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 BP held its annual meeting on last
week, and, all things considered,
the company's shareholders had
much to be happy about. Yes, a
small percentage voted against
the $6.8 million pay package that the
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SARAH PALIN! |
 SATURDAY Night Live writers
have devastatingly lampooned
Mitt Romney as a corny, coreless
candidate who evokes an
'Eh, I guess' response in voters. Now
they're worried that we're heading,
comedy ... |
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ride to theatre
TO hear Christina Ricci tell it, she spent
all of 2010 half-paralysed with stage
fright. A professional film actor since she
was 9, Ricci waited two decades to
attempt her first stage role, replacing
Alicia Silverstone in Donald Margulies´ Time
Stands Still on Broadway ...
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early planting |
 I´VE been so caught up in the locavore
craze, I didn´t plant enough
flowers last summer. (If you can´t
eat it, why bother?)
"You´re not cutting my sunflowers
are you?" asked my partner, Rock, last
August, when I took a few that had
grown by themselves for a vase.
"They´re not yours, they´re volunteers,"
I said.
"See if they can start the mower!" he
said.
"Ha ha," I said. (Volunteer means
self-seeded plant.)
"I must have been dreaming," he
said. "I could swear some woman was
rhapsodising about all the amazing
sunflowers we were going to have." (I
plant. Rock weeds. And shoots the
groundhogs. And fixes the ancient
lawnmower.)
Before we got vegetable fever, we ... | | | Stars come out in rain
to party in Coachella |
 IT might have not been the best weather forecast for
the festival but that didn´t stop plenty of stars from
heading to Coachella. Kate Bosworth, Katy Perry,
Paris Hilton, and Emma Roberts all braved the
rain on Saturday to party in and around the threeday
Valley Music and Arts Festival in Palm Springs.
Checking out her favourite band with her favourite
man, Kate Bosworth and her director beau Michael
Polish were looking very cozy as they listened to the
Arctic Monkeys at the Coachella stage. The 29-year-old
actress included the band´s song Fluorescent Adolescent
on the ultimate Coachella playlist she compiled for
Refinery29.
The blonde fashionista ... | | | Wedding
woes for
Veena Malik |  THE decision taken by the
US Based Turner
Broadcasting System, a
Time Warner company,
to shut its Hindi general
entertainment channel Imagine
TV in the subcontinent came as
shock to most.
Sources in the company say that
not all employees were aware of it
till the news was broken to them.
Apart from the disgruntled viewers
and distraught employees, the
channel has also put Veena
Malik´s marriage plans in jeopardy.
The Pakistani firebrand
who took over Indian
reality television with
her outrageous ways
and high heels, had
decided to get married
on TV following the
ancient Indian custom
of Swayamvar on a
show titled the same.
Once, the lady let ... | |
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