Tom Cruise building '5m bunker to protect against alien attack'
September 29, 2007 |15:04 | Showbiz By : Team X
Hollywood star Tom Cruise is planning to build a bunker at his Colorado home to protect his family in the event of an intergalactic alien attack, according to new reports.The Mission Impossible actor, who is a dedicated follower of Scientology, is reportedly fearful that deposed galactic ruler 'Xenu' is plotting an evil revenge attack on Earth.Scroll down for moreBunker down: Tom Cruise, on set of his latest movie with wife Katie and daughter Suri, is reportely fearful of an alien attack According to American magazine Star, a source said: "Tom is planning to build a US$10 million bunker under his Telluride estate.""It's a self-contained underground shelter with a high tech air purifying shelter."The facility is said to have enough room for ten people - including wife Katie Holmes, 17-month-old daughter Suri and his adopted children Isabella, 14, and Connor, Tom Cruise, in Spain in 2004, is a dedicated follower of Scientology
A spokesperson for the actor has denied the reports, saying: "This is completely untrue. He is not building on his property at all."The 45-year-old is currently filming World War II movie Rubicon (formerly known as Valkyrie) in Germany, where he is regularly joined on set by Katie and Suri.Tom plays German hero Colonel Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg in the wartime thriller surrounding a failed plot by high-ranking military officers to blow up Hitler and has come under attack for his decision to do so as well as his religious beliefs.The controversial film depicts the ill-fated plan to blow up the dictator on July 20, 1944, which he survived, with the plotters subsequently paying with their lives.The Colorado property where Tom Cruise is reported to be building a bunkerTom's spokesperson has denied plans for the underground facility
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Pakistan's record-breaking batsman Mohammad Yousuf has made himself available for the upcoming Test series against South Africa after a meeting with his country's cricket chief on Thursday.Yousuf, whose national team future was plunged into doubt when he agreed to join the rebel Indian Cricket League last month, said there was no longer any confusion and he would be available for the first Test starting on October 1 in Karachi."There was some misunderstanding between me and the board that has now been cleared up," he said. "I will now play for Pakistan."PhotoYousuf has played in 75 tests and 242 one-dayers made a record breaking 1,788 runs in 11 tests with nine hundreds in 2006.But after being dropped from the Twenty20 World Cup squad last month by the Pakistani selectors, Yousuf announced he had signed-up with the breakaway ICL.Former captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Imran Farhat and Abdul Razzaq are the other Pakistan players who have joined the ICL.The Pakistan Cricket Board had initially said it would not select any player who joined the ICL.However, Nasim Ashraf, the board's chairman, admitted the team needed Yousuf and every effort would be made to persuade him to drop his ICL contract and play for Pakistan."I had a fruitful discussion with Yousuf today. Misunderstandings have been removed," Ashraf said.
How was the incumbent opener, but his position has gone to Michael Papps through sheer weight run-scoring numbers, according to coach John Bracewell."The selectors are looking to form a quality opening partnership," Bracewell said today."Craig Cumming is the incumbent and is acknowledged as a quality player of pace, while Michael Papps is being rewarded after an excellent domestic season."James Franklin was not included due to knee injury, and it's hoped he will be fit enough to be considered for the ODI team."The squad features the selection of Ross Taylor and Mark Gillespie who are yet to make their test debuts and the return of Kyle Mills from a serious knee injury.Mills was named in a pace battery spearheaded by Shane Bond that also includes Michael Mason, Chris Martin and Gillespie.Vincent and McMillan are likely to feature when the team to play three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games after the short test series is named next week.New Zealand, to be captained in a test series by Daniel Vettori for the first time, have never won a series in South Africa.On their most recent meeting in the republic in March-April 2006, South Africa claimed the three-test series 2-0.Bracewell said the team will leave for South Africa on October 18 and play two preparatory matches against South Africa A before the two match test series begins."The team for the ODI section of the tour will be announced following the New Zealand selection team tour to Queensland" 
The story told in “Eastern Promises” is a grim and violent one, set in London’s expatriate Russian underworld. The film, directed by David Cronenberg from a script by Steve Knight, revisits a number of themes and motifs that are staples of the genre: the ties of family and culture that bind criminal organizations; Oedipal drama; honor among thieves. The audience stumbles into this realm in the company of an innocent outsider (Naomi Watts) who finds herself at once fascinated and repelled by it, as well as in considerable danger.But even as the turns of its narrative and the contours of its characters are recognizable, very little about “Eastern Promises” feels predictable or secondhand. From his early days making low-budget horror movies in Canada to his current ascendancy as a favorite of the international critical cognoscenti, Mr. Cronenberg has always been a master of estrangement. He and his cinematographer, Peter Suschitzky, shoot the dark, rain-slicked London streets in tones that turn the city into a sinister, palpitating presence. Mr. Cronenberg’s deliberate, almost stately pacing — the way he lingers in scenes for an extra beat or two, as if studying the faces of his actors for clues — transforms what might have been a routine thriller into something genuinely troubling.
