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Modern Pin-Ups: Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis Strike the Pose
MODERN Pin-Ups stars Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, Rebecca Romijn,Christina Aguilera, Freida Pinto, Hayden Panettiere, Isla Fisher, Brittany Murphy, Amanda Seyfried and Alexis Bledel in the style of yesteryear’s gels…
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Posted: 22nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Shooting Stars: The 10 Best Moments Ever (From Hundreds Of Good Bits)
THE BBC’s terrible decision to axe Shooting Stars needs reversing. In the meantime, we’ve pulled together some of the best bits from the show’s past:
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Posted: 22nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment
Leveson Inquiry: Hugh Grant Bleat, Milly Dowler’s Parents Suffer And Mark Lewis Asks The Key Question
MILLY Dowling’s parents and Hugh Grant have been giving testimony at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards. The news is on the front pages of the:
Daily Star: “Day We Thought Milly Was Alive – Parents of missing schoolgirl reveal phone-hacking torment”
Daily Mirror: “After desperately praying for their missing daughter Milly, her mum finally got a breakthrough that convinced her she was safe. She turned to husband Bob and exclaimed ‘She Is Alive!”‘
Independent: “She picked up her voicemails, Bob. She is alive!”
Daily Telegraph: “‘Bob, she’s alive.’mother’s false hope after Milly’s phone hacked”
Other papers focus on the celebrity. The tabloid’s winning mantra ‘If it bleeds it leads’ is overshot by the lust for celebrity news.
The Times: “A celebrity’s story: Grant accuses Mail on Sunday of phone hacking”
The Guardian: “Grant’s stand: ‘If these are straight balls I’d hate to see your googlies’”
Hugh Grant may have been a victim of the phone hackers, but does anyone really sympathise with the rich star? We are more interested in Grant’s sex life than his testimony? If the actor revealed a titbit of news on his private life, that would take precedence over his words on press standards. Grant’s story lacks all the pain of the Dowlings experiences at the hands of the News of The World’s spooks. Their daughter, Milly Dowling, was the victim of a crime. The paper interfered with an ongoing investigation – an investigation carried out in climate of press and police collusion. Why was Dowling spied on? Why did the police not know – and if they did know, why did they not stop it? Who trained the tabloid spies?
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Posted: 22nd, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment (1)
Single Jennifer Lopez Drives A Roomy Fiat: Test Drives Backseat With Dogger (Photos)
JENNIFER Lopez performed at the 39th Annual American Music Awards, and reminded everyone that she is no longer being bounced off by ex-husband Marc Anthony by shoving her massive backside into the crotch of a passing male dogger called Pitbull. She then told us that the new Fiat Virginia that downsized divorcee mums are driving is roomy enough to J-Lo and her backside.
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Posted: 21st, November 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment
Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted & Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be: Photos
BOOK Of The Day: Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted & Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be. Psychiatrist Rich E. Dreben, M.D., emergency room physician Murdoc Knight, M.D., and forensic psychiatrist Marty A. Sindhian, M.D.’s book looks at unusual objects found inside human beings.
The human imagination truly knows no limits. Without it, there would be no great art, no advances in science and technology, and no extreme sports. Without it, we’d also be deprived of the many insights into human nature that we get out of witnessing other people do shockingly imprudent things and then try to rationalize them. Stuck Up! capitalizes on this human capability of coming up with creative applications for everyday (and not-so everyday) items way beyond their designated uses, and features 100 X-ray images of foreign objects inserted into human bodies, accidentally or on purpose.
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Posted: 21st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, The Consumer | Comments (2)
Mark Duggan Killing: Police Start Kettling Talkative Guardian As Adviser Quits Watchdog ‘Worse’ Than Evidence Planters
THE investigation into the police shooting of Mark Duggan in a Tottenham street on August 4 is spiralling down completely out of control.
It is now clear London’s Metropolitan Police were involved in the Saturday protest over the Guardian story of the now seeming totally botched investigation into the shooting and death of Mark Duggan.
The Met is complaining over a story concerning an investigation over which they should have absolutely no control or ever venture an opinion…it should never be part of their role while an incident involving their officers is under investigation.
One of the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s own advisers has quit saying an ‘outstanding’ piece of investigation may show evidence to have been tampered with or even planted, some not properly examined and the facts not revealed to the IPCC boss Commissioner Sarah Green until three months after the events.
There is also an allegation the IPCC is worse than the police force it is now investigating.
