So said Oscar Wilde, but I’ll get to him in a minute. First Lindsay Lohan. As of July 20th, prison is a better place. Lilo is in one, and while she won’t have much time to decorate, she’ll surely be wanting to campaign for better conditions in the clink. For sure, it’s diverting to watch [...]
If Mel Gibson, the star of What Women Want, loves Oksana, he loves himself more – more, perhaps, than even he can say. He is the master of his destiny, as he goes crazier and nastier; and those whom God loves, he sends mad first. It’s a shame that Mel is so possessed, his affinity [...]
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, [...]
