Brittany Murphy Dead At 32

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Brittany Murphy died on Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has confirmed to Access Hollywood. She was 32.

According to the Coroner’s Office, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Hollywood reported to them that an individual named Brittany Murphy died in the hospital on Sunday.

A Cedars-Sinai spokesperson also confirmed to Access that the star was pronounced dead at their facility at 10:04 AM.

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman told Access that they responded to a 911 call made from the 1800 block of N. Rising Glen Road — the same street where the actress lives — at 8 AM on Sunday.

A rep for the actress also confirmed the news, telling Access Hollywood, “In this time of sadness, the family thanks you for your love and support. It is their wish that you respect their privacy.”

The LAPD confirmed to Access later on Sunday that they have opened an investigation into the star’s death.

Just weeks ago, a smiling Brittany spoke with Access at the Tt Collection Pop-Up Party in LA on December 3, where she discussed her hopes for the coming year.

“As far as having a New Year’s resolution, I’d love to have a child next year,” she said at the time. “But that’s kind of a large one!”

The actress also spoke of her love for her family, whom she said she was very close to.

“I’ve been very blessed to have a really great loving husband,” she said. “I spend more time with my family than anyone else in the world”

Brittany rose to fame after a memorable role in 1995’s “Clueless.” She went on to star in such films as “8 Mile,” “Just Married,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Sin City” and “Riding In Cars With Boys,” among others.

She also made a splash in the music world with the track “Faster Kill Pussycat,” with Paul Oakenfold in 2006 – the track topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart that year. She also sang a pair of songs for the animated film “Happy Feet,” in which she was also a voice actress.

Brittany was married to screenwriter Simon Monjack, whom she wed in May 2007.

Shahrukh’s “Dulha Mil Gaya” Attains The No.1 Spot

Here is a news for all you SRK fans. Shahrukh Khan’s guest appearance starrer ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’ has gained the no.1 slot on the music downloads. The no.1 slot till now was occupied by ‘3 Idiots’ soundtrack ‘All Is Well’.

Within 36 hours of its music releasing, Dulha Mil Gaya’s title track bagged the number 1 slot in the music download scenario. With its next song, ‘Akela Dil’ hot in pursuit at Number 7 already on downloads, Dulha Mil Gaya’s music seems to be hitting the target fast and hard.

The music is composed by Lalit Pandit (of the Jatin-Lalit fame) who seems to be finding his melodious strings with this film. The lyrics have been penned by Mudassar Aziz.

SRK is doing a guest appearance in the movie and its SRK’s humble thanks to the producer actor Vivek Vaswani who was the one who stood by SRK during his initial struggling days in Mumbai. It seems the goodness is getting noticed and the music is finding its waves in India. Source

Sushmita Sen Becomes Mother All Over Again

The grape vine was rife with speculation that Sushmita Sen had or rather would be adopting her second child. However, with no confirmation from any front, these pieces of drift news faded into oblivion.

However, last night at the press conference held for her upcoming film Dulha Mil Gaya, Sush confirmed that she has adopted another baby girl on November 19 this year, which also happens to be the actress’ birthday. The doting mother has since christened the 3-month-old girl as Alisha.

With this, Sushmita has definitely put to rest all those prying questions and the rumour mills. Source

Shahrukh Khan Wants To Become A Porn Star !

If the talk is about Shah Rukh Khan, you can bet on some out-of-the-box talk! And this time he does it again. In Delhi, the ‘Badshah of Bollywood’ was once again at his witty best as he shared his “aspiration” of becoming a porn star. Talking about his unique ambition, SRK said, “I always wanted to be porn star. I am going to work with all the optimism and clarity to be a porn star”.

When asked where this inspiration arose from, he said, “I have always been a huge fan of Sylvester Stallone who was a porn star before becoming Hollywood superstar.”

Shah Rukh, famous for his outrageously funny remarks did tickle the funny bone of the audience who were in for a laugh riot after listening to the actor. And it was like an icing on the cake when the actor said, “I will take my flag and put it up in America after becoming the biggest porn star of the world.”

