Month: July 2014

Woody Allen on magic, movies, and life’s meaning

July 25, 2014 0
This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows director Woody Allen, center, with actors Emma Stone, left, and Colin Firth on the set of "Magic in the Moonlight." (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Jack English)

Woody Allen’s “Magic in the Moonlight” stars Colin Firth as a stage magician and Emma Stone as a young medium whose self-proclaimed powers he’s trying to debunk. Allen shared some thoughts with The AP about magic, filmmaking, and the meaning of life —or, in his view, the utter lack thereof.

House, Senate chairs offer competing bills on VA

July 25, 2014 0
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 24, 2014, on the Veterans Administration. The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing new proposals to fix a veterans health care program scandalized by long waits and falsified records covering up the delays. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress scheduled to recess in a week, the chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs committees offered competing proposals Thursday to fix a veterans’ health care program scandalized by long patient wait times and falsified records covering up the delays.

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The tooth fairy goes from reel to real in Ye Hai Mohabbatein

July 24, 2014 0

The adorable kid Ruhinka Dhawan who essays the role of Ruhi Bhalla has won all hearts with her cute and innocent act on Star Plus’ Ye Hai Mohabbatein. Her character is being loved and appreciated by the audience. Sometimes she is trying to play cupid for Raman and Ishita and other times she is stealing all hearts with her ‘masti‘ onscreen. Recently she lost her tooth onscreen and all kids could relate to that scene and the ‘tooth fairy’ story our parents tell us to make us feel better.

Tables turned: Madoff letter to U.S. judge appears to be fake

July 24, 2014 0
File photo of Bernard Madoff exiting the Manhattan federal court house in New York

By Joseph Ax and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme relied on reams of fake trading documents to fool regulators for decades. Now he may be the victim of a forgery himself, after a U.S. judge on Wednesday denied a bizarre motion supposedly filed by Madoff that claimed the U.S. intelligence agencies used “bio-electric sensors” to influence the case against him. Madoff’s signature did not match his typical one, and the letter contained numerous typing mistakes and a handwritten rant. Another man was listed below Madoff’s purported signature as “legal asst” Frederick Banks.

This time, Obama fundraising is a bit of ‘Scandal’

July 24, 2014 0
President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at San Francisco International Airport, Tuesday, July 22, 2014, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fact met fiction Wednesday in one of those Hollywood ways: The real-life president of the United States complains about “phony scandals” in the presence of the producer and the star of a hit TV drama about indignity and dishonor among Washington’s political elite.