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Diary: Ken backs out of Press gang
Ken Livingstone, Labour's candidate for London Mayor, is parting ways with Press TV, the English-language news channel funded by the Iranian government.
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Diary: Natasha won't talk about sexism
Thursday, 27 January 2011
To Quaglino's, for the Costa Book of the Year awards, where compere and noted feminist Andrew Neil topically declared the 21st Century 'The Female Century'.
Diary: Beware the Trojan panda, Nick
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
The Chinese state can be devilishly ingenious. Consider, if you will, giant pandas: the world's most effective sleeper agents.
Diary: Costner makes connections
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Kevin Costner must have hoped he had left scandal behind after being accused of performing a sexual act in front of a masseuse – no, not that kind of masseuse – at a Scottish hotel in 2004. (Costner and his second wife Christine Baumgartner were on their honeymoon at the time).
Diary: Brown was naive – but that's not a crime
Monday, 24 January 2011
With the phone-bugging story moving at such head-spinning speed that a whiplash pandemic seems imminent, this is the moment to stand back and reflect on the anguished disbelief of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. The Independent on Sunday reveals that both have asked police to find out whether they were victims of the News of the World snooping, and this is evidently the truth (Gordon has kept schtum while Mr Tony confirmed it, in his traditional way, with a categorical denial).
Diary: Natalie's way with words
Friday, 21 January 2011
The plot of ballet-based thriller Black Swan, which opens in the UK today, sees Natalie Portman's crazed prima ballerina come to believe that her sexy frenemy, as played by Mila Kunis, is plotting to steal her career.
Diary: Helena shows her true style
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Helena Bonham-Carter's outfit for the Golden Globes has caused a schism in the terrifying world of fashion.
Diary: Prezza backs wrong Piers
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
As if a 100-foot billboard of Piers Morgan in Times Square wasn't sufficiently sickly, the rookie CNN interviewer's marketing team yesterday dispatched large boxes of resolution-busting CNN/Morgan cupcakes to newspaper offices across London.
Diary: Hurley Burley gets fit for purpose
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
A Murdochian rebuke to the ageist BBC made flesh, Sky News anchor Kay "Hurley" Burley continues to report the news vigorously, if not rigorously, despite her advancing years.
Diary: The girl with the star role
Friday, 14 January 2011
So we now have the first pictures of 25-year-old Rooney Mara in the role of the year: the goth bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, in David Fincher's English-language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Diary: Adrian and Christine who?
Thursday, 13 January 2011
So the mildly anticipated romcom Morning Glory finally comes to British screens.
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