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Opera boss accused of playing to ‘cool crowd’
The Royal Opera House's chief executive Tony Hall is under fire for dumbing down the Covent Garden programme in its 150th year by attempting to reach out to a new "cool crowd" of 30-somethings. Opera magazine has attacked Hall, the former head of BBC news who came... [continued]
King Kong controversy over Vogue cover
American Vogue's first cover in 116 years to feature a black man has stirred up controversy after some commentators pointed out that the image of basketball player LeBron James and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen perpetuates racial stereotypes. Photographer Annie Leibovitz's portrait shows the 6ft 9in star,... [continued]
Obama Girl returns with plea to Clinton to end her campaign
'Obama Girl' is back. The all-singing, all-dancing internet starlet whose first video, I’ve Got a Crush... on Obama, was viewed more than seven million times, has posted a
new video. Hillary! Stop the Attacks! features 'Obama Girl' in a spoof sequence from Hillary Clinton's famous '3am phone... [continued]
US Election: Obama is bruised but unbeatable 
Video: Obama Girl's latest song
Claws out for Naomi over Birds remake
Naomi Watts has courted controversy with her role in Funny Games, the subject of The First Post's cover story today. But it is nothing compared with the fuss she's
created by agreeing to appear in a remake of the classic Alfred Hitchcock horror movie, The Birds. The 1963 film,... [continued]
Why critics aren't laughing at Funny Games
Video: Funny Games trailer
In brief: Gandolfini plays NY mayor role
James Gandolfini, star of The Sopranos, is to play the New York City mayor opposite John Travolta and Denzel Washington in a remake of the
1970s thriller, The Taking of Pelham 123... Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz, former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, married her former lover
Richard Attias at... [continued]
Britain's awaits Sarko's bevy of beauties
Heather Mills was 'explosive', says judge
Big Brother 'rapist' wins
Stones toast Scorsese film in Berlin
John, Paul, George, Ringo - and Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall, the man who was closer to the Beatles than anyone who ever worked for them, has died at the age of 66 from lung cancer. Aspinall (above right) stuck with them from their school days in Liverpool, through the crazy years of Beatlemania, the eventual break-up of the... [continued]
Story on Roman’s rabbis was not kosher
The First Post’s People column has a confession to make: we have been ‘had’ by the Jewish equivalent of an April Fool’s Day joke. We reported yesterday on a story published in the Jewish
Chronicle claiming that Roman Abramovich planned to invest as much as £100m in... [continued]
Original report: ‘Roman to bring rabbis to the Bridge?’
