Belgian singer Plastic Bertrand denies allegations over hit song

Plastic Betrand as pictured on the original single of ‘Ça plane pour moi’. When he hit European television screens in 1977, pogoing across music stages with a glint in his eye and a flower in his buttonhole, Plastic Bertrand gave no reason for anyone to doubt him when he yelled into the audience “Ça plane [...]

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TV review: My Child’s Big Fat Birthday

My Child’s Big Fat Birthday Party, BBC1 Photograph: BBC/North One Television /Karen Zetter/BBC I wish I was a kid again. It looks brilliant now, especially if you’re filthy rich and spoiled rotten. The birthday parties I remember involved a few chocolate fingers, a paper cup of squash, those rolled-up things that straighten up and make [...]

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Madonna, Demi and other women I’d like to show their age

Madonna, ‘looking preposterously beautiful’, says Churchwell, in Dolce & Gabbana’s advertising campaign. It seems that older women are being celebrated by our society at last – or so we’re being told. A raft of recent stories have assured women that it is no longer the case that they become invisible once they reach middle age. [...]

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