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Spitzer faces trial for using call-girls
When Eliot Spitzer stood down as Governor of New York in March, following revelations that he had been a customer of a call-girl service, many felt that would be the end of the
matter. Not a bit of it. According to the New York Post, the federal... [continued]
The man who brought down Eliot Spitzer sets his sights on Barack Obama 
Book and film follow Spitzer's scandal
Murray accuses wife of child abuse
Bill Murray, who last month was accused of drunkenness, sex addiction and physical violence in the divorce papers issued by his wife, has struck back with his own set of allegations.
The star of Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and Lost in Translation has accused his wife, Jennifer Butler-Murray, of... [continued]
Bill Murray facing messy divorce
Paul Newman ‘dying of lung cancer’
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Paul Newman, Hollywood’s blue-eyed boy, has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The news follow reports in January that
the 83-year-old film star, who was a chain-smoker in his early life, had undergone surgery to remove an unspecified... [continued]
In pictures: Paul Newman's life
Sydney Pollack dies aged 73
People: Paul Newman dies
In brief: Austen’s real-life Mr Darcy
A watercolour of James Lefroy (pictured), the man believed to have inspired Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice character Mr Darcy, is expected to be sold for £50,000 at this year's Grosvenor Antiques Fair; the couple's relationship was portrayed in last year's film Becoming Jane, with Anne Hathaway and... [continued]
Flying Scotsman Trump drops in for tea
The Scottish weather played havoc with Donald Trump's elaborate coiffeur yesterday when he blew into Scotland to attend a public enquiry that will decide whether his proposed £1bn
golf resort near Aberdeen can go ahead. However, it was his trip to his mother's former home, a modest... [continued]
Trump wins latest round in golf turf war
Sarko favourite Ferrari ousts PPDA for France’s key TV job
Long before he was swept of his feet by Carla Bruni, President Nicolas Sarkozy was thought to have enjoyed a romantic relationship with the beautiful French TV
newscaster Laurence Ferrari (pictured at the Cannes film festival last month). Whether this was true or not, it has certainly paid... [continued]
Bruni reveals bedroom spat with minister
France agog over Sarko 'romance'
Composer: newspaper aims to bankrupt me
Composer Keith Burstein (pictured), little-known except to those readers committed to New Tonalism, claims he is being forced into the bankruptcy courts by London's Evening Standard newspaper. In part, he only has himself to blame. Last year, he sued the paper for libel after one of its critics... [continued]
Female poets recoil from Laureate role
The campaign to give Britain its first female Poet Laureate, reported in The First Post last month, has been dealt a decisive blow, with three of the five leading contenders ruling
themselves out because they don't, to put it bluntly, think it's worth the trouble. Among the... [continued]
Pressure on Burnham over female poet
