New life in television's evening news

NEW YORK — There's new life in broadcast television's evening news shows, in part because of forces once thought poised to kill the genre off.

Despite repeated death knells for the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, they've just completed a TV season where all three grew their audiences for the first time since 2001-02, when terrorists struck and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began. The growth is continuing for the first few weeks of this season.

After years in which the network broadcasts seemed interchangeable, they now have sharp contrasts that go beyond the faces of anchors Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer and Scott Pelley. Each of the newscasts, which are collectively seen by more than 20 million people each weekday, changed their top executives over the past couple of months.

News is an obvious factor in audience growth, and the Japanese tsunami, Arab spring, debt ceiling debate and teetering economy all attracted interest. But busy and not-so-busy news periods fluctuate all the time.

Many pundits believed these evening newscasts would become obsolete with the availability of news 24 hours a day on cable TV and the Internet. Instead, the curating function of the evening news has become more vital.

"We all work so hard and we all do so much," said Patrick Burkey, executive producer of NBC's top-rated "Nightly News," which had its highest viewership since 2005 for the season that ended in September. "I get to the point where I sort of have Internet fatigue going out there looking for all the material myself. It's nice to have somebody else do that work."

People follow news, "but they want someone they trust at the end of the day to explain it to them, to show what it means to them. Somebody credible," said Michael Corn, executive producer of ABC's "World News" with Sawyer.

Brand name journalists mean something when people can't trust the accuracy of what they see online, said Dave Marash, a veteran journalist who worked at ABC News and Al-Jazeera English.

Marash wrote recently in the Columbia Journalism Review about the declining number of reported and edited stories on television news, as opposed to journalists talking live or experts arguing. There are fewer of those reported stories on the network evening news programs, too, but they have disappeared much faster on 24-hour cable news. News, or news unfiltered by a point of view, is harder to find on cable.

"There have been enough obituaries written about the evening news to fill a newspaper," said Patricia Shevlin, "CBS Evening News" executive producer. "But it's a very resilient commodity."

Shevlin, Burkey and Corn are all new to their jobs, but not to their institutions. Shevlin has been at CBS News since 1973 and spent most of her time at the evening news since 1989, most recently as the top weekend producer. Burkey has worked with Williams since 2000, first at MSNBC and, since 2004, at "Nightly News." Corn worked at "Good Morning America" from 2002 to 2010, and moved with Sawyer last year to "World News."

The ratings pecking order of NBC in first, ABC second and CBS third hasn't changed since the days of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. The content of the shows, at least two of them, has changed, though. Andrew Tyndall, a consultant whose ADT Research has monitored the broadcasts since 1987, said the shows are as different as they've been in at least 15 years.

Since CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager installed Pelley of "60 Minutes" as Katie Couric's replacement in June, CBS has aired a meat-and-potatoes newscast for a serious time.

CBS has devoted more time to foreign policy and economic subjects than either of the two other shows, according to Tyndall's research. Pelley has been to Afghanistan twice since becoming anchor, and his newscasts have reported on that war for more minutes than both ABC and NBC combined.

Pelley has spent more than three full hours reporting on the economy than the other two broadcasts, with a particular emphasis on unemployment, the housing crisis and increased poverty. With Norah O'Donnell as the new top White House correspondent, CBS has also spent more time on Washington politics, a topic that NBC took the lead when Tim Russert was alive.

Shevlin has largely dispensed with the "feel-good" feature at the end of the show that has been a staple of all the evening newscasts, in favor of material such as Byron Pitts' piece on what happens to a dead soldier's body after it leaves Afghanistan.

"You want to leave the viewer thinking about something or feeling something when they see the evening news," Shevlin said. "As long as you do that, you're doing a good job."

During one busy news day, CBS acted fast to report at the top of its show Sarah Palin's late announcement that she wouldn't run for president. NBC's "Nightly News" led with the growing Occupy Wall Street demonstration. ABC topped "World News" with audio tape of a drug-impaired Michael Jackson that came to light in the manslaughter trial of his former doctor Conrad Murray.

Sawyer, the former "Good Morning America" anchor, has brought a morning show sensibility to the evening news, with a greater emphasis on celebrity and "news you can use," Tyndall said. It has become more evident since Ben Sherwood, a former "GMA" executive producer, took over as news division president in the past year.

ABC emphasizes health, medicine and family stories more than CBS and NBC. It spent 26 minutes on the Casey Anthony trial; CBS and NBC combined spent 16 minutes, Tyndall said. The British royal wedding, Oprah Winfrey's retirement and the Murray trial have all received the most coverage on ABC.

The newscast Jennings proudly called "World News" now has less news from a foreign dateline or about American foreign policy than either CBS or NBC.

The broadcast reflects Sawyer's sense of curiosity and adventure, Corn said. It does more on health matters, for instance, because they have a real impact on people's lives, he said.

"We believe we lead with the most interesting story of the day," he said. "There's nothing wrong with not being boring."

Sixty percent of "World News" viewers are women, according to Nielsen. That's a higher percentage than on CBS and NBC, although not by much, and would make the news consistent with ABC prime time's emphasis on appealing to women.

NBC's "Nightly News" tends to stake out a middle ground. It covers more news that has broken in the previous 24 hours than ABC or CBS, which may be mindful of stories that can last longer on the Internet, Tyndall's research said.

Perhaps because of NBC's parent company now owning The Weather Channel, NBC's broadcast spends the most time on natural disasters. Or there may be a simpler reason: "Brian's a bit of a weather nerd," Burkey said.

Of the three, it's also the broadcast that people who were watching a year ago would best recognize today.

"Consistency is a very good thing," Burkey said. "I think viewers know that they trust us and they see us as consistent and I don't see any need to change things up too dramatically."

Said Tyndall: "They're number one. They didn't need to change."

Rapper Rick Ross reportedly hospitalized 2nd time

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) — Rapper Rick Ross was reportedly hospitalized in Alabama after suffering two medical scares in six hours that required planes to be diverted.

The first scare came Friday afternoon as Ross was on a Delta Air Lines flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Memphis, Tennessee, where Ross was to appear at a University of Memphis basketball event that night.

The plane returned to Florida after Ross suffered an unspecified medical problem. He was treated at a Fort Lauderdale hospital, and he even tweeted afterward: "Memphis here I come."

But after Ross hopped a Memphis-bound private jet, it made an unscheduled landing in Birmingham, Alabama, because the 34-year-old singer experienced another medical problem, Memphis basketball coach Josh Pastner told a crowd Friday night.

"On his way to Memphis," Pastner said, "he had to make another emergency landing, in Birmingham. He got really sick again, and they had to rush him to the emergency room."

