Even before the world cup started, the French team was in trouble. The French sports minister, Rama Yade, sparked a row in the cabinet when she said there was something a little tasteless about billeting the national team in one of South Africa’s plushest hotels. But her boss, Roselyne Bachelot, Minister of Health and Sport, [...]
How winsome it was to hear about the computer program, Shaved Bieber, which means that you need never fear downloading anything to do with Justin Bieber. Greg Leuchs, a software pioneer based in Toronto, has created a plug-in that rejects any news to do with Bieber, and is planning to do the same for Lady [...]
Art is long, and life is short. Always painfully true, this, and often painfully obvious, but I can’t think of when it’s been proved with such lurid neatness as it is by the news that the Royal Opera House in London is to stage an opera based on the life of Anna Nicole Smith. The [...]
The peak of Gary Coleman’s fame – and the length of his life – both seem poignantly short. Nobody can be a child star forever, even if they can avoid physically growing. We sometimes forget how important child stars have been to the history of drama: no women acted on Shakespeare’s stages during his lifetime, [...]
