Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants to Act Again

It’s hardly been two months since Schwarzenegger ended his role as the Governor of California and he already wants to get back to acting. He announced the news via Twitter himself.

“Exciting news. My friends at CAA have been asking me for 7 years when they can take offers seriously. Gave them the green light today.”

He has given the green light to Creative Artists Agency, they are a leading Hollywood talent agency.

Schwarzenegger is now 63 years old and it’s fair to say that he is most famous for his role as the “Terminator”. The first Terminator film was released in 1984. His most recent role is a cameo in Sylvester Stallone’s action thriller “The Expendables”, as a mercenary leader.

His announcement puts the speculation as to whether he would upgrade to national political office or return to acting has been answered by the man himself.

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He is among the few actors who has truly stood the test of time over the last two decades. Having debuted with the action flick Phool Aur Kaante, he has excelled as an actor in every possible genre be it comedy (Golmaal series, All The Best), romance (Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha), action (Vijaypath, Qayamat) or drama (Apaharan, Zakhm). He is a man of few words but lets his work do all the talking. He is none other than actor par excellence Ajay Devgn

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Vivek Oberoi to team up once again with Mani Ratnam and Shaad Ali

After getting back with his mentor Ram Gopal Varma for Rakta Charitra (nearly 8 years after he debuted in RGV’s Company), Vivek Oberoi is now all set to work with another of his mentors Mani Ratnam. The buzz is that Vivek has given the green signal to work in Paki, a film written by Mani Ratnam and to be directed by his assistant Shiva.

It may be recalled that Mani and Vivek worked together in Yuva (2004) and Vivek also featured in the super-hit Saathiya (2002) which itself was a remake of Mani’s Tamil blockbuster Alai Payuthey. Even though they never had a chance to work together after Yuva, when Mani Sir approached Vivek for this film, the actor immediately agreed. What’s more, Mani’s close associate and director of Saathiya, Shaad Ali will be the executive director of this project.

The film is a biopic and tells the story of one of Mani’s real-life friends who is based in the U.K. It’s no wonder then that this project is something which is very close to the filmmaker’s heart. It will be interesting to see if the combo of Mani Ratnam, Vivek Oberoi and Shaad Ali are once again able to create the same magic which they did with Saathiya 8 years ago.

Venezuela’s Ties With Nation Like Russia and China: Chavez

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela’s ties with nations like Russia and China have gained importance as the U.S. moves to expand its military presence in Latin America.

Chavez says there are now “much more significant reasons to accelerate cooperation plans with allied countries.”

The U.S. is negotiating an agreement with Colombia to use seven bases there for anti-drug operations. Chavez calls the plan a threat to the region, but Colombian and U.S. officials say there is no reason for concern.

Chavez said Saturday he plans to visit Russia and the former Soviet republic of Belarus within the next month. He added that Venezuela hopes to triple oil shipments to China over the next four years to 1 million barrels a day.

US Senators Meets Suu Kyi

YANGON: An American imprisoned in a trial with Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi looked forward to being deported from the military-ruled country Sunday after a U.S. senator secured his release in an unprecedented meeting with the junta chief.

Sen. Jim Webb was also allowed to hold talks with Suu Kyi — the first foreign official permitted to see the Nobel laureate since she was sentenced to 18 more months of house arrest on Tuesday.

The impending deportation indicates “good relations between the two countries and hope (that) these will grow,” Yettaw’s lawyer Khin Maoung Oo said. Webb echoed the sentiment.

“It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying a foundation of goodwill and confidence-building in the future,” Webb said in a statement from his Washington office.

Webb said he would accompany American John Yettaw on a military flight to Bangkok on Sunday.

Yettaw, who had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor for swimming uninvited to Suu Kyi’s lakeside house in Yangon, was being held at Insein prison, notorious for torture of political prisoners and ordinary criminals. Yettaw’s lawyer said his client, who suffers from epileptic seizures and other ailments, had been well treated.

Suu Kyi has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years, and a global groundswell of international pressure to release the 64-year-old opposition leader has kept the impoverished military-ruled country under sanctions in recent years.

The regime has shown no sign it will release Suu Kyi before next year’s general elections, which critics say will perpetuate the military’s decades-old rule, but Webb’s visit appeared to show the junta is sensitive to international censure.

Suu Kyi was driven from her residence to a nearby government guest house in Yangon for her 40-minute meeting with Webb. She was later driven back to her rundown, lakeside home.

Webb described his talk with the democracy icon as “an opportunity … to convey my deep respect to Aung San Suu Kyi for the sacrifices she has made on behalf of democracy around the world.”

Earlier Saturday, Webb held talks with junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the reclusive military council chief who had never met a senior U.S. official.

Webb may have been given the green light for the meetings to mitigate the torrent of international criticism against Myanmar following her trial. In July, authorities barred U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from meeting with Suu Kyi during a two-day visit.