MTV Movie Awards 2009 : 'Twilight' Among the Early Winners

'Twilight' has started to show its domination at this year's MTV Movie Awards by nabbing three prizes, Breakthrough Male Performance for Robert Pattinson, Best Fight and Best Kiss.

2009 MTV Movie Awards is on and it is unraveled that "Twilight" has been announced among the early winners. On the ceremony held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, the popular vampire drama has taken away three of the golden popcorn statuettes for Breakthrough Male Performance, Best Fight and Best Kiss.

MTV MOVIE AWARDS CATEGORY
2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS WINNERS
2009 BEST MOVIE -Twilight-
2009 BEST MALE PERFORMANCE -Zac Efron-
2009 BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE -Kristen Stewart-

2009 BEST MALE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE -Robert Pattinson-
2009 BEST FEMALE BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE -Ashley Tisdale-
2009 BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE -Jim Carrey-
2009 BEST KISS -Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson -
2009 BEST VILLAIN -Heath Ledger-
2009 BEST FIGHT -Vampire Showdown: Robert Pattinson vs. Cam Gigandet -
2009 BEST WTF MOMENT -Amy Poehler: Peeing In The Sink -
2009 BEST SONG FROM A MOVIE -”The Climb” by Miley Cyrus -
2009 GENERATION AWARD -Ben Stiller-

The Breakthrough Male Performance was nabbed by its leading man Robert Pattinson, who overshadowed fellow nominees, Taylor Lautner, Ben Barnes, Dev Patel and Bobb'e J. Thompson. Meanwhile, for the Best Fight, the award went to the battle between Pattinson and his co-star Cam Gigandet.

As for the Best Kiss prize, Pattinson shared it with co-star Kristen Stewart. They beat out Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy of "Wanted (2008)", Freida Pinto and Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire", James Franco and Sean Penn of "Milk" and Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year".

Other announced winners so far include Ashley Tisdale, Amy Poehler and Miley Cyrus. Ashley brought home the Breakthrough Female Performance for her role as Sharpay Evans in "High School Musical 3", while Poehler scored Best WTF moment for her "Peeing in the Sink" scene in "Baby Mama" and Cyrus won Best Song title for her "The Climb" track in "Hannah Montana: The Movie".

The 2009 MTV Movie Awards is aired live by MTV from the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California starting at 9 P.M. ET on Sunday, May 31. "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg serves as the host with musical performances from Kings of Leon and Eminem.

source : www.aceshowbiz.com
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Wanna have 5,000 diamonds for free ??

TOKYO (June 1) — French jewelry store Mauboussin on Monday morning handed out pieces of 0.1 carat diamonds, worth 5,000 yen each, for free. A long queue formed in front of the store before its opening at 9 a.m., and the stock of 5,000 diamonds quickly ran out before noon.

This event was held for the brand’s promotion as customers are reducing the amount they spend on luxury jewelry in the current economic downturn.

For customers who want their free diamonds to be made into rings or pendants, the store is accepting such requests—for a fee of 50,000 yen.

“A value of a diamond doesn’t go down. And you never get tired of a diamond,” said Noriko Suzumaru, a 39-year-old housewife, who jumped on a train from the nearby city of Kawasaki to stand in line after seeing the deal on TV news.

Established in 1827, Mauboussin has six stores in Japan, with the Ginza store having opened this February. The flagship Ginza store is on one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in Japan, in February.

But the store had often been empty because its name, though associated with international celebrities, isn’t widely recognized among Japanese. Many still don’t even know how to pronounce Mauboussin (“Mo-bu-SAN”).

Trend-loving Japanese have also stood in lines for products like Apple Inc’s iPhone, the egg-shaped toy Tamagotchi and countless video games. So drawing lines in Tokyo has become a signature way businesses drum up publicity.

When Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz, or H&M, opened its first Tokyo stores last year, they drew lines for weeks, but the lines have since disappeared.

