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Cherie Blair compares Tony to Churchill
Cherie Blair (pictured) has never knowingly avoided saying and doing stupid things, but her latest remark – that her husband Tony is comparable to Sir Winston
Churchill, the wartime leader, Nobel prize-winner, soldier and historian – will attract understandable mirth. She makes the claim in an interview in the... [continued]
Cherie memoir reveals Leo’s right royal conception 
Carla Bruni sees herself as the heir to Jackie Onassis
Chris Patten’s plea for Oxford
Lord (Chris) Patten, the former Tory minister, has condemned the government's insistence on trying to propel more children from the state schools into Oxford University, of which he
is the chancellor, claiming that it should not be used as "a social security office" to widen participation in the upper echelons... [continued]
Patten calls for Oxford to uphold standards
Return of the Mysterious Margiela
Fashion's most elusive designer Martin Margiela (whose creations are pictured) celebrated the 20th anniversary of his label Maison Martin Margiela yesterday with a typically
surreal show featuring models whose faces were covered in stockings or wigs and bodies hidden in beige full-body 'unitards'. The Belgian - who... [continued]
In pictures: Paris Fashion Week
In pictures: Milan Fashion Week
In pictures: London Fashion Week
In pictures: New York Fashion Week
How to parody Sarah Palin – or not
How do you parody Sarah Palin when she does it so well herself? Here’s the American actress Tina Fey (pictured) as Governor Palin on Saturday Night
Live: “You got Alaska here, this right here is water, and this is Russia. So, we keep an eye on them. Every morning, when... [continued]
Video: Tina Fey does Sarah Palin
Why Palin appeals to shell-shocked Americans
Simon Pegg takes a swipe at Gervais
Simon Pegg (pictured), the star of How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, a film adaptation about British journalist Toby Young's time working for Vanity Fair in New York, appears to be taking the movie's title to heart. While publicising the film, he turned on fellow comic actor Ricky... [continued]
In brief: Kate and Leo reunited
Eleven years since Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet (pictured) co-starred in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic the two actors have been reunited in a new film directed by Winslet's husband, Sam Mendes. In Revolutionary Road, they play a married couple approaching middle-age, a far cry from the drama of their... [continued]
Will Weinstein pay up on $1m bet?
Harvey Weinstein (pictured), the film producer, may have to pay $1m to charity after laying down a bet and then apparently losing it. The wager was made on Tuesday to
journalist Nikki Finke of the LA Weekly, who had claimed that she had an email from fellow producer Scott... [continued]
In brief: Kate and Leo reunited
Revealed: Kidman’s small fee for Reader
Spike Lee film attacked
Earlier this year the film director Spike Lee (pictured) earned himself endless (and priceless) column inches when he attacked Clint Eastwood's World War
Two movies Flags of Our Fathers and Letter from Iwo Jima, which he claimed were inaccurate because they did not include black soldiers. Now the guns have... [continued]
Spike Lee tackles Cannes favourite Clint over rewriting history
Clint fires broadside at Spike Lee
Spike Lee hits back at Clint Eastwood
