Taylor Swift – has announced her first headlining tour, which will take her to 52 cities over six months.
The singer has topped the Billboard chart for the past eight weeks with her second album, Fearless.
The singer’s show will feature multiple costume changes and an illuminated fairy-castle – and the new country group Gloriana.
Despite the extravagant set, the singer – who just launched a line of affordable dresses at Wal-Mart – says she’s mindful of the tough economy, so she plans to start ticket prices at around $20 in most markets.
Swift, 19, will officially kick off her Fearless Tour 2009, which she calls “a dream come true,” on April 23 in Evansville, Ill., immediately followed by Jonesboro, Ark., and St. Louis, Mo. (Tickets go on sale Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. PST.)
The National Weather Service is forecasting the possibility of rain through the weekend in Riverside.
At the same time, a slight chance of rain and snow is predicted for the mountains Thursday, with the possibility of snow continuing through the weekend.
According to the National Weather Service, rain could move into the Inland area by Thursday.
The report said that the prediction for the valleys also calls for a slight chance of showers Thursday and the possibility of rain through
the weekend.
Temperatures in the mountains are predicted to hit highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s by the end of the week.
Film maker Priyadarshan has slammed Danny Boyle’s underdog saga Slumdog Millionair, saying the film a “cheap trashy mediocre version” of erstwhile Bollywood hits. He is surprised that Mumbai is celebrating a film that shows only the city’s underbelly.
Priyadarshan said, “Slumdog Millionaire is nothing but a cheap trashy mediocre version of those commercial films about estranged brothers and childhood sweethearts that Salim-Javed used to write so brilliantly in the 1970s.”
“Why are we taking this treatment? Just because a white man has made ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, we’re so happy with it? I’ve read Vikas Swarup’s novel ‘Q&A’. It should have been made by Mani Ratnam. Then you’d have seen what he would have done with Mumbai.”
Priyadarshan asked, “Why has Danny Boyle not taken one shot of Marine Drive? Do his slumdwellers exist only within their slums?”
Kim Kardashian has praised all the way for Jessica Simpson. In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE Wednesday, Kardashian, 28, said, “Call me crazy, but when I saw the picture of Simpson performing Jan. 25 in Pembroke Pines, Florida, I was like, ‘Oh my God, Jessica looks hot!’ ”
“I actually love the outfit. I think she looks amazing. I love high-waisted jeans, I loved that belt, and her hair looked fabulous,” Kim added.
Adds Kardashian, who’s attending the Super Bowl this weekend with football player beau Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints, “I get that she does look curvier, but to me, there’s nothing wrong it.”
No stranger herself to barbs about her own curvy physique, Kardashian says, “It doesn’t really bother me anymore. I love curves.”
Actress Aishwarya Rai would be contesting loksabha polls against Pappu Yadav from Madhepura seat on Samajwadi Party ticket.
If we believe the sources, the actress has been contacted by the senior SP leaders.
It’s being said that SP leaders of Bihar unit are trying hard to make Aishwarya a candidate against Pappu Yadav, a Rashtriya Janta Dal MP, who’s in jail, facing several charges.
Senior leader and Janta Dal-U President Sharad Yadav would be contesting from this seat in the next coming polls, sources said.
Calling the film’s title insulting, several dozen Mumbai slum residents protested the award-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” on Thursday. Mumbai’s slum residents were not happy, even the movie has won several Golden Globe award and is in race to win Oscar.
The film, a rags-to-riches romance set in Mumbai’s notorious slums, has been tapped a favorite for several Oscar nominations after it swept its four categories at the Golden Globes, including the prize for best drama.
Nicholas Almeida, a social activist who organized the protest, said he planned to file a lawsuit on Friday to get the name changed.
The film, which tells the story of Jamal Malik, a poor youth who becomes the champion of India’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” television program as he searches for his lost love, has also been criticized for focusing on India’s poverty.
On Wednesday the cast and director spoke to the media in New Delhi about the film, and the controversy it has sparked.
