References to the  GST in the just-released Tamil film "Mersal" starring popular  actor Vijay have not gone down well with the BJP which today  objected to what it termed as "untruths" about the central  taxation in the flick and demanded their deletion.
Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan demanded removal of the  "untruths" about the Goods and Services Tax, rolled out by the  BJP-led NDA government on July 1, while his party colleague H  Raja claimed the film exposed Vijay's "anti-Modi hatred".
The CPI (M) and superstar Rajinikanth starrer "Kabali"  director Pa. Ranjith came to the defence of the "Mersal" crew,  questioning BJP's logic of demanding the cuts.
"The film producer should remove the untruths regarding  GST from the film," Radhakrishnan told reporters in Nagercoil.
He said wrong information should not be spread through  cinema and actors should not confuse people using the medium  and try to derive political mileage.
His remarks came a day after the BJP's state unit made a  ..

BJP fumes over GST references in Vijay starrer film

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Sean Penn's lawyers have warned  Netflix against releasing a documentary about Mexican druglord  El Chapo, which suggests the Hollywood star helped the US  Department of Justice (DoJ) capture the drug kingpin.
The series "The Day I Met El Chapo: The Kate del Castillo  Story" details the episode when del Castillo, a Mexican  actress, and Penn secretly met one of the world's most wanted  men in October 2015.
Penn wrote an article about the meeting for Rolling Stone  that was published just a day after Joaquin Guzman Loera, also  known as El Chapo, was captured.
The actor is said to be upset with the documentary as it  apparently implies that he helped the authorities in their  capture of El Chapo, reported the New York Times.
"It is reprehensible that, in their ongoing, relentless  efforts to gain additional attention and publicity, Ms del  Castillo and her team (who have zero firsthand knowledge) have  sought to create this profoundly false, foolish, and reckless  narrative," Mark ...

Sean Penn, Netflix fight over El Chapo documentary

In a statement, a group of  Weinstein Company staffers have asked to be released from  non-disclosure agreements after multiple women came forward to  allege Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.
Weinstein has since been fired from his company. The  staffers insist that while they knew about Weinstein's  philandering nature, they did not witness any direct sexual  assault, reported Variety.
It has been widely reported that Weinstein often used his  assistants to lure unsuspecting struggling actresses to his  room on the pretext of discussing a project but the staffers  deny any knowledge of his alleged predatory nature.
"We all knew that we were working for a man with an  infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial  sexual predator. We knew that our boss could be manipulative.
"We did not know that he used his power to systematically  assault and silence women. We had an idea that he was a  womaniser who had extra-marital affairs. We did not know he  was a violent ...

Didn't know we were working for a predator: Weinstein Company

Singer Mariah Carey was robbed  off USD 50,000 worth of sunglasses and purses when thieves  broke into her house.
The 47-year-old musician's mansion was hit by robbers in  wee hours - at around 3 am, law enforcement sources told TMZ.
The perpetrators are believed to have got in through a  window or door on an upper floor, as a ladder was found in the  backyard.
Carey was not in house while the burglary was carried  out; she is in New York.
The robbers, however, tripped a silent alarm and her  security did not know about the break-in until about 6-7 am.
The cops are investigating the case.
Carey is the latest celeb to have been become a victim of  a high-profile burglary in and around the LA area, with Hilary  Duff, Nick Young, Kendall Jenner, Kevin Hart, David Spade,  Emmy Rossum among others in the list.

Mariah Carey robbed off USD 50,000 worth items

Linkin Park vocalist Chester  Bennington's will has revealed that he wanted his children to  mix up with each other after his death.
The singer passed away on June 20 due to suicide by  hanging at the age of 41.
Bennington had made all the monetary arrangements to help  his kids - six children from three relationships - grow up  close together, reported TMZ.
"I request that my children's mothers or Guardians  encourage and allow my children to visit with one another and  with my extended family and the extended family of my Spouse  on a regular and ongoing basis, so that my children know that  they have a large and loving family."
The "Castle of Glass" hitmaker instructed the trustee of  his family trust to make sure his children received all money  to cover travel expenses.
The distribution of the property among the kids is,  however, unclear till now.
Bennington was a father to Jaime (21) from his  relationship with Elka Brand and adopted her son, Isaiah (20);  Draven (15) with ...