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Posted: 21st, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (16)
UC Davis Police Department And Linda Katehi Prove Attack Is The Best Form Of Defence: Live Ammo At Riverside
THE UC Davis Police Department has been squirting pepper spray at students protesting at University of California, Davis, near Sacramento. Linda Katehi, the university chancellor, invited police to deal with her customers. They dealt with the protest designed to show solidarity with students at Univeristy of California, in Berkeley, who were hit with batons by police on 9 November, by spraying them with mace.
The police are going through their utility belts with gusto. By the time the students at University of California’s Riverside campus come out in sympathy for their mates at Davis and Berkeley the police will have moved on to live rounds.
Meanwhile Katehi is upset and amazed that armed police should resort to violence. Who knew? Well, anyone poor and black in California knew. But who else? Why did no-one tell her? Says she:
“The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this.”
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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Retro Images Of The Day: Spread Your Legs In A Pontiac
RETRO Images of the Day: “Spread Your Legs in A Pontiac”:
Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Chaotic Police Complaint Commission Whinge Over Guardian Mark Duggan Yarn: Killing The ‘Murder’ Story
THE UK national newspaper The Guardian has bared its teeth, snarled, and told the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to piss off.
After what seems to have been a furious day the UK’s Press Association this morning put out a story, which can only have been triggered by the IPCC, saying:
“An investigation into the death of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by police triggered riots across the country, has still to establish the sequence of events concerning a handgun found at the scene, the police watchdog (IPCC) said.”
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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Sepp Blatter’s Friends Agree Racism Is No Big Deal: Spurs Boss Harry Redknapp Wishes Fifa Boss Was British
AS Fifa’s Swiss president Sepp Blatter continues his mission to shake hands with everyone black and thereby cure the world of racism, we take a look at Harry Redknapp’s words in the Sun. The Spurs manager pretty much sums up the British position on this story by saying that things would be better were Blatter one of us:
“Not everyone likes Michel Platini but at least everyone appreciates he knows his stuff about football. He was a great player so the people who pay to go through the turnstiles accept he knows what he is talking about. Maybe if Blatter had been like Bobby Charlton or a great manager like Sir Alex Ferguson you would have more respect for his opinion.”
Yep. Were Blatter British and not Swiss – 99% of Swiss think shaking hands with a black man is a stop too far – we’d respect his opinion that racism does not exist.
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Posted: 20th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comment
Police Always Knock Twice – ‘Executed’ Mark Duggan Was NOT Armed When Lying Police Opened Fire
MARK Duggan. Remember him? He died in a London street while apparently obeying police orders and face down in the road near Tottenham Hale Tube Station, London.
He was the gent who police at first claimed had shot at an officer in the execution of their duty. That was just after a police-marksman had emptied two shots from an assault weapon and extremely efficiently double tapped the – now forensically proved to be – unarmed Mr Duggan.
If you have trouble recalling the name you may still remember the nights of police failure, burnings, violence and looting which followed the shooting and the stream of totally dissociated youngsters paraded through draconian rapid magistrates court hearings.
Mark Duggan was a 29-year-old father of four who police said had shot at them despite eyewitness accounts Duggan was on the ground next to a hired people carrier when an officer armed with a Heckler & Koch MP5 semi automatic machine pistol killed him stone dead in true SAS style. The police were using the usual no-chance-of-survival dum dum bullet banned to the World’s armies by the Geneva Convention.
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Posted: 19th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (8)
Susan Boyle’s Face And One Direction’s Hair Rock Children In Need 2011: Photos
CHILDREN In Need is the long show in which the BBC begs for cash – and people who hate it wonder how much charities could get if the BBC just used some of the licence fee. One Direction (it’s all about the hair) provided the swoony tunes and Susan Boyle gave us another great photo for the album. It almost betters this one…
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comments (4)
Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner And Dennis Davern As Lionel Stander: Cos When They Met It Was Murder (Allegedly)
NATALIE Wood, nee Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, is back. Robert Wagner’s wife drowned on November 29 1981 when she fell off a yacht, Splendor, anchored off Santa Catalina island. It was night. She’d been drinking. It appeared that at some point she’d tried to tie a dinghy and accidentally tumbled into the briny.
Prince Valiant, the inflatable dinghy, washed washed up on the rocks on Catalina Island, Calif., on Nov. 30. Patrolmen discovered the actress’s body 100 yards away from the boat after a seven hour search.
