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Madonna’s Joker Face Is Hewn From Stone
TAKE a gander at Madonna, with her “Mount Rushmore cheekbones, the angular jawline, the smoothed forehead, the plumped skin, the heartlike shape of the face“.
Madonna is on the cover of New York magazine. The accompanying article says Madonna has the “ultimate face”.
The ultimate face for what is not said.
But a clue comes via the Telegraph, which quotes Writer Jonathan Van Meter:
“Looking at Madonna, I kept thinking of the British expression for reconditioning a saddle: having it ‘restuffed’.”
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Posted: 6th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Tabloids | Comments (3)
Madeleine McCann: McCanns Outrage Or Fury
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
Hacks are sifting through the Portuguese police’s files.
And reporters are divided: are the McCanns outraged or furious?
McCanns outraged over unseen e-fits
Outrage. Outrage. Outrage. Outrage.
Fury over book on the McCanns by disgraced police detective
OUR DESPAIR OUR FURY OUR FUTURE
McCann’s fury at the Portuguese as they are finally cleared
Madeleine McCann: Kate and Gerry’s’ fury at ‘club’ devoted to …
Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury. Fury.
Disgrace in Holland:
The couple’s spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: “If it was Madeleine, it was a disgrace that it was not passed on. We need to know what happened with this.
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Posted: 6th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (877)
Madeleine McCann: Frozen Terror, This Is A Bedroom, Lying Police And A Song
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
THE SUN (front page) “MADDIE’S BED”
“First photo of room…”
But we’ve seen the room before, last November.
“…hours after abduction”.
Oh.
Pages 4-5: “TERROR FROZEN IN PICS”
Terror turns out to look like an empty bedroom.
Know that “by grim coincidence” “Maddies’s passport “expired yesterday”
Such are the facts.
“INSIDE FLAT WHERE MADDIE VANISHED”
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Posted: 5th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (215)
Michael Gove On How The Guardian Media Group’s Zoo, Nuts And News Corp Corrupt Minds
SAYS Michael Gove, the Conservative’s education spokesman, and Times hack:
“Titles such as Nuts and Zoo paint a picture of women as permanently, lasciviously, uncomplicatedly available.
“The images they use and project reinforce a very narrow conception of beauty and a shallow approach towards women. They celebrate thrill-seeking and instant gratification without ever allowing any thought of responsibility towards others, or commitment, to intrude.”
Nuts and Zoo, the Argos jewellery section of the magazine shop.
Here’s a thought, Mr Gove: boys who buy Nuts and Zoo do so because they can’t reach the topshelf magazines.
Mr Gove’s thoughts are published in the Guardian. (The words hereunder are scored through because of the comments below, and a note to Anorak from Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Strategy and Development, Guardian Media Group):
In March 2008 Emap plc was acquired by Eden Bidco Ltd, a joint venture between Apax and Guardian Media Group plc.
Emap publishes Zoo. The Guardian is run by The Scott Trust – “As the sole shareholder in Guardian Media Group the Scott Trust measures the return on its investment in terms broader than pure financial performance.”
The Scott Trust values are:
- honesty
- cleanness (now interpreted as integrity)
- courage
- fairness
- a sense of duty to the reader and the community
We put these principles into action and fulfil our responsibilities primarily through our day-to-day business conduct and the editorial content of our newspapers, websites and other media.
Cleanness – all the girls on Zoo are scrubbed ready for your inspection.
Michael Gove writes for The Times, owned by New Corp, publishers of How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (Jenna Jameson), The Sun (Page 3 Girls) and the News of The World, which contains adverts for readers to call dirty college girls live.
Anorak feels dirty just writing about it…
Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (6)
Keith Vaz Is Batman’s Biggest Joker
SAYS the glutinous Keith Vaz on the matter of Batman:
“The BBFC should realise there are scenes of gratuitous violence in The Dark Knight to which I certainly would not take my 11-year-old daughter. It should be a 15 certificate.”
Oh, the embarrassment of being the younger Vaz, daughter to the oleaginous chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee. Oh, to presume that your 11-year-old daughter would want to go to the cinema with her dad, a man once censored for a “serious breaches of the Code of Conduct and a contempt of the House”.
But Vaz is not alone.