Chester Bennington wanted children to stay close

Wishing Jessica Biel on their  fifth wedding anniversary, singer Justin Timberlake has  written a heatfelt love note for her.
The 36-year-old musician-actor took to Instagram to wish  his better half a happy anniversary.
"#TBT to a late night freestyle session on a break in the  studio - YES I've been back in the studio cooking! But, today  is even more special for me because five years ago, on this  day, I became the luckiest man in the world when I exchanged  vows with my best friend. This song was our first dance.
"To my beautiful @jessicabiel: You have taught me so much  about what a true love means. I can't put into words what  these last five years have meant to me, so... 'Listen to the  melody 'cause my love is in there hiding... '" Timberlake  wrote alongside a series of his black-and-white pictures.
Biel also replied to her husband's post, "My tender heart  is yours, now until forever."
She shared a comic video of the couple dancing along to  the car stereo with a flower-ear .

Timberlake pens love letter for Biel on 5th wedding anniv

The Los Angeles Police  Department has opened an investigation into Harvey Weinstein  after an Italian model accused the media mogul of rape in  2013.
The model told the Los Angeles Times that Weinstein  bullied his way into her hotel room and forcibly raped her in  the bathroom, reported Variety.
"The Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide  Division has interviewed a potential sexual assault victim  involving Harvey Weinstein which allegedly occurred in 2013,"  said LAPD spokesman Officer Tony Im.
"The case is under investigation."
Over 40 women have come forward to accused Weinstein of  sexual misconduct after a New York Times expose revealed that  he settled with more than eight women. The NYT story was  followed by a more detailed report in the New Yorker.
Weinstein has since been fired from the Weinstein  Company.

LAPD investigating Weinstein over sexual assault allegations

The BJP today took objection  to what it termed as "untruths" regarding the GST in the just-  released Tamil movie "Mersal", starring popular actor Vijay,  and wanted dialogues on the central taxation to be deleted.
"The film producer should remove the untruths regarding  GST from the film," Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan told  reporters here.
He said wrong information should not be spread through  cinema and actors should not confuse people using the medium  and try to derive political mileage.
Senior BJP leader H Raja also slammed the references to  the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the movie in his Twitter  handle and said it only exposed the lack of knowledge of  economics.
Hitting out at the references, state BJP state unit  president Tamilisai Sounderrajan had told reporters in Chennai  yesterday that "Incorrect references have been made in  'Mersal' about GST ... celebrities should desist from  registering wrong information among people."
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BJP slams Vijay-starrer's references to GST; wants dialogues

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's long-time  assistant Vasan Bala is all praise for actor Bhagyashree's  son, Abhimanyu Dassani, who would be launched in his  directorial "Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota".
Vasan assisted Kashyap in films like "Dev D" and "Gulaal"  and also wrote his movies "Bombay Velvet" and "Raman Raghav  2.0".
"I am not launching anyone, for me (he) is an actor. I  love him as an actor. He is a great actor. He is a newcomer,I  just gave him an opportunity," Vasan said on the sidelines of  an event here.
Bhagyashree made her debut opposite Salman Khan with  "Maine Pyar Kiya", helmed by Sooraj Barjatya. She shot to fame  after the movies release in 1989 but quit films to focus on  her family.
Asked Vasan about the pressure of launching a star kid,  he said, "I am not a launch kind of a guy. I am a regular  director. I have not given any Rs 100 crore hit or anything  that I feel the pressure to launch or make anyone's career. I  am yet to make my own career."
Earlier, Kashyap's ...

Vasan Bala all praise for Bhagyashree's son

Latin singer Selena Quintanilla  is all set to be honoured with a posthumous star on Hollywood  Walk of Fame.
Known as the 'Queen of Tejano music', the singer will be  bestowed with her star on November 3 by Hollywood Chamber of  Commerce, reported Variety.
Quintanilla went on to carve her niche as a music and  fashion icon in the late 20th century, before she was fatally  shot by Yolanda Saldivar, her friend and former manager of her  Selena Etc boutiques in 1995.
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president Edward James  Olmos said, "Selena deserves the star. Her music stands the  test of time. She was a brilliant artist. I just wish she were  here. It's not fair."
Quintanilla went on to release six LPs in her short  lifetime, the last of which, "Dreaming of You" would be  released posthumously in 1995.
On October 17, Google celebrated the 28th anniversary of  her first studio album, 'Selena' by dedicating a special  doodle to its release.