WMC-TV in Memphis reported that Ross suffered a second medical seizure and had been hospitalized. The news station said the University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital would not comment on his condition.

A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press that no one by Ross's name or his real name, William Leonard Roberts II, was listed as a patient. An emergency room representative, citing federal privacy laws, said she could not confirm the identity of anyone being treated there.

Calls to Ross' publicist from the AP were not returned Friday.

The Miami-based gangsta rapper gained fame with his husky voice and lyrics that spotlighted the grimier side of Miami life. He has become one of rap's most popular figures in recent years.

Ross has a new album entitled "God Forgives, I Don't," due out in December. The hefty rapper's hits include "Aston Martin Music," ''B.M.F. (Blowing Money Fast)" and "Hustlin'."

Anushka link angers Shahid Kapoor

The buzz has reached Shahid Kapoor.

Apparently, the Mausam star was canoodling with his Badmaash Company co-star Anushka Sharma, at a party recently.

If reports and apparent 'eyewitness' accounts stand, the two actors caught up in the moment, were unmindful of other guests and a sizeable media presence outside the building where the party was held.

A short while ago, Shahid tweeted on his hurt and anger at the "reports".

"Sad . Unfair . Makes me angry," he tweeted. "If nothing else they need to respect the dignity of a girl !!!!!"

With both actors about to begin a new film opposite each other, such "reports" would undoubtedly create the wrong kind of attention.

Americana nods just start of good times for Cook

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Elizabeth Cook thinks there may be something fishy going on. She's been through the broken-dreams thing before and she has no reason to trust these TV people out in Los Angeles who've started chatting her up.

"I've got my Appalachian, oppressive, paranoid, mistrusting, suspicious thing that's in my genetic DNA, so I'm thinking I'm being somehow duped," Cook said.

The Nashville singer doesn't want to say too much, but she's in talks with producers to star in her own TV sitcom: "It sounds like big talk to me." But it's true and just the latest astonishing development in a career that was on a frustratingly slow simmer for half a decade before this sudden boil, which also includes three nominations at the Americana Music Association Awards on Thursday for her album "Welder." She did not win.

She's tied with Robert Plant and Buddy Miller for most nominations at the event that celebrates roots music of all stripes, from Cook's hillbilly-flavored alt-country to Plant's homage to early rock 'n' roll and folk, with his Miller-directed all-star Band of Joy. All three are nominated for artist of the year.

"Yeah, awesome," she says sarcastically of facing off with the juggernaut created by the Led Zeppelin frontman. "How cool for me."

It's that sense of humor that's turned her world upside down at 39. She caught David Letterman's attention with her SiriusXM Outlaw Country show "Elizabeth Cook's Apron Strings" and kept him in stitches with stories of her colorful family during an August appearance on "Late Show."

She went to visit a friend in Los Angeles the next day. That friend, a casting director, forwarded a link of her interview with Letterman to a few key contacts. Others, also intrigued, sought out Cook. The reality folks even began to circle before she told them to buzz off.

"Probably within 24 hours of me being out there I was sitting in every corner office," she said.

And she's been traveling to Los Angeles and New York City regularly since, alternating tour stops with creative meetings.

Cook has tried the acting thing before, even landed a few roles that offered tantalizing promise. But her acting career seemed to have gone in the direction of her music career. There too she'd been on the brink of something big when she put out an album on Warner Bros. Records in 2002, but her record didn't receive the kind of attention she'd hoped and she eventually asked out of her contract. She never really gained the kind of wide exposure a major label can offer again, though she continued to record and release independent albums.

Tim Carroll, Cook's husband of eight years, thinks things may be different this time, though. Her radio show has allowed people to get to know her, something Letterman also did by having her on for an interview rather than a performance.

"That's so much cooler than just watching someone sing a country song, I think, in a way," Carroll said. "One of my favorite things about Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, when they come and actually sit down with someone and get interviewed, I actually want to hear their opinions. It's pretty cool what these women will say and I think people are intrigued by that. And it's kind of the role that Elizabeth is getting."

That personality was already on display for anyone willing to listen. She's a smart, inventive songwriter who comes by her hillbilly cred authentically. Her mother was a singer from West Virginia and her father was a moonshiner fresh out of jail when he moved in next to Cook's mother in Wildwood, Fla., where both families had migrated for the railroad and citrus work. Turns out he'd played the standup bass in the prison band and soon her parents formed a honky-tonk band and started grooming a star.

"They focused their musical energy, because they couldn't really be in the bars at that time, on getting me to sing and putting together little bands for me," she said. "So it was just like our family hobby that we would go do that. I didn't particularly enjoy that."

She ran as far away from the life of a honky-tonking barnstormer as she could, becoming an auditor at Price Waterhouse in Nashville after college. After 18 months she realized her mistake, and ditched the safe life for songwriting.

Sitting on the back patio of her small but lovely Nashville home, she described how she figured out what it would take to stay alive, to continue touring up to 200 shows a year and to make the occasional record, and somehow made it work. The Americana nominations show she's found an audience that appreciates the artist she's become.

"I do what I do and it's not for everybody," she said. "It's very, very hillbilly, but not in my opinion the overly simplified, pandering, manipulative way that a lot of the mainstream country music is, where people sound really country but if you listen they're saying real dumb stuff and lines that have been said before over and over again."

Don Was, who produced "Welder" after meeting Cook at Bonnaroo a few years back, said he was drawn to that authenticity in Cook's music.

"I think she's a really unique voice," Was said. "I don't just mean the timbre of her voice. I'm talking about the point of view from which she writes. It's this combination of intelligence and wit and hipness and this Southern folksy kind of delivery that's just unique."

Together they crafted an album that's at turns fall-down funny and heavy with real, gut-wrenching emotion. "Welder" is up for album of the year and "El Camino," a tale of ill-advised lovin' with a man, his mullet and his tricked-out car-truck hybrid, is up for song of the year. Was thinks even more of songs like "Heroin Addict Sister" and "Mama's Funeral," songs that retain that sense of humor even while they're digging deeply into darker material.

"She's the real deal, man. She's a real artist," said Was, who's produced Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt. "She goes in as deeply as anybody I've ever encountered and I would love to see the public catch up to her."

George Clooney for President? No Chance.

NEW YORK (AP) — George Clooney may have an interest in politics, both on-screen and off, but public office is one role he'd never take on.

"It would never be something I'm interested in. I'm not good at the kind of compromises that you have to make to get elected," said the ever-dapper star at the premiere of his latest political thriller, "The Ides of March," Wednesday in New York.

