I got this as an email this morning from my friend in Hong Kong. I never have second thought that this would be irrelevant to post but since it’s still Beijing Olympic season, Read the rest of this entry »
First, a disclaimer on our headline…no, Brad Pitt is not looking to adopt even more children.
Rather, the 44 year-old actor has signed on to play the lead character, Lt Aldo Raine, in director Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming remake of Enzo Castellari’s 1978 World War II film, “Inglorious Bastards.”

Set to begin principle photography this October, the film is expected to be a slight departure from the original, with Pitt leading a group of Jewish-American soldiers in a mission of revenge against German soldiers in Nazi occupied France. Read the rest of this entry »
You’ve got to return it! Makers such as Hermès, Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Coach will begin by authenticating that your bag is indeed genuine — and not a counterfeit — by checking for special code numbers or hidden insignias that were put inside the bags at production.

And for the repair: You should return the bag in person at the designer’s boutique, or, in some cases, Read the rest of this entry »
Sugarland and Miley Cyrus duked it out for the top spot on the album chart again, this time with different results. Last week’s winner, Cyrus, dropped to No. 2, selling 163,000 of her Breakout, a reasonable 56 percent decrease.
Sugarland, the Georgia-based country-rock duo, moved 171,000 units of Love on the Inside, earning the top spot, with a smaller decline of 45 percent.

The latter act had some help from a unique release strategy. Last week, they put out the higher-priced deluxe version of their album; this week, they had the lower-priced standard edition out as well, which appealed to more bargain-minded shoppers. (Nielsen SoundScan is counting both the deluxe and standard Sugarland CDs as one album, in this instance.) Read the rest of this entry »
By Hollywood profit standards, the cast and producers of the sequel to “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” admit they were surprised another film based on the hit book series was even made.
The sequel is released in the United States on Wednesday even though the original 2005 film made only $39 million in North America and $2.9 million overseas.

But with a loyal audience generated by fans of the best-selling young adult book series, guaranteed DVD sales and rising careers of some of the four main female actors, makers of the sequel are hoping that translates to greater success. Read the rest of this entry »