Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt’s representatives have hit out at Vanity Fair magazine after it splashed seminaked photos of the actor on the cover of its December issue. The photos of Pitt — shown standing in nothing but a pair of boxer shorts and a pair of socks — were taken by artistic photographer Robert Wilson in September 2005 But while Pitt signed a legal release when the photograph was taken, he was oblivious they would end up on Vanity Fair’s cover more than a year later. “We are very disappointed that Vanity Fair has chosen to put an unautho rised cover on their magazine,” a spokesperson for Pitt said on Tuesday. A statement from Vanity Fair said Brad Pitt’s managers had been notified on October 5 of the decision to use the photo for its special “art” issue. The magazine defended the decision, saying it had obtained the right to use all Wilson’s photographs taken as he put together a study of video portraits. “Vanity Fair decided to do a story on Wilson’s video portraits and ob...

Jennifer Lopez has reportedly gone on a special diet to help her get pregnant. The Latin beauty, who is married to singer Marc Anthony , has apparently been trying to conceive for months and is said to have changed her eating habits to increase her fertility. Speculation was further fuelled when J.Lo turned up for an awards ceremony in New York looking slimmer than usual and appeared to have lost her curvy trademark figure. An onlooker said, “It looked like it had gone.” The 37-year-old star has said on many occasions that having a family is one of her ambitions in life, and she has sparked pregnancy rumours on several occasions in the past. Just months after she tied the knot with Marc in 2003, J.Lo was reported to be expecting his baby. Earlier this year, rumours surfaced again when Lopez suddenly pulled out of the movie version of hit TV series Dallas. It was later revealed she quit the project because she was unhappy with the script.