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Michelle Obama replaces Angela Merkel as the most powerful woman in the world in the latest list from Forbes magazineThe newly released 2010 Forbes list of the world's most powerful women has ranked Michelle Obama at number 1, usurping the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and even beating omnipresent singer Lady Gaga into 7th place.
The annual list saw a number of media personalities breach the top 10, including two talk show hosts, Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Degeneres.
Obama, described by Forbes as "a forceful advocate of school nutrition standards", leads a new-look list from the magazine, whose 2009 list of powerful women was mostly dominated by politicians and chief executives of international companies.
Cue the horror music: Little J is back on Gossip Girl and totally going all Single White Female on Serena!
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Tom Sturridge hit the town last night with some buds, checking out some music at the Troubadour on Sunset (Jenny and Johnny were on the bill).
Raise a tumbler of Hemingway’s Whiskey (or another congratulatory beverage of your choice) to Kenny Chesney, whose album of that name just landed atop the new Billboard 200 album sales chart. It sold a healthy 183,000 copies in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan. This is Chesney’s sixth trip to No. 1; as Billboard notes, Garth Brooks is the only country star to top the album chart more often, with eight No. 1s. Cheers to Chesney!
EW has confirmed that Sandra Bullock is within reach of snagging the lead in director Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi thriller Gravity, her first film since winning an Oscar for The Blind Side. (Deadline.com first reported the story.) Currently in negotiations for the part after Natalie Portman dropped out due to scheduling issues, Bullock would star opposite Robert Downey, Jr. as an astronaut on a remote space station who survives a disaster and must fight to return home to her daughter. (Cuarón also wrote the screenplay with his grown son Jonas.)
What is your favorite sequel subtitle? The Wrath of Khan? Dead Man’s Chest? Or perhaps you share my belief that every film title would be better if “Tokyo Drift” were amended onto the end? (Star Wars: Tokyo Drift. Citizen Kane: Tokyo Drift. The Proposal: Tokyo Drift.) Whatever your preference, this news concerns us all: According to The Wrap, the current title for the upcoming Transformers threequel is Transformers: The Dark of the Moon, which is either a brilliant reference to Pink Floyd or an indication that no one involved with the making of Transformers 3 has ever heard of Pink Floyd. Either way, what a title!
Motorola, one of the major telephone handset makers, has accused Apple in a lawsuit of violating 18 patents.
With TVB’s Anniversary Awards ceremony taking place in December again this year, the competition for TV King and Queen has been a constant focus in recent weeks.
We’d be lying if we said we didn’t see this coming – Following the announcement of this year’s Golden Horse nominations, Leehom Wang was asked to respond on the lack of noms (with the exception of Best Song) for his directorial debut “Love is Disguise”. He said comedies were never meant for awards, and pointed out that Stephen Chow has never won a Golden Horse for Best Actor either. The comparison quickly drew a wave of backlash from netizens. One even mocked him with *a line from the Stephen Chow classic “King of Comedy” calling him just a “God-damn extra” (when compared to Chow.)
When Idris Elba hinted to TotalFilm.com the other day that he had a deal with Marvel, fans immediately linked the actor with Luke Cage, the Harlem-bred badass. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, Elba’s next encounter in Marvel’s superhero universe — after next year’s Thor — will be in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, playing an “alcoholic warrior monk,” (which, in my opinion, is the awesome title of some hypothetical movie I’d actually pay to see). Johnny Whitworth (Gamer) is also reportedly aboard to play a crook who makes a deal with the devil. I still envision Elba as the breathing incarnation of Luke Cage, but for now, the bruising Brit will have to settle with that other rage-filled Cage, the Ghost Rider himself, Nicolas.
Show "Xiao Zhu (Little Pig)" Lo takes over the baton of the kings, endorsing a Mainland China brand of casual wear. The company put in lots of money and took the whole crew to Seoul, Korea for filming. After work, he went shopping at Dongdaemun in the middle of the night, and invited his female coworkers into his room as he played out a fashion show to show off his new clothes.
AVRIL Lavigne is back on the market.
Jessica Alba is oily, sexy perfection on GQ U.K.'s latest cover, but inside the November issue the actress would rather talk about her flaws.
In case you somehow missed it, Microsoft lodged a complaint with the ITC on Friday, alleging Motorola's Android smartphones infringed on nine of its precious patents. You might imagine that'd sting the pride of Moto's chief exec Sanjay Jha, but nothing could be further from the truth. Describing such turf wars over intellectual property as "part of business," Sanjay explains that his company is willing to work with Microsoft on developing a handset based around its new OS, so long as the offering is "compelling." He notes that the first call he received upon becoming co-CEO and handset division chief back in 2008 was from none other than Steve Ballmer, but Microsoft's failure to deliver a new OS in '09 is what compelled him to go the Android route (we doubt he regrets doing it, mind you!).
Palm hasn’t introduced a single new device since April this year, when the company was bought by HP – which now also owns WebOS.
With two careers that keep them on the road, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher haven't had much together time since their July 10 wedding, but the singer says for her, marriage is a perfect fit.
Firefox's direct pipeline to Google search results is Mozilla's dominant revenue source, but the next version of the open-source Web browser will also get Microsoft's Bing as an alternative.
