It's an interesting, even if borrowed, idea. And there's some clever writing, involving Nano (Omi Vaidya, trying very hard to recapture the glory of 3 Idiots, including reading a wrong speech in disguise at Baba Kaamdev) but it's a mess. Madhavan is Sid and Bipasha is Sonali and together they use their wits to help couples divorce. But then there's a twist involving Madhavan's ex wife and Milind Soman's millionaire businessman. Soman as Mark and Dipannita as Maggie make a cool couple especially when wearing lovely linens and flowing gowns (that's Soman wearing the linens and Dipannita wearing the gowns).
But there's just too much philosophizing about romance involving copious amounts of champagne being drunk. It falls flat especially when the protagonists return to Mumbai and then go off to Goa where poor old Helen is wheeled out to resolve a crisis. Now I adore Helen but really we'd like to remember our icons at their best, wearing feathery boas and fringed skirts. Some hospital visits ensue and there's a nasty little turn involving Mrinalini Sharma as an evil wealth-obsessed woman. But by then Madhavan's weight had done me in. I had given up concentrating.
Which is a pity. Bipasha has never looked so radiant and her acting has never been as spontaneous. The break-up seems to suit her. Madhavan is one of our most talented actors. Omi Vaidya really has to find a new gag for himself. Avoid. Watch the Oscar nominees instead. I recommend The Artist. Uggie, the dog, will break your heart. In the best possible way
Turkey officially requested acquisition of six MQ-1 and MQ-6 Predator drones from the U.S. in mid-2009 but the request faced opposition from the U.S. Congress over Ankara’s policies regarding Iran and Israel.
“Our interest in acquiring Predator drones is known,” a Turkish diplomatic source told the Hürriyet Daily News on Sunday, without giving details of the content of the negotiations between the two allies.
According to the Washington Post, Washington is still considering Turkey’s request to base a fleet of drones on Turkish soil. Citing an unnamed senior military official, the Post said the Obama administration has not made a decision on the Turkish request.
Turkey officially requested acquisition of six MQ-1 and MQ-6 Predator drones from the U.S. in mid-2009 but the request faced opposition from the U.S. Congress over Ankara’s policies regarding Iran and Israel. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan raised the issue during a meeting with U.S. President Barak Obama during a meeting in Canada in 2010 but what he heard about was congress’s negative attitude toward Turkey.
The U.S. military has flown the unarmed Predators from Iraqi bases since 2007 and shared the planes’ surveillance video with Turkey as part of a secretive joint crackdown on the PKK. Unless a new home for the Predators is found, however, the counterterrorism partnership could cease by Dec. 31, when all U.S. forces are scheduled to withdraw from Iraq.
Turkey asked the Obama administration this year to relocate the Predators to Incirlik Air Base, a joint U.S.-Turkish military installation, according to a senior U.S. military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks have not been made public. “They want to base them in Turkey and allow us to fly them across the border into Iraq,” the official said.
It’s unclear whether U.S. or Turkish officials are seeking formal permission from Iraq to continue the drone flights, or whether Baghdad would simply turn a blind eye to the Predators when they cross into northern Iraq.
If Iraq objected to the drone flights as a violation of its sovereignty, the unmanned aircraft could hover in Turkish airspace and use cameras to peer miles across the border. There is little to prevent the Predators from making incursions, however; Iraq has only a fledgling air force to patrol its skies.
U.S. military officials favor the drone agreement with Turkey as a way to prevent conflict with the PKK from spiraling out of control. They say U.S. cooperation has restrained Turkey from launching bigger offensives into northern Iraq to try to wipe out the PKK
President Barack Obama discussing his efforts to create jobs and strengthen the economy
WASHINGTON - The economy weak and the public seething, President Barack Obama is expected to propose $300 billion in tax cuts and federal spending Thursday night to get Americans working again. Republicans offered Tuesday to compromise with him on jobs - but also assailed his plans in advance of his prime-time speech.
In effect, Obama will be hitting cleanup on a shortened holiday week, with Republican White House contender Mitt Romney releasing his jobs proposals on Tuesday and front-running Texas Gov. Rick Perry hoping to join his presidential rivals Wednesday evening on a nationally televised debate stage for the first time.
Lawmakers began returning to the Capitol to tackle legislation on jobs and federal deficits in an unforgiving political season spiced by the 2012 presidential campaign.
