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Happy New Year! The world welcomes the arrival of 2011 in grand style Friday![]() Revelers wearing party hats and 2011 glasses packed Times Square last night as confetti rained down and a crystal ball dropped into the New Year for a once-in-a-lifetime New York experience. "It's awesome!" German nanny Katrina Luther, 19, squealed as she stood among the celebrating crush in the Crossroads of the World. "It's indescribable," her friend Barbara Windish, 18, exclaimed just moments after midnight. "It was definitely worth it." The buildup to the big moment began hours earlier, as revelers from across the globe staked out real estate for the event. "We wanted to cross it off our bucket list," Charlotte Cooper, 25, said. She and her friend Melissa Castrogiovanni, 17, parked themselves against a stage cordoned off by police barricades at 46th St. and Broadway at 9 a.m. The Clinton, N.J., duo vowed not to budge from the coveted spots until 2011. "We are not leaving," Castrogiovanni said. They were prepared for near-freezing temperatures and no access to bathrooms or food after 6 p.m. just to say they had spent a New Year's in Times Square. "We went to the bathroom at 8:30 a.m.," Castrogiovanni said. "We said goodbye to the toilets." But at 3:30 p.m., as the crowd swelled and police lined up, they also said goodbye to their choice location. Cops booted everyone inside the cordoned section to do security checks. Castrogiovanni and Cooper ended up a block south - still close to the ball drop, but farther from the entertainment. By then, the New Year's Eve revelry was ratcheting up. "Happy New Year's" cheers and noisemakers swept through Times Square. Some of the partyers were decked out in costumes, while others flashed cardboard signs that included: "THE BRONX Faith Hope Love," "Hello 2011 Alaska" and "Happy New Year to Our Troops." There were also foreigners showcasing their country, carrying Brazilian, Canadian and South African flags. Yoshi Watanabe, 30, bravely bared his body to the elements while dancing for dollars. The Tokyo native was dressed in a vest, a belly-dancer's miniskirt and pharaoh's hat. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime event that I wanted to do," Watanabe said. Canadians Alicia Flood-Phillips, Rebecca Kruger and Tanya Coutts were also spending New Year's Eve in Times Square for the first time. "Why wouldn't you want to come?" Flood-Phillips, 23, asked. "They don't have anything like this in Canada." She and her friends added a little sartorial touch from their homeland: lumberjack hats and mittens from the Vancouver Olympics. By 8 p.m., some pizza delivery guys figured out they could make a killing off the corralled crowd. They were slinging pies for $20 a pop and people behind barricades were gobbling them up. Greg Packer, 47, a retired maintenance worker from Huntington, N.Y., ate an entire pizza. It was his eighth New Year's Eve in Times Square. "I love it," he said. "I mean, everybody from all over the world comes just to watch a Waterford crystal ball. It's great." As midnight neared, a gaggle of Marines stationed at Ballston, N.Y., were rocking out to Rick Springfield. "I'm from Wisconsin, so this is pretty crazy," said Petty Officer William Hokenstad, 21. "I'm not used to so many people." Bianca Trevino, 21, of Fort Bragg, N.C., was clutching a sign high above her head and mouthing the words to "Backstreet Boys" songs as the band performed. 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Shrinking star steals Victoria Beckham's styleAs her curves continue to shrink, Catherine Zeta Jones has had to find herself a whole new wardrobe. And who better to inspire her than stylish friend and fellow ex-pat Victoria Beckham? The 40-year-old has seen her figure become toned and athletic following two months of dancing nearly every night in Broadway musical A Little Night Music. Yesterday Catherine headed to the show from her New York apartment in black leather jeans and jacket, with a military style cap. Teamed with a pair of oversized sunglasses, she looked like Posh's mirror image. It isn't the first time Catherine appears to have taken inspiration from Victoria. In December the mother-of-two wore a leather and fur combination within days of Victoria donning the same. Catherine is used to dressing to accommodate her changing figure.
She has told how she 'ate for Wales' when pregnant with son, Dylan, now seven, which saw her balloon to 13st. After the birth of daughter Carys five years ago, she used a tough dance-based routine from her movie Chicago to whittle herself into a leaner shape. After that she became curvy again - so curvy that there was speculation she had had breast enlargement surgery. Her publicist refused to comment on the rumours. Then, in June 2008, she cut a remarkably lean figure while on the set of her film The Rebound. Catherine and husband Michael Douglas recently moved to New York from Bermuda; they plan to stay for the next two years. Michael Douglas: Thank Goodness For ViagraMichael Douglas is busy filming "Wall Street 2" and has given aninterviw to AARP magazine. Douglas, 65, talked about his love of wife Catherine Zeta Jones and his second chance at being a dad. He remembered how he was first smitten with Zeta Jones after seeing her in "The Mask Of Zorro": And does his pulse still quicken the way it did in that darkened screening room watching Zorro? "Oh, yeah," he laughs. "At least in your head, your fire burns as brightly. Let's not kid ourselves. But God bless her that she likes older guys. And some wonderful enhancements have happened in the last few years--Viagra, Cialis--that can make us all feel younger." They have two children, and Douglas also has a son Cameron, 31, currently in jail on drug charges. Zeta Jones told the magazine that Douglas loves being an at-home parent when not working. "Michael tells me that [new fatherhood] keeps him agile. He's a terrific, extremely hands-on father." Douglas acknowledges that wasn't the case when Cameron was young. "I'll assume whatever responsibilities I have to. Would it have been better to have been around more? Absolutely. There were absences, and I was no angel."
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