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Demi, Ashton sell wedding pics to help Katrina victims (Go To Top)

     London: Hollywood stars Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, who tied the knot last week at Beverly Hills, have reportedly sold their weddings pictures to OK! magazine to help victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. According to femalefirst quoting the New York Daily News, the celebrity couple, who have so far kept details of their marriage secret, are also set to give an exclusive interview to the publication for three million dollars. Sources said that the two would donate their huge fee to the Habitat for Humanity charity, which will benefit victims of Katrina and Rita. While spokesperson for Demi and Ashton refused to confirm the deal, OK's editor-in-chief, Sarah Ivens, said that all deals are kept confidential until the magazine is published.

Leno's bike raises $505,100 for Katrina victims (Go To Top)

     Washington: A motorbike signed by Hollywood big shots Arnold Schwarzenegger, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner, Pamela Anderson and many others, has raised 505,100 dollars for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The bike, which was up for grabs on online auction site eBay, was donated by comedian Jay Leno, who announced the winning total during the taping of his 'Tonight Show'. Leno, however, refused to reveal identity of the buyer, and said that it would be revealed when the bidder collects the bike on his show. For the past four weeks, 'Tonight Show' guests and have been autographing the Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Ninety-five percent of the winning bid will be donated to the American Red Cross for Katrina relief efforts.

Hurley's 'Bedazzled' voted worst film of all times (Go To Top)

     London: Liz Hurley's film 'Bedazzled' has been voted the worst film of all time in a new online poll by website Daily Mail. 'Bedazzled', where Hurley plays the devil, who helps a bumbling computer nerd woo his dream girl, is followed by 2003 movie 'Gigli', starring Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Guy Ritchie's 'Revolver', Halle Berry's 'Catwoman' and Britney Spears' 'Crossroads', got the third, fourth and fifth places respectively. Top five worst films of all time are: 1. Bedazzled 2. Gigli 3. Revolver 4. Catwoman 5. Crossroads

Britons circumnavigate world 16 times in their life time (Go To Top)

     London: Ever wondered why David Livingstone and Caption Cook, all famous explorers were British! Well, a recent survey has revealed that Bristons travel 389,617 miles in a lifetime going on holidays, which is equivalent to 16 journeys around the world. The research by Eurocamp revealed that one long holiday a year, and two weekend breaks is the usual norm followed by the Bristishers, reports the Sun. Spain still happens to be their favourite destination, but Australia is the place most of them dream about visiting.

Americans devote their maximum time to media (Go To Top)

     Washington: A new study by Ball State University researchers has shown that the average American spends more time using media devices - television, radio, iPods and cell phones - than any other activity while awake. The Middletown Media Studies 2 (MMS2) also found participants are adept at managing their use of two or more types of media at the same time. "As a society, we are consumers of media. The average person spends about nine hours a day using some type of media, which is arguably in excess of anything we would have envisioned 10 years ago," said researcher Robert Papper. Research team members spent several months shadowing about 400 people - collecting and analyzing data on 5,000 hours of media use - in Muncie and Indianapolis. Recording information every 15 seconds, researchers measured participants' use of 15 media including television, books, magazines, cell phones, the Internet, instant messaging, e-mail and radio. The subjects in the study were ordinary people, and not a group of media sophisticates who define themselves by the use of the latest media gadgets.

     Key findings of the research include: About 30 percent of the observed waking day was spent with media as the sole activity versus 20.8 percent for work activity, while an additional 39 percent of the day was spent with media while involved in some other activity. In any given hour no less than 30 percent of those studied were engaged in some way with television, and in some hours of the day that figure rose to 70 percent. While television is still by far the dominant medium in terms of the time average Americans spend daily with media at 240.9 minutes, the computer has emerged as the second most significant media device at about 120 minutes. About 30 percent of all media time is spent exposed to more than one medium at a time. People ages 18 to 24 spend less time online than any other age group except those older than 65. Levels of concurrent media exposure were higher among those 40 to 65 than people 18 to 39 Women spend more time multitasking with two or more types of media than men. Use of the Web, e-mail and phones is substantially higher on Fridays than any other day of the week. "Television is still the 800-pound gorilla because of how much the average person is exposed to it. However, that is quickly evolving. When we combine time spent on the Web, using e-mail, instant messaging and software such as word processing, the computer eclipses all other media with the single exception of television," Papper said. "The introduction of the computer into the workplace also has created a whole class of multitaskers. We thought young people would be better at multitasking, but computers have forced older workers to do more than one thing at a time to survive in the workplace," he said.