching over 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) hits continental Europe. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)

People walk through a corridor with water showers at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerA man stands behind a shower at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner (AUSTRIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)Horses enjoy water as they cool off at the Old Town Square in central Prague August 20, 2012. An unusual tropical heat wave with temperatures reaching over 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) hits continental Europe. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)A boy enjoys a mist fan at the Old Town Square in central Prague August 20, 2012. An unusual tropical heat wave with temperatures reaching more than 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit) hits continental Europe. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT CITYSCAPE)

People swim at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

People swim at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerPeople walk through a corridor with water showers at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerA youth jumps from a diving platform at Stadionbad, a public outdoor swimming pool, in Vienna August 20, 2012. Austria was hit by a heat wave with temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Austria's national weather service agency ZAMG. REUTERS/Lisi NiesnerChildren play in aqua zorbing balls in a temporary inflatable pool in the garden of the Chancellery during open house day in Berlin, August 19, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas PeterA boy cools off in a fountain in front of the Berlin Cathedral on a hot sunny summer day in Berlin, August 19, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Soaring temperatures continued in much of Europe Monday, August 20, as the mercury climbed up to 100F in cities from Vienna to Paris.

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Tagg Romney Calibrates 'Swing' at Obama Remark

Tagg Romney Sez:  "Well, you want to jump out of your

 seat and rush down to the debate stage and take a 

swing at Obama!"

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Kyna Treacy Caught A-Rod's

Kyna Treacy, a 33-year-old Australian bikini model,got suddenly famous when she became the "cause of distraction" for the New York Yankees' highest-paid benchwarmer Alex Rodriguez nick name A-rod.
Treacy — a sexy catwalker who started her own swimwear line, Kini Bikini— was sitting two rows behind the dugout with pretty pal Kate Quinn.
She received a baseball from ARod with his phone number on it.

Kyna Treacy and Alex Rodriguez

Looks like instead of the Detroit Tigers, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez had his attentions focused on Australian bikini model Kyna Treacy during Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. Maybe A-Rod's flirtatious glances towards the brunette bombshell sitting in the Yankee Stadium stands on Saturday evening (Oct. 13) is what led to the Yankees loss in Game 1? (and Game 2, and Game 3...). Either way, A-Rod has been continuously benched in the Series (as the Yanks continue to falter), but at least he managed to get Kyna Treacy's digits, and in a very baseball-esque fashion, nonetheless.

With his team struggling in the playoffs, the New York Yankees' highest-paid benchwarmer Alex Rodriguez was certainly not feeling the pressure as he flirted with two women in the stands.

One of them clearly caught A-Rod's attention at at time when Yankee fans would have preferred he be more focused on baseball.

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Sylvia Kristel Life Photos and Memories

A Life Less Ordinary : Remembering Sylvia Kristel

 

"I continue to live off my name, a first name-my only role-Emmanuelle. In this use of me there is a mistake, an abuse, a total and violent conflict with who I am. I may smile, may act carefree and consenting, may continue speaking up for sexual freedom and asserting that in Nordic countries nudity is considered normal. But none of this erotic universe is in the least bit natural to me. I draw on inspiration, on my imagination, on other people's desire, but not on my own experience. I continue being cast against type, telling myself that I have no choice."

-Sylvia Kristel, Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir-

The news of Sylvia Kristel's passing came to me this morning as I was sitting in my living room, drinking my early-morning black coffee, and feeling the cool Autumn air blowing in through an open window.  Even though the news was expected, due to Sylvia's tragic health issues, I was still filled with an unbelievable sense of sadness and loss...and regret...regret that I hadn't done more to celebrate one of my favorite actors and film icons.  Even with my tribute site and all my posts on her great, relatively unseen, films I feel like I could have done more to pay tribute to one of modern cinema's great undervalued poets. 

Sylvia Kristel was indeed a poet..a remarkable actress and performer who projected more with her body and movement than most of our 'great' actors could ever hope to.  Sylvia was also a prisoner to her most famous role and this morning as the news is being reported all over the world it is the name 'Emmanuelle' that keeps being mentioned.  I suppose it is fair that almost all of the focus is on the character that Sylvia Kristel played for the first time in 1974, as it is one of the most famous characters in film history, but the career and life of such a fascinating woman was so much more than just this one character. 

 
While her life was filled with much tragedy and her film career eventually collapsed in on itself due to an ill-advised bid to Hollywood, Sylvia Kristel will ultimately be remembered as one of the great icons and figures of the seventies.  I have harbored the hope as well that eventually the remarkable string of films she made in Europe between 1974 and 1978 will someday get their due.  For a brief period, Kristel became the great muse to several of modern cinema's greatest auteurs and it is the work she did in films like La Marge, Une Femme Fidele, Alice or the Last Escapade and Rene the Cane that stand as her greatest legacy. 

Shy, reserved and haunted by a powerful loneliness all of her life, Sylvia Kristel came alive on the screen...her stillness, the way she used her body, the penetrating gaze of her stare broke through all of the self doubt and isolation she felt in her daily life.  It was this daring confidence she managed to project on the screen that made Kristel such an important figure in the sexual revolution and that persona that came through in the first two Emmanuelle films, as well as Just Jaeckin's supremely undervalued adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, remains so incredibly resonate.  Kristel was a spearhead to the modern pro-sex feminist movement and her life and career are deserving of so much more attention and study than they have ever been granted. 

As the news of Sylvia's passing spread this morning I was contacted by several kind friends on Facebook offering some words of comfort, as I have never made my great admiration for this woman a secret.  One friend asked me if I had ever met her and I had to sadly answer no, although I have been told that she was aware of my tribute site and I have long suspected that she read, and possibly commented, on my review of her book. 

A great actress, an accomplished painter, an acclaimed author, an award-winning filmmaker and a great cultural icon, Sylvia Kristel was a really special artist and, by all accounts, a kind and generous human being.  I absolutely adored this woman and will continue to feel, to my core, that I knew her even though our paths never crossed.

Sylvia Kristel in Black and White

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Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures:-

Bollywood celebrities Bebo Kareena kapoor and Saif ali khan marriage completed. Wedding ceremony celebrated at Taj Mahal places Hotel. Saif ali khan is a muslim boy and Kareena is a Non-muslim (Hindu) girl, but kareena kapoor Accepted Islam and then Nikah with nawab saif ali khan.

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures

Kareena Kapoor Accepted Islam 

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Karan Joher in kareena kapoor Wedding ceremony

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

Kareena kapoor Weeding Pictures 2012

On evening of Sunday, 14th October 2012, Bolywood's most famous couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor celebrated their sangeet ceremony amidst their close friends and relatives.

Kareena Kapoor looked stunning in orangish-yellow ghagra and a gold shimmering choli designed by her close friend Manish Malhotra. Kareena decorated her hair with a gajra and wore dark green bangles on her arms. Also, a spectacular necklace and a pair of earrings added a bridal charm to her look.

Those who attended the event were Saif's daughter Sara, Kareena's aunt Neetu Singh, Sanjay Kapoor, Manish Malhotra, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu among others.

According to papa Randhir Kapoor, only 60 close family members and friends of the star couple will be in attendance at the actual wedding ceremony at Pataudi Palace on October 16.

Let's take a look on who is on the guest list of Saifeena's reception and who is not!

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