Germany got Talent

Probably one of the most bizarre talents was seen on Germany’s Got Talent! A woman smashing beer cans/sticks/watermelon with her boobs. Germany is known for well endowed women, but this one, Busty Heart, is actually from Boston trying her luck on TV shows and other local versions of the British Got Talent Franchise, [...]

David Hasselhoff in Austria

In case you are not following David Hasselhoff on Twitter, you might have missed that he went to Austria and Germany. The two countries, where he is popular with a certain viewership, that showed him and his singing career more love than others.
The 58-year old. who according to the Guiness Book of Records is the [...]

KinoKlatsch 06/10 Spezial: Kult- und Comic-Helden

Vom 21. bis 25. Juli fand im kalifornischen San Diego die Comic-Con statt. Kein Wunder also, daß sich die Ankündigungen von Kult- und Comicthemen häuften.
Nachdem Eddie Murphy bereits 2003 die gleichnamige Erlebnisparkattraktion beleben sollte, hat Disney nun Guillermo del Toro für “The Haunted Mansion” engagiert. Unter Berufung auf dunkle Disney-Figuren wie die Schwiegermutter von „Schneewittchen“ [...]

Demi Moore and Austrian leeches

Demi Moore is 47, but certainly does not look like it. So what are her secrets? Well one of them is Austrian. She admitted to talk show host David Letterman a while back that:
“I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy. These aren’t just swamp leeches though – [...]

August Diehl plays Angelina’s husband

The best American action heroes like Jason Bourne and now Evelyn Salt, have doting German spouses. Matt Damon had Franka Potente and now Angelina Jolie got one of Germany’s most talented actors August Diehl to love her so much that she more or less gets “reprogrammed by love”.
But how did the terrific actor get the [...]

Bono: I’m ready, rebuilt by German engineering

As German World Magazine reported U2 lead singer Bono was hospitalized in Germany in June.
Now the band announced on their website u2.com that they are coming back.
The famous singer announced: “I’m ready, rebuilt by German engineering. Better design, I’m told.”
Bono elaborates: “I’m very well. I can sit. I can stand. I can move around a [...]

Rapper tries to rent whole country

Hilarious, Rapper Snoop Dogg tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein to shoot his video. The tiny country with a population of 35.000 has beautiful spots to shoot a video and Snoop Dogg wanted them all.
Liechtenstein property agent Karl Schwärzler, “We’ve had requests for places and villages but never one to hire the [...]

KinoKlatsch 05/10: Ashley, Emma, Julia, Jennifer & more

Neben Patrick Dempsey und Ashley Judd (speaking about investing in women during the Women Deliver conference in Washington on June 7, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch Photo via Newscom) in den Hauptrollen engagierte Produzent Mark Damon (Foresight Unlimited) für “Flypaper” noch ein starkes Ensemble aus Tim Blake Nelson, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Mekhi Phifer, John Ventimiglia, Matt Ryan, [...]

Get them to the cinema

Während sich „Get Him to the Greek“ seit Wochen recht gut in den U.S. Charts halten kann, buchten die an der Chaos-Komödie beteiligten Talente zwei neue Projekte. Produzent Judd Apatow (“40-Year Old Virgin”) und Universal Studios sicherten sich Jennifer Aniston und Paul Rudd für die Komödie „Wanderlust“. Rudd arbeitete an einer Neufassung des Drehbuchs um [...]

L.A.’s German accent

In the 1930s and ’40s, German and Austrian emigres brought intellect, wit and Freudian theory to what was then a pretty staid place. Today, Germans are still a presence but are more disparate.
By Scott Timberg, Special to the Los Angeles Times
At one time, Los Angeles was Weimar on the Pacific: Numerous German-speaking émigrés put their [...]

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