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Aaron Sorkin to write Facebook, the movie
The life and times of Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), the 24-year-old billionaire co-founder of Facebook, could soon be immortalised in a Hollywood movie. According to author
Ben Mezrich, who is currently penning a history of the social networking site, the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, best known for the The... [continued]
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Did Ritchie get £50m off Madonna?
When it was revealed last month that Guy Ritchie would not be seeking a slice of Madonna's £300m fortune as part of their divorce settlement, many commentators were
quick to praise him for behaving with honour. However, a report in today's London Evening Standard claims that far from walking away... [continued]
People: Ritchie and Madonna reach agreement
In brief: Elisha Cuthbert, aka Kim Bauer, gets her revenge
Elisha Cuthbert (pictured), the actress who plays Kim Bauer in the hit US television series 24, is not the sort of woman you want to disrespect, as her ex-boyfriend
Sean Avery, an ace hockey player with the Dallas Stars team, has discovered to his cost. Avery recently referred to... [continued]
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Thailand gets an Old Etonian PM
British tourists who spent days holed up in Bangkok airport during the recent anti-government riots in Thailand will be delighted to hear that the country has a new PM as of this morning – a handsome young politician born and educated in Britain who the Thai parliament hopes will find... [continued]
Leonard Cohen makes it big from X Factor
Alexandra Burke may have triumphed in ITV's The X Factor at the weekend, but Leonard Cohen (pictured), the composer of the finalist's song
Hallelujah, which will now become the 20-year-old singer's debut single and is widely tipped to be the Christmas No 1, has even more reason to celebrate.... [continued]
People: Leonard Cohen wows fans in UK comeback
Penn’s love of Castro threatens his Oscar
Sean Penn is being strongly tipped for an Oscar for Milk, in which he plays Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual man to be elected to public office.
However, this could all come unstuck following an attack on the actor by the influential gay magazine, The Advocate. Penn's crime?... [continued]
The Advocate article in full
People: Sean Penn meets Raul Castro in Cuba
Marina Berlusconi marries ballet dancer Maurizio Vanadia
Marina Berlusconi (left), 42-year-old daughter of the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, married her ballet dancer sweetheart, Maurizio
Vanadia (right), in Rome at the weekend. The pair became close after Marina met him socially and then went to see him in a production of Swan Lake at... [continued]
People: Carla Bruni furious about Berlusconi’s Obama suntan jibe
John Humphrys defends assisted dying
BBC Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys (pictured) is to publish a book in which he will call for the legalisation of euthanasia. He told the Sunday Telegraph that his conviction that the existing UK law should be changed comes for his experience with his own father, George, who... [continued]
Bettencourt rows over society snapper
Liliane Bettencourt, the L'Oreal heiress and the world’s richest woman, has become the subject of a legal action brought by her daughter, Francoise, who is concerned that she has made a large slice of her £20.5bn fortune over to a society photographer. Bettencourt, 86, a... [continued]
Did the Queen Mother lose Stourton his job?
So why was Ed ‘Posh’ Stourton (pictured) sacked from his presenter's job on BBC Radio 4's Today programme? He pointed out in an interview at the weekend that he had
put in ten years’ "unblemished service" on Today, but this isn't entirely true. As reported here two weeks... [continued]
People: Stourton retreats on Queen Mother attack
Gervais tackles Brown on bearskins
As Gordon Brown gets on with "saving the world", the comedian Ricky Gervais (pictured) appears far more concerned about the Prime Minister dithering over
another matter – namely, putting an end to the 200-year-old tradition of Guards' regiments wearing bearskin hats. He wrote to the PM in August... [continued]
People: Simon Pegg takes a swipe at Gervais
