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Last Onassis sells the family jewels
The last living descendant of the Onassis dynasty, once labelled the richest little girl in the world, is selling the family jewels at Christie’s this Wednesday. Athina Onassis (pictured), a 23-year-old showjumper and granddaughter of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, feels that the jewels she inherited from... [continued]
Sir Jonathan Miller takes on Dr Who
Sir Jonathan Miller, the theatre director and polymath, has hit out at London theatre producers for succumbing to "an obsession with celebrity" when casting West End plays, citing the Doctor Who actor David Tennant (pictured), who is to play Hamlet in a forthcoming Royal Shakespeare Company production,... [continued]
Why spiky Kennedy dances to his own tune
Even fans of the gifted violinist Nigel Kennedy (pictured) have questioned whether the image he presents to the world - that of a football-loving, lager-drinking,
mockney-speaking yob - is not just a little contrived, especially as he attended the fee-paying Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey and not... [continued]
Kennedy walks out of Royal Albert Hall show 
In brief: Keira to play cockney Eliza
Keira Knightley (right) is to play Eliza Doolittle in a new version of the musical My Fair Lady, originally played in the 1964 version by Audrey
Hepburn (left). The latest film will be produced by Cameron Mackintosh, who wants Daniel Day-Lewis to take the part of Henry Higgins...
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Spike Lee hits back at Clint Eastwood
The feud between film directors Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood – as reported on The First Post, Lee has criticised Eastwood for wilfully not putting any black
soldiers in his two Second World War films, Flags of Our Fathers (pictured) and Letter from Iwo Jima – shows no... [continued]
Clint fires broadside at Spike Lee
Lane Fox helps jail dads with reading
Martha Lane Fox (pictured), co-founder of Lastminute.com, has turned her considerable talents – not to mention fortune – to helping those detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Her small grant-giving charity, Antigone, which she says was formed "partly to stop me spending all my money on shoes but mainly... [continued]
Rose hits bum note over Lane Fox karaoke backing
In Town: midsummer Russian fantasy fundraiser
Fledgling child cancer charity the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation (founded in 2006 in honour of Russia's former First Lady) hosted its third annual fundraiser, the Russian Midsummer Fantasy, at Hampton
Court on Saturday. A-list support came in the shape of actors Kevin Spacey, Hugh Grant and... [continued]
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Everett berates Harman over sex laws
Although he made much of it in his biography, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, Rupert Everett appeared to be "done" with talking about his youthful phase as a Piccadilly rent boy and habitual user of Class A narcotics. However, in the Sunday Telegraph, after a good... [continued]
