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Reese takes top spot in Hollywood pay league
Although her most recent film, Rendition - on the set of which she met her new boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal - was a flop in America, actress Reese Witherspoon
turns out to be Number One in the Hollywood Reporter's annual list of the highest-paid actresses. The 31-year-old Oscar winner (for Walk... [continued]
Nicole Kidman at the Golden Compass premiere 
Lost Pollock paintings declared fakes
The work of Jackson Pollock has long been disparaged by the detractors of modern art as 'looking like something that anyone could have painted'. So the findings of forensic scientist
James Martin will be music to their ears. Martin reported to a gathering of art experts on Wednesday night that... [continued]
In pictures: fake Pollocks
In Town Last Night: Elle and Agyness light up Gap launch
Gap's Red range launch brought out the brightest stars in fashion's firmament. The collection, curated by Pop magazine editor Katie Grand, was unveiled at east London's
Bistrotheque in front of designers Giles Deacon and Stephen Jones, party-girl-around-town Elle Macpherson (above, left), and newly crowned
model of the year Agyness Deyn... [continued]
Americans: pin a medal on Dixie
In Town Last Night
Agyness Deyn: this year's model
Da Vinci trial loser Richard Leigh dies
One of the co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, who failed in a long and expensive case at the High Court last year to sue Da Vince Code writer Dan
Brown for plagiarism, has died suddenly in London. Richard Leigh, an eccentric figure on the London literary... [continued]
The First Post's Da Vinci Code menu
Harriet Harman: the party’s over
As Downing Street today tried to play down reports of a rift between Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman over the proxy donations to the Labour Party, Harman has quietly
cancelled a Christmas party she was due to host next Wednesday in central London. The irony is that the party was... [continued]
Janet Kidd unique on Harriet Harman list
The Mole: Can Harriet survive as Gordon cleans out the stables?
In Brief: Posh Spice strips for charity
Victoria Beckham is to pose naked for a range of charity T-shirts. She agreed to be the face of Marc Jacobs for his new Spring/Summer 2008 collection, then surprised the designer by asking if she could strip off... Sir Ranulph Fiennes has announced plans to climb Mount Everest next year... [continued]
Charlotte Rampling calls time on screen nudity
Demonstrating the immaculate poise and timing she has brought to the screen over a 40-year career, the Francophile British actress Charlotte Rampling has called time on disrobing on screen. Having brought an icy sexuality to such films as the psychological chiller The Night Porter (above right), in which she played... [continued]
Boris found guilty of embezzlement
The exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky has another reason not to go home to Russia - he has been sentenced to six years in absentia on charges of embezzling more than £4m from the
national airline, Aeroflot. The prosecution claimed that Berezovsky, who controlled the airline in the post-Soviet 1990s, was... [continued]
My dinner with Boris Berezovsky
Berezovsky implicated by Kremlin
