Cheryl Cole set to make cameo appearance in "The Hangover 3

Cheryl Cole to do cameo in 'Hangover 3'?

London: Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole looks set to make a cameo appearance in "The Hangover 3".
  
Zach Galifianakis, who soared to fame after starring in the first two movies in the comedy franchise, has fuelled speculation the 29-year-old singer is going to appear in the forthcoming film after admitting there is something to the rumours, reported Contactmusic.
  
"I have heard the rumours about her making a cameo and there seems to be something to them. But I don't know if anything's signed yet," he said.
  
"The Hangover 3" is currently being shot in Los Angeles with main characters Zach, Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Justin Bartha all set to return.
  
Mike Tyson and Heather Graham are also expected to reprise their roles.
  
"Bridesmaids" star Melissa McCarthy is also set to make a cameo appearance in the much anticipated motion picture.
  
But the upcoming movie will not be Cole's first big screen role. She starred as herself as a TV dance talent show panellist in this year's romantic comedy "What to Expect When You're Expecting".
  
Cole also portrayed a girl group member in 2007 film St Trinian's alongside her Girls Aloud band mates Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh, Sarah Harding and Nadine Coyle.

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RIP Queen of Disco Donna Summer Passes Away At 63

Legendary disco queen, Donna Summer, has passed away at the age of 63 at her Naples home. The singer, who was fondly called ‘Queen of Disco’, was battling with lung cancer.

Donna Summer’s family has said in a statement: “Early this morning, surrounded by family, we lost Donna Summer Sudano, a woman of many gifts, the greatest being her faith. While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy. Words truly can’t express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time.”


The singer was a five time Grammy award winner, and was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the US Billboard Chart.

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Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

Oscar-winning actress Celeste Holm -- who was the original girl who couldn't say no in the musical "Oklahoma!" -- has died aged 95, her family and reports said Sunday.

Holm, who won the best supporting actress Academy Award in 1948 for Gentlemen's Agreement and later appeared in High Society (1956), died at her home in New York.

She was admitted to hospital a week ago, said her niece Amy Phillips, cited by CNN. "She passed peacefully in her home in her own bed with her husband and friends and family nearby," she said.


She also garnered Oscar nominations in 1950 for Come to the Stable, in which she played a French nun, and in 1951 for All About Eve, which starred Bette Davis.

The New York-born actress made her professional debut in a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet starring Leslie Howard, and got her first big part on Broadway in 1940, opposite Gene Kelly.

The role which really made her name was Ado Annie in the original production of Oklahoma! in 1943, in which she sang the showstopper, exclaiming: "I Cain't Say No!"

She signed with 20th Century Fox and went to Hollywood to make a series of movies starting with Three Little Girls in Blue in 1946. " Gentlemen's Agreement" was her third film.

But she longed for the stage and returned to Broadway, only returning for two movies in the 1950s -- The Tender Trap in 1955 and High Society the following year.

She once said of her wisecracking smart girl image: "I hated that. It's stereotyped. I only played that kind of role in two pictures and that was enough, thank you. It's not me."

She also began taking television roles, including her own series Honestly Celeste, and for two decades was a regular in TV series, mini-series and films made for television.

In 1957, Holm, the son of a Norwegian insurance adjuster and a US writer-artist mother, was made a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav for her help in saving one of Norway's national treasures, a schooner.

Holm was married five times, the last to Frank Basile -- 46 years her junior -- whom she wed on her 87th birthday in 2004.

Shortly afterwards she became embroiled in litigation which lasted for years and cost her $2 million in lawyers' fees. She confirmed in 2011 that she was no longer speaking to her two sons.

Holm lived in the same New York building as Hollywood icon Robert De Niro, on Central Park West. The Los Angeles Times reported that she was hospitalized for dehydration following a fire in the building.

But she asked her husband to bring her home Friday, and spent the last day or two with him and other relatives and close friends by her side, before dying in the early hours Sunday, it cited her niece as saying.

Basile, 49, told the New York Post before she died that she had heart problems.

"There were some setbacks in the hospital. She championed through and maintained her dignity. But there have been some irrevocable situations, and we are now going home," he said before taking her from the hospital.