Clooney's father's unsuccessful run for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District in 2004 may have left a sour taste in his mouth. "I watched that happen and I watched how frustrating it was for him and I didn't enjoy it," he said. But it's the current political climate that keeps him from throwing his hat in the ring.

"It's still the most polarized time we've seen in a long time. And very caring, smart people on both sides of the aisle, you could argue, are having a very difficult time getting anything done," said the 50-year-old Academy Award winner.

Clooney, who directs, co-wrote, produces and stars in the film opening Friday, has no regrets about his chosen career path: "I got the better gig. I got a nice house, life is good," he said with a laugh.

In the film, Clooney's presidential hopeful, Pennsylvania Gov. Mike Morris, faces a tragic sex scandal, compromising backroom deals, political backstabbing and blackmail. But the liberal Democrat says he's more hopeful than he presents in "Ides," his fifth stint in the director's chair.

"Am I cynical? Some. But I'm also one of the big optimists in the game. I'm really optimistic about this country, I always am. I always feel like things are cyclical and I think that things will work out."

One campaign he is preparing to lead is "Ides" co-star Ryan Gosling's bid for the People Magazine's annual title of Sexiest Man Alive.

"Listen, Brad (Pitt) and Matt (Damon) and I are going to sit him down and go through some of the things he should do for the campaign."

According to the two-time sexiest honoree, Gosling's hair will be his most important platform.

Rajinikanth makes RA.One possible

Putting health problems aside, the superstar arrived in Mumbai to shoot with SRK. Here's what happened

October 2, 2011, Rajinikanth returned in front of the camera. Thanks to Shah Rukh Khan. The superstar shot for Khan's opus RA.One at Subhash Ghai's Whistling Woods studio on Sunday. Accompanied by his daughter Soundarya, Rajini shot for the much publicised scene with Shah Rukh taking a one day break from his acting sabbatical and process of recuperation.

Though his family had earlier mentioned that the iconic south Indian star would not be travelling to Mumbai for the single shot, Rajini arrived in the city with Soundarya and a team of technicians on Sunday morning. After a brief rest, the actor headed to Ghai's Whistling Woods studio and shot for the scene.

Bidding the superstar farewell, SRK and RA.One team headed back to the postproduction studio to put in place the scene that officially completes the RA.One shoot.

An eyewitness informed Mumbai Mirror, "Shah Rukh Khan and Rajini Sir hit it off instantly. Rajini Sir's daughter Soundarya had brought along her team of technicians from Chennai to make sure no time was wasted. She made it clear that her father would not be able to shoot for more than a couple of hours. The shot however, was wrapped up well within the time limit."

Shah Rukh, it seems, went out of his way to make the superstar comfortable during the shot. "They were extremely relaxed with each other. Shah Rukh made sure that the older actor was okay. It was pretty evident that Shah Rukh is a Rajinikanth fan himself."



According to insiders, the shot is a replica of the Robot scene where the robotic Rajini turns magnetic and grabs all the metal guns. In this, however, it is Shah Rukh who tries to do the same. But the guns don't come to him. All metallic object fly past SRK to the one man standing behind him - Rajinikanth!

Speaking about the 'humbling, inspiring and overwhelming experience', RA.One sound designer Resul Pookutty said, "The shooting went off like a dream. Watching Rajini Sir and SRK together was like a dream come true. This truly was a great tribute from a superstar to an icon

"The RA.One team feels the film is complete now, after Rajini Sir's shot. Rajini Sir and Shah Rukh in one frame is historic. They were so comfortable with each other, it was hard to imagine that they had never shot together before," added Pookutty.

However, Pookutty felt that the shoot couldn't have happened without Soundarya's support. "She came to Mumbai with her team to oversee every detail. But it was Rajinikanth who proved that he indeed is a superstar by flying down to Mumbai despite his health problems.

It's not easy to do what Rajini Sir did for the RA.One team. We can't thank him enough. If he hadn't shot for us, RA.One would've remained incomplete," concluded Pookutty.

Bigg Boss 5 set to get better with big hosts, bigger inmates

MUMBAI: The fifth season of TV reality show 'Bigg Boss' promises to get bigger and better with tons of drama and manipulation, having changed its house location to Karjat, besides having two star hosts --Salman and Sanjay -- who will be welcoming 14 new inmates including probables like boxer Mike Tyson and pop singer Shakira.

The show sees celebrity contestants stay in a house for about three months, cut off from the outside world. They are overseen by a "mysterious person" known as 'Bigg Boss'.

This time, the location of Bigg Boss house has been shifted to Karjat from Lonavala. Interior designer Shayam Bhatia has designed the 9,000 square feet house.



This year there are two separate bedrooms as against the single bedroom last time where all 14 housemates stayed.

The bedrooms have been done in shades of green and fuchsia with a hint of white, brown and yellow. The confession room varies with a shade of royal green and the jail concept is back and black.

The beautifully designed open kitchen is connected to a dining room that extends to the garden area. The outdoor spot consists of a pool, the activity area, gymnasium and the kitchen sink.

This season there will be over 55 cameras following every move of the contestants 24x7. Like last year there will be a special bedroom for the Head-of-House who will get special privileges.

Also, the show will also see two hosts for the first time --Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt. Salman, who hosted the fourth season, is the only celebrity who will be repeating the feat for the second time.

Fourteen handpicked strangers, locked in the house for about three months will have to perform all the household chores right from cleaning to cooking to tasks.

The names that are doing the rounds include - former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, Colombian singer and dancer Shakira, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, Nihita Biswas (wife of convicted murderer Charles Sobhraj) Mexican actress Barbara Mori, former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes, pop icon Lady Gaga, British singer- rapper Jay Sean, stand-up comedian Sudesh Lehri, Jaspal Bhatti, Shekhar Suman's actor son Adhyayan, TV actors Parul Chauhan (of 'Bidaai' fame), Karan Singh Grover (of 'Dil Mill Gayye') and Amar Upadhyay.

However, the names of the housemates will be out soon as the reality show is set to hit the small screen on October 2 on Colors channel.

Lake tops, Bono flops on 2nd week of 'Dancing'

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ricki Lake brought a little less to the ballroom on "Dancing With the Stars." The TV personality says she has lost 12 inches — mostly from her waist and hips — since she started rehearsing for the ABC show.

She comes into Tuesday's results show in first place, earning the judges' top score of 23 points Monday for her energetic jive.


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Chaz Bono has also lost weight since signing on for the show, but he didn't fare so well on the scoreboard Monday: The author and activist landed in last place with 17 points for a quickstep routine that judges deemed too slow. One said, "I've moved faster through the car wash."

A second celebrity will be eliminated from the show Tuesday. Ron Artest, now known as Metta World Peace, was dismissed last week.

