Billions of people around the world have farewell 2008 and welcomed in 2009 with New Year celebrations and they calls for peace and new hopes.

Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean was the first to welcome new year 2009 at 10am Greenwich Mean Time. Before the new year arrived in New Zealand an hour later.New Zealand started celebrating the new years celebrations a stunning firework display in Auckland.

In New York City huge crowds joined New Year celebrations in Times Square to watch a giant cystal ball drop on the stroke of midnight.Bill Clinton, the former US president, and his wife Hillary, were among the tens of thousands packed into the square.

Australia started celebrating the new years celebrations with a record crowd gathered in the Australian city to watch Sydney’s biggest fireworks display yet. Around 5,000 kilograms of shells, comets and experimental fireworks lit up the sky over the Opera House and the iconic steel bridge, which dominate the city’s harbour.

In London, an estimated 700,000-strong crowd cheered a spectacular 12-minute fireworks display on the banks of the River Thames.

In the French capital new years celebrations, over half a million people had already thronged on the Champs-Elysees an hour before the bells welcomed in the new year.

Thousands of South Africans and African immigrants took to the streets in a spectacular carnival of song and dance as they bid farewell to 2008 in Johannesburg and new years celebrations.

Tokyo Welcomed in 2009 With a different way.They have been setup “New Year’s Village for Temporary Workers” to provide clothing, meals and shelter to those in need. Thousands of people have been laid off amid the economic crisis.

New years celebrations in Thailand were overshadowed by the deaths of at least 59 people in a fire at a Bangkok nightclub. Police said fireworks let off in the club at midnight were thought to have triggered the blaze.

Queenslanders celebrating the new year celebrations have expressed hope that it may be better than 2008.

Celebrity singer Madonna and Celine Dion were the biggest worldwide concert draws in 2008, each selling more than $200 million worth of tickets to their slickly produced shows,trade publication Pollstar said on Tuesday.

Celebrity singer Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” world tour,which finished in Brazil last week, tallied $281.6 million from 17 countries. North American fans ponied up $105.3 million.

On the other hand French-Canadian balladeer Dion, launching her first world tour in more than eight years, earned $236.6 million from 24 countries, with North America contributing $94 million.

Among the all-time North American tours, Celebrity singer Madonna’s ranks at No. 8 and Dion’s at No. 12. The Rolling Stones hold the record with $162 million from their 2005 trek.

The Celebrity Singer Rihanna is being considered to play the female lead in the remake of
the hit ‘The Last Dragon’ with Samuel L Jackson, ‘Ace Showbiz’ reported.

The Motown-meets-kung-fu cult hybrid The Last Dragon gets a retread with this Columbia
Pictures production starring Samuel L. Jackson as the over-the-top villain, Sho’ Nuff, who
squares off against a young martial arts student infatuated with Bruce Lee. Timed to
coincide with Motown’s 50th anniversary,… the remake is headed up by Kerry Gordy, son
of the label’s founder.

