OK, so I finally got around to watching this movie a couple of weeks ago. I had been worried that I would hate it and it would depress me, but I actually loved it, and now I get why everyone cares so much about those little child stars from the film. So now I’m going to start covering the stories about them, including this one.
Rubina Ali, the 9-year-old who plays young Latika in the film, is releasing a book of her memoirs called Slumdog Dreaming.
July 16 will find her book, Slumdog Dreaming, simultaneously released in the U.S. and U.K. Publisher Transworld, says, besides recounting Oscar night, Ali will tell her story of “playing marbles with her friends beside the sewers of Garib Nagar in Mumbai, to dancing along to the Bollywood films she and her family watch on their old television set.
“Rubina brings alive a world of wastelands and rat-infested shanty dwellings, and shows us her home, a wooden shack with a tarpaulin roof, where she grew up with her beloved father and siblings,” says the statement.
Despite her newfound fame and hectic promotional schedule — Rubina accompanied the other child stars of Slumdog to a Hong Kong charity event this weekend — the young woman still lives in poverty. Her Mumbai slum was razed several weeks ago, prompting worldwide concern for her safety
I’m sure this book will sell well enough to support her for many, many years in Mumbai — I just hope whoever’s in charge of her money right now is trustworthy and knows how to invest it wisely.
It’s summer, and we’re ready for some new celebrities. That must be why People released this list of “5 Things to Know About Adam Lambert’s Boyfriend Pal Drake LaBry,” along with a link to his YouTube page, which documents his travel around Europe. (A clip of him talking is above.)
Tony Parker got a little handsy with his scantily clad wife, Eva Longoria, on board a yacht in San Tropez.
In fairness, I was one of the many people who thought these two would never last. So far, they seem to be beating the odds. I’m happy for them. I really think they’ll be together another couple of years, even.
Props to the London photogs for finally getting on the ball and snapping a ton of pics of Lindsay lately.
They caught Lindsay (wearing yet another pair of torn pants — maybe we need to start calling her ‘Ripped Torn’?) switching hotels in London. Lindsay spent the night last night at Samantha Ronson’s hotel (Sam’s still in London to DJ), but now she’s moving to the Mayfair Hotel, which is owned by Sir Bob Geldof, father of British tabloid mainstay Peaches Geldof. Lindsay reportedly will stay at the five-star hotel for a fraction of the usual price in exchange for being photographed repeatedly outside the hotel and mentioning it in interviews.
The Artist Formerly Known as Ceiling Eyes is officially BIG TIME. She is doing something Paris Hilton did years ago — roll around in a bikini with a burger for Carl’s Jr.
Audrina stars in an upcoming television spot wearing nothing but a gold bikini while chowing down on the new Teriyaki Six Dollar Burger.
“I had an absolute blast shooting,” she said. “It was my first experience shooting a spot with food, and when I pulled up, I was literally salivating looking at all the rows and rows of perfect burgers waiting for me!”
Carl’s Jr needs to come up with some new ideas. Why don’t we lather Audrina in teriyaki sauce and raw beef and then throw her into a pit of wild pigs? It’s just a thought.
No no, I’m not talking about her husband canoodling with his 23-year-old girlfriend all over the tabloids — ladies, I am talking about yearbook photos. Every. Woman’s. Worst. Nightmare. Extra somehow got a hold of yearbook photos from Kate in high school and even — horror of horrors! — middle school. GASP! Kate was a cheerleader, in the photography club, drama club and also wrote for the newspaper.
OMG, you guys. This is a fate worse than death. I don’t even want to remember my middle-school yearbook photos. In fact, what I want to do now is find every copy of those yearbooks and get down to some serious arson. POOR KATE!
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