“We hope to blow away the recession and provide an opportunity for people who are holding back on spending to have fun shopping and glow even more with beauty,” Mauboussin said in a statement.

source : www.japantoday.com
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Jumbo jet packed with British tourists seconds from disaster after it fails to rise on take-off

Hundreds of passengers narrowly avoided disaster when their plane nearly crashed after taking off.

The British Airways plane shook violently and did not rise more than 30ft above the ground as it set off from Johannesburg to London.

The pilot has been praised for his quick actions in keeping the Boeing 747 in the air, saving the lives of the 256 passengers on board.

Travelling at 200mph, he dumped enough fuel for the aircraft to eventually gain height, before returning it to the airport.

It is believed that a technical fault caused the plane to go into landing mode so that the flaps that normally make it rise did not work.

An investigation is under way as to how the jet came so close to crashing.

A BA spokesman said: 'As a precaution BA56 Johannesburg to Heathrow flight on Monday May 11 returned to the airport shortly after take-off due to a suspected technical problem.

'The Boeing 747 aircraft with 256 passengers on board landed safely and the customers disembarked as normal into the airport.

'We are cooperating fully with the South African aviation safety authority's investigation into the flight.'

Referring to the pilot's quick actions, he added: 'Our crews are trained extensively to deal with all eventualities.'

In June last year, a BA plane travelling from Beijing crash-landed short of a runway at Heathrow, ripping off its undercarriage. All passengers and crew escaped.

Last week it emerged that BA lost more than £400million in the year up to March - its worst result since the airline was privatised more than two decades ago.

In 2007-08, the carrier achieved a record profit but it was caught in a vicious squeeze between falling demand, as the recession took hold, and a huge rise in fuel costs in the wake of last year's oil price surge.

Earlier this month, it was revealed that the airline planned to get rid of more than 100 pilots because of a huge fall in passenger numbers.

source : dailymail.co.uk
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The Loch Ness monster - that lived in the English Channel and died more than 200million years ago

It roamed the English channel more than 200 million years ago.

And now the prehistoric monster has surfaced once more - in the limestone of Lyme Regis's famous 'Jurassic Coast'.

Excited archaeologists discovered the Loch Ness-style creature on the beach and have spent months piecing together a giant jigsaw composed of dozens of old bones to reveal the 12ft-long plesiosaur.

The marine reptile hunted the oceans with a long thin neck and tail, four large flippers and razor-sharp teeth.

It existed during the Jurassic period about 150 to 200 million years ago when what is now the Channel was a shallow, tropical sea.

The remains were discovered by fossil hunter Tracey Marler under rocks on Monmouth Beach near Lyme Regis, Dorset.

She first found a single bone in limestone. She and partner Chris Moore, an expert in fossils, returned to the scene and they found four more bones.

As experts examined the bones in detail, they were surprised to see teeth marks from where a predator dinosaur would have feasted on the carcass of the 'lake monster'.

After further excavation about 150 vertebrae bones and parts of its skull and jaw, with one tooth remaining, were uncovered.

Mr Moore said: 'It came out in pieces but you could clearly see how it looked.

'The tail bone was in position, and some of the back bones were completely in place where they should be and the neck bone was there as well.

'You could see some of the bones had actually been chewed up a bit.

'There are teeth marks and you can see how the skeleton had been torn apart by some other nasty marine reptile.'

Mr Moore added: 'Their predator would have been the ichthyosaur which was carnivorous.'

Natural England worked closely with the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site team to carefully extract the fossils.

The alternative of leaving it could have led to it being destroyed by ill-informed collectors or eventually being washed away and eroded by the sea.

Richard Edmonds, science manager for the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, said: 'There was a risk that we could have damaged the pavement by the act of removing the fossil.

'Plesiosaur remains are rare. There are only 10 known examples of complete or even partial skeletons of this species.

'I have been doing this for 30-odd years and I have only ever found the odd bone.

'The specimen could not have been in a more sensitive location, in the famous and iconic ammonite pavement.'

It is hoped the skeleton, which is 70 per cent complete, will go on public display at the Lyme Regis Museum.

source : dailymail.co.uk
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