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Wednesday October 8, 2008

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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]

Lucian Freud

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]

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 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]

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]

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]

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]

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