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Power to work for ‘Monster’ Clinton
Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama's presidential campaign team in March after calling
Hillary Clinton "a monster", has joined the president-elect's transition team - in a potentially awkward role. Power (pictured) is one of 14 foreign policy... [continued]
People: How Obama adviser Samantha Power was forced to resign 
Conrad Black’s craven bid for freedom
Conrad Black, the former Daily Telegraph proprietor now serving a six-and-a-half year sentence for corporate fraud, is not giving up on his desperate bid to win a
presidential pardon from George Bush before he leaves office on January 20. Having so far failed with a direct approach to the... [continued]
People: Conrad Black not on Bush’s pardon list
People: Barbara Amiel gains a bleeding heart
People: Conrad Black recounts his career highlights to prisoners
In Town Last Night: Demi and Bruce see Scout ‘come out’ in Paris
One of Europe's most glittering balls got a touch of Hollywood glamour this weekend, when actors Bruce Willis (left) and Demi Moore (right)
attended the coming out of their daughter, 17-year-old Scout LaRue Willis (centre) at the 18th Paris Haute Couture Bal des Debutants. The stars' two other daughters Rumer
Glenn,... [continued]
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Scrap the Turner, says Brian Sewell
The winner of this year's Turner Prize, the yardstick of all that is hip in contemporary art, will be announced tonight. However, a number of London art critics, among them Brian
Sewell (pictured), are demanding that the award be scrapped because this year's shortlist is of such dire quality.... [continued]
People: Runa Islam closes on favourite as Turner artists go on display
Oasis man McGee turns back on Labour
Alan McGee (pictured), the rock music impresario who gave the world Oasis, has long been a supporter of the Labour Party, even attending Tony Blair's infamous ‘Cool
Britannia’ post-election 1997 party at Downing Street. Now it seems he's become a Tory convert. "I hope Labour get fucking stuffed... [continued]
People: Tony Blair and his groovy friend
People: Finkelstein’s Osborne somersault
Twilight star Robert Pattinson to play Salvador Dali
Twilight, the teen vampire movie that took a stunning $70m at the American box office in its first weekend, has made its British star Robert Pattinson (pictured
left with Twlight co-star Kirsten Stewart) one of Hollywood's most bankable properties. However, his largely (female) teenage fan base may be a... [continued]
Features: Hollywood adopts a softer touch for changing times
Video: Twilight trailer
Will Theo Paphitis save Woolworths?
Theo Paphitis, one of the entrepreneur panelists on the BBC television series Dragons' Den, is among a pack of potential bidders who are circling the high street chain Woolworths, which collapsed last week. The tycoon and former chairman of Millwall Football Club (pictured) is reported to... [continued]
Naipaul, Theroux and the witch-doctor
The row between VS Naipaul and the travel writer Paul Theroux has flared up again. In an article in this month's Tatler, Nadira, Sir Vidia's fiery second
wife, reveals that on a recent trip to Uganda she and her Nobel Prize-winning husband visited an African witch-doctor and came very close... [continued]
Critics have field day with VS Naipaul biog
Walcott lampoons Naipaul in verse
In brief: Emilia Fox to divorce
Emilia Fox's three-year marriage to fellow actor Jared Harris has ended. Fox (pictured), the daughter of Edward Fox, married Jared, son of
the late Richard Harris, in 2005. A friend of the couple told the Mail on Sunday: "They are not suited to each other. She is very successful and ... [continued]
Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy come to life as comic characters
