Strange is the world! People haven’t stopped raving about Natalie Portman’s brilliant performance in Black Swan, a feat that ultimately won her the coveted Oscar for Best Actress. Now come claims that Natalie did only 5% of the on-screen dancing. And that claim comes from none other than Sarah Lane, a real-life ballet dancer who […]
When Abhishek Bachchan opens his mouth, you know where his foot’s gonna land, right? 😉 If there’s one horrible, beyond-redemption non-actor in Bollywood, it’s this bloke Abhishek Bachchan. The 35-year-old son of Amitabh Bachchan is a cartoon and completely irrelevant in Bollywood. Abhishek’s films like Drona, Delhi 6 and Raavan are unwatchable horror-shows. If he’s […]
When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit. – Stephen King in Big Driver, a novella in Full Dark, No Stars P.194 Of course, we’re aware that you anencephalic twits are not going to read Stephen King’s last book Full Dark, No Stars (published in November […]
Much as we passionately love Indian food, every once in a while even we need a pause from our desi staples of Tandoori Chicken, Masala Dosa, Palak Paneer and Gulab Jamun. So, off we headed to the fast-casual Portuguese-Mozambican restaurant chain Nando’s Peri-Peri in Annapolis (MD) yesterday. Our interest in Nando’s was piqued by SI […]
(For Billy Wilder fans and SI Blog readers Guruprasad & Ganesh) Long as we can remember, Marilyn Monroe has had a bewitching spell over us. It was a spell she cast from her grave as our parents repeated old tales about Marilyn’s spellbinding beauty, her many lovers (including possibly President John F Kennedy and his […]
Now that all the oohs and aahs have been ejaculated over the just launched iPad 2.0 and the new HP TouchPad tablet (based on the WebOS from the Palm acquisition) unveiled a few weeks back, it’s time to look at what lies down the road. Hard Road Ahead It’s safe to say that in the […]