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Tuesday April 7, 2009

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Comic hero Obama takes axe to Palin

A new series of comics will portray the silver-tongued Barack Obama as a warrior who lets his axe do the talking as he seeks to destroy his Republican foes. Due to be published by Chicago-based Devil's Due in June, Barack the Barbarian: Quest for the Treasure... [continued]

Sarah Palin comic book character

Parkinson blasts ‘puerile’ Jade Goody

Venerable broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has tested out his status as a national treasure with a forthright attack on Jade Goody and the public’s response to her life and death. Mere days after her funeral, Parkinson is scathing about the reality TV star in an article for the Radio Times.... [continued]

Jade Goody

Fred Goodwin said to be staying with Jackie Stewart in Switzerland

The whereabouts of the former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin, the most wanted man in Britain - by hungry paparazzi, angry shareholders and disillusioned taxpayers - has been a mystery since he vanished from his Edinburgh home a month ago amid the furore over his £700,000-a-year... [continued]

Sir Fred Goodwin Jackie Stewart

Allen Stanford gives bizarre interview

Allen Stanford, the colourful Texan oil billionaire and cricket fan now accused of an $8bn fraud, has often been described as flamboyant - and he lived up to his reputation on Monday during an emotional, and at times bizarre, interview with Brian Ross of ABC News during which he burst... [continued]

Sir Allen Stanford

Family trouble for Sarah Palin: Levi hits TV and sister-in-law arrested

More indications of what sort of White House it might have been had the Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin beaten Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the November election are emerging from the white trash social circles of Juneau, the capital of Alaska.   First, Levi Johnston, the... [continued]

Left: Levi Johnston on the Tyra Banks Show; Right: Diana Palin in court

Eminem song attacks Palin, Lohan and Alba

Detroit rapper Eminem has marked his return to the music business after a five-year hiatus by taking a pop at celebrities including Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, actresses Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and her DJ girlfriend – or ex-girlfriend, if latest reports are correct - Samantha Ronson and chat show host... [continued]

Eminem

Gisele wedding sees ‘photographers shot at’

A security man hired for the wedding in Costa Rica of Gisele Bundchen, the world’s highest-paid supermodel, and the New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady, appears to have taken his duties a little too seriously, if reports from Mal Pais are anything to go by. The couple had an exclusive... [continued]

Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady

Michael Crichton is back from the dead

Thriller writer Michael Crichton is back from the dead. Or, to be precise, two new novels have been found on the computer of the novelist who died from cancer last November and one is to be published before Christmas this year and the other in 2010. The bestselling author... [continued]

Earl Spencer back on television

Earl Spencer, brother of Diana, is hoping to revive his television career with an appearance on a new BBC series, The Speaker. Before he made his most famous TV appearance - his electrifying address at his sister's funeral in 1997 was watched by millions around the globe - he had... [continued]

Earl Charles Spencer

Farrah Fawcett insists she is not ‘at death’s door’

Farrah Fawcett, the American actress who became one of the most famous sex symbols in the world following her appearances in 1976 in the TV series Charlie’s Angels and in a famous swimsuit poster, is seriously ill in hospital in Los Angeles after fighting cancer for nearly three years.... [continued]

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal

Kal Penn death: from ‘House’ to White House

In a bizarre job swap, the American television actor Kal Penn has suddenly quit the Fox series House to take a relatively junior job in Barack Obama's administration. As a result, the producers of House had to kill off his character in the hospital drama, Dr... [continued]

Kal Penn

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