Hollywood actress Monica Bellucci poses naked with her newborn for a magazine

She is a stunner and raises the male-pulse with her ethereal face and voluptous body. Hollywood actress Monica Belluci, at 46, has bared all for the cover of Italian Vanity Fair, along with her newborn Leoni.

The photo shoot with five month old Leonie is to promote a new book of Monica portraits and she does not have a wrinkle or line despite the late nights and early mornings that accompany a newborn baby. In the interview, she says some of the photographs conceal inner sadness but now she feels “in a state of grace, like a ripe pear”.

"Being photographed is a way of getting to know yourself. And I'm dying to know who I am, for better or worse," the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

The book of her photographs carries her name as the title and is a collection of images from the last twenty years by Bruce Weber, Peter Lindbergh and Ellen von Unwerth. The new mum recently shot for an ad with Robert De Niro.

Hollywood movie Inception explained

It’s a mind-teaser of a movie that raises more questions than it answers. Here is an attempt to make the movie easier to understand before you go for a second viewing.

SPOILER ALERT: This article should only be read by people who have already seen Inception. It is advised not to read ahead if you have not seen this hollywood film.

So, how many of you have been able to completely unravel the meaning and mindscape of Christopher Nolan’s Inception?

Not many, we are sure. It isn’t for nothing that his film is being described by viewers, critics, theorists and scientists alike as the biggest mind-f**k of the century.

Teaser number 1: The biggest trick that Christopher plays on the mind of the viewer hinges on the spinning of the top. As Cobb explains early in the film, you can only distinguish dream from reality on the basis of the totem’s motion. If it stops, you’re in the real world and vice-versa.

Teaser number 2: Cobb’s ring appears in dream sequences and disappears when he is kicked back into reality. In the last sequence, the top may be still spinning, but there is no ring on his finger, as he moves forward to meet his two children, James and Phillipa, who incidentally, haven’t aged at all despite a considerable time span. Hence the confusion: Was Inception dream or reality?

There are several theories on the possible interpretations of Inception. Some of the most interesting ones are:

Theory number 1: Cobb was just an ordinary passenger who dreamt up Inception on a 10-hour flight, back home. And when the plane landed, he walked off, like any other regular guy who returns home to his kids after a business trip. Crazy, but possible.

Theory number 2: Ariadne (Ellen Page), not Cobb, was the head shrink. She had been hired by Cobb’s father-in-law, Miles (Michael Caine) to cure him of his guilt complex. According to this theory, Cobb, inmate # 528491 (the number that Fischer gives as the password to his father’s safe, and the number of the hotel rooms) of a mental asylum, held himself responsible for his wife, Mal’s (Marion Cottilard) death and Miles sent his favourite student to lead the Inception and plant the idea in Cobb’s head that his dream wife is dead and he should move on. Here’s a look at some of the other prominent mind tricks you need to resolve for a better understanding of Inception:

So, who dreamt the final snow fortress dream? Was it Eames or Fischer?

While most of the explanatory infographics on the Web would like to attribute the snow fortress dream to Eames, actor Dilip Rao (who played the chemist) says it was actually Fischer who dreamt up the final sequence.
Traditional explanation is as follows: Level 1: With the van, was dreamed by Yusuf (Dileep Rao). Level 2: The hotel was dreamed by Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Level 3: The snow fort was dreamed by Eames (Tom Hardy), Final level: Was dreamed by no one, since it’s a place of shared consciousness.

Did Cobb and Mal grow old together in reality or did Mal die young?

Seems that they actually did grow old together and Cobbs memory of their youth is a fantasy. Why? Because when Cobb tells Ariadne the final story of how they escaped limbo, the clasped hands of Mal and Cobb on the railroad tracks appear old and wrinkled, just as Cobb and Mal are when we see them walking through the city while Cobb talks about them growing old together. The youthful version could be part of the delusion Cobb constructed which was visited by Ariadne. Of course, that’s the optimists version too.

Then why did Cobb have to perform inception on Mal?

Cobb and Mal were trapped in limbo for 50 years. When Cobb realized they were living in an unreal world, he wanted to return and performed inception on Mal, telling her the world wasn’t real. They killed themselves in limbo to return to the real world. Unfortunately the inception lingered and Mal continued to believe that reality was a delusion too.

Where’s the hurtling freight train in the street coming from?

Two explanations: It could be either Fischer’s sub-conscious trying to protect itself from the extractors or Cobbs sub-conscious which unintentionally focuses on the train that kicked back Cobb and Mal into the real world from limbo.

Why couldn’t Saito be saved like Fischer who was resuscitated by a defibrillator in level 3?

Saito was shot on the first level and died on the third. He would only have reached level two if resuscitated. But this wouldn’t have helped since he was still dying there. Fischer was shot on the third level but his body on the previous levels was still fine. The defibrillator and the kicks were enough to bring him back.

Hollywood actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart planning kids?

They might have been keeping people guessing on the status of their relationship but hollywood actress Kristen Stewart has revealed she has already started talking about kids with her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. The secret came out as the pair desperately tried to dodge a question about their romance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, reports thesun.co.uk. When the US host asked them whether rumours about their relationship were true, Pattinson joked: “Kristen’s pregnant.” Looking uncomfortable, Stewart continued: “He really likes to shock people because he thinks it’s funny. We’ve actually had this conversation...”

Quickly correcting her slip-up and pointing to her stomach, the 20-year-old actress added: “He’s having the baby because I can’t.”