The Dark Knight and Gran Torino were crashed out from the race of Oscar’s top prize. Instead, the far more serious Holocaust-themed The Reader took the fifth berth and its director, Stephen Daldry, also managed to slip into his category.
In the mean time, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button managed to get 13 nominations. While romantic crowd-pleaser Slumdog Millionaire is said to be the favorite.
As expected, Heath Ledger’s vividly twisted take on the villainous Joker in The Dark Knight scored a supporting nomination for the Australian actor, who died a year ago today at age 28 after suffering an accidental prescription-drug overdose.
After her two Golden Globe wins, Kate Winslet was expected to earn a supporting nomination for her tormented concentration-camp guard in The Reader as well as a lead spot as a distraught suburban housewife in Revolutionary Road.
The Oscar ceremony will air Feb. 22 on ABC with Hugh Jackman stepping into the host spot for the first time.
A. R. Rahman did India proud once again as he bagged a triple nomination at the 81 st Oscar Academy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.
Slumdog Millionaire, bagged 10 nominations in all including Best Motion Picture category, Best Director — Danny Boyle and Best Adapted Screenplay — Simon Beaufoy. Other nominations include Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.
At the same time, the romantic fantasy “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” led Academy Awards contenders with 13 nominations.
As expected, Heath Ledger had a supporting-actor nomination for “The Dark Knight” on the first anniversary of his death from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.
Real-life couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will both go to the Oscars as nominees. Jolie had a best actress nomination for the missing-child drama “Changeling.”
But it’s a long journey to the stardom for this Golden Boy of the music world. He’s described as one of the most innovative composers to ever work in the industry. His unique style and immense success transformed film music in the 1990s prompting several film producers to take film music more seriously.
Rahma’s early life was quite struggling. Music maestro was born to R. K. Shekhar, of Tamilian descent, who was a composer and conductor for Malayalam-language films in Keralite cinema.
In 1991, Rahman began his own music recording and mixing studio, attached to backyard of his house and later his acclaimed music compositions have led TIME Magazine to declare him the “Mozart of Madras”
Rahman has been noted to write film songs that amalgamate elements of these music systems and other genres, layering instruments from differing music idioms in an improvisatory manner.
His interest and outlook in music stems from his love of experimentation.[ Rahman’s compositions, in the vein of past and contemporaryChennai film composers, bring out auteuristic uses of counterpoint, orchestration and the human voice, evolving Indian pop music with uniquetimbres, forms and instrumentation.
His first soundtrack Roja was listed in TIME’s “Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time” in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the “astonishing debut work parades Rahman’s gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman.”
There’s been mounting speculation in industry circles that the Oscars are trying to make the Golden Globes increasingly insignificant.
According to the sources closed to the organizers “J.Lo wasn’t the first choice,” says a source close to the planning.
“They were hoping that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would open the show; it looked good, then all of a sudden, Brad and Angie weren’t interested anymore. J.Lo was happy to do it, and there you go.”
The couple has been dating since Brady split from actress Bridget Moynahan in 2006, with whom he shares a 16-month-old son. Bundchen has previously dated actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
People.com has published a report regarding this that Brady, 31, proposed to 28-year-old Bundchen with a diamond solitaire on Friday, informing friends and family over the weekend.
An official announcement and preliminary wedding details are reportedly being planned by Bundchen and her closest friends this week.
Her agent has refused to confirm or deny the reports, saying, “We don’t comment on our clients’ private lives.”
Winehouse and Fielder-Civil married in Miami in May 2007, but he was arrested six months later over an assault. Later in July he was sentenced to 27 months in jail for beating up a bar manager and then offering him a bribe to keep quiet about it.
Attorney Henri Brandman said he had been instructed by Blake Fielder-Civil “to commence divorce proceedings on the grounds of Amy’s adultery.”
Winehouse’s spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Winehouse has been linked by tabloid newspapers to other men and recently has been photographed on holiday in the Caribbean with an alleged new beau, Josh Bowman.
