Madhuri to star opposite Sanjay Dutt in Satte Pe Satta remake

After months of speculation on who would star opposite Sanjay Dutt in Satte Pe Satta remake, the official announcement has now been made and it’s none other than Madhuri Dixit who has bagged the coveted role.

While Sanjay Dutt will reprise the role played by Big B in the original cult classic, Madhuri will be seen in the character played by Hema Malini in the original. It may be recalled that Madhuri and Sanjay have been part of several hit films in the past such as Saajan, Khalnayak and Thanedaar. It will no doubt be interesting to see this jodi re-create magic once again on the silver screen.

Satte Pe Satta remake is being directed by Soham Shah and produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd. in association with Sanjay Dutt Productions.

Akbar Khan to play Saddam Hussein

Akbar Khan, who was recently seen playing Chandan Roy Sanyal’s strict dad in F.A.L.T.U, will now be seen playing the character of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in a film directed by Suresh Kohli.

The docu-drama titled From President to Prisoner focuses on the last few years of Saddam’s fight against US imperialism. Akbar Khan in the past has been associated with epics like Tipu Sultan and Taj Mahal-An Eternal Love Story and it will be interesting to see how he manages to portray one of the most well-known names in history.

Disney bringing Miss Marple to big screen

LOS ANGELES: Agatha Christie’s elderly detective Miss Marple is getting the big-screen treatment from Disney.

After months of negotiations, the studio has closed a deal to capture the movie rights to the character, who first appeared in print in 1927.

Disney is not making a period movie, however, but is looking do a contemporary version with an edge. It has commissioned a script from Mark Frost, who is best known for co-creating the landmark TV series “Twin Peaks” with David Lynch.

Jane Marple was one of Christie’s most famous creations, a sweet old lady with a deep understanding of the dark side of human nature.

The character first appeared on screen in 1961 in “Murder, She said,” portrayed by Dame Margaret Rutherford, who was 70 at the time and went on to reprise the role in three other films with a comedic bent.

Boman Irani signs up as brand ambassador of Kent RO water purifier

They say that ‘Age is just a number’. This saying is very much true in the case of Dr. Asthana aka Veeru Sahastrabudhhe aka the multi talented Boman Irani. He may have entered the film industry a bit late in his life but to say that he took it by storm would be an understatement. Boman Irani is the highly loved actor of Indian cinema whose every performance is like a work of art. So convincingly he performs his roles that it’s hard to figure if he moulded into the character or whether the character is a part of him.

After having ‘been there, done that’, Boman has now been signed up as the brand ambassador of Kent RO water purifiers, so informs the confirmed sources of Bollywood Hungama. With this, Boman joins the likes of Kent’s already existing brand ambassadors, viz., Hema Malini, Esha Deol and Aahana Deol.

Objection taken against Shreyas’ stammering act in Golmaal 3

Films in Bollywood have always been at the receiving end of both, bouquets as well as the brickbats. On the same thought, if you thought that the recently released comic caper Golmaal 3 (aka G-3) was at the receiving end of bouquets for its performances as well as its funny one liners, well, it seems that it’s the time for the film to be receiving the brickbats.

Those who have seen the film will know that the character played by Shreyas Talpade has been shown as someone with a stammering problem. Even though the cinegoers have loved his stammered performance on screen, there is a controversy that has taken birth over his character. The Indian Stammering Association (TISA), based out of Dehradun, felt that Shreyas’ character in Golmaal 3 mocks people who stammer. That’s why they have slammed the film’s makers with a lawsuit. TISA not only found the character played by Shreyas pretty objectionable, but also the fact that his character was always at the receiving end of jokes and ridicules by his other characters in the film. TISA has now sent a legal notice to the producers asking them to delete all the scenes where the character stammers and respond to it before a December 14 deadline.”

While the spokesperson of Shri Ashtavinayak Cinevision said that their legal department is looking into it, Shreyas feels that the people should look at it in a positive way, as the character he played is the hero of the film and that one should not make an issue out of it.

We’ll let the audiences decide that. What say readers?

Sophie s Choice

Sophie s Choice, The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan’s girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something unsettling about the relationship; Nathan is subject to violent mood swings, while Sophie seems to be harboring a horrible secret. Stingo soons learns that both Nathan and Sophie are strangers to truth; the audience is likewise led down several garden paths by a series of sepia-toned flashbacks, depicting Sophie’s ordeal in a wartime concentration camp. The scene in which we discover the facts behind Sophie’s “choice” is a gut-wrenching one; it might have been even more powerful had not the film taken so long to get there. It is betraying nothing to reveal that the character of Stingo is the alter ego of William Styron, upon whose best-selling novel the film was based. The film is rated R, due in great part to a disposable scene wherein Stingo tries to put the make on a “liberated” female intellectual.

