Sunday, September 23, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Daniela Hantuchova
Daniela Hantuchova is a smart Slovakian woman: fluent in four languages, learning a fifth - Italian - the daughter of a computer science professor and a toxicologist and the world's No.9 tennis player.
She is also exceedingly thin, having lost considerable weight in the 12 months since last year's Wimbledon, at which she was often compared - favourably - to Anna Kournikova.
For Hantuchova's 180-centimetre frame, the Australia Nutrition Foundation's healthy-weight range begins at 65 kilograms. She has said she is now significantly below her official tour playing weight of 55.5kg.
Wimbledon, and women's tennis overall, is often more about looks, body image and marketability than sport, but this year's fascination has shifted from the size of a player's backside and Venus Williams's new corset-style white dress to that of thinness.
Hantuchova's low body-fat levels are the talk of the town. She has made no secret of her love for modelling and in between practising she can be seen showing off designer clothes. Her coach has gone as far as to suggest it is her desire to be part of the fashion of thinness that has affected her.
But is her bony figure, while considered by some ideal for the catwalk, appropriate to play a vigorous sport? Hantuchova says it is a nice problem to have, for she can eat anything she likes. It is just that she has been training too hard for Wimbledon, she says. She rejects suggestions that she suffers from anorexia or an eating disorder and notes dryly: "I have burned off more calories than I have taken in, I have to eat a bit more."
Monday, July 30, 2007
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
The Kiss
Photographs of the embrace made the front pages in India |
Gere, 57, kissed Shetty, 31, several times on the cheek at an Aids awareness event in New Delhi earlier this month.
Local resident Poonam Chand Bhandari filed a complaint and Judge Dinesh Gupta called it "an obscene act".
It was not immediately clear how the warrant could affect Gere, who is a frequent visitor to India.
Shetty, who found fame outside India as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, has also been asked to appear before the court.
Photographs of the clinch were splashed across front pages of newspapers in India.
Public displays of affection are still largely taboo in India, and protestors in Mumbai (Bombay) set fire to effigies of Gere following the incident.
Dance scene
Shetty has defended Gere saying that it was all done "in good humour".
"He especially told me to tell the media that he didn't want to hurt any Indian sensibilities," she said.
She said Gere had only been re-enacting a scene from his film Shall We Dance.
Under Indian law, a person convicted of public obscenity faces up to three months in prison, a fine or both.
Gere, star of films such as Chicago and Pretty Woman, is a Buddhist and travels to India frequently to visit the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in the north of the country.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Shaha Riza, The New Wolfette
When Mr Wolfowitz took over at the bank in mid-2005, Ms Riza - then a World Bank employee for eight years - was transferred to work for the US state department, to avoid any conflict of interest.
But rapid rises in her tax-free World Bank salary to about $193,000 - more than the $186,000 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice receives before tax - have aroused ire among other bank employees.
Shaha Riza
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Thursday, April 5, 2007
25 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Women
- You can enjoy a beer all month long
- Beer stains wash out
- You don't have to wine and dine beer
- Your beer will always wait patiently for you in the car while you play baseball
- When your beer goes flat, you toss it out
- Hangovers go away
- A beer label comes off without a fight
- Beer is never late
- Beer doesn't get jealous when you grab another beer
- When you go to a bar, you know you can always pick up a beer
- Beer never gets a headache
- After you've had a beer, the bottle is still worth 5 cents
- A beer won't get upset if you come home and have another beer
- If you pour a beer right, you'll always get good head
- A beer always goes down easy
- You can have more than one beer a night and not feel guilty
- You can share a beer with your friends
- You always know you're the first one to pop a beer
- Beer is always wet
- Beer doesn't demand equality
- You can have a beer in public
- A beer doesn't care when you come
- A frigid beer is a good beer
- You don't have to wash a beer before it tastes good
- If you change beers you don't have to pay alimony
Sunday, April 1, 2007
April Fools!
I've migrated from Thug, to Recidivist. Now I'm Boris. Different names, same attitude. Hafta keep ahead of the bloodhounds tailing me.
You gotta fucking problem with that?