Quintanilla to get posthumous star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

"Gone With the Wind" star  Vivien Leigh is the subject of a biopic by "Feud: Bette and  Joan" writers.
Michael Zam and Jaffe Cohen's film will focus on Leigh  life and her relationship with Laurence Olivier. They were  married from 1940 to 1960.
Leigh won the best actress Academy Awards for her  portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 movie and Blanche  DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951.
She suffered from bipolar disorder and tuberculosis, and  died at the age of 53 in 1967, reported Variety.
Zam and Cohen's other projects include a biopic on  Katharine Hepburn, another iconic performer of her era.

Vivien Leigh biopic in works

Ed Sheeran has sworn off alcohol for  a speedy recovery after the singer broke his right arm in a  cycling accident recently.
The 26-year-old musician has also cancelled his scheduled  gigs in Taipei, Osaka, Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Talking to the Daily Star newspaper, Sheeran said,  "Apparently if I drink it slows the healing down so I'm not  drinking. I'll be back in a month or so though."
The "Shape of You" hitmaker was attending Q Awards, where  he won the award for Best Act In The World.
Sheeran recalled that post his accident he had not  realised how badly he was injured in the immediate aftermath.
"I got up and cycled home and then went to bed and woke  up in the morning in a lot of pain and then went to hospital,"  he said.

Ed Sheeran quits alcohol for speedy recovery

French model Ines Rau has  become the first transgender model to become a Playboy  playmate.
Rau appears in a pictorial and centrefold in Playboy's  November/December issue, which pays tribute to its founder,  Hugh Hefner, who died last month.
The model previously posed in Playboy's May 2014 "A-Z"  issue, starring in a spread called "Evolution," which examined  the acceptance of gender beyond the male-female binary,  according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Lau, 26, said it took her a lot of time to accept her  gender identity publicly.
"I lived a long time without saying I was transgender. I  dated a lot and almost forgot. I was scared of never finding a  boyfriend and being seen as weird. Then I was like, 'You know,  you should just be who you are.'
"It's a salvation to speak the truth about yourself,  whether it's your gender, sexuality, whatever. The people who  reject you aren't worth it. It's not about being loved by  others; it's about loving yourself," she told Playboy.
While Rau .

Playboy features first transgender model as its playmate

Actor Lindsay Lohan has said  nobody came to her rescue when she was in an abusive  relationship with her former fiance Egor Tarabasov.
The 31-year-old actor's comments come after she defended  Harvey Weinstein in wake of The New Yorker's expose against  the producer, where multiple allegations of sexual misconduct  were brought to light.
Lohan took to Instagram, where she shot down her critics  saying she is pro-women empowerment but she did not receive  any help in her trying times.
"Whatever anyone says, I am for women empowerment as if  most women in America cared how I was abused by my ex  fiance... When not one person stood up for me while he was  abusing me," she wrote alongside a screengrab of her movie  "The Parent Trap".
Lohan said being a strong woman today is a tough task and  that "we all make our own choices and wake up in our own beds  in the morning. I prefer to go to my home and wake up alone.  Be strong let us not blame anyone as karma will always takes  its ...

No one stood up for me: Lindsay on being abused by ex-fiance

Mark Ruffalo is returning to  the small screen in a limited drama series from the HBO and  the actor will be seen in a double role.
The 49-year-old actor will feature in as twin brothers  Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in "I Know This Much Is True",  reported Deadline.
The show will be directed by Derek Cianfrance of "The  Place Beyond the Pines" fame.
The script has been adapted from the popular 1998 novel  by Wally Lamb, which will follow the brothers wade through the  latter stages of the 20th-century in what is described as "a  heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the  reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of  forgiveness."
The series will consist of eight episodes and will be set  in Connecticut.
This marks Ruffalo's return to HBO where he starred in  and co-executive produced the movie "The Normal Heart", which  earned him an acting Emmy nomination.

