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Dance moves that attract women
The secret on how to impress women on the dance floor has now been revealed. A study has found out that men who move their necks and torsos more to the beat are most likely to attract members of the opposite...


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Whoopi Goldberg mourning mother's death
Actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg is mourning the death of her mother who succumbed to death after a stroke last month.oldberg was appearing in the London theatre production of Sister Act when she had to return to the U.S. after discovering her mother Emma had a...
Students stage street play against Orissa dam project
Students of a college here, staged a street play to protest the rupees 100 billion-Polavaram Indira Sagar dam project on River...
I'm a perfectionist when it comes to fight sequences: Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal toils really hard in his quest for perfection when it comes to his acting...
Gemma Arterton named woman of the year at GQ awards
British Actress Gemma Arterton has been named woman of the year at the GQ Men of the Year Awards, which was held at the Royal Opera House in...
Comedian Brand secretly rehearses dance moves
British comedian Russell Brand says his lack of confidence to dance in public makes him rehearse his moves...
Flamboyant movements on dance floor entice women
Flamboyant body movements may paint you as a show-off on the dance floor but it will also attract the opposite...
The right dance moves for men to attract women revealed
Which dancing moves you should show off to get a way with the ladies and which ones you shouldn't have been revealed in a new...
Rolling Stones mulling 50th anniversary world tour
The Rolling Stones are apparently planning to stage a 50th anniversary tour in...
Exclusive: The Whole Truth Casts Annabella Sciorra
Numb3rs was the first to sign on to guest-star, but Donaghy hopes the pair won't be the last. "I want to cast all my famous friends," he says with a laugh. The Whole...
Stephen King?s The Dark Tower to Be Adapted into Film Trilogy and TV Series
the small screen. Universal Pictures and NBC Universal Television will produce both a film trilogy and a TV series based on King's series of books, the companies announced...
Mike Tyson Expecting Eighth Child
reports. The child, due in January, is the former boxing champion's second with wife Lakiha Spicer Tyson. The couple has a 21-month-old daughter,...
Blu-Ray Review: Mars Attacks!
was released in 1996 I was one of the few who saw it in theaters, which would also presumably also make me one of the first ones to despise the film with everything I've got. I won't sit here and...
Hong Kong model arrested after Nevada desert event
In this photo provided by the Washoe County Sheriff, Rosemary Vandenbroucke, 28, of Hong Kong is seen. Vandenbroucke, a Hong Kong fashion model is facing a felony drug charge following her arrest at...
DVD Review: The Exploding Girl
Mark Rendall ) ends up sleeping on her couch during the summer break while her boyfriend is away and emotionally checked out. Ivy and Al's friendship is completely platonic, but is it really? That's...
Can We Talk about that 127 Hours Trailer?
chronicles the real-life ordeal of mountain climber Aron Ralston. In 2003 a fallen boulder trapped him in an isolated Utah canyon for about five days. Don't worry though, he escaped. After he...
Graffiti taggers made to dance for their sins
Wellington - Two youths who allegedly tagged a fence with graffiti were made to dance in the property owners' lounge to humiliate them until police arrived, according...
Michelle Obama hosts first White House dance party
In the end, it was a wonder the three massive chandeliers gracing the White House East Room remained intact, given the high-voltage expenditure of human energy taking place beneath...
Bellingham fall arts tour
More than 40 Bellingham-area artists will participate in the 2010 Whatcom Artists Studio Tour on the weekends of Oct. 2-3 and Oct. 9-10. Glassworkers, jewelers, painters, carvers, potters and weavers...
LFO star Cronin dead at 35
U.S. boy band star Rich Cronin has lost his battle with leukemia. The LFO star died on Wednesday, two weeks after his 35th birthday. Cronin, who wrote LFO's 1999 hit Summer Girls, suffered a stroke...
Britney accused of sex harassment
Britney Spears is at the centre of a shocking sexual harassment case, filed against her by a former bodyguard. Fernando Flores claims the pop star repeatedly exposed herself to him, while he was in...
Tour set to stage Scottish return
The Tour of Britain is to return to Scotland next year after leaving the country off its route for 2010. This year's race gets under way in Rochdale this weekend but does not include a stage...
CNN Names Piers Morgan as Larry King's Replacement
Larry King's replacement as a prime-time interviewer in January, promised that he ''came here to win.'' CNN nailed down the final piece of its prime-time makeover on Wednesday, after months where it...
Spears' Former Bodyguard Sues for Sex Harassment
Britney Spears on Wednesday, claiming the singer repeatedly subjected him to ''repeated unwanted sexual advances'' and harassment. Fernando Flores filed the sexual harassment lawsuit in suburban Los...
Lawsuit Over Filming of Beyonce Video Settled
More Arts News LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles man upset with the disruption from a Beyonce Knowles music video shoot has been dismissed and settled. A Los Angeles Superior...
