Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

Jessica Alba confessed that she wore a girdle right after she gave birth. That’s how she managed to keep her figure even after giving birth.

That’s right, folks. The secret is out, and it’s "girdle"!

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The Love Guru is a comedy starring Mike Myers and Jessica Alba.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Mike Myers and Jessica Alba in "The Love Guru"

Guru Maurice Pitka (played by Mike Myers) is a self-help life coach and is the second most popular guru, behind Deepak Chopra. His ultimate goal is to take over from Deepak Chopra as the number one guru. An opportunity arises when Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) enlists the help of Pitka to help Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco), the star player of the ice hockey team, Toronto Maple Leafs has a problem which affects his hockey performance. This problem is caused by the fact that his wife, Prudence (Meagan Good) has left him for L.A. Kings goalkeeper, Jacques “Le Coq” Grandé (Justin Timberlake). Since Bullard offers a generous amount of payment plus an opportunity to be invited to Oprah Winfrey’s show, Pitka accepts the opportunity as he knows it would help him becoming the number one guru.

Though the movie is partially funny, most of the jokes are satirical — the movie relies mostly on mindless crotch humor and midget jokes. Verne Troyer (who played Mini-Me in Austin Powers movies) plays Punch Cherkov, the coach of Toronto Maple Leafs. When you put the entire movie casts together, you get a movie that’s full of crap. But, at least, it is still better than Disaster Movie, which has like 0% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Overall, Mike Myers is still a great comedian, he just needs a better script. A spiritual, self-help guru is like a character totally opposite him. The Love Guru is still watchable if you have nothing better to do.

My ratings: 3 out of 10.

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Many celebrities are getting hitched in the year 2008. The followings are some of them:

Scarlett Johansson & Ryan Reynolds

Scarlett Johansson & Ryan Reynolds

Taboo & Jaymie Dizon

Taboo & Jaymie Dizon

Portia De Rossi & Ellen DeGeneres

Portia De Rossi & Ellen DeGeneres

Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey

Nick Cannon & Mariah Carey

Jessica Alba & Cash Warren

Jessica Alba & Cash Warren

Ashley Simpson & Pete Wentz

Ashley Simpson & Pete Wentz

Beyoncé & JAY-Z

Beyoncé & JAY-Z

Carla Bruni & Nicolas Sarkozy

Carla Bruni & Nicolas Sarkozy

Do you find any celebrities missing from this list?

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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren Got Married

Jessica Alba and her fiancé Cash Warren quietly got married on Monday afternoon. Her rep confirmed the news but there is no further statement. The couple is expecting their first child, a baby girl, early this summer. They met while filming Fantastic Four last year.

Congratulations to both of them!

(Source: People)

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The Love Guru, Pitka (Mike Meyers) is an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business.

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Awake is about a rich young man Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) who needs a life-saving heart transplant. Though the movie was released in the USA on November 30, 2007, the film is only released in Russia (January 10, 2008), Portugal (January 28, 2008) and Brazil (March 21, 2008), and will only be released on March 27, 2008 for Malaysia and South Korea, Spain (March 28, 2008), UK (April 4, 2008), Singapore (April 17, 2008).

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba in the movie "Awake"

Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) has everything. He’s a capital-investment firm chief and a great career awaits him. He also has a beautiful woman named Sam Lockwood (Jessica Alba) waiting for him to marry her. The only problem he is he needs a heart transplant, really fast.

Though Clay is in love with Sam, he is unwilling to tell his mother (Lena Olin) of their relationship due to the fact Sam is the personal assistant of Clay’s mom. Clay suffers from a heart condition that requires a heart transplant.
Clay wants the transplant to be carried out by Dr. Jack Harper (Terrance Howard) who had previously saved his life and is now his good friend. His mother whose boyfriend is a famous surgeon, try to discourage him from going through the operation, due to Dr. Harper’s spotty medical history.

When Clay discloses his relationship with his fiancé, Sam, Clay’s mother does not take kindly to Clay’s haste and asks him to wait until he is older. Clay becomes upset and leaves with Sam, and asks Dr. Harper to arrange a wedding. They marry privately at midnight. Clay then goes to the hospital for the operation. His mother tries to dissuade him again and refers him to a better clinic and a better doctor. She also refers to Dr. Harper as second class doctor. Clay brushes aside her concerns as attempts to interfere with his life and continues with his original plans. During surgery, Clay encounters “anesthetic awareness” and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed. The movie mentions 1 out of 700 patients suffer anesthetic awakeness. But the actual fact is 1 to 2 out of 1,000 patients suffer awakeness in US annual surgeries.

To escape the pain, Clay’s soul gets out of his body and uncovers a murder plot against him. Clay manages to find out that Dr. Harper and two others are planning to inject his transplanted heart with a chemical that will cause rejection upon transplantation. Dr. Harper is having second thoughts when Sam comes in to encourage him to go ahead with the plan. Meanwhile, Clay’s mother anxiously awaits for the results of the operation.

When the malpractice doctors tell Clay’s mother of Clay’s heart rejection, she becomes dejected. In the end, she intentionally overdoses and calls her boyfriend to return and save her son. Her boyfriend returns to remove Dr. Harper and his malpractice surgeons and transplants the mother’s heart into Clay. Dr. Harper locks himself in his office awaiting his inevitable arrest. Meanwhile, Sam claims her innocence in the matter but since Dr. Harper holds the syringe with her fingerprints all over it, she becomes helpless and tries to escape when the authority arrives. Harper expresses remorse for his actions and does not try to stop being arrested. It is revealed that all of this was Sam’s idea in order to get Clay’s money to pay for all of the malpractice suits against the team.

Although the transplant is a success, Clay refuses to leave limbo believing he has nothing left in the outside world after his mother’s death and fiancé’s betrayal. His mother comes to him and reminds Clay that limbo with his mother and an afterlife with his father is worthless as his father was an abusive drug addict. During a quarrel she accidentally murdered him to prevent him from harming her son. Clay decides that his life is worth living, and the movie ends with the words, “He is awake.”

My ratings: 6 out of 10. Sex, Lies, Murder, Attempted Murder and Heart Surgery — what’s more heart-pumping than these?

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In case you didn’t know, Jessica Alba has been added to the list of celebrities that have just got engaged. Below is the list of top 10 hotties getting engaged or hitched in 2007.

Jessica Alba is now engaged to Cash Warren

Engaged

• Jessica Alba + Cash Warren (December 2007)
• Ali Larter + Hayes MacArthur (December 2007)
• Fergie + Josh Duhamel (December 2007)
• Jennifer Love Hewitt + Ross McCall (November 2007)
• Katherine McPhee + Nick Cokas (September 2007)

Married

• Katherine Heigl + Josh Kelley (December 23, 2007)
• Rebecca Romijn + Jerry O’Connell (July 14, 2007)
• Eva Longoria + Tony Parker (July 6, 2007)
• Brittany Murphy + Simon Monjack (May 2007)
• Elizabeth Hurley + Arun Nayar (March 2, 2007)

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Awake is a movie about a man who suffers “anesthetic awareness” and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery! Starring Hayden Christensen (who plays Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars) and Jessica Alba, the movie opens on November 30 in the US, but will only be released next year in other countries.

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What’s sex without love?

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Sequel to the 2005 film Fantastic Four, the super heroes will face Silver Surfer and Dr. Doom in this movie.

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