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4th, April 2014 Celebrities

James Franco On Cloud 17: Conspiracy Theories And 1970s-Style Honest-To-Goodness Perviness For Teenage Girl

AS you're probably aware, arch-hipster James Franco has been rumbled online, trying to tap off with a 17 year old Scottish girl. A variety of messages were batted back and forth, with Franco being a little persistent in trying to get his end away... More »

4th, April 2014 Reviews

Argentina's FAP Party Pays Tribute To Falklands Anniversary With Nicked Picture From Band of Brothers Poster

TO Argentina, where the political party FAP (I kid you not) pays tribute on Falklands anniversary by, erm borrowing a picture from Band of Brothers:... More »

4th, April 2014 Celebrities

Tom Daley Is Gay, Not Bisexual, Okay?

People who are visible and gay are incredibly important to society, because the more people who are proud, the more gibbering, hooting berks who oppose it will have to suck it up. Fact of the matter is, what homophobes have yet to work out is that you can disagree with homosexuality, be it through a religious conviction or whatever, but you don't get the right to decide whether someone else is gay or not... More »

4th, April 2014 Celebrities

Darren ‘Sumbarine’ Gough and ex-TOWIE ‘Star’ Amy Childs Are In A 'Plutonic' Relationship

But the Mail reports that the nature of their relationship is much hotter and steamier than a mere bedroom romp. In fact, it says that "the fashion designer [that’s Amy] went on to say that her relationship with Gough is strictly plutonic"... More »

4th, April 2014 Celebrities 3

1944: Carmen Miranda And 'John Wayne' Flirt By A Lonesome Deanna Durbin

FLASHBACK to November 28 1944... More »

4th, April 2014 Reviews

'I'm A Pineapple Not A Racist': Nicolas Anelka Defends His 'Quenelle' Gesture

NICOLAS Anelka, formerly Le Grand Sulk of English football became its pariah when he performed the cryptic quenelle gesture. Having left West Bromwich Albion after being handed a five-match ban by the FA for making the gesture during the 3-3 draw with West Ham in December, Anelka is talking to Metro News... More »

4th, April 2014 Key Posts 3

Chicks Dig Accordions! Vintage Vinyl and Squeezebox Groupies

TO HELL with the electric guitar. That may attract a flock of dirty groupies, but the real chick magnet is the accordion. Sure, it has a reputation as being even less sexy than a French horn, but don’t believe the hype. A look at this stack of old accordion LPs, and you’ll quickly see that the instrument of desire isn’t the guitar, drums or microphone, it’s the mad love machine called The Accordion... More »

4th, April 2014 In Pictures

Russian Photographer Takes Strange Portraits Of 'Wild' Animals And Young Women In Love

RUSSIAN photographer Katerina Plotnikova has created these pictures of animals with attractive young women in a rural setting. They are part fairytale, part circus and part niche magazine. The women are enthralled in an ecstatic love. Just very odd... More »

4th, April 2014 Reviews

Austerity Army: Coldstream Guard's Lance Corporal Kills Six Afghani Insurgents With A Single Bullet

A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet... More »

4th, April 2014 Flashback

Liverpool: The Fan In The Knotted Hanky On His Head At The 1965 FA Cup Final

LOOKING through the wonderful photos of Liverpool's first FA Cup win - a 2-1 victory over the mighty Leeds United in 1965 - one stood out. It's this photo of a jubilant Liverpool fan is escorted off the pitch by policemen after running on to celebrate his team's winning goal... More »

4th, April 2014 Flashback

1964: Oxford United Captain Ron Atkinson Is Carried Off By Fans After His Team Beat First Division Blackburn Rovers 3-1 In The FA Cup

FLASHBACK to February 15 1964... More »

3rd, April 2014 Flashback

1965 In Magic Photos: Liverpool Defeat Leeds United To Win The Club's First FA Cup

ON May 1 1965, Liverpool FC won the FA Cup for the first time. They defeated Leeds United 2-1 at Wembley Stadium. Liverpool had an all-British line-up; but Leeds featured two frieingers: the Republic of Ireland's great Johnny Giles and South African Albert Johanneson... More »

