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Depp sings like a demon in new film
Johnny Depp can sing! In Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the actor has impressed even the man who wrote the original musical on which the film is based, Stephen Sondheim. The taciturn composer and lyricist, who made a rare public appearance to... [continued]
Google guy plans super-lavish wedding
Google co-founder Larry Page has found a good way to spend some of the $20bn he's supposed to be worth - he's getting married on Saturday and he's doing it in style. Page, 34, who was considered the most eligible bachelor in the States, is to marry his girlfriend of... [continued]
Hottest ticket in town Othello let down by ‘Ewan McGregor factor’
Othello the hottest ticket in London's West End, opened last night to generally excellent reviews for the play – but less-than-glowing tributes to its Hollywood star, Ewan McGregor. With McGregor as Iago, opposite fellow film actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role, tickets to the Donmar... [continued]
French fury over Time culture snub
Just when the French president Nicolas Sarkozy was trying to mend his country's relationship with the United States, along comes Time magazine to spoil the party. Gallic pride has been badly hurt by a cover story in the magazine's Europe edition claiming that culture in France is dead. The only... [continued]
Did Gordon tell a porkie?
Michael Cashman, the former EastEnders actor and member of Labour's national executive committee, has embarrassed Gordon Brown with an unhelpful note of the private discussions of the NEC
last Saturday over 'Donorgate'. David Cameron, the Tory leader, tackled Brown at Prime Minister's Questions today over whether the Whitty inquiry into... [continued]
Has Brown lost the plot – and millions, too? 
In Brief: Henson faces police inquiry
Rugby star Gavin Henson, boyfriend of singer Charlotte Church, faces police inquiries and disciplinary action from his Ospreys club after allegedly being involved in drunken antics on a train from Reading to Cardiff on Sunday... Paris judges have postponed the trial of President Nicolas Sarkozy's 20-year-old... [continued]
In Town Last Night: Save the Children fundraising dinner
As Save the Children president, the HRH Princess Royal presided over the fundraising dinner at the Natural History Museum last night. The charity held its traditional auction of
designer goodies and bespoke Christmas trees - this year designed by Marks & Spencer, Sophie Conran and Everton Football Club - raising... [continued]
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Musicians join online rights fray
First it was Hollywood writers on strike over internet rights and revenues. Now some of the biggest names in British music are demanding a slice of online profits - calling for a levy to be added to tickets resold on the web. Some 400 artists, such as Radiohead (pictured), Robbie... [continued]
Quaids file lawsuit over baby drugs mix-up
His newborn twins are going to survive, but actor Dennis Quaid and his wife filed a lawsuit yesterday against the maker of the drug that nearly killed their children when they were
just two weeks old. The infants, born November 8, were hospitalised 12 days later at Cedars Sinai Medical... [continued]
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