"Twilight" star Robert Pattinson debuted his brand new goatee at the sixth annual GO GO Gala.
	Pattinson, 27, who has sported a variety of facial hair styles over the last year, joined celebrities like Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, who have previously gone the goatee route, reported Us magazine.
	"He looked professional and put together at the event. He wore a slick navy blue suit and had goatee, his hair was short and kind of buzzed on the side," a source said.
	The Hollywood hunk showed up to the event with his agent and manager.
	After his split with longtime girlfriend Kristen Stewart earlier this year, Pattinson is reportedly dating model Dylan Penn, Sean Penn and Robin Wright's daughter, since September.
	GO GO Gala is GO's annual Hollywood fundraiser event.

Robert Pattinson debuts a goatee

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"Gravity" star Sandra Bullock will be awarded the Desert Palm Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF).
	The 49-year-old star is set to travel to the festival's 25th edition at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 4 to receive the honor alongside actor Matthew McConaughey, reported Ace Showbiz.
	"Sandra Bullock is the epitome of cinematic talent and versatility. In her latest and arguably most demanding role as first-time astronaut Dr Ryan Stone in 'Gravity', Bullock faces the primal nightmare of being stranded in space with no apparent way of returning," PSIFF festival chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement.
	"Throughout the entire film, her determination to survive is masterfully portrayed To this consummate performer who continues to captivate audiences with her artistry, it is our honour to present the 2014 Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, to Sandra Bullock," Matzner added.
	In receiving the award, Bullock is following the footsteps of ...

Sandra Bullock to receive Desert Palm Award

Actress Drew Barrymore, who is expecting her second child with art consultant husband Will Kopelman, is planning to have more kids.
	The 38-year-old blonde star, who also has 13-month-old daughter Olive, said she is not obsessed about her looks during pregnancy and takes it in her stride, reported Femalefirst.
	"I'd love to have more kids. I think it's about being mentally healthier and then you are physically fit. I'm actually not really working out right now. It's a lot of fork up the food, shove to mouth, chew, repeat.
	"It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening ... But there's just no such thing as perfection. So if you're trying to get there, you're just torturing yourself. You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection," she said.
	As she focuses more on her family life, the mother is determined to give her kids a childhood that includes plenty of playtime.
	"I didn't grow up around a lot 

Drew Barrymore wants more children

Former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger does not fancy men.
	The 35-year-old stunner, who split from Formula One racing pro Lewis Hamilton in June, said she is attracted to someone who is funny, genuine and attentive, reported Contactmusic.
	"If you can make me laugh. I look for a guy who has a great sense of humour and is just cool. I don't like guys who think they are hot - that is a turn-off. You just want a guy who is genuine and has got a good head about him. And a guy that gives and is attentive," she said.
	Scherzinger is glad that she and Lewis are on talking terms since their families bonded with one another during their five-year relationship.
	"We're friends and it's just nice that we're talking again. I don't know what the future holds. I think it is always good for people to work on themselves and then their friendships first. Our families are close.
	"That happens when you are with someone for five years. So it's good we are friends. But I am not into dating ...

Guys who think they're hot are a turn-off: Nicole Scherzinger

Liberty Ross, former wife of 'Snow White and the Huntsman' director Rupert Sanders, is reportedly dating music mogul Jimmy Iovine.
	The 35-year-old British beauty began dating the Interscope Records co-founder after splitting with her husband, Rupert Sanders, over his affair with Kristen Stewart, reported the New York Post.
	The couple were spotted last evening dining on truffles at Nello and enjoying champagne together.
	"After lunch, they went to Leviev Diamonds next door on Madison, but they didn't buy anything - yet," a source said.

Liberty Ross dating Jimmy lovine?

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, who is considered one of the most fashionable starlets in Hollywood, feels she is not a fashion icon.
	The 23-year-old actress said she has nothing to do with her chic factor, reported E! online.
	"I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals. (It's like), 'Dance, monkey, dance' right on the red carpet.' I would call me more of a monkey," she said.
	Lawrence has recently gone pixie but she insisted that her new look is not for her upcoming projects.

Jennifer Lawrence calls herself 'monkey'

Superstar Will Smith is all set to star in  Shawn Levy's next project 'City That Sailed'.
	The film, which is about a father and daughter who live on the island of Manhattan as it breaks off and floats across the Atlantic Ocean, is being writing by Audrey Wells, said the Hollywood Reporter.
	Smith's name has been linked to 'City That Sailed' for several years.
	The 45-year-old actor last starred in 'After Earth' and his upcoming projects include 'Winter's Tale' and 'Focus'.

Will Smith to star in 'City That Sailed'

"Tarnsformers" star Shia Labeouf used the wrong drug to prepare for his new movie "Charlie Countryman".
	The 27-year-old actor said he had taken LSD for a drugs scene in the film in order to get an authentic performance, reported Digital Spy.
	But the director Fredrik Bond said that LaBeouf did not need to take anything for the shot.
	"In the script, it's Carpathian ecstasy, a special hostel ecstasy that exists in maybe just Bucharest. So, Shia said he took acid? I didn't know he went out and said that. But it was always ecstasy in the script," Bond said.
	LaBeouf plays a young man who travels to Bucharest after his late mother appears in a vision.
	"Charlie Countryman" to hit theaters on November 15.