The boat’s captain was Dennis Davern. In Marti Rulli’s mawkishly titled book Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour (published September 2009), Davern claims Wagner and Wood had rowed. He says the Hart To Hart actor had smashed a wine bottle after yelling “What do you want to do, fu*k my wife? Is that what you want?” at Christopher Walken, her co-star in Brainstorm. Davern says he heard “a loud argument and thumping sounds” from the couple’s room.
Davern goes on the telly:
“I made some terrible decisions and mistakes. I did lie on a report several years ago. I made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report… We didn’t take any steps to see if we could locate her. I think it was a matter of, ‘We’re not going to look too hard, we’re not going to turn on the searchlight, we’re not going to notify anybody right now’.”
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment (1)
From the Daily Show: A Revealing Mock Report On Children In Need “Class Divisions”
THE Daily Show‘s report from Zuccotti Park before the Occupiers were kicked out shows how the camp had splintered into “uptown elitists and downtown poor“.
“As it dragged on, the movement was in danger of becoming the very thing it was fighting against“, reporter Samantha Bee, explains. We’re then treated to a tour of the park, with the iPad-armed college hipsters from Brooklyn on one end and the “downwardly mobile with their drum circle” on the other.
As one “uptown camper” describes the residents in the “ghetto section” in the most roundabout, PC way possible, Bee interrupts and asks: “Is there a course in condescension that everybody is taking here?”
It’s all very revealing because despite the Occupiers’ slogan “we are the 99%” many of them harbour a great deal of disdain for the masses. As the Occupy Wall Street website says, “The masses are incessantly encouraged, even conned, into consuming, even if it is beyond, or way beyond, their means.” That’s right – the 99% have been hoodwinked, brainwashed, fooled. And it’s up to the Occupiers to enlighten them, apparently.
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
How the New Europe Really Works: Germany Calling The Shots
THIS is just a lovely little story telling us all how the New Europe, the much improved and extra special wonderful Europe, really works.
THE GOVERNMENT has complained to the European Commission over the release in Germany of a document disclosing confidential details about new taxes to be introduced in Ireland over the next two years.
In a deeply embarrassing development the document – identifying austerity measures of €3.8 billion in next month’s budget and €3.5 billion in budget 2013 – was made public after being shown to the finance committee of the German Bundestag yesterday.
The document, seen by The Irish Times , confirms the Government plans to raise VAT by 2 percentage points to 23 per cent, which would generate €670 million. Next month’s budget would also contain a €100 a year household charge, yielding €160 million, it says.
Doesn’t sound like all that much really, does it? Except this is the German Parliament reading the Irish budget. Well, OK, it still doesn’t sound like all that much really. Anyone can read anyone else’s budget can’t they? Most governments do actually print them and allow people to do so.
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Money | Comments (4)
Spot The Cat: Can You Find The Feline?
SPOT the Cat is Anorak’s new fun family game in which YOU are invited to find the cat in these scenes. Where is that cat? He’s there. He’s waiting. He’s always waiting…
Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (8)
John Terry Race Row: Daily Mirror Prejudices Investigation Against Chelsea Captain
JOHN TERY Race Row: The investigation into the Chelsea captain’s language towards QPR’s Anton Ferdinand has not been concluded. Terry says he used the words “f**king black c***” but without racial intent. We’ve seen no new evidence. We’ve only seen one out of context clip of Terry talking. It would be unwise to prejudice the case – unless you’re the Daily Mirror and decide to lead with:
“Police want Terry charged”
So. Why has Terry not been charged, then? And what is the “new twist” the Mirror announces?
Well, the new twist does not exist. David Collins reports:
POLICE say there is enough proof to charge England captain John Terry over his alleged racist rant.
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Posted: 18th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
This Pre-Occupation With Playing The Victims Of Wall Street Is Just Pathetic
TODAY marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. With the Zuccotti Park encampment in lower Manhattan cleared and hundreds being arrested in demonstrations in the financial district, it appears protesters have adopted an unflattering victim mentality.
There’s a whole lot of talk and tweeting going on about ‘police brutality’, ‘Nazi’ NYPD officers, ‘Cossacks in riot gear‘ sent in to ‘cleanse’ Zuccotti Park, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg behaving like a repressive Arab leader. It all shows that today’s radical left-wing activists are happy, not only to display great historical ignorance, but also to revel in an image of themselves as put-upon underdogs.