Adding to the mix: A bipartisan congressional committee is slated to hold its first public meeting on Thursday as it embarks on a quest for deficit cuts of $1.2 trillion or more over a decade. If there is no agreement, automatic spending cuts will take effect, a prospect that lawmakers in both parties have said they would like to avoid.
According to people familiar with the White House deliberations, two of the biggest measures in the president's proposals for 2012 are expected to be a one-year extension of a payroll tax cut for workers and an extension of expiring jobless benefits. Together those two would total about $170 billion.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan was still being finalized and some proposals could still be subject to change.
The White House is also considering a tax credit for businesses that hire the unemployed. That could cost about $30 billion. Obama has also called for public works projects, such as school construction. Advocates of that plan have called for spending of $50 billion, but the White House proposal is expected to be smaller.
Obama also is expected to continue for one year a tax break for businesses that allows them to deduct the full value of new equipment. The president and Congress negotiated that provision into law for 2011 last December.
Though Obama has said he intends to propose long-term deficit reduction measures to cover the up-front costs of his jobs plan, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Obama would not lay out a wholesale deficit reduction plan in his speech.
In a letter to Obama on Tuesday, House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor outlined possible areas for compromise on jobs legislation. Separately, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last month's unemployment report - it showed a painfully persistent 9.1 percent jobless rate and no net gain of jobs - "should be a wakeup call to every member of Congress."
Whatever the potential for eventual compromise on the issue at the top of the public's agenda, the finger pointing was already under way.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell predicted Obama's Thursday night speech to Congress on jobs legislation would include "more of the same failed approach that's only made things worse over the past few years."
He spoke a few moments after Reid had said that Republicans, rather than working with Democrats to create job-creating legislation, insist on "reckless cuts to hurt our economic recovery."
The Senate returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday after an August recess. The House comes back Wednesday.
Left largely ignored in the latest political remarks was a remarkable run of late-summer polls that show the country souring on Obama's performance - and on Congress' even more.
A Washington Post-ABC survey released Monday found that 60 percent of those polled expressed disapproval of Obama's handling of the economy. Thirty-four percent said his proposals were making the situation worse and 47 percent said they were having no effect - dismal soundings for a president headed into a re-election campaign.
Only 19 percent said the country was moving in the right direction.
Not that Republicans, or Congress as a whole, are in good odor with the voters.
The Post-ABC News poll found only 28 percent approval for the job the Republicans are doing, and 68 percent disapproval.
An AP-GfK survey last month put overall support for Congress at 12 percent - the lowest level ever in the survey's history.
The tea party has also been hurt, according to the same poll, which found that 32 percent of those surveyed have a deeply unfavorable impression of the movement that helped give Republicans control of the House in the 2010 elections.
In their letter to Obama, Boehner and Cantor wrote that neither party would win all it wants from the coming debate over jobs legislation. "We should not approach this as an all-or-nothing situation," they said, striking a conciliatory tone in the first moments of a post-summer session of Congress.
But it was unclear what, if any, concessions they were prepared to make.
"We are not opposed to initiatives to repair and improve infrastructure," they wrote, saying they favor repeal of a current requirement for 10 percent of highway funds to be spent on items such as museums or bike trails.
But they did not say they would support any additional funding for construction, and aides declined to provide any additional details.
Boehner and Cantor also said the House was ready to pass free trade agreements negotiated with Colombia, Panama and South Korea measures, which they noted the White House estimates would create 250,000 jobs.
The administration wants the trade deals approved simultaneously with legislation to provide job training and other benefits for workers who lose their job to imports, and the letter from the Republican leaders promised they would consider such measures rather than pledging to pass them.
There was maneuvering on another front during the day.
Democrats won approval in a Senate subcommittee for legislation adding $6 billion in spending to pay victims of Hurricane Irene and past disasters dating to Hurricane Katrina, including $4 billion for the 2012 budget year.
Republicans did not object, even though the legislation did not include other cuts to offset the cost and the new spending would exceed levels permitted in a sweeping compromise passed last month to cut future deficits by nearly $1 trillion over a decade.
It is unclear when the measure will come to the Senate floor, and whether Republicans will attempt to offset the increase when it does.
In comments in recent weeks, Cantor has said any increase must be offset.
For his part, Romney chose Nevada, where unemployment stood at a nationwide high of 12.9 percent in July, for a campaign speech in which he outlined numerous proposals to create jobs.
