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Sunday, 18 May 2008

Smock? Belt?

Posted on 18:47 by Unknown
Here's the lovely Cate Blanchett (with a couple of hangers-on) at the screening of the new Indiana Jones film in Cannes yesterday, wearing a grey gown by Armani Prive.And here is how the reporter from AAP/AFP described it: "Blanchett looked radiant in a purple and black smock, tightly belted at the waist to reveal her trim figure."The moral: don't let Sunday stringers anywhere near fashion.
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Sunday, 13 April 2008

29hr 24min 42sec

Posted on 22:02 by Unknown
The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, today appealed wealthy countries to help meet the $500m funding shortfall faced by the UN’s World Food Programme, which feeds 90 million people in over 80 countries.The “wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan are costing American taxpayers $17m an hour. You read that right: $17 million per hour.
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Sunday, 9 March 2008

You have been warned!

Posted on 21:57 by Unknown
What would the penalty be?
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Monday, 18 February 2008

Shut up and drive

Posted on 15:28 by Unknown
Caught a cab this morning and the driver had Alan Jones, who's now so lazy that he just reads the newspapers, on the radio. I don’t need to hear right-wing bullshit – or cab drivers' opinions about right-wing bullshit – first thing in the morning, so I put my iPod on and listened to some music.It's a 15-minute drive, and when we got to my office, he turned around and said, aggressively, “Are you
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Sunday, 17 February 2008

Thr3e: a review, of sorts

Posted on 12:31 by Unknown
It looked like a typical serial killer thriller. Thr3e instead of Se7en. It even started like one: a rapid-fire scene of a police psychologist running through the streets, on the phone to a spooky voice, until she discovered her brother, in a car, bound up in gaffer tape, wired to a bomb. After that, however, there was something a little, well, off about Thr3e.First of all, where was it shot?
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Uno is number one

Posted on 12:19 by Unknown
His thoroughbred name is Park Me In First, but you can call him Uno. He won Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show last night, the first time a beagle has won since 1939.I’m very happy, because if ever I had a dog, it would be a beagle. I’ve always loved them. They’re a good size and they have exactly the temperament I like. But I think they like being in packs, because they’re pack hounds, so
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Monday, 11 February 2008

Naughty Goths

Posted on 12:26 by Unknown
Because I am a dedicated a journalist, I’m reading the Plan of Management for Hyde Park. The usual bureaucratic ordinariness, until this:Saturday and Sunday afternoons bring a lot of Goths to the War Memorial. They hassle the Salvation Army Band.Now I have to wander up there to check it out. I’ll take photos.
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