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Remember that whole thing about sexy, hot models not wanting the USD? Well, turns out that it may not be entirely true.

CNBC has an update where the manager of the babe supermodel in question clarifies that she did no such thing.

They also offer the following clarification –

Nelson points out that Gisele lives in New York City, and thus needs U.S. dollars for her big-city lifestyle.

And American fans and contracts, of course.

Dealbreaker puts it best –

Also, it’s hard not to think that some sort of PR spin went into this denial. Gisele if you’re short the dollar, the American public will be short you! Retract, deny, rinse, repeat.

Of course it did. Then again, I guess if you are a rich hot babe, you can pretty much do whatever the heck you want.

Apparently, the dollar isn’t just scaring hedge funds and financial investors. Gisele Bundchen, the highest-paid Brazilian supermodel does not want to be paid in US dollars anymore.

That’s right, folks. You know things are bad when the (hot) women decide the dollar isn’t for them anymore.

Damn, and here I came to the US thinking that I could earn the big-bucks in USD so that I can get all those hot women (for cheap, no less). Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to move to Europe.

I snagged the following screenshot off Nokia’s Nseries website.

Of course, this is probably because they gather generic RSS feeds tagged with Nokia or Nseries and display it on their website, but it is still surprising that a company as large as Nokia would let content seep through to their website that has not been approved by QA folks first.

That said, it is a neat website (if you forget the fact that it’s done in Flash, for a moment). And I am indeed a big fan of Nokia - wouldn’t dream of using any phone other than their’s.

Now, I wonder if my blog entry will show up on their website!

I finally got around to watching the film adaptation of Stardust. And given how much of a fan I am of Neil Gaiman’s work, I was not disappointed by the adaptation.

While I usually tend to be rather particular about adaptations of books that I like, this was a rare exception. The movie did take a couple of artistic liberties in differing from the book, but it felt like it was only adding to the spirit of the book. At the end of the day, Stardust is a fairytale (albeit for adults), and I thought that the movie portrayed that incredibly well.

And it was indeed quite a fairytale - a very funny one at that. The witticisms and the quips were hilarious, and I especially found Robert De Niro’s character to be extremely funny. The eclectic mix of characters was just perfect.

It was a rare mix of fantasy, romance (and funny romance at that - even the mushy parts kept cracking the audience up), comedy, adventure, action and suspense. Even for someone who had re-read the book at least a dozen times in the past few years, some parts caught me off guard.

This movie was perhaps the best movie I have seen all summer, and all year. And for those interested in watching this movie, I would strongly recommend that you read the book version of Stardust first - trust me, it is worth it.

After all, what is life is not a fairytale, hmm?

Sometime yesterday evening, my friend Rebecca asked me (out of the blue, if I might add) if I wanted to go to the pre-screening of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.