In brief: Flynt makes Palin porno

US porn king Larry Flynt, founder of the Hustler, has confirmed that he has shot an X-rated movie using an adult-film actress who resembles Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin (pictured). Bloggers' suggestions for titles, such as 'Drill, Baby, Drill' and 'Riding Pipeline', have been discarded in favour of Nailin' Paylin......... Model Lily Cole has enrolled at Cambridge University in the same week that she appeared on the cover of French Playboy. Cole, 20, won a place at King's College two years ago but delayed her studies to concentrate on modelling. In the meantime, she has switched from reading social and political studies to history of art......... Samantha Cameron’s claim that she used to hang out with trip-hop pioneer Tricky in her student days at Bristol Poly has been undermined by an interview with the man himself in the Independent. “"Do you know what? I honestly can't remember ever meeting her at all," he said. Samantha, wife of Tory leader David Cameron, had said that they used to frequent the same pub in Bristol's rough Montpelier neighbourhood......... Paul Newman's last film performance - providing the voiceover for a BBC wildlife co-production called The Meerkats - has received its world premiere at the Dinard film festival in France. Newman, who died of cancer at the end of September, recorded the voiceover at a studio near his home in Connecticut late last year.......... The BBC is to broadcast a three-part drama about the impact on Iraq of the 2003 invasion, starring James Nesbitt as a British Army sergeant. Occupation is written by Peter Bowker, best known for the BBC drama Blackpool........... Hope for the beleaguered John McCain comes in the shape of an unlikely endorsement from Stephen Fry, who has been driving around America for a new BBC series. Of Barack Obama, Fry says: "I don't think he's quite the man in terms of presence and judgment," adding that McCain was "for all his faults, also a remarkable man"........... Television actress Wendy Richard, 65, star of Are You Being Served? and EastEnders, has revealed that she is dying of cancer. She plans to marry her long-term partner, John Burns, before starting chemotherapy treatment in a week's time...........