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Lucian Freud and the missing model
Lucian Freud (pictured) is as well known for his love of beautiful women as he is for his painting. A report in today's Daily Telegraph suggests that this is the
reason why one of his more recent models, Daniella Levene, a beautiful 25-year-old graduate from Hendon, north London, has... [continued]
Big Sue sells for a hefty $33.6m ![]()
Robert Peston, thorn in Darling’s side
Described variously as a brilliant journalist, "a market menace" and the man with the most annoying delivery on television, there is no denying who is the greatest thorn in Chancellor
Alistair Darling's side today - Robert Peston (pictured), the BBC's business editor. The government's £50bn plan to... [continued]
Today's bank announcement ![]()
Pinter revival lauded by critics
Harold Pinter turned up last night for the latest West End production of his 1974 play No Man's Land, starring Michael Gambon, David
Bradley and Little Britain's David Walliams, and will be delighted to know that the first reviews were close to ecstatic. Gambon (pictured above with, from... [continued]
In pictures: first night party for No Man's Land ![]()
People: How Pinter and Simon Gray patched it up ![]()
In brief: High School musical UK premiere
Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens (pictured), Ashley Tisdale and Corbin Bleu, the stars of
High School Musical 3: Senior Year, were all attendance for the movie's London premiere in Leicester Square last night. As were thousands of teenagers, who screamed at the young cast as if
there lives depended... [continued]
Review: How to Lose Friends and Alientate People ![]()
Princess Di snapper Demarchelier wants to shoot Camilla ![]()
Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic misses target
Oliver Stone's biopic of President Bush, called W and starring Josh Brolin (pictured as "dubya"), has been one of the most eagerly
awaited films of the American electoral season, with some exciteable types saying that it could help Barack Obama's passage into the White House. But after receiving its... [continued]
Stone releases Bush biopic trailer ![]()
Bush biopic set for pre-election release ![]()
Stone paints warts‘n’all portrait of Dubya ![]()
Scrubs actress signs up to play First Lady in Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic ![]()
Oliver Stone to turn camera on Bush ![]()
Josh Brolin in slugging match with Bush fans ![]()
Vladimir Putin, the king of judo
In times past he has contrived to depict himself in a variety of macho guises – insatiable lady-killer, topless fisherman and fearless tiger hunter among them – but this, it seems, is not enough for
Vladimir Putin (pictured). Now he has released a judo DVD which features him training with... [continued]
Vladimir Putin the duck killer ![]()
Putin holds on to trappings of office ![]()
Author of Obama book deported from Kenya
Jerome Corsi (pictured), author of a muck-raking book on Barack Obama, which, among things, tries to link the would-be president with extremist muslims, has
been deported from Kenya. He had gone there to promote Obama Nation: Leftist Nation and the Cult of Personality, but he hadn't reckoned on the esteem... [continued]
Alexander Cockburn: Candidates fiddle while American burns ![]()
Barack Obama’s lost brother appears ![]()