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Sophie s Choice was first posted on February 9, 2010 at 6:20 pm.

Nassau County Election Results 2009,Nassau County Elections

Nassau County Election Results 2009,Nassau County Elections : County Executive Nassau 1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent Thomas Suozzi, Dem (i) 118,111 – 48 percent Edward Mangano, GOP 117,874 – 48 percent Steven Hansen, Con 9,552 – 4 percent District Attorney Nassau 1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent Kathleen Rice, Dem (i) 129,508 – 54 percent Joy Watson, GOP 109,526 – 46 percent County Clerk Nassau 1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent Maureen O’Connell, GOP (i) 142,774 – 62 percent Carrie Solages, Dem 86,482 – 38 percent Comptroller Nassau County 1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent George Maragos, GOP 115,473 – 50 percent Howard Weitzman, Dem (i) 114,897 – 50 percent source: READ: More Political News

Nassau County Election Results 2009,Nassau County Elections:County Executive Nassau

1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent

Thomas Suozzi, Dem (i) 118,111 – 48 percent
Edward Mangano, GOP 117,874 – 48 percent
Steven Hansen, Con 9,552 – 4 percent

District Attorney Nassau

1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent

Kathleen Rice, Dem (i) 129,508 – 54 percent
Joy Watson, GOP 109,526 – 46 percent

County Clerk Nassau

1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent

Maureen O’Connell, GOP (i) 142,774 – 62 percent
Carrie Solages, Dem 86,482 – 38 percent

Comptroller Nassau County

1,142 of 1,142 precincts – 100 percent

George Maragos, GOP 115,473 – 50 percent
Howard Weitzman, Dem (i) 114,897 – 50 percent

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Pa Election Results 2009,Pa Elections 2009

Pa Election Results 2009,Pa Elections 2009 School Director Region 2 Ruth A.

Pa Election Results 2009,Pa Elections 2009

School Director Region 2

Ruth A. Dierolf     830

School Director Region 3

Gwendolyn W. Semmens 1,713

School Director Region 3 (2 yrs)

Donna L. Usavage 1,779

District Judge 38-1-06

Donna Haas 2,140

Henry J. Schireson 2,986

District Judge 38-1-07

Kathleen M. Valentine 4,158

District Judge 38-1-09

Bill Maruszczak 2,257

District Judge 38-1-12

Edward C. Kropp Sr. 2,608

District Judge 38-1-13

Frank Bernhardt 4,034

District Judge 38-1-15

Francis J. Lawrence Jr. 1,215

District Judge 38-1-17

Kenneth E. Deatelhauser 4,848

District Judge 38-1-20

Cathleen Kelly Rebar  5,501

District Judge 38-1-28

Ed Levine 2,757

Harold D. Borek 2,764

District Judge 38-2-04

Karen Zucker 4,576

Douglass (Mont.)

SUPERVISOR

John G. Stasik Jr. 717

Fred Theil 642

Limerick

SUPERVISOR

Michele McCauley-Chrisman 1,065

Thomas Roache 1,033

Thomas J. Neafcy Jr. 1,212

Kara Shuler 1,210

SUPERVISOR (2 yrs)

Annamarie Chestnut 1,122

Joseph St. Pedro 1,195

Lower Pottsgrove Commissioner

James Prendergast 404

Michael McGroarty 1,156

James Kaiser 796

Lower Pottsgrove

Keith Diener 809

Scott Gilroy 810

Methacton School Director

John L. Andrews   2,263

Howard Jones    5,150

S. Christian Nascimento 5,080

Herb Rothe 3rd    4,999

Jim Phillips          3,213

Perkiomen Township

SUPERVISOR

William E. Patterson 686

Dean M. Becker 654

Perkiomen Valley referendum

Yes    2,328

No      1,549

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Sesame Street Anniversary,Big Bird

Sesame Street Anniversary,Big Bird: Sesame Street and Big Bird celebrate their 40th anniversary today.

Sesame Street Anniversary,Big Bird:Sesame Street and Big Bird celebrate their 40th anniversary today. Big Bird and Sesame Street came to television on November 10, 1969 and through the Jim Henson characters have captivated generations of tv audiences.

At 40, Sesame Street is the longest running children’s program on US television.

In the 1960s, the Carnegie Institute following a proposal by Joan Ganz Cooney gave $8 million to establish the Children’s Television Workshop and deliver new programming. Additional funding came from Ford, the US Government, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The show was promoted before its air date with a 30 minute trailer that would air on NBC called This Way to Sesame Street. When the show aired, it would quickly earn a 3.3 Nielsen rating.

Big Bird would appear on screen with First Lady Pat Nixon in 1970. Jim Henson has since explained that the character played by Carroll Spinney in a suit is not a muppet.Big Bird’s breed has also been in dispute, thought to be a canary, but later explained as more of a condor.

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