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Agnes Gund lays into MoMA board
One of the art world's grandes dames, Agnes Gund (pictured), has caused a terrific rumpus among her fellow board members at MoMA - the Museum of Modern Art in New York - for implying that, despite their colossal wealth, they do not come close to matching her own generosity when... [continued]
Max Hastings defends ‘posh’ Ed Stourton
The brutal sacking of Ed ‘Posh’ Stourton from BBC Radio 4's Today programme has stirred up two of the biggest beasts of the journalist world. Writing in the Daily
Mail, Sir Max Hastings, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, says that Stourton, who attended Cambridge... [continued]
People: Did the Queen Mother lose Stourton his job? 
Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s dress sense dissed by Time magazine
Fashion's Queen Bee Anna Wintour is having a rough old time of it. As reported here, speculation about her being ousted as editor-in-chief of US Vogue, a job she has held
for the last 20 years, has become a staple among fashionistas, although informed opinion suggests that she will not... [continued]
In pictures: Time's worst dressed of 2008
People: Si Newhouse denies Wintour rumour
People: Is Vogue editor Anna Wintour about to be deposed?
Hollywood PI Pellicano gets 15 years
Anthony Pellicano, Hollywood’s so-called 'private eye to the stars', who once said he could bend the law to get his famous clients out of trouble, has been sentenced to 15 years in
prison for racketeering and wire-tapping. His most high-profile victim was Sylvester Stallone, though most of the attention... [continued]
People: Pellicano trial kicks off in La-La land
Features: Who’s who in the Pellicano case
Caroline Kennedy to run for Senate
Caroline Kennedy (pictured), the daughter of President John F Kennedy, has ended speculation about her political ambitions and will seek the Democratic
nomination to run for the Senate seat for New York, which becomes vacant in January when Hillary Clinton becomes Secretary of State in President-elect Barack Obama's
new... [continued]
A President Like My Father: Caroline Kennedy’s New York Times article
Caroline passes on the sword of Camelot
Newsdesk: Caroline Kennedy to run for Senate
Americans: Desiree Rogers, the ‘Zulu Queen’ in charge of Barack Obama’s guest list
Nicole Kidman angers aborigines by playing the didgeridoo
Actress Nicole Kidman is in trouble at opposite ends of the world today over her new film Australia: in Britain, she's got an absolute stinker of a review from fellow Aussie
Germaine Greer, while back home she's in the doghouse for playing the aborigines' traditional instrument, the didgeridoo, while promoting... [continued]
Germaine Greer's Guardian article in full
People: Nicole Kidman braves the cold for Australia premiere
People: Will Nicole Kidman quit film?
Joan Rivers writes off Sam Cameron
Does the US comedienne Joan Rivers have any idea what the Tory leader David Cameron's wife Samantha (pictured) does for a living? Perhaps if she did, she may not have taken a light-hearted swipe at Smythsons, the upmarket London stationers of which Sam is director, in the Christmas issue of... [continued]
In brief: Sharon Osbourne lashes out
Sharon Osbourne (pictured) is to be questioned by Los Angeles police after allegedly attacking a contestant on the US reality TV show Rock of Love: Charm School who
told her that she was only famous "for managing a brain-dead rock star", a reference to her husband, the rock singer... [continued]
People: Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy come to life as comic characters