It all started when Arindam Chaudhuri, read excerpts from his book and gave example of Stallone`s determination and his journey from a porn star to becoming one of the Hollywood`s icons. He also referred how Akio Morita, founder of Sony, Japanese electronics giant, started the company with a dream to have his country`s flag flutter high on the soils of US. “You see that is what happens with students like me who take all the wrong things from best of the examples given to them,” Shah Rukh joked. Source

Akshay Kumar’s Chemistry With The Lingerie Models

Akshay Kumar has developed a huge craze among girls! The action star was recently mobbed by besotted models who insisted the actor to consider them in his upcoming flick ‘Tees Maar Khan’ while he was attending a Farah Khan-choreographed lingerie show.

Well, the star-struck models did more than flaunting their stunning figures as the whole action turned into a catfight. With Akshay starring in ‘Tees Maar Khan,’ the models deduced that the star might need a leading lady and flooded the actor with requests.

Talking to a news daily, a close source said, “Akshay and his wife Twinkle were seated in front of the stage. Those girls were smiling at Akshay from the ramp itself.”

Incidentally, as soon as the show was over, a bunch of models walked up to the actor and said, “‘Tees Maar Khan’ mein fit kara do.” A surprised Akshay told them that the flick required only one lead actress. The scene soon turned ugly as the girls started fighting among themselves. Realising that the girls won’t budge, Akshay sent them to Farah, the director of the film, by warding them off as, “Please understand. It doesn’t work like this. You have to speak to Farah only.”

When enquired Farah, the choreographer turned director said, “Yes, I know about this. Those girls were auditioning for Akshay. All the girls who participated in the show had great bodies. I have collected quite a few portfolios in the last few days. Let’s see who gets selected eventually.” Source

Aishwarya Rai & Akshay Kumar In Vipul Shah’s Next

Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan will be playing the role of an old lady in a few scenes in Vipul Shah’s upcoming release, Action Replay. The film is said to be a remake of the Hollywood hit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The Bollywood version will star Akshay Kumar and Randhir Kapoor.

Well-known Hollywood make-up artist, Paul Pattison has been hard at work to give Ash a full makeover. He is known for styling Mel Gibson for Braveheart and Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible. Director, Vipul Shah says that Ash has to spend about 4-6 hours day for the make-up to be applied perfectly. “She was extremely co-operative. It’s a look people have never seen her in before.” he says.

The film has music composed by Pritam and is expected to be a family entertainer and not an action flick as the title implies. Source

Huge Expectations From Salman Khan’s Veer

Though the reactions to the promos of Salman Khan’s Anil Sharma directed period drama flick VEER were quite negative, but what everyone conveniently forgot was that the director of VEER is Anil Sharma, who has given GADAR: EK PREM KATHA, one of the biggest blockbusters of Hindi cinema.

Not many will remember that when the first promos/ look of Anil Sharma’s GADAR were out, the reactions that it received were almost similar to what Salman’s VEER received. There was a lot of criticism of its old, jaded look with a section of the media poking fun at its trailers especially in comparison to LAGAAN, which was a stylish period film and released alongside GADAR.

To sum up Salman’s VEER is definitely in capable hands and there is no reason why Salman fans can’t expect a GADAR out of VEER. Here’s hoping that it does! Source

Avatar is the best movie of the Year

Back in 1996, James Cameron announced that he would be creating a film called Avatar, a science-fiction epic that would feature photo-realistic, computer-generated characters.

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He had a treatment for the film, which already defined many things, including the Na’vi a primitive alien race standing ten feet tall with shining blue skin, living in harmony with their jungle-covered planet Pandora.

Soon after, though, Avatar had to be shelved as the technology of the time could not satisfy the creative desires of the director.

Fast-forward to October 2009: Dan Lemmon, FX supervisor and Andy Jones, animation director at Weta Digital have about two weeks left of visual effects production for Avatar. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier.

Weta Digital, the New Zealand studio responsible for the groundbreaking visual effects in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is taking VFX to a new level of creative and technological excellence.
For Avatar, the studio has created over 1,800 stereoscopic, photo-realistic visual effects shots, many of them of the Na’vi as ‘hero’ characters. In addition to digital characters and environments are the machines, vehicles, equipment and everything else that help blur the line between imagination and reality.
“We’re not just talking about the environment, but the creatures, the machines and the vehicles that people use to get around. The whole world is unique and because of the way James Cameron approaches things, everything seems functional and believable. Compared to other sci-fi fantasy genre films there’s a certain level of realism just in the design that makes it very believable,” says VFX

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