A friend of mine recently got married in Las Vegas and celebrated by going to see Rod Stewart in concert there. He was enchanted by the whole glitzy glamour of the experience, and yet he’s a pretty old-fashioned type of socialist and, as it happens, an actor.
Friday 22 March 2013
When I saw that there was going to be a children’s fashion week, I decided not to cover it for the fashion pages of The Independent.
Sunday 30 December 2012
Now what? Ascot’s royal enclosure? You can’t park your bike there, son
Wednesday 05 December 2012
Authorities had said previously that Maria Susana Flores Gamez might have been used as a human shield
Saturday 25 August 2012
Research showed 14 per cent of 16- and 17-year-old Italian girls would undergo breast surgery
Wednesday 15 August 2012
David Siegel was living the American dream. A self-made billionaire, married to a former model 31 years his junior, he travelled in private jets and lunched on caviar. Evenings found him at Florida's society events, quaffing champagne with celebrities, sports stars, beauty queens.
Friday 29 June 2012
Critics slam beauty pageant to find 'Miss Holocaust Survivor' as macabre and offensive
Sunday 13 May 2012
New opera dresses characters as kids' favourites to portray citizens living in terror
Wednesday 04 April 2012
The Miss Universe Organisation may reverse an earlier decision and allow a transgender woman to enter the Miss Universe Canada pageant.
Saturday 14 January 2012
Denise Darcel was a voluptuous actress and singer who appeared in several feature films in the early 1950s.
Wednesday 21 December 2011
The former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall has died of breast cancer aged 28 at a hospital in Houston, Texas.
Friday 29 July 2011
On the peeling, whitewashed wall of the dank Connemara cottage, there's a poster that bears the legend: "May you be half an hour in heaven afore the devil knows you're dead". It's a bit too late for that forlorn hope now, though. The two female characters in The Beauty Queen of Leenane dwell in a hell on earth of their own devising – a perverted symbiosis of mutual torture and resentment. Maureen Folan, the archetypally plain and lonely 40-year-old spinster, is bullied and bossed around by her selfish old mother who plots to thwart her daughter when a last chance of love shows up in the shape of personable local chap on a brief trip home from his navvying job in England.
Sunday 12 June 2011
Raphic Gunny is 50, and needs a car that he can comfortably fit all five members of his family in. He wants reliability, and after many years with a Toyota Carina E, Raphic is not used to any breakdowns. He now needs a lot more space, and that means he is looking at people carriers, such as the Ford Galaxy. The budget is between £5,000 and £5,500.
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