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Wednesday April 9, 2008

People

New film to lay Warhol and Dupont twins bare

Andy Warhol is to be immortalised once more in film. According to reports in America, a movie based on the experiences of the Dupont twins, a pair of chancers who fleetingly joined the pop artist's entourage back in the Seventies, will go into production later this year.... [continued]

Clooney drops in on Brown at Number 10

Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday played host to the Hollywood actor George Clooney, in town to promote his new film Leatherheads with co-star Renee Zellweger (pictured). Clooney - a UN peace envoy to Darfur - met Brown and his wife Sarah to talk about China's foreign policy... [continued]

Sebastian Coe hits out at ‘thuggish’ boys in blue

Lord (Sebastian) Coe, the former gold medalist who runs the committee planning London's 2012 Olympic Games, is one of many people questioning how the blue track-suited Chinese guards protecting the Olympic flame on its controversial world tour were allowed to manhandle people - and even scuffle with British police -... [continued]

Fayed says ‘enough is enough’ over Di claims

Mohamed Al Fayed has given up his fight to prove that Princess Diana and his son Dodi were murdered by British security services. The Harrods owner, who spent an estimated £15m on his 10-year legal battle, said he was accepting the inquest jury's decision - that the... [continued]

In brief: Cruise film delayed again

The release of the Tom Cruise film Valkyrie has been postponed until 2009, apparently because the star needs help from a dialect coach on his "atrocious" German accent... A new production of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, currently enjoying a successful run at the Old Vic starring Kevin Spacey... [continued]

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When the real Mrs T met Maggie

The British fashion designer Katharine Hamnett, famous for her 'statement' T-shirts proclaiming 'SAVE AFRICA', 'STOP ACID RAIN', 'USE A CONDOM' etcetera, has been talking about the T that helped make her famous in 1984 - the one she wore to meet Mrs T in Downing Street. It was the year... [continued]

Woody Allen’s Barcelona film caught up in new row in Catalonia

Woody Allen's new movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona, which was filmed in the Catalan capital and stars Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall, has been hit by further controversy. James Roures, the film's co-producer, has announced that despite it co-starring two of Spain's most successful actors – Penelope Cruz... [continued]

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