American music icon Billy Joel has been awarded America's highest honour for a lifetime of contribution to the arts.
	The 64 year-old musician, who has produced huge hits such as 'Just the Way You Are,' 'Uptown Girl' and 'Allentown,' was presented with the Kennedy Center Honour by President Barack Obama, reported Huffington Post.
	After receiving the honour, the six time Grammy winner said, "It is a little overwhelming. This is coming more from my country than just people who come to see me."
	Known as the Piano Man after one of his best known songs, Bronx-born Joel became one of the world's best-selling artists.
	Other entertainers who were also honoured at the ceremony were guitar legend Carlos Santana, Herbie Hancock, opera singer Martina Arroyo and actress Shirley MacLaine.

Billy Joel honoured for his impact on American culture

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If at 46 actress Madhuri Dixit still manages to maintain a resplendent look in her comeback vehicle 'Dedh Ishqiya' and steal everyone's heart, costume designer Payal Saluja can rightfully take credit for it.
	Saluja worked for months on finer details and piece together the costumes befitting Madhuri, who plays the role of Begum Para in Vishal Bharadwaj's home production, a comedy- thriller set for release next month.
	"I treat script as the Bible...It guides in giving authentic look to characters. We have stayed real to the story and given a nawabi look (to Madhuri) through the costumes," Saluja told PTI here.
	However, Saluja, whose previous work includes films like 'Raanjhanaa', 'Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola' and '7 Khoon Maaf' said styling the "dhak dhak" girl for the Abhishek Chaubey-directed movie was a challenging task.
	To give a 'nawabi' (royal) look to Madhuri, she spent almost three months scouting for various fabrics, jewellery etc in the lanes of Lucknow, Delhi and a few ...

Styling Madhuri in 'Dedh Ishqiya' was challenging: Designer

Singer Demi Lovato says she is not furious with Joe Jonas for revealing that he smoked weed after getting encouragement from her and Miley Cyrus.
	Joe, 24, who opened up about drugs, losing virginity and his love life in a piece, had admitted that he first smoked weed after Cyrus and Lovato kept saying, "Try it, try it", reported Aceshowbiz.
	"Well, first I was like, 'We need to talk,' and then we talked and I was fine. I was like, 'Look, I'm not mad at you but you need to choose your words more carefully next time'," Lovato said.
	"They're my brothers, I love them so much. Joe and I argue like brother and sister and (he's) always going to be in my life. He meant no harm and he's never had a chance to tell his side of the story so I'm proud of him," she added.

Demi Lovato not furious with Joe Jonas

'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe says he likes the positivity and enthusiasm of New York.
	The 24-year-old actor said he likes being in the city, reported Contactmusic.
	'Anyone who equates 'coolness' with a lack of enthusiasm is just very, very irritating to me...New York is a great city," Radcliffe said.
	"It has an incredible energy and it is very positive. I think in England we sometimes make fun of Americans for being so positive but I am actually all about that. I love enthusiasm," he added.

New York is a great city: Daniel Radcliffe

One Direction star Harry Styles and reality TV star Kendall Jenner were mobbed after leaving a hotel in New York together.
	Styles, 19 and Kendall, who recently denied they were dating, were swarmed by fans as they exited the Gansevoort Hotel in New York City to enjoy breakfast, reported Us magazine.
	Styles was immediately recognised by a group of young girls as security tried to escort him out of the building.
	Kendall, 18, who split from her high-school boyfriend Julian Brooks earlier this year, appeared to be startled by the commotion and got caught up in the frenzy as she walked a few feet away from Styles.
	The duo recently insisted they were just good friends after being spotted on a dinner date last month in Los Angeles.
	The budding model, who is Kim Kardashian's half-sister, previously said, "There is no story. We're friends. He's cool, yeah, he's cool.