In soccer, the playing field is called a pitch. The way this headbanging tournament is going, it ought to be called a mosh pitch.Bodies are flying like never before as the women's game evolves into a much more physical sport.U.S. national team defender Stephanie Lopez was the latest casualty. In Saturday's quarterfinal with England, she was kicked in the head and had to have five surgical staples placed in her scalp. She was only out of action for 80 seconds."It was like a piercing sensation," she says. "It really hurt a lot."England captain Faye White caught an elbow in the nose from American Abby Wambach. White stayed in but was woozy the rest of the game, which the U.S. won 3-0 to advance to Thursday's semifinal with Brazil."The physical part of the games is just so crucial," says U.S. midfielder Leslie Osborne, whose job is to match up with opponents' best players. "The men have always been more physical, but now we can bring it both up in the air and down on the ground."
Mysore, Sept. 24 (MRS)- is bound to derail the City Corporation election campaign this evening.The live telecast of the match, being played at Johannesburg, South Africa, which commences at 5.30 pm on ESPN and Star Cricket Channels, will force most of the political party workers and candidates to remain indoors glued to the TVs.Candidates may hardly find party workers to accompany them in door-to-door campaign. According to sources, even the State leaders, who were scheduled to visit the city today, are having second thoughts. State BJP President D.V. Sadanan-dagowda was scheduled to arrive here this evening to address election meetings.His party activists here told Star of Mysore that he is likely to suspend the campaign as the activists and the voters alike are more interested in cricket than his speeches. Meanwhile, some candidates are planning to install TV sets and big screens at their election offices to lure the party workers and voters. That would be a very good idea.
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Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram believes Twenty20 cricket could eventually replace one-day internationals.Akram said the success of the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa could have spark greater interest in the format."Twenty20 cricket already has the potential to replace the ODIs as the most populist version of the sport," Akram told Reuters on Friday."The Twenty20 World Cup has been a big success in terms of the interest it has evoked and people coming in to the grounds. You didn't get such big crowds and excitement even in the World Cup in West Indies."The left arm pace bowler said he enjoyed watching the Twenty20 matches."For a cricket lover it is the ideal format. The match finishes in around three and half hours and there is plenty of excitement and tension for the spectators and viewers," he said."To me one-dayers have tended to become boring and predictable."However, he did not think the format could be seen as a challenge to Test cricket."Test cricket will always remain the 'real cricket' for the players and purist fans around the globe. It can never be replaced. Even the advent of one-day internationals didn't affect its popularity and following."
A remark by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly that the Police Department was considering a request by Iran that its president visit ground zero set off complaints yesterday before the department corrected itself.Iran asked this month that its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, be permitted to visit ground zero when he attends the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week.Paul Browne, the chief spokesman for Commissioner Kelly, said the request — that Mr. Ahmadinejad be allowed to lay a wreath at the former site of the World Trade Center — had been made by Iranian officials earlier this month in a meeting that was also attended by officials of the United States Secret Service and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.Mr. Browne said the request was rejected because the Iranians wanted Mr. Ahmadinejad to visit the area of ground zero where construction is under way, but he said that any additional request that he appear near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attack would also be denied out of concerns about security. Although relatives of the victims were allowed to visit the site briefly on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, members of the public are not allowed into the area.Mr. Browne’s comments came late yesterday in the form of a clarification of remarks made earlier in the day by Mr. Kelly, who said that a ground zero visit by Mr. Ahmadinejad, a strident critic of the United States and an object of scorn for the Bush administration, was under consideration.Speaking to reporters at Police Headquarters, Mr. Kelly said that a request had been made by Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, and “we are talking to them right now.” He said that Mr. Ahmadinejad would not be allowed into the section of ground zero where construction is taking place, but that a visit nearby might be allowed.
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