Details on Kim Kardashian’s surprise Italian honeymoon

TrendPK.com: When Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries took off for Italy after their wedding, it actually wasn’t something Kim was expecting to do right away.

While Kim figured they’d take their honeymoon next summer when they had free time, Kris apparently wanted to surprise her with a little romantic trip, states UsMagazine.com. “Kris surprised me last minute!” Kim revealed.

And what a honeymoon it was as the newlyweds stayed at the $3,300-per-night Romeo and Juliet chalet at the five-star Hotel Santa Caterina.

The two also got in time at the pool and at the Mediterranean Sea.

Now, Kim will just have to wait and see if her honeymoon will also bring her baby.

Power outage triggers protest in Lahore

The total power generation of Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) has currently been recorded at 9,500 megawatt, while the demand has shot up to 15,500 megawatt, leaving a shortfall of 6,000 megawatt.

The duration of power outage in all major cities has been increased to 12 hours a day while in rural areas it has been increased to 18 hours.
Lahore Electricity Supply Company (LESCO) shut six grid stations in Lahore during the night between Sunday and Monday.

Various areas of the city suffered six to seven hours of power outage. People protested against the unscheduled load shedding of LESCO and chanted slogans against the authorities. The police was called to prevent an untoward incident.

The situation was no different in Karachi and in various areas of the city people spent the night with intermittent supply of power. According to the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, the power supply was suspended due to a technical fault.

Justin Bieber apologizes for flipping off paparazzi

Justin Bieber celebrated his 17th birthday Wednesday night with his girlfriend, Selena Gomez. The couple was then swarmed by paparazzi while leaving a romantic dinner at Maggiano’s. Bieber was angered and gave the paparazzi the finger after getting in the car. He regrets his actions and took to his Twitter to express his feelings about the incident.First of all, Selena Gomez was not punched in the face. That rumor started after she put her hands in front of her face/mouth to block out the lights from the cameras. Photos seemed to reveal something on her lip that looks like a cold sore, and Bieber’s Twitter fans started telling people she’d been hit.

Later on Twitter, the teen pop idol apologized for his gesture, “Had a great bday and at the end of the night we got surrounded by paps and i reacted in a way i know better. im sorry.” He went on explaining his feeling that night, “It’s not always easy but i know better than to react in anger.”

Bieber apologized for the middle finger, but I don’t think his fans were too offended.

For another look at what Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez go through, watch the super crazed fans in this video of Bieber and Gomez leaving a hotel together.

Jesse Bender, Forced Marriage in Pakistan

The parents of a California 13-year-old are under investigation after the girl told police she was being forced to go to Pakistan for an arranged marriage.

Jessie Bender, 13, from Hesperia, Calif., was last seen by her mother on Tuesday, February 22.
Melissa Bender, Jessie’s mother told KTLA that Jessie had been chatting with a man she met on Facebook, on the night she went missing.
“He was the last person she spoke to at 1:47 in the morning,” said Melissa.
Jessie Bender’s folks told authorities last month their daughter ran off because she didn’t want to go on a two-month family trip to her step-father’s native country. They then falsely claimed she was abducted by someone she met on Facebook, officials said.

However, after weeks of investigating leads that wrangled the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Office and police departments nationwide, authorities say it was all a lie.

“Bender family members misled detectives and withheld critical information,” San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Roxanne Walker said in a news release.

Oscars telecast to undergo dramatic change

LOS ANGELES: The Oscars are entering the world of virtual reality.

This year’s Academy Awards telecast is taking a radical departure from past years. Producers of the February 27 show are abandoning the concept of a traditional set. Instead, they will rely on a series of “projections” to give the show a constantly changing look.

“Our design this year is actually going to reflect more content than you would usually expect of an awards show of this type,” producer Don Mischer told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview with fellow producer Bruce Cohen in the Kodak Theater. “We’re using our environment to take us to different places, different times, and it will change dramatically. The look will change from act to act.”

Producers plan to take viewers on a trip through Hollywood history.

“We’re doing six or seven scenic transitions during the show, but they are each sort of a different concept,” Cohen explained. “In other words, one might be a scene from a film, one might be a more specific time in history, one might be a specific event, one might be a specific genre. The hope is that we briefly leave the Kodak in 2011 — not literally, but metaphorically — and take the audience, both in the room and on television, to a specific time and place.”

Pressed for more detail, Cohen added, “This is the tenth anniversary of the best animated feature Oscar, so we go to an animated environment to present that Oscar — actually two, animated feature and animated short — but the reason we are there is to celebrate that this is the tenth anniversary of the best animated feature Oscar.”

