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Polanski fearful of returning to US
Roman Polanski's long-running battle to have his 32-year-old charge of sexual misconduct with an underage girl struck off is proving a little problematic. The Polish-born,
Oscar-winning film director (pictured), who fled the US in 1977 on the eve of being sentenced for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl,... [continued]
People: Documentary gives Polanski get-out hope 
Mark Regev: Israel’s spokesman for war
Who is Mark Regev, the hard-as-steel spokesman for Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, who’s popping up on British TV and radio every five minutes to defend Israel’s action in
Gaza? It’s a question being asked by viewers and TV professionals alike. Try as he might, even Jeremy Paxman was unable to... [continued]
In pictures: Gaza school attack
The Gaza File: News and comment on the crisis
Daniel Craig braves the cold to attend premiere of Defiance
Daniel Craig, accompanied by his girlfriend Satsuki Mitchell (both pictured), braved sub-zero temperatures on Tuesday night to attend the London premiere of Edward
Zwick's World War Two film, Defiance, which records the true story of resistance fighters in Belarus. The movie, which also stars Jamie... [continued]
Will Self: Jewish defiance and abuse
In brief: Lily Allen marriage mystery
Is Lily Allen (pictured) about to tie the knot with London art dealer Jay Jopling? Speculation intensified that the couple's relationship, reported here in
December, had turned serious when they holidayed together on the Caribbean island of St Bart's. Now Lily has been seen sporting what appears to be two... [continued]
People: Is Jay Jopling dating Lily Allen?
People: Jopling and Taylor-Wood to divorce
People: Josh Brolin in slugging match with Bush fans
People: Davies says Jonathan Ross is ‘dreadful’
Bennett entranced by Andy Burnham
Has Alan Bennett (left), the award-winning playwright and diarist, got a crush on Andy Burnham (right), Labour's handsome Culture Minister? The
question arises because of an article Bennett has penned for the January issue of the London Review of Books, in which he records a meeting with the politician at... [continued]
People: Alan Bennett leaves archive to Oxford
Vivienne Westwood wants to make sequel to Sex and the City
Fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood (right) is attempting to persuade the producers of the hit movie Sex and the City to adopt her plot ideas for the sequel.
Although plans are already underway for a follow-up - as reported here, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and
Kristin Davis... [continued]
People: Nixon says deal not done on Sex and the City sequel
People: Shoes, seafood and screaming fans: London’s Sex and the City premiere
Elvis’s girl defends John Travolta
The sudden death of John Travolta's 16-year old son, Jett, last Friday in the Bahamas has prompted speculation that his demise was in part down to the actor's Scientologist beliefs, which some commentators claim shuns conventional medical treatment in favour of a detoxification programme based on the teachings of the... [continued]