Paris Hilton finds Indian women 'exotic and gorgeous'

International celebrity Paris Hilton, who is on her maiden visit to India, says she finds Indian women "exotic and gorgeous".

The 30-year-old hotel heiress arrived in Mumbai yesterday and a party was thrown in her honour.

"Had the best time at my party last night! Met so many amazing people! The women in India are so exotic and gorgeous!," Hilton tweeted today.

She is on a three-day visit to the country to launch her exclusive handbags and accessories range under the label Paris Hilton Entertainment.

"India rocks! So thrilled to be here. Love everyone in India so much. So happy I came here," she added.

The American socialite also called the country a "spiritual and magical" land at the launch of her collection.

Mausam: Movie Review

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Aditi Sharma, Supriya Pathak, Manoj Pahwa
Music: Pritam Chakraborty
Director: Pankaj Kapur
Producer: Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Sunil A. Lulla
Writer: Pankaj Kapur

When a seasoned character actor of the quality of Pankaj Kapur takes the director’s seat, expectations are bound to be high, especially in the light of the fact that the thespian’s professional alliance has consistently been with Hindi cinema of the offbeat kind. So it wouldn’t be fitting to judge his first film by the indulgent yardsticks usually reserved for less ambitious Bollywood potboilers.

Had it been made by anyone else, Mausam might well have been dubbed an exceptional film. Coming from Kapur, it is at best a middling effort.

Mausam is an ambitious film that seeks to blend the conventions of mass-oriented Mumbai entertainers with the style and substance of a more intimate and meaningful mode of storytelling. But the tools that Kapur employs are simple and uncomplicated. Just as well.

Mausam is nowhere near flawless. Its first half is visually scrumptious and eminently watchable; the second is a touch erratic and unconvincing.

Yet Kapur’s well-honed sensibility serves to ensure that the film never loses its grip on its heart even when its narrative flow borders on the dreary.

Mausam is overlong and tends to meander rather listlessly in parts, but the debutant director deserves plaudits for daring to put a mighty new spin on his cross-community love saga that spans across several tumultuous decades.

The intense, intermittently engaging tale at the core of Mausam unfolds against the backdrop of several violent political flashpoints that have shaken the foundations of contemporary India.

The ebbs and tides of the love story are impinged upon by the outbreak in the late 1980s of militancy in Kashmir Valley, the Ayodhya dispute, the Mumbai serial blasts, the Kargil conflict and the post-Godhra Gujarat riots of 2002.

Mausam is not, however, cast in the mould of an edgy Mani Ratnam film. Its political context remains largely in the background. Yet Kapur generally succeeds in weaving the harsh reality of Hindu-Muslim hostilities into his fictional tapestry with skill, style and sensitivity.

It isn’t as if everything about Mausam has the sparkle and abandon of spring or the freshness of dew-drops on an upcountry winter morning. The film tends to be a touch laboured at times but it benefits no end from the writer-director’s willingness to steer clear of the familiar.

The film opens in the Punjab countryside, where a drifter waiting for a call-up from the Indian Air Force, Harry (Shahid Kapoor) meets and falls in love with a Kashmiri girl, Aayat (Sonam Kapoor), who has been sent away to the safety of her elder sister’s home.

But as events beyond the smitten couple’s control swirl around them, the relationship between Harry and Aayat inevitably runs aground. The lovers separate, pine in silence for each other, meet again and part in faraway Scotland, and then finally reunite amid the Gujarat conflagration.

Mausam tells a life-affirming love story that is enlivened by fine performances from the lead actors, embellished with a clutch of hummable numbers (Pritam) and given a high degree of sophistication by cinematographer Binod Pradhan’s luminous camerawork.

For Shahid Kapoor, Mausam represents a major leap forward as an actor. From a happy-go-lucky wastrel to a passionate lover boy, and from an earnest fighter pilot to a man agonising for his lost love, he traverses a wide spectrum of shades with confidence.

Though comparisons may be inevitable, Shahid is neither Top Gun’s Tom Cruise nor Aradhana’s younger Rajesh Khanna. He carves out his own identity, lending to the character a range of subtle emotional elements that set it apart.

Sonam Kapoor may still have some way to go as an actress, but she conveys the essential vulnerability of a girl forever under duress, bringing out just the right mix of feminine fragility and native resolve.

Mausam isn’t obviously your average boy meets girl story. Boy indeed meets girl in this romantic tale, but they do not walk down the path that screen lovers usually take in Bollywood films.

What Mausam articulates is a simple truth: in the uneasy times that we live in, is pure, unadulterated love possible? Can our hearts and minds rise above the destructive forces that surround us?

The nearly three-hour-long Mausam takes eons to arrive at the conclusion of that thematic formulation, but the heartfelt humanist statement that it makes is shot through with honesty and simplicity.

To conclude, Mausam could quite easily have ended up being a stodgy, strenuous and self-conscious drama. Writer-director Kapur, the accomplished actor that he is, orchestrates the emotional ups and downs of his tale with a commendable degree of moderation for the most part. Mausam is certainly worth a viewing.

'Person of Interest' premiere review: Michael Emerson and Jim Caviezel like to watch; do you?

For a show with a tricky, complicated premise, Person of Interest certainly moved right along at a zippy pace, didn’t it? This series, which CBS says tested higher than many in recent memory, featured Jim Caviezel as John Reese, a former CIA agent who’s off the grid and down in the dumps, having lost the woman he loves under mysterious circumstances. Reese was shaken out of his despair — given a new purpose in life — by Mr. Finch, and if anyone other than Lost’s Michael Emerson was playing him, the fussy little Finch would be a mere figure of fun. If there’s one thing Lost prepared Emerson to do well, however, it’s bringing gravity to scenes of great potential foolishness.

In this series created by Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight) and co-produced by J.J. Abrams, there exists in the post-9/11 world a vast matrix of security cameras and technology. In the premiere episode, Mr. Finch revealed that he helped set up that all-seeing system, in Manhattan at the very least, and is now using it for his own purposes. Finch told Reese that he can track potential crimes to be committed, although mere lofty observation cannot indicate whether the people caught on camera are future criminals or victims. For that, Mr. Finch needs a man on the ground, and that man is Reese. “You need a purpose,” Finch told Reese, who’d spent his most recent months not shaving and riding the subway all night without changing his clothes for weeks. “You need a job.”

Reese took to the job with a ruthless efficiency, using his CIA training to go after bad guys with martial-arts precision. (The opening scene, with a shaggy Reese fighting bullies in a subway car, had a kinetic energy that I hope remains a prominent element in the series.) When a former bum started neutralizing criminals, it caught the attention of law enforcement, in the person of an NYPD detective named Carter, played by Taraji P. Henson with a credible mixture of curiosity and dubiousness. (Now she just needs more face-time, which I’m sure the producers are planning to give her.)

