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Brand resigns over Sachs calls
Broadcaster Russell Brand today resigned from his BBC Radio 2 programme over the lewd phone calls he and fellow broadcaster Jonathan Ross made to the Fawlty
Towers actor Andrew Sachs. His resignation followed the announcement by BBC director-general Mark Thompson earlier today that the two men were to be... [continued]
Zoe Williams: this saga has brought out the loony in us all 
The girl behind the Brand/Ross row
Mandelson enjoys the high life in Moscow
It seems nothing will stop Peter Mandelson enjoying the high life. Though the storm surrounding his time aboard a yacht belonging to Russian billionaire Oleg
Deripaska has not yet blown over, the newly ennobled Business Secretary is staying in a £5,500-a-night suite during his current trip to Moscow. Lord... [continued]
Virtual tour of Lord Mandelson's suite
Kristin Scott Thomas wows critics on stage and screen
Can Kristin Scott Thomas do no wrong? She is currently being widely talked up for an Oscar nomination for her part in the French movie I've Loved You So Long. And in New York last week she received rave reviews for her Broadway debut as the vain Russian actress Arkadina... [continued]
Tony Blair’s earnings are £12m a year
As the stock market plummets and house pices slump, Tony Blair, the man who as Prime Minister championed the "light touch" system of financial regulation blamed by many for the
current crisis, is enjoying an unprecedented boom in his fortunes. The Times reveals today that the former Prime Minister's earnings... [continued]
Blairs aim to live in theatrical style
‘Body Guy’ Reggie Love goes back to school
As excitement grows in the Barack Obama camp, members of the Illinois senator's team are anxiously waiting to see what job they might get in an Obama administration if their man wins
the White House race next week. But the senator's bodyguard and personal assistant - or "body... [continued]
US press falls for Obama's love
US Election 2008: all the latest from the campaign trail
In brief: Will Michael Caine’s Italian Job get new ending?
Engineers have been asked to come up with a successful conclusion to the cult 1960's film The Italian Job, in order to explain how Charlie Croker, Michael Caine's character (pictured in the famous scene), and his gang might have unloaded the gold without losing their own lives in the process.... [continued]
Goldsmith slams Led Zep reunion
Harvey Goldsmith, the legendary music promoter, has attacked the decision by the surviving members of the rock band Led Zeppelin to undertake a major tour with a new singer. As
reported here yesterday, the bassist John Paul Jones is looking for a new band member after original frontman Robert... [continued]
Jimmy Page gets Led Zep back in the studio
Updike takes a swipe at Toni Morrison
John Updike (pictured), one of America's greatest living novelists, has written a damning review of Toni Morrison's latest book, A Mercy, in the
New Yorker. Clearly going for the jugular, he asserts that Morrison, a holder of the Nobel Prize for Literature, fails to portray black characters convincingly in the... [continued]
Updike's New Yorker review