Shia LaBeouf took wrong drug for new movie

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell admits that her new single 'Half Of Me' is a flop.
	The 41-year-old singer was left red-faced after her comeback single 'Half Of Me' failed to win over audiences in Australia, reported Contactmusic.
	 "As much as I'm afraid to look like a quitter, (because we all want to look like winners right?), I'm not afraid to say - I lost!," she said.
	Halliwell, who had signed a new six-figure record deal with Sony Australia, said she had tried hard for the single to become a hit.
	"I need to look back ... Remember who I am - where I've come from and dust myself off... I'm going to sing something that feels honest, just like home.

Geri Halliwell admits flop single

Singer-actress Miley Cyrus admits that the method to her madness is actually motivated by progressive feminist thought.
	The 20-year-old singer said that her definition of feminism has a lot to do with the reason why she is often scantily clad, reported the New York Daily News.
	"I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women to not be scared of anything. Girls are all beautiful. Guys get to show their bodies on the beach, why can't we? I don't understand the double standard of life," she said.
	Cyrus thinks everyone should be able to do what they want without judgement or worry.
	"I'm for anybody and everything. I don't care what you want to do in your life, or who you want to be with, who you want to love or what you look like.

I am one of the biggest feminists: Miley Cyrus

Singer Robbie Williams deliberately avoids having his own Twitter account because he knows he would be "vicuious" on the micro-blogging site.
	The 'Go Gentle' hitmaker said he would get in so much trouble' if he joins and waste days voicing his opinions, reported Contactmusic.
	 "I am (on Twitter), via someone else. If I want to say something, I tell them because I'd get into so much trouble if it was left to me. Because I bite and I bite hard. I'd be vicious. That would be my whole day gone. I'm going to stay away from that. I think it's best for my soul," he said.
	Williams prefers to express himself in his songs and admits some of the tongue-in-cheek lyrics on his upcoming album Swings Both Ways were influenced by his days touring gay clubs with boy band Take That.
	"When I joined Take That, we toured gay clubs for 18 months. It always used to confuse me and make me laugh when a lot of the gay people I was hanging out with were insistent everybody was gay," he added.

I would be vicious on Twitter: Robbie Williams

Reality TV star Kris Jenner, who recently separated from husband Bruce Jenner after 22-years of marriage, is open to dating in the future.
	Kris, 58, said she might end up dating a younger man too, reported Us magazine.
	"I guess I'll know when it happens. I've learned not to plan anything anymore. You find who you fall in love with in life. If they happen to be a certain age, they happen to be a certain age," she said.
	Kris was recently linked to 30-year-old Bachelor Ben Flajnik but the latter denied the reports.
	"I did Kris' talk show a few months back, brought my wines on the show. Of course I offered her a visit to the winery whenever she had a chance.
	"That's how we met. Recently, she ended up contacting me about a month ago or so and asked me if they could film an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians at the winery. I of course obliged," he had said.

Kris Jener opens to dating younger men

Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian thinks pop star Cheryl Cole is a sweetheart.
	The 29-year-old star - who met with the former Girls Aloud singer at Kanye West's 'Yeezus' gig at the Staples Center in last month, said that she "really connected" well with the brunette beauty, reported Femalefirst.
	"She is the sweetest person ever. Her and I were just talking for hours and no one could pull us apart from each other, we were just having deep, intense conversations - we really connected. Some people you just connect (with) instantly and I love her, I think she's such a sweetheart," Khloe said.
	The 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' star did not hide her admiration for the 'Call My Name' hitmaker and also called her 'sister'.
	"I found a soul sister in Cheryl Cole," she added.

Cheryl Cole is a sweetheart: Khloe Kardashian

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard briefly caged herself near Paris's Louvre museum to demand the freeing of 30 Greenpeace activists jailed in Russia over an Arctic protest.
	Cotillard, the star of the acclaimed 2007 film "La Vie en Rose" on French singer Edith Piaf, entered the cage and held a banner proclaiming: "I am a climate defender."
	She joined Greenpeace activists all dressed in red.
	"There are people who have the courage to defend our planet and who put themselves into great trouble," she said, calling the detention "absolutely absurd and crazy".
	The symbolic protest was staged in the heart of Paris at the Palais Royal complex, where the state theatre Comedie Francaise is located.
	Several serving and former ministers and celebrities from the world of arts showed up to express their support.
	The so-called "Arctic 30" were detained when the Russian Coast Guard boarded their Dutch-flagged Greenpeace vessel after several activists scaled a state-owned oil platform on ...

France's Cotillard in caged protest for Greenpeace activists

Steps should be taken to protect the rights of children and ensure well-being of child artistes, eminent speakers at an open forum organised as part of the ongoing 18th International Children Film Festival of India (ICFFI) here said today.
	The speakers, including Bollywood personality Amol Palekar, debated issues like rights of child actors, their working hours and concerns such as education, welfare of differently-abled children and abuse against children in both urban and rural areas.
	They favoured the Government framing appropriate guidelines for the benefit of children and child artistes.
	The VIII Grade students of a private international school here, whose film 'Temple Run' was appreciated at the festival, shared their experiences.
	Expressing happiness over the appreciation, the child film-makers said they did not expect the film to be screened at the ICFFI.
	Meanwhile, the festival drew a large number of children to the film screenings. The delegates of a film from Czech ...

