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ARTS Sunday, 10 November, 2013
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FAWAD, SONAM’S LEADING MAN IN ‘KHOOBSURAT’
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ANDSOME, debonair and talented. That’s how the people who’ve watched Fawad Khan in Pak teleserials or movies would describe him. Now, the actor is bound for Bollywood. Buzz is that Fawad Khan has been roped in as the leading man opposite Sonam Kapoor in the Hindi remake of the 1980 Hrishikesh Mukherjee film Khubsoorat. The film tells the breezy tale of an extrovert, feisty girl who brings about changes in the regimented atmosphere of a household controlled firmly by its overbearing matriarch. While Sonam Kapoor plays that motormouth, Fawad Khan will expectedly play the bachelor who falls for her. The story mostly revolves around Sonam’s character, no doubt,
but Fawad, too, will get to make his mark. Given his acting credentials, we hope him to have a winning start. To give you a little lowdown Fawad Khan: he has worked in tele-dramas like Humsafar, Dastaan, Ashk and Zindagi Gulzar Hai. He also played the character Sarmad in the popular Pak movie Khuda Kay Liye. He was also the titular hero in the movie ‘Armaan’. He won awards for both these roles. Now, with ‘Khubsoorat’, he has taken a leap. The shooting of ‘Khubsoorat’ has already begun in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The film is being directed by Shashanka Ghosh and produced by Sonam’s father Anil Kapoor. Catch more photos of Fawad Khan ahead and tell us if he’s got in him to make the grade in Bollywood. neWS DeSK
Matthew McConaughey keeps it casual in Santa Monica, Calif.
VENUS WAXES AND WANES LIKE THE MOON The brilliant planet Venus is now a beautiful evening "star" in the late-fall twilight, shining brightly in the southwest through the purple dusk. But did you know Venus has phases like the moon that are visible in telescopes? Weather permitting, Venus is the first planet night sky observers can spot, and it is even visible before sunset if you know just where to look in the southwest sky. The planet is gaining altitude in the twilight, boldly showing itself off after six months of hiding behind any inconvenient obstructions near the southwestern horizon. Venus is brightening too, since it is speeding toward Earth as it catches up to us in its faster, inner orbit around the sun. As Venus travels around the sun inside the Earth's orbit, it alternates regularly from evening to morning sky and back. It typically spends about 9 1/2 months as an "evening star" and about the
same length of time as a "morning star." Some ancient astronomers actually thought they were seeing two different celestial bodies. They named the morning star after Phosphorus, the harbinger of light, and the evening star for Hesperus, the son of Atlas. It was the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras who first realized that Phosphorus and Hesperus was one and the same object. To the ancients, such behavior was puzzling and was not really understood until the time of the famed 17th century astronomy Galileo Galilee. After moving to Pisa in the autumn of 1610, Galileo started observing Venus through his crude telescope. One evening he noticed that a small slice seemed to be missing from Venus' disk. After several more months, Venus appeared in the shape of a crescent — in other words, it seemed to display
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the same behavior as the phases of the moon. This was a major discovery, which ultimately helped to deliver a deathblow to the long-held concept of an Earth-centered universe. Venus wanders only a limited distance east or west of the sun, since, like Mercury, it is an "inferior" planet (orbiting the sun more closely than Earth does). Watching its movement is akin to watching an auto race from the grandstand: All the action takes place in front of you and it’s necessary to turn only a limited amount either way to see it at all. In contrast, for "superior" planets (those located in orbits beyond the Earth from the sun), viewers on Earth are like the pit crews inside the racetrack who must turn in all directions to follow the cars. When Venus is on the opposite side of the sun from the Earth, it appears full (or nearly so) and rather small because
