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Hilary Duff’s new album out soon

Hilary Duff emerges from breakup with ‘Dignity’ – Yahoo! News

Yes, Hilary is gonna to release a new album Dignity, pretty soon, around 3rd April. Of course, that’s the US release date, and I doubt whether it’ll reach Indian shores anytime quickly, because it’s being released by Disney’s Hollywood Records label, which I don’t think isn’t found much here. I dunno what that songs will be like, at least, the album name isn’t, well, really well chosen for a teenage singer. Or maybe, just maybe, she’s taking a potshot at the antics of the other Disney ‘princess’ Lindsay Lohan. I’d call it a full-blown :p for sure at Lindsay. Duff is a good singer, but her acting career hasn’t really taken off. She still seems to be stuck in that Lizzie McGuire (that was a damn funny show!) mindset in most movies she’s acted in.

A bit of Hilary Duff trivia:

  1. In Lizzie McGuire, Lizzie (and her mom’s) favorite actor is Denzel Washington.
  2. Adam Lamberg (Gordo) was the eldest among the three main characters in Lizzie McGuire – and yet he was the shortest.
  3. Lalaine (Miranda) has also released a CD – which has only two songs!
  4. They’d even considered Lindsay Lohan for Lizzie’s role. Stupid Disney, why didn’t they choose her!

BTW, my fave characters in Lizzie McGuire were Matt McGuire (Jake Thomas), because he’s totally crazy; and the animated Lizzie, for her sarcasm – animated Lizzie was so much funnier than the real Lizzie.

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Going Nuts

Aarghhh!!! What’s happened to me?? I really must be going a bit cuckoo in the head, because I watched Da Vinci Code today, and horror of horrors, realized that it’s not that great. I found out that it suffers from many afflictions, the biggest being (oh no! GQ isn’t gonna let me forget this one) TOM HANKS (whoever said that geeky professors shave their side burns off so that they look extremely moronical??). Looking back, Hugh Jackman would’ve been better as Robert Langdon.
I also found out that the music isn’t great-mediocre at best (AND, definitely not worthy of the Oscar nomination I had bestowed upon it by mistake…). Zimmer’s done some good work with the main themes, but the filler music was a cause of worry, with a lot of it being repeated (especially the reprisal of Citrine Cross heard during the action bits), or being ripped off from other Zimmer scores (mainly Batman Begins).
Laudable performances by Ian McKellen (Sir Leigh Teabing), Jean Reno (Bezu Fache) and Alfred Molina (Bishop Aringarossa) were drowned out by the blank slate that was Paul Bettany (Silas). Whoever said that albinos only have a scowl/empty stare on their face?
GQ would say that I’ve finally entered the land of the sane, but, to me, personally, it’s as big a blow as watching Batman and Robin. Dunno what’s prompted this sudden change of heart. Maybe, I’ve just gotten bored of the movie…