Johnny Depp is People’s 2009 Sexiest Man Alive. This is the second time Depp has won the title. In 2003, Depp has won the title after portraying as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.” Depp become the only third person to have won the title twice — Brad Pitt (1995 and 2000) and George Clooney (1997 and 2006).
According to BBC News, Leona Lewis has recorded the signature song for upcoming science fiction film, Avatar. The song is called “I See You”. The song is produced by the same men that produced Celine Dion’s Titanic hit “My Heart Will Go On”. The movie Avatar is also produced from Titanic director, James Cameron.
2012 may be a disaster movie, but it ain’t disastrous when it comes to the box office. Over the weekend, Roland Emmerich’s 2012 took in an estimated $65 million in US alone and an additional $160 million overseas. That means the film almost made back the $200m – $260m budget in just 3 days!
Chocolatier Patrick Roger has rebuilt the Berlin Wall with chocolate. He said customers will be able to smash up the replica at his store in Paris to mark the anniversary of the Wall’s destruction.
Elena Desserich was diagnosed with brain cancer just before her sixth birthday. She was told she has 135 days to live, but she lived 255 days, passing away in 2007.
Okay, get ready a hanky, prepare to cry.
Elena began writing and hiding hundreds of little love notes around the house for her parents to find after she was gone. After her death, Elena’s parents, Brooke and Keith Desserich, found hundred of notes from Elena hidden around the house — in between CD cases, between bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in backpacks.
Elena’s parents have now published these notes in a book called Notes Left Behind to fund a non-profit organization The Cure Starts Now dedicated to fighting pediatric brain cancer.
Sean Murphy, an employee at Preuss Pets in Lansing, Michigan, stuffed 16 Madagascar cockroaches into his mouth in order to break the Guinness World Records. The current world record is 11 cockroaches.
Murphy says he might try for 20 next year’s Halloween. Murphy is waiting for a response from Guinness World Records, which he expects in a matter of weeks.
Charlize Theron kissed a girl for 20 seconds for $140,000 during a live auction for OneXOne in San Francisco in an attempt to overcome the $280,000 Jeremy Piven had raised. She announced that she would kiss a man for seven seconds, or a woman for 20. Apparently, the woman outbid the two men to kiss Charlize Theron for 20 seconds. What a kiss!