it is far away. But because Venus moves with a greater velocity around the sun than the Earth, it gradually gets closer and looms progressively larger in apparent size. The angle of sunlight striking it as seen from our Earthly vantage point also appears to change as well. Ultimately, as Venus prepares to pass between the Earth and the sun it appears as a thinning crescent. And since at this point in its orbit it is nearly six times closer to us compared to when it was on the opposite side of the Sun, it appears much larger to us as well. Here then, is a schedule of how Venus’ appearance has — and will — change during the coming weeks and months. MAN BURIED ALIvE DIGS WAy OUT Of ‘EARLy GRAvE’: It's not every day you see someone climbing out of a grave. But for one woman in Brazil, who was visiting her family tomb, that's exactly what she was in for. According to local reports, the woman, who has not been identified, was at a cemetery in Sao Paulo's Ferraz de Vasconcelos when she heard some odd noises and saw some dirt moving near a grave. That's when she spotted a man, buried alive, trying to pull himself from the ground. "I was terrified to see a man who I thought was dead, trying to get out of the grave," the woman recalled later, according to local reports. The woman notified authorities, and emergency services arrived to dig out the rest of the man's body; he had already managed to free his head and arms from the ground. In a video broadcast on local station Record TV, the rescue team is seen pulling the partially buried man from the grave. It's not immediately clear how the man, who reportedly worked as a city hall employee, came to be buried alive, but it is believed he got into a fight in another part of the city and was badly beaten up in the altercation, the Daily Mail reported. After he was rescued from the grave, he was taken to a local hospital for treatment. Though city officials confirmed the case, they did not disclose the condition of the man, Noticias R7 reports. neWS DeSK
Looks like Jenny McCarthy just might have met her perfect man. The View stunner, who seems happier than ever with boyfriend Donnie Wahlberg, couldn't help but gush over her beau during an appearance on Bethenny, where the blond beauty opened up about the possibility of marriage in her future and even gave her 43-year-old pal, who is in the midst of her divorce with husband Jason Hoppy, advice on meeting men. "So you have a boyfriend, Donnie Wahlberg. And you met him on my friend Andy Cohen's show," Bethenny says, revealing how the New Kids on the Block crooner and the 41-year-old star officially met. "Yes, yes. On the show when I first met him, I thought he was not available," Jenny says. "In my head I thought he was married." It wasn't until Wahlberg was a guest on her own show that McCarthy discovered he was available, and even after, she confessed it took a while for the Blue Bloods star to ask her out, causing her to question his sexual orientation (she later blamed her early suspicions on her "girl's ego"). "I thought he was cute, but I thought he was married," she explains. "When I hear married, I put up a wall. Otherwise I would have been like, 'What's up?' It wasn't until he was on my talk show, and right before I said, 'Does he have a girlfriend? So I know how to interview him,' and they said, 'No, he's single.'" The former Playmate of the Year continues, providing Bethenny with her own sage advice for meeting men. "Chelsea Handler gave me the best advice because she was single and single doing her show and I said, 'How do you meet guys you're working so much?' She said, 'You book them on the show.'" At which point, the former Real Housewives of New York star turns to her audience and says, "So, people, you've got to send my suggestions of who we should be booking on the show of male persuasion!" But that wasn't all McCarthy had to say about her man. The buxom blonde also dished on whether she sees herself tying the knot with Wahlberg in the future, admitting she was looking for romance at that point in her life. neWS DeSK
MutAnt rAts InvAde brItIsh pArlIAMent
The British government is reportedly spending the equivalent of more than $11,000 a month fighting mutant rats that have infested Parliament. According to the Daily Star, pest control experts at the House of Commons spent £7,000 (about $11,216) dealing with poison-resistant -- ergo, "mutant" -- rodents in a single month. That bill represents an increase of 15 percent from two years go. That's not all. The rats are apparently spreading across the UK. International Business Times reports that the mutants look like normal rats, but eat poison pellets intended to kill them "like feed." "Normal rats are being killed off by poison, so these resistant species are taking their place. It's only natural that their numbers are expanding," British Pest Control Association spokesman Richard Moseley told the Metro. Ain't evolution a rat bastard? Since poison doesn't work on the so-called "super rats," officials are turning to more traditional methods of pest control. neWS DeSK