The big question is how Person of Interest proceeds as a weekly series. It could be that the idea is to give Reese and Finch a different case to close each week, with guest stars and self-contained plots that render the show a variation on the old anthology series ranging from The Twilight Zone to Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In Reese’s memories of the woman he loved along with a web of info to track down patterns of crime, there’s an element of the fine, low-rated, missed NBC Damien Lewis series Life. POI also harkens back strongly to an older TV hit: The Millionaire, a 1955-60 series in which a mysterious benefactor entered people’s lives via a Mr. Finch-like messenger.

Person of Interest‘s vision of a city overrun by tech that can be used for humane purposes, with action scenes well-played by the expressively stoic Caviezel, has a multi-faceted appeal for these times. The show can simultaneously unsettle, comfort, excite, and amuse – something for everyone, if, like Mr. Finch, you like to watch. Do you, will you, again?

Hit me baby: Britney Spears looking forward to 30

LONDON (AP) — The singer who created a sensation when she hit the music world in pigtails and knee socks is turning 30 — and Britney Spears says she's looking forward to it.

The U.S. pop star will be on the South American leg of her "Femme Fatale" world tour as she celebrates the landmark birthday on Dec. 2.

Spears, who was once one of the Internet's most-searched names, says "I hear the older you get, the wiser you get and the more you know what you want — so hopefully it'll be a good year."

The singer kicks off a string of European tour dates on Thursday, but is not scheduled to play on the birthday itself.

UK police suspend demand for paper's hacking files

LONDON (AP) — London police said Tuesday they were dropping a demand that The Guardian newspaper reveal its sources for stories about Britain's phone-hacking scandal.

The Metropolitan Police said it "has decided not to pursue, at this time, the application for production orders" against the paper.

The Guardian said Friday that police were seeking a court order that would force the paper to unveil source material for stories about the scandal.

The stories include a July 4 article that revealed the now-defunct News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail messages of missing British schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.

The Guardian had vowed to fight the demand, and rival newspapers joined it in condemning the police move to uncover reporters' sources.

Officials with the paper could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday night.

The Guardian has been at the forefront of reporting the hacking scandal, exposing the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid for routinely intercepting the voicemails of those in the public eye in its quest for scoops.

A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of leaking information about the force's hacking investigation to the newspaper.

The force said it would consult prosecutors about the next steps in its investigation of the officer.

It said in a statement that "despite recent media reports there was no intention to target journalists or disregard journalists' obligations to protect their sources."

New 'Dancing' cast makes its ballroom debut

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Dancing With the Stars" unveiled its new ballroom and new cast Monday, and when all the dancing was done, singer Chynna Phillips and actor J.R. Martinez were tied at the top.

Phillips and Martinez each earned 22 points out of 30 for their Viennese waltzes. Basketball star Ron Artest landed in last place with 14 points. Head judge Len Goodman said the Lakers forward's footwork was "atrocious" and his cha-cha was "all sizzle and no sausage."

Artest, who recently changed his name to Metta World Peace, had the Hebrew words for "world peace" shaved into his hair for his "Dancing" debut. Despite his low score, he said after the show that he "came to entertain" and felt the judges were fair.

Scoring one point better than Artest was Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, who is better known in the United States for being George Clooney's ex-girlfriend. She said her nerves got the better of her in the ballroom and she left the episode worried about Tuesday's results show, when the season's first celebrity contestant will be dismissed.

Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine who is ousted each week.

Also making their dancing debut on the hit ABC show were World Cup soccer player Hope Solo; reality stars Robert Kardashian and Kristin Cavallari; TV personalities Nancy Grace, Carson Kressley and Ricki Lake; actor David Arquette; and author and activist Chaz Bono.

Kardashian brought his famous family along: Sisters Kim and Khloe, mom Kris Jenner and brother-in-law Lamar Odom sat in the ballroom. The reality star scored 16 points, as did Grace. She said after the show that she hopes to make it through Tuesday's elimination episode, but Kardashian said he needs to stay on the show for at least four weeks.

"It's obvious I need to beat my sister," he said of former contestant Kim. "She was only on it three weeks."

Bono and Kressley each earned 17 points for their cha-chas. Bono, this season's most talked-about cast member, did the night's final dance, which Goodman said showed "good footwork and a great attitude."

Kressley turned in the episode's most entertaining performance, smiling and making faces throughout his high-energy routine. Goodman said the dance had "elements of Jagger, swagger and stagger." Judge Carrie Ann Inaba said it was her favorite of the night.

"I cannot get over all the sparkle that's happening around you," she said of Kressley's bedazzled blazer.

"This is not even a costume," the celebrity stylist quipped. "I had it in my closet."

Arquette, who said that he has been sober for eight months, impressed the judges with his elegant Viennese waltz, scoring 18 points. The actor said after the show that dancing helps support his sobriety.

"A lot of the themes that are in dancing are in living just a clean life and an honest life: Just being balanced, living life gracefully, staying focused, being connected to something, letting yourself step into the light," he said. "It's all connected, and it's really great for the body and the soul."

His estranged wife Courteney Cox and the couple's daughter, Coco, sat in the audience Monday.

Cavallari collected 19 points for her cha-cha. Judges rewarded Lake's romantic waltz with 20 points and Solo's with 21.

A special meet-the-cast episode of "Dancing With the Stars" is set to air Tuesday before the live results show.

'Modern Family,' 'Mad Men' win big at Emmy Awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Emmys keep buying what "Mad Men" is selling. The 1960s Madison Avenue saga won its fourth consecutive best drama series award Sunday, while big-hearted romp "Modern Family" claimed its second best comedy trophy.

"Modern Family" producer Steve Levitan, whose picture of the American family today includes gay couples and interracial families, told of being approached during shooting by a real-life gay couple who wanted to say thanks.

"They said, 'You're not just making people laugh, you're making them more tolerant,'" said Levitan, whose show received a total of five awards.

While "Mad Men" gained the top drama award, it couldn't pull honors for stars Jon Hamm or Elisabeth Moss.

Kyle Chandler was the surprise winner in the best drama actor category for the last season of Texas football drama "Friday Night Lights," blocking odds-on favorites among his fellow nominees, including Hamm.

"I knew for a fact I would not be standing here. I did not write anything and now I'm starting to worry," said Chandler, who also beat out Steve Buscemi of "Boardwalk Empire."

It was a fitting victory for Chandler and "Friday Night Lights," which was critically acclaimed but struggled for an audience, and whose high school football team's motto was, "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose."

