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Martha Stewart and Michelle Obama are getting space in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington for the first time.Featuring famous names from science, business, government and the arts.President Barack Obama and the first lady are among those portrayed.


It's the first time Michelle Obama's individual portrait has been shown.The collection also include actor Tom Hanks and music artists Willie Nelson and LL Cool J. Video portraits in the exhibit feature late-night comedians Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and David Letterman, as well as actor George Clooney and NBA star LeBron James.The portraits are on view through July 2011.

Super hit bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit backed out from the project on personal grounds, Indian origin US filmmaker Krishna Shah is now considering casting Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra in the lead role in a biopic on late prime minister Indira Gandhi.

It will be a big-budget two-part movie on the life of the Indian leader who was known as Iron Lady. Shah is working on the casting with Academy Award winning make-up artiste Jenny Shircore.After going through the photographs of many Indian actresses, Shircore believes that Priyanka is the only Bollywood actress whom she can make look like Indira Gandhi after some prosthetic work on her face.Priyanka is the one who can fit in the character of Indira, but it will be too premature to talk about casting as we have not approached anybody as yet," Shah said in a statement.Shah is reportedly also in conversation with other actors like Albert Finney, Emily Watson, Tom Hanks and Tommy Lee Jones to play other characters in the film.

The movie will be based on Indira Gandhi's life till the 1971 war, while part two will look more into her personal life as a mother to her sons -- Rajiv, who succeeded her as the prie minister.The script of the movie has also undergone changes.The script has been reworked after I got my hands on Richard Nixon’s personal tapes related to the 1971 Bangladesh War. My research has changed the script a lot and now we are looking at casting an appropriate face for Indira Gandhi’s character," said Shah.

Rima Fakih the first Muslim crowned Miss USA spoke out against the planned mosque near Ground Zero yesterday, saying the project is insensitive to 9/11 victims.We should be more concerned with the tragedy than religion.

Miss USA Rima Fakih, who was born in Lebanon but raised in Dearborn, Michigan.I totally agree with President Obama with the statement on Constitutional rights of freedom of religion, Fakih told Inside Edition.I also agree that it shouldn't be so close to the World Trade Center.

13-story community center and mosque two blocks north of Ground Zero, Park51 mushroomed into a national controversy last week after President Obama spoke in favor of the project.

She told the Detroit Free Press on Tuesday she's fasting from sunrise to sunset for Ramadan.The former Miss Michigan became the first Muslim to be crowned Miss USA in May. She dazzled judges when she took the stage in a skimpy red.

She would also be the first Muslim to be crowned Miss Universe.Fakih commissioned a flashy gold and silver eagle costume for the competition that she calls a tribute to Obama.

This costume is a tribute to your work to bring peace to the world," Fakih said of the winged outfit in a promotional video for Miss Universe.The amazing costume I will wear during the Miss Universe pageant represents the celebration of life.

Fakih hit a rough patch in May when TMZ.com posted photographs of the beauty competing in a "Stripper 101" competition at a Michigan bar.She was crowned pole dancing champion at the event.