Samuel L. Jackson emerged in the 1990s as one of the most prominent and well-respected
actors in Hollywood. Work on a number of projects, both high-profile and low-key, has
given Jackson ample opportunity to display an ability… marked by both remarkable versatility
and smooth intelligence.Born December 21, 1948, in Washington, D.C.Jackson was raised by
his mother and grandparents in Chattanooga, TN. He attended Atlanta’s Morehouse College,
where he was co-founder of Atlanta’s black-oriented Just Us Theater (the name of the
company was taken from a famous Richard Pryor routine). Jackson arrived in New York in
1977, beginning what was to be a prolific career in film, television, and on the stage. After
a plethora of character roles of varying sizes, Jackson was discovered by the public in the
role of the hero’s tempestuous, drug-addict brother in 1991’s Jungle Fever, directed by
another orehouse College alumnus, Spike Lee. Jungle Fever won Jackson a special acting
prize at the Cannes Film Festival and thereafter his career soared. Confronted with sudden
celebrity, Jackson stayed grounded by continuing to live in the Harlem brownstone where
he’d resided since his stage days. 1994 was a particularly felicitous year for Jackson; while
his appearances in Jurassic Park (1993) and Menace II Society (1993) were still being seen
in second-run houses, he co-starred with John Travolta as a mercurial hit man in Quentin
Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a erformance that earned him an Oscar nomination. His portrayal
of an embittered father in the more low-key Fresh earned him additional acclaim. The
following year, Jackson landed third billing in the big-budget Die Hard With a Vengeance
and also starred in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah. His versatility was put on further
display in 1996 with the release of five very different films: The Long Kiss Goodnight, a
thriller in which he co-starred with Geena Davis as a private detective; an adaptation of John
risham’s A Time to Kill, which featured him as an enraged father driven to murder; Steve
Buscemi’s independent Trees Lounge; The Great White Hype, a boxing satire in which the
actor played a flamboyant boxing promoter; and Hard Eight, the directorial debut of Paul
Thomas Anderson. After the relative quiet of 1997, which saw Jackson again collaborate with Tarantino in the critically acclaimed Jackie Brown and play a hilandering father in the similarly acclaimed Eve’s Bayou (which also marked his debut as a producer), the actor lent his talents
to a string of big-budget affairs (an exception being the 1998 Canadian film The Red Violin).
Aside from an unbilled cameo in Out of Sight (1998), Jackson was featured in leading roles in
The Negotiator (1998), Sphere (1998), and Deep Blue Sea (1999). His prominence in these
films added confirmation of his complete transition from econdary actor to leading man,
something that was further cemented by a coveted role in what was perhaps the most
anticipated film of the decade, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), the first
prequel to George Lucas’ Star Wars trilogy. Jackson followed through on his leading man
potential with a popular remake of Gordon Parks’ seminal 1971 blaxploitation flick Shaft.
Despite highly publicized squabbling between Jackson and director John Singleton,
the film was a successful blend of homage, irony, and action; it became one of the rare
character-driven hits in the special effects-laden summer of 2000. From hard-case Shaft
to fragile as glass, Jackson once again hoodwinked audiences by playing against his usual
super-bad persona in director M. Night Shyamalan’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The
Sixth Sense, Unbreakable 2000). In his role as Bruce Willis’ brittle, frail antithesis, Jackson
proved that though hecan talk trash and break heads with the best of them, he’s always
compelling to watch no matter what the role may be. Next taking a rare lead as a formerly
successful pianist turned schizophrenic on the trail of a killer in the little-seen The Caveman’s Valentine, Jackson turned in yet another ompelling and sympathetic performance. Following
an instance of road rage opposite Ben Affleck in Changing Lanes (2002), Jackson stirred film
geek controversy upon wielding a purple lightsaber in the eagerly anticipated Star Wars II:
Attack of the Clones. Despite rumors that the color of the lightsaber may have had some
sort of mythical undertone, Jackson laughingly assured fans that it was a simple matter
of his suggesting to Lucas that a purple lightsaber would simply “look cool,” though he
was admittedly surprised to see that Lucas had obliged him Jackson eventually saw the
final print. A few short months later filmgoers would find Jackson recruiting a muscle-bound
Vin Diesel for a dangerous secret mission in the spy thriller XXX. Jackson reprised his
long-standing role as Mace Windu in the last segment of George Lucas’s Star Wars
franchise to be produced, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005). It
(unsurprisingly) grossed almost four hundred million dollars, and became that rare
box-office blockbuster to also score favorably (if not unanimously) with critics; no less
than Roger Ebert proclaimed it “spectacular.” Jackson co-headlined 2005’s crime comedy
The Man alongside Eugene Levy and 2006’s Joe Roth mystery Freedomland with Julianne
Moore and Edie Falco, but his most hotly-anticipated release at the time of this writing is
August 2006’s Snakes on a Plane, a by-the-throat thriller about an assassin who unleashes
a crate full of vipers onto a aircraft full of innocent (and understandably terrified) civilians.
Produced by New Line Cinema on a somewhat low budget, the film continues to draw
widespread buzz that anticipates cult status. Black Snake Moan, directed by Craig Brewer
(Hustle and Flow) dramatizes the relationship between a small-town girl (Christina Ricci)
and a blues player (Jackson). The picture is slated for release in September 2006 with
Jackson’s Shaft collaborator, John Singleton, producing. According to the trades, Jackson
is next contracted to appear in Irwin Winkler’s drama Home of the Brave (about the Iraqi
war), Rod Lurie’s Resurrecting the Champ (about a homeless person, played by Jackson,
who is mistaken for a former heavyweight champion),and 1408, an adaptation of a
Stephen King story about a hotel room plagued by paranormal occurrences, which Jackson
will co-headline with John Cusack. The aforementioned films are tentatively scheduled for
release through the end of 2007. Rapper RZA, who is producing the film, said that though
several female artists were being looked at for the role, he tends to choose the 20-year-old
Celebrity Singer Rihanna to fill in the part in the remake project.

He said About Rihanna’s potential casting :

“That’s the one I’m rooting for,”

‘The Last Dragon’ is an action flick
centered on young martial arts students
in New York city in quest of ‘the Glow’
which will make them the greatest fighter ever.