Harry Styles, Kendall Jenner mobbed

Pop star Selena Gomez felt like a man on tour because it was the first time she had real freedom.
	The 21-year-old 'Come and Get It' hitmaker, who previously dated Justin Bieber, recently embarked on her 'Stars Dance' world tour without the supervision of her parents.
	She said she felt liberated by the experience, likening her freedom to life as a single man, reported Contactmusic.
	"I said something to one of my best friends on tour, 'I'm a girl and I feel like I'm living like a man.' I was overseas and it was my first time being single and not having my parents there, and having my two best friends and my cousin to travel the world with me," Gomez said.
	"I bought them so many trips and gifts like cute scarves, so I felt like I was the boyfriend taking care of my friends," she added.

Selena Gomez felt like a man on tour

Pop star Britney Spears says moving on from a failed relationship gets easier if one has the company of good friends.
	The 32-year-old singer, who is in a relationship with David Lucado after breaking up from long-time boyfriend Jason Trawick, said that dating some other person also helps in getting over the heartbreak, reported New York Daily News.
	"I think if you get another boyfriend, it's really easy to get over it. But for real. I think you need a lot of friends around you and you need to go to the movies and have dinner dates with your girlfriends. Yeah, I think that's important," Spears said.

Friends help to get over break-ups: Britney Spears

Actress Jennifer Saunders has scrapped plans for the movie adaptation of hit British sitcom 'Absolutely Fabulous' because she doesn't want to ruin the show's legacy.
	The 55-year-old comic actress had revealed two years ago that she was working on a script for a feature film, reported Daily Mirror.
	"The film will never happen. 'Ab Fab' is in such a nice place now. There's such a danger we could ruin it," she said.
	Saunders loved working on the show - in which she played hard-partying PR agent Edina Monsoon opposite Joanna Lumley as magazine editor pal Patsy Stone - and said filming often had to be halted when she and her co-stars, which also included June Whitfield and Julia Sawalha, got the giggles.
	"Laughter stopped filming all the time. Joanna as an Old Patsy was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It took us two days to film two minutes of that episode because we just peed and peed and peed with laughter," she said.

'Absolutely Fabulous' film won't happen: Jennifer Saunders

Veteran pop star Cliff Richard is finally calling time on his famous racy photoshoots for his annual calenders.
	The 73-year-old singer, whose calendar has been highlighting his changing hairstyles and fashion since 1979, said 2014 edition will be his last, reported Daily Mirror.
	"I am not going to do any more. How many shapes can I pull with this body? It's a pressure," Richard said during a show.
	But the singer has no plans of quitting his singing career.
	"I think I am still loving it. I wish I could stop and sometimes when I stop for a few months I think if I never sang again I wouldn't mind," he said.
	"But then someone suggests a project and I'm like 'Oh yeah, I can do that', and you are back in the run again," she added.

Cliff Richard retires from calendar shoots

American film director has revealed the release date of new superhero film 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
	The 48-year-old filmmaker recently completed the filming of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past', which features stars from the X-Men original films and the prequel, 'X-Men: First Class', reported Variety.
	Singer announced through Twitter that 'X-Men: Apocalypse' would arrive in 2016.
	'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is slated to release on May 23, 2014.
	The movie stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Michael Fassbender.

Bryan Singer announces new 'X-Men' movie for 2016?

Singer-actress Selena Gomez lost her cool during a performance leading her to walk off the stage without finishing her set.
	The 21-year-old singer's performance during the KIIS FM's 2013 Jingle Ball got disturbed when her audio and microphone stopped working, which irritated her, reported Us magazine.
	"Sorry, the sound isn't working!" Are you guys having a good night? I promise, a lot cooler people are going to come out tonight. Is it OK if I perform two more songs and you guys can get to it?," Gomez said to the audience.
	She continued to speak to the crowd, "I have to thank you guys so much for allowing me to be able to perform the music that I love."
	"And I have to say that before you guys go on to the people that you care about, I really appreciate you supporting everything that I do. So this next song is the first song I had hit No 1, and it's called 'Come & Get It'," she added.
	After the song, the singer decided to leave the stage instead of finishing her set.
	"She was ...

