Khatta Meetha Box Office: Disaster, Big Disaster What happens when Bollywood’s buffoon-king Akshay Kumar meets Kollywood’s bimbette-queen Trisha Krishnan? According to critics, the answer is foul-smelling garbage. Indian movie critics have lashed out at Khatta Meetha, the new Bollywood film featuring Akshay Kumar and South Indian starlet Trisha Krishnan. Here’s a sample of unflattering reviews […]
I’m not a spy. I’m a businesswoman….Please let me go home. (Brutal torture by North Korean agents follows.) I’m not a spy. I’m not a spy. – Evelyn Salt inside a North Korean prison Folks, we’ve just returned from the midnight show of the new Angelina Jolie film Salt. Of course, like all most action […]
If the Al Queda troglodyte Osama bin Laden can take responsibility for anything beyond 9/11, it’s for the phenomenal growth in the U.S. intelligence apparatus – both domestic and overseas as well as counter-terrorist organizations. The Washington Post the other day had an interesting piece on the explosive, untrammeled growth in U.S. intelligence organizations post […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was blowing the trumpet this morning that the social networking web site he founded has amassed 500 million users. Well, that’s quite a milestone. As Facebook has grown, we guess rivals like Google’s Orkut and Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace are becoming less relevant given that users want to gather at the social […]
Poor Rakesh Aggarwal could soon become Poorer Rakesh Aggarwal. Poorer? Yes, after all, the owner of the Baluchi’s Indian restaurant chain in New York City might now have to fork out close to a million dollars ($967,000 to be precise) in a proposed legal settlement with some of his current and former employees. Our heart […]
(Landed in our inbox courtesy Sonny Chatrath) Thoughts from a Man’s heart. Thought 1 When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers. When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity. When we die, our widows get the life insurance. What do women want to be liberated from? […]