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Diary: The jewel in Madonna's crown?
A pleasant diversion from the current nastiness is in store, courtesy of Madonna, whose eagerly awaited Wallis Simpson biopic W.E. will finally get an airing at the Toronto Film Festival next month.
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Diary: Can you tell where he's from yet?
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The Berkshire town of Maidenhead has long lived in the shadow of its more glitzy neighbour, Windsor, home to Eton College and the Royal Family's favourite castle.
Diary: Groupies scent their man as Assange sweats it out
Friday, 5 August 2011
According to former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, Julian Assange always used to smell like 'he hadn't bathed for days'.
Diary: Clooney falls for wrestler
Thursday, 4 August 2011
As this column suggested just a month ago, George Clooney has a reputation as a 'guy's guy' that left onlookers less than surprised when he and his long-term lady friend, Elisabetta Canalis, recently split.
![Uri Geller: 'Britain is lucky to have patient, determined, obstinate men like Stuart [Kuttner]'](http://web.archive.org/web/20110810135400im_/http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00631/pg-20-diary-ap_631608m.jpg "Uri Geller: 'Britain is lucky to have patient, determined, obstinate men like Stuart [Kuttner]'")
Diary: Kuttner can rely on Uri Geller and his special powers...
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Stuart Kuttner, the latest in a line of News International executives to see the inside of a police interview room, can count on one man for a character reference: that old spoon-bender Uri Geller.
Diary: The playing fields of Eton, the toilets at Haverstock
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, North London, has been described – in this column and elsewhere – as "Labour's Eton", for it educated not only the Miliband brothers, but also the former MP and mayoral candidate Oona King.
Diary: Try to see it Piers's way
Friday, 29 July 2011
I'm not entirely sad to say that Piers Morgan's problems haven't gone away just yet. And nor, I imagine, have those of the once-married Heather Mills and Paul McCartney.
Diary: Take that, capitalism...
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Robbie Williams has been railing against the evils of capitalism on his personal blog.
Diary: Tables are turned at the Wolseley
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
The late Lucian Freud famously dined at the Wolseley almost every night, at a corner table, which staff decorated with a black cloth and a single candle as news of the artist's death was announced last week.
Diary: Time for that Facebook cull, Mr Gove
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Given that he (allegedly) recommended Andy Coulson as Tory comms director, and (allegedly) invited James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks to his 40th birthday party, you may be surprised to learn that George (né Gideon) Osborne is said to be intensely relaxed about the imminent publication of ministers' meetings with media execs.
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