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Sarah Palin: McCain’s hot shot Veep
If John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin make it all the way, at least the next Vice President is guaranteed to be a better shot than the man whose office
she'll be taking over, Dick Cheney. Cheney needs little reminding of the accident that occurred on February 11,... [continued]
US Election: McCain picks Sarah Palin as running mate 
Tom Aikens forced to close restaurant
One of London’s most acclaimed chefs, Tom Aikens (pictured), is closing his new Chelsea restaurant just six months after it opened, following a dispute with the neighbours.
As The First Post reported in June, residents have been embroiled in a bitter dispute with Aikens over his eaterie... [continued]
Neighbours cry foul over Aikens’s fish shop
Sam Taylor-Wood to direct John Lennon film
Sam Taylor-Wood (pictured above), the artist turned filmmaker, has been chosen to direct a movie about the early life of John Lennon. According to
Screen Daily, Taylor-Wood, a former Turner Prize nominee and the wife of London contemporary art dealer Jay Jopling (owner of the White Cube gallery),... [continued]
New details about John Lennon shooting
George Michael takes Lennon’s piano on tour
Why is the duke selling his Titians?
The battle to keep two monumental Titian paintings in Britain, works which Lucien Freud (pictured) has described as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world", has
turned the spotlight on their owner, Francis Ronald Egerton, the 7th and current Duke of Sutherland, and has also prompted... [continued]
Lucian Freud painting destroyed
Valentino film reveals the ‘Sun Bed King’ at his bitchy best
A film about the flamboyant Italian fashion designer Valentino (pictured with Eva Herzigova) is proving a hit at this year's Venice film festival. The movie, aptly entitled
Valentino: The Last Emperor, is ostensibly a chronicle of the 'last great couturier's' 50 years in the rag trade, but... [continued]
Venice Filn Festival - more pictures
Facchinetti’s haute couture debut pays tribute to Valentino
Jeff Koons’s Versailles show attacked
The stuffier elements of the French arts and culture establishment are attempting to stop an exhibition by the American super-pop artist Jeff Koons (pictured) being shown at
the Palace of Versailles, the 17th-century chateau outside Paris that was home to the French monarchy until the Revolution.... [continued]
Art: Jeff Koons at the Gagosian
Picture books: master of kitsch Jeff Koons
In brief: Duchovny in sex clinic
David Duchovny (pictured), best known for his role as Mulder in the X Files, has entered a rehabilitation clinic for sex addiction. A statement released through his lawyer said that he had entered the facility, not kicking and sreaming, but "voluntarily". The 48-year-actor, who has been married since... [continued]