Mark Ruffalo to play a double role in HBO limited drama series

"Game of Thrones" star Lena Headey  has opened up about facing sexual harassment at the hands of  producer Harvey Weinstein.
In a lengthy post on Twitter, the 44-year-old actor  revealed that she was one of the actors who were subjected to  the media mogul's antics early in her career.
Headey said she first met Weinstein at the Venice Film  Festival premier of her film "The Brothers Grimm", when the  producer asked her to take a walk with him to the waterfront.
While walking he made "some suggestive comment" to her  and Headey said, "I just laughed it off, I was genuinely  shocked, I remember thinking, it's got to be a joke, I said...  oh come on mate!? It'd be like kissing my dad! Let's go get a  drink, get back to the others. I was never in any other  Miramax film."
The actor recalled she then met the producer years later  in Los Angeles, where he asked her few questions about the  state of her love life but she shifted the conversation back  to something less personal.
Weinstein ...

'GOT' star Lena Headey reveals being harassed by Weinstein

The preparations for the last song  of one of the most awaited films of the year, "Tiger Zinda  Hai" are underway in Greece.
The director of the Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer, Ali  Abbas Zafar took to Twitter to make the announcement.
"Nippy early morning in Greece... Preparation for last  song begins @TigerZindaHai," Zafar wrote.
The filmmaker also posted a 15-second-long video,  recceing the location for the shoot.
The principal photography of the film was completed later  in September; the last leg of the shoot being in Abu Dhabi.
The film has also been shot in Tyrol, Austria.
"Tiger Zinda Hai", which is the sequel to the 2012 film  directed by Kabir Khan, will see Salman and Katrina reprise  their roles as spies Tiger and Zoya.
The film is slated to release on December 22.

'Tiger Zinda Hai' begins shoot for the last song

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Veteran actor Morgan Freeman  will star as Colin Powell in an independent biopic on the  former U S Secretary of State.
The movie will revolve on the 2003 speech by Powell to  the United Nations to seek support for the Bush  administration's plan to forcibly remove Iraqi dictator Saddam  Hussein, based on intelligence that Iraq was developing  nuclear weapons, reported Variety.
Powell later described the event as a low point in his  career, where the intel reports later stood discredited.
He was the first African American to serve as a Secretary  of State.
Reginald Hudlin is attached to direct "Powell", from a  script by Ed Whitworth, which was on the 2011 Black List.
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Freeman's  Revelations Entertainment will act as production banners.
Freeman also starred in the 2009 historical biopic  "Invictus", portraying South African President Nelson Mandela.

Morgan Freeman to play Colin Powell in biopic

Actor Lupita Nyong'o is the latest  actor to speak against Harvey Weinstein for his alleged  harassment of women spanning over three decades.
In an op-ed for The New York Times, the 34-year-old actor  penned her harrowing experience of meeting the media mogul  many a times and how he threatened to ruin her Hollywood  career before she even began.
Nyong'o writes she first met Weinstein in 2011, when she  was a student at the Yale School of Drama. She said she was  forced to enter his bedroom after a lunch meeting at a hotel,  where he insisted on giving her a massage.
"I thought he was joking at first. He was not. For the  first time since I met him, I felt unsafe. I panicked a little  and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead: It would  allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where  his hands were at all times.
"I began to massage his back to buy myself time to figure  out how to extricate myself from this undesirable situation.  Before long he said he wanted .

Lupita Nyong'o accuses Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment

Singer Alicia Keys is all set  to return to the reality TV singing series "The Voice".
The 36-year-old Grammy winner will join Adam Levine,  Blake Shelton and debutante coach Kelly Clarkson in the 14th  season of the NBC musical competition, reported Deadline.
"We are thrilled to welcome back Alicia's positive  energy, competitive spirit and sheer talent. She brings  unparalleled expertise and has proven she knows how to help  artists win.
"The chemistry among Alicia, Kelly, Adam and Blake will  make for a wildly unpredictable and compelling season 14,"  said Paul Telegdy, president, Alternative and Reality Group,  NBC Entertainment.
Keys last mentored in season 12 of "The Voice", where her  team's contestant, Chris Blue was adjudged the winner.

Alicia Keys to return to 'The Voice'

Actor Scott Haze has been roped  in to star in "Venom", which features Tom Hardy in the title  role.
The actor is joining Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams and  Jenny Slate in the film to be directed by Ruben Fleischer,  according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Character details for Haze are being kept under wraps.
The film is being produced by Avi Arad, Matt Tolmach and  Amy Pascal.
"Fifty Shades of Grey" scribe Kelly Marcel is also on  board to co-write the project with Scott Rosenberg and Jeff  Pinkner.
"Venom" opens in theatres on October 5 next year.

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