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STAR BUZZ: Business with pleasure
Recently, a multi-national company launched a new brand of soap at a five-star hotel. To put a little pep into an ordinary event, the PR company arranging the programme came up with a novel idea — they hired two popular artists of television, Bushra Ansari and Behroze Subzwari to perform skits. Both the performers known for their superb comic antics, had the audience laughing as they parodied beauticians and their clients to the T, something the Dettol soap would not have been able to do on its own at the launch, even with its new moisturizer.
Perhaps this idea will catch on with other multi-nationals when they have a launch of their products — business with a few laughs to make the event an unforgettable one. If not unforgettable then at least not to be forgotten right away. Trust Zainab Ansari to come up with such an idea, being an artist herself.—A.F.
Make up session
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He’s won two Oscars, but Dustin Hoffman has really been dying for a Barrymore. That’s the supreme honor bestowed by the Hollywood Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild. Recently, in Beverly Hills, Hoffman told the group’s members that he and his wife, Lisa, had been invited to the Lincoln Bedroom several times during the Clinton years, but “we never went — partly because our oral sex didn’t need a special room to augment it. This is the first time I’m invited here, and I’ve accepted.” Hoffman allowed that, for all the magic that hair and makeup artists did for him during the filming of Tootsie, “they couldn’t make me tall enough for a mike.”— Rush and Molloy
For greener pastures
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It was interesting to see one popular consul-general saying goodbye to another popular consul-general on the eve of his departure as ambassador to another country. One is talking about Mr Gilles Bono and Mr Tekiba, both of whom have played major roles in the cultural programmes in Karachi. Many will vouch for the interesting Haiko poetry being sung by the local singers, in programmes arranged by the Japanese Consulate on a regular basis. One can also recall the opera programme arranged by the French Consulate in which Mr Bono, an opera singer himself, participated with the performers who flew in from France, sometime back.The little gathering at the French consul-general’s house recently consisted of other consul-generals and journalists. The reception with a silver shield being presented to Mr Tekiba was a short and sweet one. Everyone hoped that the next Japanese representative would be just as active as the previous one.
Later on when a few guests were left, some of them requested the French consul-general who speaks fluent Arabic, to arrange an opera performance in which he would sing as well. Like a true diplomat he did not commit himself.— K.H.
Reality bites
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Hugh Grant has a new London bachelor pad. His $5.25 million place is a two-bedroom penthouse in Kensington, complete with a hot tub on the terrace and a movie screen in the master bedroom. That should help him find him a replacement for Liz Hurley. ... Gary Oldman has sold the $2 million Hollywood Hills home that he and wife Donya Florentino shared before their nasty split last year. Oldman unloaded the Mediterranean digs for $2.3 million, the L.A. Times reports. ...David Spade is living large in a new spread in L.A. The Just Shoot Me smart aleck paid $4 million for a three-bedroom, ‘70s-era perch overlooking the city, after selling his six-bedroom gated Beverly Hills home for $3.4 million.—Rush and Molloy
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