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Whisky & Ken: the row worsens
With less than four months to go before the London mayoral election, a documentary on Channel 4 tonight will claim that many of Mayor Ken Livingstone's senior advisors were
Trotskyites plotting to turn the capital into a 'socialist city state' and that Livingstone's drinking habits - including a glass of... [continued]
Opinion Digest 
What they're saying about Ken's opponent
Polanski film makes waves at Sundance
A documentary that attempts to put the record straight about the 1978 Roman Polanski scandal, when the film director fled Hollywood to escape sentencing for the crime of "unlawful
sexual intercourse" with a 13-year-old girl, is the talk of the Sundance Film Festival where it premiered on... [continued]
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Rickman film leaves a nasty taste
Fans of the 2004 hit comedy Sideways, set in California wine country, had been hoping for another treat this year when Bottle Shock, with Alan Rickman (above
right), opens. But the word from the Sundance Film Festival, where the film had its world premiere at the weekend, is not good.... [continued]
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Judgment day for Lena Headey
Sarah Connor, the character made famous by the muscular actress Linda Hamilton in Arnold Schwarzenegger's second Terminator film, is back in an American television spin-off, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It has premiered to rave reviews and more than 18m viewers - but there is a problem.... [continued]
Ecclestone comes up short with locals
Is the diminutive Formula One owner Bernie Ecclestone a hobbit or a dwarf? The topic is apparently the talk of the Swiss Alpine resort of Gstaad, where 10 years ago Bernie Ecclestone bought the popular Hotel Olden. At the time, locals believed Ecclestone would keep the place as it was,... [continued]
Sarko and the Gandhi connection
As President Nicolas Sarkozy packs his bags for his first visit to India at the end of the week, Indian newspaper columnists are falling over themselves to cover the potential
dilomatic embarrassment of an unmarried man visiting with his live-in girlfriend - assuming recent reports of a secret wedding at... [continued]
Is Carla Bruni the new Mme Sarkozy?
Row over Taj Mahal film
In Brief: Lily Allen set to record show
Singer Lily Allen, who had a miscarriage last week, is pressing on with plans for her new BBC3 TV show. Lily Allen And Friends is due to be recorded on Wednesday...
Florence Brudenell-Bruce, the girlfriend of British Formula One driver Jensen Button, has been recruited by John Lewis... [continued]
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France’s Jamie Oliver gets a roasting
Cyril Lignac, a young Parisian chef who has blatantly modeled himself on Jamie Oliver - by training disadvantaged teenagers to be chefs for a French TV show,
campaigning for better school food and even calling his own restaurant 'Le Quinzieme', just like Oliver's Fifteen - is in the soup after... [continued]
Oliver says sorry to Sainsbury's