Selena Gomez loses cool during performance

Pop star Lady Gaga says she is a huge fan of legendary English musician David Bowie and considers him like an alien prince.
	Although the 27-year-old singer thinks it is strange that she has not got a chance to meet Bowie in person, reported Contactmusic.
	"I have not met him yet, it's OK - you know I'm such a big fan, that it's kind of this weird amazing thing that I haven't met him yet," Gaga said.
	"He's sort of like an alien prince. He still runs my universe as well, like, every morning I wake up and I think, 'What would Bowie do?'," she added.
	The 'Poker Face' hitmaker feels that the way Bowie dresses owes to his quest to achieve perfection.
	"I guess for him it was a sense of perfection. These things he created, it was self expression for him but also a sense of protection for who he personally is as David," she said.
	"And for me, this is a sense of protection, I'm not really protecting myself actually because myself is who you see every day, and my inability to rest in one ...

I am a big fan of David Bowie: Lady Gaga

'Star Trek' star Chris Pine says he sought advice on playing 'Jack Ryan' from actor Alec Baldwin.
	The 33-year-old actor was apprehensive about taking on Tom Clancy's famous spy hero in the 'Jack Ryan' franchise reboot, so he sought advice from Baldwin - who starred in first movie, 'The Hunt for Red October' - ahead of filming, reported Deadline.
	"Alec and I were doing voice-overs for an animated film and sometimes we'd meet as one of us was reading or coming in. I saw him one time and I was like a kid, I was like, 'Hey, I'm playing Jack Ryan, do you have any advice'?" Pine said.
	"He just grabbed me by the shoulder and said, 'Do it. Do it. And don't let go'. Because he obviously, famously, left to do 'A Streetcar Named Desire' on Broadway'," he added.
	Pine fought for the film to have a more artistic vision instead of being a simple action blockbuster, and he believes the finished product strikes a happy medium.
	"I would have been happy making 'Marathon Man' or 'The French ...

Alec Baldwin encouraged me to star in 'Jack Ryan': Chris Pine

Rapper Kanye West has revealed he wants to release his next studio album in the summer of 2014.
	However, the follow up to 'Yeezus' may only contain eight songs, reported Rolling Stone magazine.
	"I think my next album is going to be eight songs. It's just reducing down the amount of information that you need. People say a design is the point where you can't take anything else away. Yeezus was very, very designed," West said.
	"I took a departure from radio and popular music in order to get this seat here. If I hadn't made Yeezus, I wouldn't be sitting here with this cool font at Basel right here."
	It seems West's studio sets are getting shorter and shorter, 'Yeezus' has been his shortest to date with just 10 songs and a running time of 40 minutes, which differs from the usual 12-13 songs that West usually settles on.
	The 'Stronger' rapper's longest set is his debut album College Dropout' which contained 21 tracks.

Kanye West's next album to release next year

Actors Kevin Hart and LeBron James are set to star in an upcoming basketball-themed comedy.
	'Ballers' will star Hart as a man trying to emerge from the shadow of his successful basketball player brother at a weekend fantasy camp, reported Deadline.
	Hart is slated to pen the screenplay for 'Ballers' with collaborators Joey Wells, Chris Spencer and Harry Ratchford.
	A director will be hired once the first draft of the script is complete, with an eye to begin shooting the movie next summer. Brian Grazer will be a producer on the project.
	This will be James's first starring film role, although he has previously acted on 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Entourage'.
	James is currently producing a new comedy series for Starz.
	Hart has been featured in two high-profile films this year, the apocalyptic comedy 'This Is The End' and the stand-up movie 'Let Me Explain'.

Kevin Hart, LeBron James to star in basketball comedy

Singer Rebecca Ferguson thinks female artists need to be ruthless when it comes to men.
	The 27-year-old 'Nothing's Real But Love' hitmaker insists women should give 'little treats' to guys rather than laying themselves bare, reported Contactmusic.
	"If you want men to respect you, you have to be like 'you get to see this when you put the effort in'. Treat them like dogs, give them little treats and then give them the full dinner when they're ready," Ferguson said.
	"There's too many people giving too much dinner and not dropping enough cookies," she added.
	And when it comes to men and business she said women need to be assertive and she loved Lily Allen's 'Hard Out Here' video which hits out at sexism.
	"I couldn't stop laughing! You know its sexist and women get exploited. You know it's 'be sexy and dance around me, and grind on me and we'll call you bitch'. But I don't think women conquer that by being in their own music videos acting even more provocative," Ferguson said.
	"I ...

