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Not another pay increase?

Hawk Koch elected Oscars president

Source Code producer Hawk Koch has been elected new president of the organisation which stages The Oscars every year.

Status Quo to star on silver screen

Status Quo are swapping gold discs for the silver screen - by launching a movie career.

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Rebecca Armstrong: Why I'm turning my nose up at vin de Barrymore

For a reason that escapes me now, I follow, along with almost five million others, Sean Combs AKA P Diddy, on Twitter. While this week he's been alternating between sad Whitney tweets and shout-outs to his kids, his usual output is inspirational quotes interspersed with fulsome praises of Ciroc, the vodka brand he is ambassador for (sample tweet: "Peach Ciroc is Finally EVERYWHERE !!!! The wait is over!!!!" phew, huh?). While I'm not mad keen to try flavoured, luxury French vodka (from the world-famous vodka houses of France we hear so much about), Combs is a high-rolling playboy who knows his way round a party. His association with the booze brand holds (fire) water.

Mary Nighy, daughter of Bill Nighy and Diana Quick

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The Redgraves have rivals in the latest batch of offspring to follow their parents

Back seat for Noam Gottesman at cost-cutting Man Group

Noam Gottesman, co-founder of GLG, is taking a back-seat role at Man Group, the FTSE 100 firm that bought his Mayfair-based hedge fund business for $1.6bn (£1.04bn) just over a year ago.

Drew Barrymore regrets missing out on normal childhood

Drew Barrymore regrets not having a "kid's life".

Crystal Harris unhappy with Hugh Hefner's womanising



Crystal Harris "didn't feel comfortable" knowing Hugh Hefner had other women in his life.

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Going The Distance (15)

And here we are right back in romcomsville. Drew Barrymore and Justin Long are among the more personable of their type, but they're rather let down by an unremittingly coarse script.

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