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Hollywood splits over Democrat candidates
With Californian voters trooping to the polls today to decide who will win the biggest prize in the Democratic primaries race, two members of Hollywood’s old guard issued their endorsements
yesterday: Robert De Niro joined the serried ranks of Barack Obama supporters, while Jack Nicholson phoned... [continued]
US Election 2008: news, analysis and polls 
Barack Obama gets Hollywood behind him
Meet Citizen Khan, Tooting’s local hero
Sadiq Khan, the MP at the centre of the bugging controversy, must be a huge disappointment to snooping policemen if his own blog is anything to go by. Khan, 37, is described as a
rising star of the Labour party, but the blog paints a picture of a hyperactive schoolboy... [continued]
Opinion Digest: columnists on the bugging scandal
In brief: Naomi hits Rio Carnival
Naomi Campbell was among the hundreds of thousands celebrating at Rio de Janeiro's carnival... The Chapman brothers, Jake and Dinos, are to create a version of the Book of Revelations that will be covered in silver and will rest on a skeleton... Helen Mirren is keen to film a sequel... [continued]
Duke of York skewers Bush’s policy
The Queen's middle son, Prince Andrew, has broken with protocol by launching a broadside against American foreign policy, particularly as regards Iraq. The surprise attack from the Duke of York - better known in the tabloids as 'Air Miles Andy' - is all the more shocking because he was not... [continued]
Tennis star Sania Mirza bows to protests
The Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, in constant trouble with Muslim extremists for wearing short skirts on court, has decided not to compete with the likes of
Venus and Serena Williams in next month's Bangalore Open. The 21-year-old has pulled out of the tournament - and may boycott all future... [continued]
Video: Sania Mirza in action
Labour treasurer faces challenge
A human rights barrister is to take on Jack Dromey in a David and Goliath battle for the job of Labour Party Treasurer. Dromey (pictured), a Labour party dinosaur who is also deputy general-secretary of the TGWU union, a member of Labour's national executive, and the husband of party chair... [continued]
Harvey Weinstein and Liza Minnelli usher in new era of Halston
It was the most hotly anticipated show of New York Fashion week so far - the rebirth of the iconic 1970s label, Halston, favourite of Jackie O, Bianca Jagger,
Elizabeth Taylor and Liza Minnelli. Five designers have tried over the years to bring back the Halston look since Roy Halston... [continued]
People: Harvey Weinstein weds UK love
James Frey returns - with a novel this time
Just as Ishmael Beah's best-seller about his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, A Long Way Gone, is being questioned for its authenticity [as reported on The First
Post today], the disgraced writer James Frey, famously admonished on television by Oprah Winfrey for embellishing his drugs-and-prison memoir A... [continued]
Americans: Boy soldier's tale under fire
A million little pretences
People: Richard Prince rules supreme
Dr Death plans body
part merchandise
Dr Gunther von Hagens, the creepy German anatomist who has disgusted and fascinated in equal measures millions around the world with his travelling freak-show of 'plastinated'
corpses, is hoping to sell merchandise made from human body parts. ‘Dr Death’, as the tabloids like to call him,... [continued]
Video: Body Worlds exhibition
