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Businessman ‘snaps up Monroe sex tape’
A black and white movie of Marilyn Monroe performing oral sex on an unidentified man has just been sold for $1.5m, according to the New York Post. The film was discovered by
Keya Morgan, a specialist in Hollywood memorabilia, who came across it while researching a documentary... [continued]
In pictures: Famous US photos go under the hammer 
Rankin left red-faced after awards dalliance
Ian Rankin, the creator of the Rebus detective novels, has been forced to issue an abject apology to his wife and family following an indiscretion with a 26-year-old female admirer
at the British Book Awards in London last week. While fellow writers, such... [continued]
In Town Last Night: the British book awards
No flashbacks for Daniel Craig in ageing actor role
Daniel Craig took a break from filming his second Bond film Quantum of Solace to attend Sunday’s world premiere of his latest film, Flashbacks of a Fool. The
low-budget British film, which also stars Keeley Hawes, Helen McRory and Harry Eden, tells the story of a washed-up... [continued]
Bond shaken and stirred by Chilean mayor
Obama fan shops Barack over remark
Barack Obama's team are said to be baffled as to why one of his declared supporters, citizen journalist Mayhill Fowler, chose to report the senator's sniffy remarks
about small-town voters in the Midwest clinging to "guns and religion" politics. Her report on the Huffington Post was pounced... [continued]
US Election blog: no mercy for Obama
In brief: second take for Penns’ marriage
Actors Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn (pictured) are having a re-think about their split, which received wide publicity in December; they have
withdrawn their petition for a divorce... The Other Boleyn Girl star Natalie Portman is to have another stab at doing a British accent, as... [continued]
Penn takes Petra to Elton's Oscars party
No royal dramas for Portman and Johansson on red carpet
Wagner great-granddaughter booed
Moss bags £10,000 from British Airways
British Airways may be happy to see the back of Naomi Campbell - they banned her for life last week after she allegedly spat at a police officer in a row over a missing bag at
Heathrow’s Terminal Five - but it seems they were not so keen... [continued]
Campbell cracks under strain of T5 mayhem
How Kohl’s favourite pig dish turned Mrs T’s stomach
Margaret Thatcher rarely lost her nerve during her years at Number Ten. But Charles Powell, the diplomat who worked as her private secretary in the 1980s, and was a
trusted foreign policy advisor, recalls an occasion on which even the Iron Lady got cold feet. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl,... [continued]
When the real Mrs T met Maggie
Why Clooney is no renaissance man
Apart from the invitation to Downing Street to meet Gordon and Sarah Brown, it wasn't a great week for George Clooney. His new film Leatherheads was beaten
at the US box office by the far cheaper film, 21, suggesting his days as a matinee idol might be over. And a... [continued]
When George met Gordon at No 10
Thinking is just not Blair’s forte
Tony Blair's decision to convert to Roman Catholicism has not delighted everyone. Take Rocco Forte, the multi-millionaire hotelier and director of the Catholic
Herald. "I don't think Blair is a particularly deep thinker," he told the Observer. "I don't find him a deep man. He was... [continued]
Blair reveals why PMs don't do god