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Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (3)
Madeleine McCann At the Edinburgh Festival And In The Airport Carpark
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
THE GUARDIAN: “: Has the Fringe lost its sense of fun?”
“With shows about the Holocaust, military abuse and repressive societies, theatre in Edinburgh is trying to be more serious than ever. Is that a good thing?”
Mark Fisher is that big performing artzzzz show. He sees entertainment in suffering. He sees Madeleine McCann:
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Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann | Comments (198)
An Earthopoly Of Truth In Kingsnorth
THE Kingsnorth climate camp has been created in protest against a modern coal-fired power station, the first to be built in 30 years. It will be built at Kingsnorth in Kent.
Ashok Sinha writes:
There’s a little village in Kent called Kingsnorth, population 7,000. You probably haven’t heard of it. It’s got a doctor’s surgery, a pub, two primary schools and a part-time post office.
Ah, bucolic Kingsnorth, scene of rural splendour. And if Sinha turns around he might just see ye olde coal-powered power station sticking over the golden fields.
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Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comment
Australia’s Age Of Climate Change
THE AGE is hot on climate change:
If society is to confront climate change, it must change its behaviour and the way it conducts business.
The Age is very hot on the business of climate change:
The Age is rewarding a handful of its best Victorian Real Estate Agent clients with a special bonus: a trip to South America.
Last one to Cannes is a loser…
Posted: 4th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money | Comment
The War On Salt With CAOSH, Emma Thompson And Norfolk Council’s Shaker Police
THE man from the Consensus Action On Salt Health is on the BBC’s breakfast show. He’s the man from CAOSH.
Anorak wonders if Sean Connery is a member of CAOSH, or, as is more likely, fighting it in his guise as James Bond?
Emma Thompson, the actress, is not a member of CAOSH. Says she in the Sunday Times:
There is no greater partnership, when on a rock, than that of egg and crisp. Textural reasons present themselves immediately – even, perhaps, to those who have never sampled the above. The softness of the egg marries beautifully with the edges of the crisp – of course it does. That much is obvious. But one can extrapolate the pleasures still further.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (4)
Madeleine McCann: Reading Amaral’s Book, Free Speech And Elvis
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann…
THE GUARDIAN: “On the front line in the search for Maddie – Gonçalo Amaral’s intriguing memoir of the Madeleine McCann case offers no solution but reveals a man obsessed by the investigation”
Ned Temko is reading Amaral’s book:
It is a shame that this revealing memoir from Gonçalo Amaral, the police chief who ran the Madeleine McCann investigation until he was unceremoniously fired last year, has not been published in English…
Indeed it is. And a disappointment that no British paper has sought to serialise the work. Aren’t we interested in what the copper thinks? Or are we too scared to publish it? What of free speech, then?
Wouldn’t any reader of sound mind dismiss slights against the McCanns’ involvement?
Within minutes of its appearance in Portuguese bookshops, the McCanns’ spokesman let it be known their lawyers would be giving it a thorough read, with an eye to the kind of libel action that ended up costing the Express group £500,000 earlier this year. And that was before the Portuguese authorities finally cleared the couple last month of any suspicion.
We’ve been scared off. But:
Surely it won’t be long before enterprising translators feed the juicier bits to an online conspiracy community that, in the 15 months since the cherubic three-year-old went missing from Praia da Luz, has elevated Madeleine into something close to a new Elvis.
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Posted: 3rd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (284)
Credit Crunch Does For The Church
DO you hear bells?
Cathedral officials have denied accusations of financial mismanagement after admitting that a £103,000 bequest to pay for new bells had lost two thirds of its value in the credit crunch.
The legacy, consisting of shares thought to be in a high street bank, has lost £67,950 in value in the 18 months since it was made.
Posted: 2nd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money | Comments (2)
Innocent Smoothies Not So Innocent
INNOCENT smoothies for green smoothies:
Innocent Smoothies tells consumers on its website that “fruit always travels by boat or rail” because these methods use less fossil fuel than air or road transport per kilo of fruit. Customers are also told the drinks are produced in the UK.
However, the Daily Telegraph can reveal that the drinks are blended on the continent before being driven in dozens of tanker lorries hundreds of miles across Europe for bottling in the UK.