Women should be ruthless: Rebecca Ferguson

Friends, fans and high-performance car enthusiasts are heading to a Los Angeles suburb for a memorial for "Fast & Furious" star Paul Walker, who died in a high-speed car crash in the area.
	Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies are anticipating thousands of people at Sunday's memorial. The actor died on November 30 after the Porsche Carrera GT he was riding in smashed into a light pole and tree and then burst into flames.
	Walker's friend Roger Rodas, who was driving, also died.
	Scores of people were milling around the area 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles hours before the memorial was to start at noon.
	Many people are arriving in cars built for speed, and the sounds of engines revving are filling the air.

Thousands expected at memorial for Paul Walker

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says he does not like India being called a developing nation.
	"I feel proud of the fact that those very things that India was once criticised for, like our growth of population, etc is now looked upon by developed nations for great consumer consumption. It goes well. I hate India being called as a developing nation. I want it to be known as a developed nation. I think we are moving forward in that direction," Bachchan said at a function here last evening.
	"I don't believe in goals. I hope there is some opportunity and challenge that the future directors will offer me. Each decade is providing great expansion in our medium of media and entertainment. Like the growth of television, growing mobile penetration," he said.
	The legendary actor further said, "In our business of films we are we are judged by people like you. Audiences make us, their taste changes. They decide what kind of films and actors they like to watch... It is important to be in tune with the 

I hate India being called a developing nation: Big B

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has rubbished reports suggesting that he is in talks to star opposite veteran actress Rekha in a YRF film.
	According to reports, Aditya Chopra was said to bring Rekha and Bachchan on-screen together again. The two last worked in 1981 hit 'Silsila'.
	"I am not doing it. I read it (media report) but there is no truth to it. But if you known anybody there (at YRF) then suggest my name. As today it is difficult to get work," the legendary actor said at a function here.
	Earlier, producer Firoz Nadiadwala and director Anees Bazmee were keen to get Bachchan and Rekha together in their upcoming movie 'Welcome Back'. But things did not work out.
	Meanwhile, Big B would be seen in a special appearance for Sanjay Dutt Productions' 'Hasmukh Pighal Gaya'. He has performed to the iconic Raj Kapoor song 'Kisiki Muskuraahton Pe Ho Nisaar, Kisi Ka Dard Mil Sake...' from the film 'Anari'.
	"It is a film for Sanjay Dutt Productions. There is a situation in the film, where the 

Big B not working with Rekha

Singer Nicole Scherzinger has secretly met with Nelson Mandela's two daughters and they reportedly discussed the possibility of her singing at their father's funeral.
	The former Pussycat Doll has reportedly held a secret visit with the late revolutionary's daughters at London's Mandarin Hotel and they discussed a potential performance, reported Sun Online.
	"During the chat Nicole had with the daughters it was mentioned she should sing at his funeral, or at least be a very prominent guest," a source said.
	The 'X Factor' UK judge once sang for the political activist, choosing to perform 'Precious Lord', but she recently joked he was less than impressed with her rendition.
	"I had the honour of meeting him and I sang him my favourite hymn 'Precious Lord'.

Nicole Scherzinger to sing at Nelson Mandel's funeral?

Singer Kelly Clarkson, who is expecting her first child, wants a chunky baby.
	The 'Since U Been Gone' singer said she hopes her baby, which she thinks is going to be a girl, has plenty of meat on her, reported Contactmusic.
	"I want chunky babies. I just love chunky babies. I want to bite their chunky arms and thighs. They're just so cute!," she said.
	Clarkson, 31, and husband Brandon Blackstock, who also has children Savannah, 12, and Seth, six, from a previous relationship, have got some names in mind for their young one.
	"We're going with a little bit of both. We're keeping it in the family, but also doing something cool for us," she added.

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