Saturday, October 31, 2009

Andre Agassi's Autobiography "OPEN"


Andre Agassi's autobiography will be published by Alfred A. Knopf on November 9, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. OPEN, a deeply personal account of Agassi's life on and off the court, will also simultaneously be published in Canada, England, Germany, France and the Netherlands.Andre Agassi says he used crystal meth and lied to ATP authorities when he failed a drug test in 1997 in a yet-to-be published autobiography.In OPEN, he recalls for the first time a childhood without choices. Forced to embrace tennis, banished to a brutal tennis camp while still in grade school, catapulted to fame while still in his teens, Agassi grew up feeling isolated, alienated, detached. In OPEN he tells how he reconnected, how he overcame his fears, fought through his loneliness, found strength and purpose in the decision to devote his life to others and in the love of one extraordinary woman.
Agassi writes with uncommon candor about his father, his family, his best friends and first loves. He recounts the intimate details of his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields. He describes the grind of championship tennis, the physical toll and greater mental toll. He recalls his most painful moments in the arena humiliating defeats, career-threatening injuries, ridicule from fans and media but celebrates the maturity to which they all led.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Direct TV - the new revolution

DirectTV is a brand which has become one of the most sought mode of viewing TV which gives you access of many channels with attractive schemes which gives everyone the option of watching the channels which they like and can select the plan which is suitable to your needs. DirectTV is cost effective and an alternate to the high cable charges which you have to pay unnecessarily to the cable operators and with simple form of installation, its become the widely used mode compared to dish network and cable. DirectTV is growing at a rapid pace with the consumers ignoring cable operators and preferring the this mode for watching television as this gives them many options. DirecTV offers good and lucrative schemes too by giving nearly 130 plus channels to view compared to cable and dish network. Direct TV specials which has been introduced in order to bring upon new customers and this is exactly the scheme which will lure you all customers, so no one must lose this opportunity to book yourself a DirectTV which will everyone to view all channels at a premium rate and save your money. DirecTV deals are of such a kind where the customers are the winners all the time with exclusive offers being given for the connection of their DirectTV with interesting rate cuts for those who apply now.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Min Lieskovsky - Salman Rushdie's new gal


Author Salman Rushdie, it seems, has certainly moved on after his split from ex-girlfriend Pia Glenn.The 62-year-old was seen attending the Norman Mailer Writers' Colony Gala with stunning author Min Lieskovsky on his arm, reports the New York PostMin Lieskovsky is a 27-year-old Harvard graduate who once claimed to be addicted to dating male models. And not just any model, specifically six of the world’s top models “the so-called Nasdaq of modeling, where they’re evaluated by complex algorithms of earnings, shows and campaigns.” So what does she have in common with a 62 year old bald man who has been married four times? Perhaps their passion for writing is what brought this couple together.It is not clear how long Lieskovsky and Rushdie have been together or where their relationship is going, but if you are basing it on Salman’s past he seems to have a thing for the pretty, young ladies. Salman is stepping out with Mia just a week after a public break up with last partner Pia Glenn, where he accused her of being ‘unstable’ and an ‘accomplished liar’.As far as biographical information on Lieskovsky here are some additional facts we learned, mostly thanks to an article she wrote for Elle magazine.She is of Chinese and Hungarian descent, and says at “5′6″ and 130 pounds, I consider myself quite a fox, but I’m not model material.”She also talked about her taste in men, which she says leans towards the “young and professionally pulchritudinous.”

Miss California -Carrie Prejean


Carrie Prejean must have a really, really bad memory -- because TMZ uncovered a brand new set of topless photos "biblically correct" Miss California took before she applied for the crown.A second topless photo of Miss California Carrie Prejean has been released by TheDirty.com, days after Prejean promised the state pageant that there was only one such photo in existence.In related Miss California news, TMZ reports the gay-marriage opponent's father may be gay. Her parents split in 1988, and the ugly divorce was full of allegations.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Shopwiki's Xbox 360

Everywhere in the world people try to get new and sophisticated way which will help in knowing things easily and effectively. There are many ways but surely Shop Wiki will be at the top of every one's minds to go as there you can get all the required things especially the youngsters who love gaming and are fans of Xbox 360. This is the place where you can have all the latest news of technologies which is going to be launched or which is under the process so that we can select it depending upon our needs. Here you can get the complete guide about the Xbox 360 gaming with all the features that are needed for making it a powerful gaming device for you. The various accessories which can be got is also described here which will help in knowing the device and get full information about the various tricks in gaming. There are various links too which will help you a lot to know about the Xbox 360 games. The Xbox 360 comes with lot of additional features that it will make anyone eager to buy as no one can resist the temptation of getting a hand on Xbox 360. Lot of additional features is the main strength as the Xbox 360 accessories are very much useful innovative and powerful which will make it an ever lasting experience. So don waste time and go and get your hand on the Xbox 360 soon.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon


South Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon has received one of France's top art awards at a film festival in her home country.French Trade Minister Anne-Marie Idrac made Jeon a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters at the Pusan International Film Festival. Jeon won a best-actress award at the Cannes film festival in 2007 for her role in The Secret Sunshine.Among the highlights of the Pusan International Film Festival have been a screening of I Come with the Rain, an international thriller starring US actor Josh Hartnett, South Korea's Lee Byung-hun and Takuya Kimura of Japan.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Booker prize 2009



The shortlist for the 2009 Man Booker prize brings together the early favourite, Hilary Mantel, with AS Byatt, Sarah Waters and two-time Booker-winning Nobel laureate JM Coetzee.

1.Hilary Mantel is shortlisted for Wolf Hall, a piece of historical fiction centring on Thomas Cromwell, who was the successor to Cardinal Wolsey as Henry VIII’s most trusted adviser as the king tries to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

2. The first author to win the Booker prize twice, JM Coetzee is in with a third chance with Summertime. This latest novel completes his trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth, detailing the story of a young English biographer who is writing a book about the late author John Coetzee. Coetzee won the Nobel prize for literature in 2003

3.Sarah Waters, twice shortlisted for the Booker and the Orange prize, is in the running again with her fifth novel, The Little Stranger, a ghost story set in post-war Warwickshire.

4.Simon Mawer makes the cut with The Glass Room, an historical novel set in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. As war looms, newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile, move to a house on a hill with a unique glass room.

5. The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds.

6.The Children's book by A.S.Byatt.