bpb Cutting: Skin Deep
Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:21
bpb Cutting:
Skin Deep

Busts, blues and Broadway in our weekly pick-tionary of Mumbai happenings. 

Our weekly pick-tionary of happenings from Mumbai and beyond.

Busted! Sex siren Marilyn Monroe’s chest X-ray is up for auction in Las Vegas and Catherine Zeta Jones goes nude for the first time, in Allure magazine.

A Career advice website claims that according to their study, 80% of jobs are secured through networking at the right places, like the gym. Tread (mill) carefully.

Disaster: A storm kills At least 30 people in West Bengal; hundreds die in North West China Earthquake. R.I.P

Fashionista Sonam Kapoor does yet another yummy photo shoot for Filmfare magazine, dressed in Prashant Verma’s Spring Summer 2010 collection.


Fork Pitch: Two IITians launch the Mumbai Community Card (MCC) that allows you to dine out and donate to a cause at the same time. Eat your heart out!

Hollywood Connections: Mira Nair prepares for Broadway version of Monsoon Wedding and Vidhu Vinod Chopra begins project with Fred Roos, producer of Oscar-winning The Godfather II.

Playing safe: A South African doctor wants to hand out 30,000 free anti-rape condoms (Rape-aXe) for women before the football World Cup. How about doing the same in Delhi before the Commonwealth Games? Just a thought!

Shashi Tharoor continues to be controversy’s favourite child. After his connection to a certain Kashmiri beautician and an IPL team, the Minister of State for External Affairs has reportedly received a death threat from the D-Company asking him to lay off IPL chairman Lalit Modi. All this we learnt not from a little (Twitter) birdie.

Shoaib-Sania fiasco ends in marriage with the Pakistani cricketer reportedly agreeing to settle in Hyderabad, anchored to a new ball and chain.

Tonight at Blue Frog, Delhi-based Mrigya play the blues, funk, latino, folk, jazz and Indian classical music. And on that high note, we're off!

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