To mix the contents just so…
Posted: 2nd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Online-PR | Comment (1)
Jill Dando, Madeleine McCann, Barry George, Princess Diana And Tabloid Bingo
BARRY George, the oddball, has been cleared of murdering BBC presenter Jill Dando. The papers react:
DAILY EXPRESS: “£1M PAYOUT FOR MAN CLEARED OF KILLING JILL DANDO”
The 48-year-old convicted sex offender spent eight years behind bars and is likely to receive at least £500,000 compensation, plus a similar amount from a media bidding war for his story.
BBC: It’s £250,000.
DAILY MIRROR: Barry George in bid for £1million compensation after being cleared of Jill Dando’s murder
The money’s better in the Mirror:
George, 48, a loner with mental problems whose conviction for shooting dead Crimewatch presenter Jill was based on unreliable forensic evidence, was yesterday found not guilty after an Old Bailey retrial.
GLASGOW DAILY RECORD: “So Who Did Kill Jill?”
This from the Mirror in Scotland:
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Posted: 2nd, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Royal Family, Tabloids | Comments (51)
The Irony Of Climate Change
THE time to act on climate change is now, says an editorial in Australia’s The Age:
If society is to confront climate change, it must change its behaviour and the way it conducts business. It has to adapt. If there is one thing that humankind has shown, it is its ability to do just that, which is why investment in research and development is so vital. Never has the importance of human ingenuity and invention been more relevant. This is where political parties enter the room and, hopefully, their leaders switch on the lights.
Spotter: Tim Blair
Posted: 1st, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comments (3)
What’s Melissa Kite On?
DAVID Cameron says teach the kids to drink at home. Says Melisaa Kite:
If the answer to alcoholism really is to teach children how to drink, then why don’t the Tories propose giving away free Dubonnet and soda in schools during break time, or perhaps little bottles of vodka and red bull at lunch.
Yeah, perhaps…
Posted: 31st, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (3)
David Miliband And Barack Obama: Separated At Birth
DAVID Miliband would be Labour Leader. David Miliband would be leader of the Opposition (surely Prime Minister? -Ed)
David Miliband is for Change, just like Barack Obama. You don’t suppose…
“Labour facing civil war”, according to the Daily Mail.
“Brown furious over Miliband treachery”, says the Daily Express. “Gordon Brown was ‘incandescent’ with rage over a challenge to his authority…” Voice call the foreign secretary “condescending”, “patronising” and “crappy”.
“Brains versus Brown” says the Sun.
The Telegraph’s Ivan Lewis says “timidity and incremental change will not deal with the way people feel right now”.
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Posted: 31st, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Tabloids | Comments (7)
Do The Numbers: More Countdown Auditions, With The Telegraph And BBC
AUDITIONS for the person to replace Carol Vorderman as the nation’s favourite TV brain box move on to day 4:
Vorderman, who is reported to earn in the region of £900,000 a year from the show, announced she was leaving on Friday.
Vorderman’s agent said on Saturday that the star felt forced to step down from the show when she was told to take a 90% pay cut from a salary understood to be in the region of £1m.
NICOLE MARTIN (Telegraph)
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Posted: 31st, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities, Money, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Pratchett Fall: Rowan Pelling Is Well Read At Tesco’s
HOW wonderful it is to be well read, to show knowledge by way to quotes and “Yes, I read that”. Says the Telegraph’s literary elephant Rowan Pelling:
Last year, Tesco sold £107.2 million of books. We may think of it as a grocer, but in reality it’s a behemoth, carrying the nation on its vast back like the turtles in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.
That’s the cover of the book he notes on the left, the one with the elephants.
You Anorak’s don’t need to read it…
Posted: 30th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money | Comments (21)
Do The Sums: More Countdown Auditions, With The Guardian
AUDITIONS for the person to replace Carol Vorderman as the nation’s favourite TV brain box move on to day 3: The Guardian:
HEIDI BLAKE (Guardian)
So, farewell then, Carol Vorderman. Following 26 years of co-hosting Channel 4’s flagship gameshow, the woman recently dubbed “Mrs Countdown” is set to take her final bow after reportedly being given 48 hours to accept a 90% cut to her £1.2m pay packet or resign
ZOE WILLIAMS (Guardian)
But to return to that 90% – as any true maths fan would – that was a cut from 800 grand, so it would have left her with £80k.