Julianna Margulies won top drama acting honors for "The Good Wife." Margulies, who navigates politics, law and family in the show, added to her Emmy stash. As part of the "ER" medical drama cast, she won a supporting actress Emmy in 1995.

Melissa McCarthy of "Mike & Molly" was honored as best lead actress in a comedy series with an Emmy and a glitzy prom queen's crown, while Jim Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory" earned his second trophy in the best actor category.

"Holy smokes. Wow, it's my first and best pageant ever," said a beaming McCarthy. "I'm from Plainfield, Ill., and I'm standing here and it's kind of amazing."

Moments earlier, she and her fellow nominees had broken with tradition by jumping up on stage as their names were called, led by Amy Poehler of "Parks and Recreation."

They earned a standing ovation from many in the audience, which seemed fitting in a year in which TV shows and movies are giving women edgier leading roles. Among them is the box-office hit "Bridesmaids," which featured McCarthy.

Parsons looked genuinely surprised at his victory. "This is so odd for so many reasons. I was assured by many people in my life that this wasn't happening," he said.

The first awards in the drama category went to Jason Katims of "Friday Night Lights" for outstanding writing, and Margo Martindale, named best supporting actress for the show "Justified."

"Sometimes, things just take time. But with time comes great appreciation," said the veteran actress.

Peter Dinklage, the winning actor in the category for sci-fi fantasy "Game of Thrones," was awed by another winner, filmmaker Martin Scorsese, who received a directing trophy for "Boardwalk Empire."

"Thanks. Wow. Wow. I followed Martin Scorsese. My heart is pounding. You are a legend," Dinklage said.

The directing trophy was the sole award Sunday for "Boardwalk Empire," HBO's lavishly produced tale of Prohibition-era mobsters and crooked politicos on the make in freewheeling Atlantic City, N.J.

The ceremony aired by Fox opened with a pre-taped comedy sketch that generated controversy because Alec Baldwin's part was cut after he included a joke about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal. Fox is a unit of News Corp.

Baldwin tweeted that Fox killed the joke about the hacking scandal in Britain involving the now-closed News of the World tabloid. Fox said it believed the joke was inappropriate to make light of an issue being taken very seriously by the company.

Leonard Nimoy stepped in and the bit was retaped. It featured host Jane Lynch celebrating television in a musical number, singing about TV as "a vast wonderland, a kingdom of joy in a box."

"Oh, there's Betty White. She's the reason we start the show at 5 p.m." Lynch cracked during her opening monologue.

Charlie Sheen presented the lead actor award, using his time onstage to make nice with his former "Two and a Half Men" colleagues. He was fired from the show after bitterly clashing with its producer and studio, and was replaced by Ashton Kutcher.

"From the bottom of my heart, I wish you nothing but the best for this upcoming season," he said. "I know you will continue to make great television."

"Modern Family" won the first four Emmys, capturing best supporting comedy actress, best supporting comedy actor, best writing for a comedy and best direction for a comedy series.

Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, who play husband and wife on the series, won best supporting actor honors for a comedy series.

"Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm going to talk about in therapy next week," said a shocked-looking Bowen. "I won something."

Burrell spoke of his own father in accepting his best supporting actor award.

"I actually got kind of a late start in acting. My dad actually passed away before he ever saw me perform and I can't help but wonder what he would think about all this ... going to work in full makeup," Burrell said.

Christina Hendricks of "Mad Men" and Julia Stiles of "Dexter" were among those bringing glamor to the ceremony.

"She looks awesome, as always," said fan Jessica Steiner, 26, of Hendricks, who was wearing a rhinestone-encrusted gown with a plunging neckline.

"Modern Family" nominee Sofia Vergara wore an ultra-glam, one-shouldered peach goddess gown and chandelier earrings. Gwyneth Paltrow stood by her, in a sleek black gown with cut-outs.

"Gwyneth is classy, and Sofia is sexy," said fan Vanessa Baeza, 27. "But I think Sofia looks better. Her dress is more flattering."

Steve Carell of "The Office" made his last Emmy stand for his fifth and final season as clueless manager Michael Scott, but lost again.

A new category, which combines the previously separate best miniseries and made-for-TV movie nominees, included the miniseries "Mildred Pierce," with Kate Winslet nominated in the role of an embattled mother, and the movie "Too Big to Fail," about the U.S. fiscal crisis in 2008.

Film star Winslet, an Oscar winner, captured the trophy for lead actress, while her co-star Guy Pearce won the award for best supporting actor.

"I'm thrilled. I had a crush on Guy Pearce since I was 11 years old, so just to stand in the same room as him was really thrilling for me," Winslet said.

Barry Pepper, who played Robert F. Kennedy in the controversial miniseries "The Kennedys," won the lead actor award. Maggie Smith won supporting actress honors for the miniseries "Downton Abbey," which also was named best in its category.

In the reality-competition category, perennial winner "The Amazing Race" returned to triumph Sunday after losing last year to "Top Chef." ''American Idol" lost its ninth shot at winning, this time for a season in which it successfully navigated the loss of key judge Simon Cowell.

HBO had a leading 19 awards, including trophies given Sunday and at last week's creative arts awards for technical and other achievements. PBS, which had a hit with "Downton Abbey," earned 14 to shoulder past the commercial networks and come in second, ahead of CBS with 11, Fox with nine, ABC with eight and NBC with six.

After hitting an all-time viewership low of 12.3 million in 2008, the Emmys rebounded somewhat in the last two years and drew a 2010 audience of 13.47 million, compared to 26.7 million for this year's Grammys and nearly 38 million for the Oscars.

Lovato to young girls with problems: Seek help

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Demi Lovato thanked her fans at a concert for supporting her after she entered rehab last year and encouraged young girls to seek help if they are dealing with similar problems.

"A year ago today ... I was not in a good place," the 19-year-old said at her concert Saturday night. "I needed help and I want anybody in this audience to know that if you're struggling with one of the issues that I dealt with or a different issue, that you can get help, that you can recover and it's possible if you just tell someone."

Lovato entered a treatment facility for three months last year to deal with "emotional and physical issues." The singer-actress said as an 8-year-old who faced bullying she had an eating disorder and later started cutting her wrists to vent her despair.

She performed a show at New York's Hammerstein ballroom, just days ahead of the release of third album, "Unbroken."

Lovato was beginning to play her latest song, "Skyscraper," when she stopped to address the crowd.

"They're so many beautiful girls in this audience that don't know that they're beautiful, but they just are," she said. "So I want to thank you guys for being there for me every single day I was away. I wouldn't be here without you guys today."

