Koo Hye-sun, one of South Korea’s top actresses, is enjoying a surge in popularity in Taiwan as a hallyu (Korean wave) star thanks to her starring role in the KBS-TV drama “Boys Over Flowers,” which closed in March.
YG Entertainment, Koo’s agency, said Friday that Koo is being wooed in Taiwan to appear in dramas and music videos.
Even before “Boys Over Flowers,” Koo won fame in Taiwan as she starred in hit dramas such as “The King and I” and “Pure in Heart.”
The former home of Bruce Lee is now a love motel, renting rooms by the hour. But officials on Monday launched a design competition to turn it into a Hong Kong museum for the kung fu icon.
"I hope I can personally witness and oversee the completion of the Bruce Lee museum in my lifetime," owner Yu Pang-lin, who is in his 80s, said at a press conference marking the 36th anniversary of Lee’s death.
Lee’s fans have been calling for an official monument for their hero in his hometown for years.
BERLIN – A revealing photograph of former model and France’s current first lady Carla Bruni was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin auction house.
The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994.
Rachel Hannah Weisz (born 7 March 1970) is an English actress. She gained wide public recognition after her portrayal of Evelyn “Evy” Carnahan-O’Connell in the Hollywood films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. In 2001, she starred opposite Hugh Grant in the hit About a Boy and continued to garner leading roles in Hollywood productions. Her performance in The Constant Gardener (2005) won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with other major motion picture awards.
A second racy lingerie photo has emerged of Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean – as well as some details about her past that may shed some light on the beauty queen’s well-publicized views against gay marriage.
The new image of Prejean appeared Wednesday on the site TheDirty.com, flying in the face of Prejean’s assurances to pageant reps that the earlier photo was the only one.
The site has been down due to heavy traffic, but CNN reports the second image, like the first, shows Prejean in pink panties and no top, facing away from the camera.
Dionne Warwick, Burt Reynolds and Sinbad are among 250 people with the largest delinquent income tax bills, officials say. O.J. Simpson, now in prison, is taken off the list.
O.J. Simpson’s off the list, but singer Dionne Warwick, actor Burt Reynolds, actor-comedian Sinbad and a prominent Los Angeles developer still make this year’s roll of California taxpayers with the largest delinquent income tax bills.
This year’s ranking includes 250 names. A few are famous or local notables, but most are low-profile individuals and businesses. Together they owe $143 million in back taxes, said Franchise Tax Board spokesman John Barrett.
Nadya Suleman, the mother of octuplets and six other children, said she spent at least $24,000 on the in vitro fertilization procedures that led to her first four babies.
Suleman told celebrity magazine Life & Style Weekly that she saved money for the procedures that cost about $6,000 each by working 16-hour days as a psychiatric technician.
When her aunt died, Suleman said she used an undisclosed portion of her $30,000 inheritance to conceive twins. Leftover eggs from that in vitro pregnancy were frozen until she used them to give birth to the octuplets.
Suleman did not give financial details about the octuplets, though in vitro fertilization using frozen eggs is generally cheaper.
A warrant for Lindsay Lohan’s arrest was issued on Friday, but a lawyer for the actress says Lohan will not appear in court on Monday. Her lawyer will appear on her behalf, the Associated Press reports.
Shawn Chapman Holley, Lohan’s attorney, told the AP that the warrant was the result of a “misunderstanding.” The warrant may have to do with Lohan’s drunken driving arrest in 2007, a police spokeswoman told the AP.
Octo-Mom Nadya Suleman is defending her panicked call to 911 last October during which she repeatedly begged police to help her find her missing 5-year-old son, JJ.
In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Nadya told us she was hormonal at the time of the 911 call, explaining she was pregnant with the octuplets.
She also told us she had no idea she told the dispatcher, “I’m going to kill myself.”
When RadarOnline.com spoke with Nadya Wednesday night, she had absolutely no idea the frenzied, 5 minute and 19 second call had been made public.
Octo-Mom Defends Frenzied 911 Call: “I Was Hormonal
THE octo-spectacle just won’t go away. And instead of running from the limelight, Octo-mum Nadya Suleman and her cast of characters have thrust themselves head-on into the circling, hungry maw of the 24/7 TV-cable-radio-internet-Twitter news cycle.
Suleman’s media juggernaut reached new highs this week, starting Monday with her ex-boyfriend, who tearfully went on national TV to demand a paternity test. It continued on Tuesday with her father on The Oprah Winfrey Show, accusing his daughter of being “irresponsible” and questioning her mental state. At one point he asked the talk show queen, “Will you help?”
