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Elton John drops Lily Allen
Lily Allen may rue the day she insulted Sir Elton John. Last week she roundly abused him – "Fuck off, Elton" – when he passed a comment about her excessive drinking
as they co-presented the GQ awards in London. Now it transpires that, up until that outburst,... [continued]
Lily and Elton bust-up on video 
In Town: GQ Men of the Year awards
Elton John and Lily Allen spat
Andrew Motion moans about the Queen
Although the position comes with an annual salary of £5,000 and a butt of sack (translation: an awful lot of free sherry), this has not stopped Britain’s Poet Laureate Andrew Motion
(pictured) complaining that the job is "incredibly difficult and entirely thankless". Speaking at the Ealing Arts... [continued]
Female poets recoil from Laureate role
In Town Last Night: Serpentine Party
The power-brokers of the art world were out in force last night for the Serpentine Gallery’s summer party in Hyde Park, which this year was co-hosted – and underwritten – by Dasha
Zhukova, the Moscow gallery owner and fashion designer better known as Roman Abramovich’s girlfriend.... [continued]
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In brief: Jeff Koons exhibition causes a stir
Against considerable opposition, Jeff Koons's exhibition of modern sculptures - including a vast aluminium lobster and a 7ft red heart wrapped in a ribbon - went on show today at the
Palace of Versailles. As one of the few supportive art observers in Paris told The First Post, "Marie Antoinette... [continued]
In pictures: Jeff Koons at Versailles
Stephen Hawking to leave Cambridge?
Damien Hirst attacked by Robert Hughes
Pictures of Damien Hirst artworks in Sotheby's sale
Lance Armstrong back in the saddle
Lance Armstrong, winner of the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, has said he intends making another comeback at the age of 37. Armstrong, who clocked up his famous victories after being diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996, wants to win the famous French endurance... [continued]
Marc Jacobs wows New York Fashion week
Marc Jacobs (pictured in kilt) has been welcomed in from the cold by the fashion industry after firing up New York Fashion Week with two consecutive shows. He received a
rapturous reception for his Marc Jacobs show on Monday night and served up another medley of ruffled... [continued]
Pictures: New York Fashion week
Ed Kalnins, Sarah Palin’s ‘disaster pastor’
Barack Obama is not the only candidate for the White House who has problems with turbulent men of the cloth (his former pastor Jeremiah Wright was accused this week
of having an affair with a church worker). In an interview in today's Times, Sarah Palin's (pictured) former... [continued]
Video: Sarah Palin addresses Ed Kalnins’ congregation
Barack Obama’s pastor Wright has affair
World poll back Obama over McCain
Salman Rushdie misses out on Booker
Salman Rushdie has failed to make the Man Booker Prize shortlist, despite being widely tipped to win the £50,000 award for his novel The Enchantress of Florence. Among the
six hopefuls are two first-time novelists, Aravind Adiga, for The White Tiger, who at 35 is the youngest... [continued]
Synopses of all six novels
Coppers 'locked Rushdie in cupboard'
Nicolas Cage fined by the IRS over tax
Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage's (pictured) brush with the US Internal Revenue Service – he has been forced to pay close to $666,000 in back taxes and penalties for improperly
deducting personal expenses from his professional income – offers a fascinating insight (probably not much appreciated on Cage's part) into how... [continued]
Turner apologises to Cage over claims
