Frenzy over Jolie in India....
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's arrival in Pune has thrown the quiet Indian
city into a frenzy. Why are they there?
MUMBAI (Reuters) - A leafy boulevard in an Indian city stood in for
a swish Pakistani neighbourhood on Monday as Hollywood star
Angelina Jolie began shooting for a film about a U.S. journalist
abducted and killed in Pakistan.
The film, "A Mighty Heart", is the story of Daniel Pearl, a reporter with
The Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped in the Pakistani port
city of Karachi and killed in 2002
while researching a report in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
It will be shot for a month in the western Indian industrial city
of Pune as security concerns prevented filming in Pakistan.
On Monday, filming began in a two-storey white bungalow in Pune's Sindh
Society locality, which has a striking similarity to the district in
Karachi with its boulevards, row houses and bungalows where Pearl was
staying.
Cars painted yellow to resemble Karachi taxis were parked in front of the
house and used for filming.
"Some scenes were shot today, but we are not aware of the exact portions
that have been shot," said Sunita Thakar of Kailash Picture Company,
which is managing the shooting schedule of the film in India.
The Oscar-winning U.S. actress plays the slain reporter's wife, Mariane.
Her partner Brad Pitt is the movie's producer.
The celebrity couple's arrival in Pune has thrown the quiet Indian city
into a frenzy as hundreds of fans throng their luxury hotel and the
shooting locale for a glimpse.
The tightly guarded venues have also been surrounded by dozens of
journalists and cameramen.
At the weekend, the couple took rides around the city in a three-wheel
taxi with their adopted son Maddox, drawing large crowds who gave their
security staff a trying time.
Pune, an industrial town of more than four million people, is about 130 km
(80 miles) southeast of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment hub.
The film is based on a book by Mariane Pearl, "A Mighty Heart:
The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl".
Dan Futterman plays the murdered journalist and English filmmaker Michael
Winterbottom, famed for war-based films such as "Welcome to Sarajevo"
and "The Road to Guantanamo," is the director.
"A Mighty Heart" is about "cross-cultural understanding and the values that
people of all faiths share", Jolie said in a statement.
"This is not a film about terrorism or conflict, it is a story of people
of all faiths working together to find the truth."
Pop diva Shakira will donate....
the proceeds from a concert in her hometown to build an arts school for
1,800 children forced to flee their homes by Colombia's civil war.
The concert, part of her worldwide Oral Fixation tour, will held Nov 15
in the Caribbean port city of Barranquilla and is being billed as a
festive homecoming for the hip-shaking international superstar who last
month was nominated for five Latin Grammy awards.
The English and Spanish bilingual school will bear the name of Shakira's Pies
Descalzos (Spanish for Bare Feet) foundation and have an emphasis on
arts education, the foundation said Thursday in a statement.
The school will be located in La Playa, a poor suburb of Barranquilla where
45 percent of the residents are minors, only about half of whom attend
school.
Tickets for Shakira's concert in Barranquilla start at under $7 each,
a far cry from the up to $200 being charged at two more Colombian dates
in Bogota and the southern city of Cali.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, Shakira won five prizes at Premios Oye!,
a Mexican music award ceremony hosted Thursday: best album for
Oral Fixation Volume 2; song of the year in Spanish for "Las caderas
no mienten"; song of the year in English for "Hips Don't Lie"; best video;
and a special award for songwriting for "D�a de enero." Shakira is playing
a series of concerts in Mexico.
Premios Oye! is hosted by The National Academy of Music in Mexico,
an association of musicians, record company executives, music journalists
and others.
Aguilera'S ''NAKED SUNDAYS''
The "Aint No Other Man" singer, who has been married for almost a year,
insists she and her spouse always devote a day to enjoying each other's
bodies.
Christina, 25, told Cosmopolitan magazine: "We have naked Sundays.
You just lie in bed all day and chill with each other and do things that
husbands and wives do. We love our coziness."
The "Dirrty" singer also divulged that she and Jordan, 29, cook together
to help keep the closeness in their marriage.
The couple's joint specialty dish is spicy Mexican tacos.
Christina said: "We have our taco night. He cooks the meat and I chop
the tomatoes and the lettuce. It's important to take time for your
spouse and nurture the relationship."
Sean Paul answers all the questions from AskMen.com
My latest album is called The Trinity, and it is an album [that was]
three years in the making... it's also my third album.
favorite female celebrities?
Eva Longoria. Let me see, who else now... Sofia Vergara. And Alicia Keys
yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, I'm just teasing your brain (laughs)...
I cook. Also, I did not smoke till I was 21.
Ayyy! Okay, okay, Jodi, is, you know, someone close to me, and Rebecca
is someone close to me too. I was going to the studio and they said,
"Put my name to the song" and I was like, "All right."
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