Neuroscience student becomes real villain as Batman: Dark Knight Rises is released

One year on from the attacks in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik that killed 77 and injured 319, A 24 year old Neuroscience graduate from University of California, Riverside attempted to become like a real Batman villain after dying his hair like the Joker (although the Joker never had red hair) and wearing a gas mask like villain Bane.

At 12.39, 30 minutes into one of the first showings for new Batman movie Dark Knight Rises, 24 year old James Eagan Holmes entered with several weapons: 12-gauge Remington Model 870 shotgun, first at the ceiling and then at the audience. He also fired a Smith & Wesson AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, and a .40 S&W Glock handgun. Audience members thought it was part of the promotion until he started throwing canisters full of obscuring gas and began opening fire on audience members. Within 90 seconds police came and apprehended Holmes but it came at the cost of 12 dead and 58 injured- including a 3 month old baby.

Holmes said after arrest that his apartment was "booby-trapped with explosives" which was later confirmed by the FBI; five buildings surrounding his Aurora residence (about 5 miles north of the theater) were evacuated and disarmament is still underway.

Holmes enrolled as a PhD student in neuroscience at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. In 2012, his academic performance declined and he scored poorly on the comprehensive exam  but was not at risk of failing. However, he was in the process of withdrawing from the university. He had no prior criminal record but on Adult Friend Finder and Match.com his tagline was "Will you visit me in prison?"

Holmes is on suicide watch in solitary confinement and is expected to appear in court tomorrow on the 23rd July 2012.

Condolences to the family of those affected. Sometimes you wish Batman was real to deal with such people.

First Bollywood Legend Rajesh Khanna dies aged 69

After a combination of cancer and kidney problems, Rajesh Khanna passed away on 18th July 2012. Khanna was admitted to hospital on the 23rd June 2012 and was dischared by the 8th July; again he was admitted on the 14th July before being dischared on the 17th and dying in his home the day after.

Khanna was called the 'First Superstar of Indian Cinema' for 15 consecutive hits in the 1970s,a record that remains unbroken today; even more impressive, Khanna's first few movies were flops.

Khanna won three Filmfare Best Actor awards and was nominated for the same fourteen times. He received the most BFJA Awards for Best Actor (Hindi) – four times and nominated 25 times. In 1991, he was awarded the Filmfare Special Award for completing 25 years in the industry, appearing in a record 106 films as the single lead protagonist in a span of 25 years. In 2005, he was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

Khanna is survived by ex wife Dimple (55) and daughters Rinkle (35) and Twinkle (37), the latter of whom is married to action hero Akshay Kumar and has a son and is expecting a second child.

Sylvester Stallone's son Sage found dead

The 36 year old son of Rambo and Rocky actor has been found dead in his apartment. No foul play or trauma has been found but it is suspected from the bottles of prescription medicine in his home that Sage died from drug overdose. It has also been suspected that Sage may have been dead for several days since his mother Sasha Czack told his housekeeper to check on him as he had not been heard from for days.

Sage Moonblood Stallone was the oldest of Sylvester Stallone's children and co-starred with his father in two films-Rocky V as Rocky's son and in movie Daylight. He was the first of two sons Stallone had with first wife Sasha Czack. Sylvester Stallone has been married three times-the first to Sage's mother (1974-1985);resulting in Sage (b.1976) and Seargeoh (b.1979), the second to Brigitte Nielsen (1985-1987), and the third to Jennifer Flavin (1997-present) resulting in three daughters: Sophia Rose (b.1996), Sistine Rose (b.1998), and Scarlet Rose (b.2002).

 Like with Michael Jackson,Brittany Murphy,Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston- drug addiction and overdose is to blame; particularly with prescription drugs not being closely monitored or more strictly controlled to celebrities.

Thoughts and condolences are with the Stallone family.

Dara Singh goes to meet Hanuman

Indian Professional Wrestler and Bollywood Movie Star Dara Singh passes away at 84 years young after cardiac arrest,lack of bloodflow to the brain and kidney failure.

Known for playing Lord Hanuman in the TV adaptation of Ramayan, Dara Singh was a former amateur wrestler in Pehlwani before moving on to professional wrestling and Bollywood movies.
Singh came from the era where professional wrestlers doubled up as strongmen or amateur wrestlers and also could be seen as bodybuilders from their massive physiques and low bodyfat. Dara Singh was one of the few that managed to do all of these things alongside other former legends like Georg Hackendschmidt (creator of the Hack Squat exercise), Clarence Whistler,  William Muldoon, Donald Dinnie,Georg Lurich, Mighty Atom, Bert Assirati, fellow Indian Great Gama and Eugen Sandow and Arthur Saxon-the latter two pioneers of the Mr. Olympia and modern bodybuilding.