Witherspoon dedicates Oscar to those boys

     Washington: 'Walk The Line' star Reese Witherspoon, who walked away with the Oscar for the Best Actress at the recently held ceremony, thumbed her nose at all the ex boyfriends for dumping her, by dedicating her Oscar to them. The stunning actress, who went through a series of bad relationships before marrying her 'Cruel Intentions' co-star Ryan Phillippe, said that winning the Academy Award was a dream come true, for she could now make true her fantasy of going up on stage to showing her exes just what they had given up on. "Every time I got dumped, I always fantasised that one day he would be sorry - and I would go on stage and tell him what I thought. So for all the boys who ever dumped me, this is for you," Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.

Mariah puts her thighs to reality test (Go To Top)

     New York: Multi Grammy Award winning singer Mariah Carey is apparently so sick of people telling her that she's fat, that she offered to let people touch her butt and thighs to see that her 'fat' was in fact toned 'muscle'. Carey was at Soho House in L.A., where Mike DeLuca, Rick Yorn and Patrick Whitesell were hosting their annual 'after-after party' for Hollywood superstars to relax after the Vanity Fair bash, when she decided to set the record straight by offering to give people a feel of her toned body. "Everyone said I was fat, so I did something about it. Here! Feel my thighs! Feel my butt!" the New York Post quoted her, as saying. "See? I'll never be a stick woman, but now I'm fierce!" she added.

Shaft director Gordon Parks dies at 93 (Go To Top)

      Washington: Gordon Parks, the legendary black photographer and filmmaker who explored the African-American experience in his work, including landmark movies "The Learning Tree" and "Shaft," died on Tuesday in New York. He was 93. Born in Nov. 30, 1912 at Fort Scott, Kansas, Parks was orphaned by age 15 and grew up homeless. He worked a variety of menial jobs before taking up photography in the late 1930s. He joined "Life" magazine in the late 1940s and became its first black staff photographer. He also worked at several government jobs as a photographer and was a correspondent for the U.S. Office of War Information during World War Two. After the war, he served for a stint as a fashion photographer for Vogue magazine. He was inspired to pursue a life in pictures in his mid-20s upon seeing a newsreel of the 1937 Japanese naval attack on the USS Panay. Parks forayed into pictures with The Learning Tree, based on his autobiographical novel of coming of age in the Midwest. A Warner Brothers release, The Learning Tree made Parks, in the '69 parlance, "the first Negro to direct a major Hollywood feature." Parks became a bankable director two years later with Shaft. Starring Richard Roundtree and featuring Isaac Hayes' signature music, the detective drama was made for $1.1 million, and made $12.1 million, per the Internet Movie Database.

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