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MEL GIBSON: JODIE’S AN ANIMAL!
Jodie Foster tells me she didn’t fancy kissing a stubbly Mel Gibson for a scene in their new movie The Beaver.
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UNCLE GARY’S INVITED…………
Despite all the millions of words and many hours of television time devoted to the upcoming Royal wedding, very little has been said about Kate Middleton’s Uncle Gary, who seems to fill…
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…….AND COUSIN KATRINA IS DEFINITELY NOT !
Katrina—not invited One of Kate’s relatives who definitely WON’T be at the ceremony or post-wedding parties is her cousin Katrina Darling, a 20-year-old burlesque dancer who works the cabaret scene in Sunderland.
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A SURFING FAREWELL
With flowers and a surfboard….. ……into the water To surfers up and down California’s Central Coast, Marilyn was their surrogate mom.
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CENTRAL COAST CRIME WAVE
Seems like I’ve arrived in the tiny California town of Cayucos in the middle of a crime wave sweeping the Central Coast.
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MAYBE THOSE SARDINES WEREN’T SUCH A GOOD IDEA
Fresh off the boat A 200-mile drive along California’s central coastline between Ventura and San Luis Obispo is a passport to a different world —-a world of deserted beaches, rolling hills blooming…
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A 19TH CENTURY NOSE JOB? YOU HAD TO BE TOUGH
If you thought nose jobs were a relatively new procedure pioneered by Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeons, think again. They were being carried out as long ago as the early 1800s.
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A CONVERSATION KILLER
The ancient Mexican language of Ayapenco has been spoken for centuries. It survived the Spanish conquest and has seen off wars, revolutions, famines and floods.
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THE WORST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD?
Presidents, movie stars, CEOs, playboys and Woody Allen all eat there. L’Ami Louis, a little bistro on a Paris sidestreet near the old Les Halles market is a favourite dining spot for…
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BIN LADEN’S FOOTBALL FEVER
Wherever he’s hiding, Osama bin Laden is probably doing what all Arsenal fans are doing right now—gloomily contemplating yet another season without a trophy. Football fan Yes, amazing as it sounds, the…