AP 2007 Zsa Zsa Gabor, shown here in this AP file photo, was hospitalized late Saturday, July 17, in Los Angeles for broken bones. LOS ANGELES — Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the 93-year-old actress has been rushed to a hospital after falling out of bed and breaking several bones. John Blanchette says Gabor was [...]
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Simon Cowell and the Witches of Eastwick
Photomontage Simon Schmitt Please tell me you don’t believe Wednesday’s thunder and lightning was caused by some sort of weather front, as opposed to the discord tearing apart Simon Cowell’s coven? If you fall into the kooky first category, then you are formally banned from reading further secrets of the Sisterhood of Simon. But if [...]
A Short History of Celebrity by Fred Inglis | Book review
Marilyn Monroe: the star among stars who brought ‘new radiance’ to the concept of celebrity. Photograph: SAM SHAW / Rex Features Academics today are required to be popular: new funding criteria for universities measure the “impact” of their staff. What better way for academics to generate star-status than to direct their scholarly labours to the [...]