The transitions, Mischer explained, will not be long segments, but 30-45 second set-ups. “We are not going back to teach history, but to put the awards in context.”

The design scheme grew out of the theme that the two producers devised once they began working on the show back in June. In an extensive review of past broadcasts, they were struck by the two-fold nature of the assignment. On the one hand, they have to come up with something new and different. On the other, they wanted to recognize the previous 82 years of Oscar history.

“Is there any way to approach the show where those two ideas are working together and not fighting each other with every single decision?” they asked themselves. The solution, they decided, was somehow to combine the old and the new.

To that end, they cast Anne Hathaway and James Franco — two of the youngest hosts to ever front the Oscars — as audience surrogates for the journey.

“Yes, they are famous, but they are on their way up,” Cohen said of the two stars. “They are not untouchable, they are not unreachable. We hope they will offer a way in. So everyone come along, and we’ll see through the eyes of these two up-and-coming stars.”

The hosts’ job, he said, will be “to take the audience on this journey of a show that will hopefully start in one place, and if it all goes according to plan, it will take you back to where we started at the end.”

To realize that on stage visually, the producers have been working with production designer Steve Bass, who’s previously worked with Mischer on such shows as the “62nd Primetime Emmy Awards” and “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.”

While the production has moved into the Kodak to set up the show, it’s been using the daytime hours to hang the physical scenery on which the projections will be displayed, and then during the night another team has been programing the projections. Working throughout this weekend, the goal is to have the whole system up-and-running by Monday. AGENCIES

Christina Aguilera’s Super Bowl Performance

Christina Aguilera has spoken out about her performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Sundays Super Bowl in Arlington, Texas. She repeated a line and also fumbled a few other words of the Anthem. Christina has made a statement to the Associated Press.

“I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place,” Christina also said in her statement “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of it’s sic anthem still came through.”

Overall, it was a spectacular evening’s entertainment and the much anticipated break time commercials didn’t disappoint either. A commercial for Best Buy featured the unlikely pairing of Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne. But let’s not forget what the night really was all about. This year the Super Bowl was won by the Green Bay Packers.

Tunisia Protesters Call for Change

Breaking News TUNIS: More demonstrations are taking place in Tunisia amid reports of police crackdowns on allies of the country’s ousted president.

Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters at an anti-government demonstration outside Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi’s offices in Tunis.

Hundreds of protesters spent the night camped out in front of the building calling for Ghannouchi to resign following the removal of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14.

It comes after two high-ranking officials were reported to have been placed under house arrest.

And the head of a well-known private TV station is said to have been detained for allegedly trying to slow down the country’s move toward democracy.

State news agency reported that Larbi Nasri, the president of a TV station, was arrested along with his son on charges of high treason and plotting against state security.

It also reported that former Ben Ali advisers Abdallah Kallel and Abdelaziz Ben Dhia have been placed under house arrest, with police looking for a third man, Abdelwaheb Abdallah.

And the crowds gathering on a daily basis in the capital Tunis seem set on claiming more scalps from the interim government, ahead of planned elections within six months.

Catastrophic Australian Floods Claim First Victim

Catastrophic Australian Floods Claim First Victim, Devastating floods in northeastern Australia claimed their first victim Sunday, with the body of a missing woman recovered as the surging waters continued to rise and a fresh storm loomed.

Emergency officials and police searched through the night by boat and helicopter for the 41-year-old swept from her car as she tried to cross a swamped causeway in the northern Gulf of Carpentaria region.

Police managed to save three children and another adult from the car but the woman disappeared before they could reach her.

“Searchers located the woman?s body around 10:20 am today about two kilometres (one mile) from the causeway,” police said.

There were fears for another man missing after his fishing boat was swamped Saturday afternoon near Gladstone, at the centre of the floods, and witnesses reported seeing a second man swept away in the swamped city of Rockhampton.

“These waters are exceptionally fast, they’re not to be trifled with and they’re not to be taken lightly,” said assistant police commissioner Alistair Dawson.

A severe storm was expected to sweep through the region late Sunday, bringing “damaging winds, very heavy rainfall, flash flooding and large hailstones” the weather bureau said, urging residents to take shelter.

Up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been hit by the floods which have left entire towns under water and cut off many more over an area the size of France and Germany combined, wreaking untold billions in damage to crops and the nation’s key mining industry.

“In many ways, it is a disaster of biblical proportions,” Queensland State Treasurer Andrew Fraser told reporters in flood-hit Bundaberg on Saturday.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who on Friday toured inundated regions, said the floods had been devastating and would have an economic impact.