3rd, April 2014 Reviews 2

Kent Teenager Ella Birchenough Gets Stuck In A Drain Trying To Retrieve Her iPhone (Photos)

TODAY Ella Birchenough was rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in a storm drain while trying to retrieve her iPhone... More »

3rd, April 2014 Celebrities

1970: Freddie Garrity, of Freddie and the Dreamers, Eats Barnet Hospital Chicken After Ejecting Through The Roof Of His Lotus Car

FLASHBACK to January 7 1970... More »

3rd, April 2014 Flashback 7

5 Sci-Fi TV Series Scuttled by Second Season Changes

WE might accept as axiomatic the belief that patience is a virtue. However, over the decades, several notable and even celebrated science fiction TV series have failed to live up to this ideal. Instead of demonstrating patience and prudence, their makers have instead demonstrated radical impatience, and -- after promising first season sorties -- instituted sweeping changes that, in some cases, threw away the baby with the bath water... More »

3rd, April 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: Of Course Wayne Rooney Dived Like All Good Barcelona Players Should

DID Wayne Rooney dive in Manchester United's 1-1 draw with Bayern Munich? There is no doubt that Bayern's Bastian Schweinsteiger fouled Rooney, but the Englishman went down in true action hero style: legs buckled, chest out, head tossed back, mouth in a rictus of agony, perhaps death... More »

3rd, April 2014 Reviews

Nepotism Watch: The Guardian's Rusbridger-Mackie Family Are Looking For Comment

HOW modern journalism works... More »

3rd, April 2014 Flashback

1978-1995: When Theodore John Kaczynski Was The Heroic Unabomber

ON May 3 1996, Theodore John Kaczynski, 53, had his mug shot taken by7 the Lewis and Clark County Jail in Helena, Montana. Kaczynski had been taken into custody at his mountain cabin north of Helena as a suspect in the Unabomber bombing spree... More »

3rd, April 2014 Flashback

1966: Muhammad Ali Tucks Into A chicken at Isow'’s Restaurant In Brewer Street, Soho, London

Chicken dinner... More »

3rd, April 2014 Sports

Chelsea Balls: David Luiz's Hair To Blame For PSG Horror Show

ANORAK enjoys the marks out of 10 given to footballers by tabloid football experts. It's a neat filler that offers all the insight of a Stevie Wonders' binoculars. But you'd at least expect the newspaper men in the good seats to award similar scores to a player... More »

3rd, April 2014 Music

Now Look What Their Doing To Kurt Cobain: He's A Musical

WHEN Kurt Cobain died, a whole generation lost one of their favourite icons. While he wasn't necessarily a spokesperson for everyone through his songs, there was something very pleasing about his stance against business, phoney or otherwise. He was just about the only superstar who actively championed bands who needed the publicity as well.,, More »

3rd, April 2014 Reviews 3

Gypsies On Benefits And Proud: The Daily Star Flogs Channel 5's Benefits Street For 'Sponging' Foreigners

THE Daily Star once told its readers to vote for the EDL. Todays its anti-foreigner message is cloaked in a front page about gloating, freeloading Romanians... More »

3rd, April 2014 Film

Dear Christians: Here's Why You Shouldn't Complain About Noah

Of course, God was a bit 'anti-human' when he sent a flood to kill everyone. Then there's the whole Killing 20 Million People In Genesis For Being Evil thing... More »

3rd, April 2014 Flashback 2

Before They Went Solo: Early Bands Of Bowie, Elton And Others

I’ll try to avoid the obvious. Most everyone knows Rod Stewart was with the Faces, Peter Frampton with Humble Pie and Peter Gabriel with Genesis. But did you know Alice Cooper was in a band called The Earwigs? If not, read on, my friend. Cocktail party trivia awaits... More »

2nd, April 2014 Celebrities

1950: Cold War Artist Asleep With Marlene Dietrich's Head In Her Lap

The hocus-pocus magic of papier-mache masks brought Hollywood and German movie stars together in Berlin for a few hours of make-believe, Feb. 14, 1950... More »