Teri Hatcher looks like she’s enjoying life post- ‘Desperate Housewives‘! Here she is at the Salzburg Festival. Teri had some fun with her wardrobe. She dressed up in a traditional Austrian Dirndl dress for the occasion.
The bodice of that dress looks very… fitted. Yet Teri is beaming away, so I assume she can breathe- LOL. She looks like she’s having a blast.
Picking a Hong Kong hotel can be daunting. There are 62,000 rooms in the city and counting.
The range is extreme. From the decadent to the downright disgraceful (windowless rooms for HK$80 -- US$10 -- a night), we've got it all.
A clutch of new boutique hotels in Hong Kong has managed to stand out from the crowd with attention to detail and buzz-worthy backstories.
Some of them haven't even opened yet.
There's converted colonial buildings, celebrity designers and an old public housing estate -- these are the Hong Kong hotels that have made it into power lunch small talk.
Bollywood actress Sherlyn Chopra will be the first Indian woman to grace the cover of Playboy in November.
Chopra contacted Playboy wanting to take it all off for the men’s magazine and Hugh Hefner accepted her request.
The Bollywood star’s nude spread is very controversial, given the fact that Playboy is banned in her native India, although her fans will be able to view her nude pictures online.
Sherlyn said of her Playboy cover, “I have become the first Indian to pose naked for Playboy and nobody can take away that achievement from me. My sister is proud of my achievement. I haven’t told anything to my mother, but I think I will visit her and tell her that she has to accept me the way I am.”
The 28-year-old star tweeted about her time with Hefner, writing, “Even at 87, he knows how to be an effortless charmer!!!”
India media commentator Gayatri Sankar compared Chopra’s choice to pose in Playboy to the sexual abuse and humiliation that some women face in India against their will.
Sankar wrote, “At a time when innocent women across the nation from Gujarat to Guwahati have been subjected to sexual abuse and humiliation, one wonders if Sherlyn Chopra’s pictures wound a woman’s integrity. Isn’t it an irony that on the one side, as common women strive hard to safeguard their modesty, the Sherlyn Chopras encourage voyeurism?”
Chopra defended her decision, telling BBC Hindi, “I have become the first Indian to pose naked for Playboy, and nobody can take away that achievement from me. It is not an easy task to be nude in front of the camera and look good at the same time.”
Raising Sand, from Led Zeppelin vet and bluegrass superstar, wins five Grammys on Sunday night. By James Montgomery with MTV News staff
<P>"I'm bewildered," <a href="/music/artist/plant_robert/artist.jhtml">Robert Plant</a> said onstage as he accepted the <MTVNLINK type="news" id="1604580">Grammy Album of the Year award</MTVNLINK> with <a href="/music/artist/krauss_alison/artist.jhtml">Alison Krauss</a> on Sunday night. "In the old days we would have called this selling out, but it's a good way to spend a Sunday."</P><P>He was probably one of the few who were surprised, because <i>Raising Sand,</i> which won five trophies at Sunday night's show, is in many ways the perfect <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/grammys/">Grammy</a> album. It features two respected veterans, a critically lauded producer, some sandpaper-and-velvet vocals and a baker's dozen of time-tested standards.</p><div style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left;"><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:338316" width="256" height="223" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="configParams=instance%3Dnews%26vid%3D338316" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed></div><p></P><P>You're probably familiar with Robert Plant from his <a href="/music/artist/led_zeppelin/artist.jhtml">Led Zeppelin</a> days, and you might be aware of producer T-Bone Burnett's work on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack (it won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002). And if you don't know who Alison Krauss is, she possesses a haunting set of pipes and is one of the meanest fiddle players in the world. Oh, and she's won 21 Grammys, more than any other female artist and the seventh-most in history.</P><P>Really, she's the key to <i>Sand</i>'s success, and not just because of her voice (or her fiddle playing). She and Plant first met in 2004, at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to legendary bluesman Leadbelly, and the former Zeppelin man was amazed by her knowledge of American Roots music — so much so that they began kicking around the idea of recording an album together. Three years later, <i>Sand</i> was released.</P><P>And while Plant possesses the more famous voice, the album's finest moments radiate from Krauss. Whether she's getting bluesy on Little Milton's "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson" or entwining with Plant's husky voice on songs like "Please Read the Letter" and Roly Salley's winsome "Killing the Blues," she more than carries her end of the bargain.</P><P>And perhaps that's also due to producer Burnett, who handpicked the 13 songs the duo cover on <i>Sand.</i> His arrangements are sparse — giving the two voices ample room to breathe — yet dense, warm and crackling at the same time. It's a testament to his work that he's often given just as much billing as Plant and Krauss on the project ... and it's certainly justified.</P><P>To date, <i>Sand</i> has sold more than 1 million copies, heaped tons of acclaim and actually earned a Grammy last year — "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" took home the award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.</P><P>One expert was surprised not by the album's success, but by the fact that it's actually quite a good album.</P><P>"At first, the album seemed like a vanity project. ... Two names, clearly a one-off record, didn't have to be any good, you know?" <i>New York Times</i> music critic Jon Caramanica said. "Led Zeppelin fans would buy it because of Robert Plant, Alison Krauss would get a check. But it actually turned out to be a really thoughtful, really <i>good</i> record. So when you combine all that with the fact that the Grammys love to lionize one of their own, I could really see it taking home some awards." </p>
A photo of Kim Kardashian’s playboy photoshoot has been leaked. The photoshoot wasn’t supposed to appear to viewers until December. It is rumored that this will be the biggest playboy spread ever…..
Comedian Dane Cook might need to ask himself…too soon?
The funnyman now regrets making a cruel joke about the horrific shooting at the Colorado theater on July 20 during the premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises”.
Cook, 40, took to Twitter to express his remorse and to apologize for his insensitive remarks.
“I am devastated by the recent tragedy in Colorado & did not mean to make light of what happened. I made a bad judgment call with my material last night & regret making a joke at such a sensitive time,” Dane said. “My heart goes out to all of the families & friends of the victims.”
Cook made the joke at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 26.
The comedian said, “So I heard that the guy came into the theater about 25 minutes into the movie. And I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie, but the movie is pretty much a piece of s***.”
“Yeah, spoiler alert,” he said. “I know that if none of that would have happened, pretty sure that somebody in that theater, about 25 minutes in, realizing it was a piece of s***, was probably like, ‘Ugh f***ing shoot me’.”
