Film Workers' Assn says dubbing will harm a 'growing' Sandalwood

The Kannada Film Workers' Association, the Okkutta, has strongly opposed the move by the state's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan to dub the Hindi film Taare Zameen Par (2007) into Kannada.

Inspired by the sensitive handling of the education of a dyslexic child depicted in Taare..., directed and produced by Aamir Khan, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan had proposed the film's dubbing in Kannada so that it could be screened in government schools across the state to create awareness.

Washington, Feb 27: Teri Hatcher has confessed that she "had fun" during an on-screen kiss with Desperate Housewives co-star Eva Longoria Parker.

"I did not kiss her. She kissed me. We had fun," Us magazine quoted her, as saying over the weekend at an Oscar bash.

As for their co-star Nicollette Sheridan bidding the show adieu, Hatcher said: "I haven''t said goodbye yet. She is still working."

Washington, Feb 27 : `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II', the final film in the hit series, will be released in 2011, it has emerged.

Warner Bros has announced that the last instalment is to be released on July 15th 2011.

The studios decided to split the seventh book in JK Rowling''s series into two parts, as it was impossible to cram its 608 pages into a single film.

Therefore, the first instalment will hit screens in November 2010, reports Contactmusic.

Melbourne, Feb 27: Burlesque queen Dita Von Teese has inked a record deal and is set to release her first album.

London, Feb 27 : Soap queen Wendy Richard has died of cancer. She was 65.

Richard, who graced the small screen as Miss Brahms in hit BBC comedy series `Are You Being Served?' and later as matriarch Pauline Fowler in soap EastEnders, had breast cancer, reports The Daily Express.

Wendy's agent, Kevin Francis, said she remained "incredibly brave and retained her sense of humour right to the end".

Wendy endured two battles with breast cancer in the mid-1990s and then in 2002.

After scooping eight Oscars, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire is all set for a dream run in Rajasthan with a possible tax exemption. The state government is planning to give a waiver to the film after it was declared tax-free in Maharashtra, Assam, Delhi and Haryana.

A committee, headed by state tourism, art and culture minister Bina Kak, attended a special screening of the movie on Wednesday and recommended that the film should be given 100% tax exemption across the state.

“We have recommended it to chief minister Ashok Gehlot since he is also looking after the finance ministry. We have urged him to grant the film a waiver from entertainment tax,”

said Kak.