WAPDA retain National Senior Weightlifting Championship

LAHORE: Defending champion Pakistan WAPDA won the 57th National Senior Weightlifting Championship here on Thursday while Pakistan Railways secured the second position.

Teams of all the four provinces along with Pakistan WAPDA, Pakistan Railways, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan Police, Pakistan Army and Islamabad participated in the two-day championship held here at the Punjab University Old Campus Ground from March 30.

WAPDA displayed brilliant performance in the event and defended its title with 74 points while the Railways came second with 43 and HEC finished third with 30 points.

Shoaib family issued seven visas for India

LAHORE: Seven visas for India have been issued to Shoaib Malik’s family.

Family sources of Shoaib Malik told Geo News that among the persons issued the visa are Shoaib’s mother, brother, sister, brother-in-law and children while one of his sisters and a few close relatives have applied for Indian visa from Germany.

Sources said that as the marriage will take place on April 11, the Shoaib’s family will leave for Hyderabad Deccan three days earlier for attending other wedding rituals and both families are finalizing dates in this regard.

Former captain Shoaib Malik is currently in Dubai for playing Bangladesh League and he is due to return in two or three days after which all the wedding programmes will be finalized.

Bigelow makes history as war drama wins Oscar

LOS ANGELES: Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman in the 82-year history of the Academy Awards to take the prize as her gritty Iraq War movie “The Hurt Locker” outshone “Avatar” after a nail-biting campaign season.

“The Hurt Locker” also took home the top prize, best picture, and four awards in other categories. “Avatar,” the 3D smash directed by Bigelow’s ex-husband, James Cameron, ended up with three awards, all in technical categories.

The acting races finished as expected and all four honorees took home the first statuettes of their careers.

Jeff Bridges won for his lead role as a drunken country singer who gets a shot at redemption in “Crazy Heart.” Sandra Bullock got the gold for playing a suburban mom who guides a homeless black teen to football stardom in “The Blind Side.”

In the supporting field, the prizes went to Austrian actor Christoph Waltz for the Nazi revenge fantasy “Inglourious Basterds,” and stand-up comic Mo’Nique for the dark urban drama “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire.”

The biggest shocks were in the adapted screenplay and foreign-language film categories. Geoffrey Fletcher became the first African-American to win the writing prize, for his work on “Precious.” The prize had been expected to go to “Up in the Air,” a six-time nominee that was snubbed.

The Argentine crime drama “The Secret in their Eyes” (El secreto de sus ojos) beat Germany’s “The White Ribbon” (Das weisse Band) and France’s “A Prophet” (Un prophete) to claim the country’s second prize in the field.

BITTERSWEET VICTORY

In voting for “The Hurt Locker,” Hollywood insiders clearly showed a preference for a relatively obscure movie that suffered a similar commercial fate as other films revolving around the Iraq War.

With North American ticket sales of about $15 million — about half of what “Avatar” earned in its first day — “The Hurt Locker” is one of the least-commercial best-picture Oscar winners ever.

The film, based on a story by journalist Mark Boal, follows an American bomb-disposal squad in Iraq. Boal won an Oscar for his original screenplay, and was also a producer, along with Bigelow, Greg Shapiro and French financier Nicolas Chartier.

The best-picture win was a bittersweet moment for Chartier, who was banned from the ceremony last week after breaking Oscar campaign rules by sending out an e-mail to voters.

Bigelow, 58, shot the film in the Jordanian desert in the middle of summer almost three years ago on a shoestring budget of $15 million. It marked her first movie since the costly 2002 submarine flop “K19: The Widowmaker.”

Only three other women had ever been nominated for the directing Oscar, most recently Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation” in 2004.

As Bigelow left the stage clutching her statuette, the orchestra played Helen Reddy’s feminist anthem “I Am Woman.” But the shy horse-lover has bristled at the “female filmmaker” tag, and her works are often showcases for strong male roles.

Even Cameron had predicted he would lose the directing race to Bigelow, with whom he has remained on good terms after the couple split in the early 1990s. But he had hoped to repeat the best-picture success he had 12 years ago with “Titanic.”

The race for the top Oscar thus pitted two ex-lovers against each other, with each claiming their film was the underdog: “The Hurt Locker” for obvious commercial reasons, and “Avatar” because sentiment largely seemed stacked against it.

Even though “Avatar” has made history with $2.6 billion in worldwide ticket sales and showcased Cameron’s bold moviemaking skills, Oscar voters traditionally ignore science-fiction. “Avatar” also lost some major races to “The Hurt Locker.”

Another new consideration this time saw organizers double the best picture field to 10 for the first time since 1943. The move was designed to bring more crowd-pleasing blockbusters and thereby arrest the event’s steadily declining ratings.

The voting rules accordingly changed for best picture, with a preferential system that favored consensus choices over more-divisive contenders.

All the acting winners were first-time nominees, except for Bridges. The 60-year-old scion of a Hollywood acting family had been nominated four times previously, dating back to 1972. “Crazy Heart” also won the Oscar for best song.

Bullock, 45, ran a close race with Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia.” It’s now been 27 years since 16-time nominee Streep won her second Oscar.

Waltz, 53, who played a Nazi with a twinkle in his eye, becomes the first actor to win an Oscar for a film directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Mo’Nique’s role as a abusive mother was a departure for the 42-year-old comedienne. But she has said she got into character after recalling the sexual abuse she suffered as a youngster.

The three-and-a-half-hour ceremony, hosted at the Kodak Theater by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, drew real-time brickbats from bloggers. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, “I don’t remember when I’ve seen a less exciting Oscarcast.”

My Life As Liz Season 2

My Life As Liz Season 2:My Life As Liz Finale – ‘My Life As Liz’ season 2 is apparently on the way so do not fear.MTV’s hottest reality show/scripted series ended this evening with an episode called “The End of the Beginning” which left the fans wondering will the show return for a new season.Viewers are even more confused seeing that Liz looked like she was about to leave her small town for a move to New York.Well rest assured ”My Life As Liz” has a big chance of being renewed for two reasons:

1- the series was extremely popular and has a very strong following.
2-there is an online petition looking to get over 10,000 signatures to make sure the show comes back to the network later this year.
That’s all we have for now on My Life As Liz Season 2.

Foyce Le Xuan

Foyce Le Xuan, Renowned Singaporean actor/director/producer Jack Neo started having sex with 22-year-old model Wendy Chong after knowing her for only one month, reported China Press.

Chong revealed this in a tell-all interview with Singapore’s Lianhe Wanbao.

“He sent me home one night after I visited him at his set (two years ago) and we ended up having sex in his car.”

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“There’s a curtain on his car window while the windows are tinted. So no one could see what we did inside.”

The model claimed that Neo was very particular about not leaving behind any evidence after sex.

“He’s very careful. He said we could not leave a single hair in the car and that the seats had to be readjusted to the original positions. He looked like he was very familiar with doing that. So I asked him whether he had done that many times before but he denied it.”

Diane Kruger Will not Marry Again till 50

LOS ANGELES: Inglourious Basterds” actress Diane Kruger won’t marry again until she is 50.
The 33-year-old who is dating former “Dawson’s Creek” star Joshua Jackson was previously married to Guillaume Canet for five years and says the end of their union taught her that getting wed isn’t necessarily meaningful for a successful relationship, reports contactmusic.

“I don’t think I’ll marry again. Because I’ve realised commitment is important and no matter what paper you’re going to sign, if that commitment ceases to be there, you’ll get out of the marriage anyway. You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say ‘for the rest of my life’,” she said.

Despite dating Jackson for almost four years, Diane admits they have never really discussed his views on marriage.

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