Chicago Mayor Daley Hears From Oprah Winfrey
More Arts News CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's decision to not run for another term prompted a call from someone else who's famous name is synonymous with the nation's third-largest...
Britney Spears Accused Of Sexual Harassment
Britney Spears filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him. Fernando Flores also accused...
World's most expensive book comes up for sale
By any standards they form part of a truly extraordinary library: a rare copy of the world's most expensive book, perhaps the most important book in English literature, a fascinating cache of letters...
Photographer Molly Landreth's best shot
Not scandalous at all. Rather anodyne, in fact. If this were my "best shot", I think I'd choose a different career. I reckon Ms Landreth needs to get out more.Why is there so much meaningless Jewish...
Shop, Sample and Dance: West Hollywood Celebrates Fashion’s Night Out on Friday, September 10, 2010
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - (Business Wire) Designers, celebrities, models and fashion editors will stage exciting, one-of-a-kind events for Fashion's Night Out in West Hollywood stores on Friday,...
Video: Dance Moves Attract Women
A new study by British scientists finds that women tend to be more attracted, or in some cases turned off, by the way a man can dance. Richard Schlesinger...
Pratt to Montag: Sorry for my outrageous behavior
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2009 file photo, Heidi Montag, left, and Spencer Pratt pose at a book signing event for their book "How To Be Famous" at Borders Books in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes,...
Va. philanthropist, billionaire John Kluge dies
FILE - In this Aug. 8, 1994 file photo, Billionaire John Kluge, is shown in New York. John Kluge, who built an investment in a radio station into the Metromedia broadcasting empire, has died. He was...
Keck's Exclusives: Marisol Nichols Romances NCIS: LA's O'Donnell
, has signed on to play Callen's ex-partner, Tracy Keller. "The role's booked as guest star/recurring," says Marisol, who debuts in the sixth new episode, titled "Stand-Off." Word is the two...
TNT Orders Dallas Update, Two Other Pilots
, which revolves around a detective who must redeem himself after accidentally ending his partner's career. After three hyper-smart geniuses help him save his job, he realizes he must keep these new...
Sonia Gandhi plays 'Chacha Nehru' on Modi's stage
Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday reached out to over 600 students and their families in Modi's hometown, Vadnagar. On the face of it, the session was purely an academic affair. But, political analysts...
Sculpture takes centre stage
WORKS by Damien Hirst, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore are to feature in the first major 20th-century sculpture exhibition for 30 years at the Royal Academy of Arts in...
The Guardians of America’s Front Lawn
Smithsonian Institution . But they are the lucky ones. Each year groups seeking space to build on the Mall show up before the commission, one of the gatekeepers for what functions as the...
A Writer’s Long Journey to Trace the Great Migration
ATLANTA — To finish “The Warmth of Other Suns,” her magisterial new history of the black migration in America, which carried millions of Southerners northward or westward, Isabel...
Books of The Times: At This School, Misfits Make Up the Student Body
Paul Murray’s “Skippy Dies” is a luxuriantly eccentric novel set in Seabrook College, a Dublin school that is a magnet for teenage misfits. One Seabrook boy keeps a collection of...
Soap Suds by Day, Political Drama by Night
the character on “One Life to Live,” the ABC soap opera, but the protracted how-many-days-have-I-got death scenes could not have come at a better time for Florencia Lozano, who portrays...
Disturbed, at No. 1 Again, Earns Rare Distinction
Metallica and the Dave Matthews Band you expect to be giants of the Billboard charts. But Disturbed? A metal band from Chicago that has sold 11 million albums worldwide, Disturbed can now, with the...
Deepak Chopra's 'Muhammad' to Be Released Early as E-Book
“Muhammad,” Deepak Chopra’s fictionalized biography about the life of the Prophet Muhammad, will go on sale early in e-book form, weeks ahead of the print book’s publication date of Sept. 21....
Latin Grammy Nominations Announced
Juan Luis Guerra, Alejandro Sanz, Jorge Drexler and Mario Domm lead the nominations for the 11th annual Latin Grammy Awards, announced on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles. Those veteran musicians...
Reopening History of Storied Norse Chessmen
The Lewis Chessmen are the most famous and important chess pieces in history. They have a long historical and scholarly record, part of which is that they were made in Norway roughly 800 years ago....
Critic’s Notebook: Ah, Hamlet, I Thought I Knew You Well
There are some people you feel can never surprise you, you know them so well. You’ve spent hours in their company, you know all their little habits, you even hear what they’re going to...
Movie Review | 'Honeymoons': Stumbling Over Roadblocks to Love and Hope
When a film is billed as “the first Albanian-Serbian co-production,” as “Honeymoons” is, you expect it to earn the adjective brave, and “Honeymoons” does. But the...
Currents | Q&A: The Father of Modern Architectural Minimalism
John Pawson , the father of modern architectural minimalism. Now 61, the British architect — who slept on a white hammock at boarding school and once spent 24 hours in a Japanese monastery,...