It was released as the album’s lead single, “I Kissed a Girl”
was a commercial success. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart,
The song has since become a major worldwide hit, and along with
the United States, it has topped the charts in more than 23
countries, including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

The song was covered by Cobra Starship titled “I Kissed a Boy”
and featured on the Fall Out Boy Mixtape “Welcome to the New
Administration”.

“I Kissed a Girl” is currently a nominee for a Grammy Award for
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance is the
latest in a series of awards recognizing superior vocal
performance by a female in the pop category, the first of
which was presented in 1959. The awards have quite a convoluted
history:

* From 1959 to 1960 there was an award called Best Vocal
Performance, Female, which was for work in the pop field

* In 1961 the award was separated into Best Vocal Performance
Single Record Or Track and Best Vocal Performance Album,Female

* From 1962 to 1963 the awards from the previous year were
combined into Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female

* From 1964 to 1968 the award was called Best Vocal
Performance, Female

* In 1966 there was also an award for Best Contemporary
(R&R) Vocal Performance - Female

* In 1967 the award from the previous year was combined
with the equivalent award for men as the Grammy Award
for Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance - Male
or Female

* In 1968 the previous award was once again separated by
gender, with the female award known as called Best
Contemporary Female Solo Vocal Performance

* In 1969, the awards were combined and streamlined as the
award for Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance, Female

* From 1970 to 1971 the award was known as Best Contemporary
Vocal Performance, Female

* From 1972 to 1994 the award was known as Best Pop Vocal
Performance, Female

* Since 1995 it has been awarded as Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

In the years where more than one award was presented (1961, 1966, 1968),
both are listed on separate lines.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for
works released in the previous year.

Celebrity singer Katy Perry herself has stated that “I Kissed
A Girl” is a song about appreciating “the beauty of women.” Celebrity
singer Katy Perry says, “everyone takes the song and relates it to
their situation, they can see it however they want to see it. Love
it, hate it, for me it was about us girls. When we’re young we’re very
touchy-feely. We have slumber party sing-alongs, we make up dance
routines in our pajamas. We’re a lot more intimate in a friendship
than guys can be. It’s not perverse but just sweet, that’s what
the song is about.”of the Rock Era.

Here is the great of song of The great lyrics of celebrity Singer Katy Perry ‘I Kissed A Girl’ :

This was never the way I planned
Not my intention
I got so brave, drink in hand
Lost my discretion
It’s not what, I’m used to
Just wanna try you on
I’m curious for you
Caught my attention

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chapstick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it

No, I don’t even know your name
It doesn’t matter,
You’re my experimental game
Just human nature,
It’s not what,
Good girls do
Not how they should behave
My head gets so confused
Hard to obey

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it,

Us girls we are so magical
Soft skin, red lips, so kissable
Hard to resist so touchable
Too good to deny it
Ain’t no big deal, it’s innocent

I kissed a girl and I liked it
The taste of her cherry chap stick
I kissed a girl just to try it
I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it
It felt so wrong
It felt so right
Don’t mean I’m in love tonight
I kissed a girl and I liked it
I liked it

Enjoy the Great Lyrics of The song ‘I Kissed A Girl’of Celebrity Singer Katy Perry.

Celebrity Singer Katy Perry rose to prominence with her 2008 single
“I Kissed a Girl” which has become a worldwide hit. Celebrity Singer
Katy Perry is known for her unconventional style of dress, often
humorous, bright in color, and reminiscent of different decades, as
well as Celebrity Singer Katy Perry’s frequent use of fruit-shaped
ccessories, mainly watermelon as part of Celebrity Singer Katy Perry’s
outfits. Celebrity Singer Katy Perry has a contralto vocal range. The
song was written and composed by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Perry for
Celebrity Singer Katy Perry’s second album, One of the Boys.

The track was released as the album’s third single. It reached number
three on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Celebrity Singer Katy Perry’s
second consecutive top three single, after her previous worldwide hit
“I Kissed a Girl”. The single has also become Celebrity Singer Katy
Perry’s second top five single in dozens of countries around the
world, including the U.K, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, as well
as topping the charts in Germany, Canada and Denmark.

