Archive for April, 2009

Will McGillis spark lesbian torrent?

Kelly McGillis, who played Tom Cruise’s love interest in Top Gun (despite being about a foot taller) and who has been terrific in lots of films, including the great Witness, has come out as a lesbian.

McGillis, 51, has been twice-married …

Dita joins Germans for Eurovision blitz

The Germans, cheesed off at always losing to the Eastern Europeans in the Eurovision Song Contest, have enlisted the help of burlesque queen Dita Von Teese.

Dita (who’s actually named Heather Sweet so isn’t as German as she sounds) will cavort …

Wine can help you live longer (and it’s not bad at all if you’re pregnant)

Some much-needed good news from the world of medicine, half a glass of wine a day can add nearly five years to your life.

Unfortunately the benefits of imbibing don’t increase pro rata; researchers in from Holland’s Wageningen University point out …

If swine flu doesn’t kill us, depression might

Well it’s happening - not swine flu per se but the deafening din of everyone from health secretary Alan Johnson to Her Majesty’s Media telling us we’re all doomed.

As ever there’s one exception and that’s mouthy Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary who …

Why did Raphael keep Carla pics?

Poor Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is in the soup again, this time “highly intimate” pics and vids of her (and possibly former lover Raphael Enthoven) have been nicked from his brother’s flat.

Raphael entrusted these to Julien because he “didn’t want to embarrass his …

Marks and Sainsbury’s to merge?

Well some of the City boys in dark glasses think so, reckoning Sainsbury’s boss Justin King (a former Marks & Spencer executive) prefers this to being bought by the Qatari Investment Authority.

Yesterday the Qataris, who made a full bid for …

Carla v Letizia at crumpet summit

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish premier Jose Luis Zapatero doubtless had interesting things to say to each other at their summit yesterday but the focus of the world’s media was definitely on spouses.

Not the partner of Zapatero (assuming he’s …

What will Gordon do next?

At the weekend Gordon Brown flew to Afghanistan to shake hands with a few fortunate troops and lecture the Afghans about what they should be doing.

Yesterday he tried to persuade the Parliamentary Labour Party to support his cobbled-together scheme to …

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