Oct 27, 2009 -
He's bigger than Ben-Hur at the moment, if you believe all the hype. Yet to come face-to-face with Robert Pattinson is to meet a serious artist, a multi-talented individual who could as easily have been a classical or funky musician as a movie star.
The Twilight juggernaut is propelling the 23-year-old British actor to the heights of mega stardom and, having previously only played minor roles, most notably as Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, he is making the most of it.
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Oct 24, 2009 -
Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp.
Since Obama's election, the cable channel's hosts and paid analysts have launched a full frontal assault on the president, smearing his nominees, calling him a racist and suggesting that his administration was trying to persuade disabled veterans to off themselves.
Now the fearmongers at Fox are crying foul since the president and his aides declared Fox not to be a news organization.
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Sep 27, 2009 -
Millions of women drink alcohol before having sex because they lack confidence in their bodies, a study has found.
Almost half of those questioned said they preferred sex while under the influence of alcohol because it helped them to lose their inhibitions and be more adventurous.
Researchers, who surveyed 3,000 women aged between 18 and 50, found the average woman has slept with eight men, but was drunk with at least five of them.
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Sep 25, 2009 -
WASHINGTON - The government has buried its nose in Bari Lynne Williams's personal business.
Almost literally.
Twenty-four hours a day, whether she's jogging, sleeping or managing a pool hall, Williams wears a high-tech sensor on her ankle that can detect the faintest whiff of alcohol in her perspiration.
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Sep 10, 2009 -
The tents are up. The shows have begun. Fashion Week is under way.
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Sep 13, 2009 -
we were good friends for about a year, but lost touch when he moved to another part of town. today i saw him at a mutual friend's party. he came with a girl he had been hanging out with earlier that evening that happened to be visiting from another state.
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Jul 21, 2009 -
Assault on Erin Andrews' privacy scary for all female journalists
By Maggie Hendricks
It's never been easy for female sports journalists. From Lisa Olson being sexually harassed while covering the New England Patriots to Suzy Kolber having to fend off the advances of a drunk Joe Namath on national television to MMA reporter Loretta Hunt being called an unacceptable name for women on camera by UFC president Dana White, women have had to overcome obstacles not faced by their male counterparts.
That doesn't even take into account that women on television are judged for not just what they know but what they look like.
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May 06, 2009 -
Rash actions and dire consequencesI'm furious – the selfish, wrong-headed beliefs of a few precious MMR refuseniks have put my daughter's life at risk
James Randerson guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 May 2009
My baby daughter is desperately ill and her life has been put at risk by the selfishness of a sizable minority of north London parents and their wrong-headed beliefs about the MMR vaccine. Earlier this week my normally vigorous and feisty 11-month-old was reduced to drowsy, snot-filled lethargy. She refused food, became uncharacteristically listless and developed a hacking cough.
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Mar 31, 2009 -
I was at a wedding a couple of weekends ago and there were a few people that were in primary school with me that I haven' t seen in ages. Well now back in school I was invisible. This girl was nasty to me.
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Jan 05, 2009 -
Emma Brockes The Guardian, Saturday 3 January 2009
The road to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, runs through Mineral County, an area of freezing grey farmland and barrack-style bungalows, where the sign outside the bar - "Hunters welcome" - has an unnerving effect on the passing non-hunter. In Cindy's coffee shop, customers speculate on the whereabouts of a lost cow and tell a weird Republican joke about the noise a chicken makes when its head is cut off: "Barack-Obama!, Barack-Obama!" Lynndie England has lived in Fort Ashby since she was two, but when she appears, suddenly, in the car park, her outline is crooked with self-consciousness.
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