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In US, buy one car and get one free!

New York, Dec. 11: Desperate for sales of their cars in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown, car dealerships in the Apple City, are offering huge and deep discounts.

According to the New York Daily News, the dealerships have come up with options like "Buy one get one free!", and the deal is reported as being offered across the country.

"We''ve heard about the buy-one-get-one-free ads in Florida, Ohio and Texas," the NYDN quoted Richard Arca, a senior analyst at Edmunds. com, as saying.

"The first thing people think when they come in is ''It''s a fake ad. It''s a normal car dealer ad. It''s a gimmick.'' But it''s not," said Ali Ahmed, a Dodge dealer in Miami who offered a buy-one-get-one-free deal.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s wallet woes!

Leonardo DiCaprio’s wallet woes!New York, Dec 11 : Looks like Leonardo DiCaprio is quite careless when it comes to taking care of his belongings-the `Titanic' star recently lost his wallet at a restaurant.

The 34-year-old star lost his wallet when he was with friends at Rolf's on Third Avenue on December 7.

The "Revolutionary Road" star was "turning the restaurant upside-down looking for his wallet," a source told the New York Post.

Spam returns to dinner tables in recession-hit United States

New York  - Hit with hard economic times, US residents are once again reaching for inexpensive Spam at the supermarket.

Tom Cruise gives Spencer Pratt ‘marriage advice’

New York, December 10 : Tom Cruise handed out marriage advice to singer Heidi Montag's hubby Spencer Pratt in an interview on ''The Hills After Show.''

Montag had eloped with Pratt and gotten married on November 20, but the marriage is yet to be legal, since the two had failed to obtain the requisite marriage license before their ceremony in Mexico.

Cruise, who married Katie Holmes in 2006 after proposing to her at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, said that Pratt may have made a blunder by not letting his wife have her dream wedding.

''Embarrassed'' Oprah Winfrey’s article reveals she weighs 200

New York, December 10: American talk show “queen” Oprah Winfrey apparently believes in being straightforward when it comes to talking about her weight, for she has revealed in an article that she currently weighs 200 pounds.

She also writes that she has “fallen off the wagon” when it comes to healthy living.

The article, released by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, appears in the January issue of “O” magazine.

"I''m mad at myself," the New York Daily News quoted her as having written in the article..

Now, New York-based actress wants Clinton''s senate seat

Now, New York-based actress wants Clinton''s senate seatNew York, Dec. 10: If it was John F Kennedy's 51-year-old daughter Caroline expressing a desire to be nominated to Hillary Clinton's New York junior senate seat last week, she now has competition in the form of actress Fran Drescher.

Drescher, also 51, is best known for her starring role in the 1990s television comedy "The Nanny" and an adenoidal voice that could strip the rust off an engine block - a talent that might come in handy during a Senate filibuster.

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