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Cooper Brown: Protection new
Friday, 11 February 2011
Things have not got better since A-Listgate. Victoria will not speak to me. She claims that if I had not driven A-Lister from our house then she would be a shoo-in to join the Gwyneth yoga class.
Brian Viner: Why is film awash with honours?
Friday, 11 February 2011
Sir Christopher Lee, 88 years old and still 6ft 5ins in his slippers, is to be presented on Sunday with a Bafta Fellowship, the greatest honour the British film industry can bestow. This is splendid news, an overdue accolade for a man who, it is generally accepted, has appeared in more films than anyone alive, and rarely gets the recognition he deserves for being king of the franchises, the only common denominator between the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Star Wars films, the Bond movies and of course the Hammer horrors.
The real funnymen left the building long ago
Thursday, 10 February 2011
Julie Burchill: The ignorant bigotry of Bernard Manning has been replaced by the calculated bullying of comics such as Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle.
Cooper Brown: The A-lister
Thursday, 10 February 2011
The A-lister has come and gone. He turned up an hour-and-a-half late for dinner and the sushi chef was going crazy. I told him to cool it as it was hardly going to go cold. One of the givens of being an A-Lister is that you are late. If you turn up on time you are a loser.
John Walsh: Between the sheets with Colonel Gadaffi
Thursday, 10 February 2011
According to an interview, Colonel Gadaffi's favourite book is The Outsider by the British author Colin Wilson, a study of alienation, although he's also very keen on Uncle Tom's Cabin. According to my diplomatic sources, the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao routinely brings Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations with him, when he travels abroad. Vladimir Putin, his cultural attachés will tell you, is a fan of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Gogol, revealing a sliver of difference between him and his President, Dmitry Medvedev, who favours Chekhov, Bunin and Dostoevsky.
Cooper Brown: Dinner with Bercow
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
It’s showtime – the Hollywood A-lister is coming round tonight and I’m still hung over from an amazing night out with Sally Bercow – the new Tory pin-up.
Tom Sutcliffe: Secularism is the word Cameron is looking for
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Social Studies: The only practical way to make the system fair is to make it equally unfair to all
Cooper Brown: Shoes
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
One more day until Mr A-list Hollywood turns up for dinner. I need a favour from the asshole, but I’m starting to wonder whether it’s worth the financial hassle.
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