Concertgoers screamed "I love you" while Lovato spoke and one girl held a sign that read: "Demi makes me strong!"

After performing "Skyscraper," she sang a cover of Lil Wayne's recent hit "How to Love," a song about women's insecurities and their struggles to find love.

Lovato was the star of the Disney Channel series "Sonny With a Chance" before she announced she was leaving the show in April.

Review: Calm, realism are weapons in 'Contagion'

The calm is what's so startling in "Contagion" — the cool precision with which Steven Soderbergh depicts a deadly virus that spreads throughout the world, quickly claiming millions of victims.

There's no great panic in his tone, no hysteria. Soderbergh has amassed a dazzling cast of Oscar winners but this is not like those '70s disaster movies that had melodrama to match their star power.

Characters become increasingly confused and frustrated, they struggle to survive and then die in a matter-of-fact way. Even the eventual instances of looting and rioting that crop up — as they are wont to do in these kinds of movies when societal rules have long since been abandoned — feel like blips of intensity, understandable reactions to an incomprehensible situation.

Working from a script by Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote his 2009 comedy "The Informant!," Soderbergh takes us from suburban living rooms to labs at the Centers for Disease Control to remote Asian villages with equally clear-eyed realism. The attention to detail — and to the infinite ways germs can spread that we probably don't want to think about — provide the sensation that this sort of outbreak really could happen right now.

"Contagion" begins with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Beth, coughing as she reaches into a bowl of peanuts at an airport bar on her way home to Minneapolis from a business trip in Hong Kong. This is Day 2, we are told, and she will end up being Patient Zero. With the help of a low-key but propulsive electronic score, Soderbergh steadily focuses on the hands as he jumps from Chicago to Tokyo to London in these early scenes, fluidly revealing how we pass our credit card to a waitress or grasp a bus railing or press an elevator button.

Kate Winslet's character, the steely Dr. Erin Mears, who thrusts herself into the vortex as the virus starts developing, offers a chilling statistic to some skeptical medical administrators: We touch our hands to our face 2,000 to 3,000 times ... a day. I don't even want to finish writing this review for fear of what's lurking on my own laptop. But I must.

As Soderbergh did in the superior "Traffic," he intertwines various story lines to give us a complete picture of the devastation. Matt Damon, as Paltrow's stoic husband, Mitch, tries to stay strong and protect his teenage daughter as it becomes clear that they're both immune. Jude Law, believably skeevy as an online journalist with questionable ethics, digs for the truth of the story — but government scientists are just as keen on stopping the spread of information as they are the disease itself.

Marion Cotillard gets a bit lost in the shuffle, though, as Dr. Leonora Orantes of the World Health Organization, who's working backward to find the disease's origin. She's gone for large chunks of time and her plot line feels unfinished; it's an example of how, given the enormity of the cast and the subject matter, not all of the characters are fleshed out as well as you'd like them to be.

But then excellent character actors show up and lend weight to some of the smallest parts: Hey, there's John Hawkes as a janitor. There's Bryan Cranston as Laurence Fishburne's boss at the CDC. And you'd like to see more of them, too.

Despite all the big names crammed together, Jennifer Ehle might just steal this thing as Fishburne's right-hand woman, Dr. Ally Hextall, who's racing to find a vaccine even as the number of dead skyrockets. Like the film itself, she's got an irresistible cool about her. But she's also so confident and radiates such no-nonsense intelligence, she commands the screen every time she shows up. (And how great is it that three of the top scientists here are strong, decisive women?)

Her performance represents one of many elements of "Contagion" that will make you stop and think. And then wash your hands.

"Contagion," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for disturbing content and some language. Running time: 103 minutes. Three stars out of four.

Lythgoe: Lewis welcome on MDA telethon anytime

LAS VEGAS (AP) — "American Idol" management supplier Nigel Lythgoe proclaimed immediately after co-hosting a total annual Muscle Dystrophy Correlation telethon Sunday night time who he has been apologies comic Jerry Lewis don't engage in, even so the enterprise would need to go forward to ensure the fundraiser moves on.

Lythgoe instructed That Involved Press short minutes after the six-hour exist message lost to the eastern shoreline he assumed all the 85-year-old actor would probably arise also over the telecast or simply quicker to make sure you movie any taped segment for his unsecured personal song you select "You'll Do not ever Walk Only. "

"I had been truly anticipating the dog to turn together by just about any point and even subscribe to the fact that half a dozen hrs — together with I'm sorry she couldn't, " Lythgoe stated to any AP. "And with luck , a different 365 days he might. I am talking about, they knows that he is constantly encouraged on the telethon. It truly is your partner's babe. "

An orchestra ended up being in a position roll film Lewis, however they just didn't arrive at your Vegas gambling den when the telethon has been shot, Lythgoe reported.

Lewis publicist Candi Cazau decreased provide feedback any time gotten to because of the AP. Before, your lover reported Lewis never decided to have all presence — registered and also are located — when the MDA published in May the guy won't employ your exhibit and also become a chairman.

Lythgoe as well as co-host Jann Carl claimed within the clearly show the fact that Lewis "retired. "

Lewis have not widely stated as to why he could be no more chairman belonging to the MDA, or simply the key reason why he / she could not privately consist of it year's telethon. All the co-hosts' responses through demonstrate had been to start with your MDA features addressed Lewis' journeying due to the fact has been launched, and additionally telethon spokesman Rick Dark brown dropped even further short review around the separation.

Lewis' loss was concluded an important 45-year go through which he or she elevated $1. 66 billion.

Your fundraiser elevated $58. 9 , 000, 000 not too long ago, however , was initially shortened this year by 21½ a long time. The complete tally from via shawls by hoda isn't anticipated right until earlier Tuesday, as soon as the telethon complete airing during The hawaiian islands. The six-hour telethon aired during primetime for every marketplace across our great country, transmitted are living primarily during the Japanese instance area.

Within show's 1 / 3 lesson, some sort of marquee simply because comic Carrot Major undertaken revealed a telethon experienced lifted less than $46 trillion.

Lythgoe reported the guy and various telethon offers understood Lewis — of the male gender inextricably bonded on the telethon — is a profile even at a show that will for no reason contained an individual's voice.

"There seemed to be a particular hippo in your room in your home, and it's one you will turn consider, " Lythgoe talked about. "This male is usually an individual who will be use this unique whole entire matter mutually. "

Shop for Lythgoe claimed your telethon along with contribute to are unable to centre all over a person mankind — even Lewis.

