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Paul Newman: big in Iran
It seems Paul Newman, who died on Friday aged 83, was more popular than even his most ardent fans might have imagined. The screen legend, who starred in films such as Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke,and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, has been mourned all... [continued]
In pictures: Paul Newman's life 
Hollywood legend paul Newman dies
Paul Newman 'dying of lung cancer'
Palin biog caught in Muslim storm
Bad omens for the UK edition of Sarah Palin's biography. Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down, written by Alaskan journalist
Kaylene Johnson, was due to be published next week by Gibson Square Books, the company behind Sherry Jones's controversial novel, The Jewel of Medina –... [continued]
Sherry Jones upbeat about book
Has McCain found his excuse to sack Palin?
People: Writer hits paydirt with Palin biography
Brit designer Gareth Pugh brings avant-garde to Paris
Nine days of catwalk shows began in Paris at the weekend, hot on the heels of New York, London and Milan, and one of the highlights was avant-garde British designer Gareth Pugh
(designs pictured) who made his Paris debut with a dramatic black and white collection. The 27-year-old designer from... [continued]
In pictures: Paris Fashion Week
In pictures: Milan Fashion Week
In pictures: London Fashion Week
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
The duchess and the toyboy
Despite stupendous wealth and more than 150 aristocratic titles, the 82-year old Duchess of Alba (pictured), the grandest grandee in Spain, is not a happy bunny. Why? The old girl has just been told by her family that she cannot marry her toyboy, Alfonso Diez Carabantes, an antiques dealer 24... [continued]
Sherry Jones upbeat about book
Sherry Jones (pictured), whose book The Jewel of Medina was the reason for the fire-bombing of her London publishers, Gibson Square Books, remains bullish about her
novel reaching the bookshops even though publisher Martin Rynja has gone into hiding. Speaking at the weekend, she said of her fictional account... [continued]
Palin biog caught in Muslim storm
Rushdie rounds on his publishers
Runa Islam closes on favourite as Turner artists go on display
The four short-listed artists up for this year's Turner Prize put their wares on display at Tate Britain on Monday. The smart money had been on Merseyside artist Mark Leckey, but
this has been unsettled by 38-year-old Runa Islam (pictured), a Bangladeshi-born, British based film-maker who is... [continued]
Film and video artists dominate Turner shortlist
Prince holds two birthday bashes
Good to see there's one person who isn't effected by the global financial crisis. The Prince of Wales is planning not one but two lavish parties to mark his 60th birthday in November. The first will be a state banquet, hosted by the Queen and attended by around 170 guests,... [continued]
In brief: US critics pulverise Little Britain
American critics have dished out some stinking reviews to Little Britain creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams (pictured) for their US spin-off,
which had its first airing on Sunday night. Variety magazine complained that Little Britain USA's wit "seldom rises above what's scrawled on a school bathroom wall" and that... [continued]
Obama did not have textual intercourse with that woman, Scarlett Johansson
Ledger’s dad makes promise to Williams
Mick Jagger’s lips help pay school fees
Ronnie Wood runs off with cocktail waitress
Ed Balls’s Oxford capers revealed
Like many in the Labour Party, Ed Balls (pictured) has made great play of the fact David Cameron and Boris Johnson were members of the
notorious Bullingdon Club while at Oxford. However, it now transpires that the Cabinet minister was something of a wild man himself when he was at... [continued]
Infamous Bullingdon Club photo resurfaces to haunt Tories
Cameron piles into Alan Sugar
David Cameron (pictured) has broken one of the golden rules of political life – to choose your enemies very carefully – by launching an attack on Sir Alan
Sugar. In an interview at the weekend, the Tory leader announced: "I can't bear Alan Sugar" and said that, furthermore, he... [continued]
Sugar fails to make Jewish power list
