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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler Talk Sex On The First Date


In "Just Go With It," Adam Sandler and Brooklyn Decker's characters meet at a house party, fall hard for each other, and — in an instance of what the "Jersey Shore" cast would call being "DTF" — spend a sandy night of passion on the beach.
Which begs the question: How does the cast feel about getting down and dirty on the first date? Good idea? Great idea? Or you-gotta-be-crazy bad idea? That's what MTV News wanted to know when we hit the film's red-carpet premiere earlier this week.


"Terrible idea. Don't do it!" Sandler declared. "You got to hold it back."
In fact, Sandler said that if viewers take away one thing from the new comedy, it should be, "Block it! Block it and lock it!"
Aniston agreed. "I don't think it's a good idea," she told us.
Decker, too, approved of that keep-it-in-your-pants counsel, even if her big-screen counterpart did not. "Total no-no. A complete no-no," the model-turned-actress said. "My character, Palmer, did it. Shame on Palmer! Make him wait. That should be something kind of special."
Lest you think everyone involved with "Just Go With It" is advising randy Americans to wait until, say, the second date to bump and grind, one co-star told us that, hey, if it feels good, go for it.
"I think it probably depends. Seems like a good idea at the time, doesn't it?" said Dave Matthews, who has a small but memorable role as an egocentric resort-goer. "If you're both into sleeping together on the first date, I can't think of a reason not to. Good idea!"
Check out everything we've got on "Just Go With It."

Noam Murro to Direct DIE HARD 5


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Die Hard 5 officially has a director, and it’s not exactly someone you expected. Noam Murro, best known for helming 2008’s Smart People starring Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker, has been tapped by Fox to direct the latest installment of the Die Hard franchise. Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) has been on hand to write the screenplay since last May. However, earlier today we reported that Fox was unimpressed with Woods’ latest draft of the screenplay and is going back to the drawing board, with franchise star Bruce Willis taking an active role in development. Having a director on board should be helpful in crafting a successful script, but might Fox bring another writer in for some fresh perspective?
Though Murro is relatively unknown, THR’s report points out that he’s a highly acclaimed commercials director, having been nominated by the DGA for Director of the Year five times, as well as having won the Gold Lion at the Cannes Gold Lion awards. Hit the jump for more on Murro.
While it may seem an odd choice to hire someone with little to no action experience for a Die Hard movie, Michael Bay started in commercials, so I’ll reserve judgment until we see what the guy can do (if he’s winning awards, he’s gotta be doing something right).
There’s currently no word on what the plot of DieImpossible Hard 5 will entail, though Willis previously stated that this film will be “worldwide.” However, so many different rumors about the project have arisen in the last year, there’s no telling what the film actually looks like now. The previous franchise installment, the Len Wiseman-helmed Live Free or Die Hard, was a commercial success (thanks to the PG-13 rating) having grossed $383.5 million worldwide, but was met with a mixed reaction from both audiences and critics.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

HOT Lady Gaga crowd surfing Lollapalooza

Watch Lady Gaga's shocking crowd surfing video (in which she throws herself to peoples and crowds molests her)

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Venture capitalists give pep-up pill to start-ups in hard times

Mahesh Murthy, a partner at Seedfund, is at one of the nine start-ups his venture capital firm has invested in everyday, to help companies stay afloat in these troubled times.

Murthy and his two other partners would till a few months ago visit these companies only once in more than a month. Now, they visit these firms daily, to guide the start-ups in cutting and saving costs and improving operational efficiencies. The whole idea is to ensure that the start-ups smoothly sail through the economic downturn.

What Murthy and his partners do is a new norm among venture capital funds. "We are now spending 50 per cent of the time with investee companies," said Hemir Doshi, senior investment adviser, IDG Ventures India. "We have to ensure none of them should fall by the way and continue to remain healthy." Visits to companies have now become once a week from once a month earlier, Doshi said. IDG is a $150 million early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology and technology-enabled companies.

"Companies are being advised to let employees travel between cities like Mumbai and Pune or Bangalore and Chennai only by road, and not by air. For travel to distant cities, normal fare airlines are strictly banned," Seedfund's Murthy, told HT. "We tell companies to use only low cost carriers if officials have to travel to distant cities."

Seedfund has made early stage investments in firms like Carwale.com, an online used card market, and online agencyfaqs.com, an online resource for advertising, media and marketing.

According to Doshi, IDG is looking at altering the employee compensation structure by reducing the fixed component and increasing the variable component. "Companies are advised to increase the variable pay to 30-40 per cent wherever possible from 10-20 per cent," he said. Doshi was addressing a gathering of aspiring entrepreneurs organised by Headstart Network Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that brings together people with start-up ideas and venture capital funds.

Venture capital funds have made sales and revenues top priority at start-ups they have funded and are impressing upon the companies to bring down cash burn as much as possible. Start-ups are being told they need to behave as if they are already in a recession.