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Tina Fey cashes in on Sarah Palin
American comedienne Tina Fey (pictured) looks set to become rich as a result of her hugely popular spoofs of Sarah Palin on the US satirical show
Saturday Night Live. Fey, who is a dead ringer for the Republican vice presidential candidate when she dons the lipstick, hairdo and dinky two... [continued]
How to parody Sarah Palin – or not 
Video: Tina Fey does Sarah Palin
Paxman says BBC too fawning to royals
Jeremy Paxman (pictured), the outspoken presenter of BBC2's Newsnight, has turned on the corporation for being too fawning towards the royal family - particularly
the heir to the throne, Prince Charles. He made his wide-ranging attack on the Radio 4 programme The Archive Hour, which will be broadcast this... [continued]
TV ruled by women, protests Paxman
Paxman attacks Robbie Burns
Saatchi’s Chinese show panned by critics
London art critics who have had a sneak preview of Charles Saatchi’s new gallery in Chelsea, which opens to the public on Thursday, are not being kind about the art impresario’s new
purchases. It seems to be a case of "nice space, shame about the art": they are unanimous... [continued]
In pictures: Saatchi's Chinese show
Picture Books: Charles Saatchi's Chinese exhibition
Charles Saatchi goes back to Iraq
Book reveals the real Warren Buffett
The new biography of the world’s richest man, the investor Warren Buffett, may have been an attempt to paint the businessman in a sympathetic light but according to early reviews it
has achieved the exact opposite. The book, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, was written by... [continued]
Warrenn Buffett's bank deal pays off
Buffett buys stake in Goldmann Sachs
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Bram Stoker’s relative writes new Dracula
A new Dracula book is on its way, written by the great grand-nephew of the horror story’s creator, Bram Stoker. Using Bram’s handwritten notes, Dacre Stoker is penning a sequel, which he has called Dracula: The Un-Dead, the original title for Dracula before an editor changed it. The novel, which... [continued]
In brief: Grace Jones awarded Idol Award by music magazine
Grace Jones (pictured), the singer and actress, has been honoured for her services to the music industry at the Q magazine awards, held last night in London. Living
up to her eccentric reputation, she received the gong – an Idol Award - wearing a hooded cloak and black eye-mask,... [continued]
Sherry Jones book put on hold
‘I would have killed Hitler,’ says Jolie
How to parody Sarah Palin – or not
Video: Tina Fey does Sarah Palin
Penguin ‘want to dumb me down’ says Drabble
Novelist Margaret Drabble (pictured) has accused her publishers, Penguin, of trying to get her to "dumb down" her writing to appeal to a larger readership. Drabble, who is shortly to take over the chairmanship of the Society of Authors, made her remarks at a meeting of alumni at her old... [continued]
