| 'Beauty and the Geek' TV show to scout Madison
The television program "Beauty and the Geek" is coming to Madison to find contestants for the fifth season of the reality show. Representatives of the production will be at the University Book Store on 711 State Street next Saturday, Dec. 1 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. to audition both "geeks" and "beauties," as the show calls them, in an open casting call. Since audition signs have been posted, "students have been inquiring quite often, actually," said Kevin Phelps, vice president of UBS. "It seems like it's kind of a hot topic down on campus." The show, which airs Tuesdays at 7 p.m. on the CW Network (WBUW/Ch. 57 in Madison), pairs up awkward, brainy men with little or no dating experience and women who are physically attractive but lacking scholarly success to compete for a $250,000 jackpot.
There is a beautiful life after reality television
It's been almost two years since Brittany Knott came oh-so closer to snagging $125,000 on "Beauty and the Geek 2," in which she played, well, one of the beauties. When we last spoke with the South Elgin stunner after she exited the show as a finalist, she said she hoped to parlay that opportunity into an acting or modeling career in Hollywood. Has she changed her mind? And what has she been doing since leaving the show? For one thing, Knott, 23, has completed her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her marketing degree last December and graduated with honors, earning a 3.87 GPA. Right now, she's put her Hollywood dreams on hold, although her new job requires her to jet to the west coast at least once a week. Since January, Knott has been working at a dental manufacturing company in Algonquin.
Ostrander takes up familiar role against Irish
When Notre Dame visited Stanford Stadium two seasons ago, Cardinal quarterback T.C. Ostrander was in the same role he'll be in today against the Irish: a backup. But that didn't prevent Ostrander from almost engineering a stunning comeback. It was Ostrander who replaced an injured Trent Edwards in the second half and led Stanford to a go-ahead touchdown with 1:46 left - only to see the Irish pull it out. So much has changed since then. Notre Dame (2-9) has gone from BCS contender to national punchline, Stanford Stadium has undergone a makeover and Jim Harbaugh - not Walt Harris - is calling the shots for the Cardinal. But Ostrander's role is the same, although that wasn't his intention. The fifth-year senior lost his starting job when Tavita Pritchard led the Cardinal to one of college football's all-time upsets, 24-23 over USC.
Awadhi history comes alive
LUCKNOW: Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match by Johann Zoffany - a painting belonging to the 18th century - is more than just a canvas spilled all over with bright colours. A closer look reveals Claude Martin therein, among the elite, with his employer Asaf-ud-Daulah and British Resident Gabriel Harper enjoying the cock-fight.
"A closer observation speaks multitudes about Avadhi culture," said Ebrahim Alkazi, founder of Alkazi Foundation of the Arts as he showed the reprint to a few distinguished guests at the exhibition of Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, titled 'Lucknow: Splendour and Decline' on Thursday.
Expatiating on the picture he said, "In the background are people of various classes and castes - who can be differentiated with their turbans, the left end shows a group of women probably participating and enjoying the match, hinting towards their liberated and accepted presence in the society.....
Capsule movie reviews: "Beowulf"
"Beowulf" (PG 13) The original brawling, arm-yanking, eye-gouging epic of Anglo-Saxon lore, earns an eye-popping treatment in the new film. It's so thrilling, so stunningly rendered, that you will forget you're looking at animation and tumble into this Dark Ages quest, a story of pride, bravery, greed and lust, and their consequences. Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Penn-Wright, John Malkovich and Crispin Glover star for director Robert Zemeckis. "Love in the Time of Cholera" (R) When a writer's voice is as distinctive as Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian Nobel Prize winner's, it's difficult to replicate it on-screen, even though director Mike Newell and screenwriter Ronald Harwood remain largely faithful to "Love in the Time of Cholera" in their wildly flawed adaptation of García Márquez' sweeping 1985 novel about a decades-old romantic obsession.
Fashion plate: Alannah Hill
Carrie Bradshaw has nothing on Alannah Hill. In a battle of who has the most and biggest corsages, Australia's most flamboyant fashion designer would beat the Sex and the City gal hands down, favouring full-on bunches in her hair. Hill also rules when it comes to all things girlie, and her designs are a vision of prettiness in lace. The native Tasmanian left her hometown of Penguin at 17 and hit Melbourne. She got a job in a clothing store after a stint waitressing, before starting her own label. Anyone who's been in an Alannah Hill store in Australia would speak of the impossibly cute shop girls in full costume right down to the flowers. Now, there's no need to fly anywhere to get a hit of over-the-top femininity as the first Alannah Hill store is about to open in Newmarket's new luxury Nuffield St complex.
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