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Roger Ebert bashed at Toronto Film Festival
Roger Ebert (pictured with his wife Chaz), America's best-known film critic, was involved in an unseemly dust-up at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday. Pulitzer
prize-winner Ebert, whose speaking voice was recently lost to the effects of cancer treatment, had popped into a screening and found the... [continued]
The Death of the American Film Critic 
In brief: Hathaway’s ex goes down
The ex-boyfriend of Anne Hathaway (pictured), Raffaello Follieri, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to a scam in which he allegedly posed as a Vatican official and cheated wealthy investors. The actress terminated her relationship with Follieri, 30, shortly before his arrest in June and there... [continued]
Anna Wintour doubles up with the Williams sisters
Roger who? American Vogue editor Anna Wintour may not have had her friend Roger Federer in tow for the Oscar de la Renta show on Wednesday
(the Swiss champion attended the previous two years) but she found two new tennis partners to attend New York Fashion Week... [continued]
People: Roger Federer fails to show for Anna Wintour
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
Who will replace Alistair Cooke?
A successor is being sought for Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who presented BBC Radio’s Letter from America from 1946 until his death in 2004 at the age 95. The corporation has toyed around with reviving the show ever since, but given the current interest in the US... [continued]
Old friends rally round the Iron Lady
When Carol Thatcher revealed in a newspaper article last month that her mother was suffering from dementia, many of Lady Thatcher's (pictured in 1983 with Cecil
Parkinson) friends were apparently horrified but chose to maintain a dignified silence for fear of further embarrassing the Iron Lady. However,... [continued]
The Mole: Brown’s package no insulation against backbenchers
People: Iron Lady’s dementia revealed
Gina Gershon targets Sarah Palin
Actress Gina Gershon may have denied supporting Bill Clinton during his R&R visits to California, but she's certainly taking Barack Obama's side in the war on
Sarah Palin. In a video parody put out this week on FunnyOrDie.com, the Hollywood actress does a nice impression of a mumsy Alaska Governor... [continued]
Video: Gershon does Palin
'Clinton affair': Gina demands retraction
David Cameron’s boring Bullingdon past
A lengthy feature on Tory leader David Cameron in Time magazine – he makes the cover, but only for the UK edition – contains some bolstering quotes from friends. "He’s
ambitious, competitive, there's an element of selfishness, all the things you require to be Prime Minister," says... [continued]
Infamous Bullingdon Club photo resurfaces to haunt Tories
Obama’s relative in robbery drama
Kinship with Barack Obama is proving something of a mixed blessing for his Kenyan relatives. First his half-brother George Hussein Onyango Obama complains of feeling
a sense of shame, living in penury while Barack runs for the presidency. Now the candidate's step-grandmother, Sarah (pictured), who like... [continued]
Barack Obama’s lost brother appears
Alexander Cockburn: Democrats panic in face of Palin-mania
