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...Princess Di Indignity stalked her like a reporter from Hard Copy. First came Camillagate -- the wide publication of transcripts of a racy phone call between Prince Charles and his mistress -- then further revelations of steamy teletalk between Di and her own Squidgygate pal. As the year progressed, Di became more and more emotionally volatile, and soon after a tabloid ran secret photos of her working out on a weight machine, she announced her partial retirement from public life...
...three popular critics of his polices "criminal" and they were soon cancelled. Celentano has responded by stacking his guest list with fierce Berlusconi opponents, including Michele Santoro, a talk-show host who had not been on state TV since Berlusconi denounced him in 2002. Fedele Confalonieri, a lifelong pal of the Prime Minister who now runs his Mediaset network, says Celentano's idiosyncratic show is proof that Italian television is free and open to all. Besides, argues Confalonieri, political satire is just harmless fun: "Television is about entertainment. It's not the media who decides who wins elections; the voters...
...that's what's been going on at Leavesden for the past five years. When Daniel Radcliffe was cast as Harry (after a small part in The Tailor of Panama), he was only 11. Emma Watson (who plays nerd-girl Hermione Granger) was 10; Rupert Grint (Potter pal Ron Weasley), almost 12. Now, with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire set to open in two weeks, they've spent a third of their lives making movies. They've gone from children to teenagers entirely within the weird, closed bubble of the Potterverse...
Here I was, invited to Necker Island, Richard Branson's island. Steve Ross flew the Warner jet to bring us Nathan's hot dogs. I mean, pal, I'm a kid from Baldwin [Long Island, N.Y.]. You know what I mean...
...boys who became U2 -- the name, suggested by a local musician pal, refers ironically to the high-altitude spy plane -- all knew of one another, vaguely, from school. The Clayton and Evans families were friendly. The Edge, whose family is Welsh, and Bono (still generally called Paul Hewson back then) had briefly gone to the same guitar teacher. For his part, Bono had a distant but still vivid impression of Clayton, who was raised outside London and in Kenya, and had moved to Dublin with his mother and airline-pilot father at the ( age of eight. He had come...