How Lo can you go?
Just don't call her J Lo anymore. That's the word from singing and acting star Jennifer Lopez, who has become so sick of her ubiquitous nickname that she almost named her upcoming album Call Me Jennifer, according to news reports.
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"I'm not J Lo; she's not a real person," Lopez was quoted as saying. "She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer.
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"I was going to call the album Call Me Jennifer because that would be my way of saying goodbye to the whole J Lo thing. But Rebirth is perfect because it means so much more."
Witness fingers Blake
Actor Robert Blake's behavior seemed unnatural on the night his wife was shot to death, a witness testified at the Baretta star's murder trial on Tuesday. Taking the witness stand to begin the second week of Blake's trial, hospital administrator Mary Beth Rennie said Blake pleaded loudly for help after the May 4, 2001, shooting outside a Los Angeles restaurant but would not go near his dying wife.
Jude Law breaks hearts
British actor and womens' favorite Jude Law has become engaged to actress Sienna Miller after proposing to her on Christmas Day, The Sun newspaper reported yesterday. "It's true they are engaged," a spokeswoman for the couple told The Sun.'Jude has bought Sienna a big cluster diamond ring.
Shock-jock Stern off the air
Citadel Broadcasting Corp yanked Howard Stern from four stations this week and may never resume the show due to tensions over the controversial radio host's tendency to tout his upcoming move to satellite radio. Stern plans to leave terrestrial radio in 2006 when he moves his ribald show to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.
Bad taste reality show shelved
Amid a chorus of protests from child-adoption advocates and sneers from critics, the general reaction of viewers to the controversial Fox special Who's Your Daddy? seemed to be "Who Cares?" The tear-soaked 90-minute special, featuring an attractive young woman picking her biological father from a lineup filled out with impostors, proved to be a ratings flop, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research.
Christo loves New York
Love it or hate it, you won't be able to miss the 7,500 saffron-colored "gates" being installed in New York's Central Park by the artist Christo in one of the biggest art projects ever attempted in the city. And if you want meaning, the artist's wife says there is none to the 'good for nothing' art.
Comic master Eisner dies
Will Eisner, a master of American comics and a pioneer of the graphic novel who gave his name to the comic industry's equivalent of the Oscars, has died at age 87, his publisher said on Tuesday. Eisner died in Florida on Monday from complications following quadruple-bypass surgery.
`Pimp' daddy unrepentant
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel cannot sue a Web site that published a photo of him with two women above a caption reading: "You're never too old to be a pimp," a US appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The term pimp was probably intended as a compliment, the court said. But Knievel said, "What good is law in the United States of America if five or six goddamn bimbos are going to rule against it?"
India's Rai skirts screen sex
Aishwarya Rai, one of the top stars of India's prim film industry, says in a television interview to be aired this Sunday she won't rule out kissing in films when she moves from Bollywood to Hollywood -- although she says it is certain to create a minor scandal among her fans. In an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes, Rai, recently named by a British magazine as the world's most beautiful woman, danced around the subject of screen sex, which is banned in India and many other countries where her films play.
Last week Joseph Nye, the well-known China scholar, wrote on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s website about how war over Taiwan might be averted. He noted that years ago he was on a team that met with then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), “whose previous ‘unofficial’ visit to the US had caused a crisis in which China fired missiles into the sea and the US deployed carriers off the coast of Taiwan.” Yes, that’s right, mighty Chen caused that crisis all by himself. Neither the US nor the People’s Republic of China (PRC) exercised any agency. Nye then nostalgically invoked the comical specter
Relations between Taiwan and the Czech Republic have flourished in recent years. However, not everyone is pleased about the growing friendship between the two countries. Last month, an incident involving a Chinese diplomat tailing the car of vice president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) in Prague, drew public attention to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) operations to undermine Taiwan overseas. The trip was not Hsiao’s first visit to the Central European country. It was meant to be low-key, a chance to meet with local academics and politicians, until her police escort noticed a car was tailing her through the Czech capital. The
April 15 to April 21 Yang Kui (楊逵) was horrified as he drove past trucks, oxcarts and trolleys loaded with coffins on his way to Tuntzechiao (屯子腳), which he heard had been completely destroyed. The friend he came to check on was safe, but most residents were suffering in the town hit the hardest by the 7.1-magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake on April 21, 1935. It remains the deadliest in Taiwan’s recorded history, claiming around 3,300 lives and injuring nearly 12,000. The disaster completely flattened roughly 18,000 houses and damaged countless more. The social activist and
Over the course of former President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) 11-day trip to China that included a meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) a surprising number of people commented that the former president was now “irrelevant.” Upon reflection, it became apparent that these comments were coming from pro-Taiwan, pan-green supporters and they were expressing what they hoped was the case, rather than the reality. Ma’s ideology is so pro-China (read: deep blue) and controversial that many in his own Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) hope he retires quickly, or at least refrains from speaking on some subjects. Regardless