Gillard said the mining sector had been particularly badly hit, adding that farmers, small businesses and tourism would also suffer.

Residents in the coastal town of Rockhampton were forced to flee the rising waters in darkness Saturday night, while helicopters delivered food and other supplies to about 20 towns hit by the deluge.

Rockhampton’s airport, a major regional hub, was closed to commercial traffic as the runways went under water while the deluge also cut main roads into the town and disrupted power supplies.

The town’s river is expected to peak at 9.4 metres (yards) Wednesday, threatening 2,000-4,000 homes, and mayor Brad Carter said desperate sandbagging was under way.

Rockhampton could be isolated for as many as 10 days, and though food shortages were not yet an issue, Carter said he was unsure how long supplies could last as the situation worsens.

“The water inundation is far more extensive than we thought it was. It’s very extensive,” Carter said after an aerial tour of the region on Sunday.

“The geographic area has an enormous amount of water to it either side of… the Fitzroy river, which has broken through its banks and is covering large agricultural areas,” said Carter.

Officials were warning of a critical drinking water shortage at the inland town of Dalby after its treatment plant was swamped, meaning supplies had to be trucked in.

In Bundaberg, in Queensland’s southeast, the clean-up was set to begin in about 300 homes and 120 businesses as flood waters recede, but other towns such as Theodore and Condamine remain empty of residents.

Deputy state premier Paul Lucas flew over the devastated region and warned much of the heartbreak was still ahead as the full extent of damage became clear.

“(There are) swimming pools filled with mud, houses where people are sweeping the mud out. The devastation is enormous,” said Lucas.

Offshore oil drilling operations have been suspended due to a tropical cyclone developing off Australia’s resources-rich west coast, which also forced the closure of major iron ore export ports.

Three expensive action sequences to be shot for Agent Vinod

Producer Saif Ali Khan has asked his Agent Vinod director Sriram Raghavan to shoot three every expensive action sequences.

Says the director, “I will have only 3 minutes of action where I’d have had a 7-minute action sequence. But I won’t compromise on quality. I’ve spent considerable time writing the action sequences into the script. Now comes their execution.”

The next schedule of Agent Vinod is in March 2011.

Explains Sriram, “There are three big action sequences still to be shot. They require major prep. I want to plan them out and shoot them on priority. There was no point in going into another schedule without the required budget. We now have that in place for March. These sequences are vfx heavy and it’s better to do them first before I do my balance scenes. We’ve shot about an hour of footage already.”

Sriram still hopes to release the film towards the end of next year.

Reveals Sriram, “Both Saif and Kareena would have to be trained before we do the remaining action sequences.”

Making an action film as slick as its counterparts in Hollywood is not easy. Two of the pending action sequences would be shot in the UAE, far away from the country where they are located in the script, to economize on the rapidly spiralling budget.

Sriram admits he has been asked to keep costs down. “I need to keep a quality check while making sure we don’t go over-budget. There are three big action sequences to be shot. And yes, you’ve heard right. Two of them might be shot in the same location. For one of them I need choppers flying in the night. In India we aren’t allowed choppers in the night. So we’ll have to shoot in the UAE.”

Sriram who has already edited 65 minutes of footage for Agent Vinod, needs to shoot a very stylish prologue to go with the opening titles, and an epilogue which requires four days of shooting in the UK.

Would the prologue be as stylish as the ones in the James Bond flicks? Laughs Sriram, “I wish! But we don’t have that kind of budget.”

Kareena Kapoor has been telling the world that she has no heavy-duty action sequences to perform with Saif in Agent Vinod. The fact is, she has not one, but two very stylish and complex action sequences in Agent Vinod. For this she needs to undergo some amount of training. Apparently, these sequences have been postponed until she finds the time to train, and until the budget permits them to be shot.

If preparedness is all then Agent Vinod is not all there. Not yet.

Rats rules the roost in a Lahore bakery

A footage received that show rats running on all the bakery items in a reputable bakery in Lahore. The said bakery has rush of customers all the day but in the night when it shuts up, only rats are seen ruling over it.

The said bakery is located at Karim Block area of Iqbal Town at Lahore. Other outlets of the same bakery also seem to be following the same hygienic rules. The deplorable fact is that the authorities concerned are seem to be indifferent regarding the hygiene of their items and the health of the consumers in general.

The food inspectors of city district government and the quality control department sound to have no concern about the issue, while the consumers are being befooled by the big name of the bakery chain.

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