Here the most recent popular song of Celebrity Singer Katy perry “Hot N Conld” :

You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes
Yeah you, PMS
Like a bitch
I would know

And you always think
Always speak
Crypticly

I should know
That you’re no good for me

Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down
You’re wrong when it’s right
It’s black and it’s white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

You, You don’t really want to stay, no
You, but you don’t really want to go-o
You’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down

We used to be
Just like twins
So in sync
The same energy
Now’s a dead battery
Used to laugh bout nothing
Now your plain boring

I should know that
you’re not gonna change

Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down
You’re wrong when it’s right
It’s black and it’s white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

You, You don’t really want to stay, no
You, but you don’t really want to go-o
You’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down

Someone call the doctor
Got a case of a love bi-polar
Stuck on a roller coaster
Can’t get off this ride

You change your mind
Like a girl changes clothes

Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down
You’re wrong when it’s right
It’s black and it’s white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

You’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down
You’re wrong when it’s right
It’s black and it’s white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up

You, you don’t really want to stay, no
You, but you don’t really want to go-o
You’re hot then you’re cold
You’re yes then you’re no
You’re in and you’re out
You’re up and you’re down

Enjoy lyrics and song of Celebrity Singer Katy Perry .

There were some statements, such as the ultimate
Freudian slip The best thing Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton
has ever bought with money is Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton’s
house. Then there were also simply strange topical
leaps a la That Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton put
pheromones in a lot of her fragrances, and
that attracts people to you. Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton’s
new fragrance is called Fairy Dust. Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton
dressed kind of like Tinkerbell.

It was Hilton’s self description. Perhaps interpreting
Delphi a bit too literally, Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton told that
Celebrity Actress Paris Hilton is one of the most down to earth
people I know,” then proceeded to completely contradict herself
with statements like :

Everyone was so excited that I was born, they would always
take pictures of me. My grandma would call me Marilyn Monroe
or Grace Kelly. Ever since I was little, it’s what I knew I
wanted to do–be a blond icon.

Once I’ve worn a dress, I can never wear it again.
Having a nightclub in your house really helps for having
a party, because then you don’t need to go out

In honor of the most down to earth person that Celebrity Actress
Paris Hilton knows, please buy disposable things, throw a party,
and listen to Marilyn Monroe tonight. Just don’t get arrested
for DUI, because you probably won’t be able to get the leniency
of house arrest like some down to earth people Celebrity Actress
Paris Hilton knows.

Celebrity Singer Jessica Simpson told :

“I’ve been contemplating taking a college course in Religon. I
love Religon. I remember when The Da Vinci Code came out, the
Discovery Channel did this piece on it that I watched eight times.”

Religon isn’t just a passion for Celebrity Singer Jessica
Simpson. The entertainer is known to attend church services
with her boyfriend, Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback, Tony Romo.
The pair has been dating for about a year and reports have
it that a wedding and a family could be in the stars for
the couple.

A source told :

“Unlike Ashlee, Celebrity Singer Jessica Simpson
doesn’t want to get pregnant and then get married. Celebrity
Singer jessica Simpson a little more traditional, so
she’d like to marry Tony first and then get pregnant, ideally
on their honeymoon.”

The actor Brad Pitt turns 45 next week and Celebrity Actress
Angelina 33 is hoping to have the motorbike shipped over for
him from Italy.

Found by a Source :

‘Since Celebrity Actress Angelina Jolie is always in a dilemma
over what to buy Brad, she’s getting him the new Ducati Monster
1100S titanium,’

‘It’s a surprise that Celebrity Actress Angelina Jolie ordered
it from Italy months ago. It’s new and it’s not out yet in Ducati
stories.I think a guy can never have too many bikes!

Celebrity Singer,Actress and Model Paris Hilton :

“I think Obama is doing a really good job. Maybe it will be my turn
one daybut for now let’s leave it to Obama”

Alex Rodriguez celebrated Thanksgiving with
his family in Miami to spend time with celebrity
singer Madonna just days after madonna’s preliminary
divorce from Guy Ritchie was granted.

Rodriguez scored a front-row seat at Celebrity
singer Madonna’s.South Florida concert Wednesday
night at Dolphin Stadium, where he helped the pop
diva stay cool between numbers by passing Celebrity
Singer Madonna’s a bottle of water from his seat.

Rodriguez enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner in Miami Thursday
afternoon with ex-wife Cynthia and daughters Natasha
who is 4 and Ella is 7 months.
Rodriguez was planning to abandon his children on
Thanksgiving to spend time with Celebrity Singer
Madonna in New York.

“He always had every intention of spending the holiday
with Cynthia, the family, and his two daughters,” the
source says. “There was never any intention of him flying
back. The allegations regarding this trip to New York
couldn’t be anything farther from the truth.

The Celebrity Singer Madonna extended her Miami trip
and the pair were able to spend the holiday together
anyway.Rodriguez rushed off to Star Island, where
celebrity singer Madonna has a home, soon after
wrapping up Thanksgiving dinner with his family.