Why else would the new poster-girls for the amorphous OWS movement be an 84-year-old lady, a pregnant teen and a disabled woman – three people who all got caught up in the tumult in the past few days? These are all figures many will recognise as fragile and innocent and so they are pushed to the forefront to demonstrate how vulnerable the protesters are.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Sepp Blatter Uses The John Terry Defence: Fifa President Says Black Is White And White Is Black
SEPP Blatter, the Fifa President, says there is no racism in football. Sepp Blatter says victims of racism should just shake the hand of their abuser and stop complaining. He then clarifies his views with a Fifa in press release illustrated by this picture (see left). Anorak is not sure what went on before the handshake but imagines it might have involved fertile and crude racial abuse of a type that should be left in the Fifa boardroom, a place where normal rules of decency and law no longer apply.
Says Sepp, the white nigger:
I would like to make it very clear, I am committed to the fight against racism and any type of discrimination in football and in society. I have been personally leading this battle against racism in football, which FIFA has been fighting against throughout the past years through campaigns in all of our competitions such as the “Say no to racism” campaign.
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2)
Prince William And Kate Middleton’s Wedding Photos Leaked: Pictures
ALISON Jackson’s Kate & Wills Up the Aisle: A Right Royal Fairy Tale tells the unseen truth behind the Royal Wedding of Prince William, Kate Middleton and Pippa Middleton’s bum. Anorak politely requests that Jackson sets about leaking the honeymoon video…
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Posted: 17th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment (1)
As Chelsea’s Terry Sweats And Liverpool’s Suarez Is Charged Over Alleged Racism Sepp Blatter Blames The Victims
AS Chelsea’s John Terry waits, the FA move against Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, who allegedly racially abused Manchester United’s Patrice Evra when the clubs met at Anfield on October 15th.
The FA statement reads as follows:
“The FA has today charged Liverpool’s Luis Suarez following an incident that occurred during the Liverpool versus Manchester United fixture at Anfield on 15 October 2011. It is alleged that Suarez used abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Manchester United’s Patrice Evra contrary to FA rules. It is further alleged that this included a reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race of Patrice Evra. The FA will issue no further comment at this time.”
The alleged word is “nigger”. What do we know of that word?
Suarez says he is innocent. So. what will happen? Well, Fifa wonk Sepp Blatter has a view.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (6)
Then And Now: Photos Celebrating Human Change
THEN and Now is a gallery of photos that are touching without being mawkish or overly sentimental. They show the subject in the same pose as they struck in their youth. Have they changed? Have things improved? And do these photos do as all good art does: say things about the audience. You don’t think much about them. You think more about yourself…
Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment
Stephen Lawrence Murder Trial Day 3: Royston Westbrook, Joseph Shepherd And Alexandra Marie Hear The Silence
STEPHEN Lawrence Murder Trial Day 3: Anorak’s daily look at the April 22, 1993 killing in the news: Royston Westbrook, Joseph Shepherd And Alexandra Marie hear the silence:
Prosecutor Mark Ellison is holding sway at the Old Bailey. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, deny murder.
Royston Westbrook is in the witness box. He says he was stood at the same bus stop as Stephen, 18, and his friend Duwayne Brooks. He saw the white gang approach in Eltham, south-east London.
“Stephen and Duwayne were stood right by the bus stop. They were talking about football, and just general chit-chat. They were discussing among themselves whether they should go back to the roundabout because they could see if the bus was coming. They decided to walk back to the roundabout.”
Many more were at that bus stop. The two black youths had gone to the top of the to see if the bus was coming. It was 10:30pm.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (2)
Court Finds Michael Jackson Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting Children
AT Warley Magistrates Court in Sandwell, West Midlands, 49-year-old Michael Jackson has been remanded in custody charged with the kidnap and sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy who vanished on a trip to local shops.
Jackson, from Oldbury, West Midlands, did not speak during the brief hearing.
No-one reading that can overlook the name and make a link to another who shares it.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
Marta Yegorovnam Kept An Alien In Her Fridge For Two Years: Photos And Video
WHEN in 2009 Marta Yegorovnam found a 40-50-inch long life form amid the burning wreckage of a crashed UFO beside her summer house in the Russian city of Petrozavodsk, she acted.
Yegorovnam took hold of the alien and wrapped it in plastic. She then placed in it the fridge. She did this because it was hot. As anyone knows, placing hot things in the fridge raises the ambient temperature and may cause your chilled produce to spoil. She kept her alein meat in the fridge for two years. And it never spoilt. It never went off. Aliens might be stupid enough to fly millions of miles and then crash into a haystack, but they know more about preserving their skin than Cher, Simon Cowell and Joan Rivers could dare hope.
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Posted: 16th, November 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comments (2)