He called for lowering the maximum corporate tax from 35 percent to 25 percent and abolishing the tax on dividends and investment earnings for anyone making less than $200,000 a year. He also said any new government regulation that raises costs for businesses should be accompanied by other steps to reduce the burden by an identical amount.
"America should be a job machine, jobs being created all the time," he said.
The elements Romney outlined - lower taxes and less regulation - are the same as those advanced by Republicans in Congress.
McConnell said Republicans "will spend the next weeks and months arguing in favor of a robust legislation agenda aimed at blocking or repealing some of the most pernicious rules and regulations."
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A wounded Palestinian man receives medical care at a hospital in Gaza following strikes by Israeli warplanes.
On Wednesday, an air strike on a tunnel between Rafa and Egypt left three people seriously wounded, the sources said.
The Israel Defense Forces said that an Israeli warplane hit an Islamic Jihad militant from the city of Rafa who was involved in smuggling weapons "and sought the execution of terrorist activity in Sinai."
The victim had operated with Gaza elements who had recently tried to carry out an attack in Sinai, on Israel's border with Egypt, it added.
Hamas security and medical sources reported a strike in Rafa in which one man was killed and three others were wounded, two of them critically, when their Jeep was struck.
The four men were members of Islamic Jihad, sources with the Palestinian militant group said.
In response, Islamic Jihad said Wednesday night that its members had fired about 10 rockets from Gaza into southern Israel. There was no immediate report of casualties.
The IDF said in a news release that it fired Wednesday night at a "terrorist squad" that had fired rockets into southern Israel. "A hit was confirmed," it said.
On Wednesday morning, the IDF reported that two people who had fired rockets at Israel from separate locations in northern Gaza were hit moments afterward by an Israeli aircraft.
The flare-up between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza came following an attack carried out by Palestinian militants last Thursday near the southern city of Eilat, which killed eight Israelis. Another Israeli was killed by a rocket attack near the city of Beer Sheva in southern Israel.
"The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers, and will respond with determination to any attempt to use terror against the State of Israel," the IDF news release said.
The U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Richard Serry, issued a statement Sunday saying he "remains worried about the continuing tensions in particular the escalation of violence in Gaza and Southern Israel." He called for a return to calm and said "the United Nations is actively engaged and supporting Egypt's important efforts in this regard," a reference to Egypt's attempt to better control the Sinai.
he slate of images from Warner Bros. last week, I was surprised that there wasn't a single shot from J. Edgar. As one of their biggest films due out this Winter, it was a bit curious that they didn't choose to promote it with at least a single shot. Well, today Warner Bros. rectified the shortcoming with two shots of Leonardo DiCaprio in character as J. Edgar Hoover in the Clint Eastwood directed movie about the first director of the FBI. Sadly, these shots don't provide much insight into the highly anticipated film, especially whether the story will dip into the alleged sordid personal life of J. Edgar.Now, a first look of Leonardo DiCaprio in drag would have certainly set the Internets aflame with speculation and wonder. Instead, we are left to wonder until November 9 as to what part, if any, Hoover's personal life will play into the movie.
Warner Bros. also released new images from Happy Feet Two and New Year's Eve today.
Today, via the movie's official site, Warner Bros. released the first official picture of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises. What's most interesting about the picture is that it features Hathaway riding the Batpod.
Obviously, I'm not a huge comics guy and Tim is a loyal Marvelite, so I'll offer my meager speculation on this image, but I implore you to educate me if you're a more devoted fan. I do know that the relationship between Batman and Catwoman is complicated and not as black and white as say the Joker's relationship with Batman.
There have been hints and downright admissions for romantic feelings between the two and with the death of Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, it seems like a good time to explore that side of their adversarial relationship. So that begs the question, is Selina Kyle simply borrowing her "boyfriend's" ride or did she steal the Batpod?
Most people on the 'Net are jumping to the conclusion that this is a shot of Catwoman and nitpicking over the costume, but I'm not completely sold. Warner Bros. has named the file "selina_kyle.jpg" and while yes, Anne Hathaway is wearing a leather body suit, wouldn't she also simply wear a similar outfit to ride a motorcycle/Batpod?
What is missing from the costume could also be telling. There's no sign of Catwoman's tell-tale cat ears. Now, that is far from damning as we all know that Christopher Nolan has played with convention in this series of films to create his own take on the Rougues' looks. The goggles are a nice touch and as I understand it, they are a key element of one of Catwoman's latest incarnations in the comics.