"It should keep on with no the dog in addition to we're going to demand a considerable amount of benefit because of anyone in order that and also keep on, " Lythgoe mentioned. "Because Jerry, bless your man, can be 85 together with is not about to become around eternally however. Additionally, the MDA of which this telethon ought to keep going. "

Your Lewis-less telethon started off airing continue to exist that eastern coastline Weekend nights having an cracking open multitude featuring younger dancers undertaking for you to Donald Guetta's "Titanium, " which has an rewards right from Abbey Umali, all the organization's tween goodwill ambassador.

Lythgoe, Carl as well as co-hosts Nancy O'Dell as well as Alison Sweeney in that case used up all five a few minutes just after being released sharing Lewis and even her life long heritage felt via the telethon, a MDA in addition to anybody just who participates from the charity's pushes to get neuromuscular groundwork, hospitals in addition to summer time camps for kids identified as "Jerry's Kids. "

Lythgoe talked about for the period of the opening up feed-back in which Lewis, 85, was moving past the particular torch 2009 when the comedian marketed Lythgoe an individual's chair while Lewis had a prospect together with Lythgoe had been emerging about the discuss

"And Jerry, plus I am aware you might be watching, when you provided my family in which styling chair I recognize you'll be able to lay on it all, but it is actually isn't attainable, Jerry, to switch anyone, sir, " this individual said.

Later in the show's very first hour or so, celeb singer Celine Dion pointed out Lewis ever again throughout a taped part, talking about the dog as a companion simply because your sweetheart announced any cover general performance about Journey's "Open Fists. "

Different superstars in the short term noted Lewis all through the indicate for the duration of cameos spread among a range of activities, selection interviews by means of persons carressed just by buff problems together with suit-clad collaborative employees recommending corporation philanthropy and even relationships considering the MDA.

Prior to the actual show's closing, any two-minute montage above keyboard audio revealed Lewis bouncing, humming, mingling with the help of famous encounters as well as interviewing small children — while she or he is never ever learned.

It absolutely was some sort of stark difference because of recent quite a few years, should the present has been the maximum amount concerning Lewis by core period because the donations by themself.

Since the process broadcasted, a lot of viewers honestly asked yourself for Twittollower and other social networks precisely a reveal may have a separated.

Randy Duncan, an important 45-year-old pastor through Westland, Mich., said she or he tuned set for about a few a few minutes, although prevented viewing and preferably instead went involving Detroit Tigers hockey together with some sort of airing with "Star Wars. " She mentioned the particular indicate possessed shed your nostalgic hits which will reminded her associated with boosting profit for ones MDA through friends and neighbors via lawn carnivals any time the guy has been a youngster.

"The strategy many people dealt with the item basically presented us certainly no benefit, " Duncan mentioned. "At the bare minimum provide your pet additional hit, make it possible for your ex boyfriend go out with layout. "

Rather, typically the telethon was initially the unceremonious stop to some six-decade relationship this cast one of the many earth's most famous yearly TV events.

Lewis, who's appeared on lots with window films not to mention Tv series along with designed, redirected plus shown flick, were chairman in the MDA considering that early on 1950s, prior to the well known telethon commenced. For 1977, Lewis was initially nominated for any Nobel Serenity Prize to get his particular talk with all the telethon as well as the MDA.

Inside May possibly, should the MDA to begin with released Lewis appeared to be heading off since hold, this company mentioned he'd stay on since chairman and still surface about the demonstrate to. The application discharged some sort of affirmation by Lewis in which the comic claimed however shout that vocals that has become a good annual culture.

Nevertheless the fact said Lewis would phase downwards like chairman.

"I'll certainly not desert MDA as well as my best young people, " the guy proclaimed.

The actual end appeared to be your medley from devoted new music providing Jordin Initiates, Jon Secada along with Maureen McGovern, and others, vocal as well as 70 children originating from a Nevada choir.

Inside show's closing instances, Lythgoe explained; "We bad most people, Jerry. "

Lythgoe explained they did not be aware of the facts associated with Lewis' separation using the MDA. Nevertheless he or she stated they learned Lewis was initially enjoying.

Fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona vandalized

ROME (AP— German authorities mention of the male gender has vandalized any fountain on the city's credited Piazza Navona, detaching a few substantial portions off of a marble porcelain figurine.

That destroyed sculpture was initially a fabulous 19th-century reproduce. ANY The capital traditions genuine, Umberto Broccoli, claimed the types happen to be recoverable and can also always be reattached to the Moor Fountain of youth.

Basic safety digicam video concerning Italian TELEVISION gas stops plus web-sites Sunday displays a male going up with the fountain not to mention repeatedly targeting this porcelain figurine — among nearly four massive facial looks inside the advantage of your fountain— which includes a large rock. The person behaved Sat day, when the beloved visitor identify was basically nonetheless quite hushed.

Your Moor Water fall as a result of 16th-century specialit Giacomo della Porta will be over the square's southerly stop. Bernini included the actual principal shape in the 1600s.

Another body showcase for Salman

Salman Khan offers definitely discovered an approach outside to make sure you engage in this safe and sound inside the pack business office. Require motion pictures that have executed effectively through the To the thereafter Salman-ise these individuals with components that will followers be expecting as a result of the films.

Though the original the silver screen (Bodyguard for Malayalam, Kavalan throughout Tamil) has been the sappy, long-winded amateur dramatics that counted alone about the overlook when they get home to give, right here the particular style is simply a justification towards summary an alternative full-blown Sallu present.

Like Salman extremely desired a justification to have off of their jacket in addition to alter the interest within the software to make sure you her overall body, the following video offers your man adequate justification to make sure you fold his muscular areas. And so, ideal as soon as he or she is presented the moment she's accomplishing a muscle-dance, flaunting an individual's biceps, he could be working on precisely what she truly does most effective — a health club routine.

Your dog walks available like the Hulk, spats crooks not to mention communicates these traveling and additionally principal points for no reason find a way to uncover him or her, regardless if their duration takes up only two thirds of your display. Sallu is usually Wonderful Singh, an important bodyguard designated to shield Divya (Kareena Kapoor) which joke message or calls the pup as a result of any strange telephone number, a compilation of requests producing a powerful extremley unlikely old-fashioned enchantment where by Fantastic will not maintenance what the lady would appear that simply because absolutely adore doesn't necessarily stalk with the vision, the software is a result of along with the.

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This jokes are generally vested towards debutant Rajat Rawail just who can bring your own home down together with real humor, her substantial mode and also ugly body through exhaust the cause of almost all of the laughters, despite the fact that Raj Babbar runs while using gusto of your Eighties bad guy in a position that could have got ultimately wanted Amrish Puri.

It's the Salman model of an Karan Johar motion picture of your Nineties of which is bound to always be in comparison to any sappiness connected with Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, given that play in the end.

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