Last year, audiences around the world watched as Jamal and Latika (spoiler alert!) reunited for a Bollywood-style dance on a Mumbai train platform. Now Dev Patel and Freida Pinto, the stars of Best Picture Winner "Slumdog Millionaire," are a jet-setting couple chasing their next big projects all over the globe.

The young actors, British and Indian by birth respectively, were spotted recently at LAX after a romantic lunch at La Conversation Cafe in Los Angeles. Pinto recently finished filming her role as the title character in "Miral," a drama about adoption shot in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel with Best Director nominee Julian Schnabel. Now, she's filming Woody Allen's new movie "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger" in London with Naomi Watts and Sir Anthony Hopkins. ]]> egw 2009-11-20T10:29:30-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/10/8/13510/3595

This must be the best day ever for all you Herta Müller fans! In case you're not caught up on modern literature, Müller is the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, announced this morning in Stockholm.

Müller lives and works in Germany now, but grew up in Communist Romania under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and many of her books describe the plight of young people in a controlling regime. She revealed in an essay penned earlier this summer for the online magazine Sign and Sight that she is afraid to travel in Romania even now because she believes members of the government are still following her. ]]> egw 2009-10-08T13:28:29-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/2/23/83611/0556

We promised we wouldn't drop the r-word again, but something must have attacked Hollywood to end up with such a blah year for dresses. The color everyone seemingly decided on was white -- and its brothers off-white and cream -- which looks great on the red carpet (and the women who wore it!) but just didn't make us say "wow." Even the world's first couple, Super World Travelers Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, went for that other award-show standby -- black. (She was in Elie Saab.) There wasn't a swan gown in sight, and we feel kind of bad about that. ]]> egw 2009-02-23T09:58:06-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/2/9/93946/59537

A host of award shows brought some celebrities out, but not all of them: Gwyneth Paltrow attended the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in a sparkly Burberry number to support husband Chris Martin, whose band Coldplay performed with the backing of a marching band; Katy Perry, who was up for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (but lost to British singer Adele), performed in a Carmen Miranda-esque fruit ensemble.

Kate Winslet picked up a statue for Best Leading actress at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) in London, for which she was nominated both for her role in "The Reader" and "Revolutionary Road." She posed on the red carpet with presenter Daniel Craig. Less than two weeks till the Oscars! And speaking of the Oscars, Jessica Biel appeared in Oscar de la Renta at the Academy Awards' Scientific and Technical Awards Saturday night to give out all the little gold men that don't fit into the telecast.

But award shows aren't always the trip worth taking: Angelina Jolie arrived at the BAFTAs after a visit to a refugee camp in Thailand for cyclone victims from Myanmar, proving she still thinks some things are important than her career. (She and fellow Super World Traveler Brad Pitt were both up for leading awards; Jolie lost to Winslet, above, while Pitt lost to Mickey Rourke.) And last year's Grammy darling Amy Winehouse, who performed via satellite when she was not granted a visa to travel to L.A. for the ceremony, skipped the festivities altogether: Rumor has it she is staying in Jamaica to record her third album within reach of, uh, "inspirations." Well, there's always next year.

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Now there's a sporting son: Javier Bardem takes mom Pilar to a FC Barcelona football game at their home stadium Camp Nou for a game against Atletico Madrid.

At last year's Academy Awards, Bardem took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as the frightening Anton Chigurh in last year's Best Picture winner "No Country For Old Men." Classically, the Best Supporting Actor presents the next year's Best Supporting Actress trophy, but officially, no one knows if Bardem will show up--because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has opted not to release the names of any presenters besides host Hugh Jackman. That may be because last year's campaign to tie America's longest awards with non-nominee presenters like Miley Cyrus resulted in the lowest ratings ever for the Oscar broadcast.

Still, with Bardem garnering a steady stream of praise for his supporting turn in the Woody Allen movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," he might even find himself on the nominees list again. Oscar nominations are expected to be announced next week.

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Miss the big party? Why not? While Hollywood got all glammed up for the Golden Globes, some stars opted to stay away--but not stay home.

The choice was easy for Victoria Beckham, who schlepped her brood of boys to the Colosseum in Rome to have them pose with some gladiators. And surprisingly, "The Hills"' Audrina Partridge, herself not a nominee either, chose Cabo--but she didn't end up getting married on a whim there.

Mischa Barton continued her attempt to be more like us by posting bikini pictures of herself in the Indian beach getaway Goa. But Steve Martin probably didn't want those photos of himself bodysurfing in St. Barts to get out. Ditto with Rihanna, who covered her face to hide a rumored cold sore while out shopping in Dublin, Ireland on tour.

Ironically, it was the Super World Travelers who set their course for La-La Land--nominees Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took home no prizes except each other. And Pitt's mustache.

Big winners Sunday night at the Globes were "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," which nabbed prizes for best drama and best musical or comedy. Kate Winslet snagged two acting awards for her lead role in "Revolutionary Road" and supporting role in "The Reader"; Mickey Rourke, Sally Hawkins and the late Heath Ledger were also honored. But everyone at the water cooler will be talking about how "The Wrestler" director Darren Aronofsky flipped off the cameras faster than NBC was able to blur it during Rourke's speech. Oh no! The children!

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They'll be bound together by the court documents: Chris Brown and Rihanna were served with a $1 million lawsuit in Florida seeking damages for theft and battery.

Photographer Luis Santana was trying to get a picture of the glam yet much-tattooed couple in St. Petersburg outside their limo when bodyguards chased him off. Not satisfied with that, they allegedly followed him, beat him up and stole his $3,000 camera. And now Santana wants the singers to pay up or else.

Neither Chris nor Rihanna have commented on the lawsuit but her publicist urged that newsmakers "give attention to the positive things in the world," even invoking the recession as a reason the lawsuit wasn't news. How about the fact that neither star was nominated for a Grammy, passed over for Leona Lewis and the Jonas Brothers?

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