Government urged to frame rules for children, child artistes

Sanjay Leela Bhansali's love story 'Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela', which released nationwide today, faced protests in Indore, Rajkot, Jalandhar and the capital regarding its title and content.
	Some members of an NGO held a protest in the capital outside a theatre over the Deepika Padukone-Ranveer Singh starrer film, demanding a change in its title. People raised slogans against the movie and the protests ended when police arrived on the scene and whisked away the demonstrators to the nearest police station.
	Despite the film's title been changed, first from 'Ramleela' to 'Ram-Leela', and then to 'Goliyon Ki Rasleela: Ram-Leela', there is still controversy.
	Bhansali, 50, yesterday agreed to the demands of Kshatriya community in Rajkot by changing certain "provocative" words in his film. The words 'Jadeja' and 'Rabari' have been changed to 'Sanedo' and 'Rajri' as per the community's demand.
	Bajrang Dal workers in Indore prevented the cinema hall owners here from exhibiting the ...

'Ram-Leela' faces protest in several states

Writer-director-actor Girish Karnad today slammed the controversy and protests surrounding Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film 'Ram-Leela', saying it was "nonsensical".
	"That is really most upsetting. It is impossible to be creative if some idiot gets up and says 'I am sad'. Judiciary should also have some sense. The decision is nonsensical," Karnad, who was in the city to deliver 26th Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial IFFCO Lecture, said.
	Bhansali's film, which released today, is facing the ire of several groups for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.
	The film, starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, has been dragged to different courts over its title and content. Some political groups today tried to stop the screening of the movie in Delhi, Rajkot and Indore.
	Bhansali was also forced to change certain words in the Gujarat-set film after some members of the Rajput community expressed displeasure.
	MP High Court had yesterday asked that the words 'Ram- Leela' be removed from the film's .

Controversy over 'Ram-Leela' most upsetting: Girish Karnad

British Indian actor Paul Bhattacharjee, best known for his role in the James Bond film "Casino Royale", committed suicide after being declared bankrupt, an inquest was informed today.
 	The 53-year-old played a doctor in the James Bond film and had a series of television and theatre productions to his credit. He was declared bankrupt shortly before his body was found at the bottom of cliffs in southeast England.
	An inquest into his death was told today that he was a "proud" man who killed himself when bankruptcy proved "the final straw after a life of major highs and lows".
	In a statement read out in court, his partner Emma McKie said: "I do believe that Paul would take his own life. He had a darkness inside him that was irreparable."
	Gautam Paul Bhattacharjee, who grew up between India and the UK and lived in London, was last seen leaving rehearsals at Royal Court Theatre in London on July 10, the inquest at Eastbourne Magistrates' Court was told.
	His body was found at Splash ...

British Indian actor killed himself over bankruptcy

Noted playwright Girish Karnad believes Indian cinema has successfully warded off Hollywood invasion because of its song and dance tradition.
	"If we would have made films like Satyajit Ray, continued without song and dance, we would have been swallowed up by Hollywood by now. Italian cinema is gone, Japanese cinema is gone and even French can't compete with Hollywood.
	"We don't have to worry. Our songs and dancers have protected us. So, why should we give up our strength?," Karnad told reporters here.
	Karnad, who recently acted in Salman Khan starrer 'Ek Tha Tiger', said Indian cinema was doing extremely well and it should not be judged by Western parameters.
	"I think the films that are being made are very good. We should not judge by Western standards. We say why don't our films get Oscars? Why do we need an Oscar? Suddenly, A R Rahman becomes great because he got an Oscar but he was great even before that. I gave the example of 'Ship of Theseus'. It would have been impossible to 

Song and dance Indian cinema's strength: Girish Karnad

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra has emphasised the importance of reviving and promoting the performance of street plays which disseminate powerful social messages and highlight the problems of the masses.
    "There is need to revive and promote the performance of street plays which disseminate powerful social messages and highlight the problems of the common masses," he said.
    Vohra was interacting with artistes of 'Natrang' who performed a Dogri street play, "Gatte-ch Manu" (man in the ditch), in Raj Bhavan here last evening.
    The play is based on Kishan Chander's Urdu short story "Khadda".

JK Guv stresses promotion of people's theatre

Protesting against director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie Ram Leela's controversial content, Bajrang Dal workers today prevented cinema hall owners here from exhibiting the movie.
	"We have prevented nearly five cinema halls from showing 'Ram Leela' because of it's controversial content," Bajrang Dal's Indore division convener Sachin Baghel said.
	Though the title of the film is 'Ram Leela', it has lot of "obscene" content, like Lord Hanuman dancing, which hurt Hindu sentiments, he said.
	However, the police said that it has provided security to cinema halls where the movie is being exhibited, in order to prevent any untoward incident.

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