This next part might contain spoilers, so skip this paragraph if you want to remain completely pure. The leaked photos online show Selina Kyle (most likely a stunt woman) riding the Batpod down steps in front of a building like a courthouse or bank. Regardless, it seems that The Dark Knight Rises is going to focus on the cat burglar angle of Catwoman.
Regardless, the image has accomplished its goal, there is very little else that people are talking about online today. You can click on the image below for a higher resolution shot.
The Dark Knight Rises is set to debut in theaters on July 20, 2012. Let us know what you think of the first show of Catwoman Warner Bros. has had a busy week releasing images from their comic book properties, so it comes as no surprise that they would end the week with another one, right? To be honest, I was a bit shocked that they didn't hold this one back for a while longer, but after pictures were leaked from the set of The Dark Knight Rises of what appears to be a stunt woman riding the Batpod, the cat was out of the bag - literally.
Today, via the movie's official site, Warner Bros. released the first official picture of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises. What's most interesting about the picture is that it features Hathaway riding the Batpod.
Obviously, I'm not a huge comics guy and Tim is a loyal Marvelite, so I'll offer my meager speculation on this image, but I implore you to educate me if you're a more devoted fan. I do know that the relationship between Batman and Catwoman is complicated and not as black and white as say the Joker's relationship with Batman.
There have been hints and downright admissions for romantic feelings between the two and with the death of Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight, it seems like a good time to explore that side of their adversarial relationship. So that begs the question, is Selina Kyle simply borrowing her "boyfriend's" ride or did she steal the Batpod?
Most people on the 'Net are jumping to the conclusion that this is a shot of Catwoman and nitpicking over the costume, but I'm not completely sold. Warner Bros. has named the file "selina_kyle.jpg" and while yes, Anne Hathaway is wearing a leather body suit, wouldn't she also simply wear a similar outfit to ride a motorcycle/Batpod?
What is missing from the costume could also be telling. There's no sign of Catwoman's tell-tale cat ears. Now, that is far from damning as we all know that Christopher Nolan has played with convention in this series of films to create his own take on the Rougues' looks. The goggles are a nice touch and as I understand it, they are a key element of one of Catwoman's latest incarnations in the comics.
This next part might contain spoilers, so skip this paragraph if you want to remain completely pure. The leaked photos online show Selina Kyle (most likely a stunt woman) riding the Batpod down steps in front of a building like a courthouse or bank. Regardless, it seems that The Dark Knight Rises is going to focus on the cat burglar angle of Catwoman.
Regardless, the image has accomplished its goal, there is very little else that people are talking about online today. You can click on the image below for a higher resolution shot.
The Dark Knight Rises is set to debut in theaters on July 20, 2012. Let us know what you think of the first show of Catwoman
'Harold & Kumar' crushes it in first 'Christmas' trailer
It's August and it's sweltering outside. No matter where you live, I'm going to guess that the last thing from your mind right now is Christmas.
Allow me to change that.
Below, I present the first trailer from A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas thanks to Yahoo! Movies and you'll be singing Christmas carols before you know it. Or should I say A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.
Yes, in case you missed it last year, we reported how this seemingly odd fit for 3D was indeed filming in 3D. Anyone who has been around this site for awhile can attest that I despise 3D with a passion and in the 14 months since this movie started filming the whole 3D craze has calmed down considerably, but I'm actually pretty stoked to see this in 3D.
I will let you experience the trailer for yourself and not spoil anything, but I've seen it five times and counting now and it just gets better. Sure, there's plenty of "3D gags" in there, but that's the point. They actually point out the absurdity of it at one point and I'm sure that the actual movie will contain even more.
Obviously John Cho and Kal Penn reprise their iconic characters from the first two movies, but the real centerpiece of the trailer is Neil Patrick Harris, who also returns to the series playing himself as he did in the previous two movies. This is particularly challenging as he has always played a machismo, womanizing version of himself and since the filming of Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo, NPH's homosexuality became widespread public knowledge.
So, the question was would Harold & Kumar address it or simply let it remain the elephant in the room? I won't spoil it, but the trailer does a hilarious job of answering that question.
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas debuts in theaters on November 4, 2011. Let us know what your favorite part of the trailer is
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