"I told her I wanted to have more good memories together, and she held me and she said, 'That's a good memory.' Celeste told me she always remained happy because she chose to only remember the good things."

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Movie Review: The Vow (2012)

Film:The Vow
Director: Michael Sucsy
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange
Rating: *1/2

Do relationships draw their strength from shared experiences alone?Is it reasonable to expect an amnesic partner to reacquaint herself with her former life? These are some questions raised by the film The Vow.


Sculptor Paige (McAdams) and music producer Leo (Tatum) have the perfect marriage until the fateful car crash and minor coma comes in the way. The girl, who would roll up the car window so as not to let her spouse’s flatulence escape, wakes up to a find a stranger by her bed side. It doesn’t get any better for him with figures of the life she abandoned, come waltzing in through the door. Her family, dominated by her wealthy father (Neill), is determined to see his daughter pass out of law school. While Paige, who has no difficulties recollecting her folk, is only to happy to be manipulated by them.

It’s up to Leo to preserve his wife’s individuality. But can he win her trust first? Oh yeah, and he has a rival in a hotshot lawyer her former lover who she begins cozying up to.

The Vow fails to wow. It can be forgiven for being as predictable. However, the treatment given to the subject isn’t very impressive. Excessive melodrama isn’t witnessed, but neither is there much depth to the characters or comic relief or gravity or plain common sense. Things get silly when it is revealed just why Paige never brought up her folks when she was her former self. The two questions in the beginning of the review aren’t by a long shot the only question this film raises. (Spoiler: Does you’re father cheating on your mother with your best friend, for one, make you want to reassess your life and shift to the city to take up art?)

The ripped Tatum, as the devoted but frustrated husband is definitely less wooden than some of his other roles. McAdams’s performance also contributes in holding the thing together. Her character, in a perpetual state of confusion, is, to the audiences woe, terribly annoying when she is confused.

Unmemorable and limp, The Vow is a light-weight, one-time watch. Not a terrible love-conquers-all film, at the same time, it isn’t entirely good.

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Complete list of 84th Academy Award winners

The 84th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2011. The ceremony took place at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood, California and was televised live in the United States on ABC on February 26, 2012.
The ceremony was hosted by Billy Crystal, marking his ninth time as host, and produced by Brian Grazer. Eddie Murphy was originally scheduled to be the host, and Brett Ratner was to be producer. However, Murphy stepped down after Ratner resigned, following Ratner's use of a gay slur when discussing rehearsals.

The Artist and Hugo each won five awards, with the former winning Best Picture and its star Jean Dujardin winning Best Actor. The Iron Lady won two awards, including Best Actress for Meryl Streep. The Artist became the first silent motion picture in 83 years (after Wings, which won Best Picture at the 1st Academy Awards) and the first French film to win Best Picture.

Best Picture: The Artist
Actress in Leading Role: Meryl Streep

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Actor In Leading Role: Jean Dujardin
Actress in Supporting Role: Octavia Spencer for ‘The Help’
Actor in Supporting Role: Christopher Plummer for ‘Beginners’
Animated Feature Film: Rango
Cinematography: Hugo
Art Direction: Hugo
Costume Design: The Artist
Directing: The Artist
Documentary Feature: Undefeated
Documentary Short: Saving Face
Film Editing: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Foreign Language Film: Iran ‘A Separation’
Makeup: The Iron Lady
Music (Original Score): The Artist
Music (Original Song): Man or Muppet from The Muppets
Short Film (Animated): The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore
Short Film (Live Action): The Shore
Sound Editing: Hugo
Sound Mixing: Hugo
Visual Effects: Hugo
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): The Descendants
Writing (Original Screenplay): Midnight in Paris

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Singer Whitney Houston dies at 48

Famous US singer and actress Whitney Houston has died at age of 48,Publicist Kristen Foster said that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.


At her peak, Houston was the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980’s to the late 1990s , she was one of the world’s best-selling artists . Her success carried her beyond music to movies, where she starred in hits like “ The Bodyguard” and “Waiting to Exhale”. She had the perfect voice and the perfect image: a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but was never overtly sexual, who maintained perfect poise.

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