LEIGH HOLMWOOD (Guardian)
Previous reports put her salary between £900,000 and £1m a year.
Posted: 30th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Sharking For News: Damien Hirst, Pet Sharks And Stealing Sharks To Order
THE summer is here, and with comes the seasonal tales of shark stories. But Anorak detects a sinister twist:
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Damien Hirst auction expected to fetch £65 million – An auction of new works by Damien Hirst – including a pickled zebra, a unicorn and a calf with 18-carat gold hooves – is expected to fetch over £65 million…”
Hirst will also present a pickled tiger shark (£4 million – £6 million), zebra (£2 million – £3 million) and ‘unicorn’ (£2 million – £3 million) – the latter is a foal with a resin horn. All are new works created this year.
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Rare marble shark stolen from shed aquarium”
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Posted: 30th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Strange But True, Tabloids | Comments (7)
Madeleine McCann: Colette Douglas Home Spreads The Fear And Inside Irvine Welsh
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann, Gerry McCann
THE HERALD: “Do you want to see every parent in the dock?”
It’s Colette Douglas Home, professional Maddie opinion giver. And to answer her question: yes. Fingerprint them, photograph them and question them for 42 days. Only the guilty have anything to fear.
Fear:
You’ve got to admit, they shouldn’t have left the children unattended and gone out to dinner.” It was a colleague talking to me about Kate and Gerry McCann. He went on: “We go on holiday with a big group of friends but we’d never do that. We put the wee ones to bed and eat downstairs.”
“And do you check on them every half hour?”
“Yes. Well, we send the teenagers to do the checking.”
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Posted: 29th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids | Comments (494)
Nick Cohen On The Post-Bush Change
NICK Cohen on change after George Bush:
In January, Bush will be history, leaving liberals all alone in a frightening world. Little else will change. Radical Islam will still authorise murder without limit, Iran will still want the bomb and the autocracies of China and Russia will still be growing in wealth and confidence. All those who argued that the ‘root cause’ of the Bush administration lay behind the terror will find that the terror still flourishes when the root cause has retired.
Indeed…
Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comment
Global Warming Headline Of The Day: The Biodiesel Bomber
BIODIESEL is safer for the environment:
Man blows up garage trying to make biodiesel – A man was airlifted to hospital after he blew up his garage attempting to make biodiesel – Daily Telegraph
Says Transport Secretary Alastair Darling:
“The government is keen to support the development of renewable, low carbon transport fuels and all the more so where these are produced in the UK, bringing benefits to the UK economy.”
Want to know how to make the stuff?
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Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comment
Sarah Brown Is Fashionably Latte
SARAH Brown, wife to Prime Minister Gordon Brown (correct at time of writing) is on the Times’s front page. Why?
The paper’s Janice Turner explains:
We are at Good Housekeeping magazine’s celebrity accessories swap, held at the North London home of Kathy Lette, the punning Aussie author.
Also there are: Dannii Minogue, Fay Weldon, Ruby Wax, Lynda La Plante – Kathy Lette’s eclectic gang of gal pals.”
I ask Kathy Lette what she plans to swap and, snapping into character, she says: “My husband.” She’d like to trade the QC Geoffrey Robertson for Penny Smith’s bloke but actually she is donating a strange Moschino bag shaped like a milk carton.
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Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians | Comments (4)
Donald Trump’s Hair Comes Clean: How To Get The Trump Tsunami
DONALD Trump he of the tsunami hair, is in conversation with the Telegraph’s: Nigel Farndale:
I have been trying not to stare at his famous brush-forward, comb-over hairstyle, the one that was once compared to a sunken apricot soufflé and which has been described by the New York Times as ‘an elaborate structure best left to an architecture critic’. As we are talking about branding and image, the question seems to be begged. For the love of God, man, why?
Because other than bringing golf to Scotland, it’s the one challenge left in his life:
“People always comment on it but it’s not that bad and it is mine. I mean, I get killed on it. I had an article where someone said it was a hairpiece but you can see it isn’t. I use spray actually. I’ll comb it wet then spray it so it doesn’t get blown away by the wind. I’ve taken a lot of heat on the hair but, hey, it seems to work.”
Soon everyone will be doing it…
Picture: 14
Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Celebrities | Comment
