Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan, son of the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, are planning to wed and astrologers say they are a perfect match, media reports said yesterday.
A member of the Bachchan household had sent the horoscopes of the two stars to a leading astrologer, who advised that the couple should marry at the earliest, the Times of India newspaper said.
The families of Rai, a former Miss World, and Bachchan have remained tight-lipped about the reports, including claims the stars started dating three months ago during the shooting of their upcoming film Umrao Jaan.
Trade watchers said that a marriage could severely affect the Bollywood career of the 32-year-old Rai, who has three big films riding on her.
"I doubt if Aishwarya will marry this year. If she does marry, her market value will most certainly diminish," trade expert Amod Mehra was quoted as saying by the Times of India.
Pop star Britney Spears said on Thursday she "made a mistake" by driving a car with her infant son in her lap, but the agency that photographed the incident denied her claim that paparazzi were hounding her. Spears has said a "frightful" encounter with "physically aggressive" photographers on Monday outside a coffee shop prompted her to pull out of the parking lot without first strapping her five-month-old baby, Sean, back into his car seat.
Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Alan J. Shalleck, 76, who co-wrote Curious George books and helped bring the very curious little monkey to television. Rex Spears Ditto, 29, and Vincent Puglisi, 54, were arrested shortly before midnight on Wednesday and confessed to a home invasion, murder and robbery of Shalleck, Sargent Gladys Cannon of the Boynton Beach police said on Thursday.
Actor Tom Sizemore admitted on Thursday taking methamphe-tamine in breach of probation for a drug conviction, but a judge ordered the tearful performer back into residential drug treatment rather than send him to jail.
Capping a hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court that stretched over two weeks, the presiding judge placed him on probation and released the actor on his own recognizance.
A court commissioner issued a restraining order against celebrity debutante Paris Hilton, ordering her to stay away from an event producer who claimed she threatened and harassed him.
Superior Court Commissioner Tim Murphy approved the restraining order after Brian Quintana, 37, testified that Hilton, 24, shoved him on at least three occasions and badmouthed him.
Quintana testified that he met Hilton a few years ago on the Hollywood party circuit and they had a social relationship. He said that he became friends with Stavros Niarchos III, introduced him to Hilton and the two started dating.
Quintana said his relationship with Hilton started souring after she interrupted a conversation in which Quintana was urging Niarchos to reconsider dating her.
Quintana filed both a police report and a request for a restraining order Dec. 29.
``I have received numerous calls (from Hilton) threatening my life,'' he stated at the time.
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc on Thursday said it signed a three-year, US$55 million deal with Oprah Winfrey to introduce a channel on the top US subscription radio service, sending shares up as much as 10 percent. The new channel, called Oprah and Friends, is scheduled to launch in September and will include a weekly show hosted by Oprah, as well as programs featuring other personalities from her popular nationally syndicated TV talk show.
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