Tom Cruise has regret hysterical reaction to Oprah

Tom Cruise was so in love with Katie Holmes Oprah that the bank had to suffer. In retrospect not very smart, will find Tom ...

He looks with a slight sense of shame back on his actions by Oprah. "I had better else can do. I had to deal with it better. At first I was surprised by all the criticism afterwards, but it has Katie's family and my family closer together. It was not fun to face and I was also very extreme. But Kate is a self-confident woman. They know it. "

Rotterdam where both his greatness as smallness shows

The government gets its authority never gift, but must prove themselves again and again. They were wise words, which the former mayor of Rotterdam, Bram Peper, then as Minister of Home Affairs, the second cabinet-Cook with a stinging essay on continued sharp. The momentum of the first cabinet was lost, the second threatened to become entangled in a little confidence management culture.

Pepper never had the same fear that he may soon own the veracity of the claim had to prove, in the so-called receipts affair: as mayor he would wrongly many tens of thousands of dollars have declared, that money was spent on private travel, luxury cars partyschip at the Municipal Port Authority and exuberant drinking. A relentless struggle for self-justify followed. That he could shake off predators but there were no hard evidence. But meanwhile he was minister and his relationship with Rotterdam seemed permanently disrupted.

Onbehaaglijke with this situation now seems happy to have an end. This week was Pepper in the Rotterdam city hall and unveil his portrait was after ten years filled the empty spot in the corridor with Rotterdam Mayor portraits. The town hall is on order, found a happy mayor Ivo Opstelten. And in his word thanks also noted a Pepper satisfied that both parties are going about their shadow burst.

In short, ending all right. Although? You will happen but that several raadsfracties, including those of Peppers PvdA, the opportunity yet again to the mayor aangrepen thoroughly to pepper the town that he is still guilty of some sloppy thirty thousand euro is unjustified because declarations. This suggests that the council is still high. And part is that sometimes to understand. Not that Pepper ever a penny stuck in his own pocket. What, however, still sticks, consideration is the way he thought to hurl money, without having to justify it. He was, as he claimed, 24 hours a day for the town in rope. Then we also had not whine about a few dimes more or less.

Conversely, the council during his term of office, there never has made a point of. Then it is not so many years later to continue to whine. Evil is human, is still angry devils, and how then do after such a grand gesture to small.

The Long and Winding Road to iTunes

Bad news for fans of The Beatles. Negotiations for the oeuvre of the most popular and influential pop group ever to get iTunes are shut down, says Sir Paul McCartney is not personally involved in the discussions appear to be.

The former bassist of the band would say to own the muziekcatalogus like iTunes and other online music stores to see. To that end, EMI, that the rights to a large part of the collection possession, and Apple Corps, the holding of the surviving band members and heirs to reach an agreement. According to a spokesman for EMI is working hard on a deal, but to date no agreement reached.

As a result of a conflict between Apple Computer Inc. builder. and the holding of the band members on the use of name and logo, the latter party has long been denied the music available through iTunes. Since the conflict ended in 2006, make regular rumors that The Beatles on iTunes will still appear. Steve Jobs gave last year that the Apple music of the Fab Four's looks like iTunes. "As soon as they're ready, we're ready."

Last month it became known that music of The Beatles will be used in a video game from the creators of the popular Rock Band.

Viktor & Rolf to do Utrecht

After a successful exhibition in London's Barbican Art Gallery, the two are now doing the Centraal Museum in Utrecht on. This is the largest exhibition of the modeduo Viktor & Rolf ever held in the Netherlands.

In an impressive Accurately made dollhouse miniatures of the original documents displayed on handmade porcelain dolls. This retrospective offers the spectacular highlights of the Viktor & Rolf collections of the last 15 years.

The original design play an important role in the exhibition.

Known Haute Couture pieces are a highlight here, as the well-known Russian Doll from 1999-2000. A model was-on way of perfomance art by the designers dressed in ten separate layers. Typical of the ironic and surrealistic style that has become the big two.

International art collections

The works of Viktor & Rolf are part of several important international collections. For example, the documents shown in several exhibitions worldwide including the Kyoto Costume Institute, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.

Since the purchase of the first Viktor & Rolf piece in 1998, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht now collected 29 pieces, of which a large part in the exhibition can be seen.

Traveling exhibition

The House of Viktor & Rolf is composed by Jane Alison, senior curator of London's Barbican Art Gallery. The Dutch architect and art historian Siebe Tettero is responsible for the design. The Viktor & Rolf boutique in Milan where everything on its head was also his hand.

The construction of the dollhouse requires meticulous precision. For that same reason carpenters deployed by the exhibition in London have built up. It includes miniature design as the originals very sensitive documents. Nevertheless, the exhibition several international destinations ports. The locations are still subject to change, but New York is high on the wish list.

Viktor & Rolf

Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren forms since graduating from the School of the Arts in Arnhem in 1992 a successful ontwerpersduo. In 1998 they presented their first Haute Couture Collection. This was in March 2000 followed by their first prêt-à-porter collection. The launch of their own Flower Bomb perfume, and a sellout collection for H & M in 2006 marked their international breakthrough.

The House of Viktor & Rolf is up to and including February 8, 2009 to visit the Central Museum in Utrecht.

Emmy for signs Donorshow march Dutch television

That the British once again dominated Monday at the International Emmy Awards, surprised no one. 'This is how it always, "sighed the trade journal Hollywood Reporter Tuesday.
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Paul Römer and Patrick Lodiers of BNN show their Emmy. (Reuters Photo)

However, there were surprises during the gala dinner in New York. Jordan and Argentina won their first Emmy and the Dutch makers of The Big Donorshow were given the prize for the best non-scripted entertainment, "an honor in the international television world. In September won crime reporter Peter R. de Vries already an American with his Emmy in the U.S. broadcast program on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.

The Big Donorshow, a fake-reality program about organ donation, was also in the U.S. after the controversial June last year on the Dutch television show was. "Tasteless" and "unethical," sounded in the American media reported on the Emmy's.

But the show deserved this more than many other Emmy winners, "says Robert Thompson, a New York TV connoisseur. "It may be effective for political activism mixed with amusement."

Patrick Lodiers, the host of the program, held on Monday also found that mix. From the podium he turned to Den Haag. 'Think again please after, we can change our donor system so that everything is better. "Among the guests at the Hilton hotel:" The Big Donorshow was fake, so do not worry and enjoy your food. "But after the pun was perhaps not everyone picked up: "Always look at the bright side of death."

The Emmy is considered the Oscar of the television world. American TV makers have their own ceremony in September. The international version of the prize is awarded by the International Academy for Arts and Sciences, an organization with more members than six hundred seventy countries. The International Emmy's do not mean much for the public in the U.S., because most programs do not have to see. But in the rest of the world and to American colleagues is "a sign of quality and accreditation," says Robert Thompson.

The judges work in the TV world and are members of the Academy. The price Thompson is a reflection of the tastes and attitudes of the people who vote. It is, like the Oscars, a loft expression of colleagues.

Britain won seven of the ten Emmy's on hold. But in the category won telenovelle' Al-Igtiyah ( "The invasion") from Jordan. Televisión por la identidad from Argentina won the prize for best TV movie.

According to Elizabeth Guider of the Hollywood Reporter is no coincidence that the international Emmy's actually be internationalized. The targeted attempts to TV-makers from other countries and to encourage language, have success. "Interesting concepts come from everywhere, prices must be fairly distributed," says Guider. That was also clear by the cheer in the room when The Big Donorshow won. "People were pleased that the British are not their umpteenth price within dragged."

The American media expert Andy Newhart in Florida was "not surprised" about the price for The Big Donorshow, because that 'something uplifting of value "was a reality program. Thompson continues. He commented on American television last year when the controversy played. The show was not there to see, but Thompson looked at a videotape and thought it was an interesting experiment. "I was not one of those who immediately took to the disgusting words' game 'and' kidney 'in a sentence to mention," says Thompson.

He praised the success of Big Brother, Peter R. de Vries and now The Big Donorshow. "Dutch people make good television."

Michelle Williams misses Heath Ledger increasingly

The lack of an overdose in January to deceased Heath Ledger is Michelle Williams, with whom the actor a daughter of three years, becoming heavier. During an interview with Newsweek Williams burst into tears when Ledger name was still listed. "It's so sad," said Williams about the death of Ledger. How they keep their heads above water? "That is changing constantly. What can I say? Marriage is like a river in motion." Although the two were separated, they were a close contact. "The shortage is worse by the day, although I am optimistic by nature. The more time passes, the more I miss him." Williams takes a year off for her daughter Matilda to worry. "I do not want to work while they are at school," says Williams in the interview. "I want them to a routine. The most common, simple routine that I can give her."

The Toppers have luxury problem

The gentlemen of The Toppers can not make a mediocre song on the Eurovision Song Contest to


Jeroen, Rene and Gordon can choose from no fewer than 330 songs. They may not know in advance who the song writers to prevent the men are blinded by prejudice. Among others DJs Rob Stender and Ruud de Wild have submitted numbers. Gordon also said that he wanted a receipt number, but whether that was just an idle threat is not yet clear.

The semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest fall on 